Marsh’s “Treatment”

[Philomath she/her]

Did anyone else feel like something was off in the epilogues when our characters were talking to Marsh about his treatments to stay alive? Were they just being vague to not mention that the kandra are replicating Wax’s harmonium experiment and get Atium? Or is something else funny going on here? I just feel like “treatment” is such a weird way to describe “found a new source of metal so I can continue to compound my age like I’ve been doing for centuries.” 

[Could Be Fire]

On 12/6/2022 at 7:34 PM, Philomath said:

Did anyone else feel like something was off in the epilogues when our characters were talking to Marsh about his treatments to stay alive? Were they just being vague to not mention that the kandra are replicating Wax’s harmonium experiment and get Atium? Or is something else funny going on here? I just feel like “treatment” is such a weird way to describe “found a new source of metal so I can continue to compound my age like I’ve been doing for centuries.” 

I'm not sure? It's Marasi who refers to it as his "treatment" Kell and Sazed talk about Atium compounding explicitly. I think the simplest answer is that Sazed and Co. are just trying to keep hemalurgic compounding under wraps as much as possible? The Arcanum reveals that post-Ruin hemalurgists can't compound anymore, and mentions that figure out how to do make it work again would be incredibly dangerous. So Sazed ais trying to keep people from looking into the whole concept, which means avoiding talking about how Marsh does it. Also keeping the details of how Marsh is alive keeps him safe? You don't want a repeat of ripping off his Atium metalminds like what happened to the LR.

 Of course that whole conversation between Sazed and Kell is a minefield of misdirection and secrets, so it's possible that it ended up being something else. I'm not sure what it would be though? Maybe giving Marsh Lerasium, if you believe that Sazed is lying about repeating Wax's results? Not sure how that would help though.