How do you think the Cyberpunk era of Scadrial could look alike?

[Sythrin]

Brandon has teased mulitble times that Mistborns sagas could be orientated on different genres of fantasy.
High fanatasy
Steampunk
Urban fantasy
Cyberpunk
Space Opera.

Not sure if he will still do it, but after playing Cyberpunk 2077, I am in Cyberpunk fether. Would like to hear by you how it could become? Do you think it will be just slight body modifications or will it go heavy in the body sculpting direction and introduce maybe things like Mantis-Shardblades?

[JustQuestin2004 he/him]

Hemalurgy and cybernetics are a match made in the Beyond. Hemalurgic Spikes, when placed properly, warp the body to some extreme degrees, as shown by the Inquisitors whose hearts and brains are warped around the spikes. And without any infection, even with blood being passed around. There's no doubt in my mind that when technology advances ahead far enough, people will be inspired by the idea of putting metal inside your body to make you stronger and decide the next best step is to start putting full on technology inside your body.

There are many ideas for this, but I have a few I'd love to talk about.

-Modular Spike Systems: Having a set-up whre you can store many Hemalurgic Spikes within your body without them piercing you, and be able to switch between them rapidly. Could fake being a Mistborn by switching between the different powers. Could also go further by adding on some Unsealed Metalminds to give yourself even more powers than the "3 Spikes max unless you want to get turned into a meat puppet" limit would allow.

Could also allow easy transfer of Feruchemical Attributes through said Unsealed Metalminds, like Copperminds that would act like the BD's from Cyberpunk, plus Goldminds for quick healing. And so on.

Maybe there could also be a way for one to attach a cybernetic limb and have it be connected to your soul instead of your nerves through a spike, allowing you full control over it?

[Sythrin]

Hemalurgy and cybernetics are a match made in the Beyond. Hemalurgic Spikes, when placed properly, warp the body to some extreme degrees, as shown by the Inquisitors whose hearts and brains are warped around the spikes. And without any infection, even with blood being passed around. There's no doubt in my mind that when technology advances ahead far enough, people will be inspired by the idea of putting metal inside your body to make you stronger and decide the next best step is to start putting full on technology inside your body.
 

Do you think a cybernatic limb could be made into a hermalugic spike and than be easier to be attached to a person.

lets say you make a prostethic arm with a sharp end where the stump is supposed to be. Than you pierce a person with the sharp end and make it into a hermalurgic spike.

Than you pierce a crippled person without an arm at their stump. Making the prostehtic be installed without big medical complications?

[JustQuestin2004 he/him]

 

17 minutes ago, Sythrin said:

Do you think a cybernatic limb could be made into a hermalugic spike and than be easier to be attached to a person.

lets say you make a prostethic arm with a sharp end where the stump is supposed to be. Than you pierce a person with the sharp end and make it into a hermalurgic spike.

Than you pierce a crippled person without an arm at their stump. Making the prostehtic be installed without big medical complications?

That's what I'm thinking, stuff like that becomes a lot easier with how Hemalurgy functions. Just attach the technology to a spike then insert the right way and then you have an easy way to insert metal directly into a human body without risk of metal poisoning or infection. Which cuts out much of the hard part that comes with putting metal into one's body.

Then comes the complication of how the recipient is meant to actually control the arm, as Hemalurgy just allows the attachment, it won't do anything more than that. You'd need to find a way to directly connect it to the nerves, or perhaps the soul even?

But that part could be handled by the Cyberpunk Era being a post-modern setting and thus sci-fi tech, like directly connecting it to the nerves and what not to be controlled by the brain, which isn't exactly sci-fi anymore considering that there are prosthetics that function like that in real life.

[Sythrin]

21 minutes ago, JustQuestin2004 said:

Then comes the complication of how the recipient is meant to actually control the arm, as Hemalurgy just allows the attachment, it won't do anything more than that. You'd need to find a way to directly connect it to the nerves, or perhaps the soul even?

I could see a case made for intent and maybe metal pushing/pulling?

the fine tuning, i dont know.

And than attach blades to the arms that have heat medallions to basicly make cybernatic mantis heat swords