Advanced Rosharan Weaponry

[Through the Living Hopper He/Him]

In RoW, when Navanin used Raysium to put half of the spren in a different gemstone, she learned that if part of a conjoined fabrial is in a larger gemstone than the other one, the smaller one will move much further than the larger one is moved. If you made huge gemstones conjoined with ridiculously small ones and then put arrows on the small gems, you could make the arrows go forward with probably a literal ton of force. Moving the big gem back would bring the arrows back toward you, from where they could then be shot forward again. There are so many different ways to improve this.

Sorry, this drawing isn't my best work.

[Through The Living Grub He/Him]

On 1/20/2025 at 10:50 AM, ThatOneWorldhopper said:

In RoW, when Navanin used Raysium to put half of the spren in a different gemstone, she learned that if part of a conjoined fabrial is in a larger gemstone than the other one, the smaller one will move much further than the larger one is moved. If you made huge gemstones conjoined with ridiculously small ones and then put arrows on the small gems, you could make the arrows go forward with probably a literal ton of force. Moving the big gem back would bring the arrows back toward you, from where they could then be shot forward again. There are so many different ways to improve this.

Sorry, this drawing isn't my best work.

This would honestly be like having archers release wave after wave, conserving resources.

The  only issue is how to get the large gemstone, but lab grown/synthetic ones work

WoB:

Spoiler

PhantomMonstrosity (paraphrased)

Do synthetic gemstones work in fabrials too?

Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

Synthetic gemstones should work.  It's a combination of color and chemical structure that's important. Just like metals from off Scadrial would work for an Allomancer, synthetic gemstones should work.