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  1. Swimmingly
    The thing about Scadrian Investiture is that, barring hemalurgy, Mistborness and fullmetal feruchemy (Feruchemist as opposed to Ferring), you generally only have access to a single type of Investiture. A Nicrosil Ferring, if he is not Twinborn, has no access to Investiture to store - hence the difficulties.
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    “Your Breath to mine,” he yelled as his momentum slowed. The rope dropped free and he landed on the first block. “Become as my leg and give it strength!” he Commanded, drawing color from the blood on his chest. The rope twisted down, wrapping around his leg and foot as he leaped off. He landed on the next block, one foot down, the coiled rope—and its strange, inhuman muscles—bearing the brunt of the shock. -Warbreaker, Ch 56 edit: fixed accidental quote-destruction
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    Humiliation. The more you're mocked, the stronger you are. Masters of the art would employ crowds of people to belittle them, and the weakest people would have good self-esteem and stable relationships with their peers. Saboteurs would send in ninjas to whisper compliments to people as they slept, and the best thing a friend could do for you would be to make you think you were truly useless.
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    It's always nice to remember that the tables and charts in Sanderson's books aren't always entirely true. Perhaps, over time, things were lost.
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    Where did he say that? I remember interpreting the quote of "cleansing the body of impurities" as referring to hostile Investitures (such as Lashings)
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    I recall that Vasher used his own blood to fuel his Awakening, for a rather morbid and unusual image of him leaping around the Court of Gods with greyish blood splattered and leaking from a wound, but, imagery aside, blood is probably considered a part of you
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    I think it's safe to say it would hurt him a bit. Vin is hurt by bracing herself against Steelpushes, so Ironpull would hurt as well. Allomancy doesn't seem to have the same self-immunity rules granted by feruchemy in most cases. It's probably analogous to suddenly tying anything from a rubber band to a steel cable to your center of mass while falling. Your hero would probably have more luck slamming themselves into the side of a building, or dragging a paperweight through several floors via Pull to transfer the energy of their fall into the floorboards while letting the give enough that it didn't act like the aformentioned steel cable.
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    The fuel for Awakening is colour. The royals can change their hair colour by their mood. The royals can have essentially infinite awakening fuel by draining their hair colour. Not that colour is too hard to find in a pinch, but, for instance, in a spotless white prison, you have that and your blood to catalyze an Awakening. Because Breaths are finite quantities as well, giving a much less overpowered effect than, for instance, infinite metal for a Scandrian, the ability to use Awakening no matter what the circumstances seems all right.
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    Stormlight seems to have many of the same effects as Allomantic pewter. I wonder if it can have the same less-than-pleasant side effects?
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    It's also possible that Sazed tweaked that particular aspect of Allomancy a little bit. If it was possible before, then it's not to far a stretch to say he made it easier afterward. More controllable Allomancy could mean more civic rather than military applications of Allomantic iron and Allomantic steel, anyway, so it seems like a very Sazed-like thing to do.
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    It brings to mind the air furies from Jim Butcher's Codex Alera, where you could increase your reaction speed, for example, moving your arm extremely quickly to catch a ball, but, because it doesn't actually enhance your body, you could really hurt yourself doing it by forcing your tendons to change direction faster than they should. I imagine that a feruchemist could get around that by tapping zinc, steel, and gold all at once. At that point, you would effectively be operating as if in a bendalloy bubble. The gold might not even be necessary, depending on how enhanced physical speed stresses the body - feruchemy doesn't hurt its user.
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    The way shards are grouped, planet to planet, is extremely convenient, e. g Preservation and Ruin, Domination and Devotion, Honor and Cultivation and Odium, etc. I suppose the plot requires opposing or at least complementary powers, but is there something deeper to this? I theorize that certain groups of Shards were bound more closely after the Shattering, which is why they ended up on the worlds together like they did.
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    always reminded me of mer (sea) and mere (mother). In the first case, cosmere means "sea of the universe". In the second, "mother of everything". Both seem appropriate.
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    Or he carries around a set of hemalurgic spikes and...appropriates what he needs wherever he goes. He could probably get himself a bit of every magic system in the Cosmere with less than a hundred unholy murders! (More if he wants to be extra strong in them)
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    I wonder what the Origin of Storms looks like in Shadesmar...
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    If you can suffocate Nightwielder, then you can find some workaround for Steelheart too - and they tried everything.
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    In his situation, I would probably have a "one thing about to escort me bodily off the mortal coil at a time" sort of mentality - just because he has superpowers doesn't mean he can't panic. Anyway, if that were the case, it would be a lot easier to checkmate him. A shower of machine-gun bullets would do it. However, it's stated that he can dodge that, so I assume he's quite powerful in that regard.
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    When was the last time Brandon designed a magic system that was "just random" in it's effects?
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    Kinda the same thing as, say, money.
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    Great. Now, when I buy the book, my fingers will itch to turn to the epilogue the whole way through
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    There's going to be a Scadrian in the epilogue?!
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    Allomantic aluminum, supposedly, cleans investiture from you sDNA. Feruchemical nicrosil stores that investiture. Could users of these metals get rid of or weaken an Investiture-based attack (being Lashed) by burning or storing their metals respectively?
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    Thanks for linking that, Kurk
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    No tobacco? But...Breeze was always smoking either a pipe or a cigar in my imagination...
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    As I understand, Feruchemical brass only makes you immune to your own heat, as Feruchemical iron only makes you immune to your own weight.
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