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Bavadinium isn't gold, it's "a silvery metal with a red cast to it, and dark red spots similar to rust". Returned works pretty much the same way. Fused as well.

I think, because it is in their spiritual DNA, they are predetermined for certain metal. I don't think there was a clear confirmation, but there are some WoBs that are circulating around this topic: This subject was somewhat brought up in this topic, if you want to read it:

@utopian you have a good point about Lirin's family just leaving the town. That would resolve all of their problems and let them start again. Firstly they had money, so they could afford it. Secondly, like Lirin used to say, a surgeon is always needed. Thirdly, Helsina's parents would for sure welcome them in their home and town, even if there is hostility between them and Lirin. Moreover, what they didn't know, Roshone was not only low rank Dahn, but also he was banished there for punishment, so he had no connections to influence other Lighteyes to disallow Lirin to settle in their town. So it would be very easy for Lirin and his family to just move out, and settle somewhere else, as a surgeon he might even get a house and work for free, or if not, he could quickly regain money lost to relocating with charging for services for some short time. Nobody would get hurt, Tien would be alive, Kal would still be able to go and study.

You are right, but comparing spren's values from 2 different orders is not a good example. WoBs:

We don't know how much power do Avatars hold compered to the Well, we don't even know if all Avatars holds equal amount of power. FoTS (and SA) and WS spoilers: I guess humans are just less invested Avatars, so compared to Vin/Rashek Telsin would be far weaker, and I don't know if that would classify her as a Sliver. However I tend to believe that she was invested enough to at least become some sort of CS, as her mind and soul would be permanently affected and expanded by holding that much investiture. But then if she stated that she hadn't ascended yet (I don't remember), then I guess she didn't have enough investiture to expand to those levels. But that doesn’t mean she couldn’t be invested by Autonomy after her death, to serve on other planets. Why would she throw away useful tools?

No, Slivers don't have to pass to the Beyond. Both Rashek and Vin touched the power of Preservation and still decided to pass. Kelsier also became a Sliver after holding Preservation. I don't have english SH for quotes so Coppermind: Kel asked both Rashek (or Leras) and Vin why they don't want to stay instead of going to the Beyond.

That's why I'm excluding those objects. Not everything that is micro sized would get a bead. But there are enough people on Earth like scientists, engineers and assembly workers that might think of some other micro objects as singular entities. There are people that consider their computers as composed of different parts, not just as one object. So this kind of perception could affect many objects.

That anti-Breath thing would only cause pain to Nalthians, and it would be glowing probably similar to other types of anti-investiture. How about just blinding them with extreme lightweaving?

Rashek became a sliver because his soul expanded by holding the power of Preservation. I think it will be the same with Telsin. She was extremely invested by Autonomy, which expanded her soul. Even when the power was withdrawn, soul would remain this way, and she would be like a sliver. And I think, like Edwarn, she would now serve "on a different world". Maybe those are the men of gold and red?

Please always provide sources for claims like this. I can't find anything:

It's about perception. When you buy a new rug, you are happy and for even years consider that rug as something separate from a room, and think "this rug looks nice". It can take years for you to think of it as one with a room, and think "this room looks nice". When a new spear is made it quickly gains cognitive manifestation, because people didn't think of a spear as a wood and metal, but as a weapon. Syl even said to Kal that "half of spears he used were female" which means all spears that he used had cognitive manifestation, and spears are distributed quickly after being made. And it has already been more than 50 years since microprocessors were invented, not to mention other stuff seen by microscopes, and general awareness of these objects is high in the modern population. I see it very plausible that new cognitive manifestations of microobjects were created on Earth's CR. Not every micro object, but some.

Could this be a way to safely swallow and burn Harmonium?

Without Chromium compounding I doubt Feruchemical Chromium will become that specific.

Well, big Mistborn spoiler:

Not to that extent. It would just give you a feeling you need to be at the casino, without giving you anything more. Hoid related WoBs: OB spoiler:

Chromium isn't luck, its a gut-instinct future sight.

If there is a forest fire it would create ash, did trees choose to be ash? Gravity literally created our Universe as we know it. Creation is the effect of gravity. Definition of creation: the action or process of bringing something into existence. Force of gravity acts between matter, accumulating it into stars and planets.

The coppermind stated Kel came to the south 12 years Post-Catacendre, but I don't see any source for this, nor do I remember it from books. Is this similar? The same thing was done by Vin to Elend as Preservation and Ruin to Marsh at the end of HoA, they both provide power to their champions directly. She gave knowledge of ballistic missiles to Set, and I highly doubt she would give that if Taldain hadn't figured it out already. So that's at least 40-60 years ahead of Scadrial. We don't know what the Men of Red and Gold were, but they were capable of destroying Scadrial's civilization, so I doubt just regular, Earth-modern soldiers would do a job like that.

Killing someone would be a very serious case of "harming a living being", not to mention the fact that in this process a soul is ripped away from a body, which is painful.

Damage done by Hemalurgy to a soul can be healed with gold feruchemy even to the point of regaining stolen powers of Allomancy/Feruchemy - huge WoB: Edit: What I imagine would end up happening is 2 holes in a soul if a person was spiked and then received the same spike. First one in the place where the spike ripped off part of it. But that spike wouldn't be most likely placed in the same place, it would go in a different place in his body, and it would ripped another hole in his soul, this time to put hemalurgic charge in that place. The first hole, from which the spike was made, would still be unfilled. But then, the amount of soul's investiture would be similar (not quite as hemalurgic decay and net-negative factor so there would be always a loss), so giving him spike would reinvest his soul to the level of that just below of what he used to have. But both holes in his soul would remain unless healed. Adding to it the fact that this spike contains his soul, with his identity and his connections would certainly help mitigate negative effects of spiking him in the first place.

Are those limits of being a Dawnshard or after effects of holding one? I don't remember now if Dawnshard have the same limits, or even if this was confirmed. For now we have only "one" example of after effects with Hoid. He could beat Kel, because he was already dead, and he technically didn't feel pain. So no harm was done. If a certain someone would hold up his hand without commanding his spren, then a Shardblade would not materialize as no command was given. If that someone were to command it to materialize knowing that it would appear inside of another person, it wouldn't appear, as Dawnshard's after effects would prevent it. Intent matters hugely in this case. Any action that would be done to harm, inflict pain, attack or kill, would be stopped. Using painrials or Aons wouldn't work as well.

That would explain the glasses. But I don't see that connection, or remember the stuff he did. Why would he hide that?

Which more or less detects innate investiture, as Drabs are unseen by it. So it isn't detecting the mind, just investiture. While I'm not dismissing the idea that this is how it might work, I feel those are two separate "things". The question would be then, could those predators detect Drabs? To this there is no answer.

But how do you detect a mind without looking into CR? That's the realm of mind. Those predators are more like Jasnah during OB battle, as I can't see any other way to "detect a mind" in PR.

I agree with @HSuperLee. Then consider as well that what Set is extracting is some fraction of a power usually held in a spike providing Allomancy/Feruchemy/Power. It was even said, it's not full, and would require several people more. The effects are probably still severe, and donors are most likely still worse than Drabs, considering what makes Drabs Drabs, but what if you just gave that spike back, now supercharged with more investiture? You give the stolen piece of the soul back, and a little extra as well. This would probably patch the soul (not fully), and bring that person to the "normal" state from a less-than-drab state.