Phantom Monstrosity

She's the one that duels Dalinar in Way of Kings (and is on the cover in the background) Here's some WoR previews with her: First Eshonai Reading Second Esonai Reading

Lifeless still have Breath, though.

I don't think so. Sazed just gets mental speed, not improved abilities at mathematics - and he's aware of even small changes when tapping/storing. On good days Tanavast isn't thinking faster, he's thinking better.

Okay, so as the Lord Ruler has so effectively demonstrated, there's a lot of options you can get by poking at the weird edge cases. Now, obviously there's no way to *know* whether these would work, so this is going to be a collection of the 'cool and not technically impossible'. Feel free to add your own! So long as they aren't boring. Shadow Awakening Okay, everybody knows that things get easier to Awaken the closer they are to the awakener, right? I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that the requirement for something to be 'organic' is a reflection of this . Now, awakening seems to work based on the same cognitive 'complete identity' that prevent Shai from just forging a whole wall - Vasher can animate an entire set of clothing or just a shirt if he wants to (even if they're not physically connected), but animating only a portion of something seems to be no good. Thing is, if it's based on something's 'cognitive presence,' any target made of cognitive stuff should do. So, you spend a bunch of Breath and Awaken your own shadow (but not too much - your shadow matches your shape very well, and isn't very massive). Now, there's a lot of crazy stuff that it could do (shadow limbs or illusions or something), but even if it's useless, it's a heck of a good way to hide your excess Breath without a chance of losing it. After all, they can't steal your shadow from you, can they? Alternatively... it might be called shadesmar for a reason. If you Awaken something with only a cognitive presence and no physical existence (like a shadow), you very well could create a portal into Shadesmar. After all, every magic system has *some* way to access Shadesmar. Bad Savant As far as we understand, becoming a savant with a metal essentially rips troughs through your spiritweb, and ends up warping you. This is a predictable set of changes related to the metal you're using. Now, bad alloys (and nonallomantic metals) aren't inert. They do bad things to you (like giving you a headache or killing you), but technically they're still doing something - power's being channeled somewhere, even if it's not a useful place. So let's say you've got a mistborn who understands their spiritweb very well, and has both endurance and sheer bloody-mindedness. Actually, let's make this a feruchemistborn, tapping compounded Health and Determination the whole time so he can actually pull this off. Let's name him Ted. In principle, Ted could flare 'headache duralumin' or 'liver failure lead' or something, and leave it going for months and months. Now, he'll be warping himself in weird-but-predictable ways - causing changes to his spiritweb that are completely foreign to normal allomancers. In principle, that means Ted might be able to create a new allomantic ability entirely - drill a hole with nickel-tin alloy, have it meet up with the chasm you ripped into with lead and silver, and suddenly you can eat lead and turn things magnetic. Or even become a windrunner or something. Or, alternatively, even if you don't develop new allomantic abilities, we know that people get *physically* altered by becoming a savant. Pewter and tin obviously are examples of that happening, but even a steel savant can get a bit warped. With the right formula, you might be able to alter your body in other ways. Gain immunity to headaches, grow gills, undergo the Sheod, turn your arms into kandra flesh, or become able to metabolize cellulose. Something like that. Now, this may seem like a needlessly difficult method of doing research, with an extremely high fatality rate... and that's entirely true. I still think it's *slightly* easier and less fatal to do than research on hemalurgy. Forge Cloning Now, Brandon's said this one is a 'can of worms', so I'm deliberately choosing to interpret that as leaving a chance for this to work. Let's say we've got The Lord Ruler. Hi, Lord Ruler! He's able to compound gold and regenerate half his body. The bigger piece always gets the soul in situations where people get chopped in half, and if they're equal, it's randomly distributed. So we get a stage magician to cut the Lord Ruler in half. Both halves have metalminds, and he instinctively taps them when injured, so no matter which half gets the soul, he'll regenerate. So the Lord Ruler regenerates... leaving us with Lord Ruler A and half a Lord Ruler. Shai, as the attractive magician's assistant, writes a small and plausible stamp. 'This half was the one that got the soul'. She sticks it onto the half that didn't regenerate. Since it's now the half that always had the soul, obviously that half of The Lord Ruler regenerated. So it starts tapping metalminds, and grows back to become The Lord Ruler. So now we've got The Lord Ruler, and a clone of him standing on the stage. The audience applauds! Now, there are a couple other weird things that 'could' happen. The Lord Ruler could end up with two bodies controlled by the same mind, or he could end up getting transferred entirely into the new body, leaving the body that first regenerated as a soulless corpse - which might become resouled after twenty-four hours, giving him a backup body for public appearances. And let's say that Vin jumped out of the audience and managed to kill Lord Ruler A. It might be possible to resurrect The Lord Ruler by forging the history, and moving the soul into a spare body (by pretending that it was always there all along). You might be able to trick out shardplate with the same technique, and make a single piece regenerate into two whole sets. Anyone else have crazy ideas?

I'm guessing he's been investigating ruins and stuff.

Chromium Feruchemy: You're doin' it right.

The burden of proof is on the person trying to assert that something is a shardic manifestation. The default assumption (barring extraordinary evidence to the contrary) is that something isn't shardic. The fact that something hasn't demonstrated any supernatural properties or significance whatsoever is in and of itself sufficient to discredit any argument that relies upon it being shardic in nature. IE: Since it's normal coal, we cannot assume that it's abnormal without evidence.

Yeah most mistborn running around are 50% on the scale of allomantic potential. Lerasium puts you at 100%, so I assume it would roughly double their power.

I'm not really a supporter of this theory, but I'll point out it would be fairly trivial for Ati to give himself feruchemy, stick his memories into a coppermind, alter them to however he wanted, and then put them back in.

Brandon said that since it was the Blessing of Presence (which makes the mind more stable) it countered that

Drabs can't be returned.

For Koloss and Inquistors, there are enough spikes that they're murderous by default. Kandra and one-spikers don't get that effect without Ruin leaning on them.

Also, it's possible that future-seeing is energy-intensive. In that case, Preservation could manage it before making the del, but once the deadlock was in place neither of them could do much.

Yeah I edited that post to add content.

Well, if the bridgemen are the only people in easy range, I think it would be rather difficult to prevent your (rather uncoordinated) archers from attacking a target, when the alternative is not shooting.

here ya go

Line of Silencing + Glyph of Rending?

He was looking for this thread, I expect. Like I said, I'm not sure where Kchan consolidated everything from the alloy of law event.

Yeah, I found that one. I was looking for a full transcript, since KChan usually puts up a block of quotes from an event instead of just giving out single question and answers.

Honestly, the thing that has me most confused is this passage I don't *think* it was preservation talking to Sazed. It could just be a hallucination, or I guess Ruin might just want to give people a reason to trust voices in their heads.

The earliest reference I can find is Peter calling it 'planet hopping', but 'world hopping' sounds better.

Also this one

Yeah, that quote's from an alloy of law release... I've actually been trying to track down the full thing, but as far as I can tell wherever kchan put it up has vanished from the internet. From what I understand, lerasium isn't so much 'a metal that turns you into a mistborn' as 'a metal that rewrites your spiritweb... and by the way, the default setting is 'mistborn''. So if you know what you're doing with it you can (probably) create arbitrary changes and gain UNLIMITED COSMIC POWER. Or at least learn new magic whatever. Alloying lerasium seems to turn you into a misting of what you alloy with. However, the chart of allomantic metals says "Lerasium - Pure Lerasium transforms a person into an Allomancer or drastically improves their Allomantic powers. In alloy form, it produces various expanded Physical and Enhancement effects. (Including the creation of Mistings)". I have to wonder if the misting-creation when you alloy some allomantic metal with lerasium is actually just using lerasium's primary effect in an inefficient way. IE: you're actually using normal lerasium's 'rewrite my spiritweb' effect, but telling it 'rewrite my spiritweb with this thing right here'. That would mean the 'expanded physical and enhancement effects' you get from lerasium alloys are the 'real' ones, and the misting creation is just a side effect. That's just my speculation, obviously. If that's how things actually work, you could presumably become a ferring by alloying lerasium with feruchemically charged metals, become an elantrian by having an elantrian form a bead of lerasium into an aon (probably Rao), or... I dunno, become a windrunner by having a windrunner lash a bead down your throat or something. There's probably a far more efficient method of telling lerasium 'I want you to do this'. Anyway, since people seem to feel disappointed if I don't include these, quotes!

This time it was the real one.