+Oltux72 Posted March 20, 2021 Report Share Posted March 20, 2021 Can you kill yourself by old age if you do feruchemy of atium? Can it happen inadvertedly? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Frustration Posted March 20, 2021 Report Share Posted March 20, 2021 You have a maximum amount you can store at one time so you'd probably have to be really old for that to be a concern. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Honorless Posted March 22, 2021 Report Share Posted March 22, 2021 Iirc, you cannot store Feruchemical attributes to the point that you're basically completely devoid of said attribute while storing. Your vision will deteriorate while you're storing eyesight, but you cannot store at a rate that you're struck (temporarily) blind. I think Sazed mentions something like this, but I could be misremembering. If that's true, then it stands to reason that storing youthfulness would also have that limit built in so you can't store youthfulness to the point that you completely annihilate your lifespan. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 +Oltux72 Posted April 11, 2021 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2021 On 22.3.2021 at 8:44 PM, Honorless said: Iirc, you cannot store Feruchemical attributes to the point that you're basically completely devoid of said attribute while storing. Your vision will deteriorate while you're storing eyesight, but you cannot store at a rate that you're struck (temporarily) blind. I think Sazed mentions something like this, but I could be misremembering. If that's true, then it stands to reason that storing youthfulness would also have that limit built in so you can't store youthfulness to the point that you completely annihilate your lifespan. That would mean that atium can be used to measure individual life expectancy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Weltall Posted April 13, 2021 Report Share Posted April 13, 2021 It's not vanilla atium feruchemy and so slightly outside the scope of the question but there's a related WoB here about the dangers of compounding and duralumin: Quote Questioner What happens if you burn duralumin while Compounding? Brandon Sanderson Duralumin while Compounding. So, what duralumin does is it burns out of all of your metal in one burst. So it doesn't necessarily gain you power, it makes it all happen at the same time. The same thing would happen. Questioner Could you turn into a baby? Brandon Sanderson Oh, you could totally turn into a baby. That is within the power of using that, doing <health wrong>, yeah you could totally... You'd be really dangerous. Questioner But it wouldn't really do much? Brandon Sanderson Oh it would have explosive... it does things really fast. That's what it does. Yes you could achieve very powerful sudden effects through that. It'd be scary. Controlling it can be dangerous, regardless of which metal you use. Arcanum Unbounded Seattle signing (Dec. 1, 2016) Based on this and the fact that a single bead of atium can revert you to childhood if you know what you're doing, careless compounding (with our without duralumin) resulting in you de-aging yourself out of existence seems like it could happen. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 +Oltux72 Posted April 13, 2021 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2021 1 hour ago, Weltall said: It's not vanilla atium feruchemy and so slightly outside the scope of the question but there's a related WoB here about the dangers of compounding and duralumin: Based on this and the fact that a single bead of atium can revert you to childhood if you know what you're doing, careless compounding (with our without duralumin) resulting in you de-aging yourself out of existence seems like it could happen. That is suicide by tapping. But what about suicide by storing? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Weltall Posted April 13, 2021 Report Share Posted April 13, 2021 (edited) 8 hours ago, Oltux72 said: That is suicide by tapping. But what about suicide by storing? Hence the 'outside the scope' comment, but it's loosely related so I figured it was worth bringing up. We know that aside from there being bounds to how much you can store at once (like with storing speed) there are necessary secondary powers applied to magics, like Wayne not irradiating himself with redshift and tapping lots of weight not crushing you. I suspect but do not have a WoB to prove that this would also apply to (non-compounding) F-Atium usage, where you'd be prevented from storing more age than you have to give. Oh yes, on your earlier comment about using atium to measure life expectancy, I think that fits well what we're told about healing magic in the Cosmere not doing anything for aging. If there's a point when you'll simply keel over because your Spiritual aspect 'knows' that you've reached your limit, then F-Atium could be interacting with that same principle to know 'okay, here's how old you can possibly get barring something special like lots of Breath' and using that as your upper boundary. Edited April 13, 2021 by Weltall 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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