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We don't know whether your perception of time causes your time speed. We know that one aspect of experiencing time, where you perceive yourself to be, is cognitively controlled, other aspects could easily also be cognitively controlled. Some natural things, like metals in your body, can't easily be pushed on, some other things, like emotions, can be pushed on. Time perception may well be an easy to push thing.

There's a couple minor tweaks for balance purposes, but it's fairly canonical. Brandon told them lots of stuff. It's from alloy of law and the rpg.

From what I've seen, you shouldn't be able to store alcohol. You may be able to store the liquid in alcohol, but not the alcohol. The sources say you can store energy and thirst. It may be possible to store alcohol though, I don't know. It might just be stored as calories.

A willpower attack causes this result. So they are emotionally vulnerable and impulsive. As with inquisitor's willpower, did they ever face any challenges? It seems to me like if anyone tried to challenge their willpower it would just result in them being skewed. The cognitive plane is how you see yourself and how others see you, i.e. your reputation. So a cognitive attack would be rioting a person's insanity while in front of his companions, making him do silly things. Given the description of social conflicts- causing people to see others differently- it sounds quite cognitive.

Assuming it was a usable metal, it might have some effect other than increasing your allomantic power.

I don't remember when that was, but I think it's more likely she was subconsciously burning bronze, or had absorbed some of the mist. She has lots of ways to use her powers to hear it. Willpower is your spirit plus your wits. Since it is composed of spirits, it is at least half about spirits. Copper may only give you resistance to all spiritual investiture attacks. Many investiture abilities are physical or cognitive.

Perception does actually affect whether Bendalloy and Cadmium effect you, such as with Brandon's example of the train- whether the train views itself as in or out of the bubble affects whether it changes speed when it goes through. Perception and reality may have some overlap in the Cosmere. With the body's temperature regulation, feruchemy allows you to control that. With electrical impulses, zinc feru probably allows you to change that. Under this theory, powers would be limited. You couldn't have any power that directly summoned a fire ball because that's not a function of the body. You can have a power that overcharges the body's temperature regulation.

The external enhancement metals would be twisting your natural ability to burn metals and extending it to other people. Or it could be a completely new ability. With this theory, one of the enhancements that you have is turning natural traits into area of effect abilities. So copper becomes an area of effect spiritual investiture resistance boost instead of a purely internal spiritual resistance trait. The cadmium bendalloy justifications fit in that. This theory is a very poorly supported theory in evidence, but it's something that could be asked of Brandon. He does like to talk about how he makes magic systems.

I was having a discussion with Phantom elsewhere, and it occurred to me that most allomantic abilities could be explained as an enhancement, expansion and a tweak of natural abilities. It had been my assumption that allomancy magically gave you random when I first got the book, like making metals move and making people super strong. It seemed as random to me as giving someone the power to throw fire out of their hands or to throw thunderbolts. But maybe the powers aren't random. Maybe lerasium just twists a node of someone's spirit web into something greater. Anyway, here's my idea of how this could work. Iron and steel. All humans may naturally have a connection to the focus of their world, metal in this case, and allomancy just enhances this. If a mistborn was on another world they would presumably push the focus of that world- e.g. on Roshar you could push gemstones or body parts. Pewter and tin. Enhances your physical body and your senses. Zinc and brass. Breeze talks about how his allomancy is just an extention of normal manipulation. Perhaps emotional allomancy is just an enhancement outwards of your spiritual connection. Bronze and copper. Bronze works by letting you feel ripples in the sounds of creation. This may just be your natural life sense, like what awakeners have, turned up to eleven, with the frequency changed, as you would change the frequency on a radio, to focus on investiture. Copper works by stopping ripples in the sounds of creation. Maybe this works by expanding your natural investiture resistance, like your resistance to having metals in your body pushes, and expanding it out to the environment so it is more resistance to outside influences. As evidence for this, in the mistborn rpg there is a stunt, iron will, for copper, that boosts your spiritual resistance when you use copper. Gold and electrum work by enhancing your view of your past (which, as the Emperor's Soul explained, everyone has a lot of in their cognitive identity) and your foresight about the future, your danger sense. Bendalloy and Cadmium work by enhancing your personal sense of time. We've likely all had days when a day seemed to go too slow or too fast. The allomancy takes this natural trait and expands it outwards. The enhancement metals work by altering your natural ability to tap and burn metals. There's not much evidence for this theory, except for with soothing, but I will be looking out for any evidence to refute or deny it in the future.

Good idea, probably. Your spiritual connection to other people. Edit. Maybe that's the ability that bronze tweaks? You naturally have a connection to people, bronze just amplifies it and changes the frequency its tuned to.

Nice idea. Perhaps if your champion violated your intent you are easier to shatter. And Honor had a lot of people who probably violated his Intent, with all his Heralds and Knight Radiants.

As a hypothetical. If Lerasium rewrites your sDNA, what if it allowed you to temporarily rewrite your powers? E.g. you could change iron allomancy to pull blood instead of metal. Or what if it allowed you to shapechange at will, changing your shape, strength, intellect? I can imagine lots of possible powers Lerasium could have, and all of them sound fun. I am sure, as Brandon is a good story writer, whatever power Lerasium has will be interesting and fun and be more significant than a sugar pill.

You asked someone to comment on your theory. *reads over* Ah. You're a cool guy, none of this is intended as a personal attack. Is copper cognitive? I doubt it. http://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=727#36 "Allomantic pulses are like a ripple of sound in the fabric of creation itself�the power of creation" and the power of creation is generally held to be made of spiritual power in its native form, not cognitive. "Now, Bronze and Tin similarity is obvious. Both enhance senses, though Bronze enhances the sense that is too weak for normal humans to notice - the sense of "ripples in the fabric of reality"." I don't believe we've seen any evidence that people can detect usage of powers, even enough to feel uncomfortable when someone is secretly using a power. It may be, like with steel and iron pushing, that bronze and copper create entirely new abilities. If the power is propagating along people's connections that too would likely be evidence that it was spiritual, given the definitions we've seen of the spiritual realm. The iron will stunt for copper in the mistborn rpg is (basically) increased spiritual resilience, like with pewter giving increased physical resilience. I disagree with your theory that it's a cognitive effect. As a spiritual effect it may well also offer some enhanced spiritual resistance through non spiritual channels. Assuming that wasn't just made up by the rpg people. If so, I would advance this theory- the copper takes your internal investiture resistance and massively magnifies it. The surrounding area is then slightly harder to influence with spiritual effects and so spiritual sound effects can't propagate through it. I will take Breeze at his word, that emotional allomancy is little different from normal social manipulation. Perhaps when someone angrily shouts at you in the Cosmere their spiritual connection to you attacks you as well. Copper may well grant you resistance from things like that.

http://www.brandonsanderson.com/annotation/304/Mistborn-3-Chapter-Thirty-Eight He said that granting powers was a side effect, and that if another used it it would do something else. If it is doing something else, its power is not being expended on increasing your power. It will presumably have some power boosting effect, but it may well not be increasing your long term power. Although I imagine, as with all metals, there is some leak through as metal use slowly transforms you into a savant.

However large the bead of Lerasium that Elend ingested was, it was evidently large enough to take him to 100%. I haven't read mistborn 3 in a while, I can't remember. Piercing copperclouds is a matter of skill as well as power, and Elend was not that skilled. We can say all we want, but Sanderson decides what Lerasium does. He could say that a 100% mistborn ingesting Lerasium made you into a duck and it would be true.

If the average mistborn was a 4 on a scale of allomantic power, then Vin would be an 8 with her piercing. She wasn't over 100%. The mistborn rpg covers this. To go over 100% you need duralumin or nicrosil or some other source of power. According to the rpg, one charge of lerasium can increase your powers to a 5, and each successive charge increases your power rating by 1. So it may take quite a bit of Lerasium to increase your powers to the max of 10.

I am lying on the roof, impatiently waiting for Alfie to come. It seems like an eternity has passed. Patience. At last, I can see him and two men heading towards the stash. Wait. Two? That is not well. I look at them. From my spot, I can see something that I assume to be metalminds on both, but I can't be sure. I certainly can't see what kinds of metals they are. I wait for them to come closer. Alfie leads them on, paying more and more attention to the gold man as they get closer. He mews, he nuzzles, he tugs. All the while keeping a keen eye for anyone following. He swallows in his throat, the lack of electrum giving him some nausea. He has no idea what awaits them. I see Alfie approaching and ewing at one of the men. I assume him to be bloodmaker. I ready my Harvester dagger and swallow pewter and Nicrosil. Alfie hears something, but is unsure if that is true or his imagination the Brute gets more suspicious. He looks around warily Alfie paws at the wall, and says "Mrammram." The brick moves slightly. A bloodmaker spots the moving brick. "Is this where you were leading us? What's this?". He removes the brick. Mrrrrowwwww" Alfie says happily "Mrowd" He hoped Satsu would hear him describe the man as gold. Brute is distracted from his suspicions when he sees something in the hollow I can hear Alfie mrowing, but can't make out what he is trying to say. In the meanwhile, one guy that I believe to be some other feruchemist pushes supposed bloodmaker away and grabs at the vial Alfie readies his steel and brass. I judge the moment to be good, and jump down. I burn Pewter and tap Investiture like there is no tomorrow. I land well. Every second counts now. The danger was upon them. He could summon his powers in a moment's notice to slam a gun to the side, or flare brass to stun one of the men. My pewter flares like a hundred suns. Before any of the men could react I touch them, one with full hand, the other with the fist already holding a drawn dagger. The bloodmaker staggers. The other one blinks at the sudden assault but recovers quickly. Alfie steps back, watching the scene. Then Alfie hits the second man with a flared brass hit, trying to reduce his rage and alertness. He burns steel, looking for use of a knife or a gun I see the supposed Bloodmaker stagger, and the other one start advancing toward me, when a very confused expression comes over him. Both men are armed. The Bloodmaker has a revolver. Brute has large knofe and a small handgun. He must have tried to tap his metalminds. They should be empty now, unless he had some he was not touching- he doesn't. it is rare to have such.[/ooc] Alfie uses his steel and focused on the blue lines leading to the guns. He readies a push if one tries to quick draw and fire on Satsu His rage soothed, the man was scared. He shouts for help! Alfie looks out with steelsight, seeing if anyone is there to help Alfie spots a group of metal sources at the mouth of the alley, moving towards us. He sees some metal sources coming towards them from the alleyway. His claws come out. I hiss, and tap more investiture. My pewter burns out, but the power still flows. I start to feel the strain. That last investiture increase might not have been a good idea. My vision doubles then triples. Alfie looks to whoever looks most jittery and nervous and pushes zinc against him, trying to make him afraid of what awaits. "The colors wash out a bit, as pain wrecks my frame" Alfie's Rioting spooks one person into running. Some others also leave, though not in such hurry. About 5 people remain. They are much more careful now. There is a Seeker with the group! He starts burning. Alfie goes to Satsu, jumps up onto his shoulder and speaks to him quietly. "Nicroburst me, now." He starts burning zinc at the seeker, flaring his insanity and desire to be a chicken. He transfers his brass to attack the gold man, flaring it to break his will and empty him of emotions. I try to concentrate on my surroundings. Or we? A cat approaches and speaks. Nicroburst? Is there nicrosil left to burn? The colors flicker as my perception changes. Nicrosil is gone. We must have bruned it without thinking while experiencing investiture backlash. Investiture… We reach and manage to touch Alfie. Spike.. close, We can feel, see it. Some Investiture goes into it. Alfie's rioting grows stronger. Alas, the willpower of the seeker prevails for the moment. He clucks, but manages to take himself under control. About half of Alfie's Zinc is gone. Bloodmaker starts to recover. The first of the group pokes his head arounfd the corner. He has a gun in his hand. The Brute is drawing a knife and advancing on me. We.. must concentrate. But…The spike in my head flares with pain. I can still feel the power going through me. So much power... and so many bloodmakers... Alfie flares zinc at the man with the knife, trying to excite his insanity and confusion. He keeps flaring brass at the bloodmaker, hoping to weaken his spirit further. Meanwhile, he uses his steel to push a little at the man who comes with the gun. Small pushes to weaken his aim and skill. He shakes about on Satsu, and mimes attacking him with his claws. The bloodmaker looks at the allomantic cat. He is very confused, so he doesn't try to draw his gun He wishes Satsu would just attack and get it over with. Brute howl with rage. He lunges, attacking the vial of metals, confused by the sudden rush of emotions! The man shoots! It ricochets off the ground, deflected by Alfie's steel, and goes straight into Satsu's gut. The physical pain helps Satsu concentrate, but he is losing blood. Only Pewter ripthrough allows him to function. Ow! The sudden, very physical pain allows me to become me again. It also makes me aware of the bullet somewhere in my stomach, muted by the Pewter. The illusionary Pewter only working as long as I tap. At least Pewter also adds to my speed and agility. Overcoming pain, both in my gut and head, I aim my harvesting dagger. The bloodmaker tries to evade, but to no avail. Guided by Pewter and increased sensitivity of Investiture overtap, I ram the dagger straight into his heart, bypassing ribs. the guy with the gun is still there. His friends - 4 of them, including Seeker - show up. Seeker clucks and points at Alfie, warning people of them. They take in the scene and are confused. They start drawing guns though. Brute still attacks poor vial, now in pieces Alfie whispers into Satsu's ear *spike the bloodmaker* He then flares at the Seeker, trying to make him more chickenlike and insane. Seeker's eye bulge as he tries to take flight! One of the other men shouts "Rust and ruin!" and shoots. He hits Brute in the leg. Others gape. they were not as sober to begin with. I wait for a few moments. I can almost feel life leaving Bloodmaker. He tries to tap health, but his metalminds are empty. Alfie sees the confusion and problems of the men, and does a widespread, if weaker, zinc push against their emotions, making them more confused and drunk. He uses steel to push away any bullets that attack them. The five men crowd the alleyway exit, gaping at the spectacle. So far, no other people have been attracted by shots. I rip out the dagger, the spike inside covered with blood now leaking out of the slots in the transparent blade. I meow at Alfie "What kind is that one?" waving in the direction of the howling man, now stumbling with leg wound. Alfie meows at him. "Strength equality magic" He continues to fake scratch and tear at him, as though Satsu is some great foe attacking his dear friends."Loss and gain magic.” His cat language is imprecise, but even in the fury of this fight he has no desire to reveal to them what he is. He can remain a cat. The men look at the crazy cat, a meowing murderer with a dagger made of glass and their acquaintance attacking a vial. They look at Seeker clucking and flapping his arms. They are flabbergasted. Alfie looked over the five remaining men, seeing if any looked like they might break from fear. He saw little fear, but a great deal of confusion. Ah, good. I retrieve another dagger, this one with cat-sized spike, and turn to Brute. Alfie flared his zinc at the seeker again, seeking to drive him further into insanity. Perhaps it would distract them for long enough for Satsu to do his job. Seeker knew he was a mad chicken! He crows as he strips! The sight is enough for one of the other men to run away swearing. Others are no longer sure where to aim. I try to hit brute, but even with his leg wound he menages to evade me. The seeker is naked now. The brute's swing misses Satsu by a mile. Alfie grabs onto Satsu, looks around for some source of metal above and behind him, and if he finds it, pins the brute by his metal minds against the ground. The man slammed down, firmly pinned. He uses his brass against the chicken man, suppressing any inhibitions the man has, while maintaining a zinc push against the crowd, increasing their confusion and worry. Seeker shits on the ground. He is a monkeyrooster! He flings poo at the crowd, crowing madly! One of the three remaining men had enough. He tries to shoot Seeker, and wounds that one in the arm. I am weaker than before, pwetr or no. I am not drawing enough Investiture. And I don't dare draw more. I can feel my body suffering from the spiritual distortion already. Alfie mews at him. "Finish the human, kill him, and we can go." I barely manage to hit the man with a dagger, harvesting his power. I trill "We have to go. I am weak. Let us escape." I am not sure I can climb back to roof Alfie flares his zinc at the man who just fired his gun, seeking to capitalize on his moment of weakness, increasing his rage and confusing. I look at the roof, and a wave of dizziness hits me. I trill "To weak to go up" “I can take you up.” Says Alfie “Take us further into the alleyway, away from the group.” Alfie meanwhile uses his brass to sooth the remaining men's care for other humans and other members of their gang. The man looks around wildly as Seeker continues to throw poop. He shoots Seeker three more times, wounding him, but not critically. Yet. The others seem tired by the whole affair. They look at the pair and giggle, amused. Seeker tries to take flight. I sheathe daggers and stagger deeper into alley. I can barely think. Once they are deeper in, Alfie sends one last pulse of confusion at the man, both soothing any clarity that remains and rioting any confusion in the group. Then he scrambled around Satsu, finds a metal source, and starts pushing them up onto the rooftops. Despite possible side effects, I tap more Investiture. Pewter grows stronger, and my head clears somewhat. Alfie speaks to Satsu. "If you are worried about that group I can spend a while flaring my zinc at them. Drive them insane. Then no one will believe them when they say what happened." You push us up onto rooftops with relative ease, leaving a group of four people and two corpses behind. Two of those are now quite insane. Other two will recover. I consider, then speak "I think you have done enough. Better go away now. One of them got away anyways." Alfie nods. "He shall have a curious tale to tell people." That is so." I unscrew the dagger with Bloodmaker's spike, bend out temporals and slap it on the bind point piercing it. Alfie looks away as the spike goes in. He still feels... not good about spikes. Metal into flesh. He hopes it helps Satsu though. I reach into my pack and retrieve a golden bracer. A pity I had to wipe metalminds of that bloodmaker. Yes, i can feel Gold now. Alfie looks at him concerned and speaks. "You look pretty weak. I can carry you back if you want, with steel." Alfie moves around, running his spider legs of allomancy across objects, and levitates in front of Satsu, his arms out, ready for piggy back ride. I store some health. the pain comes at me with increased force. I can almost see myself from outside the body. The wounds does not look good. I tap more Investiture, switching from empty Metalmind. A wisp of mist rises from the scar in my forehead. not good. Too weak. Too weak to grasp Alfie. I tap health. Boosted by Investiture, it is enough to close the wound. barely. At least I don't bleed anymore. "Fall on me. I'll catch you." Alfie says. "Yess." I fall on Alfie. Alfie huffs, feeling his weight, and slides a bit under. Then, slowly levitating up, he rises up, Satsu on his back, as though he is some sort of magic cat carpet. Carefully controlling himself with timed pushes he slowly accelerates towards their home, remaining at a constant height. He feels the weight of Satsu on him heavy, and knows he should not fly at a great speed. At least, he should not accelerate too fast. I try not to move, lest I slip. Pewter helps with balance. But this pewter has a cost. On we almost paid in the alley. Slowly he builds up his speed.Soon the land blurs beneath them. Far beneath them, a woman glances up from her place on the roof where she spies on cats going back and forth and sees a pair moving across the sky. She burns tin, and looks up more carefully. Is that... the sight vanishes a moment later, but she keeps the image fixed in her mind. Coming from a place where earlier she heard gunshots. Was the cat pushing him? In time they get close to their home. Alfie drops down nearby, onto a building. Alfie then guided Satsu down to an empty alleyway. "Can you walk from here, or should I get someone to come help?" “I can walk. I fell strong. But I only have maybe 20 minutes worth of investiture. I'll have to eat Nicrosil like a candy again. And sleep for a day. We better hurry" Alfie nods and leads Satsu back to his place. He would sooth the man's pain, but, well, that had gone poorly in the past. He uses tin and steel to watch out for any attackers or watchers, zinc and brass at the ready. "I would like that. I have been facing a lot more combat than I'd expected to face recently. A combat power would help." We arrive at my house successfully. I address Alfie: "Be careful now. And before I forget..." I recover a simple thin cloak from my pack and cover myself "Better than being seen blood-covered by the servants, though still… " Alfie nods. He starts storing connection, becoming less noticeable, and follows at Satsu's heel. I approach the gate and wave to the guard "Nice weather today!" He greets me, and I pass him without incident. I inform my butler that I worked late and desire not to be disturbed for a while, and that Alfie was to be fed, and head to my room for a well deserved nap. "So, Alfie, do you want this spike?" Alfie slowly nodded and spoke."I do. Though you should refill your metal reserves before you start any surgery.Not that I don't trust you, but you're bleeding to death." "Very well. Alas, you are correct, and I am in no condition to properly install it. I can do a temporal if you want. I am not bleeding, but I will collapse, and very soon." Alfie replies. “A temporal would be fine." "Very well." - I reach my room, and get a rool of bandages. "Please come here” Alfie goes after him. "I swallow a few more beads of Nicrosil, feeling it flare up, and redirect some Investiture into it, refilling my metalminds some. I carefully recover the spike and bend the temporal down. It is short, not even going to the muscle, but it touches blood, so the spike won't decay. Though the usage will be impaired some until proper installation" Alfie spoke. "I am fine with that. With feruchemy, I remember..." I press it against Alfie's skin, and affix it by bandages. "...It's a lot easier to tap a lot of it than with allomancy." "Yes." I eat some more Nicrosil. I undress, hide my bloodstained clothes and wash my hands. then I collapse into the bed. "I will sleep now" Alfie replied softly“Goodnight. It was a good day. See you in 24 hours." He then went to retrieve a pewter amulet from Satsu's stock. He would store what little he could, eat, hide from people, and prepare for the next day.

The most important scientific invention that I can think of is a multi sailed boat. It allowed europe to colonize the world, (accidentally) caused the death of millions of native americans, and paved the way for the industrial revolution. Behind that, I'd probably say astronomy. Equally important for navigation, it allowed people to precisely get to any place in the world. Germ theory is pretty important too. The people in Stormlight have a serious advantage being able to see sickness sprens. Edit. On religion, I wouldn't blanket call it a great invention. Hinduism and buddhism, major world religions, for much of their history were suppressed by Islam after being conquered by it. Some religions had much less of a worldwide affect than others, some more. Shamanism was especially effective under Genghis Khan. His tolerance of alternate religions allowed him to easily rule a great deal of the world say.

Nope, tis just a guess. The book says things like "strength flooded his body" when people use pewter. It doesn't get much more specific.

Maybe they just alter whatever body part or spirit web part they are fusing with energy?

Alfie sighs in relief as they follow him, and leads them to the prearranged place. Two people is harder, but with nicrosil he trusts that Satsu can overwhelm them. He mews and drags and pulls them to the location, getting increasingly excited as they get closer to the place in the alleyway. Then as they reach it he scratches at the wall where the brick was. He then pushed and shook it and scratched at the brick, making it move slightly in its place so the two of them could see what was up. Meanwhile, he kept a keen eye out. He didn't want to be caught by a seeker, but his senses were good and he tried to spot if they were being followed. He hoped Satsu would follow soon. He waited for him to arrive as he scratched at the brick, readying a powerful flared sooth for the pair, for whichever one wasn't attacked first. Every second would count when Satsu attacked.

Yeah. That does sound likely. I know Brandon loves to show the gods influencing the worlds. He may have done the reverse as well- religion influencing the gods, enough to scare Odium. Unity sounds pretty good. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_unity_government It sounds like the sort of word that would go well with Dominion or Devotion. A powerful government working in unity to deal with a common threat, devoted enough to the safety of the people to put aside their differences. The ultimate government. One that leads, but is devoted to its people. It's sorta like what Raoden did. He managed to convince each of the gangs to work with him for a common good. He dominated them by appealing to their love of things and showing good leadership. Though he was somewhat light on the domination. Some relevant quotes from Hrathen on unity. From others. Maybe someone like Hrathen could take up both shards, as Sazed did, since he seems to have sympathy for devotion and dominion? We may well see people behave in the next book in such a way that some do things that allow them to better atune to their Shard. Raoden went in the pool of what was probably Devotion, and acted very devoted. He could probably attune to that Shard, though he may face the same problem that Wyrn would hypothetically face with attuning with Dominion that because the shards are melded and Wyrn isn't loving he cannot fully take them up.

http://www.brandonsanderson.com/annotation/362/Mistborn-3-Chapter-Eighty-Two http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/2383-qa-with-brandon-sanderson/?p=42467 I think either saying they become a god or ascending as Chaos says is ok.

Alfie walks up to the man and nuzzles at his leg, trying to endear himself to the man. He then looks up at him, his eyes wide and his pupils huge Then he tugs on the man's leg again in the direction of the door, and walks over to the exit, then back to the man, looking up at him with his deep eyes, willing him to connect with him, to understand. For interspecies diplomacy to finally work. For human and cat to understand one another, and be close. He does not sniff for a fish in the man's pocket. He is not hungry, for sex or for food.

You can tap enormous amounts of cadmium, as with all metals, enough to boost your performance in endurance related tasks to near superhuman levels and go without breathing. How much you can do depends on how many charges you tap. If your blood is super oxygenated then breathing is unnecessary.