Underwater_Worldhopper

It isn't possible.... it can't be..... they solved the trolley problem.... LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE HAVE FOUND THE HERO OF AGES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also the book says Im going to throw an old lady off a cliff and then do a somersault while skateboarding away...

Comparing it to calling a Fabrial a Nahel Bond is an unfair analogy, I would say. There are fundamental differences between Fabrials and Nahel bonds far beyond the differences between Primer Cubes and regular Feruchemy. Fabrials use non-sentient Spren who've been trapped in a Polestone to consume Light and convert it into either an effect or into energy, whether heat, kinetic, etc, whereas a Nahel Bond is a deeply personal Connection between a 'broken' person and sentient Investiture, where over time the two conjoin into one. Surgebinding is an offshoot added bonus that comes from this symbiotic bond. However, the soul of Feruchemy is using metal as a battery to usher an attribute through space and time. Store speed into a Steelmind, then take that speed somewhere else and, days, months, or even years later, draw it out on top of your regular speed to become faster than normal. The same applies to Primer Cubes, they're just more extensive than a metalmind in the traditional sense. You can store a lot of different Invested Arts in a Primer Cube. The trade-off here is that although a Primer Cube can store more than traditional Feruchemical Attributes, you can't get that effect back directly. It extends the charge from itself rather than allowing you to draw it out and either compound or gain the ability. Store Steelpushing in the Cube, and rather than allowing you to Push harder when activated (Or give someone the ability to Push if they don't already have it), it simply Pushes from itself. Like you said, a limitation placed on it in exchange for the advantage. Can a Cube store a charge for as long as a normal Metalmind? Not at the moment, but I'm sure it could as technology advances; We've already seen that the Primer Cubes in TLM have been upgraded since BoM. Is the Cube a literal Metalmind? No, clearly not. Does it act like one that's been altered to apply to more Invested Arts? In my opinion, it does. I wouldn't say I'm deliberately misinterpreting the WoB. To me, what a Primer Cube does is just similar enough to a Metalmind (and it does do what Brandon says, if you accept that he may not mean a literal Metalmind that can store 'anything' (as in all Feruchemical Attributes) but something that acts essentially like a Metalmind and 'anything' means Invested Arts beyond Feruchemy) that this may be what he's talking about. There's enough in the wording of it to support my interpretation, even if it's unlikely. We can just agree to disagree about it, there's no need to get wound up. The most recent one doesn't say that it's hard, it just outright says its possible, so Brandon may have changed his mind about it since not needing an extra Connection to use Allomancy makes sense to me, but he may be omitting it because he's already said it before, so just to be on the safe side let's assume the Connection is necessary. Hmmmm. That is reasonable, but the fact that Sazed tells Spook to "See if he can figure out" what the last metals are throws me off this idea. Why encourage Spook to "poke around" when the answer is has been displayed on a silver platter? Same point as above, that's a reasonable argument to make, but Sazed's message to Spook makes it seem like this is not the case. Those are two different scenarios, and Tin is something of an outlier in terms of Feruchemy anyway. My point is not that you intrinsically know what you're storing, just that so long as you know that the metal is viable, you should be able to store or tap it, and then work backward from the change occurring in your body to figure out what the attribute is. Store and tap in Pewter, and you can immediately figure out that the metal stores muscle mass. This won't work for things like Identity, you would need to understand Realmatic Theory for that, and so reverse engineering the attribute and its effects would be harder: exactly what we see in Era 2. I argue that Malatium stores one of these kinds of attributes and that once Sazed couldn't pinpoint what he was storing or tapping, his doubt causes Intent to kick in and block him from storing further. Like I said, what you're saying is totally possible, Sazed's words at the end of HoA just throw doubt on this. But I agree, whether they know the names of the attributes or not, they should be at a similar level of knowledge of what the Spiritual Quadrant does since they'd both be trying to reverse engineering uses from something they don't understand. That's a false dichotomy. Yes, Intent can make you not realize Investiture is stored within. But if you know that what you have is an Unsealed Metalmind, you just don't know which metal it is, would that still prevent you from tapping the attribute, especially when tapping the attribute will then immediately tell you which metal it is? There is no figuring out what's stored if that's the case. You can't use that metal until someone tells you exactly what it stores; that's why I'm against this viewpoint. The Fullmind's only use in that scenario would be not needing to go and acquire the actual metal itself. Nope. All we know is Atium alloys tend to have temporal and metal effects. Beyond that, WoB (technically WoP) says that Alloys of Atium can't be thought of as setting any form of pattern, which is doubly true for Feruchemy, which has practically no pattern at all, even within the normal metals. Nothing indicates the attribute stored in Malatium will be noticeable. You're gonna have a very hard time figuring out an attribute by pure guesswork alone. A lot of Feruchemy is abstract: Breath, caloric energy, determination, they're random and set no pattern. As for my idea being the opposite, how so? If you have a machine that you don't know the purpose of, how else are you to figure out what it is than by trying it? The scientific method applies here too. You know something is happening. Make a hypothesis, then test it. Same concept. "I know for a fact something is being stored and tapped here. Can I notice any changes in my body while storing, or while tapping? I should try a range of different activities to see. No changes? Then it must not be a physical metal. Maybe it's cognitive. It might be intelligence. Not mental speed, but actual intellectual quality. Let me try an exam, first normally, then tapping, then storing. If there's a significant difference, I'm theorizing along the right lines. If not, we move on. Maybe it's artistic talent. Let me draw something, then draw it while tapping, then while storing. Any changes?" etc. Cadmium, for example, would have been immediately obvious, even if you didn't know. You become incredibly short of breath when storing. I was referring to the Terris having figured out the Spiritual Quadrant, as well as Cadmium, Electrum, and Bendalloy. True, but this was years before the question about Fullmind. He may have simply forgotten. Given what I said above, I think you are most likely correct on this one. A Spren has free will, I doubt having a Connection to Honor would convince one to Bond to you on its own. I didn't consider the whole "each Honorblade only gives 2 Surges" thing, good that you mentioned it. I think (if Lerasium-Tanavastium does give Surgebinding) the Honorblades would only give their respective pair of Surges. It does beg the question though, that if the Tanavastium in the Honorblades was specifically made with the intention of granting Surges, and each metal was different in some way, enough that it would change the Surges granted when wielded/alloyed with Lerasium and burned, what would regular old Lerasium-Tanavastium do, with Tanavastium not from one of the Blades? For that matter, what the heck would Cultivation's metal grant when burned with Lerasium? What's Cultivation's metal even called? Cultivationium is a bit too on the nose, Koravelliumium is just ridiculous, Avastium is just Tanavastium without the Tan, and Koravellium Avastium is way too long. Lifeium? Something similarly Cultivation-y? Also also, last question, why on earth did nobody bother testing Trellium for Allomancy and Feruchemy? There should have been plenty left over from the Chimeras Wax and Tensoon killed, and so far as we know, it was pure Trellium, meaning Wax could've both burned and Feruchemically tested it.

Amazing observation, I never realized that!

This one we don't have enough information on to say definitively, but it's plausible that The Feruchemist viewing the metal as one unit will allow the charge to diffuse through the entire bag. Until someone asks Brandon, we can only assume that only metal in direct contact will become Invested. The first one won't work; The rod is a different object. You couldn't 'pull' Investiture through the rod, and if you Invested the rod itself, it would store charge separately from the Metalmind, touching or not. If you weld them together, however, I think you should be able to. Two versions here. If the Feruchemist is storing all their weight, the Ferring can't get more than is being put into the rod, since the maximum that can be drawn is already being drawn. It's like trying to get 50kg out of 40kg: it just isn't possible. If the Feruchemist is only storing a fraction of their weight, The Ferring still shouldn't be able to draw more than what's being stored, since that would entail pulling weight unwillingly out of another person, something external which isn't possible through Feruchemy, which in entirely internal, barring Metalminds. Not sure what you mean by power suction, but it should empty at the rate of the withdrawal of the Ferrings added together. So, It should be possible, but it just won't act like electricity. The charge will diffuse all across the grid instantly, and once a new branch is added to the grid, you can access it from there too. It could totally work. I don't think it would be quite as widespread as you're implying since you'd need a Medallion or be a Ferring to use it in the first place, but I could definitely see a small handful of businesses setting something like this up for wealthy clients. Honestly, the idea for Compounding through Unsealed Metalminds Idea is something so painfully obvious that I never thought of before that I'm now questioning what else I've missed. That would indeed fit the theme.

Right, that's what I meant. Harmonium is just easier to type out. Well, you specifically don't get the power back, but the power is still utilised. It's a matter of interpretation at this point. The questioner asked if there was a way to create a Metalmind that can store anything. Not even necessarily Feruchemical Attributes, but anything. Brandon sometimes specifically answers a question literally if it gives him wiggle room to give away much, which is what Im assuming he did here. It could totally mean what you're saying too, but I interpreted it differently. Yeesh, what happened on that thread? SA Remember, the Terris figured out the seven new metals after the Catacendre, even if the Spiritual Four took them a little longer to figure out due to their invisible and unobvious nature. The explanations in the Words of Founding were the Terris' history of using basic physical Feruhemy. VenDell makes a distinction between the metals with "Detailed explanations" and the Cognitive Feruchemy Quadrant. Also, if the Terris were told what the metals stored, they would be a lot farther in terms of developing applications for it than they are in BoM, given that they'd have had 300 years to experiment if they were told of what was stored in the Words of Founding. Sazed would know the metal was viable because you could Allomantically burn it, he just wasn't able to parse what it was that he was storing. Conversely, maybe Intent comes into play differently than what you're saying: Like how Szeth took ten heartbeats to summon the Honorblade, and how you can't tap an Unsealed Metalmind until you know what it is, maybe Sazed got convinced after he couldn't tell what he was storing that the metal wasn't viable after all and that Kelsier was lying; not knowing what's being stored won't stop you on its own. If it does, then that puts a serious hamper on Feruchemical progress, since you need to be told what you're storing before you can store it. That also makes the Fullmind near-useless, since beyond the 17 known Feruchemical Attributes, you can't store anything else in it, and without a Full Feruchemist, it's just a regular Metalmind in terms of functionality anyway beyond God Metals, which we don't know the uses for. I just can't see Brandon making Feruchemy work that way when we have proof that it doesn't, especially with the scientific method being applied to the magic in the books going forward. It's not that hard, is it? I'm sure once the proper precautions are determined you could figure it out pretty easily by just spending time storing and tapping it, like any other metal. Fabrials convert Light into an effect or force. Awakening runs on Breaths, where any Breath can do the exact same things as any other Breath. I don't get what you mean by Soulstamps here. I'm not saying that at all, Brandon is nothing if not dedicated. He just doesn't know that we've done the ultimate metal count and crunched the numbers. He may have assumed that the questioner meant all the regular Feruchemical Attributes.

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A train is about to hit 5 people who are tied to the train track. You are standing next to a lever, which, when pulled, will switch the tracks onto one with only one person tied to it. Do you pull the lever?

The Intent shouldn't have affected him that quickly, and the climate in the South would've changed pretty fast since it was caused by the planet literally moving away from the sun. I do wonder how they survived for 10 ish years, but we'll just have to wait and see for that one. Why is that? There was a whole thread about it, I don't remember the points that were made on there but there were a lot of WoBs to back the theory, so you're welcome to find it if you're curious.

I know many things, and have seen infinite pearls of wisdom. Every major Shardworld, plus about 13 barren ones chasing that one shy Shard who keeps hiding.

Harmonium can recreate effects of Stormlight, so there may be a way around this. Fabrials don't give out the exact same effect put in. Put Steel Allomancy into the Primer Cube and you get Steel Allomancy back. Put Iron Feruchemy into the Primer Cube and get Iron Feruchemy back. They seem more like Metalminds to me than the Medallions, where you can only out something in or get it out. Fair. I don't mean to say you can burn the Atium out of the Atium-Electrum, just that the Electrum locks the Atium, so you need to be able to burn that so you can access the whole thing. And not to pick on an old wound but Is there a community consensus on the topic, like a headcanon based on something Brandon has said that we can assume moving forward until he's decided for sure? Doesn't that mean Ferrings should be able to too? Those were explanations of Terris history of using the '10' Feruchemical metals, not the new ones. Beyond the note Sazed leaves Spook, there were no hints about the metals that we know of. He tried nonetheless, and he must have been able to do something with it, just not something he could recognize or identify. Soothers then. Would it not work even if you were really cold and were touching the Harmonium inside oil? Agree to disagree, just the fact that Primer Cubes can take in the input of Investiture, hold it within itself, and then release it later seems like it makes a good contender to me. Well, Brandon hasn't seen the ultimate metal count, so to him everything probably means the regular 16 metals Ah. Yikes

Probably Virtuosity, I love art. The answer will shock you: wet Generally yes. Taking a walk down the coral reef gardens is my favorite hobby. But these days you could get caught in a plastic bag and choke to death, so I generally stay indoors and browse the 17 Shard. When the mood strikes, although not much these days since a humpback whale moved in next door and she will not let me sleep at night.

Reminds me of the theory that Harmony is actively trying to weaken the Metallic Arts. But he couldn't have known the north would develop slowly after he'd just set the basin up, and he surely would have noticed the horrific mass deaths in the south going on at the same time. I suppose a few people being Mistborn wouldn't have helped much, since only Pewter would have helped them, and unless he wanted to make enough of them Mistborn that whoever was left would end up kicking off a society of hyper-powerful Allomancers, and the only real way besides making all of them Allomancers would be to make some Fullborn Compounders, which Sazed would sooner eat Odium than make another one of, it wouldn't have helped. He mustn't have realized the extent of the Metallic Arts and the possibility of Unsealed Metalminds. But how did Kelsier know? There's always another secret....

Maybe they just stay indoors where the place around them is superheated, and they're always storing as much as they can? Brass is easier to fill than most other Metals. You can only ever store however much of an attribute you have: You can't weigh 10kg and then start storing 50kg per second. But you could do that with Brass if you had an outside heat source. Start storing everything in the Brassmind and then step into a fire, and you could store heat far quicker, provided you don't pull the heat out so quickly you extinguish the flame. That makes sense too. I wonder why Harmony didn't cultivate them a bit more, especially soon after his Ascension. Give them more Metalborn, maybe create a few Mistborn like he did Spook, given their entire civilization almost died out entirely.

I mean to say that Harmonium coming into existence after Feruchemy doesn't preclude it from being the Fullmind. Again, looking back at the WoB, the question was whether you could store the attribute in it, it doesn't include getting the attribute back. Beyond that, you do get something back: The Primer Cube creates an area of effect, or can be otherwise channeled, such as making the Airships light enough to fly. You're thinking of it as a literal, actual Metalmind; for me, anything where the power is going into the metal and then coming out in some conceivable way counts. By being combined in a single piece, could you not argue it's a single Metalmind? I get that it's 16 different Metalminds combined into one, but so long as it's one object, I'd term it 'one' Metalmind. I thought similarly, but I just don't think so, unless it somehow requires all GMs first. If you're right and it's some alloy of Atium and Lerasium, is it not a bit overpowered to access powers that should be locked to each individual Shard just by alloying the power of two together? Technically the Atium Mistings in TFE were Electrum Mistings, they could burn the Electrum bit and anyone can burn the Atium bit. And I guess so, but this part of the GMs' nature always confuses me. Can anyone anywhere burn a GM, or can only Scadrians, or do you have to be some variety of Allomancer before you can burn a GM? I always assumed it was the Allomancer one, that you have to be at least a Misting. And again, I assumed any Feruchemist could also use a GM, but I suppose that one was never confirmed, despite it making internal sense. That one I think I can safely say isn't true. The Terris had to figure out what the last 7 metals (Electrum, Cadmium, Bendalloy, Chromium, Nicrosil, Aluminum, and Duralumin) stored after the Catacendre, and by Wax's time, they've figured it out, though it may have taken them longer to figure out the last four given their spiritual nature. Sazed also experimented with Malatium in TFE. But if you dried your hands properly first, and then kept them cool so they didn't sweat? Too much power, I tell you. You seem to have switched gears and are including Harmonium now, so I suppose besides it there could be another way. The reason Lerasium makes you a Full Mistborn is because it's the magic system of Leras's Shard. The reason Atium steals anything Hemalurigcally is because Hemalurgy is Ati's Shard's magic system. I assume Lerasium can steal all attributes in Hemalurgy because Leras was on the same planet as Ati while Hemalurgy was forming as a magic system (however that happens) and because Leras' own Shard's magic system also revolves around the same metals. Given all this, a combination of them could make a Fullmind, but I think it would only include the 16 regular attributes, plus Lerasium, Atium, their Alloy, and maybe Harmonium's attributes, and the 32 GMA's of Atium/Lerasium and the regular sixteen, and wouldn't include the Attributes that require other GMs. Would Harmonium and Lerasium's Alloy have a new set of A-/F-/H-effects? Harmonium and Atium? All three?

Makes sense, but I dont think that's entirely how F-Chromium works. Tapping Fortune makes you have a 'gut instinct' sort of feeling of when and where to be and do things to achieve what you want. Storing, then, should make you more likely to make bad decisions, or something like decision fatigue, where you have a hard time making decisions at all. It won't make you unlucky the way you're saying, and A-Tin might exacerbate the issue. If you hear thugs in an alley while storing, you may decide that it's a good day to test your combat skills, or if you see two alleys, decide that one of them will make a better shortcut, only for that one to have robbers in it. It's not exactly how you're describing. It's a semantic difference, I know, but Im being nitpicky today. There's a difference between getting struck by lightning and thinking it's a good idea to walk up to a lightning rod in the middle of a thunderstorm.

Just reread TLM, and in it, Wax makes an observation I think we skip over a bit too often: Sharders often talk about Aluminum or Gold Medallions in theories about Hemalurgy, but what if those don't exist? Aluminum I could see the Malwish keeping secret if it's directly related to the creation process of the Medallions, but what about Gold, or as Wax notes, Steel, or Zinc, or Pewter? Useful ones to have, but never seen, despite the SoScads repeatedly making a ton of effort to make shows of strength to intimidate the Northerners. Another limitation somebody else noted on a thread I saw yesterday and am convinced about given my reread of Era 2: The Medallions we see used always only ever allow for either storing or tapping; There is no instance of a Medallion being used to both store and tap: The Brass Medallions are only ever tapped, with the Set never figuring out how to refill them, and the Iron Medallions only ever store the weight. The SoScads have Firemothers and Firefathers, people who spend all their time storing heat and filling Brassminds so the rest of the Southerners can go about normally. If Gold, Zinc, Steel, or other such Medallions existed, they'd have no problem finding people to become the providers of attributes. We have only four confirmed Medallions: Heat, Weight, Connection, and Memories. I think I have a theory. The Southerners might have only ever figured out how to make Brass, Iron, and Duralumin Medallions. This, then, is why they were so eager to get the Bands, beyond the whole test and gift from the Sovereign thing: They wanted to study them to figure out how to make Medallions of other metals, and for Allomancy. Maybe Kelsier (or whoever the Sovereign was, given that despite the memory Wax saw and Kelsier having the spike through his eye, he can't use any form of Allomancy or Feruchemy, not even Hemalurgically) just never taught them how to make Medallions beyond the four (maybe five, but Aluminum hasn't been confirmed) we've seen.

Compensate how exactly? I dont get what you mean. Bootleg Atium. As for a name, Luckeye? Informant? Once again, a suspiciously reconnaissance-adequate Twinborn. Resonance could totally be incredible reflexes though.

Not necessarily? There's nothing in Brandon's answer that implies that. You won't realize this since you're reading this in one go, but after those first two lines in my answer, I spent the better part of an hour trying to articulate to you why arguing that Feruchemy's origin from Ruin and Preservation precludes Harmonium from being the answer isn't really valid. I wrote up paragraph after paragraph trying to figure out how to explain this, and after deleting everything over and over again, I have decided on this. Feruchemy works with all of the regular 16 metals, and then with all God metals, God metal Alloys with the regular 16, and God metal alloys or combinations with other God metals. If, centuries into the future of the Cosmere, Ruin separates from Preservation and Harmony is dissolved, then goes and merges with Odium and Virtuosity into a single Triple Shard, then resulting God metal was then alloyed with Cadmium (Let's call this metal Absurdium), it will still be Feruchemically viable. Even though it was created after Feruchemy already existed. What are the odds that this exact chain of events will happen, then a Full Feruchemist or the corresponding Ferring gets their hands on said metal and tries using it? Next to nothing. In fact, unless Brandon sees this post and decided to uproot the entire storyline of the Cosmere to spite me, I can guarantee this will never happen. But Absurdium would still be Feruchemically viable, and it will store an attribute. Brandon gives no hints about the Metalmind, so we have no inkling in which direction to theorize. Whether the specific metal comes before or after the dawn of Feruchemy doesn't make a difference. But here is what we do know. Harmonium can store any Allomancy within it if augmented within a Primer Cube*. It can also store Iron Feruchemy in it (again augmented with technology) given the Malwish Airships. It's not so unreasonable of an extrapolation that it can store other kinds of Feruchemy in it. And let's take context into account. That WoB happened at a Shadows of Self signing. Brandon doesn't hesitate or need to think to give the answer, as he often does for obscure questions. What's more likely, that he just happened to have prepared an answer to this very specific question, or that the answer is introduced in the very book he's at a signing for? Not to say that it's implausible that it's not Harmonium, but with everything we know right now, Harmonium is likely the best bet. Unless, of course, Brandon is being cheeky. The question is phrased in a way that doesn't ask if it's a specific metal, God metal (alloy), or otherwise, but simply "A Metalmind". The Bands of Mourning were a Metalmind, and they stored all types of regular Feruchemy in it, just by being a combination of different metals. So maybe Brandon is laughing maniacally while we all rot our brains trying to come up with an answer. *I do love how Harmonium allows for Primer Cubes, which are in many ways the opposite of Compounding. In Compounding, you burn a Metalmind to fuel Feruchemy with Allomancy. With Primer Cubes, you can store Allomancy in what acts as a Metalmind, and then use it later, and maybe at a distance if the mood strikes; Feruchemically stored Allomancy. Let's dig into what a Metalmind that can store any attribute could do with a Full Feruchemist. Could you use it to figure out what the rest of the God Metal Alloys (GMA(s)) do? Or would it only allow you to store the Regular 16 Feruchemical Attributes? Could this finally give an answer to what on Earth Malatium stores? Something else to chew on: Harmonium has its own Feruchemical Attribute that it stores. How does that affect all its uses as Primer Cubes and such? What does A-Harmonium do? H-Harmonium? F-Harmonium? As a GM, shouldn't any Feruchemist be able to use F-Harmonium? Why has no one tried this yet? Harmonium isn't nearly so dangerous for Feruchemical use as it is for Allomancy or Hemalurgy, where it would by necessity come into contact with water. Just put a nugget of Harmonium at the bottom of a vat of oil, cool the oil, dry your hands properly, and cool them too to prevent any sort of sweating, then go ahead and try it. Am I missing something? Why didn't Wax try this at any point during his experiments with Harmonium? Is it, as a Hybrid Shard's GM, too Invested for any sort of Feruchemical or Hemalurgic charge to stick to it? That might be the answer, but Trellium/Bavadinium can hold a Hemalurgic charge, and so can pure Atium, and when you're talking about solid Investiture, shouldn't the 'Too Invested already' argument go out the window since the material you're trying to Invest literally is Investiture, and so the 'Too Invested' factor should make all GMs Feruchemically and Hemaurgically inert? This entire rant of a post only exists because Alder somehow made my brain short-circuit so much that the frustration of not knowing how to phrase a counter-argument made me spout all of this. Alder, for all our sakes, never do that again, even though I have no idea what you did ;-;

I was about to say it could work if you force the victim to blank their Identity before you spike them but that last one nailed that one in the head. Sighs Well, back to the drawing board. I'll stick to Hemalurgic Beavers for now.

To be honest, other than this explanation, I can't think of any other reason TLR wouldn't have seized control of Marsh. He absolutely could have and should have. This is most likely a plot hole that had to happen that is explained away as "TLR was over-confident and wants to see the people he destroys suffer"

Idea: Use Hemalurgy to gain one of the 16 powers, then (this may require a second spike) burn the spike to splice it to your soul (burning the entire thing is most likely not necessary). Remove the spike once burnt and rinse and repeat until you've spliced all 16. Then go wild, have as many kids as you can, then cross your fingers, wait, and see. If any are Mistborn (as you now should be), arrange for them to marry people who can trace their lineage back to Spook and hope for your ploy to work out. I always saw Allomancy as 1 'gene' that dilutes and fractures the more it's mixed with the 'genes' of Non-Allomancers. It's a single gene that causes all 17 forms of Allomancy, the strength of it just determines the likelihood of having one power vs having all of them: For example, in Era 2 the genes are diluted to the point of only Mistings being born (Although Brandon has said that Mistborn may have been born after the Catacendre and just never made it public, so there may still be a slight chance as of Era 2), whereas, during Kelsier's era, it was still potent enough that some Mistborn were born, given that even though Marsh is only a Seeker, Kelsier himself is still born as one, and the chances of being born as a Mistborn were much, much higher following Rashek's Ascension, given that the 'gene' for Allomancy would be almost entirely pure back then. As for what the gene is, it might simply be Connection to Preservation, being diluted with each generation.

Welp, don't really know what to expect, but I'm bored and like silly/deep/random conversations, so thought I might as well finally try one of these.

The only Tapping or only Storing feature is interesting and something I hadn't seen pointed out before, but it makes sense. As for how they get enough Unsealed Brassminds, There are something called Firemothers and Firefathers who basically devote all their time to storing heat so that the rest of the SoScads can go about normally. Shouldn't be too hard, given that you could store a lot of heat really quickly by storing as much as you can while stepping into something like a bonfire, or however it is Firesouls can make themselves fireproof.

Not necessarily. You're not hand-crafting the expanded soul. All you need to do is tweak how many metals you burned, and the resulting stretched soul should form accordingly.

Ohhhhh, okay. That makes sense. Looking at the quote, the fact that it's levitating in his hand is kind of a dead giveaway. I guess it is possible. Of course Marsh would be the one to be able to do it, being the only Inquisitor left.