soulcasting Could you make a person with soulcasting and forging

[clayman8392]

whit soulcasting and forging could you soulcast a simulacrum into a functioning body and then have a soul made for it, it has no "history" and so all stamps should be equally possible so any soul you made would stay. and if you could make it work could you also give it access to the metallic arts or another form of magic?

[Quantus he/him]

Nah, it still has a history as an object, including the Soulcast step, and Objects have significantly less Investiture than a sapient Being. 

Per WOB Forgery does not innately bring enough Investiture to the table to make Allomancy work. It says it could make you an allomancer and look like it had worked, but it wouldn't be Connected to Preservation to actually Power the abilities.  Soulcasting can bring a lot more Investiture to the party, but the Radiant and their Spren would both have to have a very deep understanding of the Spiritweb itself to be able to visualize all the changes necessary (since it doesnt offer the benefit of a coding language like selish magics). 

In Rosharan Terms you are trying to birth a new Spren and then bind it to a physical Body.  The first step take actual Divine Intervention for the spren themselves to do it, so it's probably hard and needs a perpendicularity or something.  The second is what Ishar is trying to figure out, apparent with practical complications and setbacks.

Breaths will be the easiest way to pull this sort of thing off since they specialize in making fake but functional Spiritwebs on Objects.  Nightblood is the closest thing to such a custom being like that, but the an over-invested Lifeless can work along the same lines too.  We dont really know how far you could push that in terms of Connecting a zombie to another Shard for Powers like Allomancy.  But a Scadrian corpse revived into a Lifeless might already have it, and a cleverly Forged body might be able to fake that.  The further into the space age where people and populations corssing over becomes more and more likely, the more plausibly these things will become for Forgery purposes.  

 

PS. this probably belongs in the general Cosmere discussion or Q&A sections.  The Arcanum sub-forum is to take about the WOB collection itself (tagging, updates, etc).  

Edited September 29, 2022 by Quantus

[NerdyAarakocra They/Them]

Forgery wouldn't work - remember, it has to be plausible. That means small edits - not "You're alive!" You could use a whole heaping load of Breath to make it a Nightblood-esque sentient crystal, which would be cool, but impractical.

However, if you soulcast something to make it organic material, you could conceivably make a Lifeless soldier.

Hope this helps!