Glaring at the Survivor he/him Posted January 29, 2016 Posted January 29, 2016 Is it possible that you could use hemalurgy without killing someone? If you either did a surgical operation and a needle passed through the heart without killing them (somehow), or, more likely, you did something like passing metal through a gold compounder's heart (and they healed from it, as TLR did in the original trilogy[/spoiler), would the metal still have that feruchemic power? Is death necessary?
Moogle Posted January 29, 2016 Posted January 29, 2016 Yes. QuestionHemalurgy, does the person having the metal shoved through them have to die?Brandon SandersonIt has to rip off a piece of their soul. That normally results in death.QuestionBecause I'm thinking you're going a bit into the future, surgery, precise things like that...Brandon SandersonIt's plausible but-- I mean it would leave the person like-- It's ripping off a piece of their soul. But the same thing happens when you give up your Breath. So you're giving up a piece of your soul. There are-- It's plausible you could take off pieces of a soul without killing the person.(source) 1
Oversleep Posted January 29, 2016 Posted January 29, 2016 (edited) Death is not necessary, there is a WoB out there; somebody asked if in the future with precise surgery and such it would be able to spike people without killing them and Brandon confirmed it possible.The thing is, Hemalurgy rips out a portion of soul and the person spiked would suffer damage like not being able to pass into afterlife after dying (I am not 100% on that one).EDIT: ninja'd by Moogle with the very WoB I was talking about. Edited January 29, 2016 by Oversleep
Weltall Posted February 1, 2016 Posted February 1, 2016 Was there something about no afterlife for people missing bits of their soul? I know that Drabs aren't normally able to become Returned* but I'm not sure that's the same thing. It could be that Endowment simply can't deliberately grant a Divine Breath to someone who doesn't have at least one regular Breath, because Investiture. * Though Brandon did say that if Endowment tried to Return someone who was immediately made a Lifeless, you'd wind up with all kinds of craziness and a 'Drab God' so... who knows.
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