Could a spren use an unkeyed and unsealed metalmind medallion?

[DoctaDajman]

If you had an unkeyed and unsealed metalmind could you teach a spren to use it? 

 

[Trusk'our he/him]

15 hours ago, DoctaDajman said:

If you had an unkeyed and unsealed metalmind could you teach a spren to use it? 

I mean, an Honorspren can use Plate, so I think this isn't too implausible. 

[Treamayne]

15 hours ago, DoctaDajman said:

If you had an unkeyed and unsealed metalmind could you teach a spren to use it? 

 

In what realm? Metal Minds require skin contact - so, Shadesmar = probably yes. Physical Realm - probably not unless you have a way to make the spren more corpreal. 

Edited December 23, 2025 by Treamayne
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[Returned he/him]

3 hours ago, Treamayne said:

In what realm? Metal Minds require skin contact - so, Shadesmar = probably yes. Physical Realm - probably not unless you have a way to make the spren more corpreal. 

We already know that spren can manipulate very small amounts of matter, like Pattern picking a lock or Syl carrying a leaf, so they might be corporeal enough to technically touch and use a metalmind (all other factors permitting). I'm curious about the effects of certain attributes on spren if they could be used, though. What would Pattern be like if heavier, for example?

[Trusk'our he/him]

25 minutes ago, Returned said:

We already know that spren can manipulate very small amounts of matter, like Pattern picking a lock or Syl carrying a leaf, so they might be corporeal enough to technically touch and use a metalmind (all other factors permitting). I'm curious about the effects of certain attributes on spren if they could be used, though. What would Pattern be like if heavier, for example?

Technically Feruchemical iron controls mass, so I wouldn't be surprised if a Spren tapping it became a little more substantial in the PR.

[Returned he/him]

1 hour ago, Trusk'our said:

Technically Feruchemical iron controls mass, so I wouldn't be surprised if a Spren tapping it became a little more substantial in the PR.

That sounds sensible, though trying to picture some of the specifics is confusing me a bit. I wonder what a Cryptic would be like if they could tap iron, since their substance glides mystically over surfaces, dimpling them with their various fractal patterns. Would they have more trouble moving through the physical world, even as they can more easily affect things like lock pins. Might tapping pewter offer similar abilities, maybe indistinguishable from iron in some varieties of spren?

I need to think of this more, it's a whole avenue of Cosmere interaction that I've never thought about before.