Fourth Of The Night
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Yeah, also going to have to disagree with this. As someone who has crippling depression, I can tell you how hard it is to do things, even tasks that are completely rote, when a particularly bad depressive spell hits. Not to mention his leg.
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@KhanBoltNo4503 I specifically was talking about the process of making one of the medallions, to better understand how they work!
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OK, so let me try to explain this in a more bite-sized fashion: Tap Nicrosil, and somehow gain the abillities of a Feruchemist (This has been shown to happen, though we aren't sure how it works yet.) Fill Aluminum, which stores your Identity, leaving you as a spiritual blank slate. Fill a different metalmind, say, Pewter. This metalmind is not keyed to any specific Identity, because the person who created it has no Identity, since theirs is currently filling a metalmind. Give this metalmind to another person, who then taps Nicrosil to become a Feruchemist. As a Feruchemist, they can now tap the unkeyed Pewtermind that the first person filled. Any better?
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Oathbringer Release/Tour FAQ
Fourth Of The Night replied to Pagerunner's topic in Events and Signings
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Hey y'all! I've got a BS in Biotech, so if you need to bend life to your wi-I mean if you want to know about genetic engineering stuff, I'm around!
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Fantasy by Women
Fourth Of The Night replied to Toaster Retribution's topic in Entertainment Discussion
Robin Hobb is a fantastic fantasy writer! The Assassin series is dark and emotional and wonderful, and the other books in that world are also great! -
The Dichotomy of Villains
Fourth Of The Night replied to Radiant_Jaeger's topic in Stormlight Archive
@Calderis Oh! I missed that one when I've searched Oathstone in the archives, I guess! -
The Dichotomy of Villains
Fourth Of The Night replied to Radiant_Jaeger's topic in Stormlight Archive
Well, we actually don't know that for sure. Brandon has RAFO'd people asking if Szeth's Oathstone is magical or not. -
Hey all, I'm new here! I dipped my feet into a comment thread about Kandra because of my love of biology and Kandra. I have a BS in Biotechnology, I have a darling Wife, two cats, and a puppy (Who went into heat on Friday right after we made an appointment to get her spayed, sigh. 7 Months was way earlier than I expected.) My Wife and I are writing a comic! Well, she's writing and illustrating and I'm a big picture/inner workings kinda gal. Anyway! Here's hoping that I can learn everything that I missed in the Cosmere from y'all!
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Man, I can't disagree more. The tug of Zane really humanized Vin for me. As someone who has gone through abuse and the thoughts it brings to a young woman's mind, I absolutely empathize with her thinking that Elend was too good for her and that she deserved to be with (Even if not romantically) someone like Zane.
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Having listened to the audiobooks, this comment was phenomenal to read.
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Hmm. That's a good point. Maybe that's a technique that she isn't very good at yet? Laying down tissue might be harder than churning out a bunch of collagen.
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I think that using tendons would allow the bones to still move. Cartilage would just hold it fast, it doesn't stretch as well as tendons do. I don't remember exactly where the break was, for MeLaan, though. I need to reread that scene.
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I've always grouped teeth into the same category as bones and hair, also.
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Maybe they would be able to if they ate a Shark or another cartilaginous fish?
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Carapace is more along the lines of bone/hair, though. Since Kandra have ears, and they can use bones that are long long dead, they have to be able to make Cartilage, imo.
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Oh wow, I hadn't realized there was WoB on a Kandra being able to reproduce with a human. Just looked it up, "Because when the kandra is in human form, they can identically recreate the bodily functions and things if they want to." That's really really interesting, and destroys my thoughts on why Kandra couldn't make hair.
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I posted this in the aquatic Kandra thread, but I figure I can double dip here: I believe the reasoning is that Kandra can mimic cellular structures, but their own cells don't actually change in anything but conformation. They do not produce the genes required to create cells that actually produce things like hair and bones, though they can mimic those cells. I would say that they can essentially turn their cells pluripotent and then differentiate them from there, which would allow them to create all sorts of specialized structures, but still not allow them to make glands that actually secrete hair, or cells that lay down bone.
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For the muscles-I imagine they can just produce and use their own-since the Kandra are literally just immortal muscle filled sacs, essentially. Everything that a Kandra can form can actually be formed by just rearranging the cells of their body: Organs are just layers of tissues, which are in turn just layers of different kinds of cells. It seems that they can mimic these tissues, but not the actual function of the tissues themselves. So, they could make skin with hair follicles to hold hair that was already made, but they cannot actually produce hair because they do not have the genes required for the 'machinery' that actually does the keratin production. Thank you for the props! My degree is in biochemistry, so I nerd out about this stuff a lot, and happen to LOVE the Kandra.
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Gills are as complex as lungs, so I would say that after digesting gills a Kandra would be able to replicate them. Since hair cannot be replicated, I would say that venoms couldn't be, as they are also proteins. Now, I believe that a Kandra could store venom that was harvested from a live specimin and use it, provided that they have access to a delivery method such as hollow fangs. I'm sure they could use a truebody made specifically for this purpose and have claws or other structures that delivered the venom. Also hi, first comment!