JustQuestin2004

Aren't those just Fabrials? Care to expand on this because I'm not quite following. Pretty much the most basic use of Cohesion, but it's still stupidly effective on pretty much anyone who can't break rocks or fly. Now this is clever, you'd be able to create whatever weapon or tool you want with just whatever is around you. Make a hammer made out of stone, make a sword out of a car or make a shield out of a door. The possibilities are endless. Using Cohesion the affect the Molecular Structure of objects? Hard to say if that's possible but if it is it'd make Cohesion even more OP than it is. True, I hope we'll be seeing more of Cohesion with Venli and the Listeners in Book 5. Here's another potential trick; Spike creation. Molding the ground into spikes to directly stab people with, you'd mold part of the ground into a spike, then 'let go' of the tip to let it harden, while keeping the rest liquidy and controllable, allowing you to stab people from afar and control the battlefield even more. Not to mention it's use over long periods such as in a siege? Allowing you to make exceptional defenses such as huge sturdy walls, pits filled with spikes, bunkers for people, etc.

Out of all the Surges, I'd have to say that I find the Surge of Cohesion to be the one I'm most interested in. Because it almost feels like a strange yet alluring combination of Waterbending and Earthbending from Avatar, except even more broad somehow. So let's come up with some cool applications for it. Just for fun. I'll start with one that's been stuck in my head for a while: Stone 'Power' Armor. The concept is a bit weird but also fairly simple, the Surgebinder uses Cohesion to mold stone/metal/etc around their body, hardening the exterior by 'letting go of it' while keeping the insides moldable and movable via Cohesion. Thus letting them have a 'liquid' armor that they could reshape on the fly for swords, hammers, shields, etc. It wouldn't be as tough or efficient as Shardplate, but it would be accessible to any Willshaper or Stoneward before they swear the 4th oath. A decent substitute in most scenarios that don't include defending oneself from Shardblades. Any other cool ideas?

Here's a Wob: You'd still be stupidly powerful from the Beads but Duralumin wouldn't change that. It just compresses the power from Burning metals, it doesn't add to it.

Yeah I'm thinking that now too, an epic heist like this is exactly up Kelsier's alley. But why would Harmony not say anything about it? Then again he did agree to stay out of Wax's head and had greater concerns at the time, so it's probably justified in why we don't know yet.

Orrrr He was referring to the Airship he was using, which uses Steelpushing to move around. Airships are far better for traversing an ocean than a Coinshot.

Neither am I, it's why I'm asking. But I'm leaning towards 'probably' for this. Because the reason for Allomantic dilution is that the original Lerasium-Mistborn had kids with non-allomancers, which resulted in them being slightly weaker, which continued for a thousand years until by the first book, there is (I think) 1 Mistborn for every 1000 Mistings. But Mistwraiths wouldn't have this issue, since all of them have the same Feruchemical potential, hopefully resulting in little-to-no loss. All living things have DNA, and I'm pretty sure that while the Mistwraith's physical DNA is wildly different from a human's, I'm willing to think that their sDNA still works the same way as a human's.

Oh yeah that's right, I should have said that. Plus to this admiral who probably has a ton of national pride and has said that it would be 'easy' for the Malwish to invade the Basin, he might have just straight up not cared if they took offense to his actions.

So every Feruchemist from before Rashek used the Well was turned into Mistwraiths. The Mistwraiths could only have offspring with other Mistwraiths. So would it technically be possible for the Mistwraiths and Kandra to carry pure Feruchemical potential? They can't use it of course, due to the 'blockage' that Rashek put between their physical and cognitive selves* But if they do, could it potentially be Spiked out of them? Or perhaps could there be a way to remove this blockage and make them human? *WoB

It kinda does, so if one were to be a Savant in Bendalloy and be able to move the Speedbubble around by anchoring it to themselves, they'd probably have to make it as small as possible and wrap it around themselves to avoid some of these problems. Does that make sense?

Wow, this seems like it's aged really well. Let's list this out verse by verse shall we? 1) "He shall defend their ways, yet shall violate them"; Harmony is the protector of Scadrial, so check. He's also caused some messed up stuff to happen, Lessie being a prime example. Double check. 2) "He will be their savior, yet they shall call him heretic": Saved the world? Check. Heresy? Well I'm sure the Malwish would just love to make worshipping him heresy if they knew about him being the technical cause of their little cold problem. But let's list this as unchecked for now. 3) "His name shall be Discord, yet they shall love him for it": Not Discord yet but he's getting there. Half-Checked. Love him for it? Maybe if he intervenes in a war or something. Let's uncheck this. 3 and a half checks, with more on the way. Damn how far did Leras see? Did he know about Harmony? Does he have yet another plan?

But who and how? The Malwish wouldn't have known any of the Kandra before BoM and the Kandra are pretty secretive so how would they even know where to find them? Maybe it was Kelsier who did it, maybe he stole the Bands, replaced them with a fake and brought the real one to the Southern Scadrial, which would explain what he was doing there and what he meant by him 'helping the Southern Scadrians' with some unnamed problem.

Well it is just a theory I have, I'm just not sure what else it could have been. I do like the thought of the Malwish pulling an epic heist beneath everyone's noses though. Full on Mission Impossible style.

That's not what I was referring to. The Bands are a special Unsealed Metalmind, if you can feel the ability to Tap it, then you should be able to feel the ability to Store into it as well. No one seemed to, which makes me think that the Bands were swapped out with a fake at some point. The reason for no one realizing it is because Marasi and Wax were the only people to ever use them and know what they felt like, everyone in that scene had no idea what to expect and just assumed that because it wasn't doing anything it was drained. Of course they were his reason for being there, because it's well known that the Malwish want the Bands. Them being empty and unusable would lower their usefulness to the Basin, so he could take it with no one thinking it'd cause problems (aside from Steris) because "hey, It's clearly just a trinket now and we have a bomb to worry about". Besides what I'm saying is that the Bands in that scene were not the actual Bands. How they did a hypothetical swap I couldn't even begin to guess. Hope I've made it clear now.

That makes sense, I didn't realize that Mistborn live longer but the lifetime access to decent amounts of Investiture would make this make sense. I thought that Marsh was kept out of direct action because if he got too close to Telsin because she might have been able to control him like Ruin could. So I didn't really have a problem with it. I thought his acting as Death scene with Bilmings Mayor was really cool.

Yes but Leechers can't affect Metalminds directly. And no one could even 'feel' anything when holding it, which seems weird to me because if it was actually dry couldn't they have felt the ability to store anything into it? It seemed that the 'Bands' were more like a fake duplicate, which the Malwish somehow already got and replaced beforehand, and just wanted to grab the fake before anyone realized it was fake. At least that's what I'm thinking now.

This is the difference between a diluted-strength Mistborn, like Vin or Spook, and 'Pure' Mistborn like Elend who Burned a full bead. The difference in strength seems to be that a Pure Strength Mistborn can do what a diluted one would need Duralumin for, like controlling Hemalugic Constructs like Koloss and Kandra. So it's a pretty big difference in strength.

I can't find the exact page but in the Lost Metal, Kelsier said that only 3 of the original crew remained. I believe he was referring to himself, Marsh and Sazed. So I guess that would mean that Spook is actually dead and not simply in hiding in the background like Kelsier and Marsh. But this leads to many questions. Did he die from old age? He abdicated from the throne when he was over 100 years old, he had to have had some access to Atium Compounding. Maybe Marsh shared few beads with him. So old age being his cause of death is a lower possibility in my eyes. What did he do after he left? Did he Worldhop or work with Kelsier more closely? Any thoughts?

Couldn't be Rashek, because why would he spend centuries trying to prevent the slightest chance of a Fullborn coming into existence,then suddenly turn around and create something that can make anyone as powerful as he is. Plus how would he get Nicrosil without advanced technology when he made sure to stagnate most technological advancement. My guess would be Kelsier got Spook, the last Mistborn, as well as either a Full Feruchemist that survived, was born or got together 16 Ferrings then studied the hell out of the Metallic Arts. So Kelsier would be the mind that designed the Bands but Spook was the one that actually made them. Edit: My guesses as to why he gave them up and why he didn't make more are these: 1) Kelsier couldn't use them and wanted to put them somewhere safe until he needed someone he trusted to use them. 2) Maybe Kelsier did want to make more of them, but Spook didn't and without him it became impossible to make anymore. After all Spook did draft laws about legalizing regulated Hemalurgy (Spiking the elderly) but never actually implemented those laws. So it's possible that Spook just refused to work with Kelsier anymore after too many disagreements, he was kind of reluctant to work with him in the Secret History epilogue.

Magic Metal Nukes. That's what. Era 3 is going to be Scadrial's Cold War, I think. Yeah it kind of sucks since I thought we'd be getting more info on them. I think Brandon said that if he couldn't write the explanation into the books, he'd post a WOB about it. Saze said that Wax did something different from what the Set did and that's why he got Lerasium. Didn't say what though. I didn't get that at all, from what I understand is Unkeyed Investiture that can fuel any Invested Art is Unkeyed from any Shard's Intent. That's my assumption anyway. Could be wrong.

I'm just going to guess that it originated on Yolen, and every Shard has just subtly influenced a human to invent it on their world.

So I suppose this confirms that Harmony has two Perpendicularities then? One in the Northern Broadsheets and one was mentioned to be 'somewhere in the south'.

Maybe the Admiral had swapped it for a fake when no one was looking? Either way I think that the real reason that the Malwish wanted the Bands so badly was because they could use them to get around their '3 Powers only' limit with their Medallions, as well as incorporate new powers like Allomantic abilities into them as well. Another thing that doesn't make sense is that Wax seemed to imply that you could recharge the Bands with Compounding, but that wasn't mentioned here. I find that interesting. A con of the century by the Malwish, not to mention that the contract between them and the Basin was 'Don't ever use the Bands or we'll declare war', seems to me that this was to prevent them from experimenting with the Bands to make Medallions.

I am not a scientist, I probably never will be. So could someone smarter than me clarify this WOB for me? What exactly are the 'problems' with a moving speedbubble? Are they lethally dangerous and could there be a way around them? Because if you could move with a Speedbubble around you, it'd be almost like if you were tapping F-Steel to other people. Bullet-time as it were. Then if you got a Twinborn with A-Bendalloy and F-Steel you'd get something really crazy.

So Brandon is going to be mostly downplaying Savantism for characters who aren't defined by it? I guess that makes sense. Still as interesting as this topic is do you have any theories on how to potentially cheat Savantism? Gaining greater power without such a horrible cost like with Spook? My guess (aside from divine intervention because that's cheating) would be fine manipulation of the spiritweb, perhaps through Forgery? Probably not because having the benefits without the downside isn't a very plausible lie. Actually could Forgery bestow the effects of Savantism? Like making a Slider temporarily a Savant so they could anchor their Speedbubble to themselves and pull a Bullet-time? I suppose that might be a possibility that would be easier than making someone a Metalborn, as you'djust have to improve what you're working with instead of working from scratch.

Isn't the Steelbubble just his Resonance and the 'Splitting lines' thing just a skill based thing? I'm pretty sure Brandon backtracked on the Steelbubble being caused by Savantism.