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So a less than infinite set would be what we're looking for. Also you might not be able to alloy Lerasium with Atium Alloys, we don't know that things like malatium mistings are even possible.

Feruchemists can detect metals that they can use, I'll try to find the quote for it. I don't think TLR would go to that much trouble to hide his nicrosilminds, if someone can steal those, they can steal his atiumminds which would kill him so he's better off just killing anyone who tries and he was rather arrogant in his abilities.

Sorry for Shamelessly necroing this thread but I just found Which definitely lends credence to magics having some kind of wave-nature, and we're one small step closer to the underlying system in the cosmere.

Paper all the way. Sometimes I'll get an ebook but I'll always try to get a hard copy as well.

Actually that age point is an excellent one, Marsh only has feruchemy through Hemalurgy, how does he manage to gain immortality if there's a limit to how much age he can store? And he has that from a re-used spike so the decay should be reasonably substantial. Or is it more a case of get out less than you put in? Since that's the only way I can see it working. (Eg. Marsh stores compounded age at 100x but can only pull out 70x)

Shardplate was designed to be able to not get destroyed by Shardblades, that's the active use of it's investiture. I think passively holding it to block a Blade would require a lot more.

If Vin new about Nicrosil they definitely would have been used in the siege of Luthadel. And if she'd found Nicrosil chances are she'd be looking for Chromium too, since that would have been hugely helpful against enemy allomancers, but even Nicrosil would have helped, she could have depleted all of Zanes atium the second he blocked her. So was Vin, she didn't get boosted. It's not a matter of allomantic strength he would've needed the technology and someone would almost certainly have found out, even if it was one of the inquisitors. Additionally unless he went out on mining expeditions himself he would've needed help, I don't think that he had more tech than AoL did.

Not sure, depends how Shardblades work but yeah potentially that could happen if you had access to every gem in Roshar

Actually remembering, in the RPG I think it was implied that by storing enough Identity that you could tap someone else's metalmind. So this could work, but you'd both need to be Aluminium ferrings.

It could be, more likely the placement for regular human attributes is quite large in area (Easy to get right) while allomancy is specific. Or even more likely they shift their muscles around until the spike is in the right place.

Feruchemical Aluminum isn't mentioned in AoL except the arcanum. That might work but how would you tap someone elses identity? @Windrunner I really need to read Mistborn again, but I lent my copy to someone and they are taking forever to start it. Thanks for all the quotes.

Definitely a good point, it also might making Steelpushing for jumps a bit difficult if your eyes are all puffed up. EDIT: Nvm, I can't believe I forgot inquisitors don't have eyes I don't recall reading this one either. I didn't think about them being re-used so yeah that's a good point too. Alrighty then, I'll go with that

Ah, I'm not sure how I missed that :S One problem though if the only change is the rate that they store at, they shouldn't need to rest for long periods, since they'd actually be comparatively healthier than a full feruchemist storing at their full potential. And Hemalurgic decay shouldn't affect feruchemy to that extent either, with Allomancy it was hardly noticeable as being weaker. I suppose the spikes could have been left out for longer but why?

I wasn't aware that there were any limitations, obviously if you stored too much strength you'd pass out or die but you could still do it. When was that? I don't remember seeing it in any interviews.

How would the feruchemical attribute lose charge?

Actually on reflection I'm curious about how the whole diminishing thing happens with Hemalurgy, does it reduce the amount of Preservation in the spike (For preservation) Could hemalurgic decay possibly only affect allomancy? As a result of opposing Shards at work. I'm 99% sure that it affects all but it's something to think about.

Depends on what you were stealing, getting the Shardblade might be a side-effect of spiking for something else. Assuming that you spike directly for the Shardblade I'm not sure, it's also a problem with feruchemy, how does that decay? There isn't really relative strength in it.

It's an in-joke There's a link in my sig to the conversation about it.

This^ it's clearly the most powerful spren of them all, if it ever nahel-bonded with someone they would become a new Adonalsium.

Makes sense, bindpoints on humans are difficult enough, on an organism without a fixed muscle-structure it would be very, very difficult to study. A 1-up for you.

Hide-and-seek spren-they only appear when you find them. Stalespren - appear when something is past its use-by (This is more out of personal desire. I need some kind of reminder ) Speculationspren - only appear when you find out what makes them appear.

If you found a way to actually hit him and wanted to capture Szeth instead of killing him then pain arrows would be great, you could hit in a non-lethal area and incapacitate him. I'm just saying if you can hit him with an arrow and want to kill him, don't waste gemstones I do also think that pain-arrows might be somewhat difficult since it would really mess up the balance of the arrow. But pain-knives might actually be quite a good idea, sometimes soldiers do get a lucky hit on Szeth and all you'd need is one. Just swarm him with them and hope someone gets lucky enough to scratch him before flying up into the air

I'm not sure about 2 alloys for each god-metal not sure where that came from but there's this. So not 50 EDIT: There's also this and it kind of depends how you interpret the answer. So there might not just be 1 atium and 1 Lerasium alloy for each metal either, but it's not necessarily 2

If you can shoot arrows which pierce his skin then you don't need fabrials on them I meant the normal use for pain-knives (Pierce clothing and cause pain) might not work.

Sazed is a feruchemist so he would have been able to tell whether or not it was a feruchemical metal by touching it, he most certainly would have mentioned the existence of a new metal to Vin had he found one. TLR is many, many times stronger than a normal allomancer, he'd be tapping Nicrosil at a higher rate than Marsh is and he's been using it for a thousand years. Actually now that I think about it did they even have Nicrosil in AoL times? It was mentioned in the Arcanum but I seem to recall Brandon saying they didn't actually have Nicrosil or Chromium yet. If so it's even more unlikely that TLR would have been able to stockpile it.