Nicrosil Kandra Skeleton

[Trusk'our he/him]

If a Kandra managed to get a large enough skeleton made of nicrosil and then used compounding to fill it enough to create a perpendicularity, what side effects would there be for the Kandra constantly toting around a perpendicularity?

[That1Cellist he/him]

I don't think that's how perpendicularities work.

 

[Dunkum he/him]

9 hours ago, That1Cellist said:

I don't think that's how perpendicularities work.

 

seconded.  also, not sure that's how nicrosil ferruchemy works. and finally, I suspect you'd need a continent's worth of any metal to store enough into them to approach the investiture levels of a shard.  I just don't think a skeleton is anywhere close to the scale you'd need to make this work if it is even possible in the first place.

[Quantus he/him]

32 minutes ago, Dunkum said:

seconded.  also, not sure that's how nicrosil ferruchemy works. and finally, I suspect you'd need a continent's worth of any metal to store enough into them to approach the investiture levels of a shard.  I just don't think a skeleton is anywhere close to the scale you'd need to make this work if it is even possible in the first place.

Carried.  If a pile of pure godmetal isnt dense enough to collapse into a perpendicularity, I dont think normal metals would do it even if they are filled to capacity.  

But for the sake of argument, if you could create some fabrial/dakhor/metalmind, etc set of bones that used perpendicularity mechanics to blur the realmic lines as Elsecalling can, I think they'd be locked in some weird middle-state similar to when Shallan slipped partially into Shadesmar.  Or if it grants more practical control, it might let them shift back and forth between realms in a flicker, like the old school Blink spell or any ghost and/or intangible superhero/villain you can name.   But the limits of that would likely come down to how you made it and thus how you'd need to power it.  

[Stormblessed0421 he/him]

Also, we don't really know how Investiture through a Nircosilmind works. BoM hints that it's the storing of the ability to use a power, not like storing Stormlight in a gemstone. Since all metal minds store Investiture for later use, I think any metal mind, if filled to the implausibly huge amount of Investiture close to that of a Shard, would have the same realmatic effect as a Nicrosilmind.

[cometaryorbit]

Yeah given that the Trustwarren didn't create a perpendicularity, if its possible at all to create one with metalminds or godmetals it would take a really colossal quantity.

(IMO it's possible that these forms of Investiture are too "locked in" to doing one specific thing, you might need more 'free' Investiture to make a perpendicularity?)