Fallen Rope Posted October 25, 2014 Report Share Posted October 25, 2014 I was thinking about how lerasium seems to be completely different to every other allomantic metal, including atium. Lerasium is the only metal that has a permanent effect from burning, but every metal does have a permanent effect, making you a savant. This could be what happens with lerasium, everyone has a link to Preservation and this link is what the power from burning lerasium comes through and since lerasium has so much power one bead makes you a savant. Your spirit has a hole ripped in it that lets you use the rest of the metals. Lerasium alloys cause the power to be drawn through a smaller section of the link to Preservation so only that section has a hole ripped in it. This theory means that there would be another use of lerasium, a power that only happens when the metal is burnt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king of nowhere Posted October 25, 2014 Report Share Posted October 25, 2014 i think it has been confirmed somewhere that lerasium has another effect and turning you into a mistborn is merely an accident. no one has any idea what that effect would be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeiryWriter Posted October 25, 2014 Report Share Posted October 25, 2014 On lerasium-savantism: DouglasWhat about a Lerasium savant? Or would that require so much Lerasium that the person attempting it would ascend to become a new Shardholder?Brandon SandersonBasically, this is what ascension is. (source) On other lerasium effects: 17th ShardIf a Mistborn burns lerasium, as in, not just ingests it, what effect would it grant Allomantically?Brandon SandersonThat is a RAFO. It would do something, but the thing you've gotta remember is that, when ingesting lerasium for the first time and gaining the powers, your body is actually burning it. Think of lerasium as a metal anyone can burn. Does that make sense?17th ShardIt does.Brandon SandersonBy burning it you gain access to those powers. It rewrites your spiritual DNA, and there are ways to do really cool things with lerasium that I don't see how anyone would know. Were most Mistborn to just burn it, it would rewrite their genetic code to increase their power as an Allomancer. (source) ChaosDoes atium have a "side effect", much like how lerasium has a "side effect" in creating Mistborn?Brandon SandersonRAFO (source) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fallen Rope Posted October 26, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2014 (edited) Maybe savant is the wrong word. I think that lerasium rips the link to preservation into a hole, simmilar to what becoming a savant does. Becoming a savant is then making the hole wider and damages other parts of the spirit web. Rewriting the spirit web could be the samething as making a hole in it. Edited October 26, 2014 by Fallen Rope 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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