Theory: The Set are using trellium-based "partial hemalurgy"

[+Extesian he/him]

6 hours ago, Erinzard said:

I think someone recently asked Brandon at a signing if those constructs had something spiked in or spiked out. I'll try to find it and link it, but I'm pretty sure the answer was "spiked in."

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TERVIEW: Dec 6th, 2016

Herald Washington Library Center-AU Tour (Paraphrased)

QUESTION

The hemalurgic constructs in Shadows of Self, are they as twisted as they are because something was spiked into them, or because something was spiked out?

BRANDON SANDERSON

Something spiked in. RAFO on the spiked out part, but nobody knows how to spike something out of someone without killing them, so most likely just spiked in

 

[Erinzard]

On 2/4/2017 at 6:36 PM, Extesian said:

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That's the one! Thank you. I'm still trying to get used to comment board how-to and etiquette. 

[+robardin he/him]

On 1/31/2017 at 10:03 AM, Jofwu said:

Writing about it is only a short step away from doing it. He very well may have.

Ah, now I remember I had a comment about that speculation, which was that musing about the utility of such a policy in his private notebook was not the same as implementing the policy as the Lord Mistborn, because clearly he did not do so: the knowledge and practice of hemalurgy was not, in fact, promulgated during or since his reign.