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Haha, I got Fiddleford too. I didn't expect that.

No idea, they tend to take the form of a living thing, like a snake covering you or something. But they are still a mass of some goo, don't expect that to protect you like armor. It won't. I think so too. The bigger they are, the more Aethers spores were used to create them, logically, the more water they need. You would need a looot of spores to make that thing. And a looooot of water. Then I remember Tress had some problems with keeping Midnight Essence in a shape, as it wanted to be active, do things that Tress didn't want it to do, and it started to deform. With bigger forms it might be even harder to keep it in correct shape. Just like Re-Shephir's Midnight Essences were quickly to turn into shapeless figures.

Likely. Or at very least, something unkeyed, like pure Dor. Stormlight is less dense than Dor, so it would get used faster. But it didn't look like Riina was dragging jars of pure Dor behind her, nor Hoid was using it, so they can very likely use Aons to access Dor directly in some way. Therefore any investiture would be good.

My favorite chapter! Pure nightmare fuel! Remember all those times someone saw a cremling near them? Well, now you know they might have been something else. You want more nightmare fuel? Non spoilery information about Sleepless in the past:

Yes? Malatium is an alloy of gold and Atium, so that's true. For now, we don't know how the rest of Atium alloys behave. So it doesn't really need to mean anything. I'm just making sure there is no misunderstanding. They're wrong, they don't understand god metals. Their placement on metal table is more important than similarities of their effects, and we don't know what that means:

There are also compared to mammals by Brandon, I would say they are fitting mammals the most: There are also mammals with carapace, notably Armadillo (give them some love).

You don't need to spike Allomancers, you can spike anybody, just to steal their strength or innate investiture. It doesn't matter what, as long as you steal something from them to invest the spike sword. That won't work. Spikes don't steal kinetic/static investiture, and that's the investiture that's coming when you're compounding. Kineting investiture is coming from Preservation, turning into static in a metalmind. Spike is stealing innate investiture, parts of the soul. Feruchemical attributes stored in a metalminds aren't parts of the soul, they are kinetic/static investiture. What you are describing is Allomantic chromium, leecher, that can suck kinetic investiture out of a person, even compounded one. However Nicrosil does steal investiture, general investiture, not ability, but because compounding isn't instant, it takes time to burn metalmind and gain attribute, just like it takes time to burn regular metal, and spiking IS instant (happening in a single moment, not prolong period of time), you would be able to steal at most just a fraction of the power that is flowing to a compounder, and he won't even feel the loss of that power (if he survives). Spiking compounder who is actively compounding won't invest the spike with unlimited power, you would just take a very small fraction of that power, only that what was flowing through him at the very second the spike was passing through his spirit web.

Yes. Seeing, reading, hearing, stearing. You kind of become that creature. Yes, yes, yes, yes. The further away they are, the harder it is to control them (I think, or at least they are more susceptible to someone else gaining control over them).

So because you read TLM:

I once had the same problem. In my case it was because I was using the Dark Mode extension in my browser. I had to disable it on 17th Shard and embrace the light. Like the most recent WoB posted above said, that's just natural. No magic here. Kandra are very similar, and the TLM person was the same. Others already explained it far better than me. WoBs are saying that Brandon didn't reveal his resonances yet, but that doesn't mean he doesn't know what it is.

Just like @Mistchemist16 said, you do also get a shadow when you're burning gold. It's a gold shadow, but it shows you your past or different present, but that's still a shadow. Pair of gold and electrum and pair of Atium-electrum and Malatium show you a shadow of the future/past. Electrum isn't an alloy of Atium!! Electrum is an alloy of Gold. Period. Even Brandon and Ben refers to the images of gold as a "gold shadows": From Coppermind, about gold, based on the AoL Ars Arcanum: And here is this WoB, telling you not to look for the pattern in Atium alloys: There for sure were electrum Mistings there, but keep in mind, electrum was very rare at this point, almost unknown, so Elend would have only a few flasks worth of electrum just for himself, no more. They had chemists/metallurgists that made them electrum. And there was a cut in chapter as soon as Elend found out that mistfallen were Mistings now. I think it was even mentioned by Elend and Yomen that they have only base 8 metals in storage, no fancy metals. But Brandon's words support that all of them were Mistings of one of 16 metals, including Atium and Malatium. There were Malatium Mistings too, as Malatium and Atium were swapped in base metals for cadmium and bendally. No, because precisely 1/16th of all mistfallen were Atium Mistings.

Right, BoM ch 3: So yes, it's possible that a blank Feruchemist would be able to access metalminds with identity. But Aluminum Ferring would likely have to tap all of that and store it in another metalmind, to make it fully identity blanked, and this would result in some loss.

Elantris has to be read before The Lost Metal. No questions asked. I think it's ideal to read it before Secret history as well. But the rest is a good order.

This doesn't work with Allomantic Atium and its electrum alloy. Pure A-Atium grants extended vision of the future, the same way Electrum-Atium alloy does when burned with duralumin. It seems that Electrum in the alloy is more like a restriction of power than giving abilities to the alloy. Storing youth in pure Atium might likely get rid of restrictions that Rashek was facing, maybe even allowing him to permanently overwrite his spiritual age (basically change his age in all three realms), as now Atium is pure, and it's more affecting Spiritual Realm, just like pure Allomantic Atium allows you to look more into Spiritual Realm. But that's speculative of course. You don't store memories in bronze, despite it being the alloy of copper. Electrum-Atium alloy doesn't store determination at all.

You're asking if an aluminum ferring, with medallions, can blank the identity of an already full metalmind filled by multiple people? Unlikely because the metalmind has multiple identities (was created by people with many identities) and he doesn't share any of them (even when blanked), so he wouldn't be able to access investiture at all. The metalmind has to be blank for him to access investiture, but it isn't. Tbf, it's hard to say how it works, because Brandon leaves this for later books. Buuut, because you're creating those metalminds with the use of medallions, this might cheat identity in such a way, that those metalminds would act more or less as a part of metallion, so anybody with medallion would be able to tap all investiture in that metalmind, despite it being stored there by multiple people. Medallions have the identity of their own, and this might be the identity to which investiture in metalminds, stored when using medallions, is keyed to.

Not really, the Shard itself IS Odium, however its Vessel, Rayse, was trying very hard to redefine Shard's intent to Passion, with some results. Others don't do that. They're what their intent and name is saying, WoB:

Ouch, yeah, that's a mess. I would say go read BoM -> Secret History -> RoW -> The Lost Metal. But 11th Metal you can read just now (or anytime tbf, you don't need to focus on that one too much). Warbreaker and Elantris (and Emperor's Soul) should be read before TLM and it's good to read Warbreaker before SA book 2, but that's too late, but before finishing RoW is also a good idea (very good I would say). In the end I will suggest BoM/Warbreaker/Elantris (order doesn't matter here just read them before the rest) -> Emperor's Soul/Secret History -> RoW -> TLM But there are also other stories from Arcanum Unbounded, like "Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell" or "Sixth of the Dusk" but those can be read anytime tbf, like 11th Metal. Did you also read Edgedancer and Dawnshard? Short novelas in between the main Stormlight books? If not, it's good to read those two before RoW.

I don't know if those metalminds, which aren't part of a medallion, would be identityless. They might be keyed to your identity so no switching. But even if so, this shouldn't matter with your idea, you want to create an invested weapon and armor, and multiple Feruchemist can store in the same metalmind, without changing their identity, but they can't access each other's attributes. Except for steel and iron (copper and bronze, people in past times used those metals for a reason), most metals are just bat at being a weapon. The same with armor. Not to mention there are different kinds of steel, each with different properties, only one of them is usable in metalic arts.

Very likely. There are medallions where you store weight, and where you tap heat, I doubt those two are different and you can't store/tap the same medallion. After all there are people in Malwish whose sole duty is to store heat in medallions - firemothers and firefathers. Money! You finished storing? Let me check if this medallion is now more invested. It is, here you go, your payment. Or have medallions trapped in a metal frame in your floor, only accessible in a special way, you a person can only touch it, but never pick it up, even if it's F-pewter. Leechers or Aluminum Gnats with cubes are also a very good idea for additional security. No identity problem here. Those are unsealed metalminds. Everyone can use them. And we've already seen that in BoM where multiple different metalminds were shuffled from hands to hands, and nobody was like "hey, that's not my medallion". Steris hid her medallion in the notebook and later gave it to Allik.

You quoted, put a spoiler box instead Ruin and Preservation created Scadrial, so kind of, they can make stuff directly out of investiture. But I doubt even a massive spike could be used on a Shard.

You can't really spike a Shard, there is just too much investiture in a Shard, incomparable to a single spike.

That's ok then, I haven't read that. Thanks.

Is it confirmed by some WoB which I can't find, or that's from the letter I quoted?

It's faster than metalminds! You just need "a little" sacrifice.

Oh yeah, here you go: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/495-prologue-to-stormlight-book-five/ And on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7IAXaDWdKU