LampCritic Posted November 10, 2022 Posted November 10, 2022 I was reading the Coppermind and I saw that Brandon put the term Fabrial in Stormlight to classify any magical device. My question is do you all think there will be a standard unit of Investiture and what would it be? I'm partial to the idea of it being how quickly it takes for it to invest White Sand and the unit of measurement will be in "Grains." But I'm curious what other people think of the idea.
Frustration Posted November 10, 2022 Posted November 10, 2022 Brandon has said that Breaths will be the unit of Investiture.
Mr. Misting he/him Posted November 10, 2022 Posted November 10, 2022 Brandon in the past has tried to quantify investiture. He hired a bunch smart people and had a whole project where they tried to find exact amounts of investiture in different magic systems and measurements. What they found out is that is would be basically impossible to do this, and it would put too much of a limit on Brandon to try and stay consistent across the cosmere with exact amounts of investiture. So even though it would be very cool to quantify investiture, it is unlikely that it will ever happen.
Lego Mistborn he/him Posted November 10, 2022 Posted November 10, 2022 Like frustration said, Brandon said breath would be the basis. Unfortunately, not all investiture is quantifiable in the same way. Some would measure like watts, others like volts, etc. Point is, you can't just say 1 broam stormlight = n breaths.
Rg2045 Posted November 11, 2022 Posted November 11, 2022 It sounds like it’ll be like old school cook books that mention a pinch, scratch, handful, instead of modern cook books that’s more scientific. Still understandable but not precise
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