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[Onironte he/him]

What would happen if you caught an Adonalsium Fragment in a Perpendicularity?
Could you use a Hemalurgical Nail to "stab" the Fragment?

Edited June 7, 2022 by Onironte

[Quantus he/him]

Spren-sized, yes.  Actual fraction of Infinity as with the 16, nope it wouldnt fit.  There are physical limits to how much investiture can be crammed into a given chunk of metal, and Shards are too big.

 

 

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Blightsong

Is it theoretically possible to Hemalurgically spike a Shard into someone else, and if so, what would be the outcome?

Brandon Sanderson

A full shard? Hemalurgy could not hold that much of an Invested charge... not... yeah, like a hemallurgic spike really couldn't hold that much. Not without something really weird happening, so.

OdysseyCon 2016 (April 8, 2016)

 

 

 

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Herowannabe (paraphrased)

We asked if a shardblade or Nightblood could be used as a hemallurgic spike (ie: two different investitures of magic).

Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

Brandon said that yes, in theory you could do that, but objects have a limit to how much investiture they can hold, and that it could be argued that things like Nightblood and Shardblades are already "full."

Miscellaneous 2013 (April 15, 2013)

 

 

[Dunkum he/him]

By "Fragment" do you mean  Shard?  if so I doubt an individual would be able to trap one like that, and even if they somehow could, or perhaps came across one, like Ruin, already trapped I doubt their "body" would be physical enough for Hemalurgy to affect it.

[Duxredux he/him]

I'm not really understanding what the question is asking. Are you asking if you can spike the Vessel of a Shard? Are you asking if a Vessel becomes more vulnerable, at least on the Physical Realm near a perpendicularity?

 

Technically speaking, Shardpool Perpendicularities already are large fragments of Adonalsium. Stabbing one with a Hemalurgic spike probably does nothing interesting, though Hemalurgic spikes were incompatible with the Well of Ascension. If you're thinking of a summoned Perpendicularity like what Dalinar and Ishar can do, I highly doubt they can overpower a full Shard directly, so likely some other trick would have to be involved.

As for what would happen if you actually managed to spike the Vessel of a Shard, well it depends on what metal you used. I'm assuming that there's a cap to the Hemalurgic charge a spike can hold, so you wouldn't be able to absorb a whole Shard into a dinky piece of metal.

Yeah... too many variables to really give anything in-depth. Can you give more detail as to what you were thinking?

[Onironte he/him]

Thanks.