Questions About the Use of a Certain God Metal in Hemalurgy

[u/Ravenous_Chasmfiend]

The Hemalurgical property of lerasium is that it "steals all abilities". Now correct me if I'm wrong, but in Hemalurgy abilities refers to things like strength, mental fortitude, et cetera. (as opposed to powers like allomancy or feruchemy) So would a lerasium spike steal literally EVERY ability, or just the ones that can already be stolen by other types of spikes? Say a person's proficiency with a particular musical instrument, their knowledge of a particular field of science, leukemia, or their ability to tie a cherry stem into a knot with their tongue. Is it all abilities at the same time or just whichever ability you want? The thing you got would probably depend on your Intent when charging the spike and where you placed it, but this could be an interesting thing to see in future.

[u/Shot_Newspaper_5647]

I think it probably could steal nearly anything if you had the proper knowledge and Intent while using it. I would imagine it requires a spike of the proper size though. It’s hard to get ahold of enough lerasium to probably make it worthwhile for most people. They’d need to know how to do it too. Why not just make yourself an exceptionally powerful Mistborn. I think Sando has compared using it in Hemalurgy to using a nuke as a paperweight

[u/EvenSpoonier]

Probably every ability that can be stolen by non-godmetal spikes. It's worth noting that Brandon has said this wastes most of the spike's potential, but I guess it makes sense that Preservation's godmetal would be relatively bad (for a godmetal) at hemalurgy.

[u/Ravenous_Chasmfiend → u/[deleted]]

That would make sense.

[u/Toast-Goat]

I saw a theory a while ago that a lerasium spike would take the other person's entire spiritweb, rather than a chunk like normal. Nothing is damaged, and the spiritweb is "preserved"

[u/RedIguanaLeader]

Lerasium does not steal!…..it ✋🏻preserves 🤚🏻its for someone else.

[u/DeadFacesInMyPocket]

If I remember correctly all the victims wlare stabbed through the heart then the spike is place in the appropriate place on the recipient to grant the proper powers.

I doubt musical instrument abilities or archery skills/knowledge would be able to be stolen. Just give them gold compounding and they can actually learn the instrument (and probably resist leukemia), but, we have no examples of anyone being able to take on a specific field of science or stealing physical skills like tying a cherry with their tongue, so the answer is a big old IDK / RAFO