Theory Development Center

[Silverblade5 he/him]

Most of you that know me know that on the rare occasion that I come up with a theory, it's normally like David's plans. The idea might be good, but lacks development. That's why I decided to create this thread. The purpose of this thread is to give people a place to pitch their ideas, then pass them off to someone else for further development. To kick thing off, I recently had an idea of the behavior of investiture being like the behavior of a circuit that I'm going to leave in spoilers below.

 

Imagine that investiture was like the behavior of electricity in a circuit. Think of each shardworld as an electric circuit, each Shard of Adonalsium as a power source, and each invested object as either a resistor or capacitor. When used passively, the invested object acts as a capacitor, storing the charge. When used actively and intentionally, it becomes a resistor, where the amount of investiture a person has is a voltage, the inverse of a person's ability to access their investiture is a resistance, and the amount a person can use their investiture to change and interact with the world around them is a current.

 

Earlier, I said that circuits could be used to model a shardworld. Scadrial could be modeled by a circuit in a series. While the amount investiture each person has varies, their ability to use it to interact with the world around them is generally consistent. Nalthis could be modeled by a circuit in parallel. Each person in born with the same amount of investiture. However, their ability to use it to interact with their surroundings is only limited by their imagination.