Metal colors

[Lego Mistborn he/him]

I'm painting some cosmere designs, and I was wanting to know what colors dragonsteel and harmonium are. I've seachered the coppermind, arcanum, and even reddit, but I cannot find anything that says what the colors are. I am fairly convinced the color of harmonium is mentioned in chapter 7 of BoM, but I don't have a copy to look it up in.

[Firesong she/her]

Dragonsteel is described as silvery. 

[alder24]

48 minutes ago, Lego Mistborn said:

I'm painting some cosmere designs, and I was wanting to know what colors dragonsteel and harmonium are. I've seachered the coppermind, arcanum, and even reddit, but I cannot find anything that says what the colors are. I am fairly convinced the color of harmonium is mentioned in chapter 7 of BoM, but I don't have a copy to look it up in.

Dragonsteel is so silvery that it can be mistaken with silver, Tress ch 51:

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Or the metallic silver ridges that split the dragon’s otherwise onyx hide, outlining his features. This silver ran down the sides of all six limbs, up the sides of the neck, and formed two burnished horns, accompanied by a line of spikes down the back—more subdued, the subjects to the regal majesty of those horns.

Coppermind did specify its color: "It looks silvery and can appear liquid in the right light." https://coppermind.net/wiki/Dragonsteel_(metal)

But Harmonium is hard to find. In BoM ch 22 it glows white but that is when the primer cube is charged

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Allik said, kneeling down and opening the compartment where he’d put the little cube that Waxillium called an Allomantic grenade. It was attached to a metal shell, which glowed softly at the center. Allik pointed, and to the side she could see a greater light blazing with a pure whiteness. A stone, burning like a limelight.

In TLM ch 15 it describes how two sides of heated and pulled apart Harmonium glows like Atium/Lerasium, but nothing on Harmonium's color:

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The glob of harmonium on the left side began to glow a blue-white. The one on the right adopted a stranger air, growing silvery and reflective. It almost seemed liquid, like mercury—the surface incredibly smooth.

I can't find anything about the normal color of Harmonium. Because Harmonium is super-cesium in terms of reactivity, I would make it look like cesium or just metallic whiteish/silvery (because it glows white in primer cubes).

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Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

He said ettmetal is chemically reactive, not nuclear.

The longer answer makes it sound like Harmonium isn't a Lerasium/Atium alloy, but a whole new metal. He described it as "super-cesium," and that its volatility was based on electrons, not on protons or neutrons.

"It is not unstable, it is reactive. So it's like a "super-cesium". It reacts so violently..."

Footnote: Unspecified question by Pagerunner.
Arcanum Unbounded Hoboken signing (Dec. 3, 2016)

 

[Lego Mistborn he/him]

On 8/17/2023 at 6:34 PM, alder24 said:

Dragonsteel is so silvery that it can be mistaken with silver, Tress ch 51:

Coppermind did specify its color: "It looks silvery and can appear liquid in the right light." https://coppermind.net/wiki/Dragonsteel_(metal)

But Harmonium is hard to find. In BoM ch 22 it glows white but that is when the primer cube is charged

In TLM ch 15 it describes how two sides of heated and pulled apart Harmonium glows like Atium/Lerasium, but nothing on Harmonium's color:

I can't find anything about the normal color of Harmonium. Because Harmonium is super-cesium in terms of reactivity, I would make it look like cesium or just metallic whiteish/silvery (because it glows white in primer cubes).

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Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

He said ettmetal is chemically reactive, not nuclear.

The longer answer makes it sound like Harmonium isn't a Lerasium/Atium alloy, but a whole new metal. He described it as "super-cesium," and that its volatility was based on electrons, not on protons or neutrons.

"It is not unstable, it is reactive. So it's like a "super-cesium". It reacts so violently..."

Footnote: Unspecified question by Pagerunner.
Arcanum Unbounded Hoboken signing (Dec. 3, 2016)

 

 

On 8/17/2023 at 6:03 PM, Firesong said:

Dragonsteel is described as silvery. 

Thank you guys. I appreciate the help.