Nightblood and Savantism

[Jaywalk he/him]

Would Nightblood speed up the process of savantism for an Allomancer? They can only survive as long as they’re burning metal, and if they’re wielding Nightblood for an extended period of time...

[Karger he/him]

2 hours ago, Jaywalk said:

Would Nightblood speed up the process of savantism for an Allomancer? They can only survive as long as they’re burning metal, and if they’re wielding Nightblood for an extended period of time...

You could just burn metal for as long as possible every day.  This would have the same effect.

[RShara she/her]

4 hours ago, Jaywalk said:

Would Nightblood speed up the process of savantism for an Allomancer? They can only survive as long as they’re burning metal, and if they’re wielding Nightblood for an extended period of time...

Nightblood's need for investiture increases the longer he's drawn, so he'd end up eating the Allomancer long before the Allomancer managed to become a savant. As Karger said, it'd be easier and safer to just flare your metal all day every day, like Spook did.

[GoWibble he/him]

 

 

 

 

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On 9/29/2019 at 3:21 PM, RShara said:

Nightblood's need for investiture increases the longer he's drawn, so he'd end up eating the Allomancer long before the Allomancer managed to become a savant. As Karger said, it'd be easier and safer to just flare your metal all day every day, like Spook did.

Only if you are flaring something safe like tin (which is only mostly so) if you flare pewter, then you Die just like if you had Nightblood

[RShara she/her]

@GoWibbleSorry, what? I'm not sure what you're trying to say there?

Edited October 9, 2019 by RShara

[GoWibble he/him]

Being a savant at certain metals, ie. Pewter, is not necessarily safe. You could still die, not in the same way as if you held Nightblood, but dying is dying

[FeruchemicalAbhorsen he/him]

Pewter is only "not safe" because you no longer feel any pain, and won't notice fatal wounds. Sounds a whole lot safer than holding NB for any length of time.

[Weltall]

On 10/9/2019 at 2:43 PM, GoWibble said:

Being a savant at certain metals, ie. Pewter, is not necessarily safe. You could still die, not in the same way as if you held Nightblood, but dying is dying

There aren't any viable metals that are inherently unsafe to burn or flare. Overuse of A-Pewter is noted to be dangerous only because you might wear yourself out or keep taking injuries beyond the point where your body can naturally recover and then run out of pewter and drop dead. Simply sitting in a room and flaring pewter is completely safe.

[FeruchemicalAbhorsen he/him]

Right. You said it better than I did.