ππππππ Posted November 20, 2024 Posted November 20, 2024 I wonder if someone could use an unkeyed metalmind attached to a piece of Raysium to leech attributes from someone. Example: a crossbow bolt made from an unkeyed steel mind with a Raysium tip. If you shot it at someone, would it steal speed from them and put them in a sort of stasis so long as the bolt is in them? Or if you did the same thing with copper to read/wipe someone's memories? 1
alder24 Posted November 20, 2024 Posted November 20, 2024 39 minutes ago, WhiteHairedDrifter said: I wonder if someone could use an unkeyed metalmind attached to a piece of Raysium to leech attributes from someone. Example: a crossbow bolt made from an unkeyed steel mind with a Raysium tip. If you shot it at someone, would it steal speed from them and put them in a sort of stasis so long as the bolt is in them? Or if you did the same thing with copper to read/wipe someone's memories? Sounds possible but you would probably need an unsealed metalmind (Malwish medallion) to do that. You probably don't even need Raysium if you tweak the medallion in the right way. Unsealed metalminds are like little machines that give you power with their own identity, you should be able to program them in such a way that they would just start drawing in an attribute as soon as they are put on a person, without the need of intent from that person. TSM spoilers: Spoiler In TSM we actually saw a metalmind working like this, forcefully transferring attribute into its wearer. TSM ch 49: Quote βItβs one of those Scadrian weight devices, isnβt it? Thatβs what you locked onto my ankle?β Heβd seen people wear them on low-gravity planets to move more naturally. Here, though, it had been turned up an extreme amountβmaking his entire body think it was working under three or four times the standard gravity. Β Β Spoiler Raddatatta In Era 1, Sazed says the only thing you can Feruchemically store while sleeping is wakefulness, but in Era 2 they have the sky ships that require everyone to be storing weight to fly and they don't land while people sleep. Was Sazed just wrong, or is that a difference between normal Feruchemy and using the unsealed metalminds? Brandon Sanderson Unsealed metalminds, I am moving toward completeβyou probably already guessed thisβmechanical uses of Investiture, and this indeed is a step toward that. And so we are stepping toward having a little machine that gives you powers. That's what the world wants to try to find. And this isβthis being mechanicalβwe'll just say that the medallions and the things that they're building have more of a life-force, more of an Identity of their own than a traditional metalmind does, even though they're unkeyed and all of this stuff. YouTube Spoiler Stream 5 (Dec. 2, 2022) Β
JustQuestin2004 he/him Posted November 20, 2024 Posted November 20, 2024 I foresee some very terrifying possibilities in the future of Scadrial with these Leeching metalminds. -Criminals or Prisoners of war forced to wear Leeching Goldminds, leaving them sick for the entirety of their sentence. Though somewhat lightened by the idea that this stolen health would go to hospitals to help the critically injured and impaired. -Leeching Copperminds, not just to steal intelligence from unwilling interrogatees, but possibly taken a step further and used toΒ brainwashΒ people, like taking most if not all of their own memories, but forcing them to tap a set of new memories to make them willingly join their enemies. -Leeching Elecrumminds, to steal determination, imagine a truly dystopian society where every lower-class person is forced to wear something that makes them too depressed to fight back or do anything beyond what they're told to, like the Soothing Stations of old but so much worse. 4
ππππππ Posted November 20, 2024 Author Posted November 20, 2024 (edited) 1 hour ago, JustQuestin2004 said: I foresee some very terrifying possibilities in the future of Scadrial with these Leeching metalminds. -Criminals or Prisoners of war forced to wear Leeching Goldminds, leaving them sick for the entirety of their sentence. Though somewhat lightened by the idea that this stolen health would go to hospitals to help the critically injured and impaired. -Leeching Copperminds, not just to steal intelligence from unwilling interrogatees, but possibly taken a step further and used toΒ brainwashΒ people, like taking most if not all of their own memories, but forcing them to tap a set of new memories to make them willingly join their enemies. -Leeching Elecrumminds, to steal determination, imagine a truly dystopian society where every lower-class person is forced to wear something that makes them too depressed to fight back or do anything beyond what they're told to, like the Soothing Stations of old but so much worse. That's what I was thinking. I would be surprised if we don't see this in mistborn era 3. Probably being used by the main antagonist. I assume that the main characters of era 3 are going to have to figure out how to defeat some organization of people who all have feruchemical powers being constantly renewed by prisoners who can't fight back because they're being held in stasis by steel and zinc minds while their other attributes are being leeched. The idea of leeching metalminds seems terrifyingly close to hemalurgy. Except with these, you don't have to kill some one to get power from them. You can just milk them for their lifeforce, their youth, their memories, and their very identity near indefinitely. It's a terrifying idea indeed. I'll have to see if there are any WOBs on this. Edited November 20, 2024 by WhiteHairedDrifter 3
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