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Yes, in the case of a straight confrontation. But it raises the question why the Mistborn not just drops a coin, flies away and waits for a good ambush?

You likely can, but it would take too much time. Malata is the best example. Of course you could replicate this via Aons. But you'd have to include the design.

@Hoidonalsium raised the question whether Elantrians would turn themselves into Radiants for combat using Aonic equipment. I suppose the answer is negative. AonDor is extremely flexible and powerful. Several users have noticed that it is slower to draw. That can be fixed by drawing Aons onto your equipment. There is, however, a second flaw of AonDor. In computer terms the UI is horrible. Some Aons have a basic UI, but the rest is basically CLI. A Mistborn basically only has to think to use steel or iron. The same seems to be true for users of Cohesion. Stormlight can heal you even if you are unconcious. So you have to use some more engineering and adapt your tactics. Let's talk about offence - Daa and Sheo Drawing it into the air is just horrible. You want something for aiming. You would basically build an Aonic ray gun. Sheo goes onto your bladed weapons. Defense - Dao and Edo You don't want to get into melee combat against somebody using pewter or wearing Shard Plate, if you can help it. Exactly replicating Plate is a fall back option. I propose using Aon Dao on armor but using Aon Edo for your main defense in the manner of a SF energy shield. Support - Ene and Ien Aon Ene goes onto your helmet. Ien onto your undergarments and a ring or bracer. Here we see a weakness of AonDor. If you can draw the right modifiers it is probably better than Progression. But this is hard to do if your are screaming in pain because somebody crushed one of your arms. You can try to compensate with specialised beacers on your limbs, but this has limits. Yet there is no good Aonic replacement for tin, pewter and electrum. Hence Elantrians would depend on ranged weapons and defenses.

OK, then let's ask the ultimate question. Something goes horribly wrong. Amaram drops the gem of Yelig-Nar. It drops into a small crevice. You watch how he screws up. You are a soldier on burial duty and pull it out of the crevice. Do you swallow it?

He wouldn't really draw them if he were to prepare seriously for arcane combat. Elantrians and Awakeners are pretty unique in the Cosmere by having access to objects with arcane powers. He'd make a suit of Aonic armor, attack Aons on rings, Aonic spears and swords, Aonic grenades and so on. Maybe even Aonic homing missiles.

He needs somebody who will win. Nor is it clear which weapons they will be fighting with. If Kaladin fails to proceed to the 4th oath gaining him Plate, somebody who does may well be a better choice.

Well, no. Whether your head is cut off with a conventional sword or your eyes burned out, will make no difference in the end result. The Blades are so devastating in a war situation because they nullify the enemy's weapons and armor as defensive equipment. In combat between two individuals with arcane powers, they are overkill. The real extreme advantage the Radiant may have is Plate. It renders him quite invulnerable and physically much stronger. Yes. Again the largest advantage is Plate. A Radiant without Plate has a very serious problem fighting a Mistborn.

What happens if you turn your malatium at a Forged person? Do you see the original? Would that be a corpse in Ashravan's case?

It opens up a question. Where the other ratios equal? Did you get the same number of each type of Misting? Secondly, when is your metal determined? Before you snap, what would an analysis of your spirit web yield: unsnapped Misting or unsnapped Misting of metal X?

You left out mobility, emotional allomancy and short-changed the sensory department by leaving out elctrum. You are comparing an assassin/paramillitarty to a soldier.

Actually as far as we know the Misting types are not equally common. Coinshots were mentioned to be more common. WoB on replaced metals It looks like Leras or his agent replaced aluminium. The question of who can burn alloys of atium (save for Mistborn) is so far unanswered I am afraid.

We have Hoid in Oathbringer and in Bands of Mourning. There is at most 10 years between the books. If there is temporal compression, it has to be optional.

A Herald, Szeth, Jasnah, Renarin, The Mink, ... The Stormfather knows that the future is unpredictable.

You would get a Kandra of questionble mental health. MeLaan kept her memories in her leg, not in her spikes.

The problems with that theory are manyfold: The other animals know that Aviars block telepathy It would require the Aviars to have another origin than the other animals with arcane powers Mraize was suspected to have carried an aviar, hence the timing is impossible We have the information that no new Aviar have been discovered in centuries. When did that program begin? Mainland birds develop new powers Why multiple species with the same ability?

Well, you do not want your troops to be surrounded. If you strike deeply into enemy territory, it is for hit and run. Not really to a flying enemy with access to Shadesmar. You can isolate each peak and attack them from two sides and the air. They will fall easily. Look at a map and consider what each side needs to do to join its forces.

"Except" is misleading. Urithiru can house tens of thousands. In a neolithic culture, which Roshar regressed to multiple times, that is an incredible number of people. It was the largest city on the planet, rivalling a small country in population. And they had an enormous political potential, as they could block trade. Right, but they were also a military organization to a larger extent than a normal country would be. Well, they most likely did not have an organized programme to do so. But look at Edgedancers, Skybreakers and Windrunners. They cannot just go for non-intervention. As an Edgedancer you cannot look at the other way if there is an epidemic or a famine. And then you will do what essentially are miracles. If people ask, would you then deny that your mission ultimately meets Honor's aims? And that is supposed to not stoke proto-Vorinism? Yes, the question what they considered for politics and what they left to the individual Radiant is open. Yet they must have had some kind of administration. At a minimum Urithiru needs law, a budget and the oath gates need to be operated. And I really doubt the KRs cleaned the corridors themselves or did laundry with their own hands. It leads to the question whether they had representation by order or per capita or both. That is, if they had representation. Yet somebody has to be commander-in-chief.

It is highly unlikely that the KRs left civillian, religious and military leadership undivided. The requirements are too different. In particular politics, as you say, requires representation. While military strategy requires one leader, who must be easily replacable in case of a failure. While the realmatic and religious significance of the Bondsmiths cannot be changed.

Suppose I make a cloth figure by sewing together gloves. socks, a shirt and trousers. I awaken it and give it a command like "stand there and scare birds waving your arms". Now I undo the seams. I suppose at some point the Breath in the object no longer supports the command. Where is the Breath at that time? Is some Breath in the parts I detached before rendering the object inoperable? Is it split between the the parts I last separated? What happens if I separate further? Is Breath lost?

Hemalurgy is editing the spirit web with a charged spike. All spikes must be Invested by a prior killing. The table pertains to the second step of changing the recipient whose spirit web is to be changed. He'd kill himself. The charging means death.

Work in what sense? Of course you will make a hemalurgic spike, if you shoot the target through the heart. But you will not do hemalurgy by that. Hemalurgy is a two-step process. You would have to recover your bullets and test them. Then you could do hemalurgy with them. Yes, by killing them. That is the point of hemalurgy. You get an Invested spike by killing somebody.

An aluminium hemalurgic spike does so. A simple, sharp piece of aluminium will not. Hemalurgy edits a spirit web by adding, modifying and taking away parts. All these modifications require an invested, intentionally made spike. Now, it is highly likely that to most practioners the options of adding parts to a spirit web is much more useful than removing parts of a spirit web, but that does not change the theoretical significance and method.

No. The spike still needs to be charged and then to be put into the right bind point. Unless your bullet hits two people after one another just the right way, that will not happen. Remember that a simple transfer of arcane powers is the very basic usage of hemalurgy. You can do almost anything to a spirit web.

Presumably that depends on where you stick the spike.

Stonewards and Willshapers can bury you alive. The Willshaper can simply teleport into your base and make the ground swallow you.