Hemalurgy vs Heredity

[+Bzhydack he/him]

If someone will gain allomantic or feruchemical abilities by being spiked with hemalurgic spike and he will have children, did his children will inherit (with standard genetic posibility) metalic abilities?

[Honorless he/him]

1 hour ago, Quantus said:

Not usually, the sDNA imparted with hemalurgy does not breed into the next generation.  A notable exception to this was the Koloss in Era2, Harmony made a specific/conscious change that allowed the Koloss to breed as a species.  

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Hemalurgy just patches a piece of stolen Spiritweb over your own Spiritweb. Powers stolen by Hemalurgy are not inheritable.

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Questioner

I wondered if an Inquisitor had children, if they would inherit stronger Inquisitor abilities, or if they would just inherit the lesser lines from being a Seeker, for example?

Brandon Sanderson

Excellent question. I don't think I've ever been asked this before... The way Hemalurgy works, if you're not aware, you are taking someone else's soul, and you are basically nailing it to your soul... That won't affect the children. So you will have the weaker lines.

They have tried that. Unfortunately.

Berlin signing (May 14, 2019)

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Questioner

You’ve spoken before how DNA exists on multiple different levels in your magic systems. I was curious about something else that I think I read that that the Hemalurgy system actually splices something into the DNA - so what does that imply for heritability of those?

Brandon Sanderson

So, it is not inheritable when it's Hemalurgic because it's splicing. It's basically ripping off a piece of the soul and spiking it on someone else's. So, it would not transfer.

Shadows of Self San Jose signing (Oct. 9, 2015)

Koloss produce Koloss-blooded children, they become Koloss upon accepting Hemalurgic spikes, as we see in Allomancer Jak.

[Quantus he/him]

Not usually, the sDNA imparted with hemalurgy does not breed into the next generation.  A notable exception to this was the Koloss in Era2, Harmony made a specific/conscious change that allowed the Koloss to breed as a species.