Does stormlight convert to Allomancy?

[Koloss17]

So I know that stormlight connects to heightening, but what about allomancy? Would the stormlight itself have the allomancy or would the person have a certain type of misting attributes to him/her? 

[Weltall]

Welcome to the Shard!

All of the magics can be hacked to work together but with varying degrees of difficulty. Getting Stormlight to substitute for Breath is relatively easy, getting any other system to substitute for the metals in allomancy is hard because of how that magic system works.

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Questioner

So you said that different Investitures from different worlds can fuel different Investitures, right? Would that mean that you could potentially use Stormlight for Allomancy and/or Feruchemy.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, a little harder with the metallic arts than, for instance, Nightblood is the easiest example. He can just feed on whatever investiture is around.

Barnes & Noble B-Fest 2016 (June 11, 2016)

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Questioner (paraphrased)

Can a Mistborn use the Investiture from a Highstorm?

Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

It takes some effort to convert the Investiture. They can burn metals from other planets, though.

Stuttgart signing (May 17, 2019)

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Questioner

How difficult is it to transfer Investiture from one magic system to another, is it even possible?

Brandon Sanderson

How difficult is it to transfer Investiture from one magic system to another. It is possible. It is more difficult with different magic systems. Breaths are easy. Stormlight is fairly easy. Others from there on get pretty hard.

Firefight Atlanta signing (Jan. 24, 2015)

 

Edited October 25, 2019 by Weltall

[Karger]

You can theoretically convert different types of investiture into each other.  This means that yes there is a way to convert stormlight into breath(at least in theory).  You could also theoretically turn it into preservation's investiture and fuel alomancy with it.  However In Jasnah's words(that are a little rude but she is Jasnah)"ask a useful question."  Just sucking in stormlight will not increase your hightening.  No type of Mistling(as far as we know) could use it either.

[Honorless]

11 minutes ago, Koloss17 said:

So I know that stormlight connects to heightening, but what about allomancy? Would the stormlight itself have the allomancy or would the person have a certain type of misting attributes to him/her? 

Allomancy is fuelled directly by Preservation with the metals as the keys deciding the "shape" of the Investiture, i.e., what the Investiture is supposed to do.

Metal from any planet can be used to fuel Allomancy. But directly utilizing the Investiture of another Shard, bypassing the entire system of needing a Physical metal to guide the Investiture, is going to exceptionally difficult. The Allomancer would need to actively shape the Investiture somehow or hack his own Spiritweb to convert Investiture.

[Koloss17]

59 minutes ago, Honorless said:

Allomancy is fuelled directly by Preservation with the metals as the keys deciding the "shape" of the Investiture, i.e., what the Investiture is supposed to do.

Metal from any planet can be used to fuel Allomancy. But directly utilizing the Investiture of another Shard, bypassing the entire system of needing a Physical metal to guide the Investiture, is going to exceptionally difficult. The Allomancer would need to actively shape the Investiture somehow or hack his own Spiritweb to convert Investiture.

Thanks! But that still doesn’t answer one question: could there be mistings on other planets?

[Honorless]

Just now, Koloss17 said:

Thanks! But that still doesn’t answer one question: could there be mistings on other planets?

Not Mistings as we know them.

At this point, another Shard's godmetal would be easier to find than using another Shard's Investiture to access the powers of common metals and alloys

[Karger]

Mistings can only exist on Scadrail or people with scadrian ancestry because of the extra bit of Preservation's investiture that is in them.

41 minutes ago, Honorless said:

At this point, another Shard's godmetal would be easier to find than using another Shard's Investiture to access the powers of common metals and alloys

That would not give you alomancy though.  That is Preservation's magic system.  You would need Lerasium. 

[Weltall]

1 hour ago, Koloss17 said:

Thanks! But that still doesn’t answer one question: could there be mistings on other planets?

Allomancers and feruchemists will not naturally arise on other worlds because the people on those world don't have the right Spiritual DNA to access Preservation and Ruin's Investiture. Someone of Scadrian descent born on another world could theoretically have allomantic or feruchemical powers but you're not going to see any native-born Rosharans or Nalthians with those powers.

Hemalurgy is different from the other two in that it is universal but it requires that the person creating a spike have the necessary Intent to do so. That means they have to know what hemalurgy is and specifically intend to make a spike. Nobody is going to be making hemalurgic spikes by accident, on any world.

Edited October 25, 2019 by Weltall

[Honorless]

5 hours ago, Karger said:

Mistings can only exist on Scadrail or people with scadrian ancestry because of the extra bit of Preservation's investiture that is in them.

That would not give you alomancy though.  That is Preservation's magic system.  You would need Lerasium. 

Yup! Exactly my point. Other Shards' godmetals would just give a new power. 

And that's the only example of interaction between Allomancy and another Shard's Investiture we've seen so far.

[Karger]

20 hours ago, Honorless said:

Yup! Exactly my point. Other Shards' godmetals would just give a new power. 

Or no powers at all.