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Malatium is a side case. Any of the atium alloys wouldbhave workedbbut they only figured out Malatium.

Why would Sazed have just known it was feruchemically viable? I can see him sorting through the metalminds and being like, huh this one looks funny. Or maybe TLR was sneaky about metals he didn't want getting out. Wrap a nicrosil mind in a layer of gold iron, or whatever and have two connection points hidden in the ring band. I can see him doing so just in case a metalmind was stolen during one of those assassination attempts early on. He could easily have compounded investiture although I would guess being a sliver made hin nore powerful than anything else. Or maybe there is inverse compounding... Burn a metal allomantically and store it in a metalmind. Then burn the metalmind.(I doubt it but the compounder we've seen would never bother.)

Does it have a name? Then it has a cognitive aspect. The greatest most inclusive name is the most important. Think of it this way. We are all parts of a multitude of groups. Different ones apply the most in different situations. The easiest example would be declaring war. I declare war on Spain(and have the political power to back it. Everybody is affected but not everybody in Europe.(We'll ignore the more complicated political backlashes of war as they relate more to this theories relation to chaos theory than needs be discussed). Now if I instead declared war on the city of Madrid only Madrid would be affected making Madridian a lesser cognitive aspect than Spaniard. A train car is a madridian. A whole train is a spaniard. An arrowhead is a Madridian. An arrow is a Spaniard. A quiver of arrows is Europe.

No, the 1/16th is pretty implicitly how the magic spreads out. 1 in 16 people can be a misting if they snap. One in sixteen of those are mistings of each type. Bendalloy and Cadmium were removed for Atium and Lerasium but that isn't really necessary given nobody discovered Chromium and Nicrosil. As for a natural system. The shards are gods. They mess with nature all the time(like creating life on planets they moved into position for life) They can't be involved in an "ntirely natural system.

I know. I'm just backing up the mans theory. Because I agree and that's an obscure branch on the evidence tree.

I picked other. Still going with Steel/Zinc Twinborn over everything. If I could manage surgebinding/zinc without obnoxious and likely evil piercings I'd do that, but the genetics would be tricky.

There is some suggestion of this in the RPG... It mentions possibly messing with identity to access other people's metalminds. I've always taken that as something subtle Brandon threw in.

THis makes a ton of sense. I'd like to expound on it a little though. At least with Aona and Skie, they seem to be fairly opposite and fighting for control of the world(with Dominion seemingly winning at the moment.) But beyond that, if they focused all of their power on stopping each other Odium as a third party could have easily come in and just rocked both of them before they could react. I imagine similar things could have happened on Scadrial if Odium had arrived pre-harmony. As to shattering Honor, I do think Odium, by not creating things or even creating things with no purpose but to destroy, could have shattered Honor. If he expends some of his energy to make destructive beings to hold off Honor's not entirely battle worthy creations(Human's are kinda crappy when compared to most animals their size) he could easily destroy Honor. I do wonder why he hasn't started collecting up some of the other shards. I mean hatred and dominion could work pretty well together. (In a terrible awful, worse than the holocaust kind of way.) (Now I'm questioning Odium's motivations. True hatred isn't wanting everything gone, it's wanting everything to suffer as much as possible. But that isn't what Odium seems to be going for...)

This is difficult. Had you asked me a week ago(before I reread Elantris) I'd have said Sarene. I loathed her...(I think it might be that her personality is very similar to my girlfriends, and I read Elantris just before we started dating, but now two+ years later it's less... cliche seeming) On the read through she grew on me. Now I'd have to say Steris. Because really... Bleh. I like strong women and all, but I like people with souls.

None of the power based spikes mess with people's heads in the way you are discussing. We've seen Vin and Spook get spiked without going evil. The only spikes that cause severe mental problems outside of a vulnerability to ruin are the ones used in blessings which put a portion of the spiked persons mind into someone else creating something akin to Schitzophrenia.

I'm just saying they are a poor way to counter a theory involving magic. Magic in and of itself breaks the laws of physics. You mentioned compressing time and warping space correct. Those could easily apply to a Cadmium Bubble. In addition I doubt Brandon has taken the time to work out all the facets of special relativity and how they apply to his writing. Working it out takes years of study and he's much better off just writing and trying to fit things into a sensical pattern that doesn't break anything obvious.

My assumption has been that once upon a time Adonalsium was whole and lived on the human homeworld with Hoid and co. I think adonalsium was an artificial construct but that may just be me. Anyway, when he shattered the original 16 shardholders gained power and started exploring the stars. Eventually they created life in their own image thus propagating humans across the Cosmere.

And once upon a time the world was flat. There are so many unexplained things in physics that nothing is required to be impossible by our understandings. Given what we know now its impossible but assuming we know everything we need to know is beyond arrogant...(sorry, rant about sciency folks never explaining the difference between theory and fact.) In the end, given magic systems what's to say this can't be used to create some kind of infinite energy loop capable of pushing past light speed. Magic the Gathering has all kinds of infinite loops, why not Allomancy. And Cadmium seems to have the potential to store and create vast amounts of energy via resistance, although it would suck to be the Pulser stuck in the bubble... Hopefully the bubbles go through bulkheads...

Coinshots are useful and visible. In addition they have decent defensive abilities against guns. And Steel is cheap so almost every coinshot can afford the stuff. Maybe that's what he means.

Shout out was accidental but not changing it. I've always liked the name. I've never had a memorably bad kid named Caleb to scare me off. Now Tristan... I've known half a dozen Tristans and every single one... Gah. Thanks for all the advice. Ill be going through an editing this soonish.

Lash pants to the ground... Wait, that could win fights, hard to fight with your pants around your ankles. There's some amusing but wrong ways to lash Clothing.

Is all right. There's a discussion in the what power would you have topic. Same quote even(I think). That said, given that it would be evidence against the person's theory I don't see it as offtopic. Definitely related. Problem being we've kind of already shut down the theory presented...

I had a more in depth post. It dissapeared. You're forgetting the fact that Feruchemical pewter and Steel have pretty spectacular special effects. A Pewter compounder should look like someone off a comic book cover, rippling muscles beyond human possibility. Steel Compounders should be moving at at least 50 MPH pretty reliably and likely more than that. Those aren't subtle aspects that can easily be hidden in the narrative and if the inquisitors figured compounding out they would have been using it, likely showing it. Yet even in the scene where Vin is getting dominated we don't see any Inquisitors doing anything close to compounder levels of power. We see her falling to numbers, nothing more.

That quote is so horribly wishy washy. "I got the impression." "Some may have" There is no narrative suggestion of compounding inquisitors, and if Ruin had access to compounding inquisitors he'd have crushed any resistance. Thus I can only infer there weren't any, especially because one of the obvious things they would have been able to compound would have been speed, meaning they could have been almost anywhere. It's far too vague and unsupported to me. But I might be jaded by trying to interpret some of Jim Butcher's comments to his readers. If the Inquisitors were compounding it is a HUGE gaping plothole that kills the whole thing for me. As in makes the trilogy badly written just like that.

I don't think so. Being spiked now just grants Sazed access. I would think Sazed being able to talk to him might have averted the whole thing unless Sazed is the villain. Making him a hemalurgist won't make him evil. I'm also of the opinion Hemalurgy doesn't allow for compounding... But that's just a theory based on my interpretation of the whole spiritual DNA thingy.

Copper Piping covers this well enough. Create a generator powered by your steelpushing. Use it to keep drinks cold. Peddle a bicycle with steel pushes/Pulls.

Not just that, but this is some escoteric side affects to the escoteric side affects he's already created. I mean really, did you ever think, Man that Cadmium bubble should totally be creating a wind tunnel? Me neither... Not until i really thought about it. And Brandon doesn't speculate as much about his books as I do because he can just hand-wavium his interpretation in.

I'm wondering is my explosions through cadmium visualization isn't tied to FTL. The thought goes as follows. A: Objects entering or leaving time bubbles deflect due to the bubbles curvature. Thus the bubble acts like a lens, focusing any particles that come into the bubble at the center point of the bubble. B: The time slowing affects of a bendalloy bubble will disperse explosive energies as the particles entering the bubble speed away from the pressure of the explosion. Cadmium Bubbles will cause a pressure buildup as more and more of the explosive energies get crammed in behind the now slow moving particles. In theory by focusing the energy and funneling it all into a distinct point some kind of engine could be created, one that builds up exponentially the more energy shoved into it. I think. I don't know if Brandon thinks along these lines as Wax and Wayne were still plenty scared of that explosion, but that could have been ignorance or lack of a desire to test the theory. In addition Cadmium bubbles should-if I'm right- create really odd wind tunnel effects that they haven't been shown to do yet.

On the explosion thing. From the perspective of a few physics/engineering major friends of mine time bubbles do odd things to explosions due to the shift in momentum involved. Bendalloy Bubbles should disperse explosive energies(because they kill the pressure buildup involved by shoving sections of the explosion out in little pulses faster than the next bit can enter the bubble, but Cadmium Bubbles act as a lense, focusing the explosion.All of the explosions energies should deflect towards the exact center of the bubble given the curve of the bubble. In theory this a. Turns Cadmium bubbles into focuses for directing explosive energies and b means there are safe spots from much of the explosions force.

Hers are superior for Wax because he can push the bullets but if a coinshot pushes them the metal bits go away but the ceramic still hits.(Or at least hazekiller rounds could be made that duplicate this affect.)