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It changes your frame of time. So you store and tap in a timeframe you're currently in. In bendalloy bubble, you store for a 1 min, you get 1 min of attribute in your metalmind, but outside it only was 5 seconds. You still have 1 min of attribute in your metalmind after popping the bubble. The opposite happens for cadmium bubbles.

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It could work like Mist, and Vin powered by Mist was much more powerful, to the point of pulling spikes and crushing Kredik Shaw. Whatever it would mean for Feruchemy, I don't know, you're using your own body to "power" it, but it's likely to use an external power source to power it, but it could require a few more steps - compounding is doing that. Edit: you can still be faster than the speed of sound with regular steelmind, but you need to store a lot of attribute to be able to move that fast for "some" noticeable time.

Well, it doesn't have to work like that. You can be like Breeze, but you can't create emotions they don't already have, you can't feel what they feel, and you only as good as subtle you are with touching emotions of others, and as good as good you are with recognizing emotions of others. Pushing on emotions too hard would only make it noticeable and it won't mean they have to obey you. And I don't want to manipulate people. What change? You could still use Allomancy as usual. It's just a different source of power.

Allomancy: pewter, steel, tin, zinc/brass, bendalloy and duralumin (if you have more than 1 power). If I had to choose one, it would most likely be pewter/steel - pewter just gives you so much at once, strength, speed, stamina, wakefulness, a bit of healing, warmth, balance, toughness - it just keeps going! Feruchemy: zinc, steel, gold, pewter, tin, bronze, chromium (depending on what it does), copper, electrum, bendalloy - like all of them are very useful, it just depends on the situation you're in. If I had to choose only one, it would be zinc or steel. Being able to think faster is just too good (or not think at all).

I can't find any. There are only this one that states Nightblood is more invested than 1000 Breaths.

Which is what we're talking about. Where did you get that from? I meant, it doesn't go back into SR, isn't used up, it stays in a sword, which isn't a perfect vessel, so it leaks up, as it's so full of it.

I don't think this WoB suggests that is solely due to how it was made. It's rather that because of how it was made, some properties of Nightblood are opposite to that of Shardblades, which causes him to be heavier. One of those properties is that Shardblade doesn't require Stormlight to function, Nightblood on the other hand does need steady flow of investiture or it would consume your soul. And that investiture isn't going anywhere, it stays in the sword. So I don't see how this WoB disproves my words.

Immortality is overrated. But this time you are born into a near immortal species, and all your friends and "family" are also immortal, so it's not that bad. It's kind of great for Kandra. They can be whomever they want, travel around the world, and always have a place in the Homeland, no matter how many years have passed. The only 2 dawnsides are the mass-suicide thing, and contracts, but other than that it's quite nice life. In era 2 they are in even better position. So this is a hard choice, Kandra or Feruchemist. But here is a thing, as Kandra I can gain Feruchemical powers via spikes, if Kandra figures it out one day, so I just have to be patient, experiment and one day I can become Kandra-Feruchemist. And Harmony would send me to explore Cosmere so I think this time I would choose to be a Kandra.

That's what I meant by practice. Rashek knew he needed to use the same amount of power to move the planet back on its correct orbit again, the problem is he couldn't even if he tried. There is simply too much power and he is too limited to move it with that precision. He would always push the planet with different forces. The practice comes from using the power, so the more he moves Scadrial's orbit around, the more precise he can get and finally use the correct amount of power to bring Scadrial on its right orbit. But at this point he would run out of power or destroy Scadrial even more. That's what the WoB said. Edit: Naah, I prefer "what other terrifying things can I do"

I don't know if I'm imagining things or I misremember, but I think that there was a WoB, or mention in a book, talking about how much a sphere weighs with and without a Stormlight in it. I also don't remember the results as well.

Yes, it's likely the power would know that. I don't however know if there was enough Preservation’s power in the Well for it to know where the planet was. So we don't konw how much knowledge would you get just from holding the power, but for sure far less than holding whole Shard. But I could figure out where the planet should be. The problem however is that I lack practice. Even if I knew, I wouldn't be able to move it in the right place, I would always overshoot, and I can't gain practice in moving the planet - there is not enough power there. Plus there is likely Ruin’s power subconsciously opposing my actions in some way at least, or allowing them to happen as they bring destruction. And there is another problem, you can't wait indefinitely for you to understand the world around you, power of the Well would just go away on its own. But tbf I really wanted to have fun and explore what could be done other than boring "move the planet back to where it was". Of course that would be the best solution, but too boring

I did suggest they grab something. I don't know if it would be that invested to prevent Fullborn from pushing on it. Even if Radiant raises his arm fully to the side (which would make it harder for him to maneuver in narrow streets), there is still a path for metal objects coming from the other side of his body that would attract metal objects to the shield through Radiant's body. Yes, but because spren is where Radiant is, they have basically the same field of view. And Scadrial's CR is full of mists and mist buildings, which would prevent spren from seeing throught them. And Fullborn then can move through buildings, invisible to Radiant. He still detects him with bronze, and can even change clothes to ones which he finds in those homes, he would fit into a crowd and be unrecognizable to Radiant. But Nightblood is heavier than it should be: Warbreaker prologue ch 5: ch 53: Some men just want to watch the world burn.

I think it was already fulfilled. During the Battle of Thaylen Field, Dalinar for some reason counted 9 people (without Venli), each from a different Order (except for Ash, but it's likely she will become Dustbringer). They all stood against the wall of black and white and red - Everstorm, Fused and Singers. While they didn't hold Shardblades, this only implies that they are Radiants.

It's hard to keep healing when all liquids in your body want to boil, because of no pressure. So it was lack of pressure that killed them. Radiation kills in weeks/months, not hours. Breathing Stormlight in isn't a physical thing, it's a mental one. They don't need to literally breathe it in. What's preventing you from taking a breath under water is water pressure, which is greater than your muscle can expand. It's your muscles that do the breathing. If there is no pressure preventing lungs from expanding, like in space, you can take a breath, even an empty one. But you don't need this to breathe in Stormlight.

Nightblood consumed only the Vessel of Odium, not Odium. The power of Odium was likely not touched at all, or it's not noticeable, as Shard's power is almost infinite. Nightblood was created with 1000 Breaths, but during his life he consumed an unknown number of investiture. We don't know how much, but he is the most invested object in Cosmere. That doesn't mean he has 50000 Breaths now, we just don't know. And he holds it in the form of corrupted investiture. Moreover Nightbloods was already full and saturated with investiture. It can't hold more of it, that's why he's leaking it. So Nightblood didn't become more powerful by consuming Rayse, and he won't be able to do more than that.

That's hard. Firstly, I hold the power of Preservation only, so I can't create new things, only change those which are made of Preservation's power. So I can't change the star's luminosity, as this star existed there prior to Ruin and Preservation's arrival, nor can I create a ring of dust surrounding this star. Secondly, I can't move Scadrial back where it was. I don't know where it was and I don't have any reference points. Sazed was able to do it only because he had Trellism's star maps, which show him where to put Scadrial. I don't have this, I don't know, I can't move it back, and trying to do it, might only push the planet into cold regions of the system, making it as cold as Mars. Which is the same conclusion Rashek reached after moving Scadrial closer to its star. Thirdly, experience comes not with the time I hold the power, but with the amount of power I use. So the most complicated things, like drastically changing human's biology, must be done in the last place, because I can mess things up while doing it, if I do not learn how to be delicate with this power. Furthermore I have a limited amount of power. I could move Scadrial's orbit maybe once more, but I can't keep moving it until I find the correct orbit. The power will run out fast if I keep using it. What does it mean to place a planet closer to its star, out of the Goldilocks zone? It means that now it's too hot for water to exist on the planet's surface in liquid state. I can't ignore it, I have to find a way for water to remain in liquid state, or else it would all boil away in few years, which would release a lot of water vapor into the atmosphere, which is a greenhouse gas, which would cause runaway greenhouse effects and made a planet into a Venus-like planet. Taking all of this into consideration I think all that Rashek did after moving the planet closer to its star were brilliant moves. He focused on fixing the problem instead of trying to reverse it with little hope of success. Ferromagnetic ash coming from Ashmounts was a great way to cool down the planet. Bacteria eating ash is a great way of preventing ash from accumulating. Little changes to human and life biology to adapt them to new, harsh conditions. He did surprisingly good, and I don’t think there is a lot more that could be done which would yield better results. But I have some ideas. Option 1: Move Scadrial again, away from the sun. I will certainly overshoot it this time as well, and move it out of the Goldilocks zone into freezing orbit, but that's ok. Then I will change the planet completely. Move all the water, or most of the water on the planet's surface underground. Move humans, plants and animals underground, and create a stable, underground caves for humans to live. Make sure that heat generated from the planet's core is enough to create an underground environment suitable for sustaining liquid water and life, but reduce the plant's tectonic activity, and make sure human's caves are far away from places where two or more tectonic plates meet. Change life's biology so they can survive there, and create plants that can grow underground and provide a stable food supply for humanity and other animals. Planet's surface will freeze, but life can exist underground. This would create a world far worse then the one Rashek did, but life will survive. To play a long game, create a star maps after moving Scadrial closer to its star, and another one after moving it away - you have too little power left to move Scadrial for the third time, but with 2 star maps providing you a reference points, when Well would fill up again after 1000 years, you could calculate precisely where Scadrial should be in its orbit, and move it back where it once was. Option 2: Now the second option is a weird one, I don't know how it works, so I'm just going wild. What I need to do is to create an atmosphere that will reflect most of the sunlight back into space, and not absorb it. For example low and thick clouds are good at reflecting sunlight back to space. There are some gasses that have anti greenhouse effects, like Dimethyl sulfide. Creating a reflecting surface on the planet will also help, just like ice and snow, but it's too hot for it so I need to find some other material. So basically this will be like creating the same effects that Ashmounts did, without them. I need to change Scadrial's albedo from 0.3, which is Earth-like, to much greater value, like 0.7. Ashmounts are again the easiest solution, without them I need to find some other ways, like cover the planet's surface with silver mirrors or something Option 3: I was thinking if I could take some material from Scadrial, and scatter it around a planet in a spherical, thick layer of dust. But that won't work for long. That dust will "collapse" into a ring system around the equator, or fall down back on Scadrial most likely. But it might be stable for 1000 years at least, which would provide a nice and cold planet. Option 4: Another wild idea. Synchronise Scadrial's rotation with its orbit - which would mean that one side of the planet will always face its star, while the other will always be dark - like the Moon is tidally locked with Earth. It might require to move Scadrial even closer to its star, so it can be tidally locked, but I can likely do it without it, and create a rotational period close enough to being tidally locked, so it can cause similar effects on orbit Rashek move Scadrial into. Like Venusian day is longer than its year, but in this case make it even longer, much longer. I will have to move all life to the dark side of the planet. And to help the planet even more, I need to create very strong water and air currents that will carry heat from the day side to the night side of the planet, maybe even I could manage to keep the day side oceans from boiling. Humanity can have agriculture in a twilight zone of the planet, where the sun is still shining, but not so much to cause burns. I will have to make water life more numerous and increase their breeding ratio (from plankton and plants to fishes and mammals), so it can sustain itself while being likely the main source of food for humanity. With these changes Scadrial can become an eyeball planet, on which life can "thrive". Without creating Ashmounts, oceans will boil away. And if you are going to create Ashmounts, just do what Rashek do, as changing humanity to be an aquatic species would create far more problems than it would solve - like for example there would be no fire, so you won't have metal tools, means no technology, means no civilization. That won't work. Firstly again, water will boil away, the planet's surface will be turned into inhospitable hell. While Feruchemist can survive by storing excess heat in brass, you don't have bendalloy, nor you won't have technology to create it, so you can't compound food/water, and there will be no food left very soon. To add more, mixing Allomantic genes with Feruchemical genes will break down Feruchemical genes, resulting in Ferrings and Twinborns being born, not Fullborns. To add more, future generations will face much more power and gene decay, so you will not see Feruchemist show up at all, just Ferrings, Twinborn and Halfborn at best, with weak Allomancy. But your population won't survive long enough to see it. As soon as the water completely boils away, you're dead.

Odium's future sight was blinded by Renarin's future sight. It's a fairly good assumption that Adonalsium's future sight could also be blinded enough by a simple human future sight to prevent him from seeing his Shattering. With Dawnshards it could give far greater future sight than we've ever seen humans had, on Shard's level even. We don't even know if Adonalsium was a good entity, nor if he had a Vessel like later Shards have to have. So If Adonalsium had a Vessel, he would be as limited in accessing his powers as Shard's vessels are, and he wouldn't be much better at future sight than Shards, despite all of that extra power.

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"You can’t travel to Braize in the Physical Realm" ... "We sent Heavenly Ones to try it once." Yes, it says that they were going to Braize. Raboniel is a scientist, they can try doing it just for the sake of discovering new science. Maybe having a body on Braize is something they are longing for?

No, because Abrasion is applied on a surface, it's a layer that's covering their body. It's outside of their body, so they can leech it like it's on the ground. Abrasion doesn't invest their bodies.

They tried flying from Roshar to Braize. RoW ch 89

We know to some degree what Heralds withstood on Braize, frome Prelude in WoK. It looks like "regular" physical torture. I don't think Fused can use Surges on Braize. They don't have bodies there, they are likely like sprens. I think it was even said that they kind of asleep there.

That would require Edgedancer to smear Fullborn with Stormlight, which they can leech of themself, as this is like a layer placed on them. Not to mention how would they catch Fullborn in the first place and apply Abrasion on them, when Fullborn can always run faster than them, think faster, and with electrum they could see in their future being frictionless. Fullborn would always be able to outmaneuver Edgedancer and avoid being smeared with Stormlight, crash his plate and kill him with a single punch. They can make some area around them frictionless, but Fullborn can jump, steel push themself to Edgedancer, leech it from the ground with bare feet running through it like Moses through the Red sea. Fullborn can even use it like a slide while drastically reducing his mass, which by conservation of momentum p=mv would drastically increase his speed, and in the very last moment before reaching Edgedancer, he can drastically increase his weight, crushing into him and smashing his plate to pieces. Good thinking, cool idea that would work alone against F-steel, but Fullborn has to many tools that he can use to just igonre it. They can, but they have nothing to attach it to while being airborne. If they are constantly showered by metal objects, they would have to stay close to walls/ground to constantly create reverse lashing surfaces, which would further limit their maneuverability. If they would pick up a wooden plank, it would soon be shredded to pieces, and it wouldn't be protected from objects pulled behind their back. Some metal objects on which they can apply reverse lashing can be pushed out of their hands, and still won't protect their back. Spren can, but they are limited. I think there were instances, when Kal asked Syl if she saw something, and she answered him that she was distracted by being a Shardblade. Even when fighting Lezian, Syl was on a look out in her physical form. So Spren in physical form can help and inform Windrunner of Fullborn suddenly closing in, like Syl in OB battle warned Kal in the very last moment of Fused attacking him, sometimes too late for him to avoid it, but following Fullborn after he disappears from Windrunner's sight, that's too much.

Gravitation is good, but in an urban environment Fullborn with F-iron will be as good as Gravitation. Which is very important as that would put them on the equal ground. And he can constantly shower Windrunner with metal debris. In air there are no surfaces that Windrunner can attach reverse lashings to, using a Sharshield would protect him from one direction, but not from the metals being pulled from behind his back. And when Windrunner would lose Fullborn, then spren also won't know where he is, as spren was distracted by being a shield, and couldn't follow Fullborn. Fullborn can enter buildings, and move through them, using bronze to detect Windrunner. How can Edgedancers nullify F-steel? Didn't we already establish in a different thread, that Abrasion, and being frictionless, don't change impact force.