Araris Valerian

Since Brandon said that the Cosmere has real world physics I assume that atoms and such are treated the same way as well. Perhaps Scadrian metals have a cognitive aspect that allows them to be the key to Allomancy. However, if Demoux or Hoid have access to non-atium powers then they probably would find it inconvenient to travel to Scadrial every night to refill their metals.

I feel like discussing hemalurgy in relation to southern Scadrial is pointless because there is almost no way that they could have gotten their hands on it. TLR learned directly from Ruin at the Well. I saw something mentioning that you have to intend to steal someone's power to be successful, which makes sense. Since hemalurgy is a universal magic, if you could discover it by accident then other shard worlds would have it by now as well perhaps.

While the spike itself could not store stormlight, it could absorb some from a gemstone that it was touching. Also, a feruchemical spike could (theoretically) store charges in metals it was touching. Due to the spike not having an identity, this potentially could create an infinite supply of certain types of feruchemy. Although, such a spike probably could not store an attribute such as age or health that it didn't possess in the first place. Now that I think of it, an awakened stormlight spike would basically be an automated fabrial that was not tied to a specific shape. Anyways, I would love to hear what BS has to say about this.

Hemalurgic spikes do show that they lose investiture over time. This loss could potentially be replaced with breath. I mostly think that it would be cool to have non-living objects capable of wielding cosmere magic. Also this could work the other way around. An already awakened object could be used as a spike. While this doesn't change the amount of investiture, from this perspective it seems more reasonable since we haven't learned of any limits on invested objects being used as spikes.

So I was thinking about how hemalurgic spikes worked, and came up with this theory: if a hemalurgic spike was Awakened then it would be able to use the powers it had stolen. For example, since hemalurgy can steal from any magic system then you could spike a soul caster, embed a gemstone in the spike to hold stormlight, and have some sort of auto-soulcasting system that could trigger on contact. Since spikes don't have to maintain their original shape, you could make a floor plate that soulcasts anything that steps on it into smoke. Of course, I don't know if you can Awaken an already invested object, but this could have some interesting uses. Any thoughts?

I have been reading the forums here for about a week or so and decided to join, especially after I saw the shardhunt. I love high fantasy books and Brandon Sanderson is probably my second favorite author, below Tolkien. Besides those two I have read Jim Butcher (Codex Alera is my favorite complete fantasy series), Terry Goodkind, Terry Brooks, Pat Rothfuss, Robert Jordan and Robin Hobb to name a few. That's a little information about me and I hope to theorize some interesting theories in the near future.