Atium Compounding

[Walter The Moral]

I'm sure this question has been asked already, but if you compound Atium, and then tap more youth than you have lived, what happens? Do you stop at being a baby? Do you become a fetus? What happens if you keep going after that?

[alder24]

32 minutes ago, Walter The Moral said:

I'm sure this question has been asked already, but if you compound Atium, and then tap more youth than you have lived, what happens? Do you stop at being a baby? Do you become a fetus? What happens if you keep going after that?

Baby is likely the limit, because with duralumin you can turn into baby per this WoB:

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Questioner

What happens if you burn duralumin while Compounding?

Brandon Sanderson

Duralumin while Compounding. So, what duralumin does is it burns out of all of your metal in one burst. So it doesn't necessarily gain you power, it makes it all happen at the same time. The same thing would happen.

Questioner

Could you turn into a baby?

Brandon Sanderson

Oh, you could totally turn into a baby. That is within the power of using that, doing <health wrong>, yeah you could totally... You'd be really dangerous.

Questioner

But it wouldn't really do much?

Brandon Sanderson

Oh it would have explosive... it does things really fast. That's what it does. Yes you could achieve very powerful sudden effects through that. It'd be scary. Controlling it can be dangerous, regardless of which metal you use.

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[Quantus]

Agreed, Baby is likely the limit.  I dont think you could age yourself entirely out of existence, in the same way you can heal the Snapping Spiritual Damage.