To clarify the Lifeless passcode thing, that's a function of the Command used to create them
Awaken to my Breath, serve my needs, live at my Command and at my word. <Security phrase>
That is the one-Breath Lifeless creation Command, which among many other factors, was part of the reason for the Manywars, though the security phrases themselves were probably used before that as well.
I don't remember which one's who but one of them is the crazy hunter Inquisitor who was decapitated by Kelsier, the other is the Inquisitor leader who planned for Tevidian Tekiel's fall, was later ambushed by Marsh & had his linchpin spike removed
The current theory is that the person being mourned through those names (Monody, Elegy, Threnody, Coronach) is Ambition, who was killed by Odium
There is, of course, also a lot of speculation about the celestial body that breaks that pattern, Purity
Hello @Artoxic_Flame, welcome to the Shard! Glad to have you with us!
Well, usually it's us beginning the questions/interrogation
My favourite magic system is Surgebinding too, for the same reason as you. After that, probably Forgery.
So, who's your fav character?
I think that was a Dustbringer, Karg. I read that as benefits of having a Shardplate or a living Shardplate
Hmm, okay that sounds reasonable. But the resistance can't be too much since the Windrunner was able to lash the other Radiant or there is a way to overcome it, possibly simply more Investiture expensive (whose plate colour I've forgotten, except remembering that it wasn't one of the Orders with the Surge of Progression, so she probably had a fabrial)
Hope we get to see Shardplate manifestation soon
@Pathfinder, definitely not the only one; where the Investiture system's name comes from, and the comparison between Skeletals & Lifeless made me come to the same conclusion