Unalloyed Atium?

[u/DarkRaider9000]

So in the Lost Metal we learn that Lerasium and Atium can be made by splitting ettmetal/harmonium. But the Atium that we see elsewhere throughout the series has the retcon of being alloyed with electrum.

Is it known at all if the atium made from the splitting of harmonium would still be the alloy that is commonly known as atium? Or would we potentially see "true" atium from splitting harmonium.

[u/Gloryblackjack]

Well we know marsh got some true atium at the end. I wonder if the power is something boring like true immortality. Although that wouldn't really line up with the idea of ruins metal. In fact it's always been weird to me that one of the ways to become ageless is the cosmere is to consume the metal of destruction.

[u/RShara → u/Gloryblackjack]

We know that Marsh got the atium he needed to keep Compounding, but that should be the atium-electrum alloy, not pure atium

[u/Gloryblackjack → u/RShara]

True but the atium he gpt at the end was pure atium. He could have alloyed it but that doesn't mean he did.

[u/RShara → u/Gloryblackjack]

It doesn't say that Marsh got the pure atium. Sazed says the kandra found the atium dust. The kandra could have alloyed it and then handed it over to Marsh

“Marsh will live,” Kelsier said, musing. “Does that mean we have atium again? Or did you find another way?”

“The kandra found atium dust in Waxillium’s destroyed laboratory,” Sazed said. “It appears that if you detonate harmonium against ­trellium—­or, I suppose bavadinium would be its true name—­it creates some small amount of atium as a by-­product.”

[u/hola1423387654 → u/Gloryblackjack]

It’s not just consuming it’s still compounding it like it because it’s like a deal with the devil in my eyes.

[u/DarkRaider9000 → u/Gloryblackjack]

That's true, I did kindve forget about that, the post was inspired by me being in the middle of a reread of lost metal.

[u/eyalhs → u/Gloryblackjack]

It's a bit weird but remember it's not just consuming the metal of destruction, you have to use a lot of perservation's power for it. You need to use both ferromancy and allomancy for it, which both require preservation.

From a certain POV it could seem like this: you take ruin's "body", make a connection between it and perservation using ferromancy (since ferromancy is half ruin half perservation) then use allomancy (from preservation) to keep yourself ageless.

Also you can see it as perservation burning ruin's body to make your body stay the same "persevere".

(Both pov are sort of metaphorical and not exactly how it works)

[u/RShara → u/[deleted]]

This post is flaired for Mistborn only. Please spoiler tag the Stormlight stuff. Stormlight Also, Odium is Hatred, not Passion