Szmit Posted July 30, 2016 Posted July 30, 2016 (edited) There is a WoB that hemalurgy can work on animals. That makes me belive that if somebody stole human aspect like strength, he could give it to an animal. But how faar can it go? Could it be posssible to stal an aspect from animal and give it to another one,? Maybe someone could even steal it from animals and give it to humans? If it would be possible people could farm animals for their hemalurgic strength of body and senses by creating blessings similar to ones made from kandra. It would be also possible to create incredibly strong hounds or horses, with impresive senses. We could make diffrent animals more loyal with zinc spikes made from dogs (preferably these ones who are so old or sick that should be put to sleep), or improwe their mental capabilities with copper spikes. It would open a whole new ways of changing human body considering how much a kandra can do regardless of what hemalurgical charge is in their spikes. Do you think it is possible? What else could be made with these capabilities? Edited July 30, 2016 by Szmit Wrong acronim
Oversleep Posted July 30, 2016 Posted July 30, 2016 (edited) Did you read Shadows of Self? It touches these things a little. There is a topic briefly discussing those things, but it's quite spoilery: (BoM spoilers) <br /> Also, I think you meant WoB (Word of Brandon), not BoM (Bands of Mourning). Just heads up Anyway, animal Hemalurgy is something I'm looking forward to very much. I mean, it's mostly guilt-free - no need to kill humans. Some very interesting chimaeras could be made. Although I'm afraid that speaking humans with animal attributes could lead to unwanted effects, like making the recipient animalistic or beast-like. Edited July 30, 2016 by Oversleep
Stormgate he/him Posted July 30, 2016 Posted July 30, 2016 Not speaking as a member, (I am not), would you like to join the Dark Alley?
Radiant Returned he/him Posted July 30, 2016 Posted July 30, 2016 Different story but your description immediately made me think "Ryshadium?"
DeadFencer Posted July 30, 2016 Posted July 30, 2016 Stealing attributes like strength does weird thing to humans. It basically causes madness in them. Only kandra, which aren't sentient without the stolen attributes, can have those spikes without going mad.
king of nowhere Posted July 30, 2016 Posted July 30, 2016 there is the little problem that hemalurgy attach part of a soul to another soul. i'd surmise giving a human a spike made from an animal would result in madness.
Szmit Posted July 30, 2016 Author Posted July 30, 2016 Thank you @Oversleep for noticing my mistake. spoilers (kinda) to SoS Spoiler I read it, but I have a bad tendency to skip many descriptions while I'm invested in action. I assume you are talking about hybrids... do you say they were animals, or do I overthink your words? I think I have to reread that moment soon. About effects of transplanting soul parts from animals to humans - I belive that incapable transplantation would have terryfing side effects, hut I think that if you had a help of Harmony (or an awful lot of practise) you could transfer strenght or senses very purely. I have also a theory that if you used dozens of weakly charged spikes from diffrent kinds of animals you could ballance out side efects, so you would end up with stable and reasonable outcome, although probably phisiologicaly diffrent than humans. (But to make something like that and countereffect the weakening of mind due to many changes, you would have to also include zinc and copper spikes, what would have interesting changes in your psychology).
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