SpikeMe Posted November 17, 2019 Report Share Posted November 17, 2019 Can you use Breath to awaken a light-weaving? The more something is in the human shape the easier it is to awaken, so if you have a light-weaving of a person could you awaken it? Maybe you could even get a character like "The Doctor" from Star Trek: Voyager, a hologram with sentience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 Weltall Posted November 17, 2019 Report Share Posted November 17, 2019 (edited) You'd be trying to affect Investiture with Investiture and those interfere with each other, so no. There are situations where you can overcome this interference but for all practical purposes what you're asking isn't going to happen. Edited November 17, 2019 by Weltall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 Weltall Posted November 17, 2019 Report Share Posted November 17, 2019 (edited) 3 minutes ago, SpikeMe said: What if you were both a light-weaver and an awakener, couldn't you theoretically power a light-weaving with a breath? So if you did it at the same time, maybe? That wouldn't result in an Awakened lightweaving though, it would just be fueling one magic with the other in the same way that we already know you can feed a Divine Breath with Stormlight instead of Breath. Bear in mind that even if it's all your own Investiture, different types will still interfere with one another: Quote Questioner So, about Feruchemy. If someone takes, for example, a copper metalmind, fills it with memories, and then a tin metalmind, fills it with senses, then melts them together into a bronze metalmind, would you be able to tap anything from it, and what? Brandon Sanderson If you made an alloy of them, you would not get anything out of them. You would know there's Investiture in there, but you wouldn't be able to pull it out. Questioner Even if it's your own? Brandon Sanderson Even if it's your own, yup. They would interfere with each other to the point that you wouldn't be able to get anything out. Sorry. Tel Aviv Signing (Oct. 18, 2019) Edited November 17, 2019 by Weltall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 Yezrien Posted November 17, 2019 Report Share Posted November 17, 2019 I think the question might be coming from a flawed understanding of what's going on on Voyager. The Doctor isn't really a sentient hologram, he's a sentient computer program. He's always inside a computer, either Voyager's or the mobile emitter. The hologram is just the input-output system he uses to interact with people; he could just as easily have used an android body, or just appeared as a 2D image on a screen. So awakening a lightweaving construct isn't really the best analogue in cosmere magi-tech. It would make more sense to ask if an awakened object, like Nightblood, could acquire the power of lightweaving, and use it to project an anthromorphic image of itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 SpikeMe Posted November 17, 2019 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2019 1 minute ago, Weltall said: You'd be trying to affect Investiture with Investiture and those cancel each other out, so no. What if you were both a light-weaver and an awakener, couldn't you theoretically power a light-weaving with a breath? So if you did it at the same time, maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Karger Posted November 17, 2019 Report Share Posted November 17, 2019 The two constructs are extremely similar. A lightweaving is very similar to a lifeless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Can you use Breath to awaken a light-weaving?
The more something is in the human shape the easier it is to awaken, so if you have a light-weaving of a person could you awaken it?
Maybe you could even get a character like "The Doctor" from Star Trek: Voyager, a hologram with sentience.
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