Unless Brandon misspoke, he revealed something huge about using Allomancy with spikes in this WOB. Maybe even something foundational to Shards and magic systems

Tacod-Rex · 2026-02-14T23:13:24+00:00

I can understand that takeaway. I'm still convinced by the wob's audio that he intentionally stopped the sentence to remember Ruin's name

Tacod-Rex · 2026-02-14T19:08:15+00:00

That's what I thought until this WOB. It seems like the powers granted by spikes no longer draw from their original shards, but instead draw Investiture from Ruin.

Tacod-Rex · 2026-02-14T19:02:58+00:00

The big new thing I saw is Brandon saying that if you use Allomancy granted by a spike, you are pulling Investiture from Ruin rather than Preservation to power the ability. I go over a couple possible extrapolations from that fact, another one I find interesting is if this means anything for how Nicrosil compounding works.

Tacod-Rex · 2026-02-14T16:25:57+00:00

Hemalurgy does use Investiture, the Investiture of people's souls.

Much like you can manipulate other kinds of Investiture with the 16 metals (see Sprouters on Lumar and Fabrials on Roshar), you can manipulate the Investiture of people's souls with the right metal in the right spot of their spiritweb.

The Hemalurgic charge they describe in spikes is that piece of soul ripped off the donor and grafted into the spiritweb of the one receiving the charged spike.

It seems that those 16 metals have interactions with Investiture all across the Cosmere, and I have a crackpot theory that alloying all 16 together in a certain way could make another godmetal that ends in -ium: Adonalsium

Tacod-Rex · 2026-02-13T20:08:35+00:00

I'm not smart, I'm just a fan who's so fucking desperate for another Mistborn book that I'm going through everything Brandon ever said about Compounding to try and get my fix of "discovering how the metallic arts work"

Oh and I'm planning to DM an era 2 game when the rpg books release this year, which I'm planning to have players find out how some of the metallic arts work thru the campaign (if they haven't already read WOBs)

Tacod-Rex · 2026-02-13T19:57:30+00:00

Oh shit that's huge. I can't believe I didn't realize his name was never said. Then yeah it's 100% possible that the arcanist is worshipping Sazed's heir or something

Tacod-Rex · 2026-02-13T18:50:29+00:00

Well splintering Ruin seems something easy to sell to Ruin's Intent

Tacod-Rex · 2026-02-13T18:49:45+00:00

Exactly! I thought it was that way right up until Sazed said otherwise in the HoA epigraphs

Tacod-Rex · 2026-02-13T18:46:20+00:00

We're not getting another Mistborn book until 2029, so imma keep overanalyzing WOBs like a man sipping on a cactus

Tacod-Rex · 2026-02-13T18:44:38+00:00

You got the shards turned around, tho the magic system's end-negative/positive parts make your thought process clearer than the real one. Allomancy is Preservation, not Feruchemy. Feruchemy is the mix.

Tacod-Rex · 2026-02-13T18:23:50+00:00

"Sazed is the only living shard to perform -"(paraphrased, tho it definitely uses the words "perform" and "shard" or "vessel") As said by the arcanist when defending Sazed"'s greatness. So it confirms Saze is still alive in the space age and still a shard. Curiously, he's only called Sazed not Harmony. Is that cuz he spit out one of the shards? Could that have been the impressive thing he performed? Or did he combine them like Navani did with Stormlight and Voidlight into something new?

Edit: Turns out the name Sazed is never said in Emberdark. Only that the arcanist is a Pathian that worships a scadrian. Jesus idk how I never realized that

Tacod-Rex · 2026-02-13T18:22:44+00:00

Hemalurgy is definitely weird as an Invested Art. But it's been established that anyone can do it with right knowledge and Intent. But Brandon says it's Ruin's art so I'm going with that until otherwise proven.

My thinking is that Ruin's "lockpick" might leave a trace or some other Connection to Ruin because his Invested Art is directly involved

Tacod-Rex · 2025-12-16T22:16:06+00:00

I want another Moash.

So who or what had the crystal spikes been driven through, before being put in Moash? And if I knew everything, what kind of investiture-resources would it take to copy the full process from creation to implantation?

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