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That opens many possibilities. No compounders! There are a few Twinborns that could fight Edgedancers a bit. Coinshoters that can always be up in the air, mostly away from short range Edgedancer. Give him F-gold and that's an impressive duel. A-chromium + F-pewter can also do a lot here. Leeching Edgedancer's abrasion and progression, and providing a powerful punch to kill them. A-chromium is a very good choice in fights against all 1st Ideal Radiants. F-brass can be useful here, to burn all seeds and plants that Edgedancer can use as weapons. A-bendalloy can be nice too, mostly to avoid Edgedancer and drive them nuts. Combine these two together and you have a mini-Edgedancer - fast and untouchable. F-zinc is of course my personal favorite, useful in all situations - pair that with A-pewter and you have brain and brawn. Of course, that goes without saying, F-steel is good with everything.

Yeah, I think that was on the train now. This means the steel bubble isn't a resonance of A-steel and F-iron. The WoB asks if super powerful Leecher could permanently leech Allomancy away from their spirit web, like aluminum can cleanse the spirit, chromium can do the same to others, but based on what you want to take away from them. Leeching innate investiture giving them powers. They can't snap back again, as they lack the portion of their Preservation's fragment which gave them that power. That would work like hemalurgy but with far less damage done to their soul, more controllable and precise, making them invested down to the level of normal Scadrians. If that's true, then I also think you could heal that back. Even if that was cleansed out of your spiritual idea, your perception will matter and with enough healing, you can get that back. But that would require lots of health in a gold medallion.

Well this Twinborn can just drain unwanted memories from his Coppermind permanently with Chromium. So that's a nice and fast way of losing memories and emptying metalminds. And there is potentially more than Chromium can do and based on this WoB below I propose that this Twinborn can drain memories from other people, permanently destroying them (Twinborn's resonance). The name for it: Dreameraser. Imagine sneaking into somewhere, and erasing people's memories of you being there. Good for spies or sneaky people. Or those who want to start a new life. Or just erase that embarrassing memory of you out of their heads.

Cool idea but this particular fight ends quickly Sparing Radiants of 1st Ideal against most Mistings/Ferrings will end up quickly for Scadrians.

I doubt it's the norm for Lifelight, Navani can just make Towerlight without eating anything. The comparison to Allomancy is spot on. Cultivation changed Lift, she messed something up with her spirit web, and I believe this is a Cultivation's way to grant Lift's wish (not change/not grow up). I personally believe that Lift's wish was against Cultivation's intent, as Cultivation is all about changing and growing, and because of that She didn't know how to do that. She changed the way Lift interacts with her spiritual ideal (to which healing is done) to be very susceptible to Lift's perception (that's why Lift is able to touch Cognitive Realm and Wyndle), more than normally (healing is done by using investiture to match body with spiritual ideal filtered by cognitive ideal - perception of oneself). Then She gave Lift a way to metabolize food into Lifelight, to make sure that Lift could constantly heal herself back to her ideal self, and remain unchanging. But that's a way around Lift's wish, Cultivation can't Preserve, she's not Preservation. That's why Lift's unchanging nature relies heavily on her self-perception, which can change and is changing - in RoW Lift is taller, bigger and more grown up, that's all because she percives herself that way. And likely like she has done with Dalinar and Taravangian, she saw potential in Lift and nudged her in the right direction. She then sent Wyndle to bond her as Her way of Cultivating Lift. Preparing her for something (maybe bonding Nightwatcher in the future? Ascending to Cultivation in the far future?).

That might not be the case. A single Breath is worth more than Preservation's fragment in a single Scadrian - and that's what you're pulling out from them, and possibly not fully. Part of it is even lost because of Hemalurgy and later decay. Breath is different, it's a little splinter of Endowment, carrying her intent. On Scadrial it's Preservation's fragment doing the same with Preservation's intent. Breaths can be given, fragments can't. Possible.

It might be possible to gain some Heightening-like effects, that's a lot of investiture, but I doubt 3 spikes worth of it is close to 1st Heightening. Edit: you would make life of 60-90 people worse than that of Drabs. Evil it is I would say.

Yes, that's the WoB. It was during the release of WoR, that's why the number we're counting is valid for WoK/WoR, not RoW. In RoW the Sons of Honor and Diagram "stopped being active", Skybreaker and Sleepless "stopped being secret" (at least for important figures in the book), and Ghostbloods are targeted now.

That's not it but it's also a game changer. In addition to that Hemalurgic revelation read Ars Arcanum entry on Hemalurgy, spikes and compounding.

That's a good point. But I'm quite sure that there was a coinshot that did the same trick and wasn't a Twinborn at all. I don't remember in which book he was, but I'm quite sure of that. Resonances are a very abstract concept for now. We still don't know what Wayne's resonance is. It's not a savant version. It used to be written as Wax savantism, but it was "recently" changed by Brandon, as savantism has to come with dire negative consequences, not just cool powers. Wax isn't a savant yet. @Spearguy You can quote multiple different posts in one reply, without the need for double posting: We're in Mistborn forum, SA spoilers:

I do also agree that Radiants were modified by Ishar/Honor in such a way. "Wild" Surgebinding could certainly be more powerful until it was bound by Honor. But I do think spren manifested themself as Shardblades in an attempt to mimic Honorblade before being bound by Ishar/Honor. I agree that on Roshar their powers are mostly well balanced (with a bit too strong healing but that's ok).

This can be problematic in terms of timeline, because Riina was one of the Ire members in the Secret History.

While that's possible it's very impractical. They would have to go out of their way to find perpendicularity and "bath" in it for an extended period of time. If this was that easy perpendicularities would be swarming with people trying to extend their life - which is not happening. It was a good one and funny one too. Yes, that's a valid point. It ties up to the theory once proposed that you can give more than life with a proper command. Your strength, memories and stuff like this. This particular wording of the command might be the reason why Breaths extend life in large quantities.

Or water, yes. I'm not sure if you're required to constantly feed it with water/investiture after it's shaped as you wanted, but you either need to maintain the physical contact with it, or provide outside source of investiture - so it suggests heavily that you need to constantly feed it with water/investiture to maintain its form. TotES spoilers:

Well, there is a single revelation somewhere in TLM that will negate the power difference between Scadrial metal arts and Rosharan Surgebinders. I'm not spoiling you that, you might have already missed that, come back to me when you're done with TLM fully - I'm not feeding your spoiler addiction! Plus BoM introduced us to the Bands, which also grants "comparable" level of power as Surgebinders have for a single individual. There is dozens of reasons why sane person should stay away from versus threads

Good, you know the most important part. That's enough Edit: @Underwater_Worldhopper Don't listen to me, I'm stupid, it's late, my brain doesn't function anymore. Weight is mass times gravitational acceleration, F=mg, by changing mass you indirectly change weight without changing gravitational acceleration, thus you can climb trees easier, jump higher or push on coins further away. F-iron is still inconsistent, but that fixes a few problem.

Aetherbound has to be always connected to Aethers he's growing, otherwise they will die (or provide investiture on which Aethers can feed). That's what mainly drains the water. Is movement draining the water too? I have no idea. To some degree - it would heal the damage done to your cells by dehydration, but as you run out of health you're still dehydrated and you will die. And if in the meantime Aether was constantly draining your water, then you have almost no water left in your body after you empty your goldmind, and you'll die instantly.

It's a possibility that we will never know if it's true. The Beyond is different from the Spiritual Realm - the Spiritual Realm holds spirit webs, which is investiture and connections forming a person (not a soul really), the Beyond is the afterlife, where souls go (do souls exist in Cosmere that's another unanswerable question). Brandon doesn't want to ever answer the question if afterlife in Cosmere exists. But the spirit web of a person after death does fade into "somewhere", where even Shards can't reach it. That's why there are two interpretations of that (which also matter in case of Kaladin's Tien vision): either Dalinar reached into the timeless Spiritual Realm and connected to one of the possibilities existing there, or he reached into the Beyond and connected to the real soul of the dead person. Both are valid explanations and we will never know which one is true. WoBs: Yes, a Radiant can bond several spren. This only depends on Radiant's worthiness and spren willingness to share a bond.

What's happening here is really hard to say, the F-iron breaks physics and it doesn't make sense. F-iron stores your mass, but your weight and gravitational acceleration doesn't change. Your strength remains the same (but your strength to mass ratio changes, that's why tapping more iron makes you slower, as you lack strength to move), and so does the force of gravity pulling you down (weight) - that means that you should jump at the same height. But things like inertia, terminal velocity, momentum etc are affected by changing your mass. I answer with the book - in WoA ch 19 Sazed filled only his ironmind and climbed a tree with ease. And that countered the force of gravity pulling him down - with less mass you have an easier time pulling yourself up and that's what you're proposing should be possible. You should be able to store mass and jump really high, then tap and drop hard on your enemy. But because you're tapping midair, conservation of momentum dictates that increasing your mass will slow you down very much - p=mv (it would be easy to dodge). This doesn't make sense because if F-iron doesn't store weight but just mass, weight is a force of gravity pulling you down, so what would make sense is that no matter if you're storing or tapping iron, you should have the same trouble with going up. As Sazed proved, that's not the case. F-iron stores mass, not weight, but it does change how Skimmer interacts with weight (force) in the same way as he would be storing weight (force) in most cases. But it doesn't change the rate of gravitational acceleration. It also follows conservation of momentum. Make of it whatever you want.

There is a Kandra on Roshar in SA, they're not working for Harmony: That's cheating, stop it! But I kind of understand it. As a child, when I was reading I used to randomly open a book at end pages and read one sentence there to "spice" things up, bring more excitement, investment and to theorize what will happen that will lead to that sentence. Until I read that the main character of a freshly started book will die and I stopped doing that. That wasn't fun anymore. You're getting the the best part of OB

TwinSoul got to choose. As I said before, Breaths won't save you from dehydration. Breaths don't provide you immunity to hunger and thirst, being a Cognitive Shadow does. You also can't use Breaths on yourself to "heal" dehydration - that's not how Endowment magic works. It won't work the way you propose. Yes, unless you're already severely dehydrated. That's the only smart way to keep Aetherbound in prison. It's pink. TwinSoul makes it more or less pink. It needs to be pink, it's in its name roselite. Color is a very important thing in Cosmere, and Awakener is changing something in an object's soul that drains it out of color. Draining roselite Aethere from color would very likely disconnect it from both Aetherbound and Prime Aether. Aetherbound drinks far more water than a normal person. I don't think a single Breath could replace days worth of Aetherbound drinking. It would do a lot, but maybe not that much. And it depends on what you're making with Aethers. Building a city model - yeah, that can last for days on a single Breath. Making a suit of Aether armor - that's far more thirsty boy, a Breath could power it for minutes/hour at most. But until we have units and numbers on investiture, that's just speculation.

Have you read ALL of TLM?? TLM Epiloge 4 spoilers: Aluminum is very common and cheap in your world. Industy. Yes, the gap between SA 5 and SA 6 is around 10-20 years. Era 2 takes place somewhere in that timeline. Look out for Ghostblood mentioning Roshar in their hideout chapter (you've missed it I think). You can search for a preview chapter of SotD2 (here WoB reading). Heavy future of Cosmere spoilers there, avoid if you don't want to know. Put in spoiler boxes if you want to disscuss it more. Interesting things are happening there. You'd foresee it better if you'd finished reading the Stormlight Archives

That's a small rounding The statement is true. Only 3 whole centuries have passed when AoL took place, that's not a rounding, that's just using bigger units. If they said 300 years, not centuries, that would be a big rounding. Like you just rounded era 2 to era 3. I would say that because she said "after a century of rule" at least 100 years had passed before Spook gave up his power. Full century. But I admit your line of reasoning is valid as well. Kelsier did that. But in slightly different circumstances. But I doubt it would be that easy. Breaths are innate. Spikes hold a portion of a soul, that's technically innate investiture in my opinion. Static is not part of your soul, while innate is. That's the difference. He would need Atium. That's the whole idea of Atium compounding. To extend his life in opposition to his spiritual age. If normal compounding was enough, his spiritual age would be extended instead. Shaking a... house? Ok, I don't even need to comment on that theory for you to know that's impossible I like to argue provoke fruitful discussions.

Just don't involve F-iron in that I plead the 5th

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