Tamriel Wolfsbaine Posted May 7, 2023 Posted May 7, 2023 Maybe I am looking too much into the wording of this. I am listening to the ars Arcanum and under feruchemy it says "it is possible to be born with only 1 feruchemical ability". As I hear that it seems silly because that is all we have seen through era 2. Do you think that the Terris are potentially keeping quiet the existence of full feruchemists still being born? Or do you think that is a mistake in the way it was written (or most likely a mistake in the way I heard it)?
alder24 Posted May 7, 2023 Posted May 7, 2023 27 minutes ago, Tamriel Wolfsbaine said: Maybe I am looking too much into the wording of this. I am listening to the ars Arcanum and under feruchemy it says "it is possible to be born with only 1 feruchemical ability". As I hear that it seems silly because that is all we have seen through era 2. Do you think that the Terris are potentially keeping quiet the existence of full feruchemists still being born? Or do you think that is a mistake in the way it was written (or most likely a mistake in the way I heard it)? No, because the whole idea of the Village and their isolationist policy is to separate Terrisan and Feruchemist genes from Allomancy, for a full Feruchemist to be born again. I think it might be said by Wax's grandmother in SoS. What is happening here, because of the mixing of the population, Allomancy genes mixed with Feruchemist genes breaking them apart, creating weaker Ferrings instead of Feruchemists. Spoiler Travyl (paraphrased) Why do the Twinborn in Alloy of Law have only one Feruchemical power, when all previous Feruchemists, in spite of breeding programs, could use all the metals? WetlanderNW (paraphrased) Or were Ferrings always part of the system and we just didn't meet them in Mistborn? Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased) The Ferrings are a new development since Mistborn, as the Feruchemists have been interbreeding with the Allomancers. Basically, the Allomancy genes interfere with the Feruchemy genes, breaking it down and creating the limitations we see in Alloy of Law. Footnote: Brandon's response was very enthusiastic. He noted how perceptive the question was, and obviously enjoyed the discussion. The reporter has expressed their regret at lack of an audio recording to share his enthusiasm. Alloy of Law Seattle Signing (Nov. 11, 2011) Spoiler Questioner In the prologue in The Alloy of Law, it talks about how the guy actually spikes people to the wall. Is there going to be Hemalurgy involved? Brandon Sanderson That's a RAFO. Hey, RAFOs! I will say, in Alloy of Law time, Hemalurgy is not well-known and that's not been spread around, and Feruchemy as an art moved like Allomancy did in that you can have just one of the powers. And we decided... Chemings? What did we decide, Peter? Oh, Ferrings. We decided Ferirngs. We couldn't decide between the two of those. It's in the book somewhere. But anyway, you can have one Allomantic and one Feruchemical. But not a lot of Mistborn and not a lot of full Feruchemists anymore. Questioner Do you explain how the Feruchemists came back, because at the end there were a lot of eunuchs and... Brandon Sanderson Yeah, well, that's one of the reasons why Feruchemy has been split because it's very diluted now. The Terris people did survive because they made it. And so, the genetic code is there. Questioner And so, every once in a while, hereditarily, the gene will come up. Brandon Sanderson Yeah. But that's why there aren't very many full-blooded Feruchemists anymore. A thousand years of the Lord Ruler trying to breed it out of the population followed by a cataclysm that destroyed most of the population of the world did them in, yeah. West Jordan signing (Aug. 4, 2011)
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