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I think it's pure sarcasm and that Wayne has no problems with writing or reading. I've had conversations like this with people. Between friends, making offhanded jokes about their intelligence, or lack thereof, never has any "Truth" to it. If one of my friends who were as close to me as Wayne and Wax are had an actual physical problem, I would never make light of it like that. But I would if it had no basis in truth and I was just teasing him.

"Lock myself down yet". This means that, while he's playing with this idea, he has not actually developed this to the point where it is cannon to him. To me, this blows any theory of this being involved in Medallions out of the water.

Why would that disrupt the goldmind storage? The extra healing you get from the Pewter would simply go into the gold, instead of healing you. You'd still get all the other benefits of pewter (strength, speed, reflexes, etc.), but if you got hit while storing, you'd heal normally, instead of as if you were burning Pewter. In this way, you'd never get "Weak" in comparison to a normal person, but you would be "Weak" in comparison to someone burning Pewter. Since a person only needs to heal when they need to heal, you could technically store your healing in the Goldmind every time you burned Pewter. That much healing would add up, especially over time. You could even become a Pewter Savant pretty quick by just eating and flaring Pewter all day on days when you have prep time, shunting all the healing into the goldmind, instead of being sick all day doing the same. Or you could make yourself sick all day and store even more, even faster. Then you go on a pewter drag and run across the country, pulling out the healing in the Goldmind when it starts to overwhelm you, or when you get to the end so you don't pass out. Geez, you'd be unstoppable. Imagine Miles Hundredlives with the strength of Pewter. Sure, the healing isn't as infinite as gold compounding, you maybe couldn't take a grenade to the face more than once a day, but still, the increased durability of the Pewter mixed with a huuuuge source of healing would be astounding for the average day..

Life is fair. Everyone who has ever lived has been born and dies. Nothing is ever promised beyond that. Take two people born in the same town to the similar parents who attend the same school and take the same first job, and their choices will determine where they go in life. Of two rich people, one becomes an alcoholic abuser while the other becomes a philanthropist. Take two poor people, and one becomes an alcoholic abuser while the other rises above his station and makes something of his life. Both had the same opportunity. Both made their choice. Yes, everyone has circumstance trying to force them into one direction or another, but everyone has a choice and is responsible to their own choices. Even slaves have a choice. Obey your master or revolt. Do well or be lazy. (Of course, the main difference between slaves and the modern job worker is the job worker gets to choose who their master is, and can be free at anytime if they had the gumption). Death comes to everyone, so which life would you rather die from? Being the slave or revolting? Being the job worker who barely scrapes by or being the potentially failed business owner who could lose everything? That's you're choice. There is nothing "Unfair" about that. Success is not guaranteed. Neither is failure. And sometimes people will oppose you, and sometimes you will get things you didn't earn, either positive or negative, but that doesn't make things "Unfair." Regardless of what circumstance you find yourself in, there are too many people who have lived through that same situation and made it into something good and wonderful for it to be able to destroy you. Therefore, yes, life is fair. Just not the type of fair that most people WANT it to be. Most people want "fair" to mean everyone gets everything regardless of what they put into it. But the reality is that life is one giant example of GIGO. Garbage In, Garbage Out. You get out of life what you put into it, and if you put in laziness, entitlement and complaining, then that's what you'll get.

Electrum would be nice, actually. Walk into a casino and know which slot machines to go to and when. You only need a few seconds into the future to do that. Play a game of cards and know when to fold and when not to. Being able to see your own future for a few seconds is amazingly valuable, especially if it grants the mental capacity to understand what you're seeing.

I think the differences in style between the first Mistborn trilogy and the Alloy of Law series is due mainly to the size of the books. That, and trying to be different from Mistborn. In Mistborn, it was all about people fighting the law. In AoL, it's about a Lawman. Mistborn: Large cast of characters. AoL: One main character with backups. Mistborn: Humongous. AoL: Shorter. Wax is the Anti-Kelsior. Merasi is the Anti-Vin. Wayne is Lopen in disguise. Or visa versa. How that fits in, I'm not sure, but there you go. And sometimes, you just gotta write what you find most interesting. Sanderson wanted to experiment with his favorite combo. And if the story is going to be mainly about one guy, he needs to be awesome. He has plenty of faults. He's just amazingly at what he does. Same with Kelsior. He had his faults, but when it came to thieving, there was none better. And the guy killed armies on his own. So did Vin. The 'faults' in Sanderson's main characters usually aren't in their capabilities, but in their mental problems. Wax has plenty of those.

Granted. You get a great idea for a boon. Unfortunately, that was your boon. To have a great idea. And you only get one boon. I wish to be able to create Bendalloy time bubbles infinitely, without the need for Bendalloy.

That's my point. Yes, perception is huge in many things in the Cosmere. But not everything. Perception is NOT huge, for example, on Sel, with AeonDor. You have to know, precisely, how to draw it, and what to draw, and how to end it. It's more of a science than anything. Perception in Allomancy is huge. A bullet is either one piece of metal or three pieces of metal, depending on your perception. But that's not the case in all things. An Awakener doesn't even need to know there's color nearby to Awaken with it. It's automatic. Their perception doesn't play into it in this case.

It shouldn't matter what color people think of when they think of an object. Color is drained regardless of whether someone is even aware they are draining the color. That means it's not a cognitive choice, it's just something that happens.

Lol, even the Stormfather has a fallen sibling.

Even if I could get behind the concept that overcharging yourself with connection while filling a metal mind with Investiture will cause the Investiture to, somehow, have more Connection, why would that get around the need to spike someone in the proper place? How does that "Trick the Spirit Web into thinking it's been spiked"? Sure, you could make an overly connected Nicrosil mind. It works with Identity, why not Connection? But Hemalurgy requires being pierced, and it requires it in a very, very specific place for it to work. If this were to work, you would have to place the medalion in the spot that would need to be pierced. Here's a question. What happens when a spiked individual granting Brass Feruchemy stores their Identity-less investiture into a metal mind? Would it be the same as if a Brass Ferring stored in the Nicrosil? Or would it store something slightly different?

I think Nightblood's scabbard isn't just aluminum, it's an Aluminum metal mind heavily invested with someone's identity. The reason I think that is because while I understand that Aluminum acts as a shield and could, by itself, block Nightblood's smoke and keep it from absorbing investiture, I don't see any reason why basic aluminum would keep Nightblood from cutting right through it when struck. But if it were invested...

This made me laugh out loud.

I've never seen Nightblood as being described as a robot. My perception of him is of a person who's not entirely...complete. He almost feels like part of a person given a goal and little else.

Oh. I thought he'd want it so he had an infinite supply of whatever metal he wanted to use with Allomancy...

I've often wondered if Nightblood WAS a Hemalurgic Spike that was Awakened.

And Duralumin Mistings are capable of boosting all the metals they can’t burn. It’s the equivalent of a Misting Gnat. The way I think it would work is you go without your investiture while actively storing, but have it back when you stop storing, then when you tap the metalmind your connection is strengthened. Like storing Strength in a Pewtermind.

Inertia is the law of motion where an object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion unless changed. Stagnation is an affect of staying in one place without moving, so it is what happens when inertia makes an object do nothing. Stagnation would probably be the name of the shard had someone lazy and slothful taken it up. But I think the Fundamental Force it is trying to impart is that of Inertia.

I don't think it would have an affect on the awakening. The color we see is not the color of the object, but in fact the color the object is not. White light is made up of all colors, as shown by shining a light through a prism. It splits into the different wavelengths. When white light hits an object that we perceive as "Red", what is actually happening is the object is absorbing every wavelength except red, spitting the red off in every direction. Those wavelengths of red hit our eyes, and we see a "red" apple, or whatever. Something colored black absorbs all, or most all, of the light that hits it, making it black. So technically, color is independent of whether or not someone is seeing it, as it is merely the color that is reflected off the object. So when an awakener makes an object go grey, what's happening is it's making the object either no longer able to absorb colors in such a way so all colors reflect off of it, making it white/grey/dull. This would happen regardless of whether or not light was hitting the object. When light later hits the object, it would reveal it to be grey, unable to absorb light and therefore remaining a monotone 'color'.

Granted, tomorrow's meme features a man with a spear to the chest. I wish to be able to read people's thoughts.

It depends entirely on how the hemalurgy would work in this instance. Is Kelsior now "Inside" the spike? In that case, could you remove the spike and put it in someone else and let him take over that body? Or does the spike merely act as...well, as a pin sticking a piece of paper to the wall, Kelsior's mind being the paper and his body being the wall? There's really not enough to go by in the books either way. He does, however, have the scars on his arms in his new body, though I suppose that could be a result of gold healing. If it's like Stormlight, where it makes you like you see yourself, then it might bring the scars with him. Unless he went digging around in the Pits in search of more atium. Also, I believe Kelsior has more spikes, simply because he now has the power of a Fullborn, if I'm not mistaken, and if the Bands of Mourning are any indication. Since he made himself thus before Medallions were a thing, I'd imagine the only way he could do that was through Hemalurgy. I imagine he'd got ahold of the spikes from one of the Inquisitors. I just don't imagine him going around killing Terrismen just to get some of their feruchemy. He hated the Noblemen, not the Terris.

Yes, I realize that, but when one attacked the other it resulted in both of the vessels dying because of the intents. It was their Intents that caused them to be able to counter each other so perfectly, making it so neither could do anything without the other stopping them. If it was Honor and Preservation, or even Honor and Ruin, this wouldn't necessarily have been the case, because Honor's thing is binding things, which doesn't necessarily conflict with either decay or preservation. It's really the same between Honor and Odium, as they are not opposites, nor are they counterparts in the same grouping (as I do groupings). They are of different sets, so they don't counter each other. Therefore, they can both act. Odium's binding on Braise seems to be more of a function of an agreement of some kind than the prison like Ruin was in, as 'gods cannot lie'. Though, I suppose as Honor binds things, he could have used his power to bind Odium, which may have caused him to be weak enough to be shattered. I don't know, we'd have to RAFO. My point is, Brandon has said that some shards have opposite intents. Most/some don't, but some do. Ruin and Preservation are this, which kind of was the whole point of the first Mistborn trilogy. I'm still not convinced Cultivation belongs in that group, but there is certainly an argument. Of course, it depends on what "Opposite" means. Look at the Enhancement Metals. Duralumin and Nicrosil overcharge metals, and Aluminum and chromium deplete them, but one of each is internal and the other is external. So is Duralumin's opposite Aluminum, as they are both internal and do opposite things, or is it Necrosis, as they both do the same thing but to different targets? Or is it Chromium, where both the target and the effect are opposite? Completely off topic, but does it sound to anyone else like Preservation is modeled after Inertia and Ruin is modeled after Entropy?

No, see, southern Scadrial never had Mistborn, as Mistborn we’re created with Laresium beads. They had Feruchemists and Mistings, but the Mistings would have been more rare as there were no Mistborn to sire them. So unless Kelsior started by spiking all the surviving Mistborn of Elendel, which didn’t happen, then no, they didn’t have any Mistborn to work with, only Mistings of whatever metal would be used to burn said spike. Now, Brandon has said it would be possible to heal the damage caused by a spike. If the Incisers were a complex “medallion” of sorts that allowed a person to have Gold Feruchemy, with an unkeyed Gold compounded metalmind attaches to allow for near infinite healing, which a person tapped, then become spiked, transferring their power to the spike while allowing themselves to be healed of the damage...that would make sense.

That’s explained in the books. He’s not having them clash. He’s pointing them in the same direction.

Wow. I haven't even thought about what Laresium does with Feruchemy. That could be very interesting.