Tesh Any pronouns Posted August 18, 2017 Posted August 18, 2017 Can allomancers (Iron and steel mistings or mistborn) push or pull on a shardblade or shardplate?
2 +Extesian he/him Posted August 18, 2017 Posted August 18, 2017 (edited) It counts as metal for allomantic purposes, but it's very hard. Investiture resists investiture and Shardblades are extremely invested. Sharplate a bit less so but still high. Here's a great description. Perhaps a duralumin push/pull would. But I have my doubts. Maybe TLR with duralumin or a lerasium mistborn with it. Quote Interview: Mar 29th, 2014 WOR Signing Report - Herowannabe (Verbatim) Herowannabe I’m curious, I’ve got a list of various cosmere bits of metal, and I wonder if you would rank them from like 1 to 10 or easy to difficult on how hard it would be to steelpush on them? Brandon Sanderson Okay. Herowannabe So, like metal inside a person’s body? Brandon Sanderson It depends on how strong the investiture in them is. Herowannabe Is that going to be the answer for all of these? Brandon Sanderson Probably. Herowannabe How about a spike charged with Hemalurgy? Not in a person. Brandon Sanderson Not in a person? It depends on how strong—yeah. A spike is moderately—in the realm of these sorts of things—moderately easy to push on, because a spike does not rip off very much investiture. Only enough to short circuit the soul, and it loses that over time. So I would put that at the bottom—with the top being very hard—to be one of the easier things. Herowannabe How about a metalmind? A feruchemy metalmind that is "full." Brandon Sanderson That is going to be middle of the realm. Generally easier than, for instance, a shardblade, which is going to be very hard. Aaradel But a shardblade isn’t actual metal. Ish? Brandon Sanderson Ish. Is Lerasium a metal? Yeah. Herowannabe So would that be the same for Shardplate, too? Brandon Sanderson Shardplate and blade are very hard. Blade is probably going to be harder. [...] Herowannabe Halfshard? Like a halfshard shield? Brandon Sanderson Halfshard shield is going to be in moderate. Herowannabe Nightblood? I imagine is going to be very difficult. Brandon Sanderson Very hard. Of all the things you’ve listed, he’s the hardest. Far beyond even a shardblade. Herowannabe Far beyond metal inside a person? Brandon Sanderson Yes, depending on how invested the person is. Aaradel If someone was invested as much as Nightblood I’m pretty sure it’s going to be very difficult. Brandon Sanderson Yes, for instance, the Godking, at the end, with all of those Breaths. Pushing on something inside of him? Getting through all that? Gonna be REAL hard. Average person on Scadrial? You’ve seen how hard that is. A drab? Much easier. Herowannabe That was actually going to be my next one- No, sorry, not a drab, a Lifeless. Brandon Sanderson A Lifeless. Lifeless are kinda weird, because they’ve had their soul leave, but then they’ve had a replacement stuck in, in the form of Breath, which puts them in a really weird position compared to a Drab, which has had part of their investiture ripped away, but the majority of it remains. So anyway, I’m going to give you one more. Pick your favorite. Herowannabe Okay, a soul-stamped piece of metal. Brandon Sanderson A soul-stamped piece of metal is going to be on the lower, easier side. Not a lot of investiture going on in a soulstamp Edited August 18, 2017 by Extesian 1
0 King Cole he/him Posted August 18, 2017 Posted August 18, 2017 6 minutes ago, Tesh said: Can allomancers (Iron and steel mistings or mistborn) push or pull on a shardblade or shardplate? Darn, you know what I'm planning
0 Tesh Any pronouns Posted August 18, 2017 Author Posted August 18, 2017 13 minutes ago, King Cole said: Darn, you know what I'm planning No, this is a serious question. It has nothing to do with the Knights of the Cosmere, (Thanks for the hint, by the way). I actually really want to know the answer.
0 Faceless Mist-Wraith he/him Posted August 18, 2017 Posted August 18, 2017 They are fairly resistant to allomancy, though if duralumin is used it should be possible.
0 Nathrangking he/him Posted August 18, 2017 Posted August 18, 2017 AS the WoB points out that theoretically it would be possible but it would not be an easy task as @Faceless Mist-Wraith points out Duralumin might just tip the odds in your favor and make it possible if just for a moment.
0 Tesh Any pronouns Posted August 19, 2017 Author Posted August 19, 2017 Thank you all for your replies. I've been wondering this for a while now.
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