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Random Twinborn Combo Day 22: A-Zinc and F-Tin This one is actually not that bad! Obviously it’s not one that allows reverse compounding, but you can get some cool stuff with it. using F-tin, you can hear folks’ heartbeat, see them in extra detail, and pick up on subtle physical cues. You could end up being quite the skillful rioter, honestly. Resonance: I would say having a baseline understanding of how people work. Psychological understanding and all that. Name: Hawk would probably work quite well! Rating: 7/10. I hate to give anything with F-Tin anything below an 8, but I must be (relatively) objective with my ratings.

There’s been a recent uptick of bot spans, for some reason, appearing mostly around the Introduce Yourself forums. They have long names, that to the unfocused eye, could be quite similar in structure to your username. But anyways, welcome to the land of the posting! If you were to gain the ability to semi-shift into any of the Cosmere’s magical creatures (basically half transforming into a humanoid-looking variant of them), which would you choose (and why)?

Welcome to the Shard! Glad to have another fanatic. If you were to have one magic system, smuggle it into Roshar, kill a chasmfiend, and get out, which magic system would you use for the job, and how would you pull it off?

This is actually a really good thought! I honestly think that if not for many feruchemists growing up and around other Elendel folks, and assimilating into the culture, the Enclave would probably find more respect amongst the Malwish than with Elendel folks.

You know, I am no realizing how much of a thing this has become. Three weeks in, and we already have 170 replies and a seven page post. I have to say thank you all for your wonderous insights, and I am very glad that you all are enjoying this series! Random Twinborn Combo Day 21: A-Iron and F-Chromium Back to Fortune theorizing we go! So Fortune, as a few of you have wisely pointed out, doesn’t necessarily have to be seeing the future. I would say the Fortune that is generally stored in a Chromiummind likely allows a subconscious, and maybe even conscious if you’re skilled enough, sense of being where you need to be when you need to be there. Certainly a very useful trait! Storing it wouldn’t be too bad, and is more of an irritable than a chore, like F-cadmium. I’m sure it could get to your head, but it’s not as bad as many others can be. Combined with A-Iron, I would say this does a lot of nice things, but if we’re talking synergistically, it can allow you to expertly position yourself in just the right way to pull off some crazy iron-pulls. A talented Lurcher could certainly achieve the same thing (like @I think I am here.’s current Alleyverse character), but being able to do that off the bat is really nice. The great thing about F-Chromium is that, when you train to get a better understanding and management of your Chromium, all of your other skills improve. Cool stuff! Resonance: Luck and Pulling Metals, eh? Perhaps additional luck in encountering physical items? I’m not very sure about a good resonance, so suggestions are, as always, very much appreciated. Name: Acrobat would be a nice one, or given that they’re lucky with fast metals being shot at them, Daredevil? Rating: 8/10. F-Chromium just makes everything better, so I doubt you will encounter any F-Chromium Twinborn below an 8.

This is certainly true, and I have assumed that you could certainly gain Feruchemantic savantism through reverse compounding (in which feruchemy is powering allomancy). I even made a whole other thread talking about which Twinborn combos would allow that!

You’re completely right about that point! Something I hadn’t really thought of, but that is certainly true.

Ah, that’s the what I failed to connect. Thanks for the clarification!

Honestly, I feel like it would be drastically stronger than just a simple vision, as you are burning everything at once, not just flaring it. How would it be stronger? That I do not know. But it would need to be stronger.

Was that burning duralumin enhanced?

Random Twinborn Combo Day 20: A-Bendalloy and F-Cadmium So Allomantic Bendalloy, as previously stated, ain’t bad. It is useful in everyday life, it can be used to zoom around the place if you are good enough with it, and you can use it to buy yourself some extra time in many situations. Overall, really nice. F-Cadmium is a really interesting one. This one stores breath, so while tapping it, your body gets all the oxygen it needs to keep going. While this is called a Gasper Ferring, it is so much more than being able to swim underwater for a long time. I would say that besides F-gold, this is the best Feruchemantic metal at keeping you alive. Your body needs oxygen to survive. It gains said oxygen through the lungs, which it then spreads through the rest of your body through blood. The Ars Arcanum says that Oxygen is dispersed through your bloodstream, so we’ll go with that. If you are, say, bleeding out, getting oxygen into your bloodstream could be quite nice. Of course, that can only help so much, as you’re kind of losing your bloodstream pretty quickly. But from Asphyxiation to heart attacks, this can be really nice. The main downside is that storing is an absolute nightmare, as you have to hyperventilate while storing, which is a pain. Together, you get a Twinborn with offensive and defensive power. It’s like a slightly worse Wayne. Resonance: perhaps a better metabolism? Having it work faster than most, so recourses can be nicely distributed throughout the body quickly? Name: other than Wayne At Home, I don’t have much. Rating: 6/10, purely because we’ve already seen a better version of this in action.

Clotho looked at him apprehensively. “Are you a rusting idiot? In the eventuality that I’m going to pass out, you want me to be standing up?” Clotho knew that Delben wasn’t the most empathetic person out there, but she thought he at least had some common sense. Sitting down, Clotho motioned to him. “Now, you better not be searching my body for coin when I’m out” she said, gravely. “Because of you are, I won’t be the only one that’s been knocked cold today.” Downing a vial and reaching out her hand, Clotho readied herself. @I think I am here.

That’s a good point! I’m certain A-gold is very closely tied to Identity, but you are certainly right that it is pretty much the only allomantic metal to really do that.

Honestly, that’s my thought too. Something that would enable a weird dream-state where you have access to hundreds of alternate selves for a short, unconscious, amount of time.

So we sort of get how Nicro-boosting works on a lot of metals. Pewter, you get super strong, steel you launch everything into the abyss, iron and tin, you just die, and so on. What of the weirder ones? Obviously aluminum and duralumin wouldn’t have too much affect, and chromium and nicrosil would be similar, but what of the forbidden four? The temporal metals? For cadmium, I could see something like instantaneous time travel into the future. Bendalloy—doing a thousand things in the span of half a second? Gold and Electrum is where things get really weird, as they’re weird metals in general. Would they be like Atium, where they just poke a hole in the spirit realm and wild things happen? Atium was predicated on Fortune, and getting a blast of the future, so would Electrum be similar? I suppose given that “Atium” was an electrum alloy, that would make sense. So that just leaves gold. Gold is a weird Allomantic metal, so I have no idea what happens with that one. It doesn’t really tap into fortune, but messes with the Spiritual Realm somehow. I don’t know. Ideas, anyone?

Alright! Today’s post is late yet again, but tomorrow will be an early one, so be prepared. Random Twinborn Combo Day 19: A-Zinc and F-Chromium That’s right folks, we’re diving into chromium. So Chromium stores Fortune. Arcanum says that for Scadrians, that is synonymous with luck, but all we’ve seen of capital F Fortune in the Cosmere has been about seeing the future. For example, that’s how shards can see into the future a bit. And a bit of how Atium does what Atium do. With that in mind, what happens when you store Fortune? Scadrians would say the person would be less lucky, but what actually happens? I…don’t really know. But what happens when it’s tapped? Well, the user would be able to know where they need to be when they need to be, and is more likely for good things, or things that they want, to happen. So pretty good, and a tad weird. Mix that with Zinc, and you can be much more accurate with which emotions to riot. Also, you would be one heck of a gambler. You would likely be the best Rioter around while tapping it, and easily go from zero to hero. It would honestly be quite dangerous. I’m sure one could easily become quite addicted to things going your way. That would honestly lead to quite the interesting character! Resonance: Perhaps naturally charismatic, or have that “can easily be your friend” face/voice, with Fortune being tied to the spiritual realm and all that. Name: Gambler is a pretty good one, honestly. Rating: The elusive 9/10, as it is both very powerful and very interesting. I would love to see one of these folks in action!

The big hesitance there is that Twinborn Resonances were said to be significantly weaker than other magic system’s, which makes me hesitant to add something that basically makes the Resonance the whole thing of the Twinborn. But I don’t know. Perhaps that could work!

Ahoy @Just_a_Fan_YT! Welcome to the Shard! Nice to have ya here. What do you think would be the tastiest fantasy creature that Brando Sando made?

“I assure you, she can do what she pleases. I fear the man that tries to stop her.” Clotho felt that this was probably not too far from the truth. “What happened to the Oracle?” Clotho said as they entered the room. Oracles we’re close to Augurs…right? Looking upon Delben, Clotho saw many of the same features. Yet, this man was certainly different than how her self had known him. More successful. More…arrogant. But still just as desperate for boxings. @I think I am here.

I am terribly sorry about the lateness of my posting. Perhaps some of you may have the mercy to forgive me. Random Twinborn Combo Day 18: A-Nicrosil and F-Gold So these don’t have that much synergy with each other, but that doesn’t mean they’re bad. They’re both definitely within the top three best metals of their magic system, and they each have their own uses. Imagine shooting the Nicro, expecting them to die, ending the sonic speed coinshot bursts, only to see them heal it up. You would be hyper boned. This would be really nice for the Elendel military, honestly. Resonance: Perhaps a slower burn of Nicrosil or something? I don’t have a very good one for it honestly. Name: Don’t really know, sorry! Rating: 8/10, purely because both are such banger abilities

Rusts, you’re right. Well, rating goes down to a 4/10 I guess.

Sorry for the late posting today! Random Twinborn Combo Day 17: A-Nicrosil and F-Aluminum So this is a funky little combination. Allomantic Nicrosil can be quite powerful, as you can burst a target’s allomantic reserves, which is useful in many a circumstance, so long as there’s others with you. F-Aluminum is the odd one. It stores Identity, which isn’t fully understood, but in the end it can allow stuff like stealing and using others’ metalminds. It seems to have downsides to storing your identity though, but we haven’t really seen all that much about it. Together, you got someone that is the ultimate tag team of another twinborn. They can use their metalminds and boost their Allomancy. Pretty cool stuff! Resonsnce: External Enhancement plus Internal Erasing, eh? Perhaps it could lead to having a sense of others’ cognitive selves? Name: well, Sidekick is a bit boring, and Tag Team is a bit off. I’m not so sure about this one, honestly. Rating: 7/10, as it kind of needs others to do anything.

Clotho, realizing herself, took a mental step back. She needed to act more wisely. “Look, the gig is simple. I need a Nicro-enhanced boost of my own Allomantic Gold. So long as I’m not irreparably mentally damaged by the experience, I can give you some boxings and be out of here.” Keeping wary eyes on the other company in the room with her gold shadows, something which her selves seemed to do on instinct, she walked closer. ”You ever dealt with an Augur before?”

Random Twinborn Combo Day 16: You know what? It’s day 16! There has to be something special for it! First ever triple perhaps? Yeah, let’s do that! Random Twinborn Combo Day 16.1 A-Steel and F-Zinc (pushing metal and storing mental [speed]) At this point, we know what these two can do. One lets ya kill things and fly, the other lets ya think fast. Put em together, and you get someone that could do some really nice tricks, with ricochet and perfect pushing. It would be quite the deadly combo, honestly. Resonance: Cognition and external pushing, eh? I would say an intrinsic understanding of arc trajectories, but that’s less a resonance than something that comes with the trade. Perhaps being surprisingly charismatic? Combining the external pushing nature of Steel with the cognitive aspect of Zinc? Name: Trickshot, for sure. Rating: 7/10. Pretty fun gimmick, but they kinda have the one thing. Random Twinborn Combo Day 16.2: A-Copper and F-Tin So you all know how much I love F-Tin, or at least I hope you know (I really need to revive that F-Tin Cult). F-Tin can allow a Twinborn to gain extra senses from their Allomancy using 8 of the 17 possible Twinborn combinations. Sadly, copper is not one of them. Allomantic copper is nice and all, don’t get me wrong. The Allomantic protection is quite nice, and being able to be invisible to a Seeker certainly has its perks. F-Tin, I could go on and on about. Storing pain, sense of temperature, balance, and of course the five senses can be useful for any manner of situations. There’s theoretically a whole bunch more, but it depends how much you’re willing to stretch what counts as a sense. I made a whole other thread for it, and there was varying opinions on it. Now, theoretically, F-Tin would have the most distinct outputs for a Seeker to sense, as a truly talented Seeker could determine the exact sense that is being stored or tapped. It would be quite the advantage against a Windwhirsperer Ferring, but it’s likely a tad too niche to worry about. Resonance: Cloaking and Senses, eh? Well, if resonances could be bad, having a general numbness to senses would be fitting, but I’m not sure resonances can be negative. This is a pretty good one to pitch out to y’all, because there’s certainly something there, I just can’t find it. Name: Another one to pitch out? I don’t love not having names for things, but there’s been some fantastic name suggestions recently. Rating: 6/10 overall, but to an F-Tin snob like me, it’s a 4/10. Random Twinborn Combo Day 16.3: A-Bendalloy and F-Atium Hey, this is the first time we’ve seen Atium! F-Atium stores age, which is kind of weird, and I have mixed thoughts on it. It could Reuther be physically aging the current state of the body forwards or backwards, which has a lot of weird ramifications, like what happens to your muscles? And what counts as “aging”? Another option is that it shifts the body forward or backward in time, which would lead to some really weird stuff, such as potential manifestations of tattoos and such through use. I’m personally preferential to the latter interpretation, but if you want to go on a tangent about that, I have yet another thread about that. Allomantic Bendalloy is funky, and could interact interestingly with aging. Since you are creating a personal speed bubble, where you are moving through time much faster than the rest of the world, how would that affect F-Atium? I honestly don’t really know. I don’t think it would reverse compound, but someone smarter than I can determine that. Overall, really cool stuff. Resonance: Perhaps an intrinsic understanding of the aging of your own body, like an uncanny knowledge of it. “My body is exactly 30 years, 50 days, and 12 hours old” for example. Name: Well, I would certainly like Time Wizard as a name, but it doesn’t really fit as an in-world name. Maybe Time Sifter? Rating: 8/10, purely due to how interesting it is. I would say that it would be closer to a 6/10 in practicality though.