Dwmaster204 Posted January 23, 2022 Report Share Posted January 23, 2022 Could bacteria ether through genetic moderation or unlocked Metal stores use feruchemical powers such as weight? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 The_Nimanator Posted January 23, 2022 Report Share Posted January 23, 2022 I don't see how the bacteria could have intent 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Dwmaster204 Posted January 23, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2022 The desire to survive? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Frustration Posted January 23, 2022 Report Share Posted January 23, 2022 Bacteria aren't sapient and thus cannot use magic. Spoiler CCQ You said that Ryshadium experience sentience through a spren. But I just didn't understand how that's possible. Most of them are through tension, gravitation, *inaudible*... nothing Cognitive. Brandon Sanderson Yes, yes, yes. So all-- so non-sapient creatures that get Invested in don't gain powers until they gain *inaudible*. CCQ How does that fit into the larger picture? Brandon Sanderson Yeah, how does that fit? It's mostly-- you can start seeing that-- things that forces are adapting to the Roshar ecology. Does that make sense? Because a lot of Rosharan-- other creatures-- have bonds with spren. Very common. And so-- CCQ I know. I noticed the chasmfiend *inaudible*, whatever you want to call it. I don't know how that works. Brandon Sanderson Yeah, yeah, yeah. You'll see the next book kind of explores it a little bit. But yes... but yeah. I'm just going to leave it at that. Arcanum Unbounded Hoboken signing (Dec. 3, 2016) Questioner Would a macaw be able to become a Radiant? Or do you need sentience? Brandon Sanderson You need sapience. A macaw could not become a Knight Radiant. A macaw could, theoretically, enter a symbiotic spren bond, which would have different effects. Like, Ryshadium or even most of the larger greatshells don't have sapience. But a lot of creatures on Roshar do have what I would term an in-between step between human-level intelligence and animal-level intelligence on Earth. Ryshadium are in this; chasmfiends, as well, are smarter than an animal can get on Earth. Tor Instagram Livestream (Nov. 25, 2020) Questioner Can emotional Allomancy or Feruchemy affect animals, or not-humans? Is it only if they're spiked? Brandon Sanderson So, emotional Allomancy requries a certain level of <Investiturance>. So, the closer to being sapient something is, the more that emotional Allomancy could have an effect on it. Arcanum Unbounded release party (Nov. 22, 2016) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 HSuperLee Posted January 23, 2022 Report Share Posted January 23, 2022 Kinda building off what Frustration said, perhaps there is a way to make bacteria develop feruchemical powers, but such a process would almost certainly involve an infusion of Investiture that would push it into levels of sapience. Basically in the Comsere there's a very strong connection between levels of investiture and self-awareness, such that any massive influx of one seems to push for an advancement of the other. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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