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  1. PorridgeBrick
    Sorry, I'm definitely not buying the size of the Trolloss here. That's only a four foot gain. That's nothing, when humans gain nearly one and a half times their height, which would be another 19 feet for a trolloss, and the trolloss have many more spikes than them. Each spike means more power, more height, more growth. 20 feet at least.
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    I think you're underestimating the size of a trolloss– someone above did the scaling and came up with something 20-22 feet tall. But still, it's a mouse compared to a chasmfiend. Edit: Ninja'd.
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    So a ridiculously strong Feruchemist could store almost all the way to absolute zero of their trait? That would be pretty cool, actually. I can imagine TLR floating in the sky with his near-zero mass, or freezing everything at a touch with near-zero temperature (while tapping lots of health to stay alive). Storing all his youth for instant suicide, or storing 100% of his memories so he doesn't remember how to tap them again .
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    But what do you do with all that Investiture? In the MAG, Nicrosil Investiture is used to fuel other magics– Allomancy, other Feruchemical metals, etc. Without any other magic systems, all a Nicrosil Compounder has to fuel is Allomantic nicrosil, which shouldn't really have any need for extra power– it's pretty much an on-off metal. You might get some effects from just passively holding that Investiture, but you can't actually use it.
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    There's also the question of what strength in feruchemy even means. Feruchemy automatically has perfect storage, and it automatically can be tapped to any degree you want. Where's the room for individual variation there? (The question applies to how Hemalurgic Decay works with feruchemy, too.)
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    And where did you get this awesomeness? Did you dastardly devils dare to steal from Lift?
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    Hmm. That is a useful ability. Explodiness does not harm us, as we can simply reform. But the enemy.... Mwahaha! You have handed us the best possible weapon! Do not underestimate the PorridgeBrick empire! (Yes, empire. We grow fast.)
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    I'm confused here. You're being threatened by a clan of malevolent masses of porridge, and so... make more masses of porridge? That is not how you defeat PorridgeBricks. We will gladly welcome our new brethren that you have created.
  9. PorridgeBrick
    Your fungicides and shardforks and featherspears and various painful pointy things are useless against the Bricks of Porridge! Cut us, and we reform! Try to poison us, and we will happily eat it all with no harmful effects! Stab us, and we devour you! And yes, it's we now– I have summoned my entire family of PorridgeBricks, from all their unexpected hiding spots inside bricks, the Spanish Inquisition, and Voidmobiles! Watch your backs, your feets, your fronts, your everythings, because there's always a PorridgeBrick lurking precisely where it is most unexpected! Tonight, my friends, we feast on feathers and fanfics! And kiwifruits, can't forget the kiwifruits. Mmmm. Tasty.
  10. PorridgeBrick
    Easier to just shoot them with the coin, really. Any punches would have to come directly from your center of mass, as that's how Allomantic pushes works.
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    For exactly as long as he has a steady supply of kiwifruits, yes.
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    Mmm. Kiwis. Kiwifruits are good. Therefore, Kiwis are good. Must be on side of good.Fellow something-or-others, I will join you in your brave rebellion against the be-feathered hordes! I will defend our poor Eumycotic friend from the evil attacks of vaguely defined evil persons! I will eat lots of kiwifruits! ... Wait, you do pay people in kiwifruits right? If you don't, do. I require kiwifruits.
  13. PorridgeBrick
    Normal people play it too, on a much smaller scale. They just adapted it for Returned strength in the case of Lightsong's game.
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    Yes, we do. Nalan says it's a fabrial, and we see him tucking something tiny into his pocket. Honorblades don't need to be stored in pockets, and are most likely much larger than what could fit in one.
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    Well, Suse is a Returned, so it seems to work the same as normal.
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    Oh, sorry, I should have specified what I was replying to there. I was contesting TheBlackReaper's claim that the Shaod is an entity created by Devotion there. I certainly agree that the Shaod candidates for Snapping, since it, regardless of its origins, is still an example of foreign Investiture being received by a magic user.Interesting thoughts on Snapping aligning with Shardic Intent. It sounds very plausible, even without full evidence.
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    From the WoR back cover: And another WoB on the subject: Third WoB because I'm crazy like that. Anyways, it seems fairly conclusive that accepting foreign Investiture requires stress on the soul so it can "fit into the cracks". With Hemalurgy, this happens forcefully, with the Spike ripping open a hole in the soul to fit the Spiritweb fragment in (as an aside, this is likely how the flaw works– due to Hemalurgic decay, the Investiture isn't enough to fill the hole completely, so there's still a chink left where the foreign Investiture of a Soother/Rioter can get in and reak havoc). Feruchemy doesn't use much or any foreign Investiture, so Snapping is either extremely minor or nonexistent. Awakeners, I think, are Snapped from birth– their souls are already fragmented, ready to detach or fit in more. Dakhor pretty clearly has a lot of trauma involved. Forgers never actually take in Investiture, as the symbols are the actual conduits, so no Snapping is needed there. And Elantrians probably Snap, since the Shaod concentrates so much power into them (though pre-Elantris, with much weaker, unfocused power, the Snapping would be so minimal as to be unnoticeable).
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    I'm not sure about the anything useful bit– if all it requires is Surge use, then it could probably be trained to get it consistently. There's probably something useful you can do by mentally entering the Cognitive, even without bodily being there: at the very least, communicating with spren to some extent.
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    But he brainstormed the magic system for it during the Writing Excuses episode too. All the core Shardworlds must have established magic systems by this point. It only worked for TES because Sel's magic is regionally restricted, something he's not exactly going to repeat again.
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    Yes, this is very likely. And that higher connection with Shadesmar also shows in how they can see spren travelling to a spot even before they would appear to a human. It probably is how they can bond spren, as well.
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    There are almost certainly none, however, seeing as it's all something he brainstormed pretty recently in a Writing Excuses episode, and I doubt there are any Shards left unplanned by that point. And he's also said there are only ten core Shardworlds, which again Sixth of the Dusk would not be part of.
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    Not anymore after WoR, actually. She's shipping Kalarin and Kadolin now.
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    All we have of it is the sample chapter. There's also a Writing Excuses episode where it's actually brainstormed iirc, which is where the aquatic parasites info comes from.
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    There's actually precedent for worlds without shards having complex magic systems based on internal parasites. Sixth of the Dusk has the same sort of thing, with birds ingesting aquatic parasites and gaining powers varying from an anti-mind-reading cloud (which, now that I think about it, is very much like copperclouds, and may be identical Realmatically) to visions of possible future deaths, depending on one's actions (which, even more interestingly, is rather like Electrum. I might have to think about this more). It's also pretty likely that the rest of the fauna's strange powers come from the same parasitic sources, and from that the possibility that humans themselves may have interactions with the parasites. If so, then that's pretty much the exact same as the Silence Divine: contract parasite -> magic powers.
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