Stormgate he/him Posted March 21, 2016 Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 The medallions the Southern Scadrians possess temporarily grant Metalborn powers. If someone swallowed a blank Nicrosil metalmind with Allomantic nicrosil in it, would they be able to keep the power? And would the power be stronger, having been Compounded? This makes sense to me, but this technique should let all Southern Scadrians have the powers without the medallions. So, why don't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king of nowhere Posted March 21, 2016 Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 why would swallowing a medalllion grant a permanent power? you'd just have a medallion inside your stomach, then inside your intestine, then yoou'd lose your medalllion. for all that time, you'd be unable to use other medallions. Not a good deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natc Posted March 22, 2016 Report Share Posted March 22, 2016 Also, compounding it would probably make it run out even faster since the metalmind is now gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormgate he/him Posted March 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2016 I'm asking if an unkeyed Allomantic nicrosil metalmind (an unkeyed metalmind with Allomantic nicrosil on it) could be burned and Compounded by someone to grant permanent Allomancy. It mainly comes down to whether or not someone who stores Metalborn powers in a nicrosil metalmind looses the power permanently, or for the duration of the storing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natc Posted March 22, 2016 Report Share Posted March 22, 2016 Compiunding only does exactly what feruchemy does. If normal nicrosil clearly doesn't (Wax isn't fullborn) then there's no reason that should help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king of nowhere Posted March 22, 2016 Report Share Posted March 22, 2016 ah, you were trying to burn it. then i would still say no. you'd get the power more strongly while you're burning because of compounding, but you would consume the metal of the medallion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jag519 he/him Posted April 8, 2016 Report Share Posted April 8, 2016 Yeah, what everyone else said. You'd have a lot of investiture while you burn it, more than you'd get from tapping the full metalmind but it wouldn't last for ever. You would be able to store more of a nicrosil metalmind though, so you might actually be able to make yourself a perm nicrosil fering, but i think that would work without compounding. but now i'm wondering about making yourself a fering. haha off to making my own thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr42 he/him Posted April 11, 2016 Report Share Posted April 11, 2016 I'd say jag519 is right. By burning an invested nicrosil metalmind you would get a lot investiture, but you have to store it again in another nicrosil metalmind. If you have enough nicrosil, you could repeat it again and again and again...If I remember right, that's the way TLR gained his “eternal“ life (by storing youth). I'm wondering if having so much investiture is in a way similar to burning duralumin. Beeing a more powerful Allomancer means that you're able to get more power out of the same amount of metal or being able to burn more metal at the same time, I'm not sure about that. For example a Fullborn could store his investiture over years and tap the nicrosil metalmind in a fight to get the whole investiture he stored in one moment. Depending on how investiture affects your abilities as an Allomancer he could burn all of his steel for a powerful push (note that he can still decide how much he wants to burn, which is a huge advantage over duralumin) or he would be able to burn just a small amount of his steel and also creates an extremly powerful push (if it works this way there is nearly no limitation to the force of the push, not to mention other Allomancy) Sorry for running of the topic...is there already any thread about this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenod Posted April 12, 2016 Report Share Posted April 12, 2016 (edited) Couldn't he also just tap it? Tapping would give the ability to use it all in one go, burning it seems like it would just give the same rate of investure as he would get when burning the normal metal. Explanation: Burning a metalmind gives you the same investure as you stored in it but with Preservation's power as the source, storing allomantic abilities stores the investure you get when burning metal IIRC, so basically when you burn it you are getting Preservation's power, just like when burning the original metal. Edited April 12, 2016 by kenod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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