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Subversion nodded thoughtfully as Thaidakar left, taking some notes in her how-to-Narrator book. Now, she just had to figure out what changes to make to someone else...

"Well, unless you have some message for him, I think you should head back to the afterlife now. Have fun doing... whatever it is people do in the afterlife."

"He seemed to be doing fine, last I saw him. There was some person pretending to be him, I think."

"I didn't expect you to be. I only want some honest advice."

“Hmm. You think I should do the same?”

Allowance is Preservation’s magic system, but with Atium the power comes from Ruin. Although the electrum-Atium alloying might affect that. And yeah, I agree that we don’t have all the details of how it works. Just that one scene with Elend and the description from that WoB. Still, unless there’s something major that we’re missing, it’s at least a more reliably accessed and less specific form of what an enlightened Truthwatcher can do.

Maybe, but this should be a pure vision from the Spiritual realm. Elend used Atium, but he saw things that Ruin didn’t.

It's more reliable to access at least, and a seeing into the spiritual realm seems to be pretty reliable. Your sight won't be clouded by a Shard's preconceptions, like enlightened Truthwatcher's is.

No armor? What do you mean? Soldiers wear armor in SA at least.

“I told you. Advice on being hated. Mythos seems to hate you, and a lot of other people do so as well. How did you handle that?”

Nameless sighed, reaching out to the source as he followed the Finn into the darkness. "Ah, good. I can use my powers again."

"Rivals? Strange. My Author told me that you were one of the few Nameless trusted."

“One of Nameless’ closest friends can’t even tell me what he looked like? Interesting. In a few hundred pages, will we forget he ever existed?”

"Even if they know what I'm doing, they can't very well hate someone just because they were created by me, now can they? I suppose that Platypus might. Besides, people on TLT have short memories. Do you remember what Nameless looked like?"

Nameless hesitated, looking from Haly to TAAron to the darkness the Finn had disappeared into. "I... don't think that we should wait. The longer we do, the more time it gives the Finn to decide that maybe killing us will be quicker than dealing with us. It's not like they can't attack us if we stay here."

Subversion nodded. “You know, that might be a good idea, come to think of it. If I make an avatar, then I can use that avatar to interact with others, without their hatred of me getting in the way.”

That is a good point, and something I didn't think about. Boosted electrum will still probably be very useful in planning. For example, you could have one person who receives reports of whatever you wanted futuresight's input on so that their future would include details of the future missions, so they could advise planning that way. I get what you're saying, but I think in general the futuresight will still be limited enough in scope that it won't be affected unless someone else with futuresight interferes directly. On Scadrial that would definitely be a problem, with how relatively easy it is to access futuresight. In an interplanetary conflict it could be extremely useful. Roshar's corrupted Truthwatchers could counter it if their visions are reliable enough, and the Returned might be able to interfere with it to some extent, but all in all Scadrial's access to futuresight will just be so much more reliable than anything that other planets currently have.

"No. Did he have many avatars?"

"I don't know the specifics. I wasn't alive when it happened. All I know is what my author told me: Nameless was destroyed by his own avatar."

"Oh, he finally got what was coming to him."

I was scrolling through WoB's on Atium, and I noticed this one talking about what happened when Elend burned Atium with duraluminum: The wording of this surprised me, honestly. Elend "spared" Marsh? Considering how that fight was going and that Elend had just burned away all of his Atium, it doesn't seem like he'd have much choice in the matter. Unless Duraluminum Atium allowed him to continue splitting Marsh's Atium shadows, or even bypass Marsh's Atium somehow. He did see "every possible move his enemy could make", so maybe that would've allowed him to react to anything Marsh did, regardless of Atium That last part is just speculation, and is a lot to base off of the possible implications of one WoB from 2008, but the futuresight ability of duraluminum Atium is still very strong. Elend was able to see Preservation's plan, which took Kelsier holding the power of Preservation a while to figure out. Admittedly, Elend did have more information about Preservation's plan, but still. Now, we have this WoB that says electrum could replicate Elend's feat, albeit with more "interference": Of course, without Mistborn to burn duraluminum, this wouldn't be possible. However, hemalurgy exists. As do Nicrobursts. So any Oracle that's friends with a Nicroburst and has enough money to buy electrum can see the future whenever they want. They might not be able to have the same understanding that Elend got, as one of Atium's major effects is increasing the mind's ability to comprehend what it sees, but an F-zinc medallion or metalmind could help with that. With hemalurgy, it would be fairly easy to make Allomancers capable of seeing the future on demand. Any Allomancer with A-duraluminum, A-electrum, and F-zinc should have no problem seeing the future. Now, unless something we haven't seen is preventing this from working, I'd say this places Scadrial on the top of futuresight in the Cosmere, aside from Shards and potentially Wyrn. The Returned get only one glimpse into the future, and they don't even get to keep their memories of it. They see glimpses of the future they've seen in their dreams and in paintings, unless they recover their memories, which doesn't happen often. On Roshar, corrupted Truthwatchers can see the future, but they can't choose when to receive their visions and they only see parts of the future, through paintings. The only futuresight that's been onscreen that could potentially match this (besides a Shards, of course) is Riino the lighthouse keeper's. Kaladin managed to get a glimpse of the future without training, and if training allows one to get better visions, it is possible that it could match boosted-electrum futuresight. However, as that method requires a Highstorm, boosted-electrum futuresight is still superior to it in ease of access, even if it does work just as well in quality of futuresight. So, what do you all think? Is there a reason that electrum futuresight wouldn't work as I think it would? Is Scadrial going to become the new center of futuresight in the Cosmere? Do you think that an Allomancer with A-duraluminum and A-electrum would be able to use the ability in combat as effectively as Atium?

Subversion shrugged. "You seem to have a lot of people that hate you. I was wondering if you had any advice for me."

I picked A-pewter and F-gold, because I don’t really want to become a demigod. If I could pick one more power, I think I’d go A-cadmium. As fun as being a coinshot sounds, I’d probably kill myself trying to fly.

So? The strength Vin would have to pull with is still that described by the centripetal force equation.

Maybe. to get things back on topic, you claim that because division is an active use of Investiture, leeching cannot affect it. However, leeching can affect active Investiture. The WoB you cited gives a rationalization for why Szeth and Kaladin can’t suck Stormlight from Shardplate. Radiants are strongly blocked by active Investiture. However, leeches are not. They can leech Stormlight from Radiants, which no Radiant can do. Therefore, you cannot say that leechers would be unable to leech Stormlight from Division, as they are obviously able to overcome many of the barriers that normally prevent the draining of Investiture.