#soulcaster

However, I feel that artifabrians have failed to take into account what the process is behind Soulcasting. You must enter the Cognitive Realm (Shadesmar) and select the "bead" that represents the object you are trying to Soulcast.

Ancient Soulcasters are made from manifested Inkspren, but my goal is to create fabrials that do not require using sentient spren.

The current idea that I have is to partially enter the Cognitive Realm, pick up a bead that represents, for example, stone, then place it into a fabrial, ideally in an aluminum box so it doesn't escape.

Then, you would have to go up to the object you want to Soulcast, then apply a ton of Investiture to it. Then I guess you could try to replace the spren of the object with the spren of the stone you picked up, which might result in a Soulcasting? I'm not sure, I'm just throwing crem at the wall.

I don’t know if on Roshar they’re super worried about animal cruelty and the like, everything is made out of crabs so I assume it’s hard to avoid eating crab, but I was wondering if meatmancy would be considered vegan.

If you were to meatmance a random rock into meat, can you happily eat that meat knowing the meat you eat has not been beat....en to death to provide tasty delicious meat? I would argue that yes, meatmancy is vegan as sure it’s meat, but it used to be an entire wall of a house, now it’s lunch. No one has had to suffer for this meat, well, except maybe the owner of the house, but you’re a meatmancer, you do what you want.

BUT THEN WHAT IF, what if someone’s been soulcast into stone by a boring soulcaster. Snore. You, the sly meatmancer, sneak into the family crypt and turn that statue of the old king into a tasty meat based snack. Is that vegan? Is it cannibalism? Is it any different than making human shaped meat sticks out of kebab meat?

Yes, the Stormlight Archive asks a lot of questions about the value in how others revere the symbol of a person or group, yes it asks a lot of questions about what is honour, and yes, it asks a lot of questions about what is right and wrong, but it doesn’t ask whether if I turned a statue formed of a dead king’s body into meat, will I go to jail for A) Cannibalism, B) Breaking vegan law or C) Desecrating a grave.

A commission for @argent-sun, featuring my greatest enemy ...a background! but at the end I kind of proud of it.

When Jasnah Kholin soulcasts a rock into smoke in The Way of Kings, her hand sinks into the rock a little bit.