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No god metal, as far as we know, is radioactive. And I don't understand what you mean. Why would radioactive god metal have properties of ettmetal, when ettmetal properties are because of Harmony's influence?

Because the regular way bendalloy bubbles work is by burning bendalloy constantly, which makes a bubble. The moment Wayne stops burning bendalloy, the bubble disappears. This time he had a lot of bendalloy with him, and compressed the time he would get from it, and the time dilation, with duralumin, burning all of bendalloy in a single moment. That's what I meant. He didn't burn bendalloy anymore to uphold this bubble. The time the bubble would stay there was predetermined when he burned bendalloy with duralumin. We don't know how long it would last, it may stay there for days in bubble-time, or mere minutes, as much of the bendalloy's power was used to compress time dilation to near light speed levels, and that's why think it this is more likely. This bubble was also so fragile that the objects passing through it cracked it, no other bubble behaved like this, and I remember a few moments like this, usually with bullets, but few times with people as well.

He burned the bubble with duralumin, the time he had inside the bubble was predetermined, as he didn't have any more bendalloy to burn. And yes, each barrel he threw out of the bubble cracked it a lot. The moment he threw out the first barrel he was on 3 ticking clocks - first one for the bubble to collapse, with each barrel thrown out shortening this time, the other for the electrical signal, moving nearly at the speed of light, to reach the control panel outside of the bubble, and the third one for the explosion from the first barrel to reach the bubble. So not only he didn't have enough time to compound gold, he didn't have enough gold for health needed to survive the explosion of that scale (the Beirut explosion made crater 124 m (407 ft) in diameter and 43 m (141 ft) in depth), and he didn't have a way to prevent gold from vaporizing in the instant.

That's a great explanation. Thanks. To add to it, weren't illusions of Kaladin and Shallan in chasms also talking? This she could do only with Pattern at that moment. To add more, Shallan in RoW believed that she was using her surges in the time between breaking the bond with Testament and bonding Pattern, and if she could access her surges, then Testament could do more than a regular deadeye. Also Maya and Adolin are the example that deadeye can behave extraordinarily.

That's why I said "relatively". But Singers have breasts that are bigger in Mateform, which means milk, and breastfeeding, they have skin and hair, and give birth to living children, probably also warm-blooded - unique characteristics of mammals. And if platypus is a mammal, why not Singers?

Or it could be somewhere near Thaylen City, deadeye follow their bearers. I don't feel like this is a clear confirmation.

Was that Testament at Narak? She said "Pattern" before summoning the blade, and while she called it "the same blade with which she killed" and "hidden soul", we know not every order gets their blades at 3rd Ideal. It doesn't make sense for a deadeye to activate an Oathgate, they lack connection. Also if it was Testament that Shallan gave to Kaladin in chasms, why didn't it scream in his head? It's still a deadeye, and while Kaladin had huge troubles with his Oath at this time, and Syl was partially dead, I think he should be able to hear something at least. I'm still confused when Shallan used Testament as a blade, and when Pattern.

This WoB is not about it. It's about invested metals - god metals, vs non-invested - regular metals like steel. Burning metals doesn't make them invested.

Yeah, me too. There wasn't even a single instance of Kel or Vin sneaking around and assassinating someone silently. The closest we had was Vin sneaking into Fadrex storage and it was a trap. They always just brute force through everything.

16 (or more) people of different species, wielding Dawnshards as a weapon, took part in Shattering or planning of the Shattering of Adonalsium. Some wanted power, some believed it was a necessary action. Tbf we don't know much about it yet. Frost, as a dragon, is immortal, but recently gained some sort of second source of immortality. WoB

No they can't - in OB when sneaking into Kholinar, Shallan created an illusion of a rock, where they hide, but she had to make eyeholes for them to look outside. Also in WoR she created an illusion of a wall to hide herself from Ghostblood following her - she couldn't tell what was outside. Mistborn can just shoot coins in all directions, to see which one would pass through, and which one would meet some resistance.

This is an interesting connection, but I think you're trying to find any connection just to make it fit. While Taln as a Herald of War appearing in Alethkar is a very valid one, this is the way we should go, not by appearance. You have a very easy connection between Nale and Azir - laws! Nale is a Herald of Justice, so he appears in the most bureaucratic region on Roshar, that highly respects laws - Azir. Jezrien also fits Alethkar as he's associated with leading, and Alethia was leading the war and training. But the more I look at the titles, essences and associated attributes, the harder it is to find specific connections. Some Heralds don't have a title. Some fits to several places, and most Silver Kingdoms are unknown to us. Because there were 10 of them, they were also most likely associated with essences and numbers like Heralds are. I agree that Heralds appeared separated, one for each Kingdom, to prepare as many people at once as possible for incoming Desolation.

I don't think Dalinar spoke to Kaladin as Tien - he forged a connection between Kaladin and a "memory" of Tien, creating a vision for him. Not spoke to him as a Tien. It is unclear if this is actually Tien's soul, or if it is simply a memory of him. It wasn't Dalinar that create these words.

I don't think chulls and horses could breed. They're just too different. Dog can't reproduce with a cat nor it can't with crabs. While humans and Singers are relatively close to each other, humanoid shape, origin, genetics too most likely etc, horses and chulls doesn't have that. I think horses attracted sprens are bond with them, which slowly changed their appearance into Ryshadium. Chulls makes cocoons and breed by way of laying eggs.

We've already seen non-Nalthian Awakening out of Nalthis, OB spoilers: I will try to find some more WoBs on that, by the way I see it, if you have Breaths, you can Awaken (maybe there is something small that is also required, but Breaths are the most important part of it). They did "talk about systems needing rigged up to work on different planets", and what I believe it is referring to, is that you can power Awakening with any kind of Investiture, if you know how to do it: I don't think you need it, Breaths stick to your Identity and the soul. The nature of Endowment is to just give, the pure act of giving without getting anything in return. The same way that Hemalurgy can be used everywhere, because Ruin doesn't care about location, he is everywhere, and just wants the entropy to increase, the same way Endowment doesn't care about Breaths, after they were given to Nalthians. The process of gifting is in the past. That's how I understand it. Because Brandon hasn't decided yet, like WoB says. Divine Breath is different from regular - Divine Breath replaces the soul, while regular ones just stick to it. Divine Breath gives you the ability of being a Cognitive Shadow, while regular one gives you no abilities at all. That's why there is a possibility that regular Breaths can't be stored in Feruchemical nicrosil. F-nicrosil stores only the ability to use investiture, not raw investiture. We have to wait for Brandon to decide on this one. You don't need nicrosil spike. When you steal "Elantrianism" with Atium, and connection to the Dor with duralumin, you're soul is now "tricked" into thinking you're Elantrian now, and will draw from the Dor to heal you, change you and invest you in the proper way. Connection to the Dor gives you that Investiture you need. Drabs still have a soul, weaker one than other Cosmere humans, but that's still Investiture. Nightblood feeds on Investiture, matter and energy as well. All three states at once. It converts matter/energy into investiture to fuel himself, as matter and energy are other states of investiture, the same way that in our Universe matter is energy, but just in different state. Nightblood feeds on every kind of investiture, that includes soul, matter (body) and mind as well. Warbreaker spoilers: What is the "spark of life"? I think it's just a soul - investiture. In Cosmere life is composed of the body, the mind, and the soul. And that's what Nightblood is consuming when other forms of investiture end (the first WoB in this post "the system is just looking for any available Investiture to power itself [...] This includes consuming your own soul, in some cases..."). I think the "spark of life" is just a soul. You can't steal whole soul with one spike. And there is no way to put a spike on a non-living object as far as we know. You need blood of the donor/recipient as this is the way hemalurgy connects itself with their soul. Non-living objects don't have a soul or blood or binding points, so hemalurgy won't work. I doubt it would even work on an Awakened object as it's still lacking. On Lifeless you can - if you can steal from Lifeless, you can also give spikes to it. Lifeless is different. Making one permanently takes a Breath away, and it "creates/replaces" a soul, very weak one, but still it's some kind of soul. So you could give a Lifeless just a nicrosil spikes with pieces of someone else's investiture, and that would most likely make Lifeless's "soul" bigger, and make him more sapient in process. But using hemalurgy to give spikes to a Lifeless is an interesting way do create some weird effects. Duralumin steals connection, how are you going to make a soul out of connections? Bigger spike can fit a bigger charge. But you won't just place a spren in it - only investiture he's composed of. I doubt it would be like putting sprens inside the gems. With hemalurgy you ripping out all connections spren has, everything that makes him alive, and you would most likely just end up with raw investiture in a spike, that used to be a spren. You won't put a spren into somebody, you would just make him more invested. Spren will be dead.

He didn't. He had just a few minutes when he made the bubble at best. As soon as he pushed the last barrel out, the bubble collapsed and he was consumed by the explosion. And no healing would help, when the explosion is hot enough to just vaporize your goldminds. What are you going to tap now?

I don't think spiking Awakener with Atium would result in this. Awakening is a system that everybody could use, as long as they have Breaths. So no need to steal anything with Atium. H-Atium for sure, but I don't think it would allow you to store raw investiture that H-nicrosil steals, like Preservation part of Scadrials. Regular Breaths I don't know, maybe. You might need multiple spikes here. Atium to steal the power, and you need to steal connection as well, so duralumin. Connection and Aons provide you with connection necessary for obtaining the Dor. Nightblood works differently than Hemalurgy. Nightblood needs fuel, Hemalurgy just rips a piece of soul from somebody. Aluminum wouldn't work like Nightblood, and most likely wouldn't work on Awakened objects, as they are not humans, and don't have a soul. You could spike a Lifeless: No, spike has a limit of how much hemalurgic charge they can fit. So a spike would not take all of spren's soul, just some part of it. It would wound a spren, maybe even turn him into a deadeye, but won't consume him whole. And yes, you could give it to a human, it would make him just more invested with Honor/Cultivation investiture, possibly giving him some slight Heightening-like effects. But there is a "better" way to utilize spiking sprens - you could steal Surgebinding. I don't think so, F-nicrosil stores the ability, and H-nicrosil carries just raw investiture, not the ability. It's not the same. Divine Breath could be the only one that can be stored.

It's very good math, I like it. These calculations seem to be more feasible, yet this time a bit too low. I don't have a book, but Wayne pushed the barrels out of the bubble (by hands or with steel?) so they have to be light enough for him to be able to do it. 100 kg per barrel is enough for pushing by hands, but if steel push was used, it could be higher as he could brace himself using the ship's walls and pewter. Difficulty in calculating the correct value is that every number is a variable. Mass, density, explosiveness, volume etc - we know nothing about them. Every number can be vastly different than assumed. And how does ongoing reaction affect remaining Harmonium? I have no idea, but it might blast some of it out of the ship, vaporize it or force it to bond with other elements, reducing the efficiency of the explosion. For now it's like a Drake Equation of Mistborn. I do agree with the minimum yield comparable to the Beirut explosion - 0.5-1.2 kt. I did it by comparing the damage done by the TLM blast to some other powerful explosions, including nukes (using nuke maps). Powerful nukes quickly had to go out, because the sheer glass-shattering radius would affect the entire city, yet Steris described glass shattering only around the docks, not where she was standing (far side of the city ~10-15 km from the docks). No thermal blast, or blinding power was observed, and they both would be present and would be hard to miss in the scale of mid-large nukes. So it leaves smaller sized explosions, and for this I looked at the Beirut explosion. We know that some buildings in the docks (docks are outside the outer circle of the city, along the bay) collapsed (judging by the architecture of many buildings in the Basin, I would say they're made with concrete/stone and wood, so they're weaker by today's standards), and windows around the docks were shattered, but not across the whole city. Steris looked right at the explosion and wasn't blinded or burned by it. The biggest damage to the Elendel was expected to be done by the tsunami. We also know that right before Wayne sent Wax into the ocean, the city's lights were visible - that could be somewhere around 10 km from the city, but before the blast occurred the ship would get even closer. Compared to the Beirut explosion, where a hospital less than 1 km away was so damaged that it couldn't function at all, people were being treated outside, and was closed soon after. Homes as far as 10 km were damaged (300 000 people left homeless), and windows were shattered as far as on the airport 10km away. This damage seems comparable to the damage described by Steris, so the explosion should be on a similar level of power. And with your comparison to Project Seal (2 kt of some explosives) it fits the range. So this is what we should get from math. But you've got 100 times less than we need to reach the low estimate.

Nicrosil feruchemy stores the ability to use investiture (power), like allomancy, feruchemy, surgebinding, not the investiture itself like Stormlight. Nicrosil spike steals just the investiture, like stormlight (maybe?), Breaths, or the innate investiture people are born with (like on Scadrial people are just slightly more invested because of Preservation). But it doesn't take away all of the soul, just a piece of it. It doesn't also steal any power/ability to use investiture. Atium spike steals any power/ability to use investiture. It steals just the ability, but not investiture like Breaths. Any kind of invested art you want to steal, you use Atium in the right spot. Aluminum spike removes all powers/ability to use investiture. So a Scadrial Mistborn spiked with aluminum would not be able to use allomancy, but his soul, and investiture granted by Preservation and Ruin in him would be fine. How it works, or does it carry hemalurgic charge, we don't know yet. Power is the ability to use investiture, and investiture is just the part of someone's soul.

Wasn't Marasi hit with a primer cube of chromium by the limping man in the train fight in BoM? She didn't burn the metal and it didn't affect her. She still could use it later.

I do agree, the damage done by the explosion was far less than what it should have been if it was a Mt class. Thermal blast alone would burn half of the city, and it would certainly blind Steris, as she looked straight at it. “A 1-megaton explosion can cause flash blindness at distances as great as 13 miles on a clear day, or 53 miles (85 km) on a clear night." If I recall correctly the original @Frustration estimate was in the range of Mt, so that's why I describe the temperatures of that yield. In Beirut there was 2,750 tonnes of explosive material, so whatever the mass of those barrels was, with the investiture increasing the energy of this explosion, the yield could still end up in the similar range. I don't think barrels weight more than a tonne as Wayne was able to pushed them.

Harmony has to take more of a no direct intervention policy, because of his two opposing Intent fighting in every action he wants to take. When he spoke to Wax for the first time, he told him that he's restricted in actions because of these Shardic Intents and limits he imposed on himself. He draw those lines to satisfy both Intents - which was discussed in his conversation with Wax in BoM. Making somebody a Mistborn just like that right now would bring imbalance to his Intents and he would cross the line he draw himself. He need to remain Harmony, if he infuses somebody with the power of Preservation, then who would have to be Ruined (killed) in the name of Harmony? Is that a price worth to pay? Does Wax want to be a Mistborn in the first place? He didn't want to be the Sword of Harmony in the first place.

That's a very interesting theory. I like the connection between flute and Szeth, and the idea on how Syl can become physical with consequences to their bond. I do agree that Wit's interest in teaching Kal art must have some goal. Using it as a therapy tool is a very elegant solution, I admit. However I can't see Kaladin preaching religion. It's not like him. He's not a religious person, in fact he doesn't care about religion at all. "Oathbringer" is more of an philosophical/autobiographical book, that takes on religion, I don't think it would be a reading for Kaladin.

He made Fused by infusing their original souls with investiture, investing them to the point of becoming Cognitive Shadows. We don't know if Odium forces can use Adhesion at all, we've never seen them do that, and they say it's not a true surge. I don't think Shards manipulate Surges like Surgebinders do, Shards can do it on a much greater scale, and can use Connection in a way Adhesion can't achieve. I think the Void refers to lack of emotions and rhythms. The first humans that came to Roshar couldn't express emotions with their speech or hear the tones of Roshar like Singers did, that's why they called them Voidbringers. And if Moash is any example, Odium can take away all emotions from somebody, and leave him void and emotionless.

Renarin's future vision is much weaker than Odium's and yet he manages to blind him which led to his demise. Taravangian was able to create a plan to become a god without fortune, and it worked against a god with future sight. Zane's future vision didn't save him from Vin's deadly blow. Ruin's future sight was better than Kel's from Preservation, yet Ati was defeated. Just because you've got greater Fortune than everybody else doesn't mean you just win. You still can be overpowered. But as long as you finally understand that you can't make people forget their swords, or drop dead on spot (you said it), it's ok for me.