Calderis Posted March 1, 2019 Report Share Posted March 1, 2019 1 hour ago, Invocation said: Perception plays a large role in cosmere magic. Elend while being fueled by Vin, or Vin powered by the mists probably could have used one of the other metals had they known about them. But they didn't, so they didn't look, so they weren't there. This. It's the exact same reason that a medallion does work until you realize what it is. It doesn't help that some of the metals for the new powers are alloys that they literally did not have the men's to create in Era 1. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Oltux72 Posted March 2, 2019 Report Share Posted March 2, 2019 On 3/1/2019 at 1:43 AM, Chinkoln said: I don't get how suddenly all of these new powers suddenly appeared. When Elund became a Mistborn or when Vin drew on the mists why didn't they get all the new metals? They only got what they had previously used, and now even atium. Elend must have learned that there are more metals than suspected when during the Catacendre people who were affected by the mists did not react to any of the known metals. But that was later. It seems likely that Spook started looking for new metals. How many he found we cannot tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Invocation Posted March 2, 2019 Report Share Posted March 2, 2019 7 minutes ago, Oltux72 said: It seems likely that Spook started looking for new metals. It's more than likely, Harmony straight up told him there were more metals in the book he reads at the end of Hero of Ages. Odds are, he found all of the new ones (or they were found under his direction), because of how accepted they seem to be during the events of Era 2 itself. They would have had time to sink in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Oltux72 Posted March 2, 2019 Report Share Posted March 2, 2019 4 minutes ago, Invocation said: It's more than likely, Harmony straight up told him there were more metals in the book he reads at the end of Hero of Ages. Odds are, he found all of the new ones (or they were found under his direction), because of how accepted they seem to be during the events of Era 2 itself. They would have had time to sink in. The problem there is Nicrosil. You need silicon for that. That means that you must have electricity. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Invocation Posted March 2, 2019 Report Share Posted March 2, 2019 7 minutes ago, Oltux72 said: The problem there is Nicrosil. You need silicon for that. That means that you must have electricity. Depends on whether Harmony decides to help out or not. And whether they were able to make nicrosil with impure silicon (I have no idea if that's possible). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigmikey357 Posted March 3, 2019 Report Share Posted March 3, 2019 8 hours ago, Invocation said: Depends on whether Harmony decides to help out or not. And whether they were able to make nicrosil with impure silicon (I have no idea if that's possible). Because we know that the metal percentages have to be exact in order to work allomantically. And we don't know the allomantically viable percentages for all the metals. Or even if those percentages have changed from Era 1 to Era 2. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Invocation Posted March 3, 2019 Report Share Posted March 3, 2019 Just now, Bigmikey357 said: Because we know that the metal percentages have to be exact in order to work allomantically. And we don't know the allomantically viable percentages for all the metals. Or even if those percentages have changed from Era 1 to Era 2. Also fair! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rossamund Posted March 7, 2019 Report Share Posted March 7, 2019 On 3/3/2019 at 9:08 AM, Invocation said: On 3/3/2019 at 8:59 AM, Oltux72 said: The problem there is Nicrosil. You need silicon for that. That means that you must have electricity. Depends on whether Harmony decides to help out or not. And whether they were able to make nicrosil with impure silicon (I have no idea if that's possible). Wasn't it that there's a margin of error in which burning is less effective and makes you sick. Also silicon like aluminium can be extracted with non-modern methods and was first extracted in pure form in 1823. So Nicrosil could have being made at least in small quantities quite some way back. Though it is surprising given the cost that they discovered the right alloy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Invocation Posted March 7, 2019 Report Share Posted March 7, 2019 Just now, Rossamund said: Wasn't it that there's a margin of error in which burning is less effective and makes you sick. Correct. If it's close to the correct alloy, you get some power, but not much and it's implied to not be good in the long-term. Too far off and you do get sick, if you try to burn a non-allomantic metal, you could die. 2 minutes ago, Rossamund said: Though it is surprising given the cost that they discovered the right alloy. It's probably a little help from Harmony and/or you-know-who. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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