Frustration Posted December 29, 2022 Posted December 29, 2022 3 minutes ago, Tglassy said: Luck is a coloquialism. It's what people say when something good or bad happens that has little to do with what you try. Drawing the right card, rolling the right dice, randomly hitting the breaks on your car a split second before the deer runs out in the road letting you miss it instead of hit it if you hadn't just happened to hit the breaks right then. We don't know how tapping Fortune would actually function, but it, in essence, gives you 'luck'. Things caused by random chance that you prefer to happen are more likely to happen. Rolling the dice is more likely to come up a 7. Shuffling the deck, it is more likely the cards will turn up in your favor. I understand "the law of causality means luck cannot exist" but since Luck is just a blanket term to mean "Good things happening by random chance", then yeah, both can happen. Tapping Fortune, I'd assume, would simply, magically, make it so that all the teeny tiny variables that affect EVERYTHING would magically (cause it's magic) line up better in your favor. You can't affect things other than yourself with feruchemy.
Tglassy Posted December 29, 2022 Posted December 29, 2022 1 minute ago, Frustration said: You can't affect things other than yourself with feruchemy. Well. Depends on what you mean. You CAN store physical things. Muscle mass, for example, literally, magicaly moves to the metalmind when storing. As does gas when storing breath, or food and water when storing in Bendalloy. Those are physical things that are magically transferred into energy, but are not, technically, scientifically, a part of the person. And yet Feruchemy stores it. I get it's still technically yours, but magic is involved. He hasn't revealed how storing or tapping Fortune works, just that storing it makes one unlucky and tapping it makes them lucky, as per the Coppermind, and that Odium suggests it can be used to see the future, as per the Coppermind. Also, according to the Coppermind, Alonoe in Secret history suggests that Fortune can cause coincidences. And since Feruchemists can store Fortune... 1
Frustration Posted December 29, 2022 Posted December 29, 2022 (edited) On 12/28/2022 at 6:05 PM, Tglassy said: Well. Depends on what you mean. You CAN store physical things. Muscle mass, for example, literally, magicaly moves to the metalmind when storing. As does gas when storing breath, or food and water when storing in Bendalloy. Those are physical things that are magically transferred into energy, but are not, technically, scientifically, a part of the person. And yet Feruchemy stores it. I get it's still technically yours, but magic is involved. He hasn't revealed how storing or tapping Fortune works, just that storing it makes one unlucky and tapping it makes them lucky, as per the Coppermind, and that Odium suggests it can be used to see the future, as per the Coppermind. Also, according to the Coppermind, Alonoe in Secret history suggests that Fortune can cause coincidences. And since Feruchemists can store Fortune... He has actually. It's the same mechanics behind Hoid's ability to know where he needs to be. Spoiler Xyrd (paraphrased) You've mentioned before that Hoid ends up where he needs to be. Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased) Yes, and usually without knowing why. Xyrd (paraphrased) Is chromium involved in that? Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased) Yes. Well, he's not necessarily using chromium, but the underlying mechanic, yes. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/32/#e256 And given that gut feeling is a thing in the Cosmere, it's probably storing that. Spoiler alercah Do regular people in the cosmere have an innate, subconscious ability to read the Spiritual Realm just a little bit, that might manifest as gut instinct or intuition? Brandon Sanderson Yes, in the cosmere, there is some validity to "gut" instincts in some people with a closer connection to the Spiritual. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/456/#e14679 Edited January 4, 2023 by Frustration 1
cometaryorbit Posted January 4, 2023 Posted January 4, 2023 Yeah, feruchemical Fortune is probably less "random events around me happen to favor me" and more "my gut instincts work out really well".
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