Frustration

John's breathing eased and he felt he could move again. "Viator, are you alright?"

John groaned as he felt his body bend against him. He felt the his arms grow heavy, as they fought against him, swear dripped from his brow as the heat of the flamethrower washed over him. The pain was immense--whatever this mystic was he was strong-- but John could move, if only barely. Slowly inch by inch, muscles straining against some invisible force, John pulled his pistol from his waist and fired.

"You could say I'm the one who cleans up our mess." John said. "Make another portal directly above him looking down." He added in a terse whisper.

Flame jetted out from the weapon in John's hand. It had shocked him how far they could shoot flame back during his time in the army, but now he was glad for the reach. A twenty foot beam of fire reached with open arms to engulf the strange man.

"Viator, portal to the top room please." John said, lighting the firepan on his flamethrower.

It is possible to control hemalurgic constructs using Connection.

I'm afraid I don't understand.

After the Fused propaganda efforts maybe. Before that not a single Parshmen attacked a human.

Is that even a problem? Not the Radinats, just him. No it's just a fact. Odium doesn't care about the Singer's cause and never will. And the majority Fused have objectively lost intrest in winning for the Singers, they want to win, just to win.

There was also a vowel shift in the language at one point,

It could also be that leeching will drain a metalmind of its stores before destroying the metal.

I don't see why it can't be.

No, you can remove their spike and then heal them, fixing their heart, and allowing you to steal something from them.

You could heal them after removing the spike.

A-pewter/F-pewter: Punchy Guy.

Ignoring all previous interactions reguarding compounders, do you have any reasons for why the analysis in this thread is wrong?

Atium also powers itself rather than through Preservation. And it's increadibly investiture dense to start with. But assuming you are right, how does allomancy become more powerful as the metalmind's store increases?

Yes, but you aren't getting any extra over just compounding with a mostly empty metalmind. So let's say we have two compounders, one stores 5 minutes in one metalmind and one stores 1 minute in one metalmind and 4 in another. Compounder A compounds their 5 minute metalmind and gets 14 minutes, while Compounder B compounds their 1 minute metalmind and gets 10 minutes plus the four in their other metalmind, bringing them to 14 minutes.

It should be noted that both characters to say "Tenfold" are unable to compound themselves, and scientific classification of magic systems won't happen until era 3. I don't think that works, as the more of an attribute you draw out of a metalmind at once the more you lose. The more stormlight you hold the faster it leaks out etc. If that trend were to hold you would get even less power the denser the feruchemical charge.

Compounding is often pointed to as the pinicle of the metalic arts, and with good reason. However I've been thinking about it recenty and I have to wonder if we might be over-exagerating its power. In general people think of compounding as using allomancy to multiply the amount of a feruchemical atribute that a metalmind has. But as I think about it that doesn't really work out. Compounding is using Allomancy to fuel Feruchemy, but it doesn't make allomancy stronger. You still get the same investiture out by burning 1g of regular steel as you do 1g of a competly full steelmind, the only difference is how the investiture manifests. So therefore once you have enough of a feruchemical charge in a metal to compound the entire time it's burning, there is no point to adding more of an attribute to it, as you won't get any benefit from it. So it would actually be better to compound with mostly empty metalminds rather than completly full ones.

It's also possible that the Dawnshard corrupted him. Similar to how Glys doesn't act like other Mistspren.

The cavern is the size of a small town, the metal plague is too far away for her to push on.

What am I supposed to see? There is a shard that just wants to hide/survive Since this shard just wants to live, they cannot be Virtuosity. Additionally Brandon has never stated that it is the same shard as the one who is close to "Wisdom". Fans just assumed that with no evidence.

The "Wisdom" shard and the Survival shard are not the same.