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I want a Mistborn videogame so fucking bad. The movement and fighting style would transfer so well to a videogame medium. The blue lines, the choice of what metal you'd have (oh maybe you pick one metal at the start and you can try to get through the whole game with one metal or go an Inquisitor route and start collecting more metals to use and it could entirely change how people interact with you. The more inquisitor you are, the more you get choices influenced by the lord ruler or ruin himself. It would completely change dialogue and interaction options. Oooo there could be so much), the possibility of hiding amongst the nobility. God there's so much they could do with that

Sanderson is a really big fan of magic that sounds fun but then is secretly hella dark and probably has to do with killing souls.

Hey look this magic lets you see pretty colors and hear music better and animate corpses. How'd you get that magic? Oh I ate someone's soul. Don't worry they're fine, they just can't experience beauty anymore.

Look Look eat the metal and you can do cool stuff like yeet yourself in the air or run super fast. Eat the metal and you can become superman.

Or alternatively, you could STAB someone with the metal and STEAL THEIR SOUL! They will be very dead and it will be very messy. But look you have magical powers plus cool new jewelry

Here on Roshar you get magical powers, a built-in best friend/therapist, and a kick ass sword. But if you fuck up at all that new friend of yours will die and you will personally be responsible for killing a tiny part of god. Have fun!

"Kill them with kindness" wrong. 10 PLAGUES OF EGYPT!🩸🩸🩸🐸🐸🐸🪰🪰🪰🐅🐅🐅🐂🐂🐂🥵🥵🥵⛈️⛈️⛈️ 🦗🦗🦗 🌑🌑🌑🪦🪦🪦

Using a duralumin spike (identity), could you hemalurgically steal someone’s gender?

holographic charm concepts ✨ buy a wallpaper or leave a tip / twitter / instagram / shop 

rough painting/sketch?? thing from my characters + environments class! we did a quick prompt for villains based on fears (the one i ended up getting was megalophobia/the fear of things that are Too Big)

weather and severe storms (and tornadoes specifically) have been a special interest of mine since childhood and it just so happened that many of the images you get when searching that fear were tornadoes so 100% used this as an excuse to draw a tornado… person? thing? sure yea. 

 this is real messy and i dont plan on revisiting this anytime soon but it works for what i needed it for!

I think the fact that Endowment gives divine Breath to people who seemingly don’t have significant Return purposes - such as Calmseer sacrificing her divine Breath to heal her daughter - adds a particularly dangerous layer to her Intent, future sight, and planning

I believe her Intent, future sight, and planning isn’t only covering the greater scale purposes of the Five Scholars (especially Vasher), Lightsong, and Blushweaver… but it can also cover the lesser scale scope of just blessing the gift of spending one more week with family, or blessing the gift of living a few more years then healing a dying daughter.

Which… is particularly scary to me when you look at how Preservation was able to one up Ruin so often. Which I know doesn’t mean too much since Ruin’s future sight is between zero and abysmal but…

With that Ruin’s problem was ignoring sacrifice, selfessness, and “less significant individuals.”

If we assume that Ruin’s abysmal future sight encompasses the possibilities seen by atium+duralumin, then it seems Ruin foresaw the possibility of Elend’s death/sacrifice driving Vin to murder-suicide Ruin. But, this would mean he underestimated the possibility. Because he understimated the selflessness and love behind Vin and Elend’s sacrifices.

We see this trend with how he was screwed by over Preservation’s roles for Rashek, Elend, possibly the kandra, and Sazed.

He was too focused on Alendi and warping the prophecies, that he ignored the hateful Terrisman and (possibly) the Feruchemist with perfect memory. And that got Rashek to where Preservation wanted him to be.

He wanted to spike Elend, but ignored the importance of his loving sacrifice.

He used Sazed to get Vin to believe she was the Hero, and then tried to enflame Sazed’s depression. However, Ruin had absolutely no idea that Sazed is the Hero.

He knew the kandra existed, and they were sentient via his power. But he ignored them until the last minute because they weren’t destructive. And he paid the price for it.

Endowment has better future sight than Ruin by orders than magnitude. Much closer to Preservation, it appears. And she understands that some people just want to live a little more, and understands the potential of someone sacrificing their lives so someone else may live. But she also understands the importance of murder or destruction, and of plans spanning decades or centuries.

It seems her plans have involved Blushweaver’s murder, the Manywar happening, and the second Manywar almost happening. She was more involved than usual in the creation of Nightblood. Yesteel and Vasher don’t know this, but Yesteel’s experiments wouldn’t make another Nightblood.

No wait this cooks.

Awakeners could definitely nerf with radiants if they knew the right tone, but allomancers could negate this with copper. Here me out:

Bronze allomancers describe sensing burned metals as rhythmic pulses; Vin also describes the well of ascension — preservation’s perpendicularity — the same way.

Similarly, the pure tones of Roshar are derived from the investiture of its shards; stormlight, lifelight, and voidlight all carry a unique cadence and pitch. Listeners also describe rhythms pertaining to different emotional states (rhythm of irritation, joy, amusement, etc).

These two sound systems are intentionally similar; therefore, we can reasonably conclude that investiture has an intrinsic rhythm and tone based on its source and intent (at least for the shards of preservation, ruin, honor, cultivation, and odium).

This has incredible implications for the interplay between their magic systems.

Parshendi/listeners could hear allomantic pulses.

Seekers could hear Rosharan rhythms, a fact confirmed by Sanderson in 2016 (source).

Smokers could prevent — or at least resist — someone singing an anti-tone. If copperclouds dampen allomantic rhythms, they should dampen all invested rhythms.

Scadrian magic in general would be incredible on Roshar.

Rioters could summon emotion spren around others at will.

Leechers could drain radiants of investiture.

Nicros could boost a single lashing or awakening well past the normal limits.

Hemalurgy could steal breaths.

Duralumin feruchemy could steal spren bonds like a bondsmith (connection is OP).

Nicrosilminds would be absolutely broken (simply a better gemheart)

There’s so many implications for magic crossover and I can’t wait to see it.

why Awakening might just be the most powerful combat magic system against the other Invested Arts.

Bold fucking claim for me to make given atium and the Surge of Division letting people SPLIT THE DAMN ATOM but hear me out.

At Second Heightening (200 Breaths) an Awakener gains perfect pitch. If an Awakener hummed an Anti-Tone (Anti-Stormlight/Anti-Voidlight), would they be able to just neuter a Radiant. And I wonder if an Anti-Tone could exist for other magic systems, given that Bronze lets someone burning it hear the Rhythms of other metals. Just need a scholar or something to figure out the Anti-Tone of Preservation and you can also completely fuck over a Mistborn/any Allomancer. Thank you for coming to this insane ramble because I enjoy far overthinking Brandon Sanderson's magic systems and mix matching different planets systems to create hypothetically the strongest possible mix.

I need to be allowed to pester Brandon with questions but I would get plenty RAFO cards.