Spike an Elantrian

[Sythrin]

Brandon mentioned that to get the powers of an Elantrian through hemalurgic spike, you would need to spike 1, for the power and 2 for the connection to Sel or the AonDor or whatever.
Its not entirely clear if it is possible to spike a person multible times, to steal something from them. So far we have not seen it and it is more implied that it is not possible, but with the development of the metalic arts, who knows?
So if you would spike 2 different Elantrians and take from one the power and from the other the connection, would you have identity contamination problems?

[Qianweilian He/him]

Probably, but you could try to get another Elantrian to store connection in a medallion.

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

3 hours ago, Sythrin said:

Brandon mentioned that to get the powers of an Elantrian through hemalurgic spike, you would need to spike 1, for the power and 2 for the connection to Sel or the AonDor or whatever.
Its not entirely clear if it is possible to spike a person multible times, to steal something from them. So far we have not seen it and it is more implied that it is not possible, but with the development of the metalic arts, who knows?
So if you would spike 2 different Elantrians and take from one the power and from the other the connection, would you have identity contamination problems?

no, because you would be spiking their connection to Sel.

[BigBadBagsworth He/him/his]

I second that. The whole point of Hemalurgy is that you're just taking one part of someone's soul and pinning it to your own. But if yes... this could be the reason why inquisitors can't compound: since their spikes come from different people, the feruchemical charge gets tainted in a way the allomancy can't use.

Edited June 12, 2025 by BigBadBagsworth

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

13 minutes ago, BigBadBagsworth said:

I second that. The whole point of Hemalurgy is that you're just taking one part of someone's soul and pinning it to your own. But if yes... this could be the reason why inquisitors can't compound: since their spikes come from different people, the feruchemical charge gets tainted in a way the allomancy can't use.

that has been confirmed by brandon

[Espella]

On 6/12/2025 at 6:21 AM, Sythrin said:

Brandon mentioned that to get the powers of an Elantrian through hemalurgic spike, you would need to spike 1, for the power and 2 for the connection to Sel or the AonDor or whatever.
Its not entirely clear if it is possible to spike a person multible times, to steal something from them. So far we have not seen it and it is more implied that it is not possible, but with the development of the metalic arts, who knows?
So if you would spike 2 different Elantrians and take from one the power and from the other the connection, would you have identity contamination problems?

The Set scientists in Lost Metal found out a way to spike people without killing them, didn't they? Seems to me that as more research goes into that spiking the same person multiple times should become possible. I think there's a WoB out there somewhere saying it's not thought to be possible to steal multiple attributes from the same target, but that was before it was known that you can keep the target alive which changes things.