Beads of Fireball (Fabrial)

[Tea Leaf]

So it's been a while, I would be here with an array of Full born questions for my friend, but instead I was wondering about how to make an Investiture Bomb. Also I am using the other meaning of Fabrial here, rather than the Rosharian one.

Primary Question: Is this even possible?

Secondary Question: Is it possible in these limitations?

• Fuelable by everyone or at least an easily found individual, I. E. Can you invest this cheaply
• Cheap (not gonna be made of rare materials or take a very long time to make or difficult to perform labor)
• No God Metals
• Easy to set off, but not so easy as to activate without warning
• Light weight

Tertiary Question: Could a Chromium Misting defuse one of these?

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I don't want to answer my own question, but would a glass jar with a vial of water suspended inside a combination of Zephyr and Sunlight Spores? (I haven't read much of Tress sorry if this is used in the book).

But would there be an explosion if you broke an invested gemstone? If so that was the method I was thinking of originally.

 

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36 minutes ago, The Last Fæ said:

So it's been a while, I would be here with an array of Full born questions for my friend, but instead I was wondering about how to make an Investiture Bomb. Also I am using the other meaning of Fabrial here, rather than the Rosharian one.

Primary Question: Is this even possible?

Secondary Question: Is it possible in these limitations?

• Fuelable by everyone or at least an easily found individual, I. E. Can you invest this cheaply
• Cheap (not gonna be made of rare materials or take a very long time to make or difficult to perform labor)
• No God Metals
• Easy to set off, but not so easy as to activate without warning
• Light weight

You didn't say it must be safe to activate  

Anti-investiture bombs are the best. Just use three gemstones, one holding Stormlight, the second anti-Stormlight - use tuning forks to drag investiture from them both into the third, empty gemstone, placed in between the two. The Stormlight will interact with the anti-Stormlight and boom! However this will work on a small scale, not with large gemstones, because the explosion would happen with minimal amount of interaction between investiture and anti-investiture, blowing all gemstones to pieces before most of investiture got transferred to the central gemstone. This isn't that big of the problem with smaller gemstones, as RoW showed us. 

This anti-investiture bomb can be made with any kind of investiture - two jars of Dor, one filled with anti-Dor produced in the same way Navani produced anti-Light. Throw one at the other and boom. Capture some Mists, or use Metalminds, fill one with anti-investiture and transfer investiture from the other one into that with anti-investiture. Anti-Breaths - make those and with "my Breath to yours" Command, transferring your Breaths into the object containing anti-Breaths. Remember, investiture and anti-investiture must be under pressure to cause an explosion.

Use Aether spores - some mechanism to throw water into a barrel filled with Sunlight spores for example. That's a more conventional type of bomb.

Malwish use F-iron to somehow store the weight of their ariships - you can do the same with F-brass, but in reverse. Have a big metalmind filled with lots of heat and make it release all of that heat at once into the air. The expansion of extremely heated air will cause an explosion.

51 minutes ago, The Last Fæ said:

Tertiary Question: Could a Chromium Misting defuse one of these?

Yes. But leech only investiture not anti-Investiture. Anti-investiture would annihilate your soul. For bigger bombs you would need a lot of chromium.

52 minutes ago, The Last Fæ said:

I don't want to answer my own question, but would a glass jar with a vial of water suspended inside a combination of Zephyr and Sunlight Spores? (I haven't read much of Tress sorry if this is used in the book).

Yeah, Zephyr and Sunlight spores would make a nice explosion together.

53 minutes ago, The Last Fæ said:

But would there be an explosion if you broke an invested gemstone? If so that was the method I was thinking of originally.

I don't think so. The explosion in gemstones with anti-Light happens because the investiture is under pressure, when it's outside, like a soul, there is no explosion. Breaking a gemstone would just release the investiture without having any effect. RoW ch 97:

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“What did you do?” Navani said. “Lady of Wishes, what happened?”
Raboniel blinked as she stood. “I … put the diamond we created into the hilt of the dagger, then used the tip to draw Voidlight from another gemstone, to mix them. It seemed the best way to see if the two Lights would cancel one another out. I thought … I thought the reaction would be calm, like hot and cold water mixing.…”
“Hot and cold water don’t immediately annihilate one another when they meet,” Navani said. “Besides, heat under pressure—like Light in a gemstone —is another matter.”
“Yes,” Raboniel said, blinking several times, seeming dazed. “If you use the lightning of a stormform to ignite something under pressure, it always explodes. Perhaps if Voidlight and anti-Voidlight meet in open air, you’d get no more than a pop."

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“Indeed,” Raboniel said. “You may wish to take cover.” Then she turned, walked across the room, and stabbed her daughter in the chest. [...]
There was no explosion. The Voidlight inside the Fused wasn’t under pressure as it was in a gemstone, perhaps.