BoM/TWS Message Forum

Since anima bands have become a recent topic, I have a question or two for Seuzz.

What would happen if somebody tried to make 6 anima bands? Would it extract all of the anima and leave the person catatonic until another source of anima was introduced, or would the band refuse to work if it would remove the last of a person's anima? I feel like it would probably be the first one since the Libra doesn't really do handholding, but I thought I'd ask.

"Magic: The Metaphysics of Magic in BoM"  says of essentia that "Destroying one of the clones will restore full reality to the survivor." It also says that the way anima divides is similar to essentia. Does this mean that destroying an anima band would make it so another copy could be drawn off from one of the other copies? I'm mostly curious because of the troubles that the Hyde-White-posessed Dey had in the Patsy line. I know the reason he had trouble with the anima, but I'm curious if that anima band of Hyde-White is the full anima that could be divided with sufficiently advanced technique, or if the other 5/6ths died with Hyde-White.

Can anima bands be refreshed as per mind strips?

I'm also have a question about authorial intent. Why did you establish that anima bands don't record information and reset to their original state when removed?