Shardholder of Craft Posted December 27, 2011 Report Share Posted December 27, 2011 I have heard someone mention it and I am wondering if anyone can tell me what it is. It wasn't in the Coppermind wiki. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ari Posted December 27, 2011 Report Share Posted December 27, 2011 It's a noun used in a throwaway fashion in the Alloy of Law Ars Arcanum, which presumably refers to some part (or even the whole, perhaps) of a person's spiritual aspect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argent Posted December 27, 2011 Report Share Posted December 27, 2011 I've always thought of it as "spiritual DNA" - a term Brandon himself has used multiple times. If I understand it correctly, spiritual DNA defines your "magical traits" much like the regular DNA defines your physiological ones. The Spiritweb decides what kind of magic you can fling around (e.g. full Allomancy, partial Allomancy - being a Mistborn, and so on), as well as how well you can fling it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcanist Lupus Posted December 27, 2011 Report Share Posted December 27, 2011 I've always thought of it as "spiritual DNA" - a term Brandon himself has used multiple times. If I understand it correctly, spiritual DNA defines your "magical traits" much like the regular DNA defines your physiological ones. The Spiritweb decides what kind of magic you can fling around (e.g. full Allomancy, partial Allomancy - being a Mistborn, and so on), as well as how well you can fling it. Also, I think it also has other aspects as well, like the Spiritual aspects that can be stored with Feruchemy (Connection, Identity, and Fortune). I believe that these are also part of your Spiritweb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted December 27, 2011 Report Share Posted December 27, 2011 I'm moving this in General Theories, because it's hard to discuss this without having spoilers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odium's_Shard Posted January 3, 2012 Report Share Posted January 3, 2012 I've heard that some aspects of a Spiritweb are Spiritually genetic, ie Allomancy, and are implanted on your Spiritweb either directly or indirectly by an aspect of a Shard, lerasium being a good example. Maybe the method of transgression of as magical system depends on the Shards intent? Ie: Allomancy: Genetic, to promote preservation of humanity? Feruchemy: Genetic, and also cannot access another's stores however (has anyone ever put a theory on this yet?) so while genetic, Ruin is determined to make it inefficient? Or maybe it isn't Ruin, and just to do with the Spiritweb of the individual or the nature of Feruchemical stores. Hemalurgy: Clearly destructive, gained only from (inefficiently, some is lost save in Atium, a god metal) killing another person using metal. Is this how Vin got hers (I can't remember. Was it her Seeker sister's death by the earring?)? If so, it could be implanted on the Spiritweb in this fashion. Maybe implying that Hemalurgic traits could be hereditary (if someone ever got that close to a Hemalurgical "construct" in such a manner without being ingested, crushed or Pushed out of the window by the tip of their breast implant..)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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