Enhancement fabrial

[Inquisitor #5]

I write these words in post, for anything not set in forum can not be easily referred to later.

That aside, I wish to posit the theoretical existence of a surgebinding enhancement fabrial, the reverser to the suppressor's conjoiner.

I assume that gem type matters for this kind of fabrial, based on both the portable device and the one in Urithiru being clusters of garnets and as such I assume that this fabrial would use a cluster of sapphires, the "inverse" polestone to garnet, just as ruby and amethyst are across from eachother on the surgebinding chart.

 

Edit: I wrote this up in about 15 minutes, so it's possible that it comes across as less coherent than it is in my head.

Edited January 19, 2021 by Inquisitor #5

[Pratyaksh]

The opposite of suppressor is using more stormlight.

Jasnah was able to use soulcasting with extreme power with a ton of stormlight using the perpendicularity.

[Inquisitor #5]

That is a fair point, though I don't agree 100%.

I do agree that the result of surgebinding with an arbitrary amount of investiture and the result of surgebinding while under the effects of a hypothetical enhancement fabrial might look quite similar.

[basement_boi he/him]

I think that if you were under the effects of such a fabrial, you would use more Stormlight in the process. Kind of like duralumin. Also, the metal cage would probably be duralumin.

Edit: I actually think it’s nicrosil now, that would make more sense.

Edited March 13, 2021 by basement_boi

[StanLemon]

On 1/20/2021 at 7:24 AM, Pratyaksh said:

The opposite of suppressor is using more stormlight.

Jasnah was able to use soulcasting with extreme power with a ton of stormlight using the perpendicularity.

The large amounts of Stormlight were only half the reason though. The other half was because all three realms were so close together. Though when enough Investiture pools up I guess that difference is mostly semantics 

[ScadrianTank he/him]

Something to keep in mind is that all the versions of the suppressor fabrial were made by spren manifesting in the Physical real as a gemstone. Since we know that most or possibly all of those designs can be made using modern fabrial techniques, it seems likely that with a proper spren, gemstone, and metal we can make this kind of fabrial. It may be where enhancement metals come into play on Roshar.

[Inquisitor #5]

Pretty sure the spren become the metal, not the gems.

And yes, it's entirely possible that both a 'classical' and 'modern' variety would exist for such a fabrial.

I'm not sure the enhancement metals would be used for a function that causes enhancement necessarily, the one use we know is aluminium disconecting a plane of motion in conjoiners (and presumably reversers) and based on that I'd assume that duralumin results in a magnified effect where applied.

That said, if one managed to make a modern variant enhancement fabrial, it could presumably have its effect enhanced by adding duralumin to the cage, though it'd presumably go through fuel like it's going out of style.

Edited January 24, 2021 by Inquisitor #5
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[LewsTherinTelescope]

On 1/23/2021 at 9:56 AM, Inquisitor #5 said:

Pretty sure the spren become the metal, not the gems.

I don't recall if we know what the case is for the Fused's suppressor, but the Sibling explicitly manifested as crystal and metal for their fabrials. 

[StanLemon]

15 hours ago, LewsTherinTelescope said:

I don't recall if we know what the case is for the Fused's suppressor, but the Sibling explicitly manifested as crystal and metal for their fabrials. 

The Sibling is weird for a number of reasons and we don't know much about it. However, Soulcasters which are the other Surge Fabrial we know of the spren manifests as metal and the gemstones get replaced. As far as we know, all Investiture manifests as metal