I love how many authors we get on this subreddit, it’s amazing. Not sure if you meant this forum or not but it’s still cool. I hope I see Brandon Sanderson one of these days, I have a stupid question for him.
Shoot.
I’ve been terrible about my reddit pms lately. Better to ask here.
About Miles from Alloy of Law and his regenerative powers. If he was bisected down the middle and the halves were separated immediately before the healing process could begin, would the two halves each regrow into a whole Miles?
Good question. In all of the Cosmere’s Shard-based magics, the greater portion of a bisected body regrows the lesser portion. If it were done EXACTLY halfway, the soul wold jump to one or the other randomly and that would regrow.
Amusingly, this first came up in 1999, six years before I got published. (I see someone else already mentioned the situation where I had to consider it.)
As little add—on Sanderson has stated that at its core, Shard-based healing is about restoring the person back to themselves. So someone who wears glasses and gets shot and healed, will still need glasses as that is how they (or their soul) sees themself. I assume this would happen in more extreme cases too, some one who had a limb amputated at birth gets healed at another time, the limb will not be restored because they see themself as an amputee, even if it is within the magic’s ability to restore limbs to some one who recently lost one.
So… wait a sec, the Lord Ruler got decapitated at one point…
What did he do with the severed head? Mount it on the wall?
:)
He mounted it SIDEWAYS? :P
Actually, this is kind of a sillier followup to a silly question, but could you use Forgery to say ‘actually, this half had 51% instead of 49%’ and temporarily clone Miles?
Boy. That’s a can of worms, right there…
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