Do Koloss have something similar to blessings?

[The Stormfather He/Him]

If a koloss was made from spikes that were pewter, would it be stronger? If the spikes were from a pewterarm, would it be stronger? Would other types of spikes influence a koloss?

[JustQuestin2004 he/him]

3 hours ago, The Stormfather said:

If a koloss was made from spikes that were pewter, would it be stronger? If the spikes were from a pewterarm, would it be stronger? Would other types of spikes influence a koloss?

I'll have you know that the title of this question is very misleading towards the contents.

Anyways pewter spikes steal Physical Feruchemical abilities, so you wouldn't get a Koloss you'd just a quad-Ferring.

As for if you spiked a Pewterarm burning pewter, I'd have to say probably not because a pewterarm is stronger due to Kinetic Investiture (Investiture that is being used) and Hemalurgy focuses more on Innate Investiture (Parts of the soul itself) so maybe a little but not as much as you'd want. Also it'd be a bit of a waste since you'd only steal the strength and nothing else, better to use a steel spike to take the power itself.

Other types of spikes, I assume you mean other Attribute Spikes like Copper and Tin. They wouldn't make a Koloss, as a Koloss is made with only Iron Spikes. You might be able to make Koloss equivalents with the other types but they wouldn't be Koloss, they'd be entirely new Hemalurgic Constructs.

[Treamayne]

8 hours ago, The Stormfather said:

If a koloss was made from spikes that were pewter, would it be stronger? If the spikes were from a pewterarm, would it be stronger? Would other types of spikes influence a koloss?

You may just want to check out that section in the Coppermind. Koloss are made with Iron Spikes (H-Iron) and physical strength (not allomantic or feruchemical strength). It is unlikely that any other metal would still produce a Koloss, but you might get something similar-but-different. Kandra and Koloss spikes are not interchangeable as-is; but could be made to work. Sazed does remark that Koloss spikes are similar to blessings (2 pairs of two spikes each, but both are the Koloss equivalent of the Blessing of Potency - HoA Epigraph to Ch 40):

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Originally, we assumed that a koloss was a combination of two people into one. That was wrong. Koloss are not the melding of two people, but five, as evidenced by the four spikes needed to make them. Not five bodies, of course, but five souls.

Each pair of spikes grants what the kandra would call the Blessing of Potency. However, each spike also distorts the koloss body a little more, making it increasingly inhuman. Such is the cost of Hemalurgy.

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yulerule

Are Inquisitor spikes, kandra Blessings and koloss spikes interchangeable?  Like if you it spiked in a different way--

Brandon Sanderson

*Hesitant* You could make that work and it wouldn't be that hard. But just as they are, no.

yulerule

Would nothing happen or would weird stuff happen?

Brandon Sanderson

Weird stuff would happen

*pause*

But that one's not very hard to make work.

JordanCon 2018 (April 22, 2018)