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Interview: Apr 15th, 2013
Reddit AMA 2013 (Verbatim)Herowannabe ()
I recently picked up the Mistborn Adventure game and am loving it. I made a character who is a blind Mistborn because hey, I thought it would make for some interesting possibilities. As I understand Allomancy, he can hear/sense well enough to get around with Tin, plus even though he's blind he can still "see" Steel lines (like the inquisitors), and I assume Atium would work the same way—that is, he could still "see" Atium shadows. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Brandon Sanderson
No, you're right. That works. He'd have to burn metals a LOT though. It might warp him a little. :)
Herowannabe
The metal that's stumping me is Gold—what happens when a blind person burns Gold—especially if he "sees" a version of himself that isn't blind? Can he see the other version or just hear/feel/sense him? What about the other version, can it see things? Could a blind person use gold in this way to see the world around him?
Brandon Sanderson
A blind person would indeed sense these things, but not have the vision with the eyes. In the same way that a blind person still dreams, but doesn't "See" in them. (As I understand it.) I'd suggest talking to someone who is blind and getting their take on how this would work.
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Interview: Oct 12th, 2015
Kurkistan
If you're on Threnody and you get withered by a shade, are you better off burning Allomantic aluminum, or tapping Feruchemical gold?Brandon Sanderson
(lots of laughing) [Some clarification on the question]They would both work pretty well. I would say if you burned aluminum, that would kind of have the effect that you are wanting it to have, which is the effect- negating and sucking out, so that’s probably safer. But the gold would work, too.Kurkistan
So would it be fair to describe withering as a kind of cancerous Forging-3
Interview: Oct 6th, 2015
Nethseaar
If one used Hemalurgy to give a fallen Elantrian Feruchemic gold, would they be able to Fill health?Brandon Sanderson
(pondered for an extended period of time) No, they would not be able to Fill health.Footnote
[here I asked whether a huge reserve would appear if they had been trying to Fill health while fallen and then were restored] No, it would not stack and then suddenly appear once they were restored. [here I began to feel I was slowing the line too much, and was trying to let Brandon move on, but the question interested him enough that he went on. The following is extremely paraphrased and my remembrance (written not too long afterward) might be affected by my tired, overwhelmed mind:] Hemalurgic spikes would do very strange things to Elantrians. You could get more from an Elantrian with a Hemalurgic spike than from most other people.Tags
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Interview: Nov 22nd, 2016
BYU Bookstore (Paraphrased)Djarskublar
So, say you have a gold/gold Twinborn and they worldhop to Roshar and they study the magic and do the whole Khriss and Nazh thing for a while so that they know a lot about the magic, but they've also left themselves a lot of options with what they can do. So then they manage to pull up a gold shadow of them having actually become a Surgebinder and then kind of meld themselves with that shadow a bunch, could they change their Cognitive Identity enough so that they could, like, tap a lot of Gold and grow the spren and actually be a Surgebinder?Brandon Sanderson
Unfortunately, no. It's a good question, but no. That won't work for a couple of reasons. One of which is simply creating Investiture is not something that can happen, right?Djarskublar
They are a gold Twinborn, so they can tap a lot of gold...
Brandon Sanderson
They can tap a whole bunch, that's true, they can do that, but simply having it is not gonna create a spren because the spren is from a different god, right, a different Shard.
Djarskublar
So if they had Regrowth cast on them, would that do it?
Brandon Sanderson
hems and haws for a second.
Djarskublar
A really, really big Regrowth like in the middle of a Highstorm.
Brandon Sanderson
Hmmm, this, you are getting to the realm of plausibility at that point. I still don't think gold is the way to do it. I think you just get all that Investiture. It would become sapient by you sticking a whole bunch of Investiture, and then you can bond to that. But it's not like people gain what you would have done. Does that make sense? That's just what's going to happen, is you're gonna, you can create a, potentially create a spren that way, but you are more likely to end up with something like Nightblood. But you could potentially create a spren, but I mean you're just gonna end up...
Djarskublar
So there are more optimal ways to do that?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes, go bond a spren. (evil grin of course)
Djarskublar
But you can't easily bond multiple, and if you did this you could maybe get multiple.
Brandon Sanderson
Nyeaaahhh... The spren still has to choose. If you want to be a Surgebinder, the choice is being made. You can't fake your way into it. Decision and Honor are too much a part of Surgebinding for you to be able to fake your way into that. Other magics you might be able to do that. Other magics that don't require, like, Surgebinding works because a piece of Honor or Cultivation or a mix has chosen you specifically. There is will from the actual Investiture involved in it in Roshar.
Djarskublar
Okay.
Brandon Sanderson
So it's not something you can cheat your way into, right. But cheating your way into Breath might be easier, right.
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Interview: Nov 29th, 2016
Old Firehouse Books-AU tour (Paraphrased)Question
If Shai had a gold shadow, and she used one of her Essence Stamps, would her gold shadow change to reflect her new self?Brandon Sanderson
Yes, because she is changing her soul so the gold shadow changes.Tags