Charlie.x.3000 Posted January 29, 2016 Report Share Posted January 29, 2016 Can a allomancer burn one of those medallions for enhanced tapping? Seems like it should be able to work. So you could use a medallion that granted say A. Steel, and eat a speed medallion for more speed than was stored? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natc Posted January 29, 2016 Report Share Posted January 29, 2016 And you'll get all the speed over the period the medallion would burn at, with non of the flexibility you would have with actual steel compounding. Besides, you can't burn nicrosil as a coinshot, so good luck with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ari he/him Posted January 29, 2016 Report Share Posted January 29, 2016 (edited) Can a allomancer burn one of those medallions for enhanced tapping? Seems like it should be able to work. So you could use a medallion that granted say A. Steel, and eat a speed medallion for more speed than was stored? You're thinking about this wrong. You want to feed those medallions to a nicrosil compounder. Seriously though, I don't see why you couldn't tap a Nicrosilmind created in a similar fashion and use it to compound unlocked metalminds with compatible investiture. But as Natc says, you'd really need a feruchemical steel medallion to moderate the flow of speed at all, so the use is limited to the sorts of situations a Mistborn would want to pewterdrag. Edited January 29, 2016 by Ari Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fyodor Posted January 29, 2016 Report Share Posted January 29, 2016 I think that Brandon said somewhere that you can cut off part of a metalmind. Maybe you take a piece off periodically burn shavings to fill the rest? You don't need to burn the nicrosil- tapping the Nicrosil gives you the ability to store the burned steel or gold or whatnot. And you'll get all the speed over the period the medallion would burn at, with non of the flexibility you would have with actual steel compounding.Besides, you can't burn nicrosil as a coinshot, so good luck with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natc Posted January 29, 2016 Report Share Posted January 29, 2016 You're missing the point. The medallions all have nicrosil in them. Swallowing that and not being able to burn it sounds . . . bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie.x.3000 Posted January 30, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 Who said you needed to swallow the nicrosil? Just shave off the steel bits of the speed metalmind and burn those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pagerunner he/him Posted January 30, 2016 Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 Yeah, if you're able to give people whatever powers you want using medallions, it should be easy to give someone a matching set of Allomancy and Feruchemy and let them compound whatever they feel like. I've been wondering about this for the past few days, as well. Then, I remembered - Compounding is a hack of the magic system. It involves drawing Investiture into your body through burning metal (Allomancy), then passing that Investiture into your Feruchemical storage. However, if you're using a medallion, maybe things don't align quite right for you to be able to hack it in that way? Maybe you would need to pass that Investiture through the nicrosilmind to convert it from one form to another, and the medallion blocks the change of energy? Hemalurgy allows you to Compound with the new powers, but it also grafts those powers directly onto your Spiritweb, twisting you and changing you. If the medallions don't have side-effects like spikes, it would mean they're not altering your Spiritweb, and not truly "giving" you the ability you're using, but letting you use it out of the Nicrosilmind. That slight difference might be enough to prevent Compounding. So, TL:DR version: Yeah, if they're smart, everyone with medallions should be Compounding their butts off. Maybe medallions aren't able to Compound? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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