Walter The Moral

This is a bit off topic, but to answer the question that this thread is about, I would probably choose A-Bendalloy and F-Bronze. For the allomancy, who wouldn't want more time for things? For the Feruchemy, I don't just want to be able to stay up for long periods of time, I would also love to be able to choose when to fall asleep, as I have trouble falling asleep a lot of the time. F-Copper may also be quite good, as being able to store memories could be very powerful. You could also use it to store memories in order to forget, so you could watch/read something for a second time and still be surprised.

I was thinking about who the most Invested character in the Cosmere might be. Susebron is very Invested, and Rashek is a sliver. The Stormfather is also very invested, but probably not as much as Rysn. Rysn might currently be more invested than Hoid, but Hoid also held a Dawnshard at some point, so maybe they would have been about equal.

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What do you think? Who’s the most Invested?

7 hours ago, alder24 said:

Can they use other Ferrings metalminds? They are only the aluminum Ferring and don't have any other Feruchemical ability other than that, so they can't use another person's metalminds unless it's aluminummind. I guess they could do some wierd stuff with identity, but what's that is unknown for now. 

Would they be able to use other peoples metalminds, as they have no Identity? The metalminds don't work for the people who didn't fill them up, but if they don't sense a person (since they are storing Identity) maybe they would be able to use it.
Although maybe not, since you're not gaining the Identity of someone else. What do you think?

6 minutes ago, alder24 said:

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Yes, I think your reasoning is very valid. Storing breath in cadmium will store what you "have" in your lungs. If you're in a CO environment, you can store it, later tap and poison yourself with CO. The same way with pure N air or pure O air. 

But that can be useful for divers, instead of carrying huge and heavy air tanks, they can just store the right mixture of air under normal pressure in cadmium, and later tap it 2 or 3 times the normal amount to get correct pressure in their lungs. Even better, I don't know how mixture of air is changed depending on depth, but they can have several metalminds, one for storing pure oxygen, other for pure nitrogen, next for pure helium, and pure CO2. I'm pretty sure a skilled Ferring would be able to store just one element in their cadmiumminds if he wants, therefore he can dive without opening his mouth and storing CO2 in metalminds, while tapping the correct mixture of air with correct multiplication for pressure. Quite a useful thing when you split it like that. 

Or go into a room filled with CO and store just CO in metalminds, while breathing the air normally, just to avoid carbon monoxide poisoning.

And the same goes with F-bendalloy - instead of just tapping poisoned food (which if you stored poisoned food, you would get that poison back when tapping), why couldn’t a skilled Ferring store just a poison in his metalminds and enjoy food normally, to the irritation of all assassins who tries to kill him? Yes, someone unaware could do what you said, tap poisoned food and poison himself, but someone more careful could store just poison inside. This would require him to know what poison it is, he can't just store things blindly, but that can be done as Straff showed us with A-tin or F-tin. Such person would be just immune to poisoning.

Thanks for your response, that makes a lot of sense.

Hello all!
I was in a Reddit conversation a few days ago and I realised something interesting. Since Copper stores the memories from a certain time, the other metals are probably storing the specific attribute at the exact time that you store it. If a Cadmium Ferring was in a room filled with Nitrogen, and they started storing breath, when they then tap that breath they may die due to lack of oxygen, despite the fact that they stored breath. This may also be true for a Bendalloy Ferring. What if a subsumer ate poisoned food, and then stored it. Would the poison be neutralised? And then when they tap for nutrients, would they be poisoned?

I'd be happy to hear your thoughts!

Hello all,

I have been thinking about how Xisis, a dragon from Yollen who currently lives on Lumar could possibly have the Breaths that would be required to make Nalthian Tech that advanced. How could he have Awakened it? I'm guessing he could have known the command through study, but I still don't understand. Did he live on Nalthis for a time before Lumar? He seems to have lived on Lumar for a long time, so I truly don't know. 

What do you all thing?

Ooh, that’s difficult. I’d probably have to say either Hero of Ages or Rhythm of War. Maybe. I really adore all of them!

Hello All!!

I have spent the last three months getting caught up on all of Brandon Sanderon's Cosmere books (except White Sand and Tress of the Emerald Sea). I love each and every one of his books, and I am excited to start theorising about SA5.