Midnight Aether and The Sorceress of The Midnight Sea

[Shadeshadow227]

So, when I read how Midnight Aether works, the Luhel bond that is formed, and how that requires water from the person maintaining the bond...I admittedly didn't make the connection immediately, but after finishing TLM, getting to the Ars Arcanum, and remembering what Bendalloy does Feruchemically, I thought of something.

How The Sorceress got so much Midnight Essence on her side...that has to be something related to Bendalloy, infinite reserves of water through compounding or something similar (because Bendalloy can, according to the text, store fluids as well as nutrients from normal food), right? What I'm wondering is how she waa able to even do that, since she's an Elantrian. An unsealed bendalloymind could give her the feruchemy, but compounding needs Allomancy, and I doubt that she's spiked or a mistborn. Is there something I'm not considering here, could she hack it with Aons somehow, ???

[alder24]

4 hours ago, Shadeshadow227 said:

So, when I read how Midnight Aether works, the Luhel bond that is formed, and how that requires water from the person maintaining the bond...I admittedly didn't make the connection immediately, but after finishing TLM, getting to the Ars Arcanum, and remembering what Bendalloy does Feruchemically, I thought of something.

How The Sorceress got so much Midnight Essence on her side...that has to be something related to Bendalloy, infinite reserves of water through compounding or something similar (because Bendalloy can, according to the text, store fluids as well as nutrients from normal food), right? What I'm wondering is how she waa able to even do that, since she's an Elantrian. An unsealed bendalloymind could give her the feruchemy, but compounding needs Allomancy, and I doubt that she's spiked or a mistborn. Is there something I'm not considering here, could she hack it with Aons somehow, ???

So because you read TLM:

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She didn't need water, she could fuel them directly with the Dor, just like Twinsoul was doing in TLM, when he created a massive roselite armor. Fueling Aethers with investiture is more efficient than water, and allows for creation of greater things. And this is very likely what she was doing. She was able to use Aon, she had access to investiture and it's very likely that she used investiture to feed Luhel Bond instead of water.

 

[Tamriel Wolfsbaine]

53 minutes ago, alder24 said:

So because you read TLM:

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She didn't need water, she could fuel them directly with the Dor, just like Twinsoul was doing in TLM, when he created a massive roselite armor. Fueling Aethers with investiture is more efficient than water, and allows for creation of greater things. And this is very likely what she was doing. She was able to use Aon, she had access to investiture and it's very likely that she used investiture to feed Luhel Bond instead of water.

 

Any investiture?  

Given that Vasher can fuel his divine breath with stormlight do you think he would be able to hack this as well with it pretty easily?  

Or would stormlight get used up alot faster?  

[alder24]

Just now, Tamriel Wolfsbaine said:

Any investiture?  

Given that Vasher can fuel his divine breath with stormlight do you think he would be able to hack this as well with it pretty easily?  

Or would stormlight get used up alot faster?  

Likely. Or at very least, something unkeyed, like pure Dor. Stormlight is less dense than Dor, so it would get used faster. But it didn't look like Riina was dragging jars of pure Dor behind her, nor Hoid was using it, so they can very likely use Aons to access Dor directly in some way. Therefore any investiture would be good.

 

[Shadeshadow227]

On 4/21/2023 at 6:01 AM, alder24 said:

So because you read TLM:

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She didn't need water, she could fuel them directly with the Dor, just like Twinsoul was doing in TLM, when he created a massive roselite armor. Fueling Aethers with investiture is more efficient than water, and allows for creation of greater things. And this is very likely what she was doing. She was able to use Aon, she had access to investiture and it's very likely that she used investiture to feed Luhel Bond instead of water.

 

I didn't consider that, but I really should have, especially since I finished TLM only a few hours before asking about this. I feel a bit stupid, lol.

[Trusk'our he/him]

On 4/22/2023 at 11:04 PM, Shadeshadow227 said:

I didn't consider that, but I really should have, especially since I finished TLM only a few hours before asking about this. I feel a bit stupid, lol.

No no, it's never a bad thing to post legitimate ideas on the 17th Shard