Timeline for How did the Lord Ruler survive decapitation?
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| Aug 2, 2017 at 17:39 | comment | added | Alan Leuthard | You're assuming that Physical detachment of the head actually removes Cognitive and/or Spiritual abilities. In the Cosmere, your "self" isn't stored in the synapses of your brain. With enough Investiture, the body isn't necessary, much less a single part of it, like the head. There might be a required Physical reattaching, but it's quite possible that the Lord Ruler (and Miles) could simply grow a whole new head. Or...the head could grow a new body. Not both, since there's only one self. | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:43 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Oct 30, 2015 at 20:18 | comment | added | DCShannon | @CreationEdge Wouldn't it also be possible to reattach the head? | |
| May 16, 2015 at 2:26 | history | edited | Radhil | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 25, 2015 at 18:34 | comment | added | user31178 | I don't think your answer is wrong in any way. It's the right answer, IMO. But nothing indicates that Lord Ruler had to regrow an entire head(not that you said he did). It may be possible, but we don't have to assume so. | |
| Jan 25, 2015 at 17:40 | comment | added | Radhil | @CreationEdge - that's why I included the spoiler example, to show that regrowing most of a head is possible under the rules as demonstrated, although you might be right | |
| Jan 25, 2015 at 8:03 | comment | added | user31178 | @aroth Without more details from the Lord Ruler himself, it's hard to say. In my mind I like to think that it was bragging and psyche out sort of thing. If your enemies think you're unstoppable then they may not try to stop you. | |
| Jan 25, 2015 at 7:56 | comment | added | aroth | @CreationEdge - That would imply then that certain modes of decapitation could have been effective, right? For instance, a guillotine with a blade that's wider than his neck and which remains between the head and the torso. Or in other words, he was both powerful and lucky to survive. And I suppose the other implication is that he'd have to have his healing powers active in advance of the injury and/or perpetually on (which in theory he could do since he had an infinite feedback loop), since tapping a Feruchemical store is always depicted as taking a conscious effort? | |
| Jan 25, 2015 at 4:57 | comment | added | user31178 | To clarify: It's likely that when his head is severed, the neck wound heals before the head can roll away. There's nothing saying that his head is separated by a distance. I don't think we need to believe that he grows an entire new head (or body). | |
| Jan 25, 2015 at 1:51 | history | edited | Radhil | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 25, 2015 at 1:42 | history | answered | Radhil | CC BY-SA 3.0 |