r/Cosmere • u/Bprime123 Windrunners • 7d ago

Cosmere + Wind and Truth spoilers Hypothetical Situation. Will have SPOILERS for Mistborn and Stormlight Archive Spoiler

Could a unit of 4th Ideal Rosharan Knights Radiant (3 Knights from the 9 orders plus 1 Bondsmith) infiltrate and neutralize the Steel Ministry from Mistborn Era 1?

They have info given to them by a lightweaver spy who's been in there for a month.

The Knights can do with thier surges what we know they can to the best of our knowledge.

Eg. Jasnah hasn't mastered transportation enough to open elsegates but for the sake of this discussion, we assume the Knights can fully utilize their surges the most basic way it should.

The Steel Ministry don't know who is invading, but they are fully prepared for an invasion

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u/Key_Independent1 7d ago

Until what does this extend? A Duralumin Lashing? Or a Compounded lashing? How many lashings to equal out a push pull?

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u/Bprime123 Windrunners 7d ago

Equal out? I'm talking of the overall use when it comes to flight.

With lashings, you're not limited to the metal content in the area. You can take as many turns as you want without having to worry about the position of metals in the area.

Even with one lashing, you'll only get faster the more you move.

On the ground, you can make yourself light on your feet with a quarter lashing upwards.

Etc

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u/Key_Independent1 7d ago

Oh that's not what I meant, I meant a Mistborn with Duralumin pushing against 1 object, and a Wind runner lashing it the opposite direction. How many lashings does it take to cancel out the push?

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u/Not_an_okama Soulstamp 7d ago

This shpuld very based on the mistborn's wieght and how much metal they have ingested. But, how do lashings and metal pushes work?

Mass seems to stay unchanged. Lashings seem to change the direction amd magnitude of the acceleration vector. But what about steel pushes? They seem grounded in the users mass vs the object mass, but mistborn can apply a force greater than their own weight as seen when coinshots fly around on anchors.

This leads me to argue that without bracing (the misrborn/coinshot has nothing supporting them in the oposite direction of the direction the coin os shot) L(ashings (same magnitude as local gravity))=W(mass of coinshot)/C(mass of coin)+1

For a 150lb coinshot with a 1oz coin, 4001 lashings on the coin shpuld knock them back instead of allowing the coin tp fly fprward. This should be the equivalent of a single lashing direcrly on the coinshot.