So, some people have pointed out that Rashek was in fact, going a little crazy, as an explanation for him having the BIGGEST FUMBLE KNOWN TO THE COSMERE.
So. I will be going down the list of Rachel’s obscene abilities and why he absolutely shouldn’t have been killed by anyone except a herald(even this is questionable with just power potential by the way), and that he is a total dumbass for losing to vin.
1.) Virtually infinite speed
I do not think anyone is processing how genuinely broken compounding speed is, but Rashek can actually do better than compounding speed. He can compound speed, AND BURN DURALUMIN. This man can move so fast, he would probably make most speedsters in fiction look like snails. You know all those posts about how the flash should never lose in any fight because speed is just so op? Yea. We have blown past that territory by like a mile. I genuinely think this guy can move fast enough that the force of his passing would cause significant environmental damage. I don’t know how busted a duralumin boosted compounding would be, but the speed alone could easily level cities as long as doesn’t kill himself.
2.) Obscenely powerful allomancy
The lord ruler was shown on several occasions to push metal in someone’s body. I do not think this was duralumin, because I think using duralumin would instantly make him into a fetus because of his atium compounding. (This is one of his major flaws, and he could have been immortal easier. Every lack of duralumin use is part of the massive fumble) However, that means that his basic steel pushes were leagues above everyone else. We already saw this with his soothing, but this raises some interesting points. The lord ruler might be able to push and pull shardplate, or possibly shardblades. Maybe even the honor blades. He certainly could with duralumin. It pulls into question, how high his upper limit with duralumin actually is. His flared pewter was enough to slap the skin off of Kelsier face, killing him instantly. It might have been enough to burn him but I don’t have the specific line pulled up to check how his corpse was described. Regardless, these are obscene raw power levels.
I’m not sure if I even need to delve that deep into this one. This makes Deadpool and wolverine’s healing factors look like jokes. We already saw how disgustingly busted this is with a normal compounder like Miles Hundred Lives. But the lord ruler can store far more, has access to more gold, and presumably burn it more potently than miles could. Also, normal gold can heal shardblade wounds. Which makes shardblades probably as useless as other weapons against a compounder. For a reminder, the only reason vin was able to rip the metal minds from the lord rulers skin was because she was tapping into the infinite power of a shard. And even then, if the lord ruler had been more smart about his metal minds, this wouldn’t have worked. It could have easily thrown Rashek backwards instead.
4.) My guy was canonically a savant in every metal
This one isn’t brought up enough. Being a savant lets you do things you absolutely shouldn’t be able to do. Like wax with the steel bubble, or spook with tin. The lord ruler could do far far more techniques than everyone else, not just raw power.
This one is generally overlooked for mistborn in general, by the fanbase and the books. This is a disgusting power. Actually insane. To be able to wipe a radiant of their stormlight, or other potentially more drastic things, like wipe an awakener of all their breaths. I’m not sure how far the investiture wipe extends. It’s entirely possible it could wipe Feruchemical stores, or destroy bonds with spren. A lot of these are probably not possible for a *normal* chromium burner. But Rashek is again, far more powerful than them, and a savant for all metals. The fact that he never uses this makes me suspect he does not know of any of the enhancement metals existence, but that is another major flaw and absolutely his fault.
So. We have the fastest character in the entire cosmere, completely unkillable as long as he is trying, able to kill highly invested people in a single blow, 1000 years to grow proficient at all his insane powers, and able to make a vast swath of his opponents powerless with a touch.
I fully believe that someone competent with these powers would have a genuine chance over most of the heralds in a one on one fight, except for taln and ishar.
L Rashek, the cosmeres biggest fool, beat by a teenage girl.
