Channelknight Fadran Posted February 12, 2020 Posted February 12, 2020 Hey, Another question... What happened to Snapping? In Era 1, in order to determine whether you were an allomancer or not you would have to be "Snapped," I.E. practically tortured. I can't find any evidence of this happening in Era 2, however. Did Sazed change this? Thanks! -Channelknight
Elsecaller_17.5 he/him Posted February 12, 2020 Posted February 12, 2020 37 minutes ago, Channelknight Fadran said: Hey, Another question... What happened to Snapping? In Era 1, in order to determine whether you were an allomancer or not you would have to be "Snapped," I.E. practically tortured. I can't find any evidence of this happening in Era 2, however. Did Sazed change this? Thanks! -Channelknight All we know is that it was changed. Sazed wasn't fond of the process. We don't know how but I suspect the threshold just got lowered. 1
Quantus he/him Posted February 12, 2020 Posted February 12, 2020 2 minutes ago, Elsecaller_17.5 said: All we know is that it was changed. Sazed wasn't fond of the process. We don't know how but I suspect the threshold just got lowered. The snapping provides the "cracks" in the spiritweb that allows the investiture to attach, and since it's also a nessesary part of the Nahel Bond process I doubt he could reduce it too much without reducing the allomamcy with it. Maybe he just made it so scadrians are born Pre-snapped? Maybe just more hereditary issues in the populace? He also made the koloss a breeding race, so he was fiddling with scadrial reproduction already. 1
Honorless he/him Posted February 12, 2020 Posted February 12, 2020 Here are some WoBs that talk about this: Quote Fyodor32768 In Alloy of Law, are people still Snapping? Brandon Sanderson Sazed chose to alter the way Snapping works. It bothered him. It does happen, but differently. General Twitter 2011 (Nov. 14, 2011) Quote KChan How does Snapping work after Sazed changed it? If you don't want to reveal it all right now, are there any hints you can give us? Brandon Sanderson He couldn't get rid of this entirely. I don't want to spoil things, but Snapping was built into Allomancy primarily because of larger-scale magical issues. This is getting deep into the issue, but it has to do with a person's spiritual makeup and a 'wounded' spirit being easier to fill with something else, kind of like a cut would let something into the bloodstream. Sazed made this threshold on Scadrial much easier to obtain. 17th Shard Forum Q&A (Sept. 25, 2012) 1
Draginon he/him Posted February 14, 2020 Posted February 14, 2020 Maybe the threshold is getting any type of injury so a simple stubbed Tor or paper cut could ‘snap’ you. 1
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