Sirscott13 Posted February 19, 2014 Report Share Posted February 19, 2014 So suppose you were to soul stamp yourself to change your identity, but then you used feruchemy to store that sense of identity. You do this repeatedly with a soul stamp and store the identity. Could you use this identity stored to change your abilities at a whim? For example you soul stamp yourself so that you are a warrior, store that, then stamp yourself the next day you stamped yourself to be an expert marksman, then stored that. You did this with many different identities so that during a battle you could just tap the metal mind and change in and out of a different identity with different skills. One moment you are a monk who kicks but with his bare hands, then you pick up a sword, tap a swordsman skill and slice a few opponents, then tap an acrobat personality to leap around the battle field and so on and so forth Speculations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peng the Just Posted February 19, 2014 Report Share Posted February 19, 2014 So suppose you were to soul stamp yourself to change your identity, but then you used feruchemy to store that sense of identity. You do this repeatedly with a soul stamp and store the identity. Could you use this identity stored to change your abilities at a whim? For example you soul stamp yourself so that you are a warrior, store that, then stamp yourself the next day you stamped yourself to be an expert marksman, then stored that. You did this with many different identities so that during a battle you could just tap the metal mind and change in and out of a different identity with different skills. One moment you are a monk who kicks but with his bare hands, then you pick up a sword, tap a swordsman skill and slice a few opponents, then tap an acrobat personality to leap around the battle field and so on and so forth Speculations? This sounds like the most awesome version of Multiple personality disorder I'ver ever heard of. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirscott13 Posted February 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2014 The best part is that you do not have to create a perfect soul stamp. Even if the stamp only takes for a minute, you store it, then store another minute, followed by another, and another, so that when you do tap it, you can tap a continuos stamp even if it was not perfect. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Hoodie Mistborn Posted February 19, 2014 Report Share Posted February 19, 2014 There was a similar topic here that might give you food for thought as well. I think it's pretty safe to say though, that its probably not this simple For Shai to use a soul stamp on herself, she had to have had the basics of the trainings and such for each identity/persona that she took on. For her Warrior personality, she had to live with that warlike tribe and train in their ways for a good amount of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirscott13 Posted February 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2014 There was a similar topic here that might give you food for thought as well. I think it's pretty safe to say though, that its probably not this simple For Shai to use a soul stamp on herself, she had to have had the basics of the trainings and such for each identity/persona that she took on. For her Warrior personality, she had to live with that warlike tribe and train in their ways for a good amount of time. That is interesting, granted I am being very simple in my theory. I am treating this as a fun experiment. I would like to think it could work but limited to the region (so you couldn't tap the identity on another planet). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kadrok Posted February 20, 2014 Report Share Posted February 20, 2014 Store your alternate self's knowledge in a coppermind perhaps? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pechvarry Posted February 20, 2014 Report Share Posted February 20, 2014 And this is how Worldhopper Shai (my vote for Seventeenth Shard Candidate 2014) will be awesome. I don't think it'd be easy, but a talented Forger like Shai would be very quick to grasp how to do this. And I think I like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmingly Posted February 20, 2014 Report Share Posted February 20, 2014 Course, there's the whole issue with Sel magic not working away from the homeland... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Hoodie Mistborn Posted February 20, 2014 Report Share Posted February 20, 2014 We know that it probably works a little bit or we wouldn't see someone from Sel on Roshar, NOT looking like a glowing Elantrian. Unless being that far from Sel, sapped his Elantrian investiture to the point where he's no longer a divine looking figure with silvery skin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmingly Posted February 20, 2014 Report Share Posted February 20, 2014 That sounds reasonable, really. I don't want to know what would happen to Dakhor once they didn't have the Dor to make up for their twist bones though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pechvarry Posted February 20, 2014 Report Share Posted February 20, 2014 (edited) Course, there's the whole issue with Sel magic not working away from the homeland... Cosmere Q&A - 17th Shard (Verbatim) ODIUM'S_SHARD Can magic systems from one world work in any given other? BRANDON SANDERSON For some, it will take quite a bit of work, but it's possible to get them each to work. Sel's magics are regional, and so they are going to be tough. Scadrial's magics are the easiest. Tough, not impossible. We also already have a Sel-born Worldhopper. Edited February 20, 2014 by Pechvarry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Hoodie Mistborn Posted February 21, 2014 Report Share Posted February 21, 2014 Tough, not impossible. We also already have a Sel-born Worldhopper. Yeah, that is what I was bringing up. Based on his appearance in tWoK, either 1) his magic is working and he's using Aon Shao based magic to cover up his Elantrian nature: "Galladon, stunned, rose... his skin a dark metallic silver" OR 2) being so far from the regional base of his investiture (the Dor), has reverted him to a more normal looking human. His presence on Roshar doesn't indicate that Sel magic does or does not work, only that he is there. As to whether a soulstamp would work to store a different identity? Makes my brain hurt! It's hard enough speculating on how the magic systems are really working on their own world without trying to figure out how they interact when on others! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmingly Posted February 21, 2014 Report Share Posted February 21, 2014 Yeah, if we want to figure this stuff out, we'll either have to wait a decade or two or reinact Misery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PorridgeBrick Posted February 21, 2014 Report Share Posted February 21, 2014 Would you even be able to tap your alternate identities? After all, you can't tap someone else's metalminds, and that is based on Identity. If the stamp is different enough from normal you, then you'd have to be stamped again with it to tap from that stamp's metalminds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirscott13 Posted February 21, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2014 Would you even be able to tap your alternate identities? After all, you can't tap someone else's metalminds, and that is based on Identity. If the stamp is different enough from normal you, then you'd have to be stamped again with it to tap from that stamp's metalminds. not necessarily, Your own identity changes through out your life and and feruchemists can tap that identity stored tribute when they are at the end of their life even if that attribute was from the beginning of their life. The way Identity is soul stamped isn't changing who they are, just their history. History doesn't mean different tapping. I am sure TLR is quite the different person then he was when he was a kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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