Yet another Nicrosil theory

[Unhinged he/him]

Ok first off there are a couple of different theories flying around the 17th shard right now that I’m almost positive that I haven’t seen them all or if I have I haven’t read them all the way through so If I’ve come up with the same idea as someone else I’m sorry.

 

Now the Mistborn adventure game says that Soulbearer Ferrings store their deepest inner parts in their metalminds most of us here on the 17th shard have assumed that this means they can store their innate Investiture in their metal minds. 

 

My theory is about what they do with the Investiture once it’s been stored. Now to start we know that humans on Scadrial have Investiture from both Ruin and Preservation, this means that they have two separate sources of Investiture that they can store. My idea is that once the Investiture has been stored in a metalmind it can be taped and used in its pure state. Using Preservations Investiture would allow the Ferring to become a sort of temporary Mistborn but they don’t need any metals to act as the catalyst for Allomancy, they can tap into preservations power directly. See quote from the coppermind (important parts underlined)

 

Metal is not the source of Allomancy's power. Rather, metal is what is called a focus--a necessary component to a manifestation of Investiture (magic system), but not the source of the power itself. When an Allomancer burns a metal, that metal specific molecular structure acts as a conduit to Preservation, and then the Allomancer is granted an ability corresponding to the metal, hence the metal "focuses" Preservation's power to the user. Each metal is the only way a mortal can access Preservation and the power of creation's power.

 

 

(Please note that I think that there is another way access preservation)

 

But this comes at a cost, a Ferring only has so much innate Investiture and once it’s gone they either die as they accidentally store the spark of life or they turn into a supper destructive monster as they’ve run out of Preservations Investiture and are now left with only Ruins. Compounders might be able to get around this problem since they can burn Nicrosil Allomaticly using Preservation’s Investiture in order to create a near infinite supply for themselves (or they could just be able to boost other Allomancers see Twinborn bellow). 

 

On a more open note I have no idea what they would do with ruin’s Investiture other than store it and then throw away the metalminds to prevent their ever shrinking soul from going out of balance. Although they could store Investiture from both ruin and preservation in the same metalmind which would allow them to use Feruchemy, for example taping a Nicrosil metalmind and then using the investiture to say become stronger (in place of storing strength).

 

For Twinborn I think that they could store whatever type of Allomatic powers they had. For example a steel/Nicrosil Twinborn could burn steel Allomaticly then store it in his metalminds instead of pushing on something. Later on if he ever runs out of steel he could just tap Nicrosil and start spraying coins. This wouldn’t grant any neat compounding effects, it would just let the Twinborn access his Allomancy in a different way. (Note that I don’t have any real proof for this part it just seemed like an effective way of balancing the abilities out instead of having every Twinborn with Nicrosil become as powerful as a Mistborn, which isn't something I can see Brandon doing). Other than the ability to use steel differently the Nicrosil Ferring would still be able to store and tap his or her Innate Investiture at will.

 

Well that's the theory I hope you've enjoyed my mad ramblings and I acknowledge that most of this is guesswork and probably not true but I've given a lot of thought to this and I wanted to post it anyway. Now let the mad theory's commence.

Edited June 18, 2015 by Unhinged

[Lord Tavash Shar]

Or the Mag could be right and the balance of the two with compounding is the only way to get all 16 feruchemical charges in the AoL era.

[Unhinged he/him]

Or the Mag could be right and the balance of the two with compounding is the only way to get all 16 feruchemical charges in the AoL era.

 

Possible, but if the MAG's right then why does Brandon keep RAFOing every Nicrosil related question?

[Guest]

Possible, but if the MAG's right then why does Brandon keep RAFOing every Nicrosil related question?

 

Probably because he wants the option to override the MAG whenever he wants. If he confirms something, he's stuck with it.

[Lord Tavash Shar]

Could also be that it can do more then the mag implies. For balance you can make no more then maybe 40 charges? Could be that a Nicrosil compounder can do a LOT more then that.