Voidus

Yeah I don't think that would even be legal here assuming you were working anything close to full-time.

Er.... It's a metaphor for capitalism?

Knowledge of Vin and co. I always assumed.

I'd pretty strongly disagree, that's a really quite different attribute. Knowledge implies that the information is objectively accurate, which memories are not. But even if I were to accept that it doesn't follow that compounding makes new information. Not really still, it'd be like if compounding tin gave you infrared vision because the sight attribute came from a snake or compounding speed just moved your entire body really fast rather than giving you 'internal' speed.

I've decided to start my own holiday around the giving of Epic profiles after Twi's Dursley present thread. So happy Calamitas everyone! On this joyous holiday the great Voidus travels around the world, rather than crawling through sooty chimney's however he merely teleports into a nearby darkened nook or alley. And rather than a certain selfish avatar of a different holiday, Voidus and his helpful acolytes actually leave cookies behind rather than taking them.

I just don't see why compounding would change the nature of the attribute, you can't store knowledge or your capacity for memory, archivists don't have to train to store specific memories that's just the nature of the metal.

1. That would be pretty completely useless then. The amount of knowledge completely dwarfs the amount of knowledge that would ever be useful. Pretty much the only information you'd ever get is 'there is a particle travelling at 30km/h 41 km north west of you. It just emitted a photon. I think you're misinterpreting it completely there, to start with there's quite a few feruchemical powers that have absolutely no allomantic parallel like warmth, weight or age. Preservation the Shard can do far more than what the allomantic metals can do, it's not filtering the power through the use of allomancy, it's identifying the feruchemical power itself and using that. In which case if it can single out sight as opposed to hearing then there's no reason it couldn't single out one memory as opposed to another. Well the point is that the feruchemical charge gives it that knowledge, the power is filtered through the charge which contains that memory, so the power goes 'ok well here's that memory and since there's some leftover power here it is some more' I also seriously doubt it would take considerable effort at all for Preservations power to read a metalmind. Even when he was being opposed by Preservation Ruin could still alter the contents of a metalmind perfectly fine.

A few problems then. 1. What information do you get? 2. What about tin? I think that a more accurate assesment would be that the feruchemical charge specifies the type of healing as well, rather than referring to some other concept of healing that exists in the spiritual realm I'd think it is specifically filtered by what was stored in the metalmind. So if you managed to store the strength of one arm specifically it would give back arm strength rather than all strength, if you stored sight in your tinmind it would give back sight rather than something else and if you stored a particular memory you would receive that memory back simply stronger.

Actually given the fact that I have about 1000 pages of Epic power ideas and uses I think I could probably just bargain my way out of getting killed by any loved-one Epics.

I wouldn't assume much from the AA, it's frequently flawed about mechanics since it's an in world creation and at the time Identity is very little understood. I think it's just a name based off of very minimal understanding about the power. They have said that it stores 'Identity' and so the term simply has some links to that very basic deduction.

There you are, from Theoryland. Well he could quite possibly just seize control of them with Allomancy, plus the linchpin spike. He didn't teach them how to compound for obvious reasons but plenty of them had feruchmy of some sorts, healing being most notable but also I believe speed. 1. Because presumably he wanted to give him Feruchemical atium in particular. He could have just given him a human attribute spike from pretty much anyone if he just wanted more control. 2. Presumably the plan was for the Inquisitors to survive that and be Ruins agents elsewhere in the cosmere. Which also explains the need for Feruchemical atium, the only use for it besides compounding which is as a disguise. 3. The amount of Atium needed to compound or in a single spike is pretty insignificant, there would have been a few stray beads around the place that weren't in the cache but as long as Ruin got the majority then he'd still be more powerful than Preservation.

It could be the case that they lose it but I think it's more likely that they have some kind of cognitive block that simply prevents them from accessing it.

See I feel like that's exactly what she was, just a female version of a combined Han + Luke. I'm still glad that they finally put in a strong female lead but I would have liked a bit more originality, I preferred her when she had her staff and was just a badchull junk trader to suddenly becoming an expert mechanic and jedi in the span of a few days. I also felt like everything was a bit... rushed. They tried to cram in too many references to the OT and then also shoved in a complete plot. The end scene clinched it for me, they wanted to include a scene with Luke too much but didn't have time for anything to actually happen in it so we're treated to nothing so much as a cameo followed by several nice panning or rotating shots of two people standing perfectly still in complete silence. Overall I was disappointed, not because it was bad but because it wasn't really good, it was just kind of bland.

That's true but in the case of Koloss their mutation is almost identical to the spike, they continue to gain muscle mass until eventually it kills them, since pewter can store that they may be able to avoid that problem, at least for a while.

Yeah the direct vs. indirect power usage is my main nitpicky moment. I just really can't see an Epic having immunity to indirect actions of Epic powers. Especially things like getting shot by a mind-controlled Vanilla since it's not even a secondary action of the Epic power it's tertiary. (Mind controlling is the primary act, the Vanilla's body is the secondary, the gun is not being affected by the Epics powers at all it's being affected by the Vanilla who is being affected by the powers and Neutrality would be being affected by the gun) It also leads to some pretty big problems in terms of scope, one primary concern for me is that earthquake Epics are a very real thing and they effect entire tectonic plates which means that technically the whole earth has been affected by Epic powers at this point which means he should logically not be able to walk on dirt or stone since he'd fall through it. For me it's less an issue of OPness (We have Epics whose PI is so strong that there's basically nothing that can be done to them, Deathwish actually has one of the more easily avoidable PIs) and more an issue of spiralling consequences. I mean really pretty much everything on the planet has now at some point been effected by Epic powers so does that make him just an intangible?

All city's seem to have a massive problem with crime. Majority of people who get superpowers turn evil. Small group of rebels trying to overthrow tyrants. Set on earth. This checks out.

Could be, it would give him one heck of an identity crisis though But I can think of a few things that would fit in with that, TLR has had a child and he also once tried to destroy the final empire. We have no idea how close or related those two events were but I do think that one or the other or both could have been caused by a sudden Identity shift.

It would, although I think we have WoB that a suitably skilled feruchemist could choose where the strength came from. I was suggesting the opposite, that storing strength may keep them alive, which they could do indefinitely so long as they had pewter handy.

Also Nutrition is stored in Bendalloy not Brass which in era 1 is impossible to find and in era 2 is at least pretty expensive. Pewter could probably work though, they just store their increasing muscles in a pewtermind to keep it from crushing their heart. Then when they need to they could tap it briefly for a massive power boost at the risk of accidentally killing themselves.

If those changes extended back that far then yes he would have known, although Preservation could presumably only alter Allomancy like that not feruchemy. I'd be pretty skeptical that the ancient Terris would know of those attributes.

Well if it isn't then presumably you'd only have his personality for as long as you kept tapping it. I suppose his plan might have been that as soon as someone assumed his identity he'd run to find more metal and start compounding the identity though.

Could do but he would have had to have left his identity in them then, which presumably would cause him to have no personality at all.

Almost 0 I'd say, a Fullborn is so OP that there's really just no way to kill them aside from divine intervention. Sorry to frustrate you again but WoB is that it is from a Feruchemical atium spike My opinion on the hemalurgic decay of feruchemical ability is that it would cause you to be less able to compound (The other type of compounding) a trait, normally a feruchemist can compress a stored trait and they use up a bit of the power in order to do so so say you stored 50% strength for an hour, you could become 150% as strong for an hour or you could become 200% as strong for 20 minutes, but a hemalurgic spike would cause you to go through that 200% in 15 minutes instead.

.You don't get more health than you put in, you get more of the health that you did put in, the health that you did put in filters Preservations power so that it creates more of the same. If it were possible that more power= new information then Archivists could just tap their metalminds at a stronger rate to get new information. Compounding doesn't do anything that normal feruchemy couldn't do it just makes it easier. If Miles spent 20 years in a bed storing as much health as he could he could still survive gunshots explosions and a firing squad. The compounding just allowed him to do it faster. Well it'd be incredibly flimsy so either or both of those swords would probably cut it apart on the first hit still

I was aiming for terrifying but with a distinctly hopeful ending.