Lifeless Blessings?

[Trusk'our he/him]

If you were to create a Blessing as if you were going to give it to a Mistwraith, but you instead gave it to a Lifeless, could you make the Lifeless fully sapient? 

In addition, would the spikes cause major physical changes, or would them being basically an animated corpse allow them to sidestep that side effect?

[Quantus he/him]

Possible but not natively, I think you'd need a specially designed spike.  Mistwraiths are still actual living beings with a functional soul, they just have a realmic blockage that screws them up, and the Blessings bridge that blockage enough to restore their own Investiture and minds.  Lifeless have a relatively underpowered artificial soul stapled back onto a body to animate it.  While it's possible that a single spike can contain enough juice for a full sapient being, you'd need to have stolen a more specific and comprehensive soul-chunk to restore what a Lifeless has lost, as compared to what Mistwraiths can still bring to the table.  

[Trusk'our he/him]

26 minutes ago, Quantus said:

Possible but not natively, I think you'd need a specially designed spike.  Mistwraiths are still actual living beings with a functional soul, they just have a realmic blockage that screws them up, and the Blessings bridge that blockage enough to restore their own Investiture and minds.  Lifeless have a relatively underpowered artificial soul stapled back onto a body to animate it.  While it's possible that a single spike can contain enough juice for a full sapient being, you'd need to have stolen a more specific and comprehensive soul-chunk to restore what a Lifeless has lost, as compared to what Mistwraiths can still bring to the table.  

Do you think that Duralumin spikes work for this purpose then, since they take and grant Connection and Identity?