Stormtide_Leviathan Posted January 2, 2023 Posted January 2, 2023 So after rhythm of war, I saw theories floating around that godmetals were kind of like a supercharged versions of the normal metals. Atium, for example, was compared to Super-Electrum (this was before the atium retcon which throws a bit of a wrench into the info we know for comparison) and raysium with its investure-conductive properties might have been super-nicrosil or super-duralumin. After a certain fact in sp1 caught my attention with Lost Metal fresh in my mind, I want to revisit these theories. In sp1, tress uses an iron tool and a steel tool to manipulate aethergrowths- iron to attract it and steel to repel it. This of course is very similar to what we know of their effects in fabrials, as well as of course their allomantic effect. (And I'm just now realizing that iron feruchemy affects gravity, you're storing and tapping the physical pull of the world on you, though I think it does so through tapping/storing *mass* not gravitational force). This use of steel to repel investiture reminded me of something else- Trellium aka bavadinium. This particular comparison holds up nicely for the purposes of this theory, and I'm interested in the differences between how steel and trellium repel investiture. So of the known godmetals, do you think they're comparable to the allomantic metals?
cometaryorbit Posted January 6, 2023 Posted January 6, 2023 Post atium electrum retcon, I'm not sure the magical properties correspond.. Physical ones do, though - harmonium is an alkali metal compared to cesium by WoB and atium is a platinum group metal and specifically designed based on platinum by WoB. Neither cesium nor platinum are Allomantic metals, so I think the correspondence is just physical. Though not 100%, because from TLM melting points are absurdly high. (Which makes me wonder how malatium was made with Era 1 technology.)
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