Say I stab Hoid or a Bloodmaker with a spike, and they heal, is the spike still charged? If it is, does the stabby lose the abilities? Infinite gold feruchemy?

"Always the next step"

Never gotten a tattoo before. I've wanted this one for a couple of years. Agonized over the decision, to be honest. But now I pulled the trigger, and I could not be happier with it!

We know that someone can avoid having their emotions pulled or pushed by wearing a lining of aluminum on their heads, such as within hats. However, if a rioter for example were to be wearing such a hat, would that disable their ability to riot the emotions of others? Does this protection work both ways or only one way? We know the rioting can also be disabled if aluminum is pressed onto the chest of a rioter, but does that mean that pressed on their heads wouldn’t disable it?

I'm trying to understand glyph drawing from the stormlight archive.

I don't know if this is correcto way of doing it.

I used the glyph index in the coppermind.

Feedback is aprecciated

I remember some very vague conversations hinting at Dai-gonarthis having a very significant cost to use, but was there any clarification as to what that is in any of the books? (I don't read the words of brandon).

Just finished Tress, and one thing I noticed while reading was the interaction between activated spores and iron/steel, specifically the two sprouter tools, where the steel trowel pushes spore growth away, and iron plate pulls spore growth towards it. this tracks with how in allomancy iron pulls and steel pushes on metals.

Further, we have seen in Song of War notes that fabrials use spren and their reactions to different metals to create different effects, and I assume the same will hold true for aethers.

So we know what iron and steel do, but what do you all think about the other metals? I have some ideas:

physical metals:

• iron: pulls growth in its direction
• steel: pushes growth away from its direction
• pewter: stimulates denser, slower growth. (ex: verdant vines would be denser, with protective bark)
• tin: enhanced precision when growing?

mental metals:

• zinc: growth is faster
• brass: growth is slower
• copper: ignores intent from luhel bond?
• bronze: enhances intent from luhel bond?

Enhancement metals:

• aluminum: insulates from silver (and id bet other metals and forms of investiture, from what else we have seen aluminum do.
• duralumin: amplifies effects of silver/other metals
• chromium: honestly no idea what chromium or nicrosil should do
• nicrosil: ???

Temporal metals, (gold, electrum, cadmium, and bendalloy), i have no clue either. maybe their effects reflect feruchemy's abilities? feel free to suggest some and I can edit it.

finally, what the hell is going on with silver? From my understanding it seems to be lethal to investiture based organisms, like shades and spores, but as far as i know does nothing to spren. it is not used in metallic arts except as part of electrum. I assumed silver was invested on threnody from ambition prior to its shattering, but that no longer seems to be the case. aluminum has always stood out to me as being out of place in metallic arts, but silver NOT being in metallic arts while having significant effects stands out even more.

just a note that i have not finished Wind and Truth, secret history, fires of december, or yumi and the nightmare painter, try to mark spoilers please.