Irkutsk he/him Posted January 25, 2016 Posted January 25, 2016 So Feruchemical Aluminum stores Identity. This is not well understood. But, I was thinking about how Identity affects other magic systems, and I realized that soulcasting is essentially convincing an object that it is something else on the cognitive level, so it follows that an object with a stronger sense of Identity would resist soulcasting. So, would it be possible for a worldhopping Aluminum Ferring to protect themselves from being Soulcast by tapping Identity? It seems this could be a useful ability, more so than I previously thought. Another system that seems to make use of Identity is forgery, from The Emperor's Soul. Soulstamps apparently wear off after a while because your spirit rejects the stamp as it realizes the imprinted "history" in the stamp is not true. Could a Ferring store Identity to make a stamp last longer, or perhaps even use another person's stamps? It seems that as they store Identity, they would be sort of a "blank slate," which would allow them to be much more radical with the changes made in SoulForging. Thoughts?
KSub Posted January 26, 2016 Posted January 26, 2016 You missed the best use of that skill. In order to use aon dor you need to have a connection to elantris. If you worldhopped to sel and have the power to instantly create a connection to elantris...
Oversleep Posted January 26, 2016 Posted January 26, 2016 You missed the best use of that skill. In order to use aon dor you need to have a connection to elantris. If you worldhopped to sel and have the power to instantly create a connection to elantris... But it doesn't work that way. Storing duralumin could be helpful in such a thing, but in no way could "create" a connection to Sel.
Irkutsk he/him Posted January 26, 2016 Author Posted January 26, 2016 You missed the best use of that skill. In order to use aon dor you need to have a connection to elantris. If you worldhopped to sel and have the power to instantly create a connection to elantris... That's duralumin. I'm talking about Aluminum, which stores Identity, not connection. Besides, I'm not sure you could connect to Elantris like that.
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