Electrum Mistings can burn Atium

[Kaymyth she/her]

Actually, I'm not entirely sure that it would work that way.  We don't know if you can get 16 Mistings' worth of Coinshot out of one Lerasium bead.  But we do know that Lerasium makes really strong Allomancers, and should be able to get at least two alloys' worth out of it.  So you could split it in half and alloy one half with steel and one half with bendalloy, give each bead to a different person, and get two Lerasium-strength Mistings out of it.

[King's Twit he/him]

Actually, I'm not entirely sure that it would work that way. We don't know if you can get 16 Mistings' worth of Coinshot out of one Lerasium bead. But we do know that Lerasium makes really strong Allomancers, and should be able to get at least two alloys' worth out of it. So you could split it in half and alloy one half with steel and one half with bendalloy, give each bead to a different person, and get two Lerasium-strength Mistings out of it.

Yeah, I was oversimplifying and assuming for the purposes of explaining the logic, and you might be right about the loss, but I personally believe that it would be closer to how I explained.

I've been thinking of it as focusing all of the power that would normally be equally split into 16 pieces of your spirit web into one powerful piece, but I could be wrong in assuming it works like that.

[Kaymyth she/her]

Yeah, I was oversimplifying and assuming for the purposes of explaining the logic, and you might be right about the loss, but I personally believe that it would be closer to how I explained.

I've been thinking of it as focusing all of the power that would normally be equally split into 16 pieces of your spirit web into one powerful piece, but I could be wrong in assuming it works like that.

 

Well, the other thing we have in another Lost WoB* is that if you're already a Misting, burning a Lerasium alloyed bead will overwrite your spiritweb and change your metal.  (Though burning the same one should make you stronger.)

 

 

*Again, I swear I've read this, but I can't cite it properly to save my life.

Edited December 26, 2015 by Kaymyth

[King's Twit he/him]

Well, the other thing we have in another Lost WoB* is that if you're already a Misting, burning a Lerasium alloyed bead will overwrite your spiritweb and change your metal.  (Though burning the same one should make you stronger.)

 

 

*Again, I swear I've read this, but I can't cite it properly to save my life.

 

Right, but this could be focusing the power of your spirit web, your allomantic potential, into one ability rather than dividing it among sixteen or, in this case, two abilities. Even though your potential for another allomantic ability predated the use of the Lerasium alloy, it would still focus your allomancy into one ability. Or it has the same problem pure lerasium has, and its the expectation of becoming that type of misting, rather than a double misting with your original ability as well, which causes this to occur (or something like that, I'm not sure if I understand how expectations relates to the powers granted by Lerasium, probably through intent).

 

Incidentally, I wonder if burning one of the Lerasium alloys also overwrites any Feruchemical abilities you might have, or abilities from other shard worlds.

Edited December 26, 2015 by King's Twit

[skaa he/him]

Right, anyone can burn Lerasium, and so I understand and agree with the logic that anyone can burn it's alloys, I just don't think that these particular WoB, or ones similar, confirm that.

 

Ah, pardon my lack of reading comprehension. I failed to notice the "alloys" in your previous post for some reason. You are correct that there are no WoBs saying that anyone who could burn lerasium could also burn the "Misting" lerasium alloys. I think it's a safe assumption to make, though.

Edit:

I agree that, if the alloys turn you into mistings, then they would be burnable by anyone, I just didn't know that we had confirmation that this is what the Lerasium alloys do. Thanks!

 

There is no "if" about it:

 

Let me say this, as I don't want to spoil too much. If that metal Elend ate were fused into specific alloys with certain metals, it could have instead created Mistings of each of the different Allomantic powers.

(Source.)

 

 

Another source is the Table of Allomantic Metals in Brandon's site. Zoom in on the lower right corner to read the following: "In alloy form, it produces various expanded physical and enhancement effects, including the creation of Mistings."

Edited December 26, 2015 by skaa

[King's Twit he/him]

Ah, pardon my lack of reading comprehension. I failed to notice the "alloys" in your previous post for some reason. You are correct that there are no WoBs saying that anyone who could burn lerasium could also burn the "Misting" lerasium alloys. I think it's a safe assumption to make, though.

Edit:

There is no "if" about it:

Another source is the Table of Allomantic Metals in Brandon's site. Zoom in on the lower right corner to read the following: "In alloy form, it produces various expanded physical and enhancement effects, including the creation of Mistings."

Yeah, the source of all of that confusion was that I hadn't seen the WoB that the Lerasium alloys made you into a misting, which is why I didn't understand why that, and by extension the idea that they can be burned by anyone, was being assumed as fact, and so I was trying (poorly) to get a source on either this effect of the alloys or their universal burnability.