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Brandon Sanderson / Re: what the metals do in feruchemy and hemalurgy
« on: March 13, 2009, 07:14:26 AM »
I'm new to TWG, but I have some good ideas:
Feruchemy:
Cadmium: stores time speed
NotCerrobend: Stores time (if you jump ahead five years in time (and store those five years) you could later go back five years).
Aluminum - Feruchemical 'garbage can'; funnel your stored powers into it from another metalmind and they will disappear
Chromium - if you are touching a metalmind with someone else's stored powers, you can funnel them into your chromiummind and make them dissappear
Duralumin - funnel your powers through it into a Nicrosilmind (sends stored powers)
Nicrosil - recieves stored powers; when you receive them you can either in turn store them into one of your metatlminds or just allow them to take effect
Electrum - stores existence. (You can store existence by being 'not present' from your body, but your body must still be able to survive (you would fall into a state of unconsciousness for a selected time. Later, you could withdraw that power in order to stay conscious no matter what - even if you were blasted into pieces you would still 'exist' until your reserve disappeared. But this needs some work, because you'd have to be touching your metalmind).
I think notcerrobend needs some sort of limitation on how far into the future you can go.
I like the idea of the Enhancement metals being 'funnels' through which the user can channel his powers, but it's not consistent with the nature of metalminds, so I'm not sure if it would work. Also, I'm not sure whether or not you should be able to choose whether or not to let powers enter your Nicrosilmind.
Atium stores age, but Lerasium is very different. Perhaps it could store the power of Feruchemy itself? That has lots of problems with it, but I can't think of anything better.
Hemalurgy:
I don't have as many ideas here. In each set of four, two metals steal ordinary things and the other two steal Allomancy and Hemalurgy. That leaves two Temporal and two Enhancement that are unknown.
Temporal Ideas:
A metal that steals memories and/or knowledge would be cool (you steal the memories of the Person you kill).
A metal that steals life? If you kill someone who has fifty years left to live, you live fifty years longer? That has some problems, because you really don't know how long someone is going to live until they die.
As for Enhancement and God metals, my mind is blank.
Feruchemy:
Cadmium: stores time speed
NotCerrobend: Stores time (if you jump ahead five years in time (and store those five years) you could later go back five years).
Aluminum - Feruchemical 'garbage can'; funnel your stored powers into it from another metalmind and they will disappear
Chromium - if you are touching a metalmind with someone else's stored powers, you can funnel them into your chromiummind and make them dissappear
Duralumin - funnel your powers through it into a Nicrosilmind (sends stored powers)
Nicrosil - recieves stored powers; when you receive them you can either in turn store them into one of your metatlminds or just allow them to take effect
Electrum - stores existence. (You can store existence by being 'not present' from your body, but your body must still be able to survive (you would fall into a state of unconsciousness for a selected time. Later, you could withdraw that power in order to stay conscious no matter what - even if you were blasted into pieces you would still 'exist' until your reserve disappeared. But this needs some work, because you'd have to be touching your metalmind).
I think notcerrobend needs some sort of limitation on how far into the future you can go.
I like the idea of the Enhancement metals being 'funnels' through which the user can channel his powers, but it's not consistent with the nature of metalminds, so I'm not sure if it would work. Also, I'm not sure whether or not you should be able to choose whether or not to let powers enter your Nicrosilmind.
Atium stores age, but Lerasium is very different. Perhaps it could store the power of Feruchemy itself? That has lots of problems with it, but I can't think of anything better.
Hemalurgy:
I don't have as many ideas here. In each set of four, two metals steal ordinary things and the other two steal Allomancy and Hemalurgy. That leaves two Temporal and two Enhancement that are unknown.
Temporal Ideas:
A metal that steals memories and/or knowledge would be cool (you steal the memories of the Person you kill).
A metal that steals life? If you kill someone who has fifty years left to live, you live fifty years longer? That has some problems, because you really don't know how long someone is going to live until they die.
As for Enhancement and God metals, my mind is blank.