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Going by Push/Pull pairs, as much as I love Steel and Iron, I would have to go for the sheer practicality of Tin and Pewter.

The very first epigraph in HoA made me sure that it wasn't Vin. It was fun to see Sazed turn out to be the true hero.

Considering how Invested a Fullborn is, there is a good chance that won't work Edit: to put into perspective just how Invested a Fullborn is, Wax while holding the Bands which would have just had a fraction of the Investiture a Fullborn could have on them was the second most Invested non Shardic entity we have seen.

Two big points here. First Renarin has Progression, so he has healing up to 11. Second, strikes from larger targets disperse the force of the blow. I agree that in most situations a Radiant would defeat a Mistborn but it does seem you are misrepresenting a Mistborn's power. There are plenty of scenes where we see Plate getting damaged by less than great forces. But to use your Chasmfiend, it never really got a solid hit on any of those three. The closest was when Dalinar caught the claw which had the side effect of cracking his Plate. Plate is amazingly powerful, but it has it's limits and can be broken even by normal methods. The sad truth is that Brandon has been inconsistent with how much Plate can take, he has mighty scenes where it handles an amazing amount of damage from a single source (albeit getting damaged in the process) and others where lesser sources are capable of wearing it down, only taking time. A lot of this combat conversation is a little ridiculous though because a lot of it assumes that the Mistborn would do a straight up fight against a Radiant. It would be to keep a distance, be sparing with metals, hide, attack, hide, disengage, etc. which would be stupid for a Mistborn to do. Only two Orders would be able to keep up with a Mistborn (Windrunner and Skybreaker)

I'd assume so, Kelsier could "commune" with individual objects on Scadrial in the CR so it seems likely that it would be possible.

A Duralumin enhanced Pewter hit from Vin (who as we all know doesn't have much base physical strength) was enough to obliterate Pewterarm's head. So a Duralumin enhanced Pewter hit is pretty strong.

This is a valid concern, not one I contemplated

For the purposes of this idea yeah, though I still wouldn't call a Duralumin Compounder useless

@Pathfinder Here ya go

I didn't assume it would turn you into a Mistborn, only that it could boost Allomantic strength

You are under a misunderstanding. I wasn't talking about a Compounder or Allomantic Duralumin at all, just Feruchemical Duralumin. I never mentioned Compounding Connection to Preservation is what allows you to have Allomancy, that's why Elend and other Lerasium Mistborn are so powerful. And again I wasn't talking about Compounding. I was talking about any kind of Twinborn that has F-Duralumin

I had a thought and would like feedback on it. So the strength of an Allomancer is at least partially determined by their Connection to Preservation. We learn in BoM that F-Duralumin can be fairly flexible in the type of Connection it can store (ex. the "blank" Connection in the medallions) so my thought was, could a Twinborn with F-Duralumin Store their Connection to Preservation. For a time weaken or lose their Allomancy but then Tap that Connection to boost their raw Allomantic power.

That's the scene I was referring to. In that scene Jasnah thinks to herself how it's usually very difficult to Soulcast people but she's so powered up by the Perpendicularity that she's able to do it with ease

I have a question. Why does everyone think an Elsecaller would simply be able to Soulcast a Mistborn? In Oathbringer Jasnah considers to herself that it is difficult to Soulcast a normal person, so it would be even more difficult to impossible to Soulcast a Mistborn burning metals

They can burn metal they are pierced with, but I think the only reason anyone would burn a Spike would be a life or death situation

I think the biggest thing to address with this conversation that we aren't taking into account the field of battle. In a straightforward fight? Almost certainly the Radiant. The thing to remember with mistborn though is that they fight best outside the box. It would come down a lot to how creative and adaptable the mistborn is. I don't think there is a clear truly clear answer. But I can see mistborn beating Radiants in a fight, just as I can see Radiants powering through a mistborn.

Could you provide that WoB? I haven't seen it before and I'm having trouble finding it. Though I doubt a Radiant holds much more than to take a second. Also I found this, so if the Radiant didn't already have their blade out they would be in trouble.

The one time we have seen a Chromium Leaching in the books, it was pretty much instantaneous. Chromium would be incredibly dangerous to a Radiant. The issue as said though is that even without Stormlight, a Radiant still has a shapeshifting soul cutting weapon so the Mistborn would be putting themselves at a big risk to do that.

I personally think it started with the Terris religion but once the Second Generation came around, they started to have their own view of things, thinking they were superior to humans and hating the mistborn who could control them. I think those two factors mixed in with the original Terris beliefs and after centuries of posturing it became the Kandra religion in the books

Here's a thought, Adonalsium. Preservation was able to manipulate things so well he set up a perfect situation thousands of years on advance and there isn't really reason to think Adonalsium couldn't be just as good or better

What's interesting is that Marsh could apparently see things from a decent distance as he saw the ash mount envelop a town

I would assume it could be used to hide from Shades considering all the other things it can block. Also I would assume that Larkins would have at least some kind of Investiture sense. Even if it was just a rudimentary one

Well it already seems like it's happening. After all, Maya protected him of her own accord and he was able to summon her in under 10 heartbeats

I don't think that's what he's saying. I think it would be like reliving that moment completely is what he's saying.

Yeah, the grenade allowed the leaching to be done at range. I'm pretty sure it never touched Wax, though I'll have to wait until I get home to check for sure