Herald Posted January 3, 2017 Report Share Posted January 3, 2017 (edited) We all know that in Cosmere, Aluminum is special due to it's magical inertness properties. While reading the White Sand, I see that a similar material that couldn't be affected by sand mastery is terken (living material or species?). Pure speculation - perhaps terken exhibits weird properties in other magic systems also like Aluminum. We also have no idea how Aluminum behaves in this magic system. Thoughts? Edit: Grammar Edited January 3, 2017 by Herald 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yata Posted January 3, 2017 Report Share Posted January 3, 2017 (edited) Some people think terken Sandlings are Sandlings who have trace of Bauxite in their carapace. The Bauxite is mineral Alluminium and it may be assimilated by some Sandlings during their lives Edited January 3, 2017 by Yata 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modal Seoul Posted March 10, 2017 Report Share Posted March 10, 2017 Being scientific, I think terken is a sort of organic armor that reacts violently with water. It may have a natural combination of an alkali element (sodium?) that makes it this way. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yata Posted March 12, 2017 Report Share Posted March 12, 2017 On 10/3/2017 at 3:45 PM, Captains Domon said: Being scientific, I think terken is a sort of organic armor that reacts violently with water. It may have a natural combination of an alkali element (sodium?) that makes it this way. Except there is no water involved... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king of nowhere Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 only metallic aluminium is immune, as aluminium comprises a large part of earth's crust (and, being lightweight and not mixing well with molten iron, it is likely to be present in large amounts in the crust of any rocky planet). so just containing trace bauxite would not be enough, or pretty much anything would be immune to magic. it is possible to imagine a living creature making metallic aluminium - though that's not normally the way of living creatures - but then aluminium is not dissolved by water, not before several years at least. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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