kelsi Posted July 12, 2016 Posted July 12, 2016 Who controlled or protect the atium reserves before the lord ruler ascended?
Landis963 he/him Posted July 13, 2016 Posted July 13, 2016 23 hours ago, kelsi said: Who controlled or protect the atium reserves before the lord ruler ascended? No one. Rashek made sure to fix that when he set up the Final Empire, though.
BeskarKomrk he/him Posted July 13, 2016 Posted July 13, 2016 There were no Mistborn before The Lord Ruler ascended so it's likely that atium was essentially worthless, as (essentially) nobody could use it.
kelsi Posted July 13, 2016 Author Posted July 13, 2016 (edited) 4 hours ago, Landis963 said: No one. Rashek made sure to fix that when he set up the Final Empire, though. Yeah i get that but surely the Atium must have been somewhere still? Edited July 13, 2016 by kelsi Sorry i came off Rude the first time. it was unintentional
Jondesu he/him Posted July 14, 2016 Posted July 14, 2016 7 hours ago, kelsi said: Yeah i get that but surely the Atium must have been somewhere still? I'm sure, but it wasn't as treasured then, since there were far fewer Allomancers, and maybe no Mistborn at all (we don't really know for sure, but Alendi was just a Seeker). I bet it wasn't being mined at the time, if it worked anything like it did in the Pits of Hathsin, since no one would need to force people through that type of torture to get a metal that didn't do anyone any good. The advent of Mistborn, or at least them becoming common-ish, would have made Atium into a valuable metal, allowing TLR's scheme to make Ruin think it was available whenever he needed it, while actually keeping it hidden from him. jW
Eki Posted July 14, 2016 Posted July 14, 2016 (edited) Ruin's shardpool was mentioned by Alendi in his journal, on the way to the Well. It seemed pretty deserted then (and on the surface), so probably no one was mining the atium. The only one who would have been interested in it was Ruin himself, and he had to get himself released before the atium mattered to him. Edit: I see you were the one who asked the same question on the Q&A board, so it seems my answer wasn't that useful to you... Sorry about that! Edited July 14, 2016 by Eki
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