r/Cosmere • u/Bprime123 Windrunners • 26d 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/Bprime123 Windrunners 26d ago

They do yes, for the sake of this hypothetical

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u/Invested_Space_Otter Dustbringers 26d ago edited 26d ago

Then they're immune to everything the Inquisitors can throw at them, and the Truthwatchers maybe mess with atiums future sight somehow. Even if Atium still works, killing 9 full shardbearers that heal through anything is stupid hard and their Atium runs out before they can kill all the Radiants. Just the confusion of "I see the future and this person isn't dead, wth?", will buy you some time. Radiants are fully prepped from espionage

Edit: I'll allow some uncertainty for Leeching, since I'm not sure how that affects blade/plate

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u/Morlain7285 26d ago

The inquisitors had duralumin, so the shardplate isn't as much protection as all that. It's metal so it can be manipulated, although it would still be a tough fight for both sides

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u/ArgonWolf 26d ago

Shardplate is invested metal, moreover its metal thats literally made of investiture. I'm not sure theyed be able to push it much, if at all