So, say you have a gold/gold Twinborn and they worldhop to Roshar and they study the magic and do the whole Khriss and Nazh thing for a while so that they know a lot about the magic, but they’ve also left themselves a lot of options with what they can do. So then they manage to pull up a gold shadow of them having actually become a Surgebinder and then kind of meld themselves with that shadow a bunch, could they change their Cognitive Identity enough so that they could, like, tap a lot of Gold and grow the spren and actually be a Surgebinder?
Unfortunately, no. It’s a good question, but no. That won’t work for a couple of reasons. One of which is simply creating Investiture is not something that can happen, right?
They are a gold Twinborn, so they can tap a lot of gold…
They can tap a whole bunch, that’s true, they can do that, but simply having it is not gonna create a spren because the spren is from a different god, right, a different Shard.
So if they had Regrowth cast on them, would that do it?
hems and haws for a second.
A really, really big Regrowth like in the middle of a Highstorm.
Hmmm, this, you are getting to the realm of plausibility at that point. I still don’t think gold is the way to do it. I think you just get all that Investiture. It would become sapient by you sticking a whole bunch of Investiture, and then you can bond to that. But it’s not like people gain what you would have done. Does that make sense? That’s just what’s going to happen, is you’re gonna, you can create a, potentially create a spren that way, but you are more likely to end up with something like Nightblood. But you could potentially create a spren, but I mean you’re just gonna end up…
So there are more optimal ways to do that?
Yes, go bond a spren. (evil grin of course)
But you can’t easily bond multiple, and if you did this you could maybe get multiple.
Nyeaaahhh… The spren still has to choose. If you want to be a Surgebinder, the choice is being made. You can’t fake your way into it. Decision and Honor are too much a part of Surgebinding for you to be able to fake your way into that. Other magics you might be able to do that. Other magics that don’t require, like, Surgebinding works because a piece of Honor or Cultivation or a mix has chosen you specifically. There is will from the actual Investiture involved in it in Roshar.
Okay.
So it’s not something you can cheat your way into, right. But cheating your way into Breath might be easier, right.
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