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So, we know that if Nightblood is not given enough Kinetic Investiture, he will instead consume the soul of the one who wields him. We know that the soul just means the Spirit Web, so Nightblood is consuming the wielder's Spirit Web. Could you find a way to very specifically cull certain parts of your Spirit Web with Nightblood? Say you have an unwanted Connection, could Nightblood consume that? Could he consume a Nahel Bond? The fact that you're an Allomancer? That you are an Elantrian? Would this be plausible in any way whatsoever? I'm excited to hear your thoughts.

So a WOB I read said that a gold ferring could change their spritweb, because the way gold healing works is it changes your body to the self image that you have of yourself. Does this mean that if you stamped a gold ferring, making him think, say, he was an Elantrian and a Feruchemist. With enough gold, would the ferring change investiture and become an Elantrian with access to the Dor?

As I understand the spirit web, it is like spiritual circuitry, powers and other aspects get coded into the "circuitry". When you use Hemalurgy, you rip out the chunk of someone's spirit web the controls the attribute you are stealing and then you staple it into the recipient's spirit web. When the "circuit" is spiked into the appropriate place for that aspect, the "wiring" works as intended and the power is transferred. When it is put somewhere else it makes weird connections and does weird thing. i.e. Koloss don't just have the strength of 5 men, they have blue skin that doesn't grow despite the fact their body never stops. Spook's book also said that you can make just about anything by changing the spirit. Now Shardblades cut the spirit. While Hemalurgy works additively to change the spirit, I wonder if one could use a Shardblade to make modifications of a subtractive nature in more complicated ways than just paralysis. Something like cut away at the shoulder(Hemalurgic bond point for pewter Allomancy) of a natural Thug and destroy the part of their spirit that lets them burn pewter. Or forcibly break someone's bond to a Shardblade while leaving them alive. It may even be possible to create Hemalurgy style monsters like Bleeder's creepy things by cutting away bits of the spirit.