Trusk'our he/him Posted April 6, 2025 Posted April 6, 2025 There is a WoB here that states Feruchemical gold works by storing Connection between your physical and spiritual aspects. Spoiler https://wob.coppermind.net/events/122-leipzig-book-fair/#e3326 Questioner You have this technical approach to Allomantic powers. But Feruchemy seems to me very different. So it's not very logical that you can store up health. What is health? Brandon Sanderson Well. I feel that it is. But it has its own definitions. In the Cosmere perception - I don't know if you know... Questioner Yeah. Brandon Sanderson ... it really affects... It's kind of more like a concept of heallth. The idea of your body's ability to recuperate quickly. The magic system translates to your body's ability to match your spiritual self. When that is depleted, your body in the Cosmere starts to stray (? a bit indistinctive in the recording). Foreign things can get into it, diseases get into you, and your spirit can get a little more corrupted. Your body getting corrupted, your spirit's not getting corrupted. You get it, and it makes you extra connected to your spiritual sense. Your body moves to match it closely and better. Questioner So the same about speed and ... Brandon Sanderson Those are a little different. But each has their little behind the scenes explanation for myself. The problem is... The physics of it is very Cosmere-physics for Feruchemy, whereas for Allomancy it's a lot more out world physics with a different power source. We're changing that. But the physics do work for me. But obviously it's magic, so I'm breaking them anyway. This idea is further backed by Regrowth being capable of Reconnecting your spirit to your body, as we see with Szeth. Also, Hemalurgic spikes potentially keeping you alive makes more sense when they're capable of stapling a Cognitive Shadow to a body. I think that there are some very interesting implications for this. Yumi and Painter swapped bodies because of Connection. Could this be a form of "health", Connecting their Spiritwebs (or just the Cognitive Aspect?) to another's physical form while dampening the Connection to their own? If storing health separates the Spiritweb's influence on the body, would a Bloodmaker be able to temporarily prevent Hemalurgic warping by storing health? Then just tap health after removing the spikes- this whole idea is kinda dependent on the spikes still granting their effects without that Realmatic crossing though, so it's iffy. Would a Twinborn storing too much health be incapable of burning metals because of a disruption between their body and Spiritweb potentially? I guess general Investiture like Breath adding extra health would also make sense, since more Investiture closes the distance between Realms. Actually, if closing Realmatic distance heals you, shouldn't sitting in a full Shardpool regenerate an injured person?
CoderDrag0n8 He/They Posted April 6, 2025 Posted April 6, 2025 15 minutes ago, Trusk'our said: There is a WoB here that states Feruchemical gold works by storing Connection between your physical and spiritual aspects. Reveal hidden contents https://wob.coppermind.net/events/122-leipzig-book-fair/#e3326 Questioner You have this technical approach to Allomantic powers. But Feruchemy seems to me very different. So it's not very logical that you can store up health. What is health? Brandon Sanderson Well. I feel that it is. But it has its own definitions. In the Cosmere perception - I don't know if you know... Questioner Yeah. Brandon Sanderson ... it really affects... It's kind of more like a concept of heallth. The idea of your body's ability to recuperate quickly. The magic system translates to your body's ability to match your spiritual self. When that is depleted, your body in the Cosmere starts to stray (? a bit indistinctive in the recording). Foreign things can get into it, diseases get into you, and your spirit can get a little more corrupted. Your body getting corrupted, your spirit's not getting corrupted. You get it, and it makes you extra connected to your spiritual sense. Your body moves to match it closely and better. Questioner So the same about speed and ... Brandon Sanderson Those are a little different. But each has their little behind the scenes explanation for myself. The problem is... The physics of it is very Cosmere-physics for Feruchemy, whereas for Allomancy it's a lot more out world physics with a different power source. We're changing that. But the physics do work for me. But obviously it's magic, so I'm breaking them anyway. This idea is further backed by Regrowth being capable of Reconnecting your spirit to your body, as we see with Szeth. Also, Hemalurgic spikes potentially keeping you alive makes more sense when they're capable of stapling a Cognitive Shadow to a body. I think that there are some very interesting implications for this. Yumi and Painter swapped bodies because of Connection. Could this be a form of "health", Connecting their Spiritwebs (or just the Cognitive Aspect?) to another's physical form while dampening the Connection to their own? If storing health separates the Spiritweb's influence on the body, would a Bloodmaker be able to temporarily prevent Hemalurgic warping by storing health? Then just tap health after removing the spikes- this whole idea is kinda dependent on the spikes still granting their effects without that Realmatic crossing though, so it's iffy. Would a Twinborn storing too much health be incapable of burning metals because of a disruption between their body and Spiritweb potentially? I guess general Investiture like Breath adding extra health would also make sense, since more Investiture closes the distance between Realms. Actually, if closing Realmatic distance heals you, shouldn't sitting in a full Shardpool regenerate an injured person? I have always thought that your identity is like a blueprint for your body. Healing is just using that blueprint to repair a body. In Ymuni and the Nightmare painter that might be the case, but it really is just that Yumi is an heavily invested being, and that investiture just makes the connection to identity and actual self stronger so that Yumi can 'heal' The nightmare painter's body into her own.
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