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An assumption that Telsin shares. Right after they meet again she alludes that she is useless to their uncle's other project (her wording). Now, I suppose you could argue that the Set is deliberately constructing a misleading narrative, but why? No, it makes clear that they recently have begun using spikes after getting information about it. And they deliberately kidnapped women in a certain relation to the Lord Mistborn, whether they were known to be Allomancers or not. If you just want spikes, you kidnap people or run your baby factory with women nobody would notice. You do not go out of your way to really make most and the most important noble houses in Elendel angry. That would be enormously stupid. Nor would you instruct your henchmen that you need these. You'd give them a list of women with known allomantic abilities. No, humans are mammals. The speed at which we can breed is limited by the availability of fertile females. Sorry to put it into these stark biological terms, but those are the facts from biology. Hence if you absolutely need large numbers of allomancers, you take male allomancers, whose cooperation is much easier to arrange and conceal, and women nobody will notice. If the Set needs women they are not breeding more allomancers, they are breeding better allomancers. And of course they have history books. They want Mistborn.

The problem with that view, and it seems to be a major problem to me, is that the Honor weakened, not strengthened his Surgebinders. Dalinar and Ishar are now Bondsmiths Unchained and are stronger than during Honor's life time. Why?

Any end positive system should do. get them enough aviars give them a branding with the right Aons give them a hemalurgic spike for sandmastery and White Sand But it seems to me that you want odd ideas make them a Knight Radiant of The Sibling have them eat animal spren in the CR

The Sanderson can be highly misleading. Technically a Voidbinder according to the chart would have two "Voids" and another resonance. Presumably he could not share his visions and stuff like that and, most importantly, would need to use Voidlight rather than Stormlight. (Scadrial) Yes, but so are Aviar. Bonds are a common feature of the Cosmere. That a bond is involved tells you nothing about Honor. No. (Nalthis) On a general note, we need to make sure that we do not mistake a common use of an ability for the most archetypical or a usage or users we have seen most of for the typical, let alone only, usage or users. For example, you can make a case that the majority of Surgebinders on Roshar are Fused. Hence the bond to a Spren tells you nothing about the Surges. The Fused are better Surgebinders. The best Surgebinder beyond comparison is the host of Yelig-nar. The oath made them Heralds, if even that. It did not make them Surgebinders. Anybody can pick up an Honorblade becoming a Surgebinder. Arguably, but the Surges clearly predate the oaths. We know for sure that the Heralds are millenia older. We need to look at the traces, relics and odd cases if we want to get at the core of a thing. Just like you cannot reconstruct an ancestral mollusc from an octopus and a slug. You'd arrive at a creature without a shell. OK, that may be an odd example. The first Surgebinders were arguably either Windspren using Adhesion Humans on Ashyn Singers doing that rhythm thing the users of a Dawnshard They all predate the Heralds who were Surgebinders for sure. The Knights Radiant were later, surprising newcomers. You just cannot conflate Knight Radiant and Surgebinder. The Knights Radiant use bonds to spren together with oaths that let them inhale, heal and strengthen from Stormlight give them Shardblades give them Shardplate make them Surgebinders They are a specific kind of Surgebinders. Now, the Voidbinders known from the history of Roshar may be equivalents to Surgebinders of any kind or be the Knights Voidish. We do not know. Yes, there may even be a voidish counterpart of Yelig-nar (Dai-Gonarthis ?), and potentially its host could have thousands of squires. That is mere speculation. The only clues we really have is the chart and Renarin. And those point to an equivalence to the Knights Radiant, suggesting that "Voids" also come in a ring of overlapping pairs and can be gained by a bond with a spren.

If you go into Secret History you'll see that Preservation also could contact spiked people. Ruin and Kelsier could also talk to mad people. It looks like these abilities are only a side effect of hemalurgy by the damage it does.

Provided the Voidspren are prone to bind. Apparently they are not. Voidbinding as a whole is rare. If it weren't, why would Odium make Surgebinders and Regals? Secondly, the WoB is literally true. All Voidbinding we have seen so far comes indirectly from Sja-Anat. Aviars? Honor's original system are the Honorblades You just pick up a Honorblade. No strings attached. And the oaths needed to be artificially imposed on the Spren. I am sorry, but that conclusion is just unwarranted. I am sorry, but no. Everybody is potentially an Awakener. You just need Breath. The one you are born with will do just fine (If it is enough) No. Skyeels and Rhyshadiums surely do not swear oaths. Neither did the people who picked up a Honorblade. Nor did some of the squires. Nor did Kaladin himself in the beginning. The oaths are an addition. Again, no. Lerasium does not require snapping. Nor do people who get the power hemalurgically need to snap. Snapping is a detail.

Well, then I am afraid I have to ask you to make up your mind. Can you weaponize the rhythms? Potentially, even likely, yes, you can. To an greater extent than already existng weapons? Considering what would happen if you soulcast a few tons of rock into antimatter, the answer to that is most likely negative. Can Anti-Investiture do more? That is harder to say, as we know two uses You can blow up a gem stone You can kill a noncorporal entity We have no idea how bad you can get #1 with engineering. But do you need it? PS: For those with less physics training. A ton of antmatter will convert two tons of mass into energy. About 90% will be useful (you are making a lot of neutrinos). You end up with roughly 40 gigatons of TNT equivalent per ton of matter soulcast into antimatter. That is still over a thousand times less than a major asteroid impact. But it can render a continent uninhabitable. Ashyn is easy to explain.

I doubt he had had a connection to that specific tribe of Koloss. The story also points to #3. It does show you that natural feruchemists are better than the people wearing medaillions though.

Suppose there is a factory that makes masts of steel and masts of duraluminium. The former are cheaper. I being concious of costs purchase the cheaper one and forge it into the more expensive material. Now comes a feruchemist and stores in the metal. Can he or she store into it? What happens to the stored Investiture once the seal is broken?

And most likely not by accident.

I am afraid Oldmother in the Court of Gods is a direct counterexample.

No, if somebody learns that the spike went through the heart after the fact, does it thereby become potent?

That may be because the users or the chargers have no clear idea of what they are doing. Certain is a very big word. The mechanics of what atium, electrum and Renarin are doing are incompatible with what Hoid and the assassin we saw in Elantris were doing. But to be certain we'd have to have comparable time frames. Yes. But how would you steal futuresight with hemalurgy?

You are dancing around the big elephant. Can the Intent be retroactive?

The WoB is pretty clear that Futuresight is different from Fortune. Futuresight is what atium and electrum give allomancers. It allows seeing the future. That cannot be what Hoid uses, or he would know why he is needed at the places he needs to be. Futuresight also requites the SR.

She would immediately research whether spiked Fused still return and in turn build an army of enhanced Surgebinders.

The Ghostbloods are to a certain extent merchants. There is the possibility that he simply bought it from some caravaneer. The only offworld stuff the Ghostbloods actively use are the Aethers, which they get onto their pants. And obviously aviars, but none were on display. And we know there is traffic to and from Yolen, as somebody is delivering Frost's mail. I am afraid that you are taking this room too far and too individualistic. Anything from Yolen may have passed through multiple hands and not necessarily all of them human, nor does it need to be contemporary.

For head on confronting the government on short notice? I guess we must assume that they are members of the Set. Jasnah is about 35. Unless you want her to be old and frail in the second arc, about 25 years will be the upper limit.

Push and Pull. They are grown men. That is a state that takes roughly two decades to attain.

The magnetic pole does not matter for climate, does it?

What makes you think that this collection is his and only his as opposed the collective trophy room of the local cell of the Ghostbloods?

They didn't. Why complicate things? You do not bond the Stormfather or The Sibling to become an ordinary Knight Radiant. You bond a sapient spren of certain kinds. Sapient Voidspren exist. So the simplest explanation of how to become a Voidbinder is to bond one of them. Yelig-nar, the one who comes closest to bonding individual humans, makes you a Surgebinder. No. We have a chart. He should have two Void powers. He has shown no sign of a second such power. So, straightforward explanation: He has bonded a hybrid spren, so his powers are also hybrid - one surge, one "void", as opposed to a bondee of an ordinary spren - two surges, or a true voidbinder - two "voids". Renarin is a surgebinder as well as a voidbinder.

As far as we know there is no such thing as an anti-rhythm. There are anti-tones. Yes, you could probably do what the Singers do with Progression for agriculture with Division. That would be a weapon of sorts.

Well, no, I am sorry, but that looks quite impossible. The Set is too old. They have been breeding Allomancers for so long that they have spare ones (Push and Pull). They have an established hierarchy with titles. There is no sensible way you can fit that in between SA 5 and Alloy of Law. Even if you are gong to absurd assumptions the Set must at least be 25 years old.

That is even true if we assume that the stars of the Cosmere are closer together than stars in our part of our galaxy, as a certain map suggests. There is a lower limit if you want stable systems and cometary clouds over geological time periods. In fact, now that you mention it, doesn't Vin more or less outright say that the Final Empire is located at very high latitudes? It is habitable by their standards and only a small fraction of the planet is habitable.