Djarskublar he/him Posted October 26, 2016 Posted October 26, 2016 Before anything else, assume there is no Ruin in this scenario. We don't need the potential corruption. Assume we have some average Scadrialian. They worldhop to Nalthis and aquire the fifth Heightening for agelessness. They come back to Scadrial, and for whatever reason, Preservation's Vessel starts funneling them beads of Lerasium as fast as possible. They need agelessness so we can ignore any time constraints. Brandon has said that if you burned enough Lerasium to become a savant, that is what Ascention basically is. But! What if the current Vessel is still alive? Once this random person has burned enough Lerasium to become a savant, and is supposed to Ascend, what happens? Do we get something of a Shardic cagefight where the two mentally compete for control of the Shard? Does the person just die because they don't get the mental expansion of Ascention? Seriously, this is something we should ask him, but I want to see other's thoughts before posting it to the questions thread. 1
Spoolofwhool Posted October 26, 2016 Posted October 26, 2016 (edited) It's possible for someone to ascend using a shard's power while the actual shardholder is still alive. That's what happened to Rashek after all. As best as I can tell, drawing on the power of the Well of Ascension is the same as burning enough lerasium to ascend; equivalent amounts of Preservation's power. However, at that level, the power does dissipate back to Preservation, so you don't stay ascended for long. The main body of the power is still attached to the vessel, so I don't think there would be an actual contest over it, unless the ascended got a significant portion of it. But I honestly doubt that possibility. It's not like Rashek actually had a chance of pulling away the rest of Preservation's power and Preservation didn't even have the mind to resist it. Edited October 26, 2016 by Spoolofwhool 1
PallonianFire he/him Posted October 26, 2016 Posted October 26, 2016 5 hours ago, Spoolofwhool said: That's what happened to Rashek after all. As best as I can tell, drawing on the power of the Well of Ascension is the same as burning enough lerasium to ascend; equivalent amounts of Preservation's power. However, at that level, the power does dissipate back to Preservation, so you don't stay ascended for long. Yeah, I imagine the person burning the lerasium would become a sliver once it was all burned up.
Spoolofwhool Posted October 26, 2016 Posted October 26, 2016 1 hour ago, PallonianFire said: Yeah, I imagine the person burning the lerasium would become a sliver once it was all burned up. Most likely, since Rashek became a sliver after he ascended.
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