Halyo_Alex

C'mon, pray with me that Navani tries it in RoW.

time to strap a Heatrial to a shardblade and see what happens

I mean we know that Investiture or at least an Invested Art can alter an object's temperature [Mistborn] so it's possible that a similar underlying principle is being used to condense it into solid form.

So, wait... Stormlight solidifies at... Higher... temperatures...?? I gueeeesss?? Or, wait... No that doesn't make sense... And not just for the obvious. ...I got nothin.

Yeah but those are 2 spikes in a mistwraith, I'm talking 4 copper spikes in a human, like how a Koloss is 4 iron spikes in a human.

What surprises me is that he seemingly found no good reason to make a copper-spike equivalent of the Koloss.

I have definitely thought of that myself once before.

What I'm hoping to see is proper Radiant Twinborns, Scadrians with spren bonded. The synergistic potential between the different possible sets of 4 powers alone would be MADDENINGLY interesting to see even a handful of examples in Era 4. A Bronze misting alone can indeed hear Surges (like the Screamer voidspren in Kholinar during Oathbringer), and even the Rhythms (which makes me wonder about Metalborn/Hemalurgic Parshendi...). We also have WoB that allomantic duralumin would let you super-burn Stormlight for use in a surge, which could prove destructively potent with the right application (Gamma-ray Illumination laser, anyone?). Duralumin gnats would find use in their power with that, for one. Speaking of Duralumin Gnats and their powers finding uses, my theory of Power Sharing Medallions could come to fruition later on in the cosmere. Basically, a Medallion with F-Aluminum and F-Nicrosil that someone uses to put their natural-born metal power inside an Unkeyed Nicrosilmind, and then pass that Medallion to the receiver who then taps the power back out of that Unkeyed Nicrosilmind. It would be like a Nalthian Breath transfer, but for allomancy and feruchemy. Duralumin Gnats wouldn't need to be spiked Hemalurgically to give their allomancy to other mistings or other magic users. Also with Seons needing something to "pull them more into the Physical" to become a Shardblade, I wonder if that could be achieved with some sort of Connection manipulation, either with a Bondsmith or perhaps some trickery with F-Duralumin. If a Seon could "touch" a medallion and use it, an F-Duralumin medallion filled with Connection to the Physical realm from a person might be usable for that.

I mean block in the literal sense, physically stopping a swing in its tracks with no ill effect when hitting the sheath. Okay, yeah, that makes sense. The sheath and Nightblood itself are together so often that they just sort of act as the same object. Like how a broken stick will still think of itself as a single stick that's been broken rather than 2 sticks, but in reverse, kinda.

That's what the Bondsmith(s) is/are for. Using adhesion and tension to put the pieces back together, like the temple at Thaylen.

Which is fascinating since it's Aluminum and thus SHOULD be immune to investiture, heck, we even SEE it block Nightblood itself in Oathbringer. So how the heck?

My headcanon for Lerasium is that it can store Allomantic effects, specifically meaning you could in theory burn Steel and Push on something, but then store the Push inside the Lerasium instead, suppressing it from actually happening but keeping it for later use, safe from being Leeched with Chromium for example.

Interesting. I believe Taldain has been described as being related to 8 before? Somewhere. I wonder how that would mix with Scadrial's 16-frequency, then. Would the sunlight from the sun of Taldain be usable to fuel Allomancy? A bit like how Vin could burn the mists to fuel her allomancy, but with the light of the sun?

I got 75.3% Bondsmith, and 75.5% Bondsmith with the experimental corrective weighting. Seems pretty consistent with the other quizzes I've taken, nicely done

77.3% certainty for Bondsmith, 77.5% Experimental Correction certainty for Bondsmith. Yeah, that sounds right to me.

I have heard a theory that might seem a bit crazy, but if it's even close to correct it would be one heck of a prediction. the tl;dr since I can't recall all of the specifics is that the Sibling is the actual, post-ascension child of Honor and Cultivation, which would "have an effect" on the child according to this WoB: Perhaps that effect would be due to the child's Connection to the Shard and its Vessel, and if both parents had taken up Shards at the shattering, that would make the Sibling half Honor and half Cultivation, as many people seem to believe. And it would give a powerful reason for the Sibling to represent Oaths. They're the child of Honor and Cultivation, a literal representation of their love and their oaths to marriage, in a sense. The Sibling would not exist without that oath, or wouldn't likely exist. And with the parents they have, potentially literally inheriting some of Honor's Investiture (which also presents an interesting possibility for why Odium was able to splinter him despite being bound to Braise, but that's a theory for another time), they would be inclined to upholding oaths by nature of Honor. Additionally, Cultivation calls the Nightwatcher her "child", and with how the Stormfather was uplifted to sapience/sentience by Honor, it stands to reason that those two would consider themselves siblings to Honor and Cultivation's vessels' child. so tl;dr (again) the Sibling is the biological child of Tanavast and Cultivation's vessel, changed by the Ascension of their parents to shardhood and the type of Shards they took up. subsequently because of the relationships between Cultivation/Nightwatcher and Honor/Stormfather, the latter of those pairs consider themselves siblings to Tanavast and Cultivation's child. I know this is probably WAY past crackpot but I love it all the same. Feel free to destroy it with facts and logic though.

Yup, that's the one. Thanks!

That's exactly what I was thinking, yeah. Didn't brandon say in a WoB that it was "corrupted Breath" or something? I feel like I've heard that somewhere before.

Nightblood destroys on all three realms, so their souls were basically shredded and consumed into Nightblood, as all investiture he contacts is. Additionally, matter, energy, and investiture are equivalent a la E=mc^2 (but with another variable for Investiture), so he likely dissolves the physical stuff into investiture and consumes that too. Basically, Nightblood is a non-gravitational black hole in the shape of a sword. Once you pass the event horizon, nothing can get back out. Except whatever the equivalent of Hawking Radiation is for Nightblood.

(bold emphasis for what i'm specifically replying to) Alternatively, the reason the Stormfather is doing those things right now is precisely because the Sibling is slumbering and can't do that right now. Additionally, he was given the power to create Honorspren by Honor himself, so of course he would watch over the Honorspren and their Windrunner bondmates, even if we ignore their relation via the other evidence asmodeus presented. He seems incredibly protective of the Sibling as well, as we see when Dalinar prods for more information on them, and perhaps that is in part why he felt obliged to take over those roles when the Sibling went into its slumber. I'm not saying he DEFINITELY took those roles from the Sibling, but it's a possibility that could explain this discrepancy in their roles as the Bondsmith Spren.

well, it's still investiture inside metal. and it comes from someone's innate investiture. Both a nicrosilmind and a spike can hold investiture that says "this person can burn/tap X metal" or a pewtermind and an iron spike "this person is able to lift Y lbs", just via different means. If [SA/Warbreaker Spoilers] then I'm pretty sure an Allomancer could do something with the charge inside a hemalurgic spike.

Well, Crem-water does provide the minerals for creatures to grow Gemhearts, and thus house a spren inside for their bond, like the Parshendi or the Chasmfiends. So yeah, that might count.

this of course raises the question of "can you burn a Hemalurgic spike to compound the charge inside that" or no.

Ok, so, as stated in the tags, this DOES have plot spoilers for the game Warframe. It is however free to play and very fun and I would recommend playing it if you want. Anyway, onto the actual meat of this post. In Warframe, one of the big reveals later in the game (when you reach Uranus/Neptune) is that you're a Tenno child exposed to the Void during an incident with an Orokin ship. The incident caused you and several other humans to develop strange powers, and become... different. They gained the ability to channel the Void's energies through themselves, at first with just a very strong beam attack that, in-game, behaves like a Super Attack or other such special ability. The Warframes themselves are later revealed to be low-ranking or criminal Orokin men and women, infected with a specific strain of the Infestation called the Helminth strain, which mutated them into forms that could fit inside the exoskeletal armor that you see as the Warframes, like Excalibur, Mag, and Volt, the 3 frames you can pick at the start of the game. The infestation also gave the Warframes unnatural powers, like the ability to summon a sword made out of light. ...Gee that sounds familiar, don't it. Other abilities include healing others, or even transporting them to a parallel plane of existance called the Rift, where enemies can still see you (and you can see them) but neither party can damage each other for the duration of the Banishment unless the enemies are ALSO transported to the Rift. The reason that these Void-exposed children are given these Warframes to pilot via Transference is that prior to their interaction, the Warframes were insane, broken, and violent, uncontrollable beings. Powerful to be sure, but wild. The Tenno children were the only people capable of calming the Warframes and controlling them properly. Indeed, an exact quote from Ballas states the following about the Tenno: "It was that somehow, from within the derelict-horror, they had learned a way to see inside an ugly, broken thing-- And take away its pain." (Emphasis added by myself.) So yeah. Just some interesting observations from a fan of both SA and Warframe.

Can I cheat and say Seons? The direct long-distance communication alone would be more practical in a real-life situation (particularly with Corona going around right now). Seons don't need internet access to give you a full 3d holographic view of your communication buddy. Plus, they just seem more... I dunno, wholesome? They care a lot about their bond-mate, and the lack of Oaths certainly makes things less stressful for me as a person. Don't have to worry about turning a Seon into a Deadeye (unless I'm an Elantrian and the Reod happens again).