Forged Hemalurgy

[Juanaton]

Could you use Forgery to turn a regular metal spike into a hemalurgically invested spike?

Is this a system hack that would allow use of hemalurgy without killing?

[Weltall]

You can theoretically change a hemalurgic spike from one type to another so Forging an entire spike seems like it would be possible in theory. However, Brandon's said that altering an existing spike would require more power than Shai has so she would need some sort of boost. Turning an ordinary metal spike into a hemalurgic one would require not just altering the nature of a spike but essentially creating the bits of spiritweb from nothing. Whether that's more difficult than altering something already Invested we don't know but it can't be easy from a technical perspective.

Also, Forgery works based on plausibility so for the stamp to take you'd need to have a situation where it's plausible that a given bit of metal was used, on someone with the power you want the spike to have, by someone who knows what they're doing. And the Forger would have to be intimately familiar with the way hemalurgy works as well. That's a lot of hurdles to overcome. My guess is that it could be done but it would be one of those things where Brandon uses the analogy of turning lead into gold using a particle accelerator; possible but completely inefficient.

[+ElephantEarwax]

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Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

One does not have to kill someone with Hemalurgy to charge a spike, but it rips off a large part of the soul. The person would not be the same.

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Also, yes.