Invocation

You wouldn't mind, but yours would need a lot more frequent "refueling" and those poor Allomancers would mind when they have to sit with a cube in the dark. Unless you take my strategy of boosting the Pushes with an aluminum box around an already fueled cube to prevent it from expending energy until you can sync the two cubes. It doesn't need to be a channel large enough for drag to take effect. It wouldn't need to be any more than a solid six inches wide. Also it doesn't need to be full-on liquid metal. Could be just a high metal content within a gel or a liquid.. Could be ball bearings in gel. Could be a lot of steel shavings, even (though that would be the worst for long-lasting turbines and probably efficiency too, as you'd need to replace the turbine blades pretty much every three days at best, stopping the entire generation during that time. Harmony help you if your mechanic is sick.). Having said that, it could be liquid metal, and I was working off of that because I like the way liquid metal looks. Provided you're not using a radioactive metal, one of the really heavy ones (read: lead), or one of the naturally toxic stuff like arsenic, you should be fine in event of a leak, as it would probably seal itself once the pressure was breached due to the temperature/pressure relationship of keeping metal liquid without having to have it be absurdly heated all the way through (and if you do have it heated, that's a way to stave off some of the inefficiency present in any generator as you send the energy lost as heat back to keep the metal liquid). First, Scadrial has to get to the level where their computers can do that on such a pinpoint thing (and the people trust them to do so), which, judging from the progression here on Earth, probably wouldn't happen until the end of Era 3 at the earliest, and probably not even then, considering we have people still mistrusting computers to do anything correctly.

Y'know what? Fair. The devices would be the Nestle products of Scadrial: it's good and you don't question how it was made. Or sausage.

Fair, though do you think they'd try to rationalize it as a (slightly different) form of eugenics, likening it to what the Terris people are currently doing with consolidating their bloodlines in an attempt to produce a Full Feruchemist? All of this in a attempt to assuage their guilt, of course, because I don't think that would fool anyone.

So what you're proposing is that Era 4 will be based around essentially Hemalurgic Eugenics? If so, I could see it.

I don't think that would be more efficient based on the potential for using speed bubbles to generate a lot of energy without the turbines potentially being pushed out of alignment by something getting knocked around. A narrow channel of liquid metal would allow for the flow to the standardized and no accidents to happen with something becoming misaligned somewhere in the chain. Plus a closed system could be housed underground to make room for a bunch more stuff on the surface since it wouldn't need to be serviced as often as a more direct turbine Pushing system, eliminating the need for waste on lighting when not absolutely needed (and you can just use a flashlight for when it's absolutely necessary). It could also work in both vertical and horizontal alignments depending on the needs of the area.

On a similar note to this (I made a thread on this a while back with this idea in it), A-Iron and A-Steel work with liquid metals as well as solid, so a generator could be used with a high enough metal-containing liquid (or just straight up liquid metal) being pushed up and down to turn a series of turbines that are lined up vertically. You could even utilize gravity to make it more efficient and less Allomantically-dependant. That probably doesn't make much sense without the mental picture. I can draw it out if you want.

Worth it just because of the Rule of Cool.

As long as it was protected from crem buildup and the highstorm winds and rain, I would tend to agree.

Welcome to the Shard! Don't take any cookies offered to you here, they're not to be trusted if you wish your soul to remain unaltered. As to the unpublished stuff, yes, there's links to that in a lot of places. There's an Aether of Night thread where you can request a copy of the manuscript to Aether of Night, which is a full (albeit unpublished and rudimentary [for BSandy]) novel contained within the Unpublished Works section (linked below) which has pretty much everything on the unpublished stuff that we know of/have access to. https://www.17thshard.com/forum/forum/79-unpublished-works/ What's your favorite magic system of the cosmere?

Fair!

Forging is very neat! Out of curiosity, are you referring to Surgebinding, fabrials, or Voidbinding in Stormlight? Brandon considers them seperate magic systems.

I think that's just Sazed trying to help along the tendency of humanity towards their Preservation side.

Chiming in on the cookie wars, don't trust any of them, but if you really want a cookie, go with the TUBA one.

That, or Rlain becomes a Singer Bondsmith, being the Dalinar there. I'm fine with either, I just want more Rlain.

What are you talking about, LuNaar is an amazing kandra name!

The true secret to how the Shattered Plains broke: Odium-based Avengers.

That should not be...but it is.

I think Kell defies the black and white of good versus bad, honestly. He's just Kell. Is he the best person? No. Is he the worst? Also no. He just...is.

Welcome to the Shard! Beware baked goods (especially cookies), they're bad for your soul remaining non-Hemalurgically tainted.

Welcome to the Shard! I'm going to backup what @Lunamor said: Don't take the cookies! What's your favorite series?

I'm pretty much with Karger here. Symmetry seems like the kind of thing an in-world chart like that would include.

Oh yes, that's fair. I was referring to the actual portion of the singer that possesses the body of the parsh people, not like....an actual one.

Eating a gemstone might work.

Yeah, they're the leatherbounds (I'm pretty sure). Supposedly good quality. I haven't yet been able to buy one, though, so I can't vouch for it or naysay it.

I hope Taln is of use too, which I think he will be, honestly, because of his POV book. I also just want to see Stonewards and stuff in action.