AbsentKeeper

This is exactly what I'm talking about. Maybe I didn't quite explain what I mean well enough, but I think it's the fact that atium stores a trait that is constantly decaying like this that is anomalous. Ruin's metal stores something that is inherently end-negative, and I'm just wondering if it follows that Preservation's metal would have stored something inherently end-posistive?

We've been led to believe since the very beginning that feruchemy is completely end-neutral, meaning that you always get out the same power that you put in. (Excluding compounding) Something that I noticed while rereading the Mistborn era one books, however, seems to not match the pattern! Atium! Atium is not end neutral! The trait that it stores is age, which means that as soon as you store it, you've lost the time that you spent being old to store it in the first place! Let me explain better: if you were to store age in an Atium metalmind, even only for a few seconds, then use it to become equally younger for the same amount of time, you would be OLDER by a few seconds at the end, then when you started! Someone needs to ask Brandon if this is a quirk of storing an atribute that naturally decays over time (people age constantly), or if the feruchemical use of Atium is end-negative on purpose, because it is of Ruins power. If it isn't just a quirk, or I'm not a crazy person, this could mean that lerasium should be able to store something end-positive, which people gain over time rather than loose, (wild speculation ahead) such as wisdom or experience. Stormfather! I think I might have found something! Thoughts and criticisms?

Thanks! How can I say no to a free cookie, potentially hemalurgic or not!

To me, this sounds like something he's already considered, and maybe used behind the scenes. Might be worth thinking about that we don't know exactly how spren are trapped in gemstones to make fabrials, or how its done by the listeners. I think that the reason it would be easy to use the investiture of a spren this way is because you could simply trap the spren in the spike, rather than needing to physically spike it. Edit: Just realized that I was assuming in my head that hemalurgic spikes can be made from things other than metal, which I have no proof for, but I don't see why any invested object with a piece of a soul attached (or a whole one, in the case of a spren) wouldn't do.

I've already started browsing the compiled WOB post, is there anything else I should take a look at?

Thanks! Glad to know I'm not the only one. I wanted to finish all the books before I joined, partially to avoid spoilers, and partially just to know what I'm talking about.

Many people have been saying that White Sand is their least favorite, but I actually really like the adaptation. Of course, that could be because I'm generally a fan of graphic novels. My least favorite Cosmere story was Sixth of the Dusk. I liked it as a whole, but I thought that it was too short to show off the world, and the lack of speaking characters impeded some of the dialogue that I love Brandon for.

The title pretty much says it all, I've been lurking here and reading fan theories for probably over a year now, and I finally finished every published work in the Cosmere, so I decided to finally make an account. Storm it! it took me long enough, but I promise I'll contribute from now on