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Questioner
I was wondering if the size of a piece of metal determines the amount of Feruchemical charge that can be stored in it.
Brandon Sanderson
Yes.
Questioner
So how does that scale, like, in terms of the volume or mass of the metal or...
Brandon Sanderson
It-- So I've talked about this before, I'm trying to remember exactly what I've told people-- It does not scale as logically as you think it does. How about that? It's more like certain thresholds. You can have a-- You can store a Hemalurgic or Feruchemical charge even in very small pieces of metal, but larger pieces of metal will let you get more.
Questioner
So it's kind of like there are different classes of sizes?
Brandon Sanderson
Yeah, kind of like that.
Questioner
So, about Feruchemy. If someone takes, for example, a copper metalmind, fills it with memories, and then a tin metalmind, fills it with senses, then melts them together into a bronze metalmind, would you be able to tap anything from it, and what?
Brandon Sanderson
If you made an alloy of them, you would not get anything out of them. You would know there's Investiture in there, but you wouldn't be able to pull it out.
Questioner
Even if it's your own?
Brandon Sanderson
Even if it's your own, yup. They would interfere with each other to the point that you wouldn't be able to get anything out. Sorry.
Questioner
If a coppermind was to be split in half, would the contents of it be destroyed? Or would there be, in the two separate halves, <of different contents?>?
Brandon Sanderson
You should err on the side of being destroyed, though not permanently, is what I would say on that. There are ways to approach it that wouldn't, but generally if you're ruining a metalmind, the Investiture will stay in it, and if you know what you're doing you can make use of that, but in most cases, it's not gonna fare well.
