Djarskublar he/him Posted February 5, 2016 Posted February 5, 2016 So seeing the Bands got me thinking. It was not an alloyed metal with a little of everything. It was a set of 16 metals conglomerated into one item. It probably looks pretty cool for one thing, but then I had some thoughts. Since there are several things, but they aren't really long ideas, I will just use one thread. If you took something similar to the Bands in construction, and used it as a Hemalurgic spike through the heart, would you be able to steal all the powers of a mistborn? It makes some sense, but I think it would have been tried before. I am just wondering if anyone else thinks that it would work that way. If it does... wow. It might just pick one of the powers at random instead though. I am not terribly willing to try it out on a full mistborn, though. Second idea, if you were a full Lerasium mistborn, and then got a steelpush spike in both the heart and the (eye? I don't know what that bind point is, but eyes sounds right based on Marsh's description of his sight). What would you be able to see? How powerful do you have to be to be able to see what Wax saw with the Bands? What if you added a steelpush medallion? I want this btw. This, or the same thing with speed bubbles. Because then I would be livin' 25 hours a day. XD Third, I was reading on the overpowered combo thread, and I realized that the most powerful combos would almost always include spiking Lift. Unfortunately, now I really want Lift to pick up some spikes and do some awesome stuff, and that will likely never happen. The more I think about it, the better she gets. Easy creation of intelligent awakened objects. If she is burning fat stores off selectively, she could do a duralumin burn, and then just metabolize more Investiture. Or run a steady metabolizing stream to have a constant duralumin burn just cuz lolz. She could do things with quantities of Investiture not easily available to really anyone else. The only thing is that she wouldn't want to be an Elantrian, it is too hard to convert raw investiture into aons. (I could find the WoB on that, but I have to work fairly soon and I don't want to get stuck reading through the logs again XD) Thoughts? 1
natc Posted February 5, 2016 Posted February 5, 2016 The heart isn't just one flexible bind point for stealing, if I recall correctly. Individual parts of the heart bind different things, all bunched up in a single conveniently-stabbable organ.
Weltall Posted February 5, 2016 Posted February 5, 2016 If you took something similar to the Bands in construction, and used it as a Hemalurgic spike through the heart, would you be able to steal all the powers of a mistborn? It makes some sense, but I think it would have been tried before. One spike, one attribute, has to be placed in the right bind point. If hemalurgy works like the other Metallic Arts (and I think we have WoB that it does in this respect) then using a spike that's not properly one of the sixteen should either do nothing or kill the recipient. Second idea, if you were a full Lerasium mistborn, and then got a steelpush spike in both the heart and the (eye? I don't know what that bind point is, but eyes sounds right based on Marsh's description of his sight). What would you be able to see? How powerful do you have to be to be able to see what Wax saw with the Bands? I imagine you'd need to be a Savant in steel and/or iron at the very least, though some of the other stuff makes it sound like you might need something more. Like, 'looking into the Spiritual Realm' level of power. Which we know you can do with Duralumin+Atium. Unfortunately, now I really want Lift to pick up some spikes and do some awesome stuff, and that will likely never happen. Are you trying to imply that what Lift already does isn't a manifestation of Awesomeness?
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