Turin Turambar Posted February 12, 2019 Posted February 12, 2019 What would happen if a mistborn burnt shard-material? iron that was messed with by a forger and turned into steel?
+Ark1002 Posted February 12, 2019 Posted February 12, 2019 Huh. Don't know what you meant by the first, but the second is really intriguing. I'll have to wait for an arcanist, maybe they have an answer.
Bigmikey357 he/him Posted February 12, 2019 Posted February 12, 2019 For the 1st: word_thief What would happen if a Mistborn ingested the metal of a Shardblade/plate? Brandon Sanderson A shardblade is invested. A Mistborn isn't likely to have a tie to that type of Investiture. So probably nothing would happen… General Twitter 2013 (Oct. 24, 2013) For the second: DTF_20170515 Why refrigerate food when you can just stamp spoiled food so that it was stored properly before? Aurora_Fatalis You'll have to ask Brandon how that'd interact with gastric acid breaking down the stamp. Or how porous/loose material interacts with stamps in the first place. Come to think of it... There's a WoB saying the Nightwatcher could change your species, but have a hard time making a spren bond to you. So... could the Nightwatcher turn you Scadrian and make you eligible for Allomantic powers? Or does the Nightwatcher's boons operate on soulstamp principles? Hell, let's say you bought a vial of the wrong metal on your field trip to Sel. Could you pay a Forger to stamp the vial into being a vial of the right metal (it's believable that you would check before such an important trip) and then drink the metal contained in the vial to fuel your Allomancy? Brandon Sanderson All right, all right. Let's see... /u/Aurora_Fatalis, changing metals around with other forms of Investiture is generally going to work, according to how I view the magic right now. The power is there, you just need to align the matter the right way. So forging new metals: not too difficult. This is because Allomancy isn't actually using Investiture in the metals, but using it as a key to get power from somewhere else. Forging a sword to be a Shardblade, however, would be very, very difficult for multiple reasons. The most obvious one is that the Investiture required would be enormous. A Shardblade is a highly-Invested object, with its own self-aware soul. If you could overcome the initial resistance invested objects have to being influenced by other magics (something that Forgery is particularly good at doing anyway) you'd theoretically be able to change Shardblade/spren's personality like you could a person's. Fooling the magic via Connection and Identity is not so hard, under the right circumstances, so making a Forger into an Elantrian (or an Allomancer) for a short time is plausible. Making yourself into a Radiant, however, would be more difficult--because the limitations placed on that magic have to do with persuading a sapient being you are worth the bond. Aurora_Fatalis How about regular food? If I stamp a pineapple pizza into a pepperoni pizza and eat it, what nutrients do I end up with? Brandon Sanderson The way I have it working now, I believe (though I'd have to do some double-checking, as it's been a while since I've been working on Sel) soulstamps are more fragile than things like Aons, and it would be very hard to eat something with one without breaking it. But assuming you could, you'd get nutrients from what it had become--but those would change back once the stamp broke or ran out. It is possible to go so far down this rabbit hole, however, that the chemistry of Forging (like the physics of Allomancy) it just can't make sense any more. So be aware. Oversleep42 With things like Stamping metals for Allomancy, you have said that it'd be possible for short time, but then burning it would break the Seal and metal would revert back. I guess it would be similar with food, right? Brandon Sanderson Yes, that's the big problem with Forging. Getting the stamp to stay in place once you start to change the object that has been stamped. General Reddit 2018 (Aug. 27, 2018) 1
+Invocation Posted February 12, 2019 Posted February 12, 2019 2 hours ago, Turin Turambar said: What would happen if a mistborn burnt shard-material? You'd need to hack the system for that. Certain sets of Investiture have things that could theoretically be alloyed with Lerasium to grant access to that Shard's magic (Sand Mastery is among them if you can get your hands on Bavadinium), and if you were already an Allomancer, you might be able to burn that godmetal to do something. Some of them, though, that wouldn't work with (Sel's magics, mostly, I think), though as @Bigmikey357 said, the godmetals don't have a default Allomantic effect without Connection hacking to the Shard whose metal you're trying to burn.
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