mossyfisk

Fabrials remind me a lot of hemalurgy, in the sense that they both use metals to affect investiture without seeming to need any from the user. If you built a really big fabrial, could it work on a human? I'm imagining a ten ton block of precisely machined copper that makes a surgebinder soulcast on demand.

Well, the Wind Runners is easy to do in hindsight at least: Adherents Gravitate to them. Perhaps we should focus on terrible wordplay.

I think it's important to remember the Cosmere mechanics that allomancy/feruchemy uses for this problem. When using Scadrian magic, you pump Investiture through your DNA that acts a Catalyst to shape the magic; it's the same as drawing an Aon but using your genes instead if a drawing. So when you tap a metalmind you have the right flavour of Investiture, but you still need the DNA that includes the Catalyst in your Spritweb in order to direct it. Since Nicrosil metalminds can give people the ability to use magic, they must include a copy of that Spritweb Catalyst. So it just needs to be stuck onto your soul for you to have the ability. Obviously in Hemalurgy you need a big ol' spike to staple other people's souls onto yours. I would guess that is because you get something akin to organ rejection; since its someone else's soul it tries to reject it. If Nicrosil metalminds just have the Spritweb Catalyst, then they won't have any of the personal bits that cause that, meaning a spike is not necessary and skin contact suffices.

Quick, someone tie a dolphin down and strap a Southern-style nicrosil-metalmind to it: we've got soul science to be doing.

To me, that sounded more like "If I was going to hit you hard enough to actually hurt you, it would wreck your very soul - something I have no desire to do". Avoiding of unintended consequences rather than personal inability.

All this stuff about the Bands being a trick, and Kelsier/Spook being involved in it is cool and everything. But where is the Lord Ruler's ACTUAL gear? Someone must have nabbed it all from his palace after the revolution. Just getting access to his copperminds would be cool as hell.

Didn't the Lord Ruler modify humans for high temperature when he got all divine the first time and accidentally stuck Scadrial too close to the sun?

Think of dumping your Identity as discarding your user credentials for a guest account, and when you make a fresh metalmind like that it's like you never installed user account control in the first place. 100% insecure server. There's a joke in there somewhere about using the telegram network to illegally download magic, but I'm too tired to come up with it.

Let's see: glows with power, produces heat, reacts with water... pretty sure that ettmetal is Radium or a compound thereof. Willing to bet that airship crews get a LOT of cancer.

If anyone wanted a clearer look at it. Although insufficient coffee meant I didn't clean the borders up. Edit: Although I wouldn't expect to get much from it, considering I'm pretty sure it literally reads "SasassasaS" Does look a bit like Kholinar, but that could well be my brain finding patterns in two shapes with triangular symmetry.

Can't help but think people might be overthinking this. As for things on the map, I'm intrigued to know what "The Shallow Crypts" are. And "Mourn's Vault" right on the border of Herdaz and Alethkar.

I'd guess him as being an Elsecaller rather than a Willshaper. Just because he doesn't really strike me as being a 'resolute builder', but 'wise' and 'careful' could fit with his paranoia. Plus his talk of whispering shadows seems to match the descriptions in Jasnah's opening scene.

The question for me is, since "the fighting was particularly intense at the time", who was the fighting against? The Voidbringers were long since gone at this point, so they must have gotten involved in politics. My guess for the Recreance would be some sort of Oath conflict (like when Kaladin swore to defend AND kill Elhokar), that made it impossible to keep both.

She didn't really present a very convincing argument to be honest. Likely to have more luck with something like: "Become fire!" "But I am a stick!" "Being fire is way better than being a stick. Trust me, I'm well good at magic."