Oudeis he/him Posted August 20, 2015 Posted August 20, 2015 A random thought occurs to me. The other three Blessings we know of all steal something which can be stored feruchemically. Iron and Tin, two physical metals, steal strength and senses, two things stored in that same quadrant of metals. Copper, a mental metal, steals the trait a feruchemist would store in a zincmind, another mental metal. (Possibly. I discuss inconsistencies in the Blessing of Presence here.) Zinc, then, you would expect to steel something else from a Cognitive metal. Wakefulness, warmth, or specific memories. But it doesn't; it steals something not, that we know of, stored in any feruchemical metal. Electrum stores determination which has a correlation to emotional stability, but is absolutely not the same thing. Aluminum stores identity, but we know next to nothing about that. It might be related to emotional stability but it might not. I wonder if there's an in-universe reason for the break in pattern. Maybe it's just that there is no pattern? 75% correlation could just be a coincidence. Or maybe there's another kind of pattern I'm not seeing. Pewter and tin all have similarities across all metallic arts. There's not another pair of metals as closely related. Maybe there's an order of the metals, and the further you get along that order, the less connection there is between the Arts? Thoughts on the matter?
Minsk Ghoul he/him Posted August 20, 2015 Posted August 20, 2015 Spiritweb's structure is still unknown, maybe we don't known all nuances of hemalurgy and this characteristics can be stolen, but from unusual binding points. Also hemalurgical qualities of alloys of atium and lerasium still totally unknown.
Oudeis he/him Posted August 20, 2015 Author Posted August 20, 2015 Actaully, while there are several metals we know nothing about hemalurgically, we do know that atium can be used to steal any attribute.
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