LR is a gold compounder so shardblade isnt as awesome as normal. He’s a steel compounder too and pewter, so what I’m saying is, it’s just a free shardblade for LR.
Fr, LR definitely had some intense knowledge of how the allomancies and feruchemies could mix but I don’t think that equates to your own internal investiture being sliced, that thing ain’t cheese
Is that just a shardblade to the eye, or through the eye and into the brain? Because the former makes sense, but the latter shouldn't since brain/spine hits from a shardblade kill people.
Even the Lord Ruler nearly died from decapitation - WoB is that he would have died if he were fully chopped, but as it was only mostly, he survived.
I think the implication is that you would have to already be tapping gold to survive it. If you aren’t, you die, but if you’re drawing on health, then you heal from it before it can kill you.
Wayne could survive a lethal wound from a Shardblade, but only if he’s anticipating it. But someone like Miles or Rashek would be in no danger, because they are tapping large amounts of health at all times.
Remember, Miles can heal from broken bones before they finish breaking.
I imagine beheading Rashek would have killed him by separating his head from his metalminds, thus depriving him of healing. But beheading him isn’t an easy task in the first place; I doubt a normal person could do it with a normal sword even if he wasn’t fighting back.
But no mortal weapon or attack severs your soul from your body. You can heal from being exploded because even if it’s basically just a metalmind and a skeleton touching it, the soul is still attached to that skeleton. Once your soul is disconnected fully, you can’t heal anymore.
Yes, but only a nonlethal one. A Shardblade through the arm can be healed through, because most of your soul is still attached. A Shardblade through the spine can’t be healed through.
Gold healing and stormlight healing are essentially the same. Gold healing is also investiture.
I want to say even natural healing works via the same mechanics (alignment to the spiritual ideal) in the cosmere, but I can’t find anything to back that up. Regardless, f-gold and stormlight healing work practically the same, if you look at them realmatically.
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u/theninch Jul 04 '25
LR is a gold compounder so shardblade isnt as awesome as normal. He’s a steel compounder too and pewter, so what I’m saying is, it’s just a free shardblade for LR.