Kurkistan
If you're on Threnody and you get withered by a shade, are you better off burning Allomantic aluminum, or tapping Feruchemical gold?
*laughter*
[clarification on the question]
Brandon Sanderson
They would both work pretty well. I would say if you burned aluminum, that would kind of have the effect that you are wanting it to have, which is the effect-- negating and sucking out, so that's probably safer. But the gold would work, too.
Kurkistan
So would it be fair to describe withering as a kind of cancerous Forging-
Brandon Sanderson
Sure.
Kurkistan
That just kind of slowly takes over your soul?
Brandon Sanderson
Sure.