Allomancy, Fabrials, and God metals

[Kendelian he/him]

So, we know that the metals used in fabrial construction are the same that are used in Allomancy and exhibit similar behaviors to Allomantic burning. My question is, what would something like an Atium fabrial do?

[Quantus he/him]

That's going past the commonality of mundane metals and right into mixing Pure Investitures of other shards.  At the upper end, it could unlock a set of Ten "Ruinbinding" Surges, but it could also do nothing, or anything in between.

Similar Question: What happens when part of the fabrial is Awakened?  

[alder24]

18 minutes ago, Kendelian said:

So, we know that the metals used in fabrial construction are the same that are used in Allomancy and exhibit similar behaviors to Allomantic burning. My question is, what would something like an Atium fabrial do?

Oh yeah, that's a RAFO for sure  

We don't even know what metallic properties Atium has, and that's what is important here. Like Raysium is an investiture conductor. Atium will likely also do something with investiture like Raysium, because both of them are god metals, and exist in all three realms at once. Don't expect then that Atium will grant a future vision to a fabrial, like Allomantic metal, it would more likely act like a hemalurgic spike, and "extend" the range of its effect or something like that - but this is pure speculation.

4 minutes ago, Quantus said:

Similar Question: What happens when part of the fabrial is Awakened?  

Unless it isn't already considered as being Awakened (fabrial is invested after all), I think it would make the fabrial act autonomously. Turning off and on when certain conditions in the surrounding area are met, getting stronger or weaker, moving itself, for example, to switch some metal placement to new configuration etc.

[Quantus he/him]

26 minutes ago, alder24 said:

Unless it isn't already considered as being Awakened (fabrial is invested after all), I think it would make the fabrial act autonomously. Turning off and on when certain conditions in the surrounding area are met, getting stronger or weaker, moving itself, for example, to switch some metal placement to new configuration etc.

That makes sense.  Are you thinking interaction purely at the mechanical level, or also on the Fabrial investiture flow? Or are you saying Awaken the complete fabrial itself? 

I was thinking more at the component level. For example, since they have faux-spiritwebs by definition, could an Awakened component substitute for the Spren&Gem?  Especially if we assume it's an organic object and not some advanced Awakened mineral.  

[alder24]

3 minutes ago, Quantus said:

That makes sense.  Are you thinking interaction purely at the mechanical level, or also on the Fabrial investiture flow? Or are you saying Awaken the complete fabrial itself? 

All can be done, complete fabrial will be harder (but will produce the best effects) cause it's invested and has a spren in it, so likely you would have to Awaken only part of the fabrial, or empty fabrial (which would likely repulse sprens and Stormlight), unless you have lots of Breaths.

4 minutes ago, Quantus said:

I was thinking more at the component level. For example, since they have faux-spiritwebs by definition, could an Awakened component substitute for the Spren&Gem?  Especially if we assume it's an organic object and not some advanced Awakened mineral.  

I think it's possible. Fabrial made out of Breaths, you could do it, and make some normal Awakening expanded somehow by fabrial metals. But I think Awakening can be already considered as fabrials, because they are external machines, fueled by investiture, performing specific tasks. But in that case, metal parts has to be Awakened as well (to allow investiture flow), but what would it do, I have no idea. 

[+Invocation]

3 hours ago, Quantus said:

Ruinbinding

Now I want to see Division empowered by Ruinous Investiture. Wonder if that would pull a Nightblood?