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Ok, I think you took it a spike too far. I don't understand it at all You want to spike something out of yourself, then place the spike back in you but without an intent, so it won't act like a hemalurgic spike? - this alone can work. -ish. Neither Vin nor Spook have intents of giving themself spikes and powers, Ruin provided them, in this case Ruin might mess you up as well and simply knowing this piece of metal is holding hemalurgic charge might provide an intent to activate is, but it might not work according to its charge. But then you want to hold a charged spike in your body, but without granting you any charge to your soul, and one day just decite that you want it now and just activate it by intent? I don't think so, the intent is important when placing the spike, not while wearing it (as far as we know right now). I think if you're completely unaware that this piece of metal is a hemalurgic spike, you might be able to place it in your body without hemalurgic consequences. But if you just know that it is a spike and you want to place it in your body, even without activating it, it will mess up your spirit web and do something to it - maybe not give you what's in this spike even if in the correct spot, but it will mess you up. Plus you spiked something out of you, in case of Josh, this alone would give a wider entry for Odium. You don't want to spike yourself unless that's something very messy you can get rid of. Don’t do it at home Correct me if I understand it all wrongly.

Well Napoleonic warfare relies on bayonet charges straight into enemy positions and for this Koloss are not only perfect, but unstoppable. Koloss are only vulnerable in their head (thick skull maybe?), neck (arteries) and heart, the rest is just mass of muscles. Hitting them at those spots would be hard when soldiers are meeting something like that for the first time in their life. In case of facing machine guns and artillery of WW1 they would still be effective. Very. After all, the main tactic of WW1 on the Western front was to charge through no man's land without getting killed, drop into enemy's trenches and switch to mainly hand to hand combat. Admitebly, Koloss might have trouble in fitting into trenches, but they can mow down enemies for above. Losses would be of course far greater, but replacement not possible with Harmony in charge. But using Koloss in role of stormtroopers would be very effective, but costly.

I see two possibilities. To make an important remark, the Breath in a Lifeless replaces a soul of the body. It doesn't have the same identity nor connections as the deceased person had, it has its own thing going on. So first, how would it get healed: First one is that because the Breath you're using was originally given to somebody else, it was a part of that person's soul, the healing would restore that person from the Breath up until you get his whole soul back. With it, you might have some memories back. So the person who would be back, would be the person that the Breath used to belong to originally (not the Awakener, but to whom this Breath was given by Endowment). The second one I think is more likely, and supported by WoBs below. The body itself is sticky, and still "remembers" being alive. It has a trace of soul left in it that sticks to the Breath given by Awakening. And from this trace of soul, the whole soul is healed back, soul of a person that used to live in this body. Well, now I think about it, there is a third option as well. What you get in the end is a mix of those two souls combined. A part of the body's soul merges with the Breath's creating something new, something unique, with unique identity, that isn't the person who died, nor the person to whom the Breath originally belonged to. It's important to note that an important part of them might be still missing after healing - Cognitive Aspect, which passed into the Beyond. This aspect might hold memories of the person, and after healing you might not get that back. A healed Lifeless might be much closer to Returned, but with far less investiture in them, too low to ever get those memories back. But that's unknown for now. Warbreaker sequel will focus on Lifeless and Returned more, and we might get those answers.

For this I think we have to wait for Taln or Ash book.

Bend barrels of its gun with duralumin steel push, or just walk through it and kill everyone on board. But getting on board if far away off shore will be a problem - dropped by an airship is the only way to do so. Yeah, that's important. I always assume that they have minimal knowledge about each other, and they're figuring stuff on the run. In the case of WW1 tech I'm not sure how widespread was aluminum, it was used in aviation, so in some other area as well, and they would figure out that aluminum can't be pushed or pulled.

Yup, that's it. Sazed is doing a bad job as a dual Shardholder. He's not to blame, after all he's the first one who ever did that. Well, maybe not bad, but his interpretation of those Shards combined could be better. Instead of Harmony, he could be Creation, because Ruin and Preservation created Scadrial after all. Ruin and Cultivation would make a good pair, confirmed by WoB: Theoretically yes, but it is hard to find a person who embodies intents of both Shards at the same time. Plus to have a good interpretation of them both, which would allow the new Vessel to act (no Harmony).

Shattered Plains were shattered before the Last Desolation, Aharietiam, and this is like 2500 years before capturing of BAM. No, there is no mention of what Stormseat's (city's real name on the Shattered Plains) tone or Cymatic's pattern looks like. Brandon (or artists) very likely had some real tones in mind when creating patterns of cities. After all, Roshar is shaped based on a mathematical function, Julia set. WoB where Brandon talks about it:

But not faster than the speed of light. I don't see a reason why would a Fullborn, during a war with unknown technology, just stop burning and tapping metals why Rashek was burning at least 2 metals and tapping 2 metalminds constantly. Burning or tapping tin and zinc is something that I would be always doing. If you manage to set an explosion directly on him while he isn't burning any metals or tapping any metalminds, then you might kill him. But why would he stop burning/tapping? Yes, but every battle he's present, he brings total devastation, death and complete moral breakdown. At some point soldiers might simply refuse to attack fearing that he will show up. Normal planes, and I mean normal fighter planes, can drop bombs (I mean some WW1 planes have their pilots manually drop bombs from cockpit, crazy times) on Malwish ships and destroy them, not with machine guns (I don't know if they used higher caliber than 7 mm on them). And if Malwish ships lack AA defenses, planes can just fly right above them, drop bombs with delayed ignition and fly away without looking at explosion, like cool guys do. Not much with low caliber guns. You would have to mess up their way of reducing the mass of the ship, if this is wired like a fabrial, few lucky shots can sever the metal wires and make one side of the ship too heavy to fly. The best way to damage the airship with machine guns is to aim for its propellers beneath it - I just thought about it. This can do a lot of damage and bring the airship down. Yeah, Dreadnoughts would be almost impossible to deal with for Scadrial. Their guns have a range of up to 24 km, and that's twice the width of the whole Elendel city (the city is ~7 miles in diameter, 12 km). Plus the Basin has extensive canal and river networks, which might fit Dreadnoughts and this would extend their range of operation far inland (unlikely because it's very risky and they are stuck there). Just park a few Dreadnoughts in the Hammondar Bay and level the entire city - until Fullborn arrives. Without a Fullborn Scadrial has no way of countering them. Pewternauts have a firing range of 16 miles, 25 km, it's comparable to Dreadnoughts, but their alone in the Basin's naval fleet composition, with no air support, nor submarines. They would be sunk fast. Or not leave the Bilming port if the Tech side just mined the bay and sea. I love the name Dreadnought and I love that Brandon named them Pewternauts on Scadrial. That sounds so cool.

With his steelsight and a Highspren on his side, he would be able to see Jasnah in CR and using his metalminds, create a perpendicularity to travel into CR to kill her. Plus he can just tap his speed and A-bednalloy to cut her from PR with a Shardblade. He doesn't need to fly, he's still faster than they could become. He can just stand on the ground and move an inch the moment they close in to attack and just slaughter them with massive speed and strength, or Shardblade. Or again, move to CR and use division on their soul (I wonder what would happen). Normal Radiant is equally as invested as a normal Mistborn. He's a Sliver. Vivenna dying with 1000 Breaths would still be pulled into the Beyond (likely, I wonder if an Awakener with 2000 Breaths would naturally become a CS Returned or that still too little investiture for that), he won't. Normal Returned needs to be fed with investiture every week, he doesn't. I can say the same thing, that Rashek burning all metals and tapping all metalminds plus using his new Stormlight would be far more invested, but I'm talking purely about innate investiture (plus Breaths), who is more invested not by infusing Stormlight or burning metals, but by the quality of their soul. In this case there aren't many who could rival Rashek (the God King, Hoid and Rysn, and dragons or Aethers, but they're not humans/mortal to begin with). Plus, him being a Sliver makes him more impervious to hemalurgic control, and hemalurgic control works the same way as emotional Allomacy, and by extension like Nightboold, so he still would be resistant to Nightblood's temptation. Every person on Scadrial is invested, having innate investiture of Preservation's fragment, like on Nalthis with Breaths. But that's too little for them to be considered slivers. Slivers have more innate investiture than that. Their soul is wrapped and extended because they once held the power of a Shard. Elantrians are invested, yes, but too little to be considered slivers as well. It's connections which allow Cognitive Shadows to resist the pull into the Beyond. And those connections are forged because of investiture. Normally a soul needs massive influx on investiture to anchor itself to all 3 Realms, like in Kelsier's case, but Rashek is so invested that he has that already. Connections are there because of how invested his soul is. RoW ch 92 epigraph:

Yes, but that's not an old wound. Old wound is a wound that you have for so long that you perceive it as a part of yourself. Something that can't be healed unless you change the perception of yourself. SA spoilers: Simply waiting for health to gather to heal a wound within a week isn't the same. Everything with F-steel is just better? This Twinborn can have duralumin level emotional allomancy without duralumin. That's quite scary. However, gathering speed is quite a hard process, so he won't be able to do that everytime. But emotions are a very important part of any fight - riot their cowardness and fear when you strike, riot their confidence or it's lack when they're making a mistake, riot their impatience when they keep distance and their caution when they're too close to you. If you're skillful enough with zinc, you can make them play as you want, like a puppeteer. Add to it F-steel and you are a Puppeteer, pulling on strings of people's emotions (my name suggestion). I don't think you would be able to riot your own emotions. In this case I think the resonance would be naturally faster burn rate of zinc, which means stronger emotional Allomancy.

While they could, they're too heavy with too small surface area to do so. Wingsuits are like that and they always have to have parachutes to land safely. That's not stupid, that's smart. Until you forgot to soulstamp yourself one day and die of fall injuries. That would be stupid.

I don't think so. Lights on Roshar are keyed to Roshar, spren are as well, and to all 3 Shards. Scadrial's investiture is keyed to Scadrial and Preservation/Ruin/Harmony. I don't think it would work. For it to work spren would have to be able to feed on any type of investiture. Plus investiture on Scadrial, is far less "potent" than on Roshar. Metalminds are less invested than what Stormlight can provide, if this would work, you would have a bad heater.

Three different things, First is as a donor you can heal the damage done to you better than anybody else. Second, as a recipient, you can remove your spikes and fill holes in your soul left by them. Thirdly, more speculative, as a recipient with spikes in you, you can heal the edges of the cracks made by spikes so they would "merge" better with spikes, lessening cracks to the bare minimum required. The soul held in the spike would be fitted perfectly into your spiritweb with minimal damage. No you don't. Look again at that WoB - aluminum would work better than gold: "negating and sucking out, so that's probably safer". The WoB is not about old wounds, which you perceive as a part of yourself. Wayne would not be able to heal the wound he thinks it's a part of him (even if he doesn't want that)- like a certain somebody in Cosmere (two somebody in the Crabworld). Wayne can heal a missing finger and fresh wounds (he mentioned in AoL that he hates growing back missing fingers). What I propose with this Twinborn combination, is that it would be much simpler for him to heal old wounds, which even he perceives as a part of him, just by simply not wanting to have them - cleansing unwanted parts of his spirit web.

Rashek is a Sliver, Fullborn made with the power of the Well, Savant in almost every ability he has. That's a lot of changes to his soul. I too doubt he is as invested as Susebron but he's behind him in second place in the entire Cosmere (excluding Hoid and Rysn). On top of him constantly tapping his Atiummind, he's also constantly burning A-brass and A-bronze, tapping F-pewter and F-bronze as well (that's what we know for sure he's using). I'm quite sure he would be able to control what investiture Nightblood would be feeding on, and save his youthfulness and wakefulness as the most important metalminds he needs. All of that would make him almost impossible to be emotionally controlled, just like Susebron is. Rashek burning a single metal would be enough to feed Nightblood: Oh that sounds fun, I didn't think about squires. Inquisitors Skybreakers sounds terrifying. And yes, they would likely be able to use Stormlight to fuel their Metallic Arts, and that would be far more potent than burning metals, Mists level of power. They kind of already did that, it's likely not possible what you're proposing:

Yes, but she also moved huge stone doors that weighed the Lord Ruler only knew how much. At the very least, a French Renault FT weighing 6.5 tonnes would fly (for a short time) with little to no effort. But like you pointed out, there are so many ways for a Fullborn to deal with tanks that he doesn't have to toss them into the air. He can, but doesn’t need to. I'm talking about AoL, when the butler tried to poison Wax and set up an explosion in his basket. Wayne created the time bubble the moment the explosion went off. AoL ch 9 I thought so. With the modern day Earth it would work very well. They can deal with him. That's low. Huh. Put it in a gold box and even if it melts you can recover it later. Or if he is very very skilled, he can change temperature only in certain parts of his body. For example, making your hands hot, while reducing the temperature of your arms and the rest of your body. But that's something that none can do for now. In the case of explosions or flamethrowers he just needs to store heat and will be fine.

"Probably broken tanks"? I think you meant tanks would experience how planes are feeling when soaring through the air. While Fullborn isn't invulnerable to big explosions, the probability of one hitting him is just almost non existing. He has A-tin and F-tin and steelsight to detect incoming shells, he has F-zinc to analyze trajectory of each shell, he has A-electrum, F-chromium and F-zinc to see his own future and be able to comprehend every electrum shadow, he has F-steel, A-bendalloy and A-pewter to increase his speed to dodge any shell incoming, he has F-brass to absorb vast quantity of heat energy released by explosion and A-pewter and F-gold to heal any damage done by non direct hit. He can even use F-iron, by storing most of his mass and using blast waves of near explosions to get launched far away. Taking all of that into consideration I'm pretty sure that WW1 artillery, the primary source of big explosions during that time, has no chance of scoring a direct hit on a Fullborn, not even in close proximity to him. They pose no threat to a Fullborn. And an explosive trap is also no threat, as Wayne alone created a time bubble and gave Wax enough time to escape the blast wave - for a Fullborn this would be child's play.

Because my brain hurts enough and I want to share this feeling with others too That sounds good. It would nicely explain the origins of the culture of Shinovar and why they view rocks as sacred.

There might be a way to use Feruchemy to affect only a specific portion of your body. Then you could heat up the tip of your finger to ungodly temperatures and melt through the body of your opponent, without melting your brassminds or burning your clothes.

Based on the aluminum cleansing unwanted effects and impurities, this combo might be more powerful than you think. Cleansing the soul out of savant bad effects - no problem. Spikes? Give me more. Shades on Threnody? Walking straight through them like they're not even there. Because of how it's worded "unwanted" this means that you're changing your spirit web based on your cognitive perception, based on what you're considering to be unwanted, and that is huge. This might be really a good combo, allowing you to change your spiritual ideal to which your body is healing. This could be a way to heal old wounds that are perceived as a part of you, but still are unwanted. I like this one. Threnody spoiler WoB:

"Pets on the menu" right, let's say yes to that.

Doubtful. Even if they could be restored to the human form, they lived for 1000 years as animals, developing animal instincts unique to their species. Human former-Mistwraiths would have a very hard time to adapt to a permanent human form, as everything in their mind would want to change form, hide during days and behave like Mistwraiths. Plus Sazed has a sentiment to preserve cultures and stuff, he would want Kandra “kids” and this unique species to be preserved. But I don't think many of them survived Catacendre. Vin messed up the planet hard, changing the day-night cycle, and cleaning the ash in the air. Many Mistwraiths who weren't hiding underground when the sun came up would burn instantly as the temperature was hot enough to self-ignite living trees. But we have a mention of Mistwraiths post-Catacendre in this WoB, I think they still live in the same form they had during the Final Empire - just not in the middle of the Elendel City, where all action took place.

Or Awakened wings? https://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/116284-its-a-bird-its-a-plane-its-an-awakener/ That's not a shameless self promotion! Or Awakened rope that will catch something and act like a bungee rope to decrease your energy. Awakened sheet of cloth to act like a parachute. Fabrials of course. Primar cubes as well. Aons. Sleepless don't have to worry at all, their hordlings are so small that they'll reach terminal velocity before reaching deadly speeds. Or you know, any form of healing, just fall, break your body and heal, like Wayne did it in BoM.

Nah, that takes fun away.

The Words of the Funding already includes the fact that Kelsier holds Preservation. Because of that it's very likely it would include the explanation of how that was possible, and if the Orb was mentioned, by extension, Ire had to be as well. I doubt Hoid was mentioned in it, as Kelsier meeting him did almost nothing for the events unfolding. I even doubt that Khriss and Nazh were mentioned (Wax didn't recognize her in BoM, nor did the lady Leecher from newspaper stories). And It's very likely that even Ire was missed because of how Marasi, Wax and others react to the prospect of other worlds existing. TLM spoilers:

There are multiple ways to achieve agelessness in Cosmere, one of which is being a Dawnshards and giving it up (Hoid). If Ishar did that (we don't know who was a Dawnshard on Ashyn), he was basically immortal after giving it up. Plus Ishar was a Ashyn Bondsmith, capable of manipulating connections, and age is a connection thing, which he might be able to manipulate to extend their lives. I believe what kickstarted the first Singer's Desolation was humanity starting to attract more emotion sprens (Eshonai mentioned Listeners are worse at attracting those sprens than humans) and more importantly, humans attracting True Sprens (and maybe even bonding them without gaining Surgebinding - that will come after Oathpact), After all, the Songs of Secrets sings: But it happened likely during "first" human Desolation, when humanity invaded the rest of the Roshar from Shinovar, breaking the pact. But remember Nale's flashback, in which he told Jezrien that he's surprised and honored that Jezrien asked his enemy, Nale, to join the Oathpact? That's fishy for me, and makes me think that humanity was divided and fighting each other at the same time. And that really makes me think that some Fused aren't Singers turned into Cognitive Shadows, but they were originally humans (Leshwi was a Singer, so not all of them). And if that's true, this might mean that the first Desolation with Fused, was humans fighting humans, not invading Roshar, and Singers were fighting with humans against Odium. Oathpact was made, Heralds were born, Fused were bound, and Singers saw that humans were attracting their beloved True Sprens bonding them and giving them surges, and turned away from Honor towards Odium.