Kandra and true bodies

[jeremycyr]

I messaged Brandon this but I feel like I'll get a quicker response on here... Maybe it's even been asked before.

Hey Brandon,
Don't know if you will ever see this or not but I don't know when I will next have the opportunity to see you at a signing to ask you this.  Kandra can form true bodies based off of sculpted bones of various materials.  When this is done with various materials they tend to take on aspects of those materials.  If all I said now is correct, what would happen if a Kandra made a true body based from a metal source?  Would it be affected my basic allomancy? or would it be considered an outer source of metal?

[Phantom Monstrosity]

Well, kandra are basically just big piles of muscles.  Storing atium inside a kandra protected it from being pushed/pulled... don't really see why the stuff beneath the muscles would necessarily change that.

[Senor Feesh]

I think I can understand why the request for clarity. When Vin gave Oreseur/Tensoon Atium to carry, he was at least using the body of a wolfhound, and closely mimicking an actual creature. Kandra in True Bodies aren't, and it's not really clear exactly what Kandra flesh is made from.

I would still say because it's living organic material that it would prevent the metals being pushed or pulled. I suspect it's to do with the body's Spiritual aspect interfering with the lines of force, or perhaps the Cognitive - if the metal is Cognitively inside the body, then you would have to affect the body itself (or something similar).

In truth I think it's likely a mix of the two; a body's innate Spiritual aspect interferes but only if the object considers itself (or is considered to be) inside said body.

[Phantom Monstrosity]

I think this chapter has the most thorough description of kandra anatomy.