Copper allomancy effects on awakening

[DoctaDajman]

So copper can block lifesense per wob. 

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Titan Arum

If someone on Nalthis had an aviar like Kokerli, would an Awakener’s lifesense work, or would the person be perceived as drab?

Brandon Sanderson

Yeah, the life sense would not work. Good question.

Calamity Philadelphia signing (Feb. 20, 2016)

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CealdishOrbLender

Can a Smoker block an Awakener's lifesense?

Brandon Sanderson

That will work, yes.

Shadows of Self Lansing signing (Oct. 13, 2015)

Now I would like to hear thoughts on awakened items. 

Most items sense the world through something like inquisitors steel sight but Nightblood doesn't just see... he almost has a lifesense as well. 

What objects do you think would be interfered with by copper allomancy and which ones do you think would work perfectly normally? 

Is there an in-between? A portion of the awakening process that may not take hold quite like the awakener wants or a sense that is dulled making an awakened object less able to function as intended? 

Likewise... copper blocks lifesense, and I imagine would likely hide biochromatic aura of, at the very least, the coppercloud. Do you think a copper allomancer could hide the aura of other awakeners in his coppercloud? 

Its hard to picture a room full of awakeners who can't sense through lifesense but they all still recognize eachothers aura and can recognize eachothers hieghtening.  But perhaps this is exactly how it would work?  

I initially imagined copperclouds basically making everyone drab until I remembered the aura. What are yalls thoughts? 

[ChickenBonanza]

One thing, I think, that muddies this decision for me is copper’s function in blocking Emotional Allomancy. Though I do have a synthesis that would explain it, I guess.

Copper blocks bronze users from hearing the pulses produced by Allomancers, Heightening-derived Life Sense, a secretspen’s detection method, and preventing a singer from hearing Rhythms.

These cannot, in my mind, all be different effects. Why would copper have such a breadth of ability? To rectify this, I say that copper doesn’t. It simply blocks or silences pulses of Investiture, even ones that produce an active effect like zinc and brass. (I believe it is important to seperate this from actually preventing the Invested power of Rioting or Soothing. No power is being suppressed or erased, the targets simply can’t hear the noise.

Through this understanding, an Inquisitor’s sight would not be affected at all, I think. Nightblood’s sense, if he detects the quiet pulses of Investiture like a Nalthian Awakener, would be blocked. Like trying to detect a drab, whose Investiture is depleted and makes too little noise to detect.

I do not believe Awakening an object within a Coppercloud would have any great effects except perhaps if your Command is something like ‘detect life as an Awakener would.’ One could argue that the object would spend its first moments of pseudo-sentience confused that whatever ability it tries to morph its given Breath into doesn’t work, and break permanently attempting to correct itself, but I find that unlikely.

And I do believe that a Coppercloud would hide the auras of all within it. It works that way with other Allomancers, after all.