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I always assumed that since Wax can have an easier time moving around while lighter, albeit at the cost of muscle strength and ability to hold himself up (which is irrelevant unless he's climbing or doing something against gravity without Steel), that taping weight would make it proportionately difficult to move himself, at least enough to be noticeable. Thanks for the Bands quote, by the way. That was the one. It does seem that the "compensation" aspect of feruchemy does cut both ways. Otherwise somebody lightweight would be much more powerful than they should be, or somebody storing strength would....I have no idea what that would do but it would be weird. I am willing to buy that the mental aspect of speed is not 1:1. That actually makes more sense to me. I'd also be willing to buy that what appears to be perception speed is actually a mix between heightened perception speed and heightened reflexes. But regardless of that, the evidence points to you losing at minimum some of your "speed of thought" while storing Steel. How much isn't really important.

In WoA Sazed stores a whole bunch at once to prepare for the battle. I'm just wondering if the perceptive boost is 1:1 alongside the speed. If I double my speed, do I get double the thought speed, or only 150% or less? Depending on how fast Bleeder was moving, she may not have needed too good a ratio for speed of thought to keep up with herself.

Can somebody post the quote from SoS, for the record, that shows tapping F!Steel as increasing perception speed? It's the one where Bleeder is seen to move and react as if in real time when viewed from inside a Bendalloy bubble. Your ability to hold up your own weight is something we do see decrease when storing, in BOM. It's not quite bone strength, but Wax notes that making himself lighter actually does weaken his muscles and ability to move, the opposite of his not getting crushed when becoming heavier than a building. As perception is something gained from tapping F!Steel, it's very likely you will lose perception speed while storing. Of course, it's hard to tell how much you gain/lose. It could be that your perception is much like Wax's ability to hold himself up. Ex: When Wax makes himself heavier than a truck, iirc, he has difficulty walking to some degree. He can hold himself up, but he's not given many favors in regards to being able to move around. Much the same way storing weight does allow Wax to move differently and physically jump heigher, but impacts his ability to do things like lift himself. Steel might give you just enough perception to not kill yourself, but doesn't give you enough to do anything beyond that. This either means Bleeder was forced to stick to more or less basic motor functions while using Steel, or is means that as a Kandra she was able to do something to her mind to make up for the difference. (Assuming I'm right)

Don't let Feather hear that. I do wonder how Shallan will interact with Jasnah after all this has happened. There are a lot of ways it could go, and not all of them are pleasant.

They go to a Shardworld called Braize (I think). So far as I can tell, the deal was that Odium could not attack Roshar as long as the Heralds were there. Humanity would rebuild, and then eventually one or more of the Heralds would break and the torture would stop. Odium would attack Roshar, the Heralds would defend, push back the Desolation, and go back to get tortured for as long as they could take it so humanity could recover. From what The Diagram seems to be saying, when it was only Taln being tortured there were none of the weaker Heralds to break early. Taln was made of tough stuff and held out for an absurd length of time before the next Desolation finally came, thousands of years later. I cannot remember how much of that is just speculation and how much is confirmed, but hopefully it helps.

This is very likely true. We've only seen one Atium alloy, but if it works for one it should probably work for the others. Hopefully, given the next Mistborn book is titled The Lost Metal, we might get to see some of them.

I assume you're looking for this? EDIT: You seem to have found it. I'll leave the link here for reference anyway.

Given that the Ghostbloods are actually really chill with having Shallan spend her downtime as Veil working with them, they seem really unlikely to kill her. And honestly I'm thinking Shallan might take them up on their offer. Of all the characters to run with a double life, Shallan is easily the most likely. She'd probably enjoy it. I spent a lot of time saying Dalinar's story was done and he was gonna die in WOR and then I felt dumb at the end, when his story found more places to go. Which is why, while I agree about Kaladin appearing to run out of story space, I still hesitate to jump onboard this time. Brandon's proven me wrong before

Zinc was explained via WoB as something to do with intuitive leaps. I have a theory that this is the exact mechanic we see in the Stormlight Archive, and might give us an idea of how it would work. Sazed can talk to you just fine even if his ability to make mental connections and intuitive leaps is impaired, just don't expect him to solve the day's crossword. Steel seems to give you a sped up perception to go with your sped up body. This is why I wonder if it is actually doing the same thing Bendalloy does, but on a local level, which would make storing it similar to using Cadmium, but even more useless. This begs the question of if you can smack a leaf while tapping tons of speed. I'm a little shaky on how near-timestop physics work, but if your own personal time is running thousands of times faster than everyone else's, an airborn leaf be far too slow to get out of the way of anything you do, causing...fun times? (Go ahead and laugh at my horrible grasp of temporal speed, I admit I'm very bad at conceptualizing it.) I guess the question we need to ask Brandon is if speed is a personal temporal thing or a fully physical thing. Can you store speed while holding still, or do you have to be moving? If you have to be moving, does this mean you store less and less speed because by virtue of storing it you suddenly have a lot less of it? If speed is temporal, do Steelrunners fall faster? Can they freeze in midair like Marasi can? Starting to think it's not temporal the more I ask this. Still, it sounds like a horribly difficult ability to store either way.

I've been wondering this as well. Is it possible Hoid didn't know he'd come out of the Well (because it was in Luthadel not Terris) and just assumed it was an unstable Perpendicularity, only to feel really stupid later on? Feels like a stretch. You'd think he would have a way to sense what was at work there. Still, it's a theory.

if F!Steel works on the same principles as bendalloy, it could be that you are incapable of storing very much speed at once, since you're actually storing fractions of your temporal perception and speed. (ex: You're storing half of your time, and every person has exactly the same amount of time passing every moment, meaning you are physically incapable of storing more than a set amount of 'speed' no matter the circumstances.) Alternatively, you have to have momentum of thought and body to store, which means you must be constantly moving in order to actually put anything into the steelmind, except the movement takes forever and feels forever and after what feels like hours you have enough speed to get half a second of bullet time. Either way, sounds like a horrible pain if you aren't compounding.

I apologize for the poor formatting in advance. So, in light of recent-ish WoB telling us that F!Zinc is not bullet time as we had assumed, but instead an aide in intuitive leaps and intelligence, I've come to notice similarities in what the Nightwatcher does. Starting with the most obvious example, we have Taravagnian. Taravagnian's intelligence varies day to day in a way that might actually be consistent with F!Zinc. Since we now know the intelligence and the ability to make leaps of intuition can definitively be stored and traded as investure, this might be the mechanic behind that Nightwatcher's boon. (It may even be the reason his intellect spreads around evenly. Storing intellect and then using it up later at a more or less even spread. But I'm not nearly so sure of that.) But can this be applied to other Nightwatcher boons as well? Actually, I think it can. We know from Slider Ferrings that body fat and the energy a person gets from eating can be converted into Investure. It's possible that you could convert the investure inside a Bendalloy-Mind from food-based energy into raw Investure with the right tools. The might actually be what Lift is doing every time she eats. The food is going straight into the Cognitive and being converted from energy and into Stormlight Investure. Finally, Dalinar. I'm not sure if forgetting his wife was the boon, the curse, or both. Either way, if the Nightwatcher is using principles similar to those of Feruchemy, his memory loss feels a lot like Copper Feruchmeny. The way he forgets her name the instant its spoken is similar to what happens if you store your present experiences into a Coppermind live, if we assume the Shshsh thing is how his mind, or the narrative, comprehends the process. Theories? Criticism? Did somebody already come up with this before me? Let me know below

Skaa, if they haven't finished HoA then that's kind of a big spoiler? I'm guessing they don't know because of how they phrased their post. But yes, it's confirmed Zane was hearing Ruin, because we've seen him do something similar near the beginning-ish of HoA. And Vin's mother almost certainly did as well. It's similar to what emotional allomancy does to Kolos and Kandra, except Ruin can do it to people if they're broken enough.

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The Anomaly from Undertale. tl;dr the kind of murderous sociopath that applies the logic of a video game to their life, stealing everything not nailed down and killing everyone they know just because it's something they can do.

Just saying, I can't see a way for Suit to hang around in any of the other two Realms, and more than that: If you are going to send somebody to another Realm to keep working for you, blowing them apart and saying you're going to wipe out life on their planet is probably a horrible way to start that pitch.

I really don't mean to keep nagging, but not everyone knows that shardblades are spren, and the very existence of a shardspear is kind of a big thing for WoR :\ I am very interested about this though. If it's possible she'd remain a spear, why'd the KR all pick giant swords as their weapons? Was it a culture thing, did they all agree on it in advance, what was up?

Could ask why he chose the name Threnody for that world, or if the name of the planet had any relevance. If you get a RAFO, it's probably because it's a Shard. If anything else, it'll probably be him saying he named it after an awesome word or the name wasn't relevant and that's that.

Aluminum is also impossible to Forge in TES. Seems the metal just straight up repels Investure somehow, which is why I'm thinking it might tie into how Adonalsium was killed. Interestingly, there was a WoB saying the only way to get Aluminum on Roshar would be to Soulcast it, telling us that it's not only absent on that planet, but also can be created using Investure. Does that mean it would resist Aons, but could be created by them regardless? Could be the idea was to create something that you could produce en-masse with Investure, but couldn't be fought with the same.

This topic's title is visible from the front page, and the title is REALLY spoilery. Mind editing it down? The answer is likely whatever form she happens to be in when his oaths die, given Shardblades and how all of them are differently crafted.

Aaaaand I realized I can't talk SE directly even with tags. So with that in mind: Secret History spoilers (kind of, idk) Should this be moved to the SE boards? SE doesn't exactly bring in too much new information, but it might help.

Fairly sure that when it said he'd continue to serve in the next realm, it was the equivalent of saying "See you in the next life" or "You can serve us in Hell." Being blown to oblivion is a pretty common expression for being totally destroyed by an explosion.

It's notable that the body does not show up on Kelsier's side when thrown in, which begs the question of where it went.

Is Braize even inhabited enough to have a notable space set aside for it in the Cognitive? Odium doesn't strike me as the type to Invest himself very far into a planet.