Copper Compunding -Vividity

[Guest Breaker]

Hi, I’m new and have no idea what I’m doing.

 

Throughout the first Mistborn trilogy, we experienced Sazed’s relationship with his copperminds. He used indices and pnemonics to keep track of his memory sets within his metalminds, and we often saw him drawing on the contained memories for their information stores. However, we never saw him experience a memory in such detail as the Sovereign memory Wax experienced through the unkeyed coppermind coin in The Bands of Mourning. Perhaps this is a result of Sazed’s past experience reliving memories, or perhaps simply convenience in writing.

 

Or perhaps the extreme experiential vividity of this memory is a result of compounded copper from the coin’s doubly-endowed creator. Perhaps compounding copper allows for the creation of super-vivid memories, not only never fading as Sazed’s did in his everyday coppermind, but also existing with photorealistic detail. 

 

Any copper compounding theory likely has to deal with the Lord Ruler’s purported “perfect memory,” which assuredly was the result of this sort of magihacking. Perhaps these ultra-strong memories are more easily divided among multiple copperminds, or a portion of them is able to be recalled and another portion left for when necessary, within the indexed, magically-enhanced mind palace of a worldbringer, keeper, etc.

 

Anyway, a bit rambly, but there it is. Perhaps Wax’s coin demonstrates the nature of compounded copper.

Edited March 17, 2018 by Breaker

[Calderis he/him]

Welcome, and congrats on an interesting idea I haven't seen before.

Considering the nature of memory, I find this plausible. I'll have to think about this some before I respond, in full. 

[Guest Breaker]

I really wonder about the origin of that Sovereign coppermind, though. Did he realize that he might be confused with the Lord Ruler? Did he make that confusion on purpose, and leave this to sort it out later?

Perhaps this was a favored memory of his? 

I can’t wait for The Lost Metal, man.