Housedunn Posted January 13, 2018 Report Share Posted January 13, 2018 The question that i have today if a mistborn were to burn pewter, would they be able to heal spiritual damage, and more importantly, a cut from a shardblade? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amflare Posted January 13, 2018 Report Share Posted January 13, 2018 I don't think so. Stormlight and Pewter both heal physical aliments. But healing from a shardblade wound seems to be more along the lines of reinvesting the life of the arm rather then ordinary healing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walin he/him Posted January 13, 2018 Report Share Posted January 13, 2018 No; pewter increases strength and durability. However, it doesn't enhance healing very much or at all. That's more the territory of...Regrowth! And Gold Feruchemy! But sadly, not pewter, in either Allomancy or Feruchemy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenod Posted January 13, 2018 Report Share Posted January 13, 2018 If Allomantic pewter healed spiritual damage, wouldn't it be impossible to be a pewter savant? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoolofwhool Posted January 14, 2018 Report Share Posted January 14, 2018 9 hours ago, Housedunn said: The question that i have today if a mistborn were to burn pewter, would they be able to heal spiritual damage, and more importantly, a cut from a shardblade? No, allomantic pewter just seems to improve the physical body. Strength, stability, stamina, self-repair. It doesn't seem to extend to the spiritual in any way. 6 hours ago, kenod said: If Allomantic pewter healed spiritual damage, wouldn't it be impossible to be a pewter savant? Maybe. But I don't think conventional healing in the Cosmere, like gold feruchemy, can undo changes due to savantism, because those are fundamentally changing your spiritual aspect, not exactly damaging it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenod Posted January 14, 2018 Report Share Posted January 14, 2018 4 hours ago, Spoolofwhool said: Maybe. But I don't think conventional healing in the Cosmere, like gold feruchemy, can undo changes due to savantism, because those are fundamentally changing your spiritual aspect, not exactly damaging it. Ah, alright, I thought it was a form of damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Housedunn Posted January 14, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2018 8 hours ago, Spoolofwhool said: No, allomantic pewter just seems to improve the physical body. Strength, stability, stamina, self-repair. It doesn't seem to extend to the spiritual in any way. Maybe. But I don't think conventional healing in the Cosmere, like gold feruchemy, can undo changes due to savantism, because those are fundamentally changing your spiritual aspect, not exactly damaging it. Surgebind is the same thing though. It can heal Spiritual damage but the Spiritual damage to become a surgebinder becomes who you are. Maybe this can apply to pewter also, healing spiritual damage, but but not healing what you are Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingsdaughter613 she/her Posted January 14, 2018 Report Share Posted January 14, 2018 Aluminum might be able to though... it depends on how well it actually purifies. I REALLY want to see an aluminum savant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoolofwhool Posted January 14, 2018 Report Share Posted January 14, 2018 2 hours ago, Housedunn said: Surgebind is the same thing though. It can heal Spiritual damage but the Spiritual damage to become a surgebinder becomes who you are. Maybe this can apply to pewter also, healing spiritual damage, but but not healing what you are Pewter doesn't heal you though, it just improves your physical body, including natural healing. I don't quite understand the parallel you're drawing between pewter and stormlight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amflare Posted January 15, 2018 Report Share Posted January 15, 2018 On 1/13/2018 at 4:03 PM, Walin said: No; pewter increases strength and durability. However, it doesn't enhance healing very much or at all. That's more the territory of...Regrowth! And Gold Feruchemy! But sadly, not pewter, in either Allomancy or Feruchemy. You are correct. I was confusing Pewter with Gold for some reason. Though I would be interested to find out if Gold can heal a shardblade wound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weltall Posted January 15, 2018 Report Share Posted January 15, 2018 (edited) F-Gold can heal shardblade wounds, with an asterisk. Quote Questioner Could a bloodmaker heal a Shardblade wound? Brandon Sanderson Could a...whatmaker? Oh, could a bloodmaker heal a Shardblade wound? Um, yes, yes they could. So, what...so, yes, this is possible. (Long pause) Is it possible? I haven't actually thought about it. I have to work through the mechanics of the magics. Jury's out. Jury's out. I've gotta go and look at the actual mechanics, so I'm gonna "jury's out" on that one. That's a read and find out as, you would think I'd figured that one out, because I'm planning for the conflicts but I haven't, like... So what's happening with the healing on Roshar is that they are using Stormlight to bridge the severed soul and glue it back together, right. So, the magic of bloodmaking is different to an extent, in that it is prompting healing directly from the body, right... I'm gonna go with yes, until I look at it but, jury's out. Earlier Brandon was asked this and said much more definitively that F-Gold could heal shardblade wounds but this response is newer and it sounds like he's going back and forth on it. But even with the hemming and hawing the answer does seem to be 'yes'. Edited January 15, 2018 by Weltall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme King Z-arc he/him Posted January 15, 2018 Report Share Posted January 15, 2018 Would it render a shard blade closer to a normal sword when used to cut someone burning pewter? I think There are WoB that it is harder for a shard blade to cut things that are invested so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weltall Posted January 15, 2018 Report Share Posted January 15, 2018 Very unlikely. with some exceptions Scadrial has been mentioned as a 'low Investiture' world in terms of how much of it is actually going through you relative to places like Roshar, (paraphrased, but see here) so the amount of Investiture-based resistance you get from burning a metal at the moment of impact isn't likely to make much of a difference. A charged metalmind can block a Shardblade to an extent, depending on how full it is. Quote Questioner How many smacks would it take from a Shardblade to break, say, a metalmind. Brandon Sanderson A metalmind? Depends on how much it's invested. F-Gold would theoretically work (subject to the caveat in Brandon's response above) not because of the Investiture itself but what it's doing as the Shardblade is hitting you, ie healing the damage as it's being inflicted. Pewter (or any other metal you're burning or attribute you're tapping) wouldn't provide much resistance. Now, while looking up WoBs to see if people have asked Brandon about shardblades vs much more heavily Invested people, I started wondering. We know for example that Returned and even the Godkings (who are heavily Invested) are just as fragile as normal humans so how would a shardblade react to them? I'm pretty sure the Divine Breath alone qualifies as enough innate Investiture to resist the Spiritual damage, but would the shardblade just look at that and go 'okay, time to be a normal bit of sharp metal now' and just cut them normally or would it get blocked as if it were hitting shardplate and only damage the Breaths until the level of Investiture wasn't enough to resist the blade? Same thing for Elantrians (not counting potential defenses like Aon Edo) since they're extremely Invested individuals. Brandon was asked about a Reod Elantrian vs a shardblade and said it would be weird, treating them as half-dead and half-alive and might cut either way. But I don't think anyone's asked specifically about other cases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingsdaughter613 she/her Posted January 16, 2018 Report Share Posted January 16, 2018 Of course Scadrial could just make alluminum Alloy armor... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Housedunn Posted January 16, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2018 44 minutes ago, Kingsdaughter613 said: Of course Scadrial could just make alluminum Alloy armor... Wouldn't aluminum make horrible armor for everything else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yata he/him Posted January 16, 2018 Report Share Posted January 16, 2018 55 minutes ago, Housedunn said: Wouldn't aluminum make horrible armor for everything else? Cosmere's Aluminum is really more resilient than the real one....so it's at least possible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hwiles He/Him Posted January 16, 2018 Report Share Posted January 16, 2018 4 hours ago, Kingsdaughter613 said: Of course Scadrial could just make alluminum Alloy armor... I imagine layered aluminum/ceramic/ballistic-fiber vests are probably in store for era 3. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingsdaughter613 she/her Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 Aluminum actually is much stronger than people realize. And some aluminum alloys are resistant to manipulation by investiture. So some form of aluminum will probably be incorporated into future body armor. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+tabitreader he/him Posted January 24, 2018 Report Share Posted January 24, 2018 On 1/13/2018 at 4:03 PM, Walin said: No; pewter increases strength and durability. However, it doesn't enhance healing very much or at all. That's more the territory of...Regrowth! And Gold Feruchemy! But sadly, not pewter, in either Allomancy or Feruchemy. Hero of Ages, spook lost his pewter spike, Sazed says that if he could burn pewter he would have healed up considerably by now. I can't quote the text right now. Too many times when vin was hurt, pewter was given regularly to heal, just like stormlight spheres when Kaladin was hung up to die by Sadeus. The color came back to Elend's cheeks after taking the nugget and vials. To work that fast, yep, healing. Not just dexterity and strength of body. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme King Z-arc he/him Posted January 24, 2018 Report Share Posted January 24, 2018 2 hours ago, tabitreader said: The color came back to Elend's cheeks after taking the nugget and vials. To work that fast, yep, healing. Also does Fuzz's knife count as spiritual damage? That would count as an answer to the question of healing spiritual damage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calderis he/him Posted January 26, 2018 Report Share Posted January 26, 2018 On 1/24/2018 at 9:38 AM, tabitreader said: Hero of Ages, spook lost his pewter spike, Sazed says that if he could burn pewter he would have healed up considerably by now. I can't quote the text right now. Too many times when vin was hurt, pewter was given regularly to heal, just like stormlight spheres when Kaladin was hung up to die by Sadeus. The color came back to Elend's cheeks after taking the nugget and vials. To work that fast, yep, healing. Not just dexterity and strength of body. Yeah, it enhances all physical traits of the body, including natural healing speed, but it's not anything close to F-gold. And it's physical only, so no spiritual healing. On 1/15/2018 at 10:25 AM, Skip Hates Dragons said: Would it render a shard blade closer to a normal sword when used to cut someone burning pewter? I think There are WoB that it is harder for a shard blade to cut things that are invested so... If being invested were enough, then Stormlight would prevent Shardblade cuts as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme King Z-arc he/him Posted January 26, 2018 Report Share Posted January 26, 2018 14 minutes ago, Calderis said: If being invested were enough, then Stormlight would prevent Shardblade cuts as well. So my question is: does someone burning a metal count as being "invested"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calderis he/him Posted January 26, 2018 Report Share Posted January 26, 2018 3 minutes ago, Skip Hates Dragons said: So my question is: does someone burning a metal count as being "invested"? Absolutely, there's investiture pouring into them, and through them, from Preservation to fuel their Allomancy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+tabitreader he/him Posted January 26, 2018 Report Share Posted January 26, 2018 Is there a difference between Scadrians and Rosharans? Being voidbringers from an unknown world we may never know if they differ. How is the spirit damaged? Shardblade across the wrist? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme King Z-arc he/him Posted January 26, 2018 Report Share Posted January 26, 2018 (edited) 9 hours ago, tabitreader said: Is there a difference between Scadrians and Rosharans? Being voidbringers from an unknown world we may never know if they differ. Spoiler Rosharans come from a pre-shattering planet while Scandrial humans were made by Preservation and Ruin, post-shattering Edited January 26, 2018 by Skip Hates Dragons OB spoilers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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