Can anyone use godmetals?

[BigBadBagsworth He/him/his]

Knowledge of the first seven Mistborn books is required for understanding
 

My question is a weird one, and might have been answered before.

Anyone can burn Lerasium. This is confirmed.

 I don’t remember ever seeing a solid explination for why Ettmetal grenades work.

My theory is that godmetals can be used by anyone - anyone can burn Lerasium, Anyone with stuff to store can store stuff feruchemically in Harmonium, as Feruchemy is almost undeniably Sazed’s art, and anyone can Use Atium Hemalurgically, somehow. My best guess as to what exactly “anyone can use Atium as a Hemalurgic spike is:

Atium is listed in the Ars Arcanum of tLM as “Steals any power”. I’d guess that either:

a) No specific knowledge, only intent, is required for a spike to produce the intended results,

b) Once turned into a hemalurgic spike, Atium can grant powers that the victim didn’t posses with the spiritweb of the Hemalurgee altered to burn it anyway using Atium’s power, or

c) A victim is not required to turn Atium into a spike.

Then again, Mabye the Lerasium and Harmonium can be used p by anyone because Scadrians have more Stilllight than Decaylight (my names for the investure of the two relevant shards) and are ‘tuned’ to the two metals that contain Stilllight, letting them use them without being a feruchemist. That would also explain why one needs to be using Leras’ art to Feruchemically interact with Harmonium.

Or Mabye I’m just a crackpot.

[Treamayne]

42 minutes ago, BigBadBagsworth said:

Knowledge of the first seven Mistborn books is required for understanding
 

My question is a weird one, and might have been answered before.

Anyone can burn Lerasium. This is confirmed.

 I don’t remember ever seeing a solid explination for why Ettmetal grenades work.

My theory is that godmetals can be used by anyone - anyone can burn Lerasium, Anyone with stuff to store can store stuff feruchemically in Harmonium, as Feruchemy is almost undeniably Sazed’s art, and anyone can Use Atium Hemalurgically, somehow. My best guess as to what exactly “anyone can use Atium as a Hemalurgic spike is:

Atium is listed in the Ars Arcanum of tLM as “Steals any power”. I’d guess that either:

a) No specific knowledge, only intent, is required for a spike to produce the intended results,

b) Once turned into a hemalurgic spike, Atium can grant powers that the victim didn’t posses with the spiritweb of the Hemalurgee altered to burn it anyway using Atium’s power, or

c) A victim is not required to turn Atium into a spike.

Then again, Mabye the Lerasium and Harmonium can be used p by anyone because Scadrians have more Stilllight than Decaylight (my names for the investure of the two relevant shards) and are ‘tuned’ to the two metals that contain Stilllight, letting them use them without being a feruchemist. That would also explain why one needs to be using Leras’ art to Feruchemically interact with Harmonium.

Or Mabye I’m just a crackpot.

Theories belong in Cosmere Discussion (for 2 or more books) or the appropriate book/series forum if only about one book or series (like Mistborn for this theory). Q&A is for discrete questions looking for a specific answer (if one exists) to help people easily search questions to find answers. 

That said - We don't know if all Godmetals are as open as Lerasium, but it is not likely. We only know that old WoBs said that "everybody" should have been able to use E1Atium in the first trilogy - but "Everybody" was never defined as "All Allomancers," "All Scadrians," or "All Sapient beings in the Cosmere." We also know that Lerasium granting Mistborn powers was a Side Effect and that Feruchemy is both Preservation and Ruin.

Spelled out with WoBs in This Post (Stormlight Spoilers in that thread - if not that post). 

Lerasium Annotation/WoB:

Spoiler

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Brandon Sanderson

Chapter Thirty-Eight

Preservation's Power

All right, so maybe I lied about there only being three magic systems in this book. It comes down to how you term the powers of Preservation and Ruin, who kind of blanket the entire system. There are a lot of things going on here, and—well, the truth is I don't want to mention all of them, for fear of spoiling future books. However, I'll give you a few rules to apply.

First, to these forces, energy and mass are the same thing. So, their power can take physical shape—as Preservation's did in the bead of metal Elend ate. Second, there is a bit of Preservation inside of all the people—and it's this that allows the people to perform Allomancy. It needs to be awakened and stirred to be of use, but when it is, a proper metal can draw forth more of Preservation's power. It's like the metal attunes the bit within the person, allowing it to act as a catalyst to grab more power.

Allomancy is not fueled by metal; it is fueled by Preservation. The metal is the means by which a person can access that fuel, however. If there were another way to access it, then the metal wouldn't be needed.

Preservation's touch on people differs. Some have more, some have less. This doesn't make them better or worse people—indeed, some most touched by Preservation have been among the worst people in the world. As Ruin later points out, there is a difference between being evil and being destructive.

Regardless, if a person can get more Preservation into them, they become better Allomancers. Hence Elend becoming a Mistborn. Like all people, he had the potential within him—it was just too small of a potential to be awakened through normal means. That little jolt of Preservation's body, however, expanded and awakened his Allomancy.

As a tidbit, that was a side effect of what that bead of metal did. It wasn't the main purpose of the bead, and if another Allomancer were to burn it, it would do something else.

The Hero of Ages Annotations (Nov. 12, 2009)

 

Hope that helps

[IcedOutPenguin He/Him]

3 hours ago, BigBadBagsworth said:

Knowledge of the first seven Mistborn books is required for understanding
 

My question is a weird one, and might have been answered before.

Anyone can burn Lerasium. This is confirmed.

 I don’t remember ever seeing a solid explination for why Ettmetal grenades work.

My theory is that godmetals can be used by anyone - anyone can burn Lerasium, Anyone with stuff to store can store stuff feruchemically in Harmonium, as Feruchemy is almost undeniably Sazed’s art, and anyone can Use Atium Hemalurgically, somehow. My best guess as to what exactly “anyone can use Atium as a Hemalurgic spike is:

Atium is listed in the Ars Arcanum of tLM as “Steals any power”. I’d guess that either:

a) No specific knowledge, only intent, is required for a spike to produce the intended results,

b) Once turned into a hemalurgic spike, Atium can grant powers that the victim didn’t posses with the spiritweb of the Hemalurgee altered to burn it anyway using Atium’s power, or

c) A victim is not required to turn Atium into a spike.

Then again, Mabye the Lerasium and Harmonium can be used p by anyone because Scadrians have more Stilllight than Decaylight (my names for the investure of the two relevant shards) and are ‘tuned’ to the two metals that contain Stilllight, letting them use them without being a feruchemist. That would also explain why one needs to be using Leras’ art to Feruchemically interact with Harmonium.

Or Mabye I’m just a crackpot.

Yes, anyone can burn a god metal