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[Hoid the Former Drifter he/him]

What's the investiture in "Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell"?

[Darkfinder she/her]

The shades and presumably the evil are both manifestations of investiture

Edited July 19, 2020 by Darkfinder

[Karger he/him]

We don't yet know their actual magic system.  Presumably it is related to the shades.

[Honorless he/him]

We do see some speculation by Khriss in the Arcanum Unbounded that an Investiture System may have existed on Threnody prior to Odium's Splintering of Ambition. She also speculated that rather than Ambition, the magic may have been there before the Shattering of Adonalsium. Anyway, after Ambition's Splintering the planet has been irradiated by Investiture, resulting in people turning into Shades. If the magic still exists, we haven't seen it yet. But we have seen a hint of magic tech from Threnody in the Mistborn era 2 broadsheets (in Bands of Mourning, the Nicki Sauvage piece in New Ascendancy), where a man, who seems like he might be Nazh uses a gun that shoots out a Shade.

[Innovation]

22 minutes ago, Honorless said:

we have seen a hint of magic tech from Threnody in the Mistborn era 2 broadsheets (in Bands of Mourning, the Nicki Sauvage piece in New Ascendancy), where a man, who seems like he might be Nazh uses a gun that shoots out a Shade.

Exactly my thought. Perhaps the Threnodites will figure out how to harness Shades? Perhaps they were messing around with Shade tech and somehow caused the Evil?

Edited July 19, 2020 by Innovation

[+Oltux72 he/him]

On 19/07/2020 at 3:54 PM, Honorless said:

But we have seen a hint of magic tech from Threnody in the Mistborn era 2 broadsheets (in Bands of Mourning, the Nicki Sauvage piece in New Ascendancy), where a man, who seems like he might be Nazh uses a gun that shoots out a Shade.

Likely, but not the only explanation. Given that this is Nazh, he may have been using Siverlight technology.