Why is Adonalsium a crab?

[AidenTollis he/him]

I have heard it mention off-hand... What evidence etc. do we have?

[Thaidakar the Ghostblood he/him]

Well the crab symbol is EVERYWHERE, on almost EVERY stormlight cover. it is also I think in mistborn am I right? it might also be in war breaker.

[Frustration]

I've never heard this before, and no there is no evidence for it.

[+Invocation]

Because it's funny, mostly. And what else are we going to do in the next 20 or 30 years before we know for sure?

[Kandrafish]

Adonalsium is not a crab.

If Adonalsium were a crustacean, he would obviously be a lobster because all lobsters are immortal until they die, just like Adonalsium.

(Biological immortality is weird)

[+Invocation]

1 hour ago, Kandrafish said:

Adonalsium is not a crab.

If Adonalsium were a crustacean, he would obviously be a lobster because all lobsters are immortal until they die, just like Adonalsium.

(Biological immortality is weird)

Well if we're going along the themes of biological immortality, we could also take the idea of a reformation of Adonalsium and pair it with that one jellyfish that reverts to an immature state and then begins the life cycle all over again.

Yeah it may not be a crustacean, but jellyfish are cool.

Edited January 30, 2022 by Invocation

[cometaryorbit]

15 hours ago, Kandrafish said:

Adonalsium is not a crab.

If Adonalsium were a crustacean, he would obviously be a lobster because all lobsters are immortal until they die, just like Adonalsium.

(Biological immortality is weird)

Isn't everything immortal until it dies?

 

[Trusk'our he/him]

On 1/30/2022 at 4:30 PM, cometaryorbit said:

Isn't everything immortal until it dies?

 

Pretty much.

Kandra, Fused, Heralds, The Lord Ruler, Shards...yeah, lots of immortal things die on a regular basis, it would seem.

[EmulatonStromenkiin he/him]

then, English needs better words, for they are not truly immortal, merely situationally immortal

[Frustration]

13 minutes ago, EmulatonStromenkiin said:

then, English needs better words, for they are not truly immortal, merely situationally immortal

It's called biological imortaility.

[CryoZenith he/him]

Technically it's more than biological immortality. Biological immortality is simply the concept that there isn't something in your internal biology that hard caps your lifespan. For example, tigers are biologically mortal because they never stop growing, which eventually imposes hydrostatic limits on how much blood their hearts can pump, whereas lobsters are biologically immortal because nothing internal to them is in a finite clock.

So in that sense, you could say that high-breath awakeners and Siah Aimians are biologically immortal, sure, but the term doesn't correctly describe entities like fused or heralds. The latter *actually* preserve themselves throughout deaths, they don't just resist senescence.

[Frustration]

5 minutes ago, CryoZenith said:

Technically it's more than biological immortality. Biological immortality is simply the concept that there isn't something in your internal biology that hard caps your lifespan. For example, tigers are biologically mortal because they never stop growing, which eventually imposes hydrostatic limits on how much blood their hearts can pump, whereas lobsters are biologically immortal because nothing internal to them is in a finite clock.

So in that sense, you could say that high-breath awakeners and Siah Aimians are biologically immortal, sure, but the term doesn't correctly describe entities like fused or heralds. The latter *actually* preserve themselves throughout deaths, they don't just resist senescence.

Well in a sense they are, they can be forceibly reset to their cognitive state, which as Cognitive entities is part of their biology.