Jezeriah Posted November 24, 2011 Posted November 24, 2011 So after seeing the effects of Marasi's cadmium near the end of alloy of law, I was left with a ton of questions. I'm actually more interested in cadmium than bendalloy, despite it's less obviously useful function. And one of the questions I came up with is, if you were a mistborn, and you burned cadmium or bendalloy as well as duralumin, what would happen? Time travel for the cadmium? Super fast aging for the bendalloy?
name_here Posted November 24, 2011 Posted November 24, 2011 (edited) I expect that Duralumium would just give you increasingly outlandish time gradients and possibly volumes. So you'd get three seconds of outside time corresponding to half an hour inside the bubble or something like that. Edited November 24, 2011 by name_here
Sprouts Posted November 24, 2011 Posted November 24, 2011 But doesn't duralumin cause ALL of the other metal to burn away? So all that cadmium would be burnt in the space of a second, after which the bubble would drop. So the effects of all the cadmium in your stomach would be condensed.
Deus Ex Biotica Posted November 25, 2011 Posted November 25, 2011 Right. So, say you have enough Cadmium for (just estimating here) a minute inside, two hours outside. Burn Duralumin, and a split second passes inside while two hours pass outside. At least, such is my theory. Bendalloy is even more of a mixed bag. I would assume that Duralmin (or Nicrosil) bursting it would result in you having a second or so where the outside world seemed completely stopped, rather than merely slowed. The utility of this is questionable. -- Deus Ex Biotica
lordofsoup Posted November 25, 2011 Posted November 25, 2011 So if forward time travel is definitely possible now if you get a bunch of cadmium burners to stack bubbles, that means that backwards is probably too, at least to a degree, maybe involve Atium.
Deus Ex Biotica Posted November 25, 2011 Posted November 25, 2011 Why would that follow? I am travelling forwards in time right now. So are you. I have never heard of anyone going backwards - one does not require the other.
lordofsoup Posted November 26, 2011 Posted November 26, 2011 I dont know, thinking something with Atium and Cadmium. Gold allows you to see a version of yourself, and Electrum, an alloy of Atium and gold lets you see a past version of yourself. This might be the wrong way around. Cadmium allows you to travel forward in time, so mix Atium and Cadmium, and you get the opposite effect? Throw in a bit of Bendalloy to jump start the process and I figure you could go back in time, or at least get something cool.
Deus Ex Biotica Posted November 26, 2011 Posted November 26, 2011 Gold: See a past version of yourself. Electrum (Gold's Allomantic Alloy): See future versions of yourself. Malatium (Gold + Atium): See past versions of others. But I see what you are saying. I suppose it is possible that the proper mix of Atium and Bendalloy or Cadmium could allow you to travel backwards, but Marsh has literally all the Atium in the world, and no more is likely to exist, so it would be hard to find out. In any case, I doubt you could go very far - Atium burns fast. Even a way of jumping a few minutes or seconds back in time would be interesting, though... -- Deus Ex Biotica
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