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Would animal bones work [for a skeletal]?
Brandon Sanderson
Animal bones can work and have been used before. They don't like them as much for various reasons. They're worse at following certain commands.
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How does [Bloodsealing] actually work with [the skeletals]? Does it trap something inside the bones like a Command?
Brandon Sanderson
Yeah, it works very similar to making Lifeless. Slight variations, but you are basically animating the bones by using Investiture that doesn't actually belong to them and tricking them into thinking that it does for a little bit of time and making it think it's alive again. And the fact that it's bones is really important for that, for Bloodsealing. But it's working in a similar way. The distinction is that with Lifeless you are actually using part of their own soul, right? And with Bloodsealing you're not.
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Does a Bloodsealer need to restamp the bones [of a skeletal] every twenty-four hours?
Brandon Sanderson
They do need to maintain the seals in the same way, it's not necessarily every twenty-four hours.