Calten_Gnomercy Posted December 18, 2024 Posted December 18, 2024 Was there any indication that of where those crystal spikes came from? Dont they have to kill someone and keep the spikes in blood for the process to work?
alder24 Posted December 19, 2024 Posted December 19, 2024 16 hours ago, Calten_Gnomercy said: Was there any indication that of where those crystal spikes came from? Dont they have to kill someone and keep the spikes in blood for the process to work? We don't know. It looks like they are just normal crystal spikes made out of polestones. Hemalurgy is like Lightweaving - different magic systems develop the same effect via different means. Moash's spikes contained Voidlight, but we don't know if they did contain stolen pieces of soul. We also don't know if they decay outside of the body. Lots of unknowns unfortunately. Spoiler asmodeus You've said before that a lot of the magics we see across the cosmere come from an interaction of Shards and their Investiture with the planets they Invest in. What does this mean practically? If Scadrial explodes tomorrow, will Hemalurgy stop working across the cosmere? Brandon Sanderson Hemalurgy wouldn't stop working, most likely, but it could. There are ways that you could make it stop working. I kind of mean that the Shards are an innate part of physics in the cosmere, and the magics that arise are an innate part of physics because of that. Like atium seeped out into the Pits of Hathsin, in the same way, these magics are just gonna leak out, and different places are going to affect them. You'll see Lightweaving happening in different places, and the way the Shard is interacting with the local... The way the Shard is is going to affect how Lightweaving is administrated in the various magics, but it's still gonna be there. Hemalurgy is kind of a similar thing to that. You will see Midnight Essence, you will see some of these recurring ideas popping up, and these are like natural parts of the physics, but they're influenced by the Shards on the local planets. I don't know if that answer, that's gonna be a really fun one for them to transcribe into the Q&A thing, because I go around in circles on that question a ton. Put this part in when you do it. Footnote: It was a really fun one. YouTube Spoiler Stream 4 (June 16, 2022) 1
Argenti he/him Posted December 19, 2024 Posted December 19, 2024 19 hours ago, Calten_Gnomercy said: Was there any indication that of where those crystal spikes came from? Dont they have to kill someone and keep the spikes in blood for the process to work? As @alder24 said, we have no idea. My theory is it's like fabrials, and grants new powers, depending on the stone and Spren (Or maybe just light?) but that's just a theory.
Recommended Posts