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  1. Phantom Monstrosity
    More seriously, though. I think there's a good chance that a guy from a book named 'dragonsteel' who has feruchemy probably has some dragonsteel and is using it for something.
  2. Phantom Monstrosity
    The terms 'shardholder' is purely a fan term. Brandon calls anyone who has a shard a shard (and he doesn't like people calling them 'shardholders' since it's too similar to 'shardbearer').
  3. Phantom Monstrosity
    Well, sazed can't.
  4. Phantom Monstrosity
    Blame Kaladin.
  5. Phantom Monstrosity
    Well, that's one of the two possibilities. By the way, the atium being more than future sight? I'm personally pretty sure it's related to lerasium's alternate uses. That is, lerasium by default makes you into a mistborn, and atium by default gives you a glimpse into other people's futures - but if you were totally cosmere-aware you could probably do all sorts of other things with them. See through walls with atium or something I dunno.
  6. Phantom Monstrosity
    He shoulda asked Endowment for tips.
  7. Phantom Monstrosity
    Note that there's a difference between being half preservation/half ruin in the sense of being a rock, and in the sense of being a lerasium/atium alloy. The second one has a good chance of becoming a nuclear-grade explosion.
  8. Phantom Monstrosity
    Ah, my mistake.
  9. Phantom Monstrosity
    Atium is a god metal, and works differently than normal ones. For one thing, it draws from a different source.
  10. Phantom Monstrosity
    She was definitely wearing it then.
  11. Phantom Monstrosity
    Well, thing is, "[brandon] built aluminum to do all sorts of funky things to all the powers". It's a very weird metal - and atium is just normal atoms with a spiritual overlay. If we're trying to say what the atium would be like without the spiritual bit, I figure the weirdest normal metal is a good guess.
  12. Phantom Monstrosity
    I don't see any reason why there should be a relationship. If anything, I'd say 'all god metals are really alumnium with a spiritual overlay', since that's the weirdest of all allomantic metals.
  13. Phantom Monstrosity
    Problem: Lerasium is green.
  14. Phantom Monstrosity
    Aside from trying to claim that 'determination' or 'luck' is something that can be measured in terms of thermal energy available to do work... (And both tapping and storing luck flip entropy the bird) Under what grounds are you arguing that a system with more investiture is a less entropic one? Surely you'd have a higher number of possible states for any given system if there's more investiture floating around. In fact, given that the vast majority of systems are not end-negative, the amount of investiture in the world has been increasing pretty much continously. Thus, in very long term, we'll end up with a far more highly invested cosmere than we started with. So if anything, one might expect invested objects to normally become MORE highly invested as time goes on. But I'm curious. How are you going to define a 'feruchemical charge' using your definition?
  15. Phantom Monstrosity
    Quite the contrary. 'Temporal relocation' should require compounding at 100% efficiency. Since you're just shuffling around different 'chunks of speed' or 'chunks of strength' You're assuming thermodynamics applies to magical stuff. Sanderson has said thermodynamics is his bane, and large amounts of energy routinely appear and disappear in every magic system. This is a universe where perpetual motion machines are entirely possible, so bringing up the second law of thermodynamics is needless pedantry. The second law is crying its eyes out in a corner somewhere, trying to piece together the broken fragments of what it once considered to be a worthwhile career. It's got nothing to live for now, and will die in ignominity. You're also assuming that any hypothetical decay rate of investiture is fast enough to be noticeable to anybody in a human lifespan. A very slow decay rate (like the proton, which has never been observed to decay, and thus has a theoretical halflife somewhere above 10^34 years) would never be measurable by anybody at any point in the series.
  16. Phantom Monstrosity
    You mean end-neutral? And you actually *do* get less stuff out when you try to tap at a multiplier.
  17. Phantom Monstrosity
    Why is the amount of energy relevant? Let's say I built the statue of liberty out of solid gold. 882,221,938 kilograms of the stuff. The energy in that is... what, 8*10^25 joules? Equivalent to trillions of nukes? Let's further say I am neglectful, and leave my glorious golden statue in place for... oh, let's say the entire period life's been on this planet. Gold's nonreactive, and a stable isotope, so assuming dinosaurs don't go at it with chisels or something, I could even come back a billion years in the future and say 'welp, that's exactly the same giant golden statue of liberty I left'.
  18. Phantom Monstrosity
    I don't think that's a good definition at all. Let's say we've got a totally inert lump of metal - heck, make it 90% platinum, 10% iridium, just like the standard kilogram. Even if it isn't doing anything, saying that it's in a 'temporal stasis' is kinda dumb. Or they decay over a time only measurable in terms of 10^100 years. I mean, you leave a proton just sitting around, it isn't going to decay in any observable time span. If you don't have any energy transfer going on, you aren't really going to see a noticeable increase in entropy.
  19. Phantom Monstrosity
    I'm thinking a skaa resources guy. Only seen in disguise, hooks people up with contacts and resources. A man they call "The Beekeeper". (Don't complain there are no flowers. Those melons have to get fertilized somehow!)
  20. Phantom Monstrosity
    Brandon mentioned on TWG that he's just made choices on metal effects (particularly nicrosil and chromium) simply because they were cool, even if they didn't really follow patterns. I think trying to assign a (non-god) metal to each shard isn't really going to work out. Especially since all metals have complements, and all shards don't.
  21. Phantom Monstrosity
    Wow, that sounds cool.
  22. Phantom Monstrosity
    We don't actually see him pushing it out or spitting it out (Vin is somewhat distracted by hitting the ground at that moment). He's *very* close to the ground before he uses it, though, so odds are he's Pushing.
  23. Phantom Monstrosity
    My money is on 'neither'.
  24. Phantom Monstrosity
    In the same way that I'm currently time travelling into the future at a rate of one second per second, yes. You are still passing through every time in between (which hardly counts as time travel, really); you could accomplish exactly the same thing with a fast spaceship on a round trip. That's time travel in the same way that you could have someone soulcast a bucket of blood into glass, then a hundred years later have someone else come back and soulcasts that glass into blood. Or in the same sense that cyrogenically freezing yourself, flying to alpha centauri, and waking up is 'instant travel'. Charges can be messed with while inside the metalmind - nicrosil feruchemy and Ruin can destroy your charges or alter them freely. If you're treating it as a 'teleport to the future' ability instead of a 'conversion' ability, then you have to answer -Where does the attribute end up if the metalmind is destroyed. It's being teleported *somewhere* -Where in time does the excess attribute come from when compounding? -Why does tapping out a lot of feruchemical charge require you to burn extra charges? If it's a time-travel ability, then things should just show up in the future in exactly the amounts stored. Where does the extra attribute go. (And if you answer 'to fuel the tapping', how is your sense of smell going to fuel anything without being converted into some form of magical energy?) -Why does time travelling things different distances into the future cost exactly the same amount?
  25. Phantom Monstrosity
    Copper is internal, but it *can* have external effects - shielding others from emotional allomancy. And remember Zane's 'coin in mouth' trick - Vin couldn't see the coins, but he could still use them.
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