Mistborn burning Corpates?

[owlmonster]

I know that Aether of Night is no longer canon, but the magic still is. So, do you think that a mistborn could burn Aether of Ferrous/Corpate metal? What would it do?

[Trusk'our he/him]

3 hours ago, owlmonster said:

I know that Aether of Night is no longer canon, but the magic still is. So, do you think that a mistborn could burn Aether of Ferrous/Corpate metal? What would it do?

That would likey not work, as metals with an Identity cannot be burned. 

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Such as Shardblade Spren, which lie in a similar position. 

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https://wob.coppermind.net/events/522-dragonsteel-2023/#e16250

Questioner

What would happen if a person from Scadrial were to try to burn a manifested metal from Roshar?

Brandon Sanderson

So you're meaning they're in Shadesmar, they manifest it, and they try to burn it, right?

Questioner

Say a Spren of a Radiant manifests as a bead of metal instead of a Shardblade?

Brandon Sanderson

You're not going to be able to burn that if it's something that's coming from a spren, because that's not going to be treated as a metal in your body. Like, those are God Metals, and that one is actually alive and awake and it's just not gonna work. There are ways, though, that you could make that work. So it's totally possible, but you're gonna need something that's not an alive spren that's manifest like that. You're gonna need some way to get access to some tanavastium or something like that that's not, like, some living being.

 

 

Edited 2 hours ago by Trusk'our
Had time to add a WoB

[owlmonster]

Could they shave off a part of it? Or do you think that that would still not work?

[Trusk'our he/him]

43 minutes ago, owlmonster said:

Could they shave off a part of it? Or do you think that that would still not work?

That's a good question. 

I think that they could do that and produce a metal they could burn, but it depends on which process it mirrors more-

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If the separated piece of corpate is like Shardplate, then it shouldn't work- it's physically separated, but it's still spiritually part of the corpate.

If it's like with Nightblood shearing off a chip of an Honorblade- which I think it would be given that a corpate is a single entity- then the removed piece is probably far enough removed it can be burned.

 

[owlmonster]

Cool. I just find it fun to think about!