Forgery, The Many Implications.

[BramFinem he/him]

Hello there! I am new to the forums, having read vigorously and wanting to post something for a while. So I decided, hey, why not Forgery! It is one of the most interesting magic systems in my eyes.

I have two main thoughts I wanted some opinion on.

1: if you had a very basic soul stamp with vague history that could describe any one that would make them have been, say, incinerated and burned to ash, would it hold for any period of time and if so, if the ash collapses could they revert to their previous state?

And 2: if somehow a peice of hemalurgic metal with forgery 'in' it was put in a scadrian (let's say harmony is messing around) would they have to change the base design from MaiPon into their home city, or would the origional owners spiritual connection to MaiPon carry over?

I would love to hear some ideas, and if anyone is interested in some more strange ideas, then I posted a personal list of epic God metals inspired by the thread about it on there. Bye!

[name_here]

1. I think that would be incredibly weak and likely not take at all, on account of how the subject has not actually been turned to ash. Forgery seems to work by imposing an alternate history on the item, and the more detailed and plausible the history the better it takes. A stamp to make something be destroyed by fire would need to detail what fire it burned in, and describe why it was in said fire, and the more sense it makes the better it holds. I think any damage done to the ash pile would carry back over, but I'm not precisely sure.

 

2. I believe that it's not "the user's home city", it's MaiPon specifically. So they wouldn't use Forgery with their own home city. However, it's possible that they won't be able to use Forgery at all but instead some entirely different magic system with symbols based on their homeland. I'm not entirely sure what would wind up in the spike.

[BramFinem he/him]

Thanks, this helps a lot. I think you are right on both counts, but I don't think I worded it right when I asked.

What I was trying to ask is if someone was actually turned into ash due to forgery, when it wore off would they return to their previous state or would they be unable to as they would have collapsed into a little pile, like how when jhasna soul casts something into smoke it can't be turned back because it disperses.

[Kurkistan he/him]

Before asking that question, there's the more fundamental question of whether something can be destroyed outright by the mere act of Forging it. Shai Forges a door into being rotten and on the verge of collapse, but doesn't Forge it into a pile of splinters.

 

If you want a slightly less complete-destruction example to talk about, I'd suggest the pit in the floor that Shai creates underneath her bed. In this case, some rather large amount of structural integrity and matter has been taken away from the floor, but the "floor" as a coherent whole hasn't been fully destroyed.