Mistborn animals?

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

In mistborn, they mention horses and maybe cattle? But are their any other animals from earth, like a bunny?

[Steel Speedster ♂]

From my understanding, Scadrial is home to most of the same animals as Earth.

[TwinStorm He/Him]

43 minutes ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

In mistborn, they mention horses and maybe cattle? But are their any other animals from earth, like a bunny?

wolfhounds, obviously

[Treamayne]

2 hours ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

In mistborn, they mention horses and maybe cattle? But are their any other animals from earth, like a bunny?

They mention many animals in the first trilogy - but yes, you can assume that many/most earth animals will also exist on Scadrial.

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Example: TFE Ch 8

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“Flare your tin,” Kelsier suggested.

Vin nodded, calling upon a burst of extra Allomantic power. Everything immediately became lighter, the mists becoming even less of an obstruction.

What she saw caused her to shiver—fascinated, revolted, and more than a little disturbed. The creature had smoky, translucent skin, and Vin could see its bones. It had dozens upon dozens of limbs, and each one looked as if it had come from a different animal. There were human hands, bovine hooves, canine haunches, and others she couldn’t identify.

The mismatched limbs let the creature walk—though it was more of a shamble. It crawled along slowly, moving like an awkward centipede. Many of the limbs, in fact, didn’t even look functional—they jutted from the creature’s flesh in a twisted, unnatural fashion.

Its body was bulbous and elongated. It wasn’t just a blob, though… there was a strange logic to its form. It had a distinct skeletal structure, and—squinting through tin-enhanced eyes—she thought she could make out translucent muscles and sinew wrapping the bones. The creature flexed odd jumbles of muscles as it moved, and appeared to have a dozen different ribcages. Along the main body, arms and legs hung at unnerving angles.

And heads—she counted six. Despite the translucent skin, she could make out a horse head sitting beside that of a deer. Another head turned toward her, and she could see its human skull. The head sat atop a long spinal cord attached to some kind of animal torso, which was in turn attached to a jumble of strange bones.

Vin nearly retched. “What… ? How… ?”

“Mistwraiths have malleable bodies,” Kelsier said. “They can shape their skin around any skeletal structure, and can even re-create muscles and organs if they have a model to mimic.”

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Brandon Sanderson

Vinuarch

Yes, one of the months of the year is named after Vin. There are twelve months, one after each member of the crew, with a few tweaks. (The days of the week have different names too, but we ended up not using any in this book.)

By the way, Scadrial—the world of Mistborn—is the closest Earth analogue in the cosmere. I did this intentionally, as I wanted one planet where technology and the like progressed similarly to what we have. There are distinctions, of course, but generally we've got a lot of similarities. Even in the original Mistborn, we referenced plants and animals by Earth-style names. You can assume that on Scadrial they have horses, dogs, cats, sparrows, and the like. There are twelve months, and a twenty-four-hour day. Gravity is earth gravity. Things like this.

There's no hidden meaning there—no tie back to Earth, at least not in any important way. The cosmere is entirely separate from Earth. This one planet, however, has creatures that were developed along the same lines as Earth. (Well, it's not the only one, but to say more would be to give away too much.)

The Alloy of Law Annotations (March 14, 2014)

 

Hope that helps

 

Edited February 20, 2025 by Treamayne
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[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

Thank you! That helps a lot!

[Terrisman]

3 hours ago, TwinStorm said:

wolfhounds, obviously

So apparently wolves too

[JustQuestin2004 he/him]

When I saw this, I thought it was about making Animals into Allomancers, then I thought about that one WOB about a Feruchemist Platypus that would be able to store their electricity sense.

It would be a humongous waste of either Hemalurgic Spikes or worse, Lerasium, since I doubt animals would be able to use the powers very well like a more sapient being can.

[Quantus he/him]

6 hours ago, JustQuestin2004 said:

When I saw this, I thought it was about making Animals into Allomancers, then I thought about that one WOB about a Feruchemist Platypus that would be able to store their electricity sense.

It would be a humongous waste of either Hemalurgic Spikes or worse, Lerasium, since I doubt animals would be able to use the powers very well like a more sapient being can.

Cut out the middle step and Spike the Sense out of them directly to implant in a Human.  It'll likely have some weird side effects and it'll probably take a bloody lot of bloody experimentation to work out the details, but it should be viable within the known function of the system.  

[Treamayne]

42 minutes ago, Quantus said:

It'll likely have some weird side effects and it'll probably take a bloody lot of bloody experimentation to work out the details, but it should be viable within the known function of the system. 

I'm not sure this is correct. Spiking something like SteelSight works because the actual sensory organ to be modified (eyes) exists in the person receiving the spike. However, humans are entirely lacking the organelle required to use or interpret the electrolocation sense from a platypus' bill. I think the Hemalurgic charge would try to express itself, find no appropriate part of the spiritweb to attch the sense to and cause something weird as a result (which may or may not include expressing the actual spiked senses). Alternatively, maybe like the chimerae, the hemalurgist would just be radically changed and grow a bill to allow the sense to take hold. 

[Quantus he/him]

45 minutes ago, Treamayne said:

I'm not sure this is correct. Spiking something like SteelSight works because the actual sensory organ to be modified (eyes) exists in the person receiving the spike. However, humans are entirely lacking the organelle required to use or interpret the electrolocation sense from a platypus' bill. I think the Hemalurgic charge would try to express itself, find no appropriate part of the spiritweb to attch the sense to and cause something weird as a result (which may or may not include expressing the actual spiked senses). Alternatively, maybe like the chimerae, the hemalurgist would just be radically changed and grow a bill to allow the sense to take hold. 

This is what I was anticipated, a large-scale change with a lot of horrible mutated mistakes before you get it right (akin to genetic splicing, if a little easier thanks to the spiritual level adaptations).  But if Spikes can steal things like Gemhearts they should be capable of transferring physical traits so long as you have a natural donor.  I'd think Sho-Dal extra limbs would be viable too.  

Or let a Sleeper handle the preliminary breeding modifications and then spike it out of a hordling.