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Chainmail and Feruchemical pewter, I guess. A Crasher like Wax could take advantage of metal studs in the lions' collars by increasing his weight and Pushing. Might be usefull to have a bunch of Lurchers hanging around to literally Pull you out of trouble, as it were.

So my next question would be, what price does Endowment pay for losing those breaths? Or are the breaths that are returned to her once a week generally enough to do it? If 1 divine breath is roughly equal to 500 regular ones, then Returned would have to survive an average of 10 years, and that's assuming that the breaths given to Returned indeed do make their way back to her. Though I suppose that it could be considered that all breaths held in Nalthian bodies are still circulating within her

Shardic power seems to basically be an infinitely regressive system in which expending power simply returns it to the Shard - unless it is Invested in something or someone. People, for example, took a portion of Preservation's power away permanently in becoming sentient. So, a Shard can consciously give up some of their power. Now, I know that Splintering is slightly different than this, but it is similar - can a shard consciously and deliberately create a Splinter to do a specific task without suffering major setbacks?

Buds, maybe? I'm not sure. Maybe Form-less parshmen can mate as well - it seems the forms emphasize and suppress different things about them, so perhaps the mating form is just more fertile than the Formless, and the other currently existing forms completely suppress the mating instinct. The formless, therefor, would still mate, but less vicariously and presumably less sentiently than the mating form parshmen.

Perhaps, where Shards are tools that need a mind, splinters are "woven" to have sentience - the same way a statuette carved out of a tiny piece of a huge block of marble is more visually interesting and complex than the marble block. It may also be that all the splinters encountered so far have taken human cognitive aspects, giving them intelligence. They, after all, have to control much less power than a shard, perhaps they can simply take on aspects to achieve sentience instead of requiring the mind and soul of an entire person

What if the crem is actually a chemical precipitate formed by a catalyst on the ground and several reactants in the air? Just throwing this out there, but it seems to be some kind of fertilizer (in that cremlings can take nutrients from it) and while the behaviour is more analogous to Earthly plants, please remember that this. Is. Roshar.

Maybe have a melee type thing on the ground with Thugs capturing marks to score off while the Lurchers and Coinshots fly around above. And, yeah, any kind of allomancer could be doing more productive things with their talents. However, those things might just not be as fun as organized sports. Technically, wrestlers could be more useful as police officers. But they like wrestling. Plus, people don't try to shoot wrestlers EDIT: Steel, in the form of an easily manipulated rod or club, padded with cord or wood, or alternately a brass, steel, tin, or otherwise folding chair. Feruchemically, I would go with Feruchemical steel - normal people can tame lions just fine, and, in a circus, if you can get to the safety within 20 feet or so, you're probably safe. Also, this would probably be the best material to make gauntlets out of, which would be very welcome. Steelminds that double as armour? My question is, why hasn't anyone thought of this yet?

Shh, we're having fun here.

So I suppose that we might have a novella or two, or possibly a Wax & Wayne style serial series?

If you've got any ideas for better alloys, sounds good - I find the whole "relation of alloys" thing a bit confusing, honestly

There seems to some kind of bug working its way through the forums, changing people's names to Ookla the [descriptor]. As you can see, I have contracted this mysterious illness myself. What is the cause of this?

Thank you for correcting my misconceptions. And yes. Though it occurs to me that practice with Bronze is more like interpreting what is already there, somewhat how a painter looks at a painting and sees composition, balance, texture, brushstrokes, metaphors within the subject matter, shading, etc., and an untrained person sees... a cow. For expert Seekers, it's still on/off, they just get more detail from the "on"

The same thing, only with guns. Coinshots would keep a bead on the blue line from the bullet from before it's loaded, and the shooter would have a series of cues so the Coinshot knew exactly when to push. Even more dangerously, you have a triangle of Lurchers on stage. You invite up an audience member, then fire a gun at them. The triangle of lurchers all pull with the same strength at the same time on the bullet, and it ends up hanging in the air an inch in front of the terrified audience member. They are then invited to take the bullet for a souvenir.

It would be the something like Feruchemical gold on others (Internal Physical). It's pair would be Staballoy (depleted uranium with molybdenum) which would cause disease and sickness by touch. The complements would be molybdenum and MoW (molybdenum-tungsten alloy), which could do the same to yourself - causing a rather noted shortness in the lives of active MoW mistings. Also, the rub of Uranium being EXTERNAL physical means that, while burning it, you are getting radiation poisoning, and while you can heal others, it's killing you. Quickly burning it is advised. Uranium doctors are respected for their sacrifices, and as such only work on the most severe cases. A uranium user can charge another's Feruchemical gold extremely quickly. Allomantic chromium users are often used to "flush" the doctor immediately after they practice their craft.

Unless the Shard's Intents do not seem to apply to themselves: Ruin didn't want to destroy himself. Preservation , ironically, did not preserve himself. Cultivation does not cultivate herself, Odium does not hate himself, and, possibly, Honor did not honor his own agreements.

It entirely depends on what the Oathpact is - the theme of the books suggests that if you consciously break an oath, you've probably released yourself from it. All of Brandon's "good" religions and magics seem to have an element of choice to them. However, it's possible the Oathpact was a one-time decision, so abandoning it just meant that they had to avoid dying if they didn't want to be trapped there again. Additionally, has anyone considered the possibility that if their spirits are preserved when they die, the desolations Regrow them from Spirit and perhaps a Cognitive presence alone? Think Miles Hundredlives, but literally from no physical body at all. Unless a fragment of their bodies are kept in Hell to Regrow them from.

Yolen superdna, anyone?

And Miles could go swimming in the stuff and come out peachy

If you had a giant cage, a Lurcher or Coinshot could actually fly by pushing against whereever they wanted

What about the Growth surge? Besides, a culture based around the idea of "adding" by using a neutral-output power would actually work - the mass has to remain the same, but the value doesn't. Turn the air into food to feed hungry children, and that seems pretty close to "adding" to me. Perhaps the nature of the culture is that the idea of truly creating more than you take to create it with is some sort of unreachable ideal, kind of like the way it is literally impossible to live without sin in Christianity - but people try anyway.

Sorry about that. I thought I was, and then I realized I did it wrong - besides, depending on where they are, it could still be a Cosmere theory

You could also burst drugs, vitamins, possibly even Feruchemical abilities if you're a Twinborn - though, come to think of it, I think feruchemy can already do this by default.

Awesome. Pure awesome. Coinshots whizzing like birds around stages studded with metal, lurchers walking upside down on iron ceilings, thugs and brutes in staged wrestling matches, or throwing iron ferrings a hundred yards, blindfolded tineyes reading cards at 20 meters, brass ferrings walking through burning pits unharmed... Anyone else have ideas?

I see... still, cheaper, and I can say, "totally tested on humans in clinical trials" as well as "and barely any of them died" and probably, in very small letters, "pewter allomancy recommended for users". Come on, I'm an evil CEO in this scenario.

bronze is definetly not an on/off power even in the original trilogy. Experienced seekers can sense details as minute as the amount of metal still available to an allomancer, but there is a steep, steep learning curve.