Injecting Metals

[Pathfinder]

Wait wait wait wait.... I am a stupid.

 

In HoA when Demeux and the other Atium Misting are tested, they didn't sense anything from the "common" allomantic metals and until Elend give them the Atium, they don't think to be allomancers.

 

Therefore Misting can't burn anythng more than their specific metals

 

Sorry for don't think it early 

But all we get that implies that is their sudden shock when they down the vial. It could be any of these possibilities:

 

Demoux downs pewter, sees nothing, and has to vomit it up later so he doesn't get metal poisoning

 

Demoux downs pewter, attempts to burn it, nothing happens, so shakes his head saying it doesn't work

 

Demoux downs atium, suddenly sees a power source, and looks shocked that he can burn it

 

Demoux downs atium, attempts to burn it, sees atium shadows confirming he can use it (we do not get his perspective, just see it from Elend's), and looks shocked that he can burn it

 

That is the problem. At least for me. I could just be splitting straws here though

[Yata he/him]

But all we get that implies that is their sudden shock when they down the vial. It could be any of these possibilities:

 

Demoux downs pewter, sees nothing, and has to vomit it up later so he doesn't get metal poisoning

 

Demoux downs pewter, attempts to burn it, nothing happens, so shakes his head saying it doesn't work

 

Demoux downs atium, suddenly sees a power source, and looks shocked that he can burn it

 

Demoux downs atium, attempts to burn it, sees atium shadows confirming he can use it (we do not get his perspective, just see it from Elend's), and looks shocked that he can burn it

 

That is the problem. At least for me. I could just be splitting straws here though

I think we may exclude the second and the forth, if he feels something new inside of him he would be problaby told to someone. An average person don't feel reserve of power when swallow metals.

 

I will remove also the Forth, also without Atium Shadow... The warmth of Metal burning is stated to be very hard to ignore.

Edited April 8, 2016 by Yata

[Pathfinder]

I think we may exclude the second and the forth, if he feels something new inside of him he would be problaby told to someone. An average person don't feel reserve of power when swallow metals.

 

I will remove also the Forth, also without Atium Shadow... The warmth of Metal burning is stated to be very hard to ignore.

This is the scene:

 

Hero of Ages page 651:

"Eat it," Elend said. Demoux did as asked. He stood for a moment. 

 

fast forward a few paragraphs as Elend reasons out his theory in his own mind

 

Demoux looked up, eyes widening. And Elend smiled.

 

So we have no indication what Demoux experienced. He could have ate it. Tried burning it, looked up, saw atium shadows from Elend and then eyes widen.

 

Or he could have searched, found a power source, looked up and eyes widened in surprise that there was a source of power. Also consider when Vin was first trained to be a mistborn, she had to be told to look for other power sources before she noticed them, and when she was a street thief, brass was so tiny she didn't even see a source but was "burning" it as her "luck". Again yes I know she is mistborn. But what it comes down to it is we do not have a mistings point of view when attempting to burn metals other than their own. 

Edited April 8, 2016 by Pathfinder

[Yata he/him]

I have to re-check the part with Spook after He removed the Spike

[Pathfinder]

I have to re-check the part with Spook after He removed the Spike

I will check, but at least when he got the spike to begin with, he had to be told by Ruin to check for pewter before he noticed the power source and then burned it. So it wasn't like, ingest pewter, immediate power source. Which again makes me wonder why the worry about burning a non allomantically viable metal. If all I had to do was down a metal, look for the power, and not see it to realize it wasn't burnable, then why couldn't I just vomit it up and not worry about poisoning? Unless noticing the power source is included in burning?

 

edit: found the quote!

 

Hero of Ages: page 161

Dully, Spook took another vial. He worked off the stopper with his teeth, feeling the fires blaze around him. The far wall was nearly gone. The fires crept toward him. He drank the contents of the vial, then searched inside of himself, seeking tin. But there was none. Spook cried out in despair, dropping the vial. it had contained no tin. how would that have saved him anyway? It would have made him feel the flames, and his wound, more acutely.

 

"Spook!" the voice commanded. "Burn it!"

 

"There is no tin!" Spook yelled.

 

"Not tin! The man who owned this house was no Tineye!"

 

Not tin. Spook blinked. Then reaching within himself he found something completely unexpected. Something he'd never thought to ever see, something that shouldn't have existed. A new metal reserve. He burned it.

 

So until Ruin literally pointed it out, Spook did not even see it was there before it was noticed as a new reserve. Which still leaves the situation confused. 

Edited April 8, 2016 by Pathfinder

[hoidhunter he/him]

Well...as is mentioned above, we have a WoB somewhere about allomancers being able to burn any metal that is inside their body, it doesn't have to be swallowed.

 

That being said...I kind of agree with Stormgate's statement.  Why would you want to inject metal into your blood, when you can just swallow it instead.  

 

Often times, can and should, are two different things.