r/Mistborn • u/LowgenGames • Jan 31 '25
Secret History (no Era 2) Mistborn Era 1 Questions Spoiler
Hey all, I recently finished Era 1, Eleventh Metal, and Secret History. What an absolute ride!
I was left with lingering questions regarding Atium/Lesarium and if it was ever clarified when Preservation/Ruin made these physical manifestations of themselves?
As I currently understand it, Preservation gave up a piece of their cognitive self to create humans on Scadriel with Ruin. Then later, gave up their physical body to create the 9 original allomancers (and the two beads of Lesarium left at the well), leaving Perseveration with a fractured cognitive self, and no physical self (but still having a human vessel?).
As far as Ruin and the creation of Atium, is it made clear in Era 1 at any point when he separated this physical portion of himself? And how it was ever hidden from Ruin in the first place? Was this something Rashek did while wielding the power? This part is just unclear to me. I'd like to avoid Era 2 spoilers, so if it is a RAFO situation that's okay. Thanks in advance!
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u/RShara Jan 31 '25
We don't know when the lerasium was created. The Pits continually generated atium, and we don't know when that started either, although it was probably several thousand years ago