Red Ferring he/him Posted April 11, 2015 Posted April 11, 2015 Awaken the corpse of a horse after filling it with ichor-alcohol and you have a steed that never tires and you just need supplies to upkeep the wear and tear of the muscles. Was this mentioned in the book? Any problems with this being feasible? Also! Lifeless mules and other beasts of burden to do all the work you need! Lifeless carrier pigeons = Long-distance fast communication! 5
Araris Valerian he/him Posted April 12, 2015 Posted April 12, 2015 The only thing that I can think of is that the reason lifeless work is that breaths want to make things become human-like. So you probably would need some extra breaths to get a horse to be a lifeless as opposed to a human corpse.
natc Posted April 12, 2015 Posted April 12, 2015 The only thing that I can think of is that the reason lifeless work is that breaths want to make things become human-like. So you probably would need some extra breaths to get a horse to be a lifeless as opposed to a human corpse. Squirrels work though. They even run around in circles screaming really well.
Bremen Posted April 12, 2015 Posted April 12, 2015 The only thing that I can think of is that the reason lifeless work is that breaths want to make things become human-like. So you probably would need some extra breaths to get a horse to be a lifeless as opposed to a human corpse. Could you use a breath from a horse? Do they even have breath? Probably not, nobody ever talks about Returned horses.
natc Posted April 12, 2015 Posted April 12, 2015 Could you use a breath from a horse? Do they even have breath? Probably not, nobody ever talks about Returned horses. Clearly Ryshadium are actually Returned horses exported from Nalthis 4
Kobold King he/him Posted April 12, 2015 Posted April 12, 2015 Huh. If you whipped a Lifeless equine to make it go faster, you'd literally be beating a dead horse. Just thought I should point that out. 13
High prince of geeks he/him Posted April 13, 2015 Posted April 13, 2015 While it would be great in the fact that there would be a surplus of horses it would be hard to work with horses without intelligence. MY majoir question is, what command would you give it
natc Posted April 13, 2015 Posted April 13, 2015 (edited) While it would be great in the fact that there would be a surplus of horses it would be hard to work with horses without intelligence. MY majoir question is, what command would you give itIt's a Lifeless. Just use the default one-breath Lifeless command. Works on squirrels, so it should work on horses.If you're talking about the command after that, just telling it to serve as your steed in some sort of specific phrasing ought not to be hard to mentally picture. Edited April 13, 2015 by natc
StormingTexan he/him Posted April 13, 2015 Posted April 13, 2015 I do not see why it would not work on horses. In fact although it is not specifically mentioned to be lifeless at least one of Kalad's Phantoms in statue form is on a horse IIR. It could have been lifeless.
Kestrel she/her Posted April 14, 2015 Posted April 14, 2015 Plus, it worked on squirrels. I don't see why horses wouldn't be a thing. Or any other animals for that matter. What about a lifeless chasmfiend can you imagine how awful and awesome that would be. 3
Kobold King he/him Posted April 14, 2015 Posted April 14, 2015 Plus, it worked on squirrels. I don't see why horses wouldn't be a thing. Or any other animals for that matter. What about a lifeless chasmfiend can you imagine how awful and awesome that would be. If that's possible, then someone needs to invent a Cosmere "Turn Undead" spell as quickly as possible.
Kestrel she/her Posted April 14, 2015 Posted April 14, 2015 Is it awful that I really really want one.
natc Posted April 14, 2015 Posted April 14, 2015 Plus, it worked on squirrels. I don't see why horses wouldn't be a thing. Or any other animals for that matter. What about a lifeless chasmfiend can you imagine how awful and awesome that would be. Lifeless voidbringers ahoy! I wonder if you can awaken thunderclasts . . .
Kobold King he/him Posted April 14, 2015 Posted April 14, 2015 Lifeless voidbringers ahoy! I wonder if you can awaken thunderclasts . . . Probably not. I got the impression that they're slabs of stone possessed by voidspren, which indicates that they're already too "full" of Investiture to accept an Awakener's Breaths.
natc Posted April 15, 2015 Posted April 15, 2015 Probably not. I got the impression that they're slabs of stone possessed by voidspren, which indicates that they're already too "full" of Investiture to accept an Awakener's Breaths. I was thinking more about whether the "corpse" can even be considered a lifeform. I doubt the voidspren will stick around after being hit by a shardblade so many times.
Arook he/him Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 Awaken the corpse of a horse after filling it with ichor-alcohol and you have a steed that never tires and you just need supplies to upkeep the wear and tear of the muscles. Was this mentioned in the book? Any problems with this being feasible? Also! Lifeless mules and other beasts of burden to do all the work you need! Lifeless carrier pigeons = Long-distance fast communication! Its all about cost. A breath used like that can't be recovered. A horse could work hard but would wear its self out and break down after a few weeks of work and you would always be replacing bits. Humans are fairly low impact on movement day to day unlike work animals. I wonder if you left the flesh could you replace bones with metal. I know you can do the opposite.
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