Elend Venture Posted July 8, 2020 Report Share Posted July 8, 2020 (edited) So I am curious, if say, a live mistwraith were spiked with the deceased Paalm's spikes (or those of any other deceased kandra), what does anyone imagine would happen? I would expect nothing at all, however I could not find any information upon the topic and was curious about anyone elses theories. Is there any chance of resurrection of the Kandra in question's soul? Edited July 11, 2020 by Chaos 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Oltux72 Posted July 8, 2020 Report Share Posted July 8, 2020 4 hours ago, Elend Venture said: So I am curious, if say, a live mistwraith were spiked with the deceased Paalm's spikes (or those of any other deceased kandra), what does anyone imagine would happen? I would expect nothing at all, however I could not find any information upon the topic and was curious about anyone elses theories. Is there any chance of resurrection of the Kandra in question's soul? You would get a Kandra of questionble mental health. MeLaan kept her memories in her leg, not in her spikes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quantus Posted July 8, 2020 Report Share Posted July 8, 2020 Any resistance against re-using belssing spikes is "mostly just cultural". In normal circumstances (or rather with Normal non-trellium Blessing spikes) it creates a new Kandra and is currently the only way the Kandra know to maintain their numbers since they do not know how to manufacture more Blessing Spikes. If a Kandra is without their Spikes for too long, however, their memories will biologically degrade to the point that if enough time has passed before they are replaced, they will essentially be a new person. Quote BlackYeti Kandra, you're not getting any more of those. But they can die, so what's stopping them from creating new kandra out of the mistwraith just by recycling the Blessings? Brandon Sanderson That is mostly just cultural. *paraphrased* In The Bands of Mourning, you might expect to see kandra using other kandra's spikes. Shadows of Self Edinburgh UK signing (Oct. 21, 2015) Quote Agate I can guess two possible options for the kandra. 1. God Sazed endowed the gift of presence on the now mistwraiths. 2. Some of the kandra survived in the cave with the Terrisman and people of the city, along with the small mistwraiths, these are re-born with the spikes they pulled out during the resolution. I can imagine too that some kandra on assignment may have hidden in the shelters with the rest of humanity. Brandon Sanderson The kandra. Yes, they live. The people were smart enough, eventually, to replace their spikes. (And there were a couple who were on assignment who made it to storage caches.) However, there will likely never be any more of them, since Hemalurgy is required to make them. They are now some of the few people who can communicate directly with Sazed, who—like Ruin—can whisper to people most easily when they are connected to him via spikes. With some speculation, you can probably guess what kind of roles the kandra will end up playing in future books. Kaimipono On a broader level, is Hemalurgy officially dead, then? Or is it still extant in some Ruin-free (but still messy) form? (If it's gone, is there any imbalance since Preservation's magic power is kept and Ruin's isn't?) Brandon Sanderson Is Hemalurgy dead? No, not at all. It, like the other two powers, was not created by Ruin or Preservation, but by the natural state of the world and its interaction with the gods who created it. It still requires the same method of creation, but very few people are aware of how it works. Hero of Ages Q&A - Time Waster's Guide (Oct. 15, 2008) Quote midwestredditor How are there kandra and koloss? Kandra especially, since they did their "mass suicide" thing at the end of the original trilogy. Brandon Sanderson The nice thing about the kandra for me in the narrative was that, though removing their spikes turns them feral, you can always stick those spikes back in. TenSoon feared that this was the end of his people, and it could have been, if those spikes hadn't gone back in quickly. As it was, there were costs. Time spent without spikes causes a kandra's memories to deteriorate, and some that were left a relatively long time were essentially reborn as new people. But the race survived, even if it is unlikely that their numbers will be added to. Brandon Sanderson Did TenSoon survive, then (as the TenSoon who experienced growth under Vin)? Brandon Sanderson Yes, though he did lose some things. /r/Fantasy_Bookclub Alloy of Law Q&A (Jan. 20, 2012) Quote mathota123 When a kandra loses its spikes temporarily and its memories degrade, is that happening because of the spikes decaying, or is something biological actually happening to where it has stored its memories? Brandon Sanderson It's biological. Good question! Stormlight Three Update #6 (Jan. 23, 2017) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elend Venture Posted July 11, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2020 Thank you all. You have been quite helpful. This solution actually makes the most sense out of the ones that I was guessing, so I am completely satisfied. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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