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Not sure on how exactly this would work. We don't know for sure if you can just stick Breath into a piece of metal without Greater Awakening, and even if you could you would need to have the spike have a charge of Hemalurgy, at least a little so it counts as a Hemalurgic Spike and won't kill whoever you're stabbing it into. But here's the thing, I don't think this would work like you say for one reason, the Breath is still keyed to someone else. Lets take an example, lets say a Pewter Ferring filled a Pewter Spike with some strength, stabbed a Feruchemist for a Physical ability, then stuck that spike into another Pewter Feruchemist. That spiked Brute is not going to be able to tap the strength already stored into their spike, since they didn't put it in there. The Identity is still a problem, the same goes for this 'Breath Spike', if a Nalthian placed their Breath in a spike and put it into someone else, that doesn't make that other person able to use the Breath in anyway, or even benefit from it as just a Heightening. They're just gonna have a spike in them that has a Breath in it. I don't think this works, not the way you want it to. Unless you can properly hack Awakening and Hemalurgy together but there's no confirmation on that.

No, they can survive entirely off of Investiture. They just eat and drink for fun. That is a good question, they could probably fuel their Aether with any extra Breath they have besides their Divine one, like how Twin Soul used a jar of Dor to supercharge his Roseite abilities. But it'd probably just default to their internal water reserves, which would be a lot more effective for a Returned since if they run out of Breaths for a week they die. So a Returned Aetherbound would be better off just carrying around some water bottles.

We've seen a portal be made with a supercharged Elsecalling in Wind and Truth, and AonDor can theoretically do anything if you know the right combination of Aons, so I don't see why not. You can already use AonDor to teleport with Aon Tia I think it was? Either way the next step up from there is to figure out how to make a stable portal. Maybe there's an Aon that means Realms or Perpendicularity?

As someone who wants to play an Artifabrian, I thank you for your service. Many of these seem really interesting, especially the Spanfork being the Fabrial equivalent of a phone compared to the fax machine that is a Spanreed.

Hopefully alongside the print versions of Elsecaller and the Lopen Stormlight novellas. And here I thought Emberdark would be all the Cosmere stuff to look forward to this year. Glad to be wrong.

Here's hoping it's released at Dragonsteel Nexus 2025.

What happened to Moash was caused by Crystal Spikes, something developed by the Herald Battar. It is likely a derivative of Hemalurgy, in the same way that the ability to Sense Investiture, like Seekers on Scadrial, appears across multiple worlds. As for other examples of the Metallic Arts, nothing overt but Hoid has been seen drinking some metal in one of Shallan's flashbacks and Pushing on metals when he freaked out in WaT. The Ghostbloods likely have some Metalborn, but again there is nothing overt. They definitely use Hemalurgy, as Gereh's stabbed corpse can attest.

I'll give this another crack Order of Faithseamers Surges: Adhesion/Illumination Radiant Spren: Piousspren, A strange type of Spren that was made by the Lies of Honor, tiny fragments splintered off during Tanavast's death, as Honor rejected its Vessel for his duplicity. Attracted by a person's devotion to a belief, particularly if they've discovered that their belief is false yet choose to believe in it anyway. Plate Spren: Awespren Roles: Their roles are undefined, as they were brought into existence only after the death of the Almighty. Though some have been inclined to comfort people struggling with their faith and a loss of hope in uncertain times, attempting to give spiritual comfort to those in distress. Ideals: Their philosophy is also undefined, and few of their Oaths are known, but have been described as 'striving to align the dreams of faith with this harsher reality'.

Ah, cut him some slack, that was 5 years ago. This seems pretty interesting, imagine if a Lerasium spike existed in Era 1, would that allow proper communication with Preservation without Ruin interfering? Not that Leras would be rational enough to hold a conversation, but it would be better than nothing. Maybe the Spiked would need to be in the Mists for the best communication? That leads me to a question I've had for a long while, Scadrians have more Preservation in their Innate Investiture, enough of it can give them Allomacy, but what if they had more Ruin instead? Maybe there would be an effect similar to the Sixth Heightening, only instead of Instinctive Awakening, it would be Instinctive Hemalurgy, having an innate sense of what metals to use for spikes and where to put them? Though it would likely require a whole lot of Ruin Investiture, reaching the Sixth Heightening requires 3,500 Breaths after all.

Organ transplant with Cosmere healing are a funny thing that hasn't been shown yet. WOB states that depending on one's self-perception, healing with a transplanted organ can go really well or really badly if you do not subconsciously accept the new organ as part of you. Imagine having the transplant for the stomach, then having the healing done, then the healing Investiture ignores the new stomach and tries to grow a new one instead. Doesn't sound like a good time. Allomancy is part of one's soul, not one's body. So no, you would not be able to gain an Allomantic ability through a transplanted stomach, you'd just get a regular stomach and a lot of wasted time and likely money. Allomancers don't need to burn metals in their stomach, anywhere in their bodies will do, like piercings for instance. Its just that the stomach is an easy place to put metals. Outside of the body? Maybe, but it would require some very esoteric Invested Arts like Bondsmithing to pull it off. There is an instance of this kind of thing, spoilers if you haven't read rhythm of War yet. So, the answer is 'technically yes', but I doubt we'll be seeing anything like it anytime soon.

I feel like your underestimating Dragon Magic. It's not clear on what, precisely, it is or how it works. But the Dragons have been shown to do some pretty interesting stuff, like make a Vault housing a Dawnshard that was unbreakable until the Scadrians invented the Intensifier. They are ancient beings, some of them even predate Adonalsium's death. Chances are, they have some of the best understanding and ways of manipulating Investiture in the entire Cosmere, with WOB putting some of them on a similar level to Hoid and the Aethers and only a league or two beneath the Shards. But let's go down the list. First of all, I highly doubt these manacles are just regular old silver from the ground. They are Invested, likely to a very high extent to suppress a Dragon's powers. They could easily be as unbreakable as a Shardblade, and the only thing we've seen even chip one of those is Nightblood. So regular scientific ways of destroying them probably won't work. As for cutting off Starling's arms, going on the Shardblade analogy, who's to say the Manacles can't just instantly reappear on Starling's body in another form, like around her legs, or her neck. They were made by a race that can shapeshift after all, so maybe they have Magitech that can also shapeshift like they can, we don't know but there is precedent for that type of thing in the Cosmere. Edgedancers, like ost Surgebinders, have difficulties using their powers directly on highly invested things, like Shardblades. Edit: That could also mean using their powers directly on highly invested beings like Dragons, because they can't directly use their powers on someone wearing Shardplate, only on things around them like the floor. So Abrasion probably couldn't be used to Slick either Starling or the Manacles. And maybe they'd just teleport back on or just resist being pulled off and no to friction? As for Elsecallers, we've never seen anyone do anything like that with no indication they can do so. The Fused who use Transportation can do something like that when they teleport, but even then only themselves. And who's to say that the Manacles aren't Connected to her very spirit and can just instantly reappear if that even did happen? Aluminum and silver can't cut through a Shardblade, TLM showed that Invested materials like Godmetals have insanely high melting points, and I highly doubt that the Dragons who made these things wouldn't think of something as simple as lopping off an arm, that would likely be the first thing they would think off in creating these. We may not know a whole lot about how Dragon's use Investiture, but I refuse to believe that they are anything less than just as good if not even better than the Ire when it comes to understanding Investiture, just due to the fact that their people have been around since the very beginning.

You'd have to do it when they're all fat and loose, otherwise when they're all tightened up even a Shardblade would struggle to harm them. Even then, we've never seen Hemalurgy be used on something super fat before, would obesity affect the locations of someone's Bindpoints? As for the Metal, I have no idea what you would use to steal it. Besides maybe pewter spikes because they steal Physical Feruchemical abilities and one could make a correlation between F-Pewter and Fused-Tension.

Virtuosity is about art, virtuoso's, not about virtues. What you really get is the Cosmere's biggest art critic.

Here's one The Order of Bonebracers Surges: Progression/Tension Abilities: Their abilities mix in a way unheard of by the other Orders, they can use Tension to stiffen and strengthen plants that they have grown with Progression, seemingly breaking the normal limits of Tension and allowing them to easily form much stronger, more complex constructs from a few seeds. They carry many seeds on their persons to quickly form durable weapons, tools, armor and even temporary shelters. Radiant Spren: Valleyspren, a strange hybrid between Cultivationspren and Peakspren, rumored to have been an experiment of the Nightwatcher. They appear as a shifting divot in the ground that is filled with vines. Plate Spren: Rainspren Bonebracers are the guardians of the Knights Radiants, focusing their efforts on protecting and reinforcing areas, usually in dangerous areas such as in Voidbringer territory to allow a foothold, or forming artificial shelters in areas heavily exposed to the Highstorm. They tend to be stationary, and use their abilities to sculpt and strengthen many plants into whatever is needed. This order tends to attract builders, architects, engineers and guards. Ideals First Ideal: Life before Death, Strength before Weakness, Journey before Destination Second Ideal: I will stand my ground? Third Ideal: I will protect all those under my purview? Fourth Ideal: I accept that a place is its people? Not super sure on the ideals specifically, but they're all about defending an area, then graduall accepting that a place is its people? So the more oaths they sear the more mobile a Bonebracer gets as they expand what they consider their 'place to protect'? I dunno, I just came up with this.

Long winded word vomit, spoiled for posterities sake Something I'm wondering is what Basterix (The SouthScad protag) did in the past and how he knows Dlavil? Is he already a member of the Ghostbloods? Part of some proto-Ghostbloods recruitment group who aren't told anything world-shaking like Tyn from Stormlight? And what kind of work did he do I wonder? Assassination? Something pretty important if he's being visited by either the big cheese's right hand or the new big cheese of his own little group.

I dunno, Endowment is confirmed by WOB as capable of Smiting people, so maybe it could work if you 'Endow' people to death. Maybe the Endowment/Ruin's modus operandi is to fill a world with so much Investiture that it explodes? So, there'd be a brief time where everyone on that world is a super powerful god, and then the world ends?

I think Stalker would be a good name for a Pewterarm/Windwhisperer combo. Because they'd be physically relentless, nearly incapable of tiring out with enough pewter, and with F-Tin they can easily track down anyone through tapping smell to track like a bloodhound, tapping hearing to the point they can hear someone's breathing and heartbeats and tapping sight to spot people from far away. I've heard a name from a rankings list that this combo could also be named a Spook, due to his time when he became a Tin Savant and a Pewterarm from a Spike. This combination is definitely better than pairing A-Tin with A-Pewter in my opinion, since there's no chance you'll get permanently overwhelmed by sensory information and can precisely control which sense gets enhanced and by how much.

The Tsundere Shard. -Autonomy and Dominion feel like clear opposites, or with how Dominating Bavadin is, maybe they'd go really well together? -Reason and Whimsy don't seem like they'd mesh well together. Though that would probably go for a lot of Whimsy combinations. -Honor and Mercy might be opposing as well? We've seen how Honor itself thinks, and its the kind of Honor that does not apologize or think itself in the wrong. If its disrespected it can and will result in murder out of 'honor'. Mercy seems pretty antithetical to that kind of honor.

The fact that... So many questions are raised, just a tiny, tiny glimpse of Era 3 and I already dearly want more. It's going to be a long 3 years.

Just remembered a few WOBs and the whole idea of 'Feruchemical Savants'. It's meant to be very difficult for a normal Feruchemist to become a Savant, unlike an Allomancer, because they can't steep in their own power as much. But if they had a way to Compound or tap into Metalminds that someone else fills, then they would be able to. Who does this exact thing? Most people in Southern Scadrial. They survived the Ice Death through using Feruchemical Medallions that certain people, known as Firemothers and Firefathers, who spent their lives storing away their body warmth for others to use. So, would most Southern Scadrians be Feruchemical Brass Savants? If they are, could this form of Savantism, where it's implied that a Feruchemical Savant becomes dependent on the extra supply of attribute from the metalmind like Miles with the extra health, make their problems with their low body temperature even worse?

Thanks. I guess it'll be another question for the sequels, good thing those are coming out in a few years.

Another thought that just hit me, if there were islands that floated in the air (like the cities on Ashyn) how would they be represented on Shadesmar? Would they still be flat on the ground like everything else? Would they be inverted so instead of a high flying island you have a deep liquid abyssal trench? What would happen if there was a Perpendicularity off of the ground? Would that balance things out between the Realms? Make it nearly inaccessible since you'd need to swim from down below in Shadesmar? Any ideas?

Just had a stray thought. Is Elantris near Devotion's Perpendicularity because it was important for the city to be built in the same region as it? Like, if Elantris was built somewhere else, or if the Perpendicularity was placed somewhere else, could Elantris exist without it? I know it probably doesn't make much sense, but AonDor is so far, by far the most powerful Selish Art, any practitioner literally becomes immortal the second they get it so long as they stay relatively close to the city. But does anyone think that the Perpendicularity plays some kind of role in how the city functions?

He mentioned it to Starling alone at first, but later said it in front of Dajer's drone, who said "That's impossible for filthy savages to be better than us in anyway!" or something along those lines. Then he and half his crew got eaten by the local Godsnek. But either way, it will be common knowlede that Navigators are like Seekers, they have to be to do what they do. It's not rocket science. Especially to future societies that already built their own rockets. Aluminum box for kidnapping? Probably standard practice for Worldhopping human trafficking. It'd require consent, and if the Navigators say no then what can they do? They can't not have Navigators working for them. The Drominadians hold the cards right now, they're too important to not accommodate, too important to mess with for fear of antagonizing the other powers in the Cosmere. Besides, it'd be smart for the Drominadians to use this opportunity to learn as much of the Cosmere as they possibly can.

-A Tai-Na (Island-sized Greatshell) has drifted close to the shores of Marabethia, your party has been asked to protect it from Voidbringers who seek to claim it's massive Gemheart. -Rumors of a group of Singers who want to defect from Odium's forces, your party is asked to check whether its true or not. -Voidbringers have stolen a Soulcaster from the Shattered Plains, your party is asked to intercept them in the Unclaimed Hills and take it back.