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An interesting counterpoint to that would be a Shard of Life, which, the healthier and less likely to die you are, strengthens you, increases your immune system, etc - but as soon as you began risking yourself by using the powers proactively, rather than as a resource to keep you alive, they would start to disappear. I guess in that system, Lifey people would be a lot like those with a lot of Breaths on Nalthis with a bit of low-grade Allomantic pewter type effects, whereas Deathy people would be insanely strong and fast, but no more durable - you would be more prone to illness, dementia, broken bones, muscle atrophy, even from usage of power - like swinging a glass sledgehammer at something.

That would require being a full feruchemist, though...I think those are all gone

Not to mention that there's a possibility that Allomantic aluminum, and possibly Feruchemical nicrosil, can dispel Lashings (it's my pet theory. Sorry)

melt it down and mix it with another metal that can then be separated - for instance, molten Invested copper + molten zinc = cleared brass. Aggressively force air through it to make bubbles, then let the brass cool. Heat the hunk of metal to the melting point of zinc, and keep it there for a while - the liquid zinc should gather in the bubbles and on the outside. Let cool. Smash to pieces, sort. Remelt the increasingly pure copper. Rinse and repeat until you have a cleared copper chunk of metal.

That's a good distinction - evokes all the right connotations

Thanks

What happens when charged metal is melted down? I don't think we've seen instances of any magical interaction with liquid metal in the books. So let's make some theories!

what it sounds like... Please tell me if it's there, I just could not find it.

I would call permanent coma, wherein your mind, memories, and personality are not only dormant but entirely gone, dead. This is the state that people considered dead enough to be, legally, no longer people, but organic organ maintenance devices are in.

I just realized we were talking about the one of the world's most masterful Awakeners, with the practice of decades in controlling his Cognitive and Physical form, possibly Spiritual as well, depending on how Divine Breaths are muffled, using a bit of his body, which apparently is a cognitive connection, to fuel an Awakening. Sure he can convince himself that that blood doesn't count as him. He does it all the time!

I got the impression that they were more like oral cartographers, only passing on things they saw as "truth" - so probably no stories about a boy and the moon, but definetly descriptions of the eating utensils employed by lower-class Kharbranthians

Well, I think that it's more like he doesn't get weaker when he fills, but he does get proportionally stronger as he taps, though only exactly enough to support his own weight

Shard of Tipsiness - Alcohol-based magic. Different kinds of drinks give you different powers, and mixed drinks can do weird things - but if you pass out or get too drunk to do anything (or hit anyone) you're screwed in a fight. Some people are incredibly alcohol-resistant, chugging rum and whisky for pure power, while others less able to hold their drinks make up for it with original drink mixes and cocktails. The book would include a scene where the main character tries to take a swig of his 299 proof superpowered mixed drink to start knocking holes in mountains or something as a last resort, and - gasp - someone replaced it with non-alcoholic beer. Then he passes out from all the alcohol he already ingested during the preceding climatic extreme drinking contest with the big bad vodka superconglomerate CEO, and wakes up in a dungeon beneath the planets largest, highest security vodka distillery. The operation is in fact producing black-market non-alcoholic beer, which it is using to sabotage Alcomages everywhere. The Shardpool of Tipsiness is in fact a literal lake of Invested alcohol. It rains beer. There are ginmists, scotchstorms, and underground coffee rings. The Bartenders Union is second only to the Federated Distilleries in terms of political power. The religion is oriented around attaining a state of drunkenness so perfect that everything becomes clear, and the priests have a holy obligation to never be sober. Liver failure is unsurprisingly the foremost killer on the planet, even though through Tipsiness's shaping, their livers can handle many times what one of us could. Alcohol related birth defects don't happen for this reason as well. Strong Alcomages, or many weak ones working together, can turn literally anything into alcohol.

Shard of Insanity - Being crazy gives you power - actually never mind. That's been done, and it can work.

I think that this has to do more with the fact that farms are now marred by an enormous cataclysmic scar. Suddenly, you need to build bridges to access half your lands. Earthquakes shook up soil. Some of your lands just tumbled into an abrupt void, and you can't let livestock get too near or they'll tumble down. Irrigation is doubtless disrupted, and nobody want to get too close. I see problems.

Two Seekers would work better - if either wanders under a coppercloud, the other one knows.

Gold compounders as organ donors

Cadmium Compounder in an untethered spacesuit - takes a lot longer to run out of air, though you would want to scrub out CO2 and replace it with helium or something to prevent blood poisoning. Feruchemical brass and Allomantic iron to coat yourself in a skin of molten metal, by filling the brass so the metal doesn't hurt you. A double Iron "skiing" behind a train by reducing their weight, wearing a wingsuit, and Pulling on the train. Feruchemical brass and Allomantic steel spitting red-hot metal shards. compounding bendalloy and surgically removing the fat to create a very icky food source.

Canadians, REPRESENT, eh?

I was just trying to remember one of the city names. Forgot that that one was the lost one, just happened to be the one I couldn't remember

Sorry about that... It just occured to me, I didn't really mean to rip off anybody. Sorry.

Huh. I guess there is that. But still, where does it come from - and why hasn't it buried ancient cities like...Urithru (I know it's spelled wrong).....

Possibly, they just hid them somewhere - the Purelake seems like a likely place. I'm sure some of the Radiants must have seen the sense in putting deadly weapons that can kill thousands where anybody could get them. It would be like leaving nukes for anyone to take. Though, to be fair, the "secret cache of ancient powerful weapons" is a little bit cliched.

Crem is one of those things. It is a nutrient-rich, clay-like substance that falls from Invested storms, (possibly) providing the nutrients for crustaceans shells and rockbuds...rockiness, used for pottery, building, and almost never violence. It is not identifiable as anything but itself, and falls directly on all land across the supercontinent with the highstorms - meaning it isn't swept up from one place there and deposited everywhere else. From that, we can assume either or both of two things: Crem is generated by a Shard/other powerful entity and crem is swept up from some place between the Origin of Storms and Panrosha (my name for the Rosharian supercontinent, derived from Pangaea, with a bastardization of Roshar). Further, the crem doesn't seem to stick around unless specifically treated - perhaps it's absorbed by plants and animals, but it should still build up in places. Yet, it just goes away. Is this simply Cultivations power returning to her (a la Atium and Ruin) once it's been used? I've been pinning the crem on her the whole time, simply because it fits with her Intent, but it might be anyone else, or just a natural process. Any ideas? Discuss!

I'm not certain, but I think the genetic ability to store and tap metals is not actually Investiture. Stormlight and the body of Preservation are both sources of raw Investiture. I think the ability to store things would more likely fall under Identity.