hemalurgy
Hemalurgy is a magic system in Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere, most prominently featured in the Mistborn series. It centers on the creation and use of metal spikes that can steal, store, and transfer investiture—the magical power that underpins many supernatural abilities. Practitioners who work with hemalurgy are called hemalurgists, and they manipulate spikes to capture portions of a living subject’s power and later pass those powers to a different recipient.
The core mechanism involves a spike being charged with a donor’s investiture through a ritual act that
Spikes can be used to host multiple powers and to combine effects, giving rise to various hemalurgic
In-world, hemalurgy has a long and contentious history, tied to the rise and fall of empires and