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I'm okay with that.

I think you're overestimating the benevolence of Autonomy. Oh, and I'd go with Honor. But I'm also the guy who actually likes Skybreakers, so y'all can probably guess my opinion on oaths.

It still seems like a bit of a leap for a description of "Stores investiture" to "when tapped, acts as a focus for stored investiture in order to give it physical shape."

We have no indication nicrosil is capable of something like that.

It was mentioned that Miles had many goldmind spikes scattered across his body (spikes so as to prevent them from being pushed and pulled (not the hemalurgic kind)) that he would store health in. There's also just the math of him not being able to store enough gold in his stomach for the constant healing we see, and he's never mentioned actually eating any gold. Yes, he did burn gold at one point, but I assume that's because he keeps a small amount in his stomach for emergency compounding (like at his execution.)

Just in regards to Scadrial: 1. We definitely could see a Scadrian sword that granted access to the metalic arts. Basically just the Bands of Mourning in sword form. 2. This depends. I've already stated that I don't think there's a way in the metalic arts to cut any material, but we certainly could have a spike sword that killed in a single blow by severing the spirit. 3. Unlikely. 4. Yes

What you're describing in basically what most compounding is. You get way too much out of burning a metalmind to be useful unless you store the excess. In fact, I don't think we've seen a compounder not do this.

Sane is not the first word I'd use to describe Rashek. Or the second. In fact, I'd put "competent" "happy" and "a nice guy" before calling him sane.

For future reference, this is the WoB mentioned:

So far the model, as I understand it, is to merely use compounding to create a highly invested sword, then let the sword sit inside the time bubble for an eon. The compounding would happen before the bubbles are even created.

Y'all have no idea how much I want an excuse to say, "I warned you about angry time bubbles bro." now. I guess I have to hope Brandon reads this thread between now and Mistborn Era 4, and has Khriss try some experiments at some point.

I have to be honest, I did not think of that. Though I agree, all this setup would basically be a crapshoot, but if you were rolling with d20's. For all we know, the bubbles themselves will just gain sentience, and then Scadrial will have to deal with angry time bubbles. It just doesn't seem like a good idea.

Except that's not necessarily the real limiter. Yes, time compression builds up super fast with nested bubbles, but they each still need to burn bendalloy and ettmetal relative to their internal times. I think Wax said that for Wayne, one nugget is something like five minutes of compressed time. So you'd need literal tons of bendalloy, plus the ettmetal to burn it without it being a death sentence for the slider. That's what I believe would really be the limiting factor.

Just pointing out, it would take a massive amount of both bendalloy and ettmetal to reduce several million years to a reasonable amount of time. While maybe, just maybe, it would be worth it for a shardblade, you're not guaranteed to get one. You're basically putting a massive investment into a random effect by just sticking a ton of investiture in a time bubble for a million relative years.

Lightweavers also can change their eye color in social situations so as to not freak people out.

As the OP, that is entirely correct.

I don't know if you could create full sharblade equivalents with the metallic arts, for example I don't know if they have any way to cut through any material (with exceptions) like Nightblood or actual sharblades. But, if you just want a weapon that can kill in a single hit by severing the soul, then I propose hemalurgic swords. Which, honestly, might just be a sword that you declare, "This is a spike." Granted, it might only work once. In which case, hear me out here, how about hemalurgic shard-bullets?

Ah. Well, as usual, my ideas are crushed by Calderis. I'm not upset by that fact, I just find it funny that it keeps happening. Okay. So, lerasium no fuel all allomancy. Back to the drawing board.

Even in the WoB you quoted he RAFOs what it's actually supposed to do. Sanderson has been very keen about letting us know lerasium has another effect that he's not telling us about. Yes, I get that due to the generally limited amount of lerasium in the world, the side-effect is more useful, but that doesn't change that there's still a hidden ability that occurs when lerasium is burned "properly." Even so, I wouldn't call what Vin did while powered by the mists a waste. Let's say lerasium burns as fast as atium, so you get roughly a minute from a bead. Imagine what a Mistborn could do with a minute of having all allomatic powers, and them all being turned up to eleven.

Stop me if someone's made this theory before, but I've been thinking. We know from WoBs that Lerasium making people into mistborn is a side effect, not the actual allomatic property of the metal. So here's my train of thought: Lerasium is the solid form of Preservation's power. The mist is the gaseous form of Preservation's power. When both Vin and Elend burn the mists, it acts as any and every metal (except atium), but amplified. So my thought is as such, when burned, lerasium can act as any other allomatic metal, or even multiple metals at once.

Here I thought I was going insane. Luckily it's actually possible to figure out why everyone is changing their names, though I'm sure y'all would prefer noobies like me be confused. In times like this, I'm actually glad we have Chaos ruling over us preventing, well, absolute chaos. So thanks y'all, you nearly drove me crazy. And no I'm not changing my screen name.

I do not see how that is possible, when each spike would need to have been made from a different person.

Probably Rayse if nothing else.

Thanks @hoiditthroughthegrapevine, I really appreciate that.

Do we know what ReLuur's blessing was? There might be some incompatibility with trying to mix different blessings. Granted, Tensoon had 2 of the 4 types, so there's a 50% chance there was a match to begin with. I can't see how the two spikes themselves would match considering they would have had to be taken from two separate people.