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The problem with surgebinding is that it comes from Nahel Bond, the bond between spren and a Knight. So Radiant can't just give a surge to something, as this is given to him to be a bond, and a spren. The same with Mistborn, he has his powers because of the connection between him and Preservation. He can't give that to an object just like that. While you could make an Awaken object that would be able to use medallions, or maybe even a Honorblade, the question is how much Breaths would you need to give it for it to understand such a complicated and abstract command? Too much in my opinion. Yes, that would work. But keep in mind, fabrial is invested, it holds Stormlight and a Spren. It would be considered already Awakened, so it would be very hard to Awaken, and would require a lot of Breaths. Much more. Investiture resist investiture. However you could Awaken it before trapping spren in it or infusing it with Stormlight. Then you have to give it only so much Breaths to Awaken metal, which is still a lot, but doable. But then I imagine it would be harder to trap spren in it or infuse it with Stormlight, as investiture resist investiture.

I will defend myself! It's an innate investiture, additional part of you. And Breaths are often named by Brandon as a part of a soul: Stormlight is not innate investiture, it's not part of you. It's either kinetic or static.

That was because Vail was in "love" with him, and wanted to flirt with him, Radiant was not at all, and fully committed to Adolin, Shallan admired Kaladin as an art, and was conflicted about her feelings. Kaladin, who doesn't know there are 3 persons in one body, would see it as what you described. But that was purely because her conflicted personalities had different opinions on him, and acted differently. But it is possible that one of them holds that memory repressed in her, thus manifesting as a different treatment. Radiant most likely if that's the case.

Well, you can make Lifeless tap metalminds: But Lifeless has a brain, and he can understand that command. Regular Awakened objects don't have that, and would require more Breaths to Awaken to such complicated and abstract commands. Awakening with the use of just Stormlight? Not without few more steps

Breaths are part of your soul, so you can take it with you, as it is part of you. It's like Preservation's fragment in Scadrians, they can leave Scadrial as well. Other forms of investiture, like Stormlight come with string attached, and this string is Connection, that connects it to Shard and the planet it originated from, making it hard to move out of that planet. With Breaths or Preservation's fragment you don’t have that problem as they are part of you and are connected to you.

I don't think it will ever come up. At best some short conversation between them, where Shallan will forgive Kaladin, but seeing how things are with Shallan, and where they are heading in SA5 it's unlikely that something serious will come out of this. Click "edit" at the bottom of your first post and you can change title there.

Yes, tons of it. So much that you can't get it at all, thus making soulcasting a god metal impossible. God metal is a solid form of investiture, while Void/Strom/Lifelight are gaseous. And just like in real life, gas is much much less dense than a solid, but in this case you also have to consider how much investiture is contained in solid form, and it’s much more than in gaseous.

Why is that? I have fun with that But don't talk to me about it here. It's off topic, and spoiler. Well, it is. But in case of creating god metals, you can't create Cultivation god metal using Honor's investiture, you need to use investiture that has intent to align with a Shard's metal you want to make. So this is the intent alignment @Trusk'our was talking about.

I don't believe Koloss has necessary mental abilities to allow them to "test" themself or even understand what Allomancy is. It was pointed out multiple times during Vin's and Elend's fights with Koloss that they just don't understand how someone so small can fight and kill so many of them. When Vin pushed Human into telling him how new Koloss are made, he couldn't even find proper words to tell her that. They simply wouldn't be able to comprehend Allomancy, even if they had it, and had metal reserves in them.

It doesn't make sense for Kandra to stay away from Inquisitors as they have the First Contract that protects them from emotional allomancy, and the contract made by Kelsier was "legal", and could be seen by the Lord Ruler if he wishes. Moreover Inquisitor doesn't have the allomantic power necessary to break into Kandra, they don't have duralumin. OreSoon had to stay away from Inquisitors because they would know he is a Kandra and it would blow up Kelsier's cover and plan. Inquisitors doesn't constantly riot emotions of poeple around them, nor would it work on Kandra. HoA prologue Marsh sees metals in blood and spikes inside Inquisitors bodies. Chapter 6 he sees new spikes in chests and backs of Inquisitors who wear robes. I don't know if they should have known after the first encounter, as Sazed sneaked behind the Inquisitor and hit him in the head, knocking him out. So he shouldn't know that it was a Feruchemist. But Rashek was also a Terris, and a sentimental one. He had his own house placed in Kredik Shaw, spent time there as an old man even though he didn't need to, he kept Alendi's book, and this was done under Ruin's influence. It's easy to assume that he didn't want to see his kin perished, either because of real sentiment, or Ruin's influence. With the breeding program he can restrict Feruchemy genes, as not everyone has as strong genes as Feruchemists, thus cultivating only those with very weak genes would practically lead to the end of Feruchemy, or at least make them extremely rare. So the genetic sense of this program checks out. If he wanted to control and use Feruchemy for spikes, then he would have them imprisoned, not allow them to "run free". And don't forget that he said he never makes mistakes while making several mistakes while saying that.

Allomancers are immune to metal poisoning, so it's likely that Feruchemists are as well, as they are as different from normal humans as Allomancers are. But Wax is an Allomancer so he is immune to that. Good catch with the primar cube, was it the old ship at the temple?

You can spike animals, and Chimera looks extremely dog-like.

I don't think it's like that, because of how snapping worked during TFE. Beating people nearly to death causes trauma, and creates cracks in their soul, thus allowing this extra bit of Preservation to escape this opposing power that it's trapped in between. And that's all there is to snapping, creating holes in their soul to allow connection to Preservation to from, granting Allomancy. While Hemalurgy does create cracks in the soul, it also fills that crack with a piece of something else (both Ruin's investiture and piece of donor's soul), however I think cracks are wide enough to allow investiture to pass through it, thus snapping you in the process. SA spoilers:

Did you read Warbreaker?

Welcome to the Shard. You can't soulcast something into a god metal I know it was accidental, but if you create double or triple post/topic like this, you can report it so mods can take care of this:

I've never seen that connection (pun intended) between Lifesense and F-duralumin, but they do look very similar to each other. Because Lifesense can also detect other investiture (like spren) it would make sense that the more investiture you have (Breaths) the closer you are to Spiritual Realm, and in consequence to other objects containing investiture, as they are also closer to Spiritual Realm. I like it. Nice one.

All people have a spirit web, which contains a bunch of Connections to places, people, powers, ideas and time. Bondsmith can directly see and manipulate those Connections. This is very dangerous as Bondsmith can not only steal those Connections and apply them to himself, thus granting him powers, but create new ones and bind you to something you don't want to. Did your read RoW? And Brandon himself told us that Bondsmith unbound is one of the most dangerous things in Cosmere:

Not all Inquisitors had those spikes during TFE because they couldn't find Feruchemist: The Lord Ruler was keeping Feruchemical powers away from Inquisitors, as he knew that they can be used against him by Ruin, but also Inquisitors might have figured out compounding and an answer to his immortality. He provided them with only healing, no other Feruchemical power. And it was effective as even under Ruin's control they didn't learn how to compound: While this is an interesting idea, I don't think the Lord Ruler breed Terris for Fercuhemy. It would be against all his actions and fears. If he was doing that, than all Keepers, including Sazed, should be under constant surveillance, imprisoned, or already used for gaining attribute, and yet Sazed was somehow part of revolution against TLR. Sazed not only remain hidden, he also was able to just walk into Kredik Shaw twice, get himself imprisoned with metalminds swallowed - Inquisitors can see Kandra's invested spikes, so they would also be able to see inside Sazed's body and notice his metalminds, which were mostly empty, as he needed to store attribute first. If that was the purpose of the breeding program, Inquisitors would be wary of any Terrisman walking into Kredik Shaw, they would know Terris can have powers, and would take actions when they saw Sazed's metalminds in his guts. However it looked like Inquisitors were totally unaware that Sazed could be Feruhemist. Moreover the Synod was able to successfully avoid being capture and remain hidden for centuries, and kept their powers as a secret. Don't forget that when he was holding the power of Preservation, with his mind expanded beyond human limits, he still made a mistake of assuming that turning only Feruchemists into Mistwrights will get rid of Feruchemy for good, and he didn't know about genes, which are in fact responsible for making new Feruchemists. He made a mistake, and he made it again 1000 years later.

Fullborn has zinc, he would be tapping it. And electrum, so he would see himself being affected by lashing. He would expect Windrunner and use leeching as he has far better reaction time than Windrunner. You are storing the health of your entire body, but using it only to heal a very small portion of your body. So you should also consider the volume ratio between wound and whole body for better comparison, requiring much less compression. That's how I've always understood F-healing. The loss is due to compression of attributes into a smaller time frame. It's the integral part of Feruchemy and tapping at higher than stored rate. 20x is much less than before, more reasonable. But I get it, healing and health is not a measurable property of your body. What does it do? Forcing cells to divide faster? Creating more antibodies and boosting the immune system? It's immeasurable, and this kind of allows Brandon to have more freedom with it, as there are no numbers associated with it. We have to accept this. Miles has more than 30 metalminds, but we don't know how much investiture can metal store, hom much health is it. Healing broken bone is more than lines and surface, it's a displacement of bone, bone marrow spilling out, rupture blood vessels, and a lot of damage done to bone. With the Bands we also don't know how much speed is it, what makes up the Bands, if it was the speed attribute that was running out, not nicrosil ability to use F-steel (unlikely). We still don't know much, besides that Marasi used it to be faster than the speed of sound for a very short time, and it was nearly drained. We don't even know the size of the Bands. What I wanted to point out, is because of how much health Miles is constantly using, for very trivial things, without any care for damage obtained (like why not use a knife to free himself from nets, but dynamite??), he has much more attribute stored, which obtaining is not an slightest obstacle for him. Your math on the other hand suggests obtaining more attribute for the compounder is an obstacle. I do agree with this conclusion, but I support the second option, as the first one violates basic principles of Feruchemy, in my opinion. However, I do understand why you come up with this conclusion. Proving that you are right by providing a direct quote. I'm not arguing here. I believe it would, because tapping/storing is only a mental/spiritual activity, not a physical one. Zinc improves your mental speed, and therefore the ability to use metalminds with much greater reaction time. Reaction time is mostly tied to the brain's processing speed, and with metalminds, where activities are done on cognitive/spiritual level, a faster brain will help you with that. There aren't even any stimuli coming through your nervous system, the brain is all that matters. In case of compounding the investiture comes from Spiritual Realm as kinetic investiture, and when in your body becomes static(?)/attribute. So you want to catch that kinetic investiture right before it becomes an attribute, or right as it becomes an attribute and transfer it into metalminds. Because regular compounding can be stored in metalmind right away, duralumin boosted one also can be, but it would take much more practice and it would be tricky to do.

Hey, welcome to the Shard. Did you read Mistborn Era 2, The Alloy of Law? You should read era 2, it's explained there. If you want, below I give you a non-spoiler explanation.

Wayne stores the health of his entire body, and taps it to heal just a very small portion of his body, thus health is healing just that part, and it is much more focused, and he can heal more and faster if wounds are small. I believe loss should still be there, and I think even it was told in Era 2 when Wayne didn't have enough health, he had to heal much slower because he couldn't heal it all at once, which tells that loss is still there. No idea where it was said, or how, I just remember something like that mentioned. From AoL, 2 weeks for healing 3 gunshot wounds: The feruchemical loss is because of the compression of investiture to facilitate faster burning rate, not "fight against spiritweb".

No idea, it's speculative again. I don't say that it would make it impossible to reverse lash an airborne Fullborn, just much harder than normal. It's in Ars Arcanum, which is an in-world scientific paper, so it would be very likely he has that in his coppermind, or he prepared himself using the most renown and accessible documents. He would leech during a contact. While Stormlight is flowing to him from the Windrunner. Ok, not that fast, but still "in an eyeblink" Can't, because they don't have that much attribute, as most of the attribute is wasted. Regular bloodmaker might be able to heal in milliseconds once or twice, but consistently - no. They don't have health for that. There are things Wayne can't heal (wounds immediately lethal), while Miles just doesn't care: And here is the amount of health needed to heal bullet wounds for Wayne (the second one was where he needed Wax help in a ballroom gunfight. All quotes from AoL. How long does a broken leg heal itself? Months (google: "Severe fractures will usually heal within 3 to 6 months". Very long. If he can compress that to basically nothing then how much is that? 6 months is 1.577e+7 seconds. If he can heal that in 1 second then how much faster is that? 10 mil times? There will be your compression. I'm too sleepy to do the math but he taps a lot to heal. Yes, it's hard to estimate how much health it takes, that's true. But with this at least we have the only comparison on what regular Bloodmaker can do, and what gold compounder can. The values are unknown, but the effects are there, in the book. Wayne do care a lot about not being hit by a bullets as that's days of health, Miles just walks through a room filled with bullets, blows up dynamite in his hand, breaks his legs, and takes a shotgun blast into his face. The difference is just staggering. He never cares about running out of health. The lose has to happen. It's becuase of compressing attribute to shorter "time frame", so with health it is still there, But health is something more immeserable, so while you are storing it, you are storing your whole body's health, and while you tapping it, you focusing that health in a singular location, so it is most likely just far more stronger. Or something like that. this whole post: What I want to tell is that Miles proves that this math is off. Either piece of metal can store much more attributes or can gain so much more from burning in a far shorter time period. Not that the compression, loss and time is off (is ok), just the capacity of metalminds or burning speed of compounding metal, as Miles has just so much more health than your math suggest. Coppermind: "Miles is not continuously burning his goldminds though. Rather, he spends some time burning them for a massive amount of health, and then stores a huge amount of health in his metalminds, which he wears as spikes that pierce his body all over. As they are inside of Miles, they are incapable of being Pushed or Pulled on by most Allomancers. This gives Miles access to a constant supply of nearly limitless health." It's far closer to Radiant, than to Wayne. But Shallan faints after removing the bolt, Miles takes bullets and a shotgun in his head, and doesn't even stop walking. With a 5th ideal they might be on par. You could capture that investiture flowing to you before it turns into attribute and put it in metalminds, or burn small metalminds, and as it turns into attribute push it all into metalminds. There will be some loss, but much greater gain. With a little bit of zincmind burning (very small piece), it's possible. Again, zinc is just the best thing Fullborn has.

It's not a connection to a ground, it's the Connection to the ground, spiritual link, Ars Arcanum: So yes, a Fullborn could strengthen and maintain that connection with F-duralumin, even when airborne. That would work, not on Fullborn, he would leech it with chromium. But against other enemies that could be sometimes better than launching them into space But never a nanometers behind the bullet. Miles heals himself instantly as the bullet passes through him, before it even leaves his body. Regular gold Ferring can't do. This speed is unachievable to anyone but compounder, as the amount of attribute wasted to diminishing return would be just crazy on that time scale, and would just drain them instantly. Yes, but in this case the speed of healing is very important, as this is where the majority of health is wasted. While Wayne can heal broken legs, he doesn't have enough attribute to compress his healing to make it heal as his legs are being broken, without affecting his posture, like Miles can. The amount of attribute necessary for this, that is being wasted on diminishing returns is just astonishing - and Miles did it, because he didn't want to use stairs. If he can waste so much health on such useless triviality, it means that he can get that attribute back very fast, and he has so much more stored, that he didn't even feel this as a loss. This is something comparable to achieving mach 1 speed based on your calculations, but he didn't even care. Which means your calculations, while they are beautiful, are way off. Yes, how I see it is that investiture is passing through you, but it isn't converted to an attribute, so you don't get an explosion of power. You're probably losing some investiture on whatever the "hack thing" is.

Some parts not, like strike in the guts without severing nerve connection, fingers moves so, yes, he would most likely. Not necessarily, because if they start strengthening their connection to the ground on the ground, they can keep it up even when they jump/steel push away from the ground, thus maintaining the same connection. Depending on how this connection to the ground works with gravity, they might need to tap pewter, iron not, as iron doesn't change gravitational acceleration, but it would make their jumps/steep pushes higher while tapping iron. He does. He constantly mention that he has low health, and can heal one or two more bullets wounds, sometimes he is fully out if health, and the rotten tomato was with the use of unkeyed goldmind they'd taken from Seran, if I remember correctly, drained really fast while he was still taking few dozens of seconds to heal after that fall. Wayne constantly has troubles with healing, has to heal less and slower to preserve his goldminds, while Miles just explodes dynamite in his hand, walks straight through bullets healing them as they enter his body. Things that Miles does are just unachievable for Wayne, which I think was said in the books. This is the one I'm talking about: But I somehow still think there was another one, but I might be misremembering, as I couldn’t find any more on that matter.

I do agree with this, I've reread Mistborn era 1 three months ago. Zane's love triangle was definietly my least favorite part of this book. It would be better without it. While the mystery was not as focused on as it should be, there is a good reason on why - 3 armies behind your city walls, so I didn't feel that the mystery aspect was as lacking that much, it was very similar to the TFE. Then for me it was a bit too much politics (internal Luthadel one) and too little... something? Action? Exploration? Mystery? I don't even know. But some parts of the book drag a big too much for me. However they are integral for character development, like Elend and politics, Vin and her inner struggle, but this was likely because I was rereading the book, so I know what was going to happen, and how characters will react. Still love this book, however it's the weakest of Era 1, but not by much. The koloss assault was just epic.