Fabrial Ideas

[Seeker861]

I think fabrials are one of the coolest parts of the Stormlight Archive so I decided to make a post to see what everyone thinks is possible with fabrials. Some of my own ideas include:

1. A fabrial railgun that would function in a reverse manner to the attraction fabrials we have seen.
2. A shield that can repel projectiles.
3. A spaceship that uses the Gravitation Surge.
4. Videochatting with an Illumination fabrial
5. A train that uses repelling and Abrasion fabrials

I also think that the pouch Dalinar sees on the Radiant in his vision holds a fabrial that attracts Stormlight so they can recycle what they use in their lashings. 

[The One Who Connects he/him]

Upvote for creativity. I fully imagine that there are more types of Fabrials than the 3(5?) types we've seen, so there's all manner of things that could be done

I really don't know how you could manage a railgun, but I'm thinking with pairing fabrials though. However it gets done, the repelling shield would probably work on the same principle, just with less launching force for safety reasons. Videochat with Illumination

What pouch are you referring to? I only remember mention of a healing Fabrial in one of his visions, but my memory may be spotty

[Seeker861]

@The One Who ConnectsThe pouch is on the Radiant in his vision in the Purelake. It doesn't seem all that important but Brandon RAFO'd it when someone asked what was inside it.

[The One Who Connects he/him]

3 hours ago, Seeker861 said:

@The One Who ConnectsThe pouch is on the Radiant in his vision in the Purelake. It doesn't seem all that important but Brandon RAFO'd it when someone asked what was inside it.

Oh. Wrong vision then, my bad. However, I still don't know if you can make a Fabrial that attracts Stormlight, partly because of why Stormlight leaks to begin with and because magical forms of free energy always seem contrived. It is a clever idea though, so full marks for that

[kenod]

4 hours ago, Seeker861 said:

@The One Who ConnectsThe pouch is on the Radiant in his vision in the Purelake. It doesn't seem all that important but Brandon RAFO'd it when someone asked what was inside it.

Maybe it serves for capturing and manipulating Spren?

Seeing that they were chasing a Spren that was spying on them (not sure what happened exactly, need to reread it) and Dalinar was wondering what they would do against it.

Edited September 28, 2016 by kenod
Messed up my spoiler tags

[Seeker861]

On 9/28/2016 at 4:50 PM, kenod said:

Maybe it serves for capturing and manipulating Spren?

 

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Seeing that they were chasing a Spren that was spying on them (not sure what happened exactly, need to reread it) and Dalinar was wondering what they would do against it.

 

I like this. It definitely sounds possible.