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I believe so. But technically Mistborn would be able to pull the bracelet on the opposite side of Feruchemist arm by the side that is not touching his skin, so that doesn't really change anything. Do like Rashek, coat whole metalmind inside and outside in aluminum, with a spike piercing your skin, which is uncoated in your body. Or you know, just piercing your body with metalminds makes them mostly immune to Allomancy. No aluminum needed.

I would argue that they need gold - just look at TenSoon in HoA after being treated with acid - he lacked mass. This is something he could heal with F-gold. But I don't think kandra can "heal" themself to gain more mass than they normally have. In a human form, they will have as much mass as that human had, and F-gold won't help him to gain more - F-pewter will. Healing bones might be possible, but bones might not be part of Kandra, so it depends on self-perception. And they still need food to grow, they need mass to create more mass. They like rotten meat, in prison they have to be fed and otherwise they will lose mass. F-bendalloy would help achieve what you want, not F-gold. Their shapeshifting ability doesn't heal them, they shift their body to close wounds, repair damaged structure, but not grow more in mass. They look like that because they’ve never experienced the life of Mistwraiths and don't have instincts on how to shape their body like Kandra, not because they're old/weak. They're far more human-like than the rest of Kandra.

They for sure were created in a way that gives them identity and some limited self-awareness. But like the WoB said - it's mechanical, not a life but a step towards it. And that's why they can give powers (specifically F-nicrosil) to anyone who doesn't have them at all.

That sounds possible, I like it. Nothing more to add, you've already explained it very well.

Like I said, a Shardblade would resist Nightblood. But not a spren. Even if it takes a few seconds, a spren would be consumed by him, because when Nightbloods starts doing this, what can you even do when your soul is ripped into pieces and destroyed? Even if spren manages to escape, it will be damaged and likely turned into a Deadeye, as now a large portion of his soul is missing. Nightblood "mouth" was big enough to drain more investiture than perpendicularity could provide and that happened in the matter of a few seconds. Nightblood devoured a thunderclast with a single cut, and that's spren as well. And yes, Shardblades are god metals, they are likely one of the most invested objects in Cosmere, but not as invested as Nightblood. And if it's the amount of investiture that determines how well an object can resist a Shardblade's cut, then a Shardblade will behave like a Shardplate or a Halfshard in contact with Nightblood, because Nightblood is so much more invested. Nightblood is the limit of how much investiture can you fit in a given space, as WoBs describe that he is full, supersaturated with investiture and can't fit much more in him (that's why he's leaking investiture). But because investiture is another form of matter and energy, I believe there isn’t really a limit of how much investiture can fit in a small space. Just like you can compress more and more matter, which will get hotter and denser, until it forms a black holes, the same is with energy, put more and it will collapse into a black hole - the same with investiture, you can put more and more until it collapse into a black hole, after which you can put even more, to make black hole bigger. God metals are already described sometimes like a black holes, as existing in all three realms at once. But you can invest them - Atium is one example, use it as a Hemalurgic spike or a metalmind and you have more invested objects. Which in my mind proves there is no real limit, if you have enough energy/investiture you can push more investiture into an already invested god metal. Which is something that Brandon sometimes says to questions like "can you Awaken a Shardblade" - yes if you have enormous amounts of Breaths everything can be Awakened. Theoretically possible, but in practice not so much.

Right? It's weird. The only way I see it working, is similar to copperminds - you store it once, and your identity is gone, for some time you have no identity but you slowly start to develop a new one - which you can store again. But identity isn't like that, it's more like a key, token, encryption key that allows you to access investiture that has the same encryption key as you have.

Oh right, I missed that. It's late and so on, brain doesn't work. But I do believe that the way people determine if they're evil when holding Nightblood, is based on the criteria imprinted on Nightblood during his Awakening. The way it is phrased: So yes, it's how it's wielder thinks about himself, but only for those specific reasons. That's what I believe is happening. Oh no, Vasher for sure thinks he has done some really bad, maybe evil, things (Manywar for one). But fully drawing Nightblood out and letting him feed on you, creates a bond between him and you that makes you immune to Nightblood's "test", and also he doesn’t want to use Nightblood for reasons that Nightblood's Breaths consider to be evil. But the reason why Vasher consider himself to be a good person is because he might have used Command to remove his memories (like he taught the girl) and now he just doesn't remember all the bad stuff he did: And about Szeth:

Tonk Fah was mentally unstable (sociopathic urge to torture), and much less invested than Rashek who was a Sliver, and yet he resisted Nightblood with ease. Rashek being so much invested, with expanded soul and constantly tapping his metalminds, would make it really hard for Nightblood to affect him at all - just like WoB in my previous post said "Susebron got so much investiture, he may be able to shrug emotional Allomancy off". With Rashek and Nightblood it would be the same. That's the point. He already did it. He didn't bother with exploring Cosmere, despite knowing it existed, and tolerated trade with other planets. He had all the wealth and all the power he needed, he just wouldn't want Nightblood at all. And like you mentioned, he was bored and tired. Why bother with some fancy tool when he already has plenty of them? He was a god, there is nothing more after it for him to achieve. Hard to say how aluminum would interact with Awakened objects, but I don't want to Awaken it, just sew aluminum in material after Awakening with visualization that already includes it. If the aluminum field effect messes something up with the Awakened object, wood is an option. Or, depending how strong Awakening material is, just normal metal plate, if material can physically resist being pushed/pulled (again, duralumin would rip it off, so do it against Mistings not Mistborns). Blocking duralumin pushed coins won't be likely with this setup, but I don't want to, just angle the plate and deflect the coin/bullet to the side. Yes, he would. That's one of many reasons why Rashek would win.

Yyyyy I'm not saying that. The problem is, we don't know what aluminum feruchemy does. It involves identity, yes, but in most cases that we know of it just blanks identity. It might so happen that you don't store your identity in aluminummind, you use it, and it just blanks your identity, and you can't tap it to regain it, or invest it. As long as you "storing" you don't have identity, and there is no charge, it just goes away, then when you stop, you have your identity back, but there is nothing to tap - aluminummind is empty. Similarly how aluminum allomancy works, you burn it and it burns away all your metals in a single moment. In a similar way aluminum spike might work. At this point this is all speculations. It might work like a normal metalmind, but it might be a weird one that just can't be invested, like in every other invested art in Cosmere - aluminum is just a weird metal that does its own thing and generally just can't be invested. Treat this idea as a new possibility, one of many, not something that is true. Warbreaker spoilers in WoB:

No, you need to burn the outside metal first. If it's in the lead, you can't burn it at all. There was a WoB about a metal inside a metal, I can't find it now.

No. Just no. Rashak already has all the power, he doesn't need more. In this case, he has Shardblade, he doesn't need another sword, especially when he prefers killing from distance with powerful A-steel. He wouldn't want to even sell it, he was/is an ruler of the whole world, he wouldn't want to use it to manipulate people, he has emotional allomancy and can do better with it. He won't kill himself, because he just wouldn't want to use Nightblood in any way, and the sword won't consider him as evil. Not to mention, he could detect Nightblood with bronze, and shield himself with copper. He would know it's a dangerous sword. And strong mind and strong will would save him on top of that - Tonk Fah when holding Nightblood was getting tempted by it, but after getting smacked in the face by Denth, he was able to resist it fully. And Susebron would unfortunately lose. I've been actually thinking about it for the last few days, you would be surprised how much Awakener can do against a Mistborn, if given some time to prepare - the best way to protect against bullets/coins - Awaken coat with thick metal/aluminum/wooden plate in it with Command “protect me” and visualization to move in a way to intercept projectals with this plate. With right visualization it can deflect even duralumin pushed metals by placing the plate at a sharp angle. But a Mistborn killing Susebron? No way - Susebron would just Awaken all Mistborn clothes to suffocate him and it will kill him. Susebron's pile of clothes would take the hit. It's not about how he thinks about himself, it's about what he would do with Nightblood, and Rashek simply doesn't need Nightblood in any way. Look at WoB above.

Nice thinking but I don't think this would work. Yes, you can spike somebody with a pure base metal spike and later turn it into an alloy. But when doing so, it will cease to be a hemalurgic spike. The charge will be inaccessible and it won't be added into your soul. This might make this not work as a spike at all, and it won't produce a hole in your soul because of that. Why? Because it's an alloy now, and it is treated as non-invested metal. Like having and iron spike, stealing something with it, and turning it into steel. Now you have steel spike with some investiture in it, but the steel doesn't have the proper kind of investiture, and if you want to place it in somebody, it wouldn't act as a spike, because the magic system treats it as non-invested, and it would just be as a normal piece of metal, stuck in a body, with investiture that is inaccessible. Regarding aluminum spike, if it requires charging, then alloying it after charging would certainly make it not work as an aluminum spike. If aluminum doesn’t require charging, and you need only to place it in a correct binding point, then as well, alloying it before would make it not work as an aluminum spike. Coating a steel bullet in aluminum might work as an aluminum spike - intent would probably matter here a lot. But another question arises, how much aluminum spike needs to remove all powers? Does a Mistborn require a bigger aluminum spike than Misting? In this case coating a bullet with aluminum might not work - too little aluminum.

There is a problem with comparing Nightblood hitting Honorblade, and predicting what would it do when clashing with a Shardblade - Nightblood was already full after collapsing perpendicularity, and more or less enter a state of "food coma" (or was very close to it): Note here, Brandon might be mistaken about Nightblood entering food coma after collapsing perpendicularity (no Szeth pov, but Dalinar noted that Stormlight is still being pulled into Nightblood very fast from Szeth), because Nightblood got full after killing Rayse, RoW ch 113: But there is also a second problem with that - solid investiture, such as god metals forming a Shardblade, is the most rigid form of investiture. Both liquid and gasses are fluids, and can be "sucked in" like fluids, while solid god metals won't do that. But even spren and Shardblades have less investiture than Nightblood. What I think would happen, Shardblade would resist Nightblood, getting chipped off in process like Honorblade, but eventually it would shatter into pieces, like a Shardplate's segment after being hit enough times by a Shardblade. Unlike a Shardplate, spren would get severely wounded in process, maybe even become a deadeye. But that's only because they're in a solid form. If spren turns into mist, his normal cognitive form, right in front of Nightblood, it wouldn't be able to pass through Nightblood in CR (as Nightblood is present there as a dark smoke, and cuts in all 3 realms), and would be sucked into the Nightblood almost fully - because it is no longer in its most rigid form, and can't resist him that well.

Although space is an eternal nothingness, it is filled with everything.

The WoB shows properly. Use "share" to copy the link to the WoB, or "copy" copy and paste the entire WoB, like me below. There are different ways of gaining future sight, not every one of them involves Fortune. Accessing the Spiritual Realm directly is one of those ways: Rayse had troubles predicting the future, because of Renarin - he was close with Taravangian in his last days. And Renarin was also close to Szeth, which made both Szeth (with Nightblood) and Taravangian very hard to see for Odium. It's not that he couldn't see them, it's that he saw so many different possibilities, that his future vision became just very imprecise and unreliable. Renarin could see the future, and could react to Odium's future moves, which made Odium see a different future, which made Renarin see another different future etc. All of this makes them both see hundreds of different futures, every one of them is equally as likely to happen and they have no idea which one is true. Mistborn spoilers: Cultivation saw a multitude of different possibilities and she just rolled the dice, stuck to one of them and hoped for the best. She explained how she did it, RoW ch 114:

The difference between Taravangian and Rayse was that Taravangian achieved all of that without access to Fortune - Fortune is a way of accessing Spiritual Realm. This is impressive, as Fortune is often used to see the Future. Odium has his Shardic powers, he exists primarily in the Spiritual Realm, he can see the Future much further. From all the ways of the future sight, Shardic future sight is the most powerful one. And I think the Diagram did predict Ascension to Odium ("You must become king. Of Everything.") and guided Taravangian all the way up. But the Diagram had some mistakes, one notable is that Dalinar didn't fall to Odium (which is still possible because of the rules of the Duel of Champions), didn't predict Renarin's future (because of his future sight) and the Diagram didn't mention Nightblood. That's why it's possible that some of the Death Rattles might have some mistakes, or be vague on purpose. But at the very end of RoW we've seen another Death Rattle fulfilled - Kaladin swearing 4th Idea. Some Death Rattles might predict events beyond SA 5. I think that from the storytelling reasons, including Death Rattles that are no longer valid and are predicting different paths of the Future is kind of a waste. They won't add much to the book and would be just a wasted potential - if they remain unexplained.

We don't know if they can copy DNA. Look again at the WoBs above, Brandon still hasn't decided if they mimic DNA or not. He wants a DNA test to be able to determine if a kandra is real or not.

Single Breath is a lot of investiture. Drabs are getting ill faster, see the world in darker colors, are depressed, and are even less invested than people from non-Shard worlds with close to nothing innate investiture. That's why I don't think a single jar of Dor would be equivalent to 1000 Breaths.

I remember that WoB too, but can't find it. For the question, I'm almost sure they have a very specific binding point - like almost everything in Hemalurgy.

That's a good question. Can you fill yourself with the Dor like Stormlight? If yes, then if you have at least one Breath, you should be able to use the Dor to Awaken. You might be even able to Command in such a way, that your Breath stays always with you, and only Dor is used to Awaken, like Vasher does with his Returned Breath. TotES spoilers:

But in case of regular type 3 Awaken objects, those Breaths are still keyed to your identity. If that's how you're Awakening your spikes, it might not work. If you're creating type 4 sentient spikes, then this "might" work, but you are risking that your soul will get consumed by hungry spikes. Or they all will be talking to you at once all the time. Either way, a pure nightmare.

It depends on how this works. Do you push the spike fully through the person ripping all of his powers away from his spirit web? If yes, then powers granted by spikes should be fine. Do you put the spike in a person, leaving it there, making him unable to use his powers as long as the spike is in him? If yes, then powers granted by spikes would also be blocked.

A single aluminum spike removes all powers of the recipient. All of them at once. But I admit, I don't know how would it work in the case of a person who has his powers granted by spikes.

They have a central nervous system, option 1 is highly unlikely in my opinion. Option 3 - they have no reproductive organs, until the time has come and they feel a biological urge to reproduce. They then develop their own unique reproductive organs without the need of consuming any previously (or they always have them) and mate, creating new offsprings. Like european freshwater eels who have no genitalia until they travel through the Atlantic ocean developing them in the meantime, mate, lay eggs and die.

"Hey Ishar, check this cool thing you can do! Use this Dawnshard and connect the planet's surface to the Sun, it will be fun!"