Friendshipspren

Hey can anyone come up with a cool name for double chromed ppl. I would also like to learn cool names for other compounders

I read that gold compounders could go without oxygen . Is it true ? If so , does it have any limitations ( apart from gold costing lots more than cadmium but then again it's era 2 and cadmium's still costly ) or does it make cadmium feruchemy or compounding completely redundant ? Even with cadmium cost going down ? Also if it's not true , why didn't anyone try to choke miles hundredlives ?

Ok I get ur point. But suppose he de-aged himself to a 20 yr old , then he could grow till 40 naturally , then try the trick again . I wonder if feruchemy's law of decreasing return would be made null by it ? If it were , tlr would be immortal in the true sense. Also , wait would it be temporary or not , like would his age be stabilized. Like he could stop burning atium and still be 20 yrs old and aging normally. If that's the case then no chance of him dying by rapid aging by which he died .

Well not a baby exactly. Like suppose he limited the amount of charged atium he burned so he would only turn into a teen or like a 20 yr old. Of course it would take trials and errors but he could start by using very small quantities of charged atium ( that would de-age him 1 yr or a few months ) at first till he gets a better idea and grasp of it . Also since he's the only guy who can burn charged atium and knows about duralumin and about atium's feruchemical application and about feruchemy itself ( very few ppl knew about feruchemy thanks to his suppression of terris culture ) and then there's the fact he's the only guy who can afford that much atium , I think it wouldn't be too hard to pull it off as another divine miracle.

Ok then why didn't tlr just do that or is it temororary . Like u get to be a baby for 3 seconds and then age back ?

Really , wax has less muscle . Oh yeah it's like how astronauts suffer from muscular atrophy during prolonged habitation in low gravity environments. Damnation I never thought of that. And here I was thinking storing weight was harmless and wondering why Wax only stored 25% instead of like 90%

Idk . What if a firesoul getting spent time around a warn fire or a sauna or something , then stored all the uncomfortable heat into the medallions ? I know firesouls aren't fire proof but they should be able to be comfortable in warm places and manage to store up large amounts of heat .

So I found this interesting WoB. Questioner What happens if you burn duralumin while Compounding? Brandon Sanderson Duralumin while Compounding. So, what duralumin does is it burns out of all of your metal in one burst. So it doesn't necessarily gain you power, it makes it all happen at the same time. The same thing would happen. Questioner Could you turn into a baby? Brandon Sanderson Oh, you could totally turn into a baby. That is within the power of using that, doing <health wrong>, yeah you could totally... You'd be really dangerous. Wth does it mean ? How could u turn into a baby by compounding gold. I know it stores like ur manifestation in space-time at the current moment and releases it back to recover from injuries by replacing ur current manifestation in space-time with ur old healthy , stored one . Your spiritual identity plays a role too. But I was under the impression that gold couldn't affect age . If it did , tlr would be running naked in luthadel ,drunk on joy. Tlr did know about duralumin right ?? So what does it mean ? Is it a joke ? A misquote ? Or is Lord Sanderson referring to some other metal ? Also yeah would happen if u burned duralumin while compounding atium ?

So Wax infers from miles's constant compounding that it would be detrimental to him if he were to stop . What exactly would be the consequences ? We know intensive brass compounding can lead to heatstrokes and even death . But that's only if they compound brass too much. Miles doesn't seem to have a problem with that . Is Wax even correct in his deduction ? Will there be withdrawal effects and maybe permanent damage ? What about the other metals ? Even if there are negative effects , is it as bad as allomantic savanthood with respect to tin or pewter ?

Look at Iraq , Saddam was far from benovalent but compared to the Taliban or Kim jong un , he was an angel. He promoted hierarchies , he was a nepotistic bastard , but how is different than a highprince or the kholins in that regard. And he was able to give the ppl atleast some semblance of security and stability And then America invaded and all the stability vaporized into thin air. Now Iraq is a hotspot of violence between all sorts of different factions . Weak rule reigns. And it's a greater destroyer of peace and prosperity than Saddam ever was. I always thought about this when Wit said that. And now hey I'm from India and this is just my perspective. I'm not here to attack American politics .But I think this is a good example. Iraq could have been handled in a much better way . But this is just an example of benovalent , well , barely benovalent tyranny versus weak rule .

Oh my shard

Now maybe u ppl already know this So I was watching a YouTube episode of pitch meeting ( it's super funny , check it out ) and this time it was about Guardians of the Galaxy 2 . And I realized something, the villain is called Ego and is basically a godlike being who resides on a planet he created and has like invested himself in . Now is it only me or is he kinda similar to a shard ? This is just a fun thing I noticed is all. He's not near as powerful as a shard and has no intent , but still

Khriss !!!

Ok , so like I think we can all agree that a fullborn is the most dangerous and unbeatable creature in the Cosmere , short of a full shard. Yet tlr died so easily. I mean yeah he was basically relying too much on nicrosil for allomancy and he wasn't expecting Vin to be fueled by Pure preservation itself but still , isn't it a bit strange ? Isn't it wierd how easily he was killed by a somewhat headstrong and stupid teenager of all ppl ?? Wasn't he a little unlucky ? I think the reason tlr died so easily was cause he used up a lot of fortune. OK , MY ENTIRE THOEORY HINGES ON THIS but Like maybe there's a limit for fortune u can use in ur favour. A feruchemist storing or tapping fortune is basically a zero sum game , but a fullborn could easily exhaust his spiretweb's reserve of fortune . I'm pretty fortune works rather differently than any other attribute. Hell , if a fullborn had access to unlimited fortune , there wouldn't be a contest at all. I'm pretty sure fortune is more limited tho , maybe all spiritual qualities are. So back to my theory .Maybe he used fortune excessively during his early reign , Maybe that's how the ppl who flayed , beheaded , burned him , didn't think of removing his metals , even tho knowledge of feruchemy was more common then. Then however the negative effects hit . Would also explain how almost everything he did later on , ended up making things worse , even tho in many cases he had good intentions . Also would explain why he was so depressed. Maybe he was out of fortune and thus , the chemicals in his brain stopped producing the harmones to make him happy. I mean that is what depression is , a fault in the production of mood enhancing harmones by bad luck. It's genetic but some chance is involved and thus , he used up his fortune and became depressed due to being unlucky and became even more vulnerable to Ruin. Also I don't think u can cute depression by being Rioted. Could also how vin's earring came loose when tlr slammed into a wall or something. It wasn't pushed or pulled out , mind u, it came out as a result of her being thrown by tlr and it never did that before , not when she was fighting with Inquisitors or training . It didn't fall away during the battle at luthadel against the Koloss or against the Inquisitors and she was pretty beat up by the Inquisitors mind u . What are the odds of that happening at exactly that moment ,eh ??? . Also maybe just maybe that's how he had a confrontation with vin. I mean look at the odds . Vin stupidly decided to attack tlr , gets captured , gets freed by Sazed even tho he was a terrisman and the Inquisitors atleast should have suspected him of being a feruchemist and removed his metals , then they both nearly get killed but Elend saves them and elend himself is alive cause kelsier saved him ( sure he did it for Vin but I'm pretty sure there could be other factors at work ) and he came to help him cause Vin spares the guards and they just happen to run into Elend. Then she stupidly attacks tlr again , Marsh gets an opportunity to kill a dozen Inquisitors easily , Vin just happens to guess that tlr is actually Rashek not alendi ( I mean I love Vin but she's not exactly the brightest sphere in the mix and it's strange that she would think of things like that while she's literally being crushed by tlr ) , she mini-ascends or something , even tho leras was still alive and ruin being still imprisoned couldn't weaken leras , then the bracers fall out of his reach cause Vin still has some steel left , then Sazed arrives and ok , tlr would have died anyway but still isn't it unlucky how he was killed with a common spear rarther than dying in a somewhat less humiliating way due to accelerated aging . So that's my theory, that tlr used up too much fortune and became unlucky , somehow managed anyway for a few centuries then fell to a common spear by a no of small unlucky events

Ok , so like I think we can all agree that a fullborn is the most dangerous and unbeatable creature in the Cosmere , short of a full shard. Yet tlr died so easily. I mean yeah he was basically relying too much on nicrosil for allomancy and he wasn't expecting Vin to be fueled by Pure preservation itself but still , isn't it a bit strange ? Isn't it wierd how easily he was killed by a somewhat headstrong and stupid teenager of all ppl ?? Wasn't he a little unlucky ? I think the reason tlr died so easily was cause he used up a lot of fortune. OK , MY ENTIRE THOEORY HINGES ON THIS but Like maybe there's a limit for fortune u can use in ur favour. A feruchemist storing or tapping fortune is basically a zero sum game , but a fullborn could easily exhaust his spiretweb's reserve of fortune . I'm pretty fortune works rather differently than any other attribute. Hell , if a fullborn had access to unlimited fortune , there wouldn't be a contest at all. I'm pretty sure fortune is more limited tho , maybe all spiritual qualities are. So back to my theory .Maybe he used fortune excessively during his early reign , Maybe that's how the ppl who flayed , beheaded , burned him , didn't think of removing his metals , even tho knowledge of feruchemy was more common then. Then however the negative effects hit . Would also explain how almost everything he did later on , ended up making things worse , even tho in many cases he had good intentions . Also would explain why he was so depressed. Maybe he was out of fortune and thus , the chemicals in his brain stopped producing the harmones to make him happy. I mean that is what depression is , a fault in the production of mood enhancing harmones by bad luck. It's genetic but some chance is involved and thus , he used up his fortune and became depressed due to being unlucky and became even more vulnerable to Ruin. Also I don't think u can cute depression by being Rioted. Could also how vin's earring came loose when tlr slammed into a wall or something. It wasn't pushed or pulled out , mind u, it came out as a result of her being thrown by tlr and it never did that before , not when she was fighting with Inquisitors or training . It didn't fall away during the battle at luthadel against the Koloss or against the Inquisitors and she was pretty beat up by the Inquisitors mind u . What are the odds of that happening at exactly that moment ,eh ??? . Also maybe just maybe that's how he had a confrontation with vin. I mean look at the odds . Vin stupidly decided to attack tlr , gets captured , gets freed by Sazed even tho he was a terrisman and the Inquisitors atleast should have suspected him of being a feruchemist and removed his metals , then they both nearly get killed but Elend saves them and elend himself is alive cause kelsier saved him ( sure he did it for Vin but I'm pretty sure there could be other factors at work ) and he came to help him cause Vin spares the guards and they just happen to run into Elend. Then she stupidly attacks tlr again , Marsh gets an opportunity to kill a dozen Inquisitors easily , Vin just happens to guess that tlr is actually Rashek not alendi ( I mean I love Vin but she's not exactly the brightest sphere in the mix and it's strange that she would think of things like that while she's literally being crushed by tlr ) , she mini-ascends or something , even tho leras was still alive and ruin being still imprisoned couldn't weaken leras , then the bracers fall out of his reach cause Vin still has some steel left , then Sazed arrives and ok , tlr would have died anyway but still isn't it unlucky how he was killed with a common spear rarther than dying in a somewhat less humiliating way due to accelerated aging . So that's my theory, that tlr used up too much fortune and became unlucky , somehow managed anyway for a few centuries then fell to a common spear by a no of small unlucky events

Wow that was beautiful. I learned so much . damnation Scadrial was almost on the verge of hitting 18th century level tech. Noice. I didn't know that. I knew about the guns and gunpowder but thought they were like in the 11th century level. And about elantris. Sure the Elantrians don't have much incentive to fuel technology but they are just one city and the magic is endemic to the city alone. There are other places , Teod , svorden , the fjordell empire , the rose empire , the unknown third great civilization. Hell , even the rest of Arelon itself can't benefit from Elantrian magic to varying extents . Sure some of these places have thier own places have thier own magic systems but they are extremely limited compared to thier Elantrian kin and again endemic to a small region. And they are all stuck in a transition period bw mediaval and modern. The svordish seem to be making great headway tho.

True enough

She never says it outright , but seeing as Roshar was already settled by honor and cultivation before humans ever came there. I think it's safe to assume she meant roshar. But yeah it's ambiguous , maybe the Singers had gods but like not real ones and then they saw the shards coming with the humans and were like ,yeah these must totally be our gods ??? I find that unlikely tho.

Well khriss says except Scadrial and Roshar , humans were already there on other planets BEFORE the shards arrived. Which means they were all there preshattering or that the shards created them but sent them through first. Idk sounds pretty convulated. Why not settle the planet and then create Humans . I really do believe that except Scadrial , all other humans originated from Yolen , one way or another. Oh wait no , no. U agree with me. Ok I misunderstood u , I get it now , see khriss says that Scadrial and another planet were the only ones where the shards predated humanity . I guess since humans were originally found on Ashyn And honor , cultivation settled on roshar before they migrated , it means Roshar was the second planet . The two shards settled on roshar when only singers were there. Read the essay on Scadrial in arcanum unbounded. That's where khriss says it. I'm not saying rosharan or Ashyn humans were created by the shards. Only that they migrated to roshar After the shards settled there . Also yeah that was a typo. I meant Yolen not Roshar. Well I'm guessing the humans on Yolen were at least at mediaval level of tech right ? I guess the same level of development held once they migrated to other planets. Yet it's been atleast 10,000 years since the shattering and nearly all the planets are still stuck at mediaval tech ( With the exception of Scadrial of course , and the dark side of taldain , but even there only gunpowder and the scientific method are the only breakthroughs). Ashyn can be explained away , I mean they literally destroyed thier planet , roshar can be explained as well due to the desolations but the rest , u can't explain how they are still stuck at mediaval , there are also several clues ( atleast on SEL , where it's mentioned the shards d and d , were alive and died when humanity was still in it's prehistoric phase. ) that humanity collectively regressed on all planets ( probably due to the shattering ) or that adonalsium played some joke or experiment just seeding planets with primal humans ???

Migrated after the shattering ?? Idk , I mean wouldn't ppl on nalthis ,taldain , Sel ,Threnody or any of the other planets remember or atleast have some lore about Yolen and thier migration. Also doesn't explain how they went from mediaval to pre history level of social and scientific development. I'm leaning towards pre shattering migration and the shattering like destroyed thier Connection and Identity and they forgot about Yolen and the migration . Maybe they had some high level of tech but that was lost too

Ah :3

Now we know from secret history that like humans first originated in Yolen . And from arcanum and oathbringer that except for Scadrial and Roshar that humanity on all other planets predates the arrival of shards. So how did humanity spread across the Cosmere , were they technologically advanced and had mastered space travel but the shattering sent them back to pre history levels somehow or did adonalsium help them travel , using shard pools or oathgates or like with better control over the spiritual realm. We suspect that's how humans made it from Ashyn to Roshar. If so , were these humans at least at a mediaval level of tech and then somehow regressed desolation-style . I mean khriss says humanity was at it's prehistory when Devotion and Dominion came to Sel. Also why only humans . We know that dragons and some fain things also liver on Yolen and were equal to humans. Yet they didn't spread I think. Any thoughts or WoBs or theories ?

Oh right. I hadn't even thought about it. But still there could have been other beads. Hoid left one , which elend used and it's possible leras originally made 16 and a few are still out there. Of course it would have been impossible to find them while the world was ending . Thanks.

Many good rulers have been terrible people by contemporary standards. I mean , dalinar is almost the same . He even believes in eye color hierarchy a bit. Besides ppl change , look at vasher. He started the many war but ended it too. I'm sure the Lord ruler could have been better if it wasn't for the atium skin piercing bracelet and ruin. Even if he didn't change , u can't deny that ruin torturing him made him worse.

But vin's mom was mentally unstable . So was Zane and that's how ruin was able to get Zane spiked of his own volition. I don't think rashek was mentally unstable. Neither did he have any hemalurgic spikes. He didn't have any right ? I mean , he would know better. Or was it that ruin concertrated on one individual and hence was able to talk to rashek without hemalurgy. I always thought ruin was able to talk to rashek cause the atium in his bracelet even if it were hemalurgically uncharged , still was ruins essence and hence acted as a conduit. Sazed even says ppl burning atium are better killers since they are Connected to ruin.