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  • 1

    Interview: Dec 6th, 2014

    Question (Paraphrased)

    Would Inqusitors’s kids have Allomancy?

    Brandon Sanderson (Paraphrased)

    Not usually. It happens sometimes, but not usually.

    [Brandon] then mentioned a little about sDNA, but that it's not inherited as much as it is when it's natural.

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  • 2

    Interview: Mar 20th, 2014

    Chris_from_Warrenton

    [Paraphrased]In order to use magic from one world on another world, do they need a bit of [the first world's] Shard with you?

    Brandon Sanderson

    It helps a lot. But there are other ways to do it. What's going on in the Cosmere is people have 3 sets of DNA. They have Physical DNA, Spiritual DNA, and Cognitive DNA. Their Spiritual DNA is what encodes the magic system into them, their Investiture. So if you can find a way to rewrite your Spiritual DNA, you can do all kinds of funky things. That's what Hemalurgy does. It rips off a piece of someone else's soul, staples it to yours. So if you went with a Hemalurgic spike to the right place, ripped off a piece of someone's soul and stapled it to yourself, you could create short circuits that will let you do all kinds of goofy stuff.

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  • 3

    Interview: Apr 16th, 2014

    nalesean

    Suppose you had a Feruchemist that was also skilled in forgery. If they soul stamped themselves, would they normally be able to still use Feruchemy, and if they were able to use Feruchemy after a soul stamp would they be able to access their own metalminds.

    Brandon Sanderson

    [Paraphrased]You could do so, but it would require jury rigging in order to make it work, since the soul stamp overwrites the current spiritual aspect of a person. He then said that the accessing the metalminds would also require some amount of jury rigging.

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  • 4

    Interview: Feb 20th, 2015

    Kurkistan

    Is there-- Can you explain the relationship between spiritual DNA, spiritual aspects, and the spiritweb, or are they all just terms for the same thing?

    Brandon Sanderson

    They are all similar terms for the similar stuff, yeah.

    Kurkistan

    Okay. So it's not like the core is spiritual DNA then things as you spread out is all spiritual aspect?

    Brandon Sanderson

    No.

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  • 5

    Interview: Oct 9th, 2015

    Question

    You’ve spoken before how DNA exists on multiple different levels in your magic systems. I hear somewhere that Hemalurgy actually splices something into your DNA - so what does that imply for inheritability?

    Brandon Sanderson

    It is not inheritable.

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