Hemalurgic Kebab

[Worldseeker]

I apologize for the title, but it gets the point across. 

If multiple people are skewered on one long hemalurgic spike at the same time and in the correct location, would all the people on the spike be invested or would it just be the first person who was fully spiked? If they are all invested, would all of the people on the spike get the same amount of investiture as the first person to be fully spiked or would it be divided up between them?

For the second question, I'm leaning towards the latter option since Hemalurgy is end-negative - it doesn't draw from a basically-infinite (not actually infinite but good enough for a mistborn or compounder) well of power like Allomancy does by drawing from Preservation. My understanding is that Hemalurgy draws from a small well of finite power contained in the spike - probably a less potent version of the power than was originally drawn from whoever was killed by the spike since hemalurgic spikes leak investiture when not submurged in blood. This is easy to imagine for things like physical strength (Iron), where the amount of strength granted is would theoretically just split among the people on the spike, but how would it work for spikes like Pewter, which steals physical allomantic powers? 

More of an open ended question; I just wanted to see what more experienced cosmere-ologists thought.

[Quantus he/him]

The power in Hemalurgy comes from the fact that it is ripping a chunk of functional Spiritweb from a person and splicing it into somebody else's, potentially including the piece of their soul that gets Allomanic Power from Preservation (or any other shard/magic, in theory).  It's doesn't replicate those other effects or powers, it Steals and splices the bit of Soul directy.   

Generally, the first one in line Donates the Spiritweb, and the second receives it.  This is more or less how the Inquisitors did things in The Final Empire to prevent decay. 

That being said, Intent is pretty key to a lot of Hemalurgy, so it's possible that you could load a single spike with multiple donors and then grant it to the last in line. But it is hard to Invest something that is already Invested, so there will be resistance the 2nd and subsequent times.

You cant empower multiple people with a single Spike because the spike needs to be left in the person to do actually anything, literally stapling the two people together.  However, You can charge a spike and then physically split it, keeping a proportional amount of power in each spike piece.  

Edited August 5, 2021 by Quantus
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