u/hermetic_bloom

How did you imagine Resonance to look like?

I feel like it's not fully described in the book, so here's my question:

How do you imagine resonance looks? Do you picture it as "threads" of energy when Helena is healing, or more as an invisible force unless it's being channeled into something like fire?

I also wonder how they'll portray it in the movie. I would imagine Helena to move one hand and her fingers in quite intricate ways when regenerating different tissues, but I don't really picture there being a visible, physical manifestation of her vivimancy.

As far as I understood it, resonance also seems to be very sensitive to the alchemist's emotional state. Kaine's resonance is often described as "warping" or "splitting" the air.

It's quite different from other fantasy novels like Fourth Wing. We aren't following the protagonists through their time at school–that part has already happened. Because of that, a lot of aspects are left to the imagination, which I personally liked. In Fourth Wing, the whole process of using runes is explained quite thoroughly. Violet has to study and practice them, and through her experience we kind of get a sense of how they work.

In Alchemised, we do know that resonance can be manipulated or reinforced through arrays, and we also know that those arrays are etched into plates, but the whole process isn't explained in much detail.

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u/hermetic_bloom — 21 hours ago

Question: Did Kaine use the Stone on Helena in Part 3??

Hi all, I am currently rereading Alchemised and didn’t notice the first time but: in part 3, chapter 69 (page 893 in the hard copy) it says:

Kaine still looked as if he were watching her slip away before his eyes.
”Besides, you did something to me, didn’t you?“ She studied him. ”I thought it was a dream, but you used the Stone somehow.“
”I don‘t know how much it did, though,“ he said …“

I’m confused - how would he have used the Stone of the Heavens on her? Didn’t it melt down inside him?

Was there more than one stone? I always wondered about that actually, whether all amulets they gave out at the institute had a piece of it inside of them.

Anyways, maybe someone knows!! Thanks 🙂

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u/hermetic_bloom — 2 days ago