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That is suicide by tapping. But what about suicide by storing?

It is full of beads. They can be carried around and used for arcane techniques. But nobody has ever done something to the beads themselves on screen. As they are linked to physical objects that should have consequences. So you go all out. You take a nuclear bomb to Shadesmar and detonate it. What happens to the objects whose beads you ought to be vaporizing?

Taldaine is the odd relative everybody pays lips service to, but never visits.So let's go at it You make an arrowhead out of Terken and shoot a Fused or Knight Radiant with it You are wearing armor coated with Terken. You go to Threnody, light a fire and kill a small mammal to roast on it You throw Black Sand at Rashek in his young state. Will it go white? You shower a Kandra with Black Sand. Will it go white? You lead a Seeker to a Sandling's pit. Does he sense anything? Can a Seeker sense the Sun with allomancy on Taldaine?

Indeed. Sinister explanation: She has relatives on Taldaine and worries about their safety. Because Taldaine is the ugly child in the attic few talk about. If we go away from people strictly there is more on it: Sandlings - how do they beat the cube / square law, what do they eat and how do they make Terken how was Sandmaster HQ built are the Dorim vines natural? Whence do they take all the water? And we studiously avoid interactions with it. What happens if you make an arrowhead of Terken and shoot a Knight Radiant or a Fused with it? If he were the only oddity left to explain, I'd concur. But he isn't. Obvious question: Is that ditinct from Sho-Del illusions? If you count that, you also get the fayn life (that twig shown in Oathbringer) Hence the Sho-Del are roughly as described (and there was Uli-Da - requiescat in pace). Hence the things you can do with their bones. We have tiny hints on Threnodite stuff. The Deepest Ones The Shadow Armies mentioned in Secret History the ghost gun First of the Sun - deep sea monsters or trees are not going up into a lake to eat worms, so the rest of the fauna and flora of and around the islands Even on well established worlds: the Purelake and its fish Whoever blew up Ladrian sr. in Bands of Mourning - outright demonic possession basically. While we are on Secret History: how do you run a fabrial in the Cognitive Realm? And how does that strange device for capturing a Shard work? And the lighthouse keeper's device in Oathbringer. And the giant reptiloid in the room: Dragonsteel And while we are at metals, what is the deal with silver?

Darkside magic. Whatever is keeping Skathan alive.

In that case I must ask the obvious questions If microkinesis comes from Dawnshards only, why does Khrissalla know a lot about it? Why does she compare it to Cohesion rather than Soulcasting or Division?

Risk. All eggs in one basket Capacity. Urithiru is large for a city. Compared to a continent, it is small. Practice. The range of activities you can have in Urithiru is limited. No mining, no ship building, your farming is odd ... Ishar had his Blade and a custom-made body. And they needed to win every time.

Raeth. D'naa, let's face it, she is the beta version of Vivenna. Right. The magic system is the strongest point. These are two seperate things. The shards are untenable. But they really don't matter all that much. You just need two entities who are in a kind of competition. Many shards could provide the background. The aethers themselves are basically fine, what would you change about them?

With which metals? The Final Empire had not big supplies, likelier none at all, of bendalloy for him to burn. It may be something he is doing in Era 2 (provided he has the spikes) , but what about the decades or even centuries between that and the Catacendre?

Honor lived for a long time after Aharietiam. The gem stone archive shows that the Knights Radiant were in contact with him. So to put it into simple words, how did the Heralds get away with their story for thousands of years? That opens up two possibilities: They did not get away with it. The Knights Radiant knew, but kept it secret from the common people. Honor wanted them to believe the story. If so, why?

I keep reading speculation about who will pick up the Shard of Honor. However, it looks to me like nobody bothers to first address the greatshell in the room: Does it even exist in a unified manner anymore? If so. why did Odium leave it unsplintered? And the Day of Recreance happened a long time ago. Tanavast died before that. Why hasn't Honor become sentient?

So Awakening is just like AonDor, but hampered by a need for verbal Commands and much rarer fuel?

What about the Words of the Founding? If Kelsier had written anything I am quite sure Sazed would have transmitted it. Maybe he would have written a comment, but he wouldn't outright surpress an eyewitness's accout. In fact, how else do the Scadrians know the story about Kelsier's and Vin's ascensions? Is there a Kelsieriad? What doctrines does it have? Apart from the Survivor's Mandate, what do we know? Well, I guess if you turn the other cheek to Kelsier you'll get a dagger into your guts, but other than that? I guess survival is a rather complex topic. How literally do you take it? Are there Survivorists who think that creating archives or museums is a religious duty? I guess Survivorism and pacifism are incompatible, but still, do Survivorist temples run classes on unarmed and armed combat? What is their stance on community versus individual? Kelsier died for his people. Does the need of the many take precedence?

That would mean that atium can be used to measure individual life expectancy.

Let us introduce the Nalthian Unit of Investiture: NUI Standard Normal Nalthians: 1.5 NUI Standard Offworlders: 1.0 NUI Standard Drabs: 0.5 NUI That is basically what this boils down to. Normal people are at some point between Drabs and Nalthians. Details are still undetermined.

Awakening is often seen as just giving animation to objects. In the form it is used in Hallandren that is usually true. But what else is possible and what exactly does animating an object mean? sensing: awakened objects are able to process sensory input, hence they must get it. As far as we know they can react to pressure, sight and balance processing: to a limit extent they can act according to goals. You tell an object to fetch you something and it propels itself towards that object deformation: the object changes its shape and rigidity - this is basically what the Surge of Tension does We have also seen healing, but that is not the normal healing. It is able to heal somebody who has not spoken a single word in his life. That is not simple restoration to a remembered state And there is the destructive power displayed by some weapons. Is that the power of Threnodian Shades?

How cool is Marsh with that? Does he really want regular contact with an organization founded by an obligator? Yes they certainly venerate Marsh, but is the relationship mutual? So are there people who have regular contact to him? Which of Scadrial's religions is monastic? Monks dedicated to martial arts does sound Survivorist. Is that what the monks of Baz-Kor are?

If he doesn't tap, eventually he cannot store anymore, because the storage volume will have been used up. It just does not matter how efficiently he taps.

I mean in a purely practical sense, not the atium compounding. Does he hide in a cave somewhere? Does he do his own laundry? What does he eat? Whence does he get his metal? He is death incarnate. He cannot hold a 9 to 5 job and just go shopping for groceries without causing a mass panic. Does he have an investment fond, a remote manor house and a few dedicated servants with a network of safe places? Does he control some coloss? Does he rob a bank every few years? Does he run a soothing parlor?

That raises a point. Do they sometimes scare people? Like walk into a bar with a hood on and when somebody says "I'll be damned if that is not true" Marsh drops his hood and says "You called?".

One Ferring and a slightly underweight counterweight will also do the job. Or you use a spring.

But there is likely a saturation. If it bothers you that they don't speak like they used to 350 years ago, it will be unlikly to bother you that they also do not speak like they used to 175 years ago. And at some point it just becomes a closely related foreign language you just learn.

We have seen that any matching Ferring can use an unkeyed metalmind. But what about the Mistings? If you are just a Misting can you compound an unkeyed metalmind? Does it work if you are a natural compounder of that alloy (even if that ability is not very exciting)? Does it work at all?

That does really depend on the extent to which Aons can do input in computer terms. You need an Elantrian to switch them on, but you can get around that by writing a complicated sequence that does nothing until an external stimulus like a switch being thrown arises. The usability depends on the stimuli there are Aons for.

You don't have to get the stuff into your stomach. It just has to be inside your body with perception deciding what inside means. You also have to be able to get the wrong metals out quickly. Swallowing them, unless you want to induce reverse peristaltic, as Steris demonstrated, is not optimal. To protect the innocent and because I always wanted to use that quote I will somebody else allude to the optimal solution: Kellogg: Take Mister Lightbody immediately to the yogurt room and give him fifteen gallons. Lightbody: Oh no, no. I can't eat fifteen gallons of yogurt. Kellogg: Oh it's not going in that end, Mr. Lightbody. But if you swallowed the wrong metal as a Misting, it wouldn't be an allomantic reserve. It would be just an inert material. Something arcane happens between the Allomancer and the right metal even before you actively burn it.