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  1. Phantom Monstrosity
    You're Ruin. You have a choice A) Stop the bleeding, stick the bones back together. You've spent 20/100 units of feruchemical gold, and Marsh is back to 100% fighting capacity. He looks terrible Heal up all the injuries to 100%, restoring the flesh, moving the bones back into place, and getting rid of those nasty scars. You've spent 50/100 units of feruchemical gold. Marsh is back to 100% fighting capacity. He looks beautiful. Which do you pick?
  2. Phantom Monstrosity
    Yes! There's a difference between 'controlling your age at will' and 'having a fixed age based on your internal cognitive 'ideal' age'. And despite that, Lemex mentions that having more breath made him 'spry despite [his] age' - and he only had a couple hundred. Even if a Fifth Heightening Lord Ruler was set to a thousand years old, I think the secondary effects Would prevent him from actually dying despite being old as dirt. I mean, if you don't have any organ failures or disease or whatever, what's the difference between 90 or 120 or 1000?
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    Well, that's what sets the ideal form, but obivously if you have less juice in your goldminds they aren't going to get all the way there. Marsh still has bone damage from where Vin hit him, but he might be keeping that as a memento
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    I don't think so. Shardblades have a nice solid physical presence, there's one bonded to Szeth (who isn't bonded to a spren), they don't appear tied to any particular concept, and they don't exhibit any of the autonomy that spren do.
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    Propelled isn't a clincher, man. Even Star Wars calls them "Hyperdrive propulsion systems". And yeah you can't access it in interplanetary space... but Shadesmar is the LOCAL name for the area. So if you try to go to shadesmar and you're interplantary, where do you end up? Hyperspace, obviously
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    Nope, vampires.
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    I'm guessing it just takes more healing to get rid of scars. IRL, scar tissue is formed as part of a process to get you back up on your feet and functional as soon as possible (with some loss of functionality, but it's quick). In mutant mammals that regenerate (like MRL mice, for example), you don't get scarring when they heal, but the healing process also takes a lot longer. With an inquisitor, who has to ration his healing (and, due to hemalurgic decay, isn't as good as normal with gold), it's probably more efficient to only burn enough gold to heal things up to 'functional'. With someone like The Lord Ruler or Miles, they can just heal away any scar tissue. Remember this section with Wayne? Imagine if Wayne had less gold to use? He'd end up with a horribly scarred up back.
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    Yeah, but I don't see any particular reason why the allomantic divisions should be more important than the hemalurgic or feruchemic distributions of sixteen.
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    Do we know that for sure? After all, dropping into hyperspace is a pretty common form of FTL.
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    I'm not sure it's that good an example, because
  11. Phantom Monstrosity
    Well, I think they can only animate things made out of the ten essences. We've got rock monsters and smoke monsters, and they're called the midnight essence.
  12. Phantom Monstrosity
    He grabbed a corner of preservation in his teeth after Leras died, and held onto the power until Vin could take it up more
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    "The zats shardblades that they had claimed from dead jaffa parshendi were useful weapons indeed. One shot stunned, the next shot slash instantly killed the victim, and the next disintegrated the corpse. But against the kull warriors chasmfiends, a single shot slash was insuffient to stun kill them through their armor carapace. Even Teal'c Kaladin was hard-pressed, finding his staff weapon spear ineffective."
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    Agelessness is also listed under the fifth heightening in the Ars Arcanum as well. I figured that citing Hoid as 'this is how the Returned are immortal' should help sidestep arguments over whether their immortality was heightening induced or not That's been asked. Brandon RAFOed. I'd assume you'd get the Breath, but... I have to wonder if Nightblood would be similar to atium, with his 'Destroy Evil' command being similar to Ruin's 'destroy everythin'g.
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    Also, Brandon's mentioned that in the first draft of the 'Szeth running in and killing everyone' scene, he had a normal sword. It turned out to be too gory an introduction, so he gave Szeth a shardblade.
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    Actually, Ruin and Cultivation aren't opposites at all. They're a very compatible pair.
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    What more needs to be said?
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    Well, just don't hold your breath. My estimate puts about two dozen cosmere novels before the start of Mistborn In Space, so it'll be a while.
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    That mixture could do some strange things, though. Anyway, given that the process of Returning heals up your physical injuries (since they aren't zombies and have a very attractive, not at all covered in slime city), using the fact that their body post-Return is also at an ideal age as well as an ideal state of health isn't much of an argument.
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    Yeah, but I think shapeshifting is distinct from agelessness. The 'age gradually changing to the appropriate one' is covered under agelessness, IMO. It'd be kinda silly otherwise.
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    True, but it's really the only metric we have for how breath-based agelessness works.
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    Good news is, that's confirmed as something that'll happen eventually. Brandon's considered doing an 'ender's shadow' type novel dealing with what hoid was up to during Mistborn, and Mistborn Space Trilogy is supposed to deal with allomantic FTL and crossovers.
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    Yeah, but agelessness is a benefit of heightening. And Hoid seems to say that the returned immortality is the same as just having a ton of Breath.
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    Well, if Returned are anything to judge by, the Fifth Heightening essentially lets you just pick your 'real' age. Gods who feel they should be old end up looking old, and people who start off middle aged often becomes younger when they return. Hopefinder actually ended up becoming older than normal. So I think you'd have a set 'real' age, which is based on however old you actually feel you should be. And it doesn't increment any further - ie, if you store youth you're older than you feel, if you tap it you're younger, but when you're not actively ferucheming nothing happens.
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    I would assume so, since Odium is heavily invested on the planet now.
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