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Because of Brandon’s retcon on Atium in the second era of Mistborn, I have been thinking about the feruchemantic implications of refined Atium. As I was looking at the Coppermind to find answers, I found that the Feruchemical abilities of refined Atium are unknown. I suspect I know the answer, but first we must revisit what we know of the ferachemantic abilities of Atium. feruchemantic Atium stores youth. Of course, this is very vague and we haven’t encountered it in use much. I suspect that the effects of feruchemantic Atium are both physical and cognitive. On the physical level, your body ages forward and backwards when you store or tap. In addition, I suspect that as you age forward, or store youth, you become more lethargic and less interested in doing things, or might I say, undetermined. You see, because of the Atium Retcon the Atium we know and love is an alloy of Atium and Electrum. So therefore, refined Atium should have the abilities of Atium without the abilities of Electrum. Feruchemantic Electrum stores determination. So refined Atium should not. This is why I have reason to believe that feruchemical refined Atium should store physical youth and should not affect you cognitively.

So, as I understand, which I may be wrong about, using hemalurgy to kill a non-Allomancer/feruchemist takes some of their soul, which I would connect to investure. Using four investure spikes, you can make a Koloss, right? And it is described in the books that you slowly lose humanity as you gain more spikes as you become a Koloss. Does that mean that an aluminum compounder would just end up making you less human?