Compounding

[The Grand Jesk]

When storing an attribute take steel for example you draw the speed from yourself to save for later. when compounding you then burn that storage and it multiples. What if you take a metal like tin where the allomantic ability is mostly the same as the feruchemical? What would happen if you flare tin and store the sight then use that metalmind and compound would you get the tin enhanced or not? Because componding is burning what you've stored. What happened if what you sotre was burned?

 

Edited February 18, 2025 by StormBlessed101

[Trusk'our he/him]

36 minutes ago, StormBlessed101 said:

When storing an attribute take steel for example you draw the speed from yourself to save for later. when compounding you then burn that storage and it multiples. What if you take a metal like tin where the allomantic ability is mostly the same as the feruchemical? What would happen if you flare tin and store the sight then use that metalmind and compound would you get the tin enhanced or not? Because componding is burning what you've stored. What happened if what you sotre was burned?

In Feruchemy, you get out what you put in.

It's possible to store non-traditional attributes, like caffeine in a Bronzemind or Bronzesense in a Tinmind. 

Spoiler

https://wob.coppermind.net/events/467-youtube-spoiler-stream-2/#e14739

Vodid

If you have caffeine, can you store that as wakefulness in a bronzemind?

Brandon Sanderson

I think that you can, but I think when you tap it out, you will have kind of the same effects, right. Like, you will feel like you are not quite as awake. Like that feeling you get, I think you guys know what I'm talking about. I think that you can, I think that you can hack the system with some things like that. That's my guess... That's my answer right now, but that's one pretty mutable, as we go forward.

Adam Horne

I'd be curious to see what you could do with that in Era 3, because pharmaceuticals will exist.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes well, you're already getting into the fact that you could replicate a lot of things, with... once they figure how to change types of Investiture and whatnot, then suddenly you've got some wacky things going on. Which is why a Mistborn cyberpunk would be so much fun, because metallurgic wetware would be fun. But no promises on that—I already have too many things to write. It's just that if I do write it, and I make it a trilogy, then we have sixteen books in the Mistborn series.

Spoiler

https://wob.coppermind.net/events/316-general-signed-books-2018/#e9199

NewbSombrero

Can Feruchemical tin store Allomantically granted senses like bronze sense?

Brandon Sanderson

Possible.

And since Compounding just overwrites the standard Allomantic effect with the Feruchemical one, Compounding eyesight from tin Allomancy would give better night vision as opposed to binocular-like vision.

Spoiler

https://wob.coppermind.net/events/98-worldbuilders-ama/#e851

djscrub

Since burning Feruchemically charged metal seems to require a choice between getting the Allomantic or Feruchemical property (e.g., Miles only sees gold ghosts when he wants to, not as a side effect of compounded healing), is there any special advantage to compounding pewter and tin, where the Allomantic and Feruchemical use is the same? Is their compounding even stronger than normal compounding because you can tap both power sources simultaneously, or maybe because Preservation is particularly attuned to providing those powers through those metals?

Brandon Sanderson

Remember that compounding is a "hack" of the magic. You're looking to fool the magics, and use one to power the other. The value in it is that you can use Allomantic power to fuel Feruchemy. It's like hooking a power cord up to a device that, up to that point, you'd powered by using a hand crank.

Other senses that the Twinborn could figure out how to store would become viable for Compounding as well.

Edited February 18, 2025 by Trusk'our

[The Grand Jesk]

 

Ok