WeiryWriter
For the Coppermind: What should we call the page about the Southerner medallions? (or: How would Khriss refer to them in an Ars Arcanum?)
Brandon Sanderson
Let's call them "unsealed metalminds" though Era 3 might use slang.
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Questioner
Does creating unsealed metalmind involve Feruchemical duralumin?
Brandon Sanderson
(hesitating)...Yes. I will write it all out for you eventually. I want to get at least one more book done, then you find out exactly why and how.
Questioner
Because I was pretty confused about the Investiture and Spiritweb...
Brandon Sanderson
Here is the reason I'm kind of hesitant of this, [why not you just RAFO this one right now], but it is not a RAFO, because it is like it's a secret. I want to write it out exactly how it happens, because I have it in my notes in bullet points and it's complicated, right? Cause I want some of the things in the magic system as be as complicated as for instance explaining how a computer works right now. You can do it, but you know...I want the magic to start getting that technical if that makes sense. When you say "involve", right, that's a big word. Why just don't you let me, after lost metal...if I haven't released it, you have permission to come to me and say: "Brandon, you said you would release this, you haven't yet [...]" and I will give to you the bullet point flowchart of how you build the unkeyed metalminds.
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Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)
There is a way to get a non-powered person to access a metalmind.
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Pagerunner [PENDING REVIEW]
Ends of Bands of Mourning, they couldn't refill the heat medallions, was that the brass, or the nicrosil they were having trouble with?
Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]
Let's RAFO that.
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Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]
How can everyone tap nicrosil without being a nicrosil Ferring? Is that a Read And Find Out?
Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]
That's kind of a Read And Find Out.
Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]
I assume the next book, probably?
Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]
We'll dig into that.
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Questioner
So nicrosil. Wax couldn’t use a blank gold metalmind because he’s not a gold ferring, why can he use a blank nicrosil metalmind?
Brandon Sanderson
So this will all come out eventually but the idea is there are certain ways to connect yourself to magic, to hack the magic and make it think you have the Spiritual DNA that you don’t actually have. And this is one of the ways.
Questioner
So then the people who made this medallion have this thing that a regular nicrosil Ferring couldn’t--
Brandon Sanderson
Yeah, you’re picking up on it. We’ll dig deeper into it as the series progresses.
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Yata [PENDING REVIEW]
If you have 32 Misting and Ferring, every kind possible, without using Hemalurgy, you can craft a medallion? Without the aftermath of the--
Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]
So could you craft a medallion... without-- oh. That should be possible, but this is one of the things where I have to dig out the notes and double-check myself. But this should be possible.
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Questioner
Could non-Scadrians use Southern Scadrian medallions, and if so, could Drabs, too?
Brandon Sanderson
Oh, the amulets? Yes, yes they could.
Questioner
And Drabs, also?
Brandon Sanderson
Could Drabs use one of the amulets and make them work? Yeah, Drabs could. They're missing a little bit of something I'll explain eventually, but they could make those work.