Can Feruchemists discover allomantic metals?

[Danlin]

I remember reading a post asking about how Kelsier discovered new metals and alloys that work with allomancy. This got me thinking enough to realize that the feruchemy metals and allomantic metals are the same (do the alloys have to be the same or can they be different?) so if a feruchemist can store and tap into a metal then it must also be allomantic! No need to eat, try and burn it, fail and get sick.

Has this method been confirmed anywhere? Because I Googled and nothing related comes up. Do you guys think that this is a viable method?

[Trusk'our he/him]

23 minutes ago, Danlin said:

I remember reading a post asking about how Kelsier discovered new metals and alloys that work with allomancy. This got me thinking enough to realize that the feruchemy metals and allomantic metals are the same (do the alloys have to be the same or can they be different?) so if a feruchemist can store and tap into a metal then it must also be allomantic! No need to eat, try and burn it, fail and get sick.

Has this method been confirmed anywhere? Because I Googled and nothing related comes up. Do you guys think that this is a viable method?

Welcome to the 17th Shard!

You know, that actually sounds like a very clever way to find new allomantic metals in a cheaper, safer way. I think that it should be possible, though of course you'd need a full Feruchemist in order to discover any new powers, as only they would be able to use store and use them.

Edited January 22, 2022 by Trusk'our

[CryoZenith he/him]

Yep, pretty much what Trusk'our said. In principle this works, but in practice you need a full feruchemist to make it work, which... is a problem, because we ran out of those.

[+ShardlessVessel]

Technically you don't need a full Feruchemist to do it, just a large number of Terris people and a lot of patience.

[Trusk'our he/him]

6 hours ago, ShardlessVessel said:

Technically you don't need a full Feruchemist to do it, just a large number of Terris people and a lot of patience.

The only new powers to be discovered would be those that belong to god metals and their alloys. 

So if a Ferring has the ability to store and tap the power associated with a god metal alloyed with their own metal, then that should work. Sounds like this is actually what happened with the "Atium" Mistings in Mistborn; they were really electrum Mistings, so they could burn the Atium even though it was tainted with traces of electrum.

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Xais56

Brandon has said that everyone ought to be able to burn Atium, like they can all burn Lerasium, and the fact that they can't was an oversight on his part that he would've done different in hindsight.

Maybe now he's had an in-universe reason to re-write the laws of allomancy it's back to his intended concept; Mistborn burn all 16 base metals, mistings burn one base metal, non-allomancers can only burn godmetal.

Peter Ahlstrom

My explanation for this is that Preservation somehow caused all naturally occurring atium to form as an alloy of atium and electrum. The atium Mistings were actually electrum Mistings.

Xais56

It's a very tidy solution, but it creates the maddening question of what does pure atium do?

Peter Ahlstrom

That answer has already been revealed canonically. RAFO.

 

[Danlin]

16 hours ago, CryoZenith said:

Yep, pretty much what Trusk'our said. In principle this works, but in practice you need a full feruchemist to make it work, which... is a problem, because we ran out of those.

True. But I was mostly thinking in First Era terms. Both Kelsier and Vin wanted to discover a new metal at one point in the series and they both had access to Sazed. I remember Vin getting sick in testing and thought that this would be an easier way if it worked.

They could also discover a lot more metals because not all of them were discovered yet during this time period.

Edited January 23, 2022 by Danlin