+Invocation Posted February 5, 2019 Posted February 5, 2019 So we know you can spike humans with Hemalurgy, along with some fun experiments with beavers, but what else can you spike? Do seons or skaze have enough of a physical form to be able to use Hemalurgy on them? What if you were trying to staple them to a body? Do Cognitive Shadows have different bindpoints than they had when they were alive? Can you spike a Shade. Is this, perhaps, how the Set's "Faceless Immortals" work? What do y'all think?
Subvisual Haze Posted February 5, 2019 Posted February 5, 2019 I'm imagining a Cosmere-wide Youtube channel where wacky realmatic theorists stab strange objects with charged spikes to see what happens. Tonight on "WILL IT SPIKE?": we stab an identity spike into Khriss' iPhone to see if it changes the login PIN and facial recognition! Tune in, like, and subscribe! 4
+Invocation Posted February 5, 2019 Author Posted February 5, 2019 23 minutes ago, Subvisual Haze said: I'm imagining a Cosmere-wide Youtube channel where wacky realmatic theorists stab strange objects with charged spikes to see what happens. Tonight on "WILL IT SPIKE?": we stab an identity spike into Khriss' iPhone to see if it changes the login PIN and facial recognition! Tune in, like, and subscribe! Cosmere Mythical Morning, back again with a segment from "WILL IT SPIKE?" 1
Scion of the Mists Posted February 5, 2019 Posted February 5, 2019 If you can spike a spren, I don't see why you couldn't spike a Seon or Skaze. I'd guess you can spike just about any sentient being.
+Invocation Posted February 5, 2019 Author Posted February 5, 2019 1 minute ago, Scion of the Mists said: If you can spike a spren, I don't see why you couldn't spike a Seon or Skaze. I'd guess you can spike just about any sentient being. That lends itself to an interesting theory: the attack on Scadrial is being directed from some Shard with access to beings like that that you can spike into someone and that will take them over, lending itself to the Faceless Immortal mockery from Suit and the commentary on taking bodies.
Quantus he/him Posted February 5, 2019 Posted February 5, 2019 The caveat on spiking a Spren is that you have to access them in the Cognitive Realm to gain access to them where they have enough physicality to be Spiked. The same would logically extend to a Soen/Skaze, though we havent actually seen what sort of form they have on that side, and the Dor makes it complicated in the sense that they might not actually exist in the same partial state getting pulled through that a Spren does, given that the boundary itself is different (more porous) on Roshar. Which I think just means it might a lot more complicated but still possible with a Seon/Skaze. Especially since that WOB did technically end in an RAFO on how you'd have to go about Spiking a Spren. Of course This One implies that you could steal the Nahel Bond but that you'd have to spike both sides of the Connection, one in the Radiant and another in the Spren, so I think it's a fair assumption. As another fun instance: you can also spike Kandra (which are basically just severely mangled people) but the interesting thing is that they have more fluid Bind Points, so there would be some unique possibilities.
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