Gagylpus he/him Posted February 19, 2016 Posted February 19, 2016 So, the southern scadrians seem to have some way of granting feruchemical (and probably also allomantic) abilities to anyone, using nicrosilminds. It has also been noted that nicrosil ferrings are called "Soulbearers", leading to the postulate that nicrosilminds might be able to store someone's innate investiture, the spark of life that is related to giving people sapience, making them, well, people. We also know that in the future, Mistborn is going sci-fi, and one of the celebrated tropes of science fiction is the "uplifting" of animals, giving them human levels of intelligence and then recognizing them as sapient persons. So could it be possible to store a little bit of your innate investiture in an unkeyed nicrosilmind, expand it through compounding, and then give this nicrosilmind and a medallion granting nicrosil feruchemy and allomancy to an animal, thereby allowing them to tap the innate investiture, become sapient, and keep their nicrosilminds filled (and sustaining their sapience) through compounding?! 1
Kurkistan he/him Posted February 19, 2016 Posted February 19, 2016 So long as the animals are cats, I have no principled objection to the idea. Depends a lot on the details of how Feruchemical nicrosil works. 1
Landis963 he/him Posted February 19, 2016 Posted February 19, 2016 Assuming of course that the animal in question is sapient enough to understand the command "tap the metalmind" and willing enough to follow through with it. Going by stereotypes, dogs would disqualified by the former requirement, while cats (sorry Kurk) would be disqualified by the latter.
natc Posted February 20, 2016 Posted February 20, 2016 (edited) Mistborn gorillas and dolphins are a go. Edited February 20, 2016 by natc 1
Fallen Rope he/him Posted February 21, 2016 Posted February 21, 2016 Rise of the planet of the allomantic apes? 3
mullman Posted February 22, 2016 Posted February 22, 2016 Now i want to see king kong attempting to fly around new york. Or an ape that's also a pewter compounder.
Stormgate he/him Posted February 23, 2016 Posted February 23, 2016 Oh don't you even. An ape trying to fly around would destroy the city faster and more effectively than King Kong ever did. As for a pewter compounder... Some men just want to watch apes burn (pewter). 2
echaozh he/him Posted February 25, 2016 Posted February 25, 2016 What about commanding some Lifeless to tap a metalmind? What about awakening a metalmind by commanding it to tap itself? 1
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