Timewaster's Guide Archive

It seems that Hemalurgy could potentially have a significant place in medicine alongside things like blood and organ donation, in the form of voluntary hemalurgic attribute donation. One complication of this would be the fact that hemalurgy and heart donation are mutually exclusive, so the benefit a recipient would receive from transference of a some hemalurgic attribute would have to be weighed against the benefit of transplanting the heart itself. Presumably they would have to have a way of ranking the suitability of a heart for transplant versus hemalurgy while taking into account what is needed for other patients. A weak or diseased heart which cannot be transplanted could be used for just about anything hemalurgically, whereas a heart ideal for transplant could be used for hemalurgy instead if its owner is a pewter misting and there's a potential recipient whose vast injuries are certain to be fatal without the effect of pewter allomancy.