Phantom Monstrosity

Also, I should mention that pre-shattering magic systems can persist after the shattering, so the answer is probably 'it depends'.

That would be great, thanks.

Also, honor being splintered caused some changes to spren. I'm pretty sure awakening isn't in flux, though, despite Returned cycling Divine Breaths into and out of the system.

Ah, okay. Good to know I haven't been missing anything.

I know that The Emperor's Soul originally had Hoid appear in the intro, but that chapter got deleted. I've got the vague impression from a couple places, including Coppermind, that it might have been put up as part of a promotional thing for the book, but if it was I haven't been able to find it. I know some deleted scenes make it to the website from time to time, but it isn't anywhere on the site that I can find. Has it actually been put up anywhere, or was it just mentioned by Brandon?

Hi, welcome to the forums, make sure not to take any large pointy metal objects from strangers.

Magic systems are portable, dude. Otherwise worldhoppers would be stuck the moment they left home.

Something awesome. (I asked Brandon a similar question at a signing) Asking a followup question at the reddit AMA (Would giving a Lifeless a pair of Kandra Blessings make it more intelligent? Similarly, could Blessings make a Parshman more parshendi-like?) got RAFOed.

Brandon uses it both ways. There have been several alternative words proposed for 'using a lot of feruchemy at once' but none of them has been particularly good/catchy.

I think the WoBs have just been 'you've seen three kinds' and 'honorblades are shardblades'. I could have missed something though.

Atium+Gold obviously steals the target's identity. Not like, mystical identity or anything, you just get their credit cards.

I assume that lurcher armor problems are just something being handwaved by Brandon, since even with a modern bulletproof vest you're liable to get injured ribs. Steel doesn't exactly have the same give and energy dissipation to it that ceramic plates or kevlar does, which is an issue as well. Really depends on the thickness of the plate, and how much weight you can carry around without being totally overbalanced. Ned Kelly managed to make his own set of bullet-resistant platemail back in the late 1800s, but he wasn't actively making the bullets move faster towards him. Even with only a quarter inch of thickness on the steel plate, his armor weighed a hundred pounds and didn't cover his legs. Obviously also depends on your level of armor steel vs your guns as well, and how much faster a bullet goes when you pull it inwards. Overall, I think it's on the edge of plausibility, but probably not worth looking into too deeply.

It should, and probably. Really the whole 'pull bullets to you' thing is less useful than 'screw up their aim enough for a miss'

The problem is that compounding means both 'use a lot of feruchemical power all at once' and 'burn a feruchemical charge allomantically'. Your phrasing definitely suggested the former.

Someone's asked about duralumin before with compounding, but I'm not sure how to interpret the response. Given that the burst of feruchemical power is apparently way beyond what it's normally supposed to be, it might be that it's automatically consumed at a crazy rate (like burning aluminum).

It was referring to actual ascension being basically the same thing as lerasium savantage. But yeah, what Vin does while actively inhaling mists is different from what a sliver has.

As far as I can tell, land you're born in matters for everyone

Have you looked at the public domain stuff on wikisource? Lord Dunsany is an underappreciated writer, IMO. You can find a lot of his short stories here. Fall of Babbulkund is pretty good. Lovecraft gets referenced a lot, but a lot of people haven't read his short stories. I especially like the dream cycles stuff. The Cats of Ulthar is one of the best dark short stories I've read. The King in Yellow (Robert W. Chambers) is particularly interesting once you realize it was published in 1895 - it's got this weird alternate history feel, since the setting is after a World War, but the details are just not quite right. The stories in general are kinda surreal. E.E. "Doc" Smith is just inimitable, and he founded space opera as a genre. Skylark is a pretty fast read, and the unique writing style really grows on you.

I'm going to say that using forgery for awakening would be too close to bloodsealing. Which is apparently a different art.

Canonically, it's part of the soul.

He's said that they *can* use spikes as metalminds, but I don't remember any reference to them using them as healthminds. Marsh has tapped speed from a spikemind, yeah, but not health.

Brandon doesn't like retcons (which is why the determination/warmth thing is still around), and he's already put pewter as healing spikes in several places in canon. And they just keep some gold around for a goldmind.

Does your version list inquisitors as having a gold spike for feruchemical health instead of their canonical pewter? Mine does.

Bah! Poppycock! Foolish talk and slander! These curves are each, in fact, sections of a greater circle numbering sixty in degree - and as any rithmatist can tell you, the Blad defense gives clear precendence for bindpoints on arcs serving the same purposes as of those on the whole! Thus, each corner is the intersection of two hexagonal bindpoints, doubling the effective strength of otherwise-flimsy bindings. As for the effective use? Why, it's an all-out chalkling attack, of course, leaving such nonsensical and dull concepts as lines of vigor in the dust! Though, if you feel yourself weak-hearted or otherwise cowardly, you may use this revision instead Which doubles the amount of protection provided by the inner circle, and incidentally creates a confluence of five bindpoints on the front! I have, of course, omitted the maker's mark, as I feel that is best left as an exercise for the student.