Through the Living Wrath

Answer in SPOILER

Do you guys want the answer?

My next one is going to be different And very difficult OOHHH ALSO GUYS IF YOU GET THE ANSWER DONT RUN IT OR ANYTHING YOU SHOULD GET A WARNING IF YOU TRY TO BUT DONT IGNORE THE WARNING i think I just gave it away but anyways…

… guys yall are overthinking this Official Hint 1

(You guys are over complicating the last line…)

Hhhhmmmmm

Wait so like CTF cryptography style? Answer: Alright alright alright…

*claps* i see ive been outsmarted i lost the game

Hmmm all good points I was most excited about sDNA inheritance. Spliced does imply a more advanced addition—some jumbling. That makes sense. I think that the jumbling may be smoothed out upon inheritance, making the trait manifest more clearly. What I understand from that WoB (I think I’m repeating myself here), actually, is that some shenanigans are going on. Liked it won’t allow the person to gain powers, it won’t stretch the web that way. But it will give them the possibility. It might make them like Vins father—sDNA not quite aligned, but a bunch of it there. But if one person burns multiple packets of sDNA, it might bring a higher concentration of sDNA. At the least, I believe it would increase inheritance chance, if not power. (Power is very unlikely to be encoded by quantity of encoding, after all…) But that thought makes me curious about the composition of a spiritweb. (Are there any WoBs you know about that? Imma go search…). How much of it is dedicated to that? I gotta go sleep

I think you should keep that vote. -i-m—n-o-t—b-i-a-s-e-d-

I disagree with the last point. He can remain indefinitely, but I don’t know if it’ll be the same him like radioactive decay, there might be some sort of half-life, rather than he’ll “disappear” in this many years But I did note that if a dead spiritweb is saturated with investiture, they might not decay at all, which does support what you say… hmmmm I think prolly the most promising thing would be physical inheritance of stolen DNA, it would let certain people (the Set?) control where the powers lie

Hmmmm Kelsier’s Spiritweb was prolly decaying until he was spiked into a body Uuuhhh this was revealed in Secret History but mainly has to do with Forests of Heck We don’t know much about Kelsier’s “body” though. General Cosmere:

I wanna talk about Hemalurgic Compounding. And a specific WoB I found from Brando Sando. So what the coppermind states about Hemalurgical Compounding is that it splices the stores Spiritual DNA to the recipient. What the Coppermind states about Spiritual DNA is that certain MoIs are encoded into the DNA Now significantly, it says encoded, and compounding says spliced. Doesn’t seem to inspire the most confidence that the DNA will always be compatible between persons1. But there are a few implications, assuming it is. Imma use a list to organize myself. 1. Eco-friendly exchange. 2. Spiritual Depository 3. Blood makes Hemalurgy last longer. Eco-Friendly Exchange: It seems as if Hemalurgic compounding has the same effect as regular Hemalurgy, putting their DNA with yours and possibly giving access to the powers. If not, these are still possible: Power Inheritance. I see no reason why a descendant would inherent the DNA in a possibly more healthy/natural way. Stacking: Can multiple spikes be consumed to overcome the decay in a way that Hemalurgy cannot? Stealing: A spike can then be used to steal the power, likely. Spiritual Depository: If these powers can be stored in someone’s spiritual DNA, and if (this is the leap) they can be taken again, then there is a way to take the power with only the two drops in investiture. If you have an intermediary, you can spiritually splice them, then 60 years later you can spike them and get the power in a less diluted form. Depending on the powers of the intermediary, they may be able to last longer. Peeerrrrrma spike. Blood Makes Hemalurgy Last Longer: We know how this works, the Coppermind stating that this is due to the spike thinking that it has become part of a body. Now, we also know that Khriss thought that Hemalurgic decay was “a thing of the past” (Ars Arcanum Lost Metal), and we know that Spiritwebs decay but do not disappear after death (the WoB) So I don’t think this decay, unlike the initial decrease in power, actually comes from Ruin. (From what I understand) The spike isn’t actually charged with Ruins investiture, it has no business being there. I think the spike is recognized as a separate, dead Spiritweb that is beginning natural decay until it is boosted onto a living Spiritweb. This is probably what leads to the spike not decaying due to being within a body.