Phantom Monstrosity

A couple more notes: when Lightsong gives up his Breath, he becomes completely white. When Blushweaver dies, she remains colorful. And, while Vasher doesn't have all the facts, it seems that every living thing has some biochroma

It was an example of 'crazy things you can do'. Would you prefer 'able to hear the tumblers clicking in a safe two miles away and learn the combination' instead? Or 'can identify everyone you've met yesterday by scent'. Or 'know the exact location of every human inside a building, along with their general level of awareness by hearing their heartbeats'? Burning metalminds is probably better for getting super high levels of an ability than just storing and later tapping. After all, retrieving from your metalminds gives you diminishing returns (because you have to expend more power to retrieve more). Is it for the RPG? The OP didn't say anything about that. Regardless, if you're on a stakeout or spying on someone's private business, you may have to spend days or weeks finding the info you need. Not to the same extent. Even with pewter, spook still had issues with extremes - he still used the blindfold to manage daylight, for instance. Not sure how useful gold would be, either. That's nitpicking. You still have to be a compounder.

Shallan says outright that she's cultivating the memories.

It's apparently material for the next couple of trilogies. It's been RAFOed several times as well...

The benefits from using both allomancy and feruchemy should combine, so you'd probably be able to use them together and see the moons of Jupiter with your naked eyes. Beyond that, you can flare allomantic tin to a really high level and store the heightened scent/hearing/touch/whatever, leaving only sight (removing one of the big disadvantages of tin - the lack of selectivity). You could probably use flared normal tin + hearingtinminds and pull off the superman 'hear everyone in the city, pick the one conversation you care about' trick. And you know how Spook was able to go all Zatoichi, and detect stuff from air currents? Do that, except better. And yeah, being a tin savant has a bunch of major problems, but all of those solved if you can store senses in a tinmind.

My procedural game niche is completely filled up with Dwarf Fortress, I'm afraid.

By the way, looks like double tin isn't getting listed as +3, though the total's right. Being able to do all spook's savant stuff, except better AND live a normal life by storing the excess senses? That's just awesome.

I'm actually not even sure a nicrosil ferring can ruin metalminds that aren't nicrosil, either. The RPG assumes full feruchemists, after all, so a character would be assumed to have access to that feruchemical metal. Regardless, compounding nicrosil brings essentially nothing to the table when you don't have other feruchemical powers. You're basically in the same position as a duralumin gnat. It certainly isn't worth +4.

Get 2d creature onto surface. Put in jar. Fill with acid. Seal up lid with clay or wax, creating solid inner barrier.

In which case... Dude you already have their metalminds. Ruining them is fun and spiteful, but won't offer any additional tactical advantage.

Here's the MAG quote about investiture Not sure if that 'connection to the source of metaphsyical power' really helps though.

Oh wow, then you could touch some nicrosil... and pretend that you were burning nicrosil. That'll save you a few bucks, yeah. Wait, you'd have to burn some nicrosil to compound the investiture to begin with. Ignore that. An ability that requires you to physically get your hands on somebody's metalminds... in a world with guns? I don't see compounding really bringing anything to the table with it. And that assumes that you can even START compounding to begin with. You don't have any other metalminds to pull investiture out of, after all, so you'd need some external source to even begin.

Here's the quote. Doesn't say anything about dudes on Sel one way or the other Though this one Kinda implies Selish people might have more investitture

Is that all of them? I could have sworn there was some sort of ultra-controversial Blad defense as well. It used four semicircular lines of warding, I think? I thought there was art of that - I'm away from my books, but it was just like, sprinkled into the page.

Swords are kind of the ferrari of weapons. You can do a lot with them, but they also cost more and require a lot more training. Give a peasant a spear or an axe instead - easier to use with little experience.

Hiho and welcome to the forums. A lot of your theories are ones that people have already thought of. That's good. On the other hand, that also means that people have asked Brandon questions about them, which often ends up killing them off. Parshendi don't come from chasmfiends, or vice versa. My personal theory is that the chasmfiendspren probably unlock some sort of awesome parshendi form, but there's no direct support for that. We're actually pretty sure the Heralds are still alive - there are several of them that we think we've identified in various portions of the book. As for seeing shadesmar. Who knows? Death quotes are a mystery, though some of them seem to be from the POV of characters we know That's PROBABLY Kaladin jumping over the chasm, with the gembearded parshendi in front of him, about to say the Oaths. So it could just be someone talking from the POV of a guy entering shadesmar?

Immortal chalklings? Incapacitate them, then lock them up individually within tanks of acid. Infinite chalklings? Gradually add more and more lines of warding, shrinking down the size of the inner circle, until you can seal up and fill the entire building with acid.

Sazed could just top up the atiumminds to full.

I think you might be misreading him? As far as I can tell what he means is that the metals act as a key to start up an investment of the person, but aren't invested themselves. Lemme dig up the quote. Alloy of Law Ars Arcanum I think you guys might be agreeing with each other.

Hey, at the time it was plausible the Lord Ruler could have stuck skaa onto the peak of every spike, and made it into a giant hemalurgic jester cap.

Also, nicrosil compounders without any other powers are kinda useless without anything else to do with that investiture.

Giving Marsh atium kills two bird with one stone.

Oooh...now that's a spicy one. Endowment's gift of a superpowered Breath would come down, strike the Lifeless, and all kinds of craziness would occur. You'd end up with a drab god, which would be hilarious. It's a weird side-case, but I think it illustrates an important difference between lifeless and drabs.

And, ofc, different combinations (gold+aluminuminds maybe,or steel + ironminds) can get synergies as well.

You can actually split spikes up as well, but you lose some power in the process.