Kramerfarve Posted August 28, 2019 Report Share Posted August 28, 2019 (edited) Saw a post in that interested me. It was talking about how crazy it would be if you could target the effects you wanted to negate with aluminum. One vein of questioning away, I want to know if Aluminum could be alloyed with other allomantically active metals to destroy just that reserve? Thx Edited August 28, 2019 by Kramerfarve I hate typos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fezzik Posted August 28, 2019 Report Share Posted August 28, 2019 Alloying changes the metal so it is no longer allomantically viable. I would imagine getting really good with aluminum would allow you to control what you burned, much like Wax's steel bubble. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elegy Posted August 28, 2019 Report Share Posted August 28, 2019 Duralumin is an alloy of aluminium and copper and has a very different effect, so I guess no. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karger Posted August 28, 2019 Report Share Posted August 28, 2019 Aluminum dampens all powers. Perhaps will savantism you could do something like what you suggest but alloying aluminum with another metal would remove its effectiveness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weltall Posted August 28, 2019 Report Share Posted August 28, 2019 (edited) Aluminum Savantism is very difficult to attain and Brandon's current thinking for what it would do if you could reach that point is something different: Quote Douglas What benefit does an aluminum savant get? Yes, I know this would normally never happen because aluminum burns itself up. Suppose a mad scientist with a willing Mistborn test subject shoved a feeding tube down the Mistborn's throat to pump in a continuous stream of aluminum, replenishing it steadily so there's always a new unburned supply. Add another tube to pump out excess water if necessary. What would he discover? Alternatively, what would Sazed with his Shard-granted knowledge know? Brandon Sanderson Ha, that IS a little silly of a method. However, on the extreme end of aluminum, I have in the notes the possibility of cleansing the spirit of unwanted effects of other Investitures. You'd get really good at this, and maybe even be able to cleanse the body of other impurities. 17th Shard Forum Q&A (Sept. 27, 2012) @Kramerfarve The only metal that can be alloyed and 'targeted' in the manner you're thinking is lerasium, which can be alloyed with the sixteen basic metals and burned allomantically to make the user a super-powerful misting of that metal, instead of a mistborn. We don't know what relationship lerasium alloys have to the base metal powers in feruchemy or hemalurgy, if any. We don't know enough about atium alloys to determine if those result in predictable allomantic powers based on the base metal, but since we're told they all have temporal or mental effects they're unlikely to be as clear-cut as lerasium alloys. Same caveat for atium alloys in feruchemy/hemalurgy as lerasium since we have no clue what any godmetal alloys do in those systems right now. Edited August 28, 2019 by Weltall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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