Unlicensed Hemalurgist

On 3/20/2019 at 9:27 AM, Lisa, Reading Spren said:

I have a question:

Could you tell me how i can respond to a comment, so that everyone can see the original comments and i don't have to spell it out in my message?

And how do i make a signature to appear under my comments?

Thank you very much

I honestly forgot how I did it. It's somewhere in the profile editing controls, I know that. 

Now to the important stuff: 

1. Hmm. Not really. One of them kinda looks like the Americas, I guess, if you look at it funny. 
2. Cauliflower's just broccoli that ain't got no culture.
3. It hovers in the middle, with the tip pressed against that little ridge in my palate behind my upper front teeth. 
4. No idea.
5. Yep, seems apt.

On 12/24/2018 at 3:01 PM, Nathrangking said:

Gandalf or Saruman?

Pepsi or Coke?

Which cosmere character would fit in well with your family?

1) Saruman, because Christopher Lee is a joy to watch. 

2) Cherry Coke.

3) With my family? Uh, Renarin's kind of nice I guess.

On 12/25/2018 at 5:57 PM, Element of Chaos said:

Are you serious when you say anything?

In that case, what is your deepest, darkest secret?

1) Yes. 

2) The first week I had my driver's license, I blasted through a crosswalk without even noticing and nearly ran someone down. I was terrified of driving for a year afterward.

On 12/27/2018 at 0:43 AM, Brightness Warrior said:

The title is 'ask' you anything, but it doesn't necessarily mean you'll give a satisfactory answer, or any answer at all. Am I wrong?

Well it's a little embarrassing. I used to log in automatically, but I got a new Chromebook and forgot my password, so I haven't been posting for a while. But I will try to give answers that are satisfactory, or at least unsatisfactory in a humorous way. 

On 12/27/2018 at 11:31 PM, StormblessedSurvivor said:

D&D? Any RPGs?

Weirdest thing you've ever seen or done? 

1) I was on a bit of a D&D 3.5 homebrewing kick in undergrad/grad school, and still have a huge collection of splatbook PDFs that I riffle through occasionally when I'm feeling nostalgic. Nowadays, there's an old Star Wars RPG that I really like, mostly because it uses all the really cool and obscure Legends stuff from the New Jedi Order era. 

2) Hmm, that's tough. I'm kind of a boring person. In terms of weird things I've done? Well, I was once blessed last year with an actual sacred Catholic relic (the toe bone of a saint whose name I wished I remembered). In terms of weird things I've seen, there was that time a Californian friend of mine Skyped me as, unbeknownst to him, the World Naked Bike Ride (NSFW obviously) was going on outside his window. That was a memorably weird moment, since neither of us had ever heard of that before! 

He got Taln! Oh man, right now I'm really hoping Cultivation's the secret mastermind everyone's hoping she is, and has some sort of Hail Mary play waiting to go off...

Enabling downvotes to be earned would just lead to people dogpiled posters they have beefs with. The Shard has such a pleasant atmosphere as it is that I wouldn't really suggest changing a thing.

Welcome to the forum! We like to practice Hemalurgy have fun here. 

Please, take as many as you want.

55 minutes ago, Archer said:

Racist person: "Storm them Canadians listening to their Canadian rap music."

Me: "What's wrong with Drake?"

RP: "No, I meant-"

Me: "Is this because of Degrassi, eh? 'Cause he's matured."

RP: "No, it's... Never mind."

Me: "I'll send you a link to his JUNO acceptance speech!"

People who are prejudiced against actual Canadians hardest hit

On 10/24/2018 at 3:30 PM, SilverTiger said:

Edit: also, a [mangled form of negro] needs to be filtered.

Might I suggest "Canadian?" 

32 minutes ago, StanLemon said:

I still think that Chromium, while difficult, was fully possible in The Final Empire as the metal itself was discovered here on Earth in 1797

I was under the impression that actually refining chromium in any usable quantities required electricity, though I could be wrong. 

I think it's more likely than not that Cadmium is possible, and if Cadmium is possible then you have all the ingredients for making Bendalloy. It's totally possible IMO that both metals were periodically re-discovered and re-suppressed over the centuries during the Final Empire.

So one thing I've been thinking about recently is whether it would be possible to refine cadmium and bendalloy using Final Empire levels of technology. Chromium wouldn't be possible-- apparently it requires an electric arc furnace to extract pure chromium from the ore-- which means nicrosil would also be impossible. But cadmium is usually found as a byproduct of zinc refining, which the FE obviously must have had. And bendalloy (Wood's metal in our world) is an alloy of cadmium and several very common metals: lead, tin and bismuth. Bismuth was known as early as the late-1600s, leading me to believe that the slightly-more-advanced-than-expected metallurgy of the FE could have known about and refined it.

Knowledge of these metals would almost certainly be suppressed by TLR and the Steel Ministry, and the fear of heavy metal poisoning through recklessly experimenting with different percentages would have discouraged anyone but an extremely eccentric (and wealthy) Mistborn with an absolute ton of aluminum from messing with it. But I think it might have at least been possible to produce back then. 

Am I missing something?

BRAIN BLAST: Unsealed bodily-waste bendalloyminds would be perfect self-contained waste-disposal systems for Era 4 Scadrial spacecraft.

Bumping this thread to riff a bit on Dominion and Devotion's godmetals: 

Skaium (Dominion)

• A-Skaium: When burned, skaium allows the skaium Misting (Puppeteer) to take control of and manipulate the body of someone in their line of sight. Flaring skaium allows them to control multiple people at once, or increase the fine control they have over one person's body. Skaium only allows them to control the person's body; their mind remains beyond the Misting's control.
• F-Skaium: A skaiummind stores the skaium Ferring's physical coordination (dominion and control over their own body). The skaium Ferring (Stumbler) becomes clumsier when storing and gains increasingly perfect coordination and balance when tapping. 
• H-Skaium: A skaium spike steals the charisma of the target, making those around the recipient of the spike feel overawed by them and more likely to obey any orders given. A bit like tapping a duraluminmind, only the effect is permanent. 

Aonium (Devotion)

• A-Aonium: When burned, aonium allows the aonium Misting (Heartseeker) to sense the emotions of those nearby. 
• F-Aonium: An aoniummind stores the aonium Ferring's aggression. The aonium Ferring (Blissout) becomes placid and happy when storing and becomes more violent and quick to anger when tapping.
• H-Aonium: An aonium spike steals any form of Mental Allomancy.

5 minutes ago, Calderis said:

Scadrial is the only place that I can see this action playing out. If she views the humans there as an extention of R&P due to their creation by the Shards, their inevitable expansion into the Greater Cosmere is the expansion of R&P's influence. 

Do we know for a fact that this is the case, that Scadrial is the only Shardworld where the Shards created humans from a Yolish template rather than having literal humans from Yolen migrate there? Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think we have enough info to say that definitively.

27 minutes ago, Scion of the Mists said:

She is freeing the people from the tyranny of other Shards, providing them with their own autonomy (from everyone except her).  

Then how does that fit with "Trell's" decision at the end of BoM to just wipe out all life on Scadrial? Killing someone is just about the most radical restriction of their Autonomy imaginable. 

Unless the various avatars of Autonomy all interpret their Intent differently, and are using the "Trell" identity at various times. That would make your theory more plausible, but we have no textual evidence to support it.

2 hours ago, Fanghur Rahl said:

Part of me wonders whether Brandon at some point hyper-covertly identified one of the remaining Shards in either a WOB or one of his books, and Trell is actually that Shard. Then technically it would be a Shard we ‘know’.

That would be a fun trick, and I think there's a low but significant chance that this will actually be the case. 

I'm strongly sympathetic to the theory that Autonomy is a red herring; we know Autonomy regularly messes around on other Shardworlds like a hypocrite, but you really have to stretch the interpretation of it's Intent to explain what Trell is doing if it is Autonomy. Likewise, I got the impression that Odium is trapped on Roshar and couldn't start influencing Scadrial from afar until he wins there.

Aw hell, I spelled "bloodthirsty" wrong, didn't I?...

1 hour ago, Fanghur Rahl said:

Irrational, mindless hatred stripped from any context with which to channel it can’t really be seen as a good thing. 

But it's not mindless or free of context, because the personality and values of a Vessel provide a mind/context for the Shard's power to be expressed. If Rayse were less of a monster (keep in mind that we really only have Hoid's biased recall to tell us what Rayse was like pre-Shattering), then Odium could easily have become a much less misanthropic force.

On 9/7/2018 at 10:34 AM, Kaj said:

I would find it greatly convenient if I could have a Urinmind and a Fecesmind.

Never, ever tap that metalmind unless you want to send your body into septic shock from a massive amount of waste chemicals suddenly re-entering your body.

On 9/3/2018 at 5:59 AM, Fanghur Rahl said:

 I personally can’t think of any realistic scenario in which the Shard Odium wouldn’t turn its vessel into a monster eventually.

Well this is the part where I'd say something trite about hatred being the sword we use to protect that which we love, hatred of evil being a good thing, and the difference between hating someone (wishing harm upon them) and disliking someone, but given that you've been vague and said "eventually" there's not really much I can say to a statement with that much wiggle-room.

8 hours ago, Calderis said:

Trell is a Shard we know. 

Through that and process of elimination, we get down to Trell being either Odium or Autonomy. 

Or Cultivation. Or a reformed Devotion/Dominion, if certain cryptic hints about Trell and Sel are anything other than a red herring: 

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Questioner

Miles Hundredlives, is he possessed by a svrakiss from Elantris?

Brandon Sanderson

*long pause* That's a RAFO, you are onto something... I wouldn't say possessed, but influenced by something is definitely a possibility. You are not 100% on.

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bondzy1220

Am I correct in assuming that the origin of the mystery spike in bleeder is mentioned in "Emperor's soul"?

Brandon Sanderson

This is a RAFO (a Read and Find out) but your theory has merit.

source 

 

EDIT: Gah, those shouldn't be nested.

Maybe it's from a combination of TLR rebuilding himself as an incredibly powerful Mistborn at the Well, and then burning one of the lerasium beads for an extra additive boost? So he basically had the strength of a Lerasium Mistborn added to his natural Feruchemy and Well-granted Allomancy?

I seem to remember a WoB that confused me because it said something about TLR's "most dramatic abilities" were the result of Hemalurgy. Am I misremembering something, or is that real?

I wonder if an Atium savant would be able to use atium more efficiently than a regular Allomancer. Not so much extending the burn time of their atium, but getting more power out of smaller amounts of atium. The atium shadows stretch out longer, so they don't have to burn as much atium to get the same effect?

It's like Romeo and Juliet: 

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"Two Shards, both alike in dignity,

On fair Scadrial, where we lay our scene,

From ancient oppositions break to new mutiny,

Where ash and blood makes mortal hands unclean.

And bearing the Intents of these two Shards

A pair of star-cross’d lovers give their life;

Whose misadventur’d piteous overthrows

Doth with their death bury their Shardic strife.

The fearful passage of their piebald love,

And the continuance of the Cosmere's rage,

Which, but their Vessels' ends, nought could remove,

Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage;

The which if you with patient ears attend,

What here shall miss, young Harmony strives to mend."

 

On 9/9/2018 at 9:48 AM, Herowannabe said:

The main thing is to stay away from fruit, because they don’t really have any during the Final Empire (no flowers = no flowering fruits). 

Well that can't be right. Of course the final empire had flowering plants; where else is all their wine coming from? Characters from the Central Dominance, far away from vineyard-supporting regions may be personally unfamiliar with flowers, but the fact that grapes exist for wine means they must exist somewhere.

Unless Scadrial "wine" is actually more like Rosharan "wine," of course, but there's no reason to believe that's the case in-text.

I ship it.