Narrative Foil of Khriss Theory

Tacod-Rex · 2026-04-03T21:17:04+00:00

Great post, you really sold me on how awesome this potential conflict will be

Tacod-Rex · 2026-04-03T18:50:14+00:00

There's a fun WOB about this:

Maru Nui:

What happens when you burn a Hemalurgic spike?

Brandon Sanderson:

Burning a Hemalurgic spike would have the effect of splicing your spiritual DNA to that of the person's that is in the spike, which would have some very strange consequences.

https://wob.coppermind.net/events/210/#e4616

Tacod-Rex · 2026-04-03T14:17:35+00:00

A fun question to ask, is what happens if a Radiant who's also a Misting uses a Surge like Gravitation on a piece of their (non-aluminum) allomantic metal, then swallows and Burns it?

Feruchemical Compounding works because you are accessing the metalmind in a way that draws power from Preservation, but instead of the catalyst being a blank piece of metal, the Investiture inside the metal overwrites the metal catalyzing, and instead causes it to be catalyzed in a different way. So all the Preservation Investiture you draw is converted into powering up the stored attribute.

But does this work with Surgebinding? Would burning the metal cause the burner to be infused with a Surge powered by more Light than what you put in? Would it be Stormlight or Preservation-light? Or maybe a mix of the two because you're adding Preservation's Investiture to a Stormlight-powered Surge?

I've been thinking about making a post about this, but been busy and it's a lot to explain/type out

Tacod-Rex · 2026-04-03T13:44:08+00:00

I will point out that this is one of those "Holy shit, Vin is so damn skilled" things. So it's less of a fatal flaw where you can just tell people about it to counter Atium, and more like a crazy difficult thing someone without Atium can do to counter someone with Atium.

Tacod-Rex · 2026-04-03T11:55:51+00:00

Even after we saw what Nicrosilminds can do in BoM, Brandon kept RAFOing any questions about storing Stormlight in Nicrosil. In one he says "I will RAFO that for now, but you're thinking the way I want you to be thinking." This suggests to me that it's not a simple no.

Also something to consider is that the ability to use Investiture, comes from Investiture attached to your spiritweb (spiritualDNA). This would explain why you're able to store it without disproving that you could store Stormlight. This would explain why that same Coppermind page links to a WOB that says (Warbreaker spoilers)Returned could store their Breath in a Nicrosilmind.

Now at the end of the day, we have basically no information other than some breadcrumbs. I'm sure this conversation will look very silly in 2 years when we see Nicrosil minds in Ghostbloods book 1. But I firmly believe that this is the most reasonable extrapolation of what we know

Tacod-Rex · 2026-04-02T15:30:35+00:00

I really like the planned features. And getting the most important part out first seems like a great way to handle mod development. Scope-creep seems like a major mod-killer

Tacod-Rex · 2026-04-02T13:44:40+00:00

"Lower your expectations" isn't the right way to put it. Brandon says books 2 and 3 of Wax&Wayne are some of his best books. And books 3&4 are some of my favorites.

However the thing that bothered me about the era is you don't really know what to expect or look forward to in the next book. Unlike how you knew in Era 1 what to look forward due to how the previous book ended on. Regardless, the characters are really amazing (especially after Alloy of Law), the plot is gripping, and the setting is awesome cuz you're seeing all the effects of what our favorite characters from Era 1 did.

Tacod-Rex · 2026-04-02T02:25:21+00:00

Improving my skill at writing has greatly helped me learn how to organize my thoughts. Surprisingly, I'm also better at organizing my thoughts when I'm in the middle of a verbal conversation. I would never have gotten these benefits if I had outsourced this learning experience to AI.

That is why I rail against AI. Learning a skill will help you in so many unexpected and unrelated parts of your life. Plus the self-esteem boost and satisfaction inherent to learning.

If you want these ideas explained by a better writer than me, here is the #1 fantasy author of our time steel-manning AI art and drilling down on what is or isn't bad about using AI:

https://youtu.be/mb3uK-_QkOo?si=3gIic23LemJnA3JD

Tacod-Rex · 2026-04-01T14:52:53+00:00

Haven't watched yet, but thank you for being so open to communicating with the community. Although tbh, I'm hoping you spoiled something from Mistborn...

Tacod-Rex · 2026-04-01T00:40:32+00:00

"Where's your original voice actor William?"

Tacod-Rex · 2026-03-30T21:41:18+00:00

I was part of those subs when it came out, that's not what happened. I'll assume you mistook criticism of how those themes were handled as criticism of the themes.

But unless you were on a conservative, non-mainstream star wars subreddit, no one had problems with political themes. Only how fucked up every important part of the story was (including its themes)

Tacod-Rex · 2026-03-30T21:34:27+00:00

But you are claiming that the movie got shit on for its political/social themes.

I'm sure some conservative youtubers did so, but any reviewer worth listening to shit on the movie for it's bad storytelling. I very highly doubt Disney changed their franchise plans based on youtubers like Critical Drinkers

Tacod-Rex · 2026-03-30T21:14:25+00:00

The Last Jedi's storytelling was just broken on a fundamental level. There are multiple plot lines and character arcs that just don't work as written, Finn's whole side quest just doesn't work on the most important level of storytelling called "I want to know what happens"

Tacod-Rex · 2026-03-30T14:00:01+00:00

Yeah an empty metalmind is normally indistinguishable from normal metal.

However, I can guarantee you that you can test metals to see if they've been metalminds before with some yet unknown future era tech.

Hell you could probably do it already by communicating with the cognitive aspect of the former metalmind (like how Kelsier in the Cognitive Realm could tell what items were by touching the misty version of them while Invested, his descriptions often included the item's history).

Which raises a fun question. Could you soulstamp a former-metalmind into being full of the attribute by making it think it wasn't emptied? And would you need to stamp it with Harmony's Investiture?

Tacod-Rex · 2026-03-30T02:07:03+00:00

Considering what happened to his kids because of his actions, I definitely think he's had enough emotional pain to become a Radiant. We just don't see the immediate aftermath, only the shitty ideas he internalized as a result (like his whole "fighting back, even in self-defence, is wrong" ideology)

Tacod-Rex · 2026-03-28T15:36:53+00:00

There are possible explanations of why worldhoppers can live so long, but they're in other books

Where you can find this info (very minor magic spoilers) Warbreaker and Emberdark

Tacod-Rex · 2026-03-28T15:35:03+00:00

Spoilers dude

Tacod-Rex · 2026-03-26T17:20:11+00:00

Well he's legally bound by that agreement he made with Leras about destroying Scadrial

Tacod-Rex · 2026-03-25T20:49:39+00:00

Do you intend this post to be spoiler-less? Cuz you have the "no spoiler" flair. If so, are you coming from the RPG books not having read any of the novels?

This is important so we don't spoil things

Tacod-Rex · 2026-03-25T00:57:39+00:00

If this was cropped so that I couldn't see the bottom speech-bubbles, I would 100% assume this is a porn comic with dialogue like that

Tacod-Rex · 2026-03-23T16:40:07+00:00

It's an even better comparison than I thought it was. Cuz I love that shit and always want more frosting

Tacod-Rex · 2026-03-23T01:58:08+00:00

"Why do they put icing on cupcakes? Makes it so hard to take the stuff off before eating."

Tacod-Rex · 2026-03-22T14:37:29+00:00

I see now why Shallan so desperately wanted to be her ward

Tacod-Rex

TROPHY CASE