UpLifted he/him Posted February 9, 2017 Report Share Posted February 9, 2017 In BoM MeLaan states clearly that Kandra cannot reproduce. My question is, while they might not be able to make more Kandra, since that requires spikes which were used to kill people, can they reproduce in the human sense. If MeLaan can imitate Marasi's blood type, and do a host of other unbelievable things to her body such as forming keys out of flesh and bone, can't she make an egg which can be fertilized. Heck, she can make the egg and sperm herself and self-fertilize. If she can imitate human genetics, can't she reproduce like humans as well? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferumancer Posted February 9, 2017 Report Share Posted February 9, 2017 (edited) For MeLaan to recreate Marasi's blood, she needed to "eat" some of it first. In order to make an egg and sperm, she would need examples to copy off of, so it would be easier to just make the child normally Edited February 9, 2017 by Ferumancer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpLifted he/him Posted February 9, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2017 Perhaps, but in theory it could be done. If anything what you are saying lends support to this theory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cometaryorbit Posted February 10, 2017 Report Share Posted February 10, 2017 One would think... if they can control their immune systems, make human blood, etc. there doesn't seem to be much they couldn't do biologically. OTOH, they can't make bones or even hair, which is weird since these are produced by cells in the human body, and if they can replicate human cells... Sure hair is dead, but it's made by living cells, which kandra ought to be able to replicate. It would take time, but it ought to be possible. The bones/hair limitation might be a Cognitive limit on something otherwise fundamentally possible, like happens with magical healing. Or maybe the kandra just haven't figured out how to manage it yet, but could. In SoS/BoM they seem significantly more capable than in the first trilogy - I think they've experimented and learned a lot since the Catacendre. OTOH, that's probably a dangerous road to go down story-wise, else the kandra would become absurdly powerful. Given how quickly kandra can assimilate and transform biomass (TenSoon built up to horse mass really fast), the ability to replicate just any biological product would have let Paalm poison pretty much everybody in Elendel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackYeti he/him Posted February 10, 2017 Report Share Posted February 10, 2017 It has been confirmed that they can do this. Quote QUESTION If a Kandra and a human were to have a baby, what would that baby be like? BRANDON SANDERSON I would say that right now… It would depend. The kandra would have to remain in human form, keep the same body, and then would give birth to a human. If it was a woman [human] with a man [kandra], it wouldn’t be that big of a deal, with a kandra. Does that make sense? QUESTION Yeah. BRANDON SANDERSON Because when the kandra is in human form, they can identically recreate the bodily functions and things if they want to. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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