We know that kandra can gain access to feruchemy and allomancy via spikes like anyone else. It could be assumed then that kandra could gain access to the ability to compound as well (whether they would be allowed to by their all controlling harmony is a different question).
In the case of Iron feruchemy usually the metalminds and clothing or other equipment are the limiting factor on how light a person can make themselves.
Storing into iron takes away the weight of your bones and all of the organic mass to a person.
But what is a person?
We are told and shown that investiture is tightly woven in with a persons spirit and how they view themselves. The ability to heal from old ailments for instance is mentioned to be tied to how that person viewed themselves all the way down to a spiritual level.
How do kandra view themselves? If you are carrying another person's bones would that weight be storable for a kandra into iron? Would their true bodies be weight that got stored or not?
If a person loses a leg as a child and then suddenly gains the ability to burn a gold metalmind or use regrowth may not have access to grow that piece of them back... does that self identification work both ways?
If your iron compounding kandra with a true body made of iron bones were to store all of their weight into their bones would they be just storing the weight of the goo or the weight of all of the iron true body as well?
I would also be curious if their kandra then wanted to go and replace random person X and they have to give up their iron true body would they be able to store the weight of a foreign set of bones into their metal minds?
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Tamriel Wolfsbaine
We know that kandra can gain access to feruchemy and allomancy via spikes like anyone else. It could be assumed then that kandra could gain access to the ability to compound as well (whether they would be allowed to by their all controlling harmony is a different question).
In the case of Iron feruchemy usually the metalminds and clothing or other equipment are the limiting factor on how light a person can make themselves.
Storing into iron takes away the weight of your bones and all of the organic mass to a person.
But what is a person?
We are told and shown that investiture is tightly woven in with a persons spirit and how they view themselves. The ability to heal from old ailments for instance is mentioned to be tied to how that person viewed themselves all the way down to a spiritual level.
How do kandra view themselves? If you are carrying another person's bones would that weight be storable for a kandra into iron? Would their true bodies be weight that got stored or not?
If a person loses a leg as a child and then suddenly gains the ability to burn a gold metalmind or use regrowth may not have access to grow that piece of them back... does that self identification work both ways?
If your iron compounding kandra with a true body made of iron bones were to store all of their weight into their bones would they be just storing the weight of the goo or the weight of all of the iron true body as well?
I would also be curious if their kandra then wanted to go and replace random person X and they have to give up their iron true body would they be able to store the weight of a foreign set of bones into their metal minds?
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