Acolyte of Radiance Posted August 18, 2024 Posted August 18, 2024 Do we have a name for it? Like aluctrum or etium?
alder24 Posted August 18, 2024 Posted August 18, 2024 (edited) 30 minutes ago, Acolyte of Radiance said: Do we have a name for it? Like aluctrum or etium? There is no official name. We just call it either Atium-electrum alloy, or just Atium, while referring to the pure god metal as pure Atium. TLM spoiler WoB: Spoiler LewsTherinTelescope At the end of The Lost Metal, we learn that Marsh will be using atium from the ettmetal experiments to stay alive going forward. However, Peter recently revealed (and you confirmed) that the atium in Era 1 which stored youth was actually a mix of atium and electrum. How will this continue to work to keep him young? Brandon Sanderson They're going to have a different term for pure atium and for what has been known as atium--what they're making. It is not hard to get the right mix down for what he needs to stay alive. It is hard to make enough of it to keep him alive. Well, not hard, but definitely not scalable to more than one person, how about that. They are able to do it, you've just got to make an alloy. I will apologize for this. This is a post-Era-1 retcon where I realized I need all the God Metals to do different things, and this is just one of the aspects that comes down. For those who don't know what's going on: I get done with Era 1, I start really working on the nature of metals in the cosmere. I'm like, "Ehhh... Atium really should be burnable by anybody. It's a God Metal. The way God Metals work is not in line with how I've made atium. So what they call atium has to have trace elements of something else, and then there's a pure form of atium out there that would be the true pure God Metal." That is one of those unfortunate retcons when you're doing all this continuity. And it works just fine in the books, because the way that atium is being made is a pretty complicated little process there in the Pits of Hathsin. The question is the right question. Sazed is going to get out of this pure atium, which he is going to need to tweak before he gives it to Marsh. Whether Marsh knows he is getting a tweaked version or not is subject to your own interpretation. For arcanist purposes, if you want to call the other one pure atium and the regular one just atium, I'd recommend something like that for your wikis and things like that. YouTube Spoiler Stream 5 (Dec. 2, 2022) There was a person who called it Nalatium, but nobody is using that name in the community and it's also not canon: Spoiler Radix2309 The Atium we experience in Era 1 is actually an alloy of Atium and Electrum called Nalatium. The stuff produced by the pits was naturally an alloy. Peter Ahlstrom The name nalatium is not canon. Tetrarchon But what about alloys of lerasium with allomantic metals - can anyone still burn them to become a misting of that metal? Peter Ahlstrom Yes. General Reddit 2022 (Oct. 18, 2022) Edited August 18, 2024 by alder24 1
Treamayne Posted August 18, 2024 Posted August 18, 2024 2 hours ago, Acolyte of Radiance said: Do we have a name for it? Like aluctrum or etium? For convienience's sake, on the forums I prefer E1Atium (Era 1 Atium - when clarity is needed). In World, I don't think they yet know there is a difference (please see WoB posted by @alder24). 1
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