Ingestion vs Inhalation

[Eahlendell]

Hi Everyone,

this is my first time posting, please be gentle! Massive Brandon nerd (every book, every shardcast, every forum).

 

I have just finished the Lost Metal and Tress. After reading both my mind keeps coming back to Wax’s strange visions of blue lines, and Harmony’s comment that he had inhaled some Lerasium so may already be a mistborn. He also made a comment about something not working out the way he intended with Wayne. I am then reminded that he required a duralumin spike rather than just burning it when he would have been mistborn at that point.

My theory is that this is how the metallic arts will be reintroduced into the population somehow. His new allomantic side effects are different than the norm. If someone where to inhale lerasium wouldn’t they need to burn the new fuel reserve? If it’s a direct inhalation into the lungs, is it possible that Wax now has a new type of lerasium floating around his bloodstream. Would this fundamentally create a new power set. Would it still forge a connection to Preservation?? Is it possible that any new children would be able to generate lerasium in their blood ( can’t see how the actual particles could be transferred based on biology.)

 

I feel that there is something there, deliberate on Brandon’s part that we are just skipping over. 

[lacrossedeamon]

I think it just needs to be in the body to be burned (which I guess Wax did subconsciously) not specifically ingested. Similar to how Miles can burn his metalminds that are studded in his body but not technically ingested either.

[Eahlendell]

Thanks,

I hadn’t noticed that about Miles. It is really interesting. 
 

I wonder what Harmony did intend to happen to Wax? The thing that did not work out the way he wished it to?

 

I love all of Brandon’s works, it’s a great escape for reality and the world building is on a scale never before seen. 

[Leuthie]

We have had Mistborn and Mistings. There will end up being something in between. Multi-mistings, or Limited Mistborn.

We've had mists and lerasium beads. The latter created Mistings, the former created Mistborn. So...seems we're getting something in between (inhalable Lerasium)