Halyo_Alex

I knew someone would basically say "ALL THE THINGS" which is why I tried to be more realistic/limited with my choices, for creativity's sake. I do like that combination, though. Bronze does let you hear the pulses of Surgebinding, so it would still be of use on Roshar. And hey, a fellow Lightweaver! (though that was obvious from your forum title.) Breaths would actually be easy for someone with Soulcasting to obtain, you could Soulcast very valuable objects and sell them for Nalthian money (most likely in Hallandren) and buy Breath like that. Given the description of how Soulcasted air turns out when you make it solid (swirly and chaotically organized), that could make a fascinating sculpture on its own, or an interesting texture for a vase or something. And yeah, I'd probably take a "coppercloud" Aviar like Kokerlii, personally.

I'm sure this sort of topic has been done before, but I'm genuinely curious; what cosmere abilities would you pick for yourself if you could specify them? I would be a Lightweaver (duh), with A-Electrum/F-Zinc twinborn powers, probably. If I could go a little extra, I'd want to have the 5th Heightening as well, but for a "reasonable" power-level I wouldn't have it. As for why, it should be fairly clear; Soulcasting is super handy for Allomancy, and effectively lets me power it with Stormlight by proxy. As well, I could spend my time honing my skill at soulcasting the exact allomantic metals & alloys, and trading them via the CR to Scadrial in my free time. A-Electrum/F-Zinc has (in my experience) been referred to as Pseudo Atium a few times, and that would be really helpful in the battle against Odium's forces. Being able to fight with a Shardblade while also seeing a few possible futures of myself, and tapping mental speed to process them all and what's going on, is really powerful. If only I had A-Zinc as well, to compound as much mental speed as I could need. But compounding is dangerous, and I don't want to find out the hard way what Zinc Compounding savantism does to a brain. Anyway, that's it for me.

From what we know, it might actually cause the object attached to the ettmetal device to age rapidly. Instantaneous antique vase, cool

From what I recall, they use Ettmetal Feruchemy-replication to cause the big airships to store weight, rather than being an AOE of people's attributes being stored or tapped.

Gelatin uses water, doesn't it? That's a problem

It would be interesting as heck anyway if you could. Someone else in another ettmetal allomancy related thread mentioned something about making a colloid out of ettmetal and alcohol to prevent it from being as reactive and make it able to be swallowed without exploding vigorously. You'd definitely still want to burn it as fast as you can, but... It's still fascinating...

Perhaps specifically the Resonance (like windrunner Squires or Lightweaver memory) becomes most potent and effective at the 5th heightening, then.

It's possible that every part of plate would need a gem on it, which gets really annoying really fast. And yes, if they were on the outside that would make it a notable disadvantage, limiting the useability of the function.

Now I want to know what an alloy of lerasium and trellium will do... (WoB has confirmed it is at least part godmetal)

Well if you wear the spike as an earring, and have something like a plastic cap over it, that would be your best bet to not have it explode as a spike in the recipient. As for charging it through the donor... I have no idea. Maybe, MAYBE you can wrap it in plastic wrap or something, but other than that I doubt anything would really work. If you did get it to work I feel like it might do something pretty extreme, like straight up unstapling someone's cognitive shadow (or, what becomes one) from their body and binding it to the spike, allowing them to be sort of like a [Stormlight Archive] Or maybe it just steals ALL powers simultaneously from the donor, meaning you could steal the powers of a mistborn and a full feruchemist as a pair of (large) earrings and be a Fullborn. Would be pretty powerful but it's obviously hard to get a harmonium spike anyway what with the explosiveness.

I mean, that's a better hypothesis than I would be able to come up with, so... I agree, I guess. What I'm curious about is if you could then spike that pseudo-web and actually obtain a Hemalurgic charge (probably a stupidly weak one, but a charge nonetheless) and then spike it into someone else to nonfatally "donate" one of your Metalborn powers in a heavily diluted form.

Wait, I didn't think Malatium had a Feruchemy rune yet, when was that revealed before? I didn't see it on the coppermind...

If the data is on silicon, then no, that's not a metal. If it's inside wires, then yes.

As soon as i read the paragraph for how you described the shard of Dreams, I was immediately struck with a desire to see a book series based on that shard's world. My initial thought on what that world would be like has a sort of Nalthian feel to it, with lots of color and pretty patterns, but in a more wild manner, less (but not a complete lack of) structure to it, like walls painted by flicking your brush at it rather than carefully painting a representation of something. I might actually make a whole thread to discuss what the shard of Dreams' world could be like (and most importantly the manifestation of Investiture on it).

I'm immediately intrigued by this (being a fan of the surge of transformation) so I'm interested to see how you do with a similar yet clearly different concept like this. 10/10 on the creativity, and I like the downsides you've mentioned thus far. I'd love to be an alpha reader too. I can message you my email address (because I'd rather not have it be super public) if you're ok with that.

Honestly by the time era 4 happens I wouldn't be surprised if there were multiple "bands of mourning" types of Unsealed Metalminds, capable of granting someone super-charged fullborn power for multiple hours on a full charge. Maybe the distribution of these is part of the plot.

And that's why i'm so hyped for Era 3, because we'll get to SEE that sort of effect as the Northerners get Medallions and Skimmer ships to be reasonably commonplace. As well as other ett-tech mechanisms beyond F-Iron and A-Steel mimicry. But as for my thoughts on if the metallic arts existed IRL all of a sudden (and I'm including hemalurgy because it makes things more interesting), I have no doubt that allomantic steel-nicrosil pairs would be trained to fire allomantic-based railguns of some sort in some army of some country somewhere in the world. Either america, russia, or china, probably some other countries, but i guarantee that if these became real then the powers would become weaponized for some reason. Also, soothing parlors would become amazingly popular, I'm sure.

I wonder what metals they actually used for Atium, Malatium, and Lerasium. Harmonium is clearly a fancy tungsten oxide setup, which I applaud. That stuff is gorgeous. Edit: Electrum and bendalloy are swapped on the tray, lmao.

No, man, I understand your frustration here. You wrote it out in a way that wholly explains why you're frustrated. And I agree. The logical steps you've made with the evidence and facts we all have at this moment, make sense. I could definitely see Void-Transformation being able to do Sja-Anat's Enlightening. A transformation of the mind and/or soul. That makes sense, from a logical perspective. I also agree that Void-Abrasion could cause the Thrill, an abrasion of the mind. All of these make sense to me, logically. It doesn't feel like an unreasonable assumption or logical leap to state those, at the very least. Perhaps some of the other ones are a bit tenuous. Maybe. But there's logic to this that I can't help but appreciate.

I feel like a part of this argument is due to vague or confusing terminology. Personally, instead of "magic" and "magic system" I'd use "Investiture" and "Invested art". Investiture-based abilities are things like Pattern being able to levitate because he's a sentient bit of Investiture. Invested arts are well-regulated (at least in some form) that mortals can access and wield themselves regularly. Surgebinding, allomancy, etc. The power of the Well of Ascension isn't a magic system, it's magic. Or, it's Investiture. Of course this could be completely off base and I could be entirely wrong but that's for you to decide

Well, if we're throwing the Metallic arts into the mix, then you can burn Duralumin to fuel Surgebinding. No stormlight or gems needed. And you can soulcast more Duralumin to fuel it more. So you can burn normally-obtained Duralumin to soulcast a ton of duralumin, then burn all of that to superpower your Transformation surge, go ham.

The entire Greater Roshar system is 10-centric except for Braize. I don't see why it should have to be split into 5 honor and 5 cultivation, because all spren are ultimately at least partially both shard's investiture (and likely other shards, due to Greater Roshar being made by Adonalsium itself). Sure, there are 5 female heralds that are considered closer to Cultivation, but... All ten Heralds wield honorblades, not 5 honorblades and 5 cultivationblades (although having said that, seeing Cultivationblades would be freaking AWESOME...)

Well the charge is stored inside the Nicrosil using Feruchemy. Feruchemical charges don't decay (see: copper, for a big example). At the very least it could be GREATLY slowed, but might be altogether preserved due to how Feruchemy is the mixed magic of Ruin and Preservation together.

My favorite theory relates to Ixthos' theory that 10 people and their spren will become 10 vessels of Honor's investiture, with Intents based on their orders' Divine Attributes, perhaps by adding Investiture from 10 other shards (e.g. Preservation + Honor = Protecting, like a Windrunner). Dalinar could still be the "unity shard" of the batch purely with Honorific investiture, keeping the other 9 united in their goal and actions, but not controlling them directly.

May I weigh in with my take on the way a Medallion is accessible by anybody? The secret ingredient is Hemalurgy. Step 1: Have Nicrosil and Aluminum Feruchemy. (any method) Step 2: Spike someone's feruchemy out of them. (optional: have them also store their Identity while spiking them to get an 'unkeyed spike', but this may be a moot point later) Step 3: Store your Identity and then store the Spike's fragment of spiritweb inside the Nicrosil of the medallion. This is the key difference between a normal Soulbearer Ferring and a Medallion. This Nicrosil doesn't just contain "ability to tap x metal", it contains an unkeyed fragment of spiritweb which was used as a hemalurgic charge. Step 4: Fill the other metal of the Medallion while storing Identity, if needed. (e.g. not copper or iron, probably) And done! One functional Medallion useable by anyone, due to the stored Spiritweb wanting to "Latch on" due to being an unkeyed hemalurgic charge, temporarily binding to whoever attempts to use it.