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I reread BoM a week or so ago, which probably accounts for it XD

None; however, Seers are pretty powerful on their own, enough to challenge a compounder; at least in my opinion

I'm referring to the combat abilities of a Compounder, not of Compounding; that is, the individuals who can compound, not the possibility of infinite feruchemical storages.

In BoM, a banker in New Seran sent a message to Elendel to confirm Marasi and Wayne's identities. I believe the book said it was a telegraph(Wayne said something along the lines of "those things cost 3 clips a letter!"), but whether I'm right or not, they have some form of instantaneous communication

Edit: I checked, a telegram was used. Chapter eleven if you want to read it yourselves.

How dare you I love cookies

However, I do not know much of Hemalurgy...

Hitting every shot, never being hit by their enemies, etc.

I believe that the things you are referring to are called 'sonas, BTW, assuming no one on the previous pages pointed it out(I didn't bother reading them XD)

Mine is named Tarenwel, and he's Neutral. He's a Twinborn (Seeker/Steelrunner), and he also has a Fabrial, but it is drained of Stormlight, and he hasn't discovered Roshar yet.  His mother was a Steelrunner, kidnapped by the Set for use in their breeding programs. When he was 12, he and his mother escaped and went to live in his mother's childhood home in Tathingdwel(I'm assuming for this that it has a large Terris population). He lived there until he was 18, when he and his mom were hunted down by the Set. He escaped, but his mother was killed. He fled into the northern Roughs. Soon after arriving in a distant Roughs town, he witnessed a robbery being performed and, being a morally supercharged terrisman with a healthy lack of self-preservation instincts, he tries to stop the robbers. He didn't actually catch them, but he delayed them long enough for the senior lawman of the area to arrive and capture the criminals. The lawman offered him a job, and having nothing better to do, he accepted. A few years later, he encountered a worldhopper, who he ended up chasing. This is how he got his Fabrial, an how he discovered worldhopping. As of now, he's only explored in the Cognitive Realm around Scadrial. He uses a pistol, glass throwing knives, and an aluminum baton. He's mediocre with the pistol, but incredible with the knives and skilled with the baton.

But they aren't living, so they shouldn't have Hemalurgic bindpoints, and swallowing Hemalurgic spikes shouldn't be any worse then swallowing regular spikes... which is admittedly bad, but why bother murdering people to make tiny spikes when you're going to use them for something that normal spikes could do just as well?

Unless there's a hemalurgic bindpoint at a narrow point in the digestive tract...

2 minutes ago, CaptainRyan said:

If an unexpected attack that happens so quickly you cannot react to it is what you are worried about then is not Steel compounding the most powerful? An atium compounder would need to be continually burning Allomantic atium to avoid the ambush (assuming a normal speed individual, even with the foresight granted by atium, could not be "checkmated" by a Steel compounder). As far as I am aware, we are unsure of how Feruchemical Chromium works so I would hesitate to put any sort of weight behind descriptions of its use.

Honestly, Steel compounding in particular, and feruchemical compounding via allomancy in general, is one of my least favorite additions to the Mistborn trilogy. It is, in my tiny opinion, far too powerful and breaks an otherwise beautiful magic system (feruchemy).

I am talking about that sort of ambush. Though steel compounding would be good for avoiding it, you'd have to constantly be tapping steel at a high rate in order to get Atium's avoidance abilities, and that would make it very difficult to interact with other people. I suppose when you're as powerful as a steel compounder you don't need help from anyone XD

I think that Compounding is an interesting system that fits well with the Mistborn feel, but it can get preeeetty broken.

How would I even know about compounding if I hadn't read Era 2...? Anyways, I deemed that Atium and Chromium were about as good at keeping you alive while having better offensive capability, and Atium can foresee attacks better then steelsight. I suppose there are situations where you could be checkmated using Atium that Steel would allow you to escape from. All the good battle metals have their uses, which one is "best" is purely a matter of opinion.

So, what, in your opinion, is the strongest Compounder combatively, and why? 

I personally can't decide between Atium, and Chromium. Either one is practically unkillable, and if they attack you, you have practically no way to fight back. Originally my list of strongest included Gold and Steel, but I decided that Gold was out because it didn't have very good offensive capabilities and I cut Steel because you could easily be killed from behind in an ambush.

Seeker+Steelrunner or Tineye+Steelrunner should be a Dodger or something similar

Ello 

The cookies are spiked 

I don't know what the do but I've been warned not to eat em so proceed with caution 

I was referring to Fabrial Soulcasting, not Surgbinding Soulcasting, since a Radiant has other powers at work that influence the fight, though that doesn't necessarily rule out the usefulness of combat transmutation, I suppose

Ooooh, sorry 'bout that, should have thought that through. I'm talking about the cookie investiture that I was warned against on my joining thread XD

Wait. What the heck? I thought I put this in General Discussion, not Cosmere Q&A

I heard there was some kind of ingestion involved

The short answer: Pray and hope Harmony favors you. If he doesn't, well... I hear Marsh throws good parties.

The long answer: Try to exploit an intrinsic weakness in the workings of Chromium, like these gents have proposed. However, because we don't know what these weaknesses are or even if they exist, a plan such as this isn't possible to detail right now. 

Oh so they're investiture 

But why do we not want to be invested?

19 minutes ago, Fifth of Daybreak said:

The biggest issue would be the cracking of gemstones anytime you performed a large Soulcasting feat, which would be basically anytime you go close to FMA style moves.

@Crimson Not Blood Soulcasting cannot change the shape of an object. Objects are carved first before they are soulcast. 

 

So with durability limits, lack of shape changing, and possible time requirement 

The possibility of this is out the window 

Oh well

I remember the stick XD

I'm pretty sure that Fabrials can Soulcast instantly, though I haven't read SA in a while... 

Ah, yes thank you

I hear it tastes excellent with a side of Lerasium 

In any case, why would people be putting steel in baked goods?

Also, how do you set your signature

If we were to get some FMA-esque Soulcasting fights in a future book? Changing the environment to suit yourself better, creating weapons from random materials around you, etc. I'm not sure whether Soulcasting can change the shape of an object like FMA Alchemy can, but it would be really interesting to see something like that IMO.

I have read all Cosmere books except for Warbreaker... My favorite books are Mistborn and The Silmarillion(LotR Prequel, for those who don't know). I can't think of much else that's relevant...