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I'm surprised it took this long for someone to call me out. But yeah, that's a possibility. Also I did the math a few weeks ago, and it wouldn't have worked anyway. The fullborn would just be pushing and pulling themselves back to the same place they started.

For turning a place to put social media links into hilarious acronyms.

Nightblood isn't really like a balloon. A balloon has air being constantly forced into it, Nightblood either pulls investiture into itself, or passively absorbs it. In either case, once Nightblood is full it will stop filling (unless it's so gluttonous that it refuses to stop.)

Feruchemy all the way. If I could have some source of stormlight, skybreaker.

I Feruchemist can still tap a liquid metalmind.

Or you could potentially just have an arrow and the arrowhead be two separate metals.

In fact, we've seen evidence against type being tied to your parents. Off the top of my head, Straff begot a Mistborn and multiple pewterarms, and I believe he referenced other allomancer children, while he was a tineye. In addition, Kelsier was a Mistborn while his brother was a seeker.

Huh. Well I feel embarrassed now.

I think what makes the weepings special is not that it's a particularly long time without highstorms, but that there's a guarantee that there will be no highstorms during the period. We also know that predicting highstorms is complex enough that many ardents dedicate themselves to trying to work out a pattern, and they're not always right. I would guess this invloves things like measuring wind or specific paths that the storm takes each time. Unless Sanderson decides to grace us with the math of ardents, I guess we might have to be satisfied with the about once a week thing.

I would say it's probably the second. With more investiture consuming (which I am not connecting to metal burn rates) abilities requiring more to make them snap. This could connect back to what Snaderson has said about more powerful allomancer taking more trauma to snap in era 1. Unfortunately, because we know so little about snapping in era 2, we can't really build on this theory much.

I agree with this. Vin and Zane were likely speaking in tin-whispers. So even if Straff was burning, it would be like a normal person trying to listen to two people whisper outside the tent you're in while you're also having a conversation with a person who is yelling very loudly at you.

Age is remembered by a person's spirit. It's why Rashek needed a constant supply of Atium to stay young. His soul knew he was supposed to be 1,000 years old, and thus he kept accumulating a Feruchemical equivalent of debt that he had to pay off through compounding. When a child heals, their soul knows how old they're supposed to be, and doesn't alter that. Emperor's Soul spoilers, kinda: But, I guess healing is healing. Would a splint vs a cast vs sewing bones directly together to help heal a break be considered different methods or just variations of the same method? I guess it depends on how you look at it.

Well, those were basically the answers I was expecting. I figured there's no way it would work as simply as I imagined it. Granted the way I imagined it was basically dropping a water tower filled with mercury on him. So there's that. But thanks for the information, y'all. I shall now continue to ponder how best to kill immortals.

Title says it. I was wondering today, like you do, if there would have been any way to kill Rashek outside of how it was done. As I thought about it I realized the problem really is that he had so many attributes that as soon as he felt actually threatened he could end the threat or retreat. So, my brain began to think, best option is probably to directly target his atiumminds. But then I realized, even better, destroy his goldminds, and he goes down like any other person, granted with the additional effort of killing a pewterarm. Of course, the problem is destroying gold, but a quick search on Wikipedia revealed that gold can be dissolved by mercury. So, the idea is, how to kill a gold compounder? Flood them with mercury. Now, this is mostly limited by how fast the gold dissolves, and as I am not a chemist, I have no idea. So, what do y'all think about the idea?

It occurs to me we don't really know how long it takes to become a savant. Now, someone may have to correct me on this, but doesn't savantism not just come from excessive burning, but excessive flaring? I always thought that when in Final Empire, Kelsier told Vin to be careful about flaring for too long because he'd heard of weird things happening to those who did, he was talking about some level of savantism. Further, I saw when Vin was injured in the same book, and talked about how much she had come to rely on pewter to deal with the pain, I thought maybe she was beginning to experience those weird things Kelsier talked about. Now obviously (well, I say obviously), Vin didn't become a pewter savant. But let's say she at least started the path. That would indicate that savantism requires only a few months of flaring. Similarly, I believe (though I cannot check right now) it only took a few months of flaring for Spook to become a savant. Let's take that as a standard for the moment. Say it would take a few relative months of flaring for a pulser to become a savant. While yes, I agree that would take several years outside the bubble, I don't actually think it would take over a lifetime. We also don't know how much cadmium slows time by, though granted it probably depends on the individual and how fast they're burning. But it would seem to be comparable to a bendalloy's effect. In Wayne's case, this means time rarely looks frozen, just slowed. I actually, completely guestimating, don't think it would take that long to get a cadmium savant. Basically, I think 20 years might be cutting it close, but might also be enough.

We really don't know a ton about leechers. Maybe a sufficiently powerful one can leech at a distance, and the cube counted as sufficiently powerful. Maybe the cubes just have increased range for all effects. There could be all kinds of things that made it work. We just don't know enough. Or at the very least I don't

To be fair, metal tends to either be grey or reflective, and we have no clue what trying to awaken using a mirror as color would do.

The closer something is to being alive, the less breaths it takes to awaken. To my knowledge though, the same thing doesn't apply to the color drain.

I feel like there are references to draining color from inorganic sources like stone, can't remember exactly though, and can't check my book at the minute. If nothing else, we know you can awaken using spilled blood. Biochemists correct me if I'm wrong here, but I believe the red color of blood comes from the iron that the red blood cells are made from, in which case, removing the color would mean transforming the iron into something else. Frankly, I'd lean towards the color drain not transforming the object as much as something spiritual or cognitive happening. Though now I'm wondering, if you took something that was colored all the way through, used it for awakening, then cut it in half, would all of the object be drained or would the center still be colored?

You would find it very difficult to awaken a spike to begin with. Investiture resists Investiture. Add to that fact that awakening metal takes a massive amount of breathes, and you'd have a very difficult time just awakening it in the first place.

For some reason, my head refuses to believe Shallan is a redhead. Everytime I imagine her, the color goes to black. Breeze is the presence from DC comics, down to the mustache and bowler hat. Inquisitors are 9 feet tall and you'll never convince me otherwise. I'll think of more later, but those are the immediate ones I can think of immediately.

We could go full Gulliver's Travels with this, and build a machine that assembles random theories endlessly, and eventually, every theory will be made and we'll have complete knowledge of the entire Cosmere. We could speed up the process by also assembling a machine that randomly creates WoBs. Do I need a spoiler tag for 200 year old classical literature?

It almost seems like the WoB is actually suggesting that you don't need savantism to anchor a speed bubble to yourself. Now, that's just one interpretation, and that's not a hill I'm willing to die on. But it does kind of look like he's saying, "Well yes, a savant could do it of course, but you don't need to be a savant to do it."

That would be interesting. If Type V is all about healing, it makes me wonder if the command Vasher used to remove the girl's memory was something like, "Remove her pain" and the breath "healed" her from the psychological truama she endured by repressing the memory.

I'd see it more as: Type I: Dead body awakened to sentience. Type II: Dead body awakened without sentience Type III: Object awakened without sentience Type IV: Object awakened to sentience Type V: Living body awakened without affecting sentience (what Vasher does to make the little girl forget) Type VI: Living body awakened overcoming sentience (I don't think this would be a thing, but it would basically be mind control.)