Oudeis

You are right, I should have been more careful how I phrased that. It was needlessly provocative and insulting. I personally agree with you; I find the odds that someone would post this erroneous information to be infinitesimally slim. But... most of our "just one source" information, unless I'm mistaken, is backed up by audio transcripts or online chats with Mr. Sanderson himself. This is a single question which presumably no one else on these fora heard, which was then paraphrased from a man to his wife, and she then posted what he told her in a thread, herself admitting that she was taking it on faith that he even phrased the question properly. (Unless there's more to back it up than I've read, which is possible.) Again, let me say that I personally believe it, at least until it gets directly contradicted, but I don't blame my friend (or anyone else on this forum who wishes to take this with a pinch of copper) for remaining skeptical.

Also, it's worth noting that there's either no such thing as a lerasium misting, or literally everyone on the planet is a lerasium misting. Depending on how you consider it.

Well, it does say it was worse than for a normal person... expressly because in his short, pampered life, he's barely ever stubbed a toe, and has no actual concept of how to deal with pain. I'm starting to realize how little we know about Breath and the Heightenings, because the only non-Returned Heightened person we really deal with in the books is someone who doesn't even want to learn anything about it until the book is more than half over... SEQUEL. Or a lot of questions for Mr. Sanderson.

Would it be any worse? I know it makes your senses, not necessarily stronger, but more acute. Does that include touch, and pain? Would the wound hurt not necessarily more, but in a way you cannot ignore as you might otherwise?

Kriegspiel, I seem to have double-posted. If anyone sees this who can delete posts, please do so!

Ansaphones

If I have 50 Breaths, store them in a shawl, then get 50 more Breaths, can I add them to the shawl directly? Or would I have to withdraw the old 50, mix them in my body, and add them again? If I'm storing Breath in a shawl, can someone else also store breath in the same shawl? Could you Awaken a shawl that has stored Breath? Can you store in a shawl someone else had Awakened? Could I store in a shawl I had Awakened?

That's an entirely valid stance to take. I myself am rather obsessively convinced of certain facts about internal mental allomancy that I acknowledge have absolutely zero factual basis. Feel free to click the links in my sig if you're curious. I respect your position, and if you turn out to be correct, I hereby entitle you to one hearty "I told you so," at my expense.

Hrm... when you say "Lift", are you talking only about her physical aspect? That her physical aspect is "balanced towards the CR"? If so this may be the confusion, as when I say Lift, I mean the body, the cognitive aspect, and the spiritweb.

Except your argument falls flat because those are not the two only options. No one is saying that, unless they are Obsessive-Compulsive Deities, they have to be "just human," we've seen that they're not. Yes, they are "setting," as you say (and I am going to steal that particular phrasing and use it a lot from now on, I really really like it. It really does convey an aspect of a Shard in a clearer way than I've ever seen). They're a force, like gravity or atomic bonds. They obey and are subject to certain laws of nature. I personally have enough faith in Mr. Sanderson to assume that he'll manage to find a way to portray them that isn't a one-dimensional obsession with a single word, yet is as epic as a Shard demands, not simply a super-powerful person. I hesitate to assume that Ati's reaction to Ruin is indicative of a larger trend, without someone expressly stating that it is so. Consider the following alternative explanation: Ati broke and went insane. We know from the letter (and presumably trust as true) that Ati was once a kind and generous man. It's been speculated that he was assigned Ruin expressly in the hopes that he'd blunt such a vicious Intent. What if that was his problem? What if he fought directly against the Intent for so long, and was eventually driven insane by it? Perhaps others, like Leras with Preservation, were more naturally in tune with their Intents, and were able to direct them a bit. Think of it like a wild stallion. If you stand in a field and try to simply tackle the horse to the ground, it'll trample you, and then go on its way unchecked. But if you can get on it's back, if you're all right with letting it run in the direction it wants to... you can subtly direct it, influence it, and remain yourself.

That's a bit of an ethnocentric viewpoint... after all, in japan, "Tomato" is a palindrome. Not every spelling system is a slave to the "letter not phoneme" form.

Well now I'm confused by your confusion... you say that there's an "imbalanced" that Lift expreiences "less"? Implying that you think that most people are inherently imbalanced, but Lift is less imbalanced than others? I was trying to say, I think people might naturally be balanced, and that Lift might be off-balanced slightly in favor of her cognitive aspect. If I'm misunderstanding your initial point, then I apologize for my denseness.

It takes years for the (possibly) premier forger in the world to craft a soulstamp that requires nothing more than a plausible path her life could have taken after a certain point. Presumably, crafting a "what if I were an entirely different person several generations ago who is nevertheless still me" soulstamp would take decades, even for someone as good as Shai.

I understand, and I hope I didn't spoil anything. Tomorrow, I'll throw you observation into the thread, and give you credit. The thread draws a few specifics from the most recent releases, but without spoiling anything from a non-released book, it asks, are your clothes/equipment considered "a part of you", in this specific case, influenced by the fact that the atium burner does not seem to see his/her own clothing or weapons as atium shadows.

I realize as well as anyone that we always get off the OP... but I'd still like an answer to my original question. Does anyone think that Breath affects physical healing one way or the other? From injury, not from disease or poison?

Except that atium lets you see what's going to happen to everything, not just your opponent. If a plank is rotten and about to break, atium would direct your foot to the next one. It would direct your blows past metalminds and make you duck under the pigeon. And again, we have no idea how feruchemical luck works. Interesting... your very valid point is that your own clothing and weapons don't give off atium shadows. Spoilers for Words of Radiance.

I'm under the impression that it's not quite that simple. The way Szeth's powers wouldn't work if he were in Shardplate, or you can't Push on metal inside of someone, I think systems of Investiture interfere with each other. If a Seeker took in a lot of Breath, I think all that power would interfere with his allomancy. Just one man's opinion.

We know so little about how Spinning even works, that pretty much any speculation on either side falls into the "well you can't prove it's not true" territory.

Hrm... is this what happens when incorrect "Commands" are given? Do you try telling the rope, "Hold things that I tell you to hold" and the rope says, "NO!"?

But he's pretty clear to indicate that it would take jury-rigging. I could be wrong, your idea is certainly plausible, I'll just be very surprised if he really makes it that easy.

I wonder how much, if any, resistance a rope would have to Awakening if you simply used it to hold Breath, the way Vivenna used her shawl.

In my re-read. Vasher just told Vivenna that it's suspected that someone, be it the Iridescent Tones, Austre, or Endowment, Awakens the Returned with a Command. I think we've seen that Stennimar was asked, do you want to Return, implying choice on his part. I know Type 1s are unique in a great many ways, but I still wonder... is it technically possible for a rope to refuse a Command?

She's pretty clear to state the forgeries have to be plausible. How exactly is it plausible that you'd've been born to different parents, on a different world, and then worldhopped to wherever you currently are? Not to mention, I suspect that forgery doesn't let you just craft raw Investiture out of nothing, i.e. Forging a dun sphere into a sphere full of stormlight would require that much raw Investiture. So you'd forge yourself into an Elantrian without Dor, or an Awakener without Breaths.

Had a dream last night that I was trying out for this very exclusive soccer team... and I could inhale Stormlight. I don't believe I had any Surges to bind, I could just do the stronger-faster thing. Everyone knew it, it wasn't illegal or anything, but I was the classic "poor kid, just finished high school, this is my one chance" type deal. I had a cute-meet with some sports reporter. I made the team, hopped on the bus, we drove off... and them somehow turned into a train in a pokemon game, and we had to stop at the first station to deliver mail or we couldn't proceed, and then the team captain split the party and I think I turned into chicken little, and some weird pokemon ate someone's thumbs...

I know, right? If only there had been someone telling you from the start that Beetle was probably Spiked, someone you could have listened to instead of hurling insults at. Apparently it simply was not meant to be. Alas... Thank you. It's very big of you to give me this left-handed compliment instead of the apology I am due. The time you should have "gotten it" was at the time, when anyone with a basic comprehension of the English language or grasp of common sense could have deduced, without me having to tell them twice, that the three of us had all come to an agreement to work together for everyone's mutual benefit. But don't worry. You seem smart. I'm sure you'll get there someday.