Using Duralumin to burn a shardblade.

[Radiant-Twinborn he/him]

If a Mistborn was to try to burn a shardblade, it would not work because of how Invested the object is But if a Mistborn were to eat a shard-something (Lift would try to do this just for fun!) and then burn it with Duralumin, would they be able to burn that metal? Does anyone know? 

[Dunkum he/him]

why do you think they wouldn't be able to burn it?  they can burn erasium and atium, and those are both very invested

see WOB:

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If a Mistborn were to burn a piece of a Shardblade, what would happen?

Brandon Sanderson

This would be hard to make happen, but it would be possible. A Shardblade is going to act as, basically, an alloy of the god metal of Honor and so  what would it do? RAFO, but it is possible and it would do something. It would not be inert. It would be Allomanticaly viable.

https://wob.coppermind.net/events/402/#e13315

[Radiant-Twinborn he/him]

That makes sense, thanks for the info. 

[Quantus he/him]

On 4/1/2022 at 10:01 AM, Dunkum said:

why do you think they wouldn't be able to burn it?  they can burn erasium and atium, and those are both very invested

see WOB:

https://wob.coppermind.net/events/402/#e13315

The answer has evolved.  Originally a mistborn would have needed a connection to the other shard/magic to be able to burn a foreign god-metal.  

 

 

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word_thief

What would happen if a Mistborn ingested the metal of a Shardblade/Plate?

Brandon Sanderson

A Shardblade is Invested. A Mistborn isn't likely to have a tie to that type of Investiture. So probably nothing would happen…

General Twitter 2013 (Oct. 24, 2013)

 

 

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Dave Smith

Can a Mistborn burn any god metal such as tanavastium?

Brandon Sanderson

Yes they could.

Footnote: Previously Brandon indicated they would need a tie to that type of Investiture.
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