Spoolofwhool Posted October 5, 2016 Posted October 5, 2016 8 hours ago, Kingsdaughter613 said: 2) In allomancy, hemalurgy and feruchemy Atium Has a spiritual effect. In allomancy Lerasium has a spiritual effect. Therefore Lerasium should probably do something spiritual in hemalurgy and feruchemy. Lerasium has only been confirmed to have a spritual side effect. We don't actually know what its actual allomantic power is, just that it can turn people into allomancers as a side effect. Nonetheless, I think this is a good idea. 8 hours ago, Kingsdaughter613 said: 4) Atium allomancy gets its power from the investiture inherent in the metal, as opposed to the other metals which act as a key. Thus, Lerasium hemalurgy should also take its power from the metal. This may actually result in the spike degrading faster, but we don't know enough. The thing is, atium allomancy isn't drawing power from investiture in the metal, it's drawing power from the investiture which is solidified into the metal. This power is released when atium is burned. As such, I don't think lerasium hemalurgy would draw any power from the lerasium making up the spike, as that would require the physical metal to be converted back into investiture, which I don't see happening naturally. Also, I don't think hemalurgy requires an outside source of investiture to occur, unlike allomancy. 8 hours ago, Kingsdaughter613 said: my guess is that a Lerasium spike would steal the extra bit of Preservation that gives sentience to the people of Scadrial. So it would basically steal the capacity for intelligent thought... which is kind of awesome. Copper steal intelligence and memory according to the coppermind, but I have a feeling that that is sourced from MAG which may not be entirely accurate. I suppose the capacity for sapience is a bit different, but not really I think, not enough to be an entirely different metal. I'm thinking more of a possibility would be that lerasium steals connection, something which could be fairly powerful in the right hands.
Kingsdaughter613 she/her Posted October 5, 2016 Posted October 5, 2016 My understanding is that the God metals are solid investiture, the pools are liquid investiture and the mists are gaseous investiture. We do know what Lerasium does; it rewrites the spirit web. I've seen that WoB somewhere... I'm terrible at finding these things again though... I actually have a crazy idea that Scadrians are basically splinters of Preservation, as Preservation's investiture is what gives them sentience. And what is a Splinter, but sentient investiture? (It's on my list of questions to ask Brandon if he ever comes to the Big Apple.) I do see sentience as a lot more than just memory, or even basic reason. Animals have that, but we wouldn't call them sentient. The ability to abstract perhaps? To think beyond the present and immediate future? The stealing of sentience is a side effect though. My theory is that the Spike would steal the splinter of Preservation that gives Sentience to the people of Scadrial. It wouldn't necessarily effect memory and intelligence. But without the ability to conceive at anything beyond a basic animalistic level a Scadrian spiking survivor would basically be a human mist wraith. I'm not sure what that would imply on a non-Scadrian though.
Yata he/him Posted October 5, 2016 Posted October 5, 2016 35 minutes ago, Spoolofwhool said: Lerasium has only been confirmed to have a spritual side effect. We don't actually know what its actual allomantic power is, just that it can turn people into allomancers as a side effect. Nonetheless, I think this is a good idea. Lerasium's Allomantic power is "rewrite Spirit Web". The "turn into Mistborn" is just a side effect of burning Lerasium without any actual purpose or skill and happen simply because without any purpose the Lerasium by default rewrite your Connection to Preservation more powerful...and this has as side effect to give the Allomancy to the damnation lucky guy who eat it
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