JustQuestin2004

I think it fits here better, Creators Corner is where I would go to post more original stuff.

A bit of news on this dusty old thread. I'm still writing but am abandoning this story, too mundane for my tastes. I also will be putting my stories into separate threads for simplicities sake. My current goal is to write 16 stories and post them. It is my challenge to make myself a decent fanfiction writer. I will leave you with their working titles, just know that I'm currently in the middle of the first one. 1 - The Duststalker 2 - Death's Apprentice 3 - The Last Stand 4 - Sea Sight 5 - Fellavoo 6 - A Change of Face 7 - Southern Phantom 8 - Nightly Vessel 9 - The Cloak of Salvation 10 - Forming Rhythms 11 - Ela's Flame 12 - Starry Sand 13 - False Mistborn 14 - Hero of Ages Past 15 - Far Dreamer 16 - Wayne-ing Away The order of the titles is not indicative of the order I'll be writing them in. Anyway this is the last post I'll be leaving on this thread, just want to make some of you a little excited.

Oh yeah, it would be a little odd for Wyrn to have exclusive access to some type of Future-Sight Selish Art. Unless he was dunking his head into Dominion's Perpendcularity to peer into the Spiritual Realm. Maybe it was Hoid, he was around at the time, he might have nudged things.

So I've been wondering about Wyrn, specifically his strange ability to see the future. This was demonstrated when Wyrn anticipated Hrathen's betrayal and sent an assassin at the precise place and time to kill him. But if Wyrn could see something so specific, why didn't he anticpate anything else of far greater importance like, I don't know, Raoden fixing Elantris? So these facts plus the nature of all Selish Arts has led me to a hypothesis: Wyrn's futuresight only works on people from Fjorden. The only time we've seen it, is on Fjorden people, Hrathen and the priest guy who killed him. Perhaps this is due to Wyrn's future-sight working via Connection, he can see the future's of everyone so long as they are part of Fjorden, with the constantly expanding and conquering that Fjorden has done, perhaps this is done in part to expand the reach of Fjorden's Magics. Both Dahkor's and Wyrn's. It's all speculation with very little evidence but I don't see how anyone with future-sight would have fixated on something as small as a preist gong traitor over the restoration of the only beings on Sel that can truly win against Fjorden.

You'd be massivley enhancing your ability to form Connections to people, places and things. So if you did it in a public area you might become the leader of some kind of new religion centered around you. Or you could become everyone's best friend and never need to pay for anything ever again, on the house for every house.

That would honestly be pretty OP on it's own. Just have Invested people store their ability to use Investiture, basically kryptonite. It could be like a collar instead like the BS power-suppressors from DC.

Better idea, Harmonium Grenades charged with F-Aluminum. They're already used to store the weight of Airships so it should be possible to force people to have their Identity blanked. No consent needed and that is honestly even more terrifying.

I imagine that it will become necessary in the future Cosmere, if there will be a war between Scadrial and Roshar then I imagine you'd want to be able to make sure the enemy Radiants are dead. Or heck even just the Fused if Odium is the instigator. Though Shardplate could be a problem you could also just whittle it down with more bullets, it's not invincible after all.

This or you could get a gun with full-auto then do a little spray-n-pray until you hit the right Bindpoint.

All the Investiture on Scadrial is becoming more and more mechanized, we've seen it with Allomancy and Feruchemy. It only makes sense if Hemalurgy follows along as well.

I honestly have no clue, this whole concept is so simple yet so dumbfounding. I'm not sure what would happen if you Spiked two people at once with a charged Spike. I think there might be a WOB about this, but I don't know where. This sounds possible but I just don't know. I do like the idea of wire-spikes though, it could be a thing in Brandon's hypothetical Cyberpunk Era 3.5 books that he mentions sometimes. It could easily allow a person to hotswap multiple different Spikes on the fly.

Silverlight, it would be the best place to find out a whole lot of answers to a whole lot of questions. Plus it could be a path to going anywhere else, I'd just have to tag along with more experienced Worldhoppers and that combine with Cosmere meta-knowledge might potentially lead to greater opportunities. Or I could just get a job and make a new comfier life in one of the most advanced places in the Cosmere.

A big blue guy just jumping after you hulk-style would be absolutely terrifying,

Huh, funnily enough I was wondering a similar question about a Pewter Ferring with Iron Spikes and just how much more strength they could store. This isn't quite what I was looking for but it's helpful nontheless. Oh yeah KB heal a bit faster than a normal person, but Tarson specifically was a Pewter Savant. So with those two factors in combination mean he could heal a broken arm in a relatively short period of time. Plus being a Pewter Savant probably means that he gained more strength than a normal Thug, maybe instead of a 2x boost when Burning and 3x when Flaring, it would be more like 3x when Burning and 4x when Flaring? I dunno I kind of wish we got a little more of Tarson so we would know.

I think that the Terris were likely the only ones who remembered perfectly it thanks to Copperminds. Only the Original Feruchemist never realized that Ruin had backdoor admin privileges to Feruchemy and could tamper with them. Edit: I also like to think that each Metallic Art had their own 'Age' so to speak. Before Rashek was the Age of Feruchemy, it was the most prevalent though only among the Terris, with Allomancy and Hemalurgy being nearly completely unheard of. Before Vin was the Age of Allomancy, with Hemalurgy being kept a secret by the Lord Ruler and with Feruchemists being hunted. Allomancy was common among nobility. So I like to believe that the Age before all of that was the Age of Hemalurgy, with Feruchemy and Allomancy being both extremely rare. With the sudden advent of Feruchemy being a deliberate ploy by Preservation to counteract Ruin.

I'm working on a bunch of practice snippets to get better at writing out stories instead of just planning and outlining them into oblivion. Should have the first one-shot done within a week or two.

Funny enough, I have an idea for a story of my own, called The Hero of Ages Past. I haven't really gotten around to it, maybe in the future, but the outline is that it's about the time over 1000 years before Rashek, during a time that Hemalurgy was far more common before all knowledge of it was nearly erased. It follows a man who would become the first Feruchemist, the first Terris. The Hero of an Age before Rashek. And that's pretty much all I wrote down in my notes for it. I have other stories I'm trying to work on before I get around to that though.

Don't think so, it's kind of like cybernetics for the soul, if you put in the Spike you get powers, if you take it out they get removed. Though it is an interesting idea, what would happen if someone get spiked with Allomancy, became a Savant with whatever metal they got, then removed the spike? Would their souls stay warped? Would they just keep all the downsides with no upsides?

The latter, the power is stored in the spike but as it is implanted into someone the power is placed into the person. I imagine that it's similar to Savantism, you can grow your own abilities in Sand Mastery just the same, though with less overall power, as any other Sand Master

You do have a strong point about the Hemalurgy Commands. In the Lost Metal it was shown that you could shave off small portions of someone's soul without killing them with the right Intent, and the use of Commands can make it easier. So you are definitely on to something.

Probably either a spaceship or some kind of Magitech from Roshar that can allow a person to use the Surge of Transportation, Nale had one that could use Progression that he used to heal Szeth so I can imagine that there were other such devices for other Surges. I wouldn't have the slghtest clue, but to me it seems like Aether's don't just radiate Investiture like a Shard or really big Splinter would, they need a catalyst (water) to produce a finite amount of Kinetic Investiture. So I don't think that Aethers can suffuse a Planet enough for a Perpendicularity to form. I know there is a WOB on it somewhere in the Arcanum but I don't think that Brandon has said much about it. He did say that there would likely be an effect like what you're saying.

Plus it's cheaper than Allomancy, you only need to buy a single set of Metalmnds and you're good, but with Allomancy you'll need to replenish frequently.

I have a few questions about the Cosmere's most mobile Perpendicularity. What would happen if Dalinar opened a Perpendicularity while in mid-air? Would the Perpendicularity fall with him? Would stay floating in place while he fell? What would it look like in Shadesmar? Would the Perpendicularity just be out of reach for people who can't fly?

So I just had a really weird thought about Feruchemy. Can someone store and tap from the same type of Metal? Like if a Steelrunner had two Steel bracers, could they store a quarter of their speed into each at the same time? Could they tap two Steelminds to up their speed by half the same time so it'd be equal to tapping one Steelmind for double speed but more efficient without the Diminishing Returns you'd normally get from Tapping over 50%? Am I on to something or am I just crazy? Or both?

Here's a hypothesis, let's say that a regular city from Earth from Earth got hit by a Highstorm, how bad would the damage be? Would the city stay standing relatively unscathed, would it be completely blown apart or something in between? I just want a rough guesstimate. For a more specific example, how bad would it be on a port city like, say, Boston?