Rosharans are Cannibals... Sort of

[Darkarma]

Excepting a non-human Roshar natives...

I had a thought. What kind of biology does soulcasted blood have. It would be odd if you could use safely in a pig or a cat as you can a human as seen with Jasnah healing Shallan. Now if you can soulcast blood that can work within a human circulatory system and regrowth can do such significant healing as we seen. It seems to me that surgebinding is strongly align to human biology... So does that mean that soulcasted meat is  idealized human flesh? We know that soulcasting has limits it can't be anything to specific or to customized, otherwise the warcamps would have non-identical buildings for barracks and the like.

So unless soulcasting can chose what kind of meat (generic chicken, beef, crab etc) you're making which I'm guessing aligns very similarly to blood creation I strongly suspect that incidentally all Rosharan humans who imbibe the synthetic flesh are actually cannibals.

Sort of...

Edit: So if you've found this thread. Congrats. Someone was actually brave enough to ask if this was true in a WOB

Questioner

If Soulcast blood is human blood, does that mean Soulcast meat is people meat?

Brandon Sanderson

No.

But that doesn't necessarily mean that, like-- when it has a blood type, and things like that-- I don't know enough about blood. I didn't mean to imply it's human blood. I'm just saying, it has all the attributes of blood, and it could be ascribed to something specific. That's where my mind was going. If they were asking, "Is this human blood?" No, that's not necessarily-- some of it is. Soulcast meat is definitely not. Soulcast blood, probably is most of the time. But it is-- there are, like, certain derivations of it that happen. It's more complicated, in other words, than what I-- than a simple answer can give. So, is Soulcast blood human blood? You could use it for blood transfusions, most if it, unless, in certain instances, you couldn't. Like, it's more-- Those sorts of questions, I have to circumlocute them so much.

Let's just put it this way. You can eat-- The meat is not human meat, but the blood can be used for blood transfusions. Is that enough? Yeah, we'll go with that.

Oathbringer release party (Nov. 13, 2017)

Edited July 19, 2019 by Darkarma

[Swimmingly]

...

How you like that chouta now, Lopen?

 

 

This makes good sense, and makes me cringe at every memory of a scene where someone ate Soulcast flesh.

Edited July 9, 2014 by Swimmingly

[Shivertongue]

....

 

Nope. Nope nope nope nope NOPE.

 

Not accepting it. Never. Not at all.

 

*closes eyes and sticks fingers in his ears* LALALALALALA IT'S BEEF OR PORK OR CHULL OR WHATEVER NOTHING ELSE NOTHING ELSE

[Terisen]

Wonder if it tastes like chicken....

 

I mean, EVERYTHING tastes like chicken, right? Or does it taste like Rosharan chicken?

 

Man, this is disturbing to think about.  It's the Rosharan version of Soylent Green!

[A Joe in the Bush]

But Jasnah could make different types of Jam (All bad) so they could make different meats.

[Quiver]

Wonder if it tastes like chicken....

 

I mean, EVERYTHING tastes like chicken, right? Or does it taste like Rosharan chicken?

I wonder what parrot tastes like...

[king of nowhere]

it is possible that, if the people doing the soulcasting aren't paying attention to making a specific kind of meat, it will be human meat.

What's wrong with it? IT's not like it comes from actually butchered humans. from am molecular point of view, there isn't much difference anyway.

[Swimmingly]

And yet, I shudder at the thought.

[PorridgeBrick]

it is possible that, if the people doing the soulcasting aren't paying attention to making a specific kind of meat, it will be human meat.

What's wrong with it? IT's not like it comes from actually butchered humans. from am molecular point of view, there isn't much difference anyway.

Just don't feed any to your livestock/pets, or they might acquire dangerous tastes...

[GroundPetrel]

Gheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen.  

 

Where's my Brain Bleach when I need it?  

 

Unfortunately, this makes a great deal of sense and I am stuck with assuming it to be correct until Word of Brandon says otherwise.  

 

Now.  I seem to be out of Brain Bleach.  Maybe I should reread Mistborn...

[The Rooster]

Soylent Stormlight!

[bschnebs]

^{Have we seen soulcast meat?  All the references I can remember just refer to either soulcast food, or soulcast grains.  I can't recall meat being explicitly called out.}

[Shaggai]

^{Have we seen soulcast meat?  All the references I can remember just refer to either soulcast food, or soulcast grains.  I can't recall meat being explicitly called out.}

Herdazian food, I think.

[Darkarma]

Chouta that Rock and Lopen were eating shortly before or after Kaladin met with Moash's lot.

[Swimmingly]

"Flangria," Lopen said happily as Rock ran off to the street vendor to get himself some chouta too.

"Which is?" Kaladin asked.

"Meat."

"What kind of meat?"

"The meaty kind."

"Soulcast," Kaladin said, looking at Sigzil.

[Bow Tie Bandit]

Could it be that the blood is human because of the intent.  I just remember that in many other part of his books intent is very important.  Like in WoB where awakening is very dependent of intent.  

 

This would signify that if someone wanted chicken tasting meat they would get chicken tasting meat that doesn't have to be made up of human.  

[Kobold King]

I've been putting off viewing this thread for a while now, because I knew it would disturb me somehow.

 

I managed to upvote you between screams of "WHY?" and rounds of retching. Just barely.

 

 

Could it be that the blood is human because of the intent.  I just remember that in many other part of his books intent is very important.  Like in WoB where awakening is very dependent of intent.  

 

This would signify that if someone wanted chicken tasting meat they would get chicken tasting meat that doesn't have to be made up of human.  

 

YES. MAKE IT SO. TAKE AN UPVOTE.

[Fifth of Daybreak]

"Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd.

His soulcast meat, it tasted quite odd.

He served the men on the Shattered Plains, but they should have just stuck with the grains.

He trod a path that few have trod, did Sweeney Todd-the demon ardent of Fleet Street."

[SmurfAquamarineBodies]

Meh, even if it is human 'flavoured' meat, it's still only meat.

[Lightsworn Panda]

Hey, this opens up the possibility that Soulcast grain and such are similar to Human Flesh! Hmm... Maybe Soulcast stone is actually petrified human flesh! Maybe Soulcast fire is actually burning human Fat!

 

Wait, what did I just write!?

[Darkarma]

I suspect that either ardents/highprinces sell flavored specific meat at a higher price but given that they have chicken already such things would be better sold an even higher price for the real deal.

 

I doubt they'd have access to cows though, horse meat is another possibility. But the kicker is everyone knows that soulcast meat is a poor substitute... This is why. Trying to soulcast other flavors would be like Jasnah trying to soulcast jam... it ends bad for everyone, especially the ardents.

[Voidus]

I think it depends on the perception of the thing you soulcasts view of meat, maybe dirt would think that meat means human meat but air thinks that it's chicken meat. But before reading this thread and thinking about it way too much I always just assumed it was an idealized form of general meat, not animal-specific.

[Fatebreaker]

Hey, I don't see why everyone is so upset. People are tasty, especially with barbecue sauce.(But then, everything tastes better with barbecue sauce)  And since soulcast meat didn't originally come from someone it's not murder, so everyone wins. 

[Swimmingly]

Fatebreaker, you are absolutely right. Bring on the chouta!

[Bow Tie Bandit]

Sounds like Fatebreaker's intent is to have his barbecue flavored human so if he soulcast then that is exactly what he would get.  At least he has the barbecue flavoring.   

 

This thread is enough to make anyone vegetarian.  (Said while eating a steak)