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Can you become Savant by burning Feruchemical charged metals?


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Say you are a double Steel Twinborn. If you were to store Speed into Steel, you would be creating a new "Allomantic metal" right? So if you were to burn enough of that charged steel, would you become a savant?

 

It's been a while, but I believe Miles lost the ability to feel pain. Was this ever explained? If not, that seems very much like a savant ability.  

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Is there a functional difference between steel savant and speed savant? I mean, savantism is widening the cracks in the soul in the region coresponding to the metal you burn which allow to flow Investiture in.

So when the power flows in because you're burning steel, there wouldn't be any difference to your soul up until the moment when Investiture gets through Feruchemical filter, which results in huge burst of Feruchemical speed.

I believe there was a WoB that it's much harder to become Feruchemical savant because Feruchemy is about internal power flow, so there is no damage to your spiritweb . It's because Allomancy has upper power limit while Feruchemy hasn't - in Allomancy, if you push the limit long enough, it moves further - you become what we call a savant. But in Feruchemy you can draw absolutely insane amounts of power at ease (though some of the power is lost in overtapping, because you're drawing more power than it's natural - maybe if you overtap long and hard enough, you can minimize the amount of power lost). Maybe that's what Feruchemy savantism is.

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Well there should be a difference. Tin savantism results in the allomancer being physically dysfunctional in all aspects affected by tin. The side effects of the damage appear to be metal-specific. While both forms of tin do deal with senses in some fashion, both forms of steel are completely different.

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Say you are a double Steel Twinborn. If you were to store Speed into Steel, you would be creating a new "Allomantic metal" right? So if you were to burn enough of that charged steel, would you become a savant?

 

It's been a while, but I believe Miles lost the ability to feel pain. Was this ever explained? If not, that seems very much like a savant ability.  

 

Eventually, if you get hurt enough, your body numbs to pain, especially if you had high pain tolerance in the first place.

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Well there should be a difference. Tin savantism results in the allomancer being physically dysfunctional in all aspects affected by tin. The side effects of the damage appear to be metal-specific. While both forms of tin do deal with senses in some fashion, both forms of steel are completely different.

But maybe the Feruchemical charge is more "compatible" (from its origin as Human's Investiture) with the user and will no change your anatomy.

 

Something like be exposed to a foreign effect VS your own biological (or Cognitive/Spiritual) function.

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I think it might be possible, but it makes me wonder: If a feruchemist were to fill, say his Ironmind, constantly and unconsciously, at a constant rate, will his body adapt to the lesser weight, and if so, does that count as a Feruchemical Savant?

 

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1 minute ago, Saikyk said:

I think it might be possible, but it makes me wonder: If a feruchemist were to fill, say his Ironmind, constantly and unconsciously, at a constant rate, will his body adapt to the lesser weight, and if so, does that count as a Feruchemical Savant?

That takes time to do, and isn't nearly a large enough change to be counted as as Savanthood.

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On 5/7/2016 at 1:34 PM, shadowwisp said:

Say you are a double Steel Twinborn. If you were to store Speed into Steel, you would be creating a new "Allomantic metal" right? So if you were to burn enough of that charged steel, would you become a savant?

 

It's been a while, but I believe Miles lost the ability to feel pain. Was this ever explained? If not, that seems very much like a savant ability.  

Actually, I think they said it was "Like creating a new metal". Don't mind me. Just reread it and noticed. Pointing it out. 

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