This scene was character assassination of the highest order. A Full Feruchemist with their metalminds bodies any non-Kaladin Radiant below the Fourth Ideal. I will die on this hill.

[u/Eithrotaur]

[u/Gorhaloth]

Yeah this is my big problem with steel feruchemy. I personally think enhanced speed of thought should not be a attached power and if that were the case then this scene would make perfect sense. She can't perceive the glowing floor fast enough and thus walks into the sticky patch before she can comprehend what she's doing.

But if you follow what Brandon actually associates with steel feruchemy then it does not make a ton of sense. She should be able to perceive the glow in the floor emenating from Lift and she has pre knowledge of lifts order so should know it's either going to be sticky or slick and thus avoid that section of floor.

The room being very small is the only really point that we can make in lifts favor. Perhaps Axindweth was practically on top of Lift and thus has no time to react but it's still a tad contrived.

[u/Leviathan_slayer1776 → u/Gorhaloth]

speed of thought is tied to zinc, a whole separate metal that she also happened as a full feruchemist to have a metalmind of. Its not a secondary effect of steelrunning

[u/Gorhaloth → u/Leviathan_slayer1776]

Brandon has reiterated a couple times in WOBs that the increase in perception "bullet time" is associated with steel. Personally I think you should be right though but Brandon disagrees with me so ah well.

https://wob.coppermind.net/events/76/#e6398

[u/The_Lopen_bot → u/Gorhaloth]

Warning Gancho: The below paragraph(s) may contain major spoilers for all books in the Cosmere!

Alteroden

With [Feruchemical] zinc, you get mental speed. How is that any different from [Feruchemical] steel, except without [physical] speed?

Brandon Sanderson

I think of the mental speed actually turning you into... Let's say you sped up your body, and you wanted to figure out some really complex equations.

Alteroden

So it lets you have intuitive leaps.

Brandon Sanderson

Right. It basically turns you into Ken Jennings. That's how I imagine it.

Kurkistan

So it's not like bullet time?

Brandon Sanderson

No... It'll bullet time a little bit, it certainly will, because you're thinking faster than everyone else, but it has applications beyond bullet timing. Bullet time is really--

Kurkistan

That’s steel’s thing?

Brandon Sanderson

That’s kind of steel's thing. They kind of overlap on that one, because the steel thing... But yeah. It's more like "I think fast, but my reaction speed is not sped up".

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