derrickthewhite Posted February 5, 2018 Posted February 5, 2018 I'm wondering if Rashek could burn Duraluminum without killing himself. He dies pretty quickly when his age metal minds are removed, and duraluminum burns off all of your reserves. So would using duraluminum kill him by burning off all of his age, or would he survive some way? Thanks?
Oversleep Posted February 5, 2018 Posted February 5, 2018 Yeah, he could. Duraluminum first and foremost burns your allomantic reserves, if you don't consider something to be viable, it won't burn: see Vin and her earring or Marsh and his spikes.
derrickthewhite Posted February 5, 2018 Author Posted February 5, 2018 but those are both hemalurgic metals that won't be burned under any circumstances. The metals he stores age in ARE something he burns, and while he could turn burning them off, wouldn't that kill him? I though duralluminum depletes any metal that you are currently burning at the same time as it. But Rashek has to compound his age metal mines at all times, doesn't he?
Shqueeves Posted February 5, 2018 Posted February 5, 2018 He has to tap at all times. He isn't always compounding. He can tap safely while it targets his burning metals 3
derrickthewhite Posted February 5, 2018 Author Posted February 5, 2018 That makes sense! Thanks a ton!
Oversleep Posted February 5, 2018 Posted February 5, 2018 1 hour ago, derrickthewhite said: but those are both hemalurgic metals that won't be burned under any circumstances. That's false. You can burn spikes. 1 hour ago, derrickthewhite said: The metals he stores age in ARE something he burns Actually, he wouldn't burn his bracers - no point in that - he'd rather store in a separate bead, swallow it and Compound it. And, as @Shqueeves said, he is not Compounding constantly, he's only tapping constantly.
The One Who Connects he/him Posted February 5, 2018 Posted February 5, 2018 1 hour ago, derrickthewhite said: those are both hemalurgic metals that won't be burned under any circumstances. Spikes can be burned. We don't know what it'd do, but it can be done.
derrickthewhite Posted February 7, 2018 Author Posted February 7, 2018 On 2/5/2018 at 3:51 PM, The One Who Connects said: Spikes can be burned. We don't know what it'd do, but it can be done. Sorry, I was referring to character motivation, not to what was possible or not. Folks generally don't normally burn their spikes, as far as I'm aware.
RShara she/her Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 So in order to stay young, Rashek would first store some youth in a small metalmind. He would then burn that metalmind, and store the excess youth from that compounding in another metalmind, which he would slowly tap. So burning duralumin wouldn't affect his tapping of the metalmind unless, for some reason, he was compounding at the time. Actually, since duralumin just releases all the power at once, he could still simply store the youth, in a big chunk instead of over time, and then tap it as normal. Either way, duralumin wouldn't affect his hacking of age.
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