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Spren live primarily in the cognitive realm, but when they bond a radiant, they manifest mostly in the physical realm. Is there a spren, or spren like creature that lives primarily in the spiritual realm? (Aside from shards, that is)

When you give all your bio-chromatic breath so someone else, it takes a small part of your own investiture with it, but since the transfer of investiture is fueled by color, this investiture is not lost in the exchange. Does this mean that a breath will grow ever so slightly in strength the more people it has been transferred through? Would it eventually divide into a new breath, or will it stay a single, albeit stronger breath, somewhat like how the Returned have a single, but extremely powerful breath? Would there be a benefit of having a single, very powerful breath over a large number weaker breaths, or is it disadvantageous since you probably can't easily split the investiture within it? If a non-Nalthian were to get a breath, and then transfer it to someone else, will their own innate investiture change its Intent, since their own investiture’s Intent comes from a different shard?

Is Feruchemical gold healing superior to Surgebinding healing, since feruchemical healing leaves the person feeling rejuvenated and refreshed, and stormlight leaves the person feeling tired? If a gold Ferring were to become a knight radiant, could they tap small portions of a goldmind to counteract the exhaustion they would feel after healing via stormlight?

And since the Hightstorms of Roshar are what keep most of it's life going...yeah, I could see how trying to summon the Stormfather as a shardblade might be a bad decision.

In Oathbringer, we see Dalinar summon some kind of "energy" to operate the Oathgate. Could he summon the Stormfather as a shardblade if he progressed enough in his oaths? I realize that this might be problematic, since Dalinar's oaths are to unite, not devide, which is kind of a shardblade's whole deal. However, Dalinar is also less bound than bond-smiths used to be, so maybe it's possible.

But the sword would cognitively act as one whole object, so shouldn't you be able to burn the whole thing? If time is the issue, then you could always use duralumin.

Actually, I was thinking along the lines of painting it, or putting it in wax or bread dough, then buring the metal without it physically touching your actual body. But if you coated it in another, allomantically viable metal, then maybe you could use duralumin to burn both metals before the Harmonium could blow up on you.

Sorry, I really should slow down and explain my thoughts better. When I say the weakest, I don't meant that they aren't dangerous; heck, Kenton absolutely destroyed what was basically the Taldain equivalent of a chasmfiend with his sand mastery. But that's all he can do. Telekinetically moving ribbons of sand can be very useful to a creative person, but so too is the ability to animate objects, see the future, actually fly, the ability to transform nearly any substance into almost any other substance, regenerating your lost limbs, or rewriting your own soul. Sand mastery can't do any of that. Other magics all have far more than one ability available to them, allowing for much more versatility and potential for creative individuals. That's what I meant when I say they are the weakest.

If you stabbed an awakener with a raysium knife, could you inject yourself with their breaths? I know that you likely wouldn't be able to awaken with then since they're keyed to someone else's Identity, but could you gain the heightenings?

What I meant was, could you place a forgery on a metal spike and turn it into a hemalurgic spike, but fueled by the Dor, not Ruin.

I've actually read most of the Coppermind, at least relating toward investiture. I probably should read more of the arcanum though, as not all the information there is put in the Coppermind. I mostly ask these questions here because I like to hear someone else tell me something, to be honest; I enjoy having people listen to me about a subject I love, and talking to me about it back, and having them actually enjoy the experience. I don't have any friends or family who like to listen to me talk about this kind of stuff, and they usually get bored or upset with me when I try.

Okay, but assuming that you don't get a resonance through standard hemalurgic means, then since you're not adding anything to your resonance, then wouldn't that mean that you wouldn't alter any resonances you already had?

The Coppermind wiki says that you usually won't get resonances from hemalurgy.

Hadn't even thought of that. But it definitely sounds possible to me.

Despite being bonded to a spren with a significantly greater amount of investiture than a typical radiant spren, Dalinar Kholin doesn't seem to be particularly powerful when compared to the other radiants. He doesn’t seem to be able to hold a noticeably larger amount of stormlight than a normal radiant, and it doesn't seem to confer any greater affect to him than other radiants. His actual abilities do seem to have some pretty powerful potential, but if both he and another radiant of a different order coppied their powers into unsealed metalminds, then it seems unlikely to me that there would be a larger requirement of investiture to make Dalinar's powers function than say, a windrunner, because honorblades don't seem deviate in raw power, yet they confer those same abilities. Which means it's not the raw power that would allow him to use those particular abilities either, but rather that he happens to have that power set. Is the reason he isn't more powerful than other radiants because the Stormfather’s power is not really Dalinar’s power, but his powers are from the bond itself, which would limit Dalinar's ability to draw on the Stormfather's full power, because it's not really his? Does a normal radiant's power not depend on the amount of investiture held by their spren?

Even with a chunk of their spiritweb missing?

Came up with yet another question/idea Could a Connector ferring or a bond-smith take an object that had great emotional value to a person and then use the Connection of that object to Connect themselves to that person? They'd almost be like a kind of 'Scadrian psychic', only with actual powers.

Can a radiant spren or a ‘normal’ animal spren be given bio-chromatic breaths? If so, would giving them enough turn them into something that has much more widespread and unique affects and abilities, like the Unmade or the Stormfather?

Since hemalurgic spikes don’t usually grant resonances, would they also not interfere with any resonances that you could develop naturally? For example, could Marsh gain a resonance if he somehow got another power without the use of hemalurgy, without needing to worry about his many spikes interfering?

Hypothetical scenario. Kaladin (or really any radiant) has their spren bond stolen by a hemalurgist. Kaladin lives, and Syl breaks the bond before the hemalurgist can give himself surgebinding, but is Syl able to re-bond with Kaladin, or was the piece of spiritweb stolen by the spike necessary for the bonding process, and will he therefore need it healed by an outside source before he can bond a spren again?

Could you kill, or at least seriously harm all of the Fused by having a bond-smith enhancing the Connection that one of the Fused had to all the other Fused, then shoving a ton of anti-voidlight into that one by using a raysium weapon? We’ve seen that a radiant will be injured by having their spren destroyed, so maybe this same principle could be expanded on.

Alright, even though it probably won't work...here's one more way I thought of to create the 'perpendicularity grenade' Could Dalinar store his ability to create a perpendicularity in an unsealed metalmind, and then that be used in conjunction with an allomantic grenade to force enemies into the cognitive realm?

Yeah, I’m not sure how my brain managed to spawn this many questions about one subject within such a short time, but I’ll just put them in one post, so as to keep them a bit more together. What are some possible applications for Feruchemical Connection? We know that if you fill your metalmind, you automatically Connect to the land you are currently in, allowing you to speak the language of the natives. But could you do the reverse, like what Dalinar does with Connection, and tap a large amount in order to forge a Connection with someone, granting you an understanding of their language? Can you forge a Connection with one person, then forge a Connection with another person, and act as a bridge between the two? Could a strong Connection between people be used to perform telepathy, similar to how a radiant and their spren can use telepath with one another? We also know that you can control hemalurgic constructs using feruchemical Connection, so could you forge useful bonds with other entities, such as spren? Since spren normally are the ones who would make such a bond, thus giving them control over it, would you instead have control over the bond? After you made such a Connection with a spren, could you store the abilities in nicrosil metalmind so that you wouldn’t need the spren any longer? Would these forged Connections disappear immediately after you stopped tapping the metalmind, or like with Dalinar’s Connections or an allomancer’s domination of hemalurgic constructs, would they persist for a period of time? If not, could you create a strong Connection, then hemalurgically remove it and more or less permanently grant that Connection to yourself or someone else? If you tap feruchemical Connection, is it a passive ability with witch you have little control, it merely being an enhancement like when an allomancer burns pewter, or can you control it a little, like allomantic steel and how even when you burn it you don’t just automatically push on nearby metals. Can you store specific Connections to certain things, like how you can store specific senses or memories, or is it just a general storage of all your Connection? If you were to make a strong enough Connection to one of your other metalminds, could you tap it without needing to touch it?

Hemalurgy uses a smaller portion of power, just enough to hotwire the spiritweb. So, could Forgery reasonably be used to create a hemalurgic spike that functions as any other spike would?

Um…slightly morbid-ish question here. If a shardbearer’s arms get broken in battle or because they needed to be contained in prison and their captors didn't want to kill them, could they still summon their shardblade, or would their perception prevent them from doing this?