PorridgeBrick

We see him use Emotional Allomancy per WoB. We certainly don't see him actually use the Lerasium. While he may have ingested that Lerasium to gain his Allomancy, we aren't sure.

We should probably get more confirmation on this however, as Brandon already confused The Silence Divine up with Shadows for Silence once before.Also, another detail I forgot to add to my list: the Empty Space shard is not the same shard as the shard that just wants to survive.

True, there's no fear of invasion. However, if you're competing with them in trade or something, or they're making a preemptive attack before you attack them, then they can do very frightening things from afar. After all, they could teleport explosives, plagues, poisons, etc into your country with absolutely no way to defend against it. So you definitely don't want to antagonize them.

Scadrial doesn't have blimps, just large boats towed through the sky by scores of gently floating Iron ferrings.

Sell. Shshshsh's gotta have something bigger going on. Kaladin will be the "one to destroy us", in the words of the WoK back cover.

Sel. They don't seem the monarchial type. Chana will become a major character. She will also be storming badchull. Yes, I noticed the typo.

If only I could upvote this twice.Anyways, I wonder if Feruchemical brass machines could replace ovens somehow. Leave it in the sun all day to store heat, then have it tap in the evening to cook food/heat houses. 100% efficient solar power. Scadrial could go Green.

Here you go.

The "Old Magic" isn't really a magic system at all however: it's just the Nightwatcher screwing around. And the mechanics are very different: iirc, the Silence Divine magic is from magical bacteria that give their host superpowers to help them survive.

Um... All Idrians must wear rainbow tie-dye shirts and convert to the Iridescent Tones. (?)

I was actually going to change them for the Hallendrens, but I got roped.

And for an artificial version of the process, you have Awakened objects like Nightblood, with the Investiture of the Breath giving life to a Cognitive idea (the Command), just like spren are just Cognitive ideas with Investiture, and Seons just Invested, living Aons. The difference is that the artificial Nalthisian (Nalthian?) "spren" are stapled to a physical object (maybe like trapping spren in gems?).

I thought the Mist spirit was just Leras showing himself through the mists. Edit: Moogle, an addendum to your question. Are those Scadrian Splinters related to the Southern Scadrian Allomantic Machines?

Perhaps they get the unique ability of each order (Shallan's memories, Kal's battle sense, Skybreaker's crime-dar, etc)? If they get the surges, the Radiants kinda feel redundant to me.

Human electromagnets isn't happening, but the Southern Scadrian Allomantic Machines (SSAM for short) might be more feasible. For other interesting possibilities, I bet Spinners would be legally prohibited from the lottery/casinos/games of chance, and that all casinos would search people for metalminds. I'm also sure there'd be some kind of registry with any decently developed bureaucratic government. It's too important information for it to not be catalogued. There's probably even standardised tests for allomancy, with a doctor on hand to help against metal poisoning. Edit: I doubt it. Specialists like that are too expensive to use as strike breakers. You would only call them in for things they alone can do– feats of strength, telekinesis, etc. Much less expensive to simply concede to the union's demands.

I really wouldn't say the Breaths gain sentience from their magic users any more than Stormlight gains sentience, or the Dor gains sentience. It's just pure Investiture. It has no Cognitive Aspect to think with. Spren/Seons/Skaze/Awakened Objects are different: they're not just Investiture, because they have a Cognitive Aspect. They're living ideas, powered by the Investiture they're made of. Yes, Investiture can become sentient if you leave it alone, but that's not related to the magic user. That just happens naturally.

Here's the WoB from the Compiled Thread.

It's a hiding place. We PorridgeBricks are ambush predators, you see. No one ever suspects that a brick would hide inside another brick. Or the Spanish Inquisition.

Who says I'm not an animated brick of porridge?

Such a shame. I rather liked my Santhid pic. Oh well, I'll change it back soon.

I'm almost sad I didn't die this game. The whole reason I established my character as a lunatic Priest of the Stick was so my death could be this bit I told Claincy. "Also, if I die at some point, could I start to Return (glowiness and all), get up, and then become a stick? The form of a Returned is based on their own perception, after all. Then someone can accidentally step on me and kill me again. I think it would be a hilariously trollish way to die."

So then "Luck" would essentially be your ability to take the right action, make the right choice? That's makes for a considerably more appealing power than I've been thinking of Feruchemical chromium as. If it was just "Everything turns out perfect for you. Hurrah" then it would be pretty awful for storytelling. And at least it means that storing Luck is a little safer: just lock yourself up in a steel cage or something while you store so any decisions you make can have absolutely no bearing on your future.

Actually, fire most certainly does have matter. There's some solids, some gases, some plasma too if it's hot enough. The only problem is that a basic lashing requires touch, something rather painful with flames. Reverse lashings could work for moving it around however, particularly if he put the reverse lashing on Syl so she can fly around with it. Using Atmospheric Pressure with the flame could be pretty interesting as well. I think with water, you may have problems with its Cognitive Identity. If the entire body of water constitutes as one thing, then you will only be able to Lash the water in puddles and buckets, because larger bodies like lakes and ocean are a little too Stormlight-consuming. If it's the other way around, and each drop is its own entity, then you'll take years to Lash all of a single puddle. But I find the first possibility more likely, since the oceans in Shadesmar seem to be all one massive hunk of obsidian instead of many discrete beads.

Just out of curiosity, Wilson, were you the one who leaked our plan to kill Jim to the Idrians? Or was that one of our own Hallandrens?

Isn't our "army" just Vard though? How do we take half of him? Lengthwise?