Alternative Metals

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Something I like to do is make up new metals/powers for the Metallic Arts. I was curious if anyone else ever does this, and what powers they came up with. Here are a few of the ones I've come up with.

Cesium: Feruchemy - Stores size (things inside of you shrink/grow as well). Allomancy - Absorb electromagnetic radiation/become invisible (not true invisibility, but more of a shadow shroud). I picked Cesium because it has one of the highest thermal expansions of any metal, and it would be interesting to see someone try to use a metalmind that can melt near room temperature.

Cesium-Gold Alloy: Feruchemy - Stores color (become flat grey like a lifeless when storing, gain aura like a Returned when tapping). Allomancy - Emit electromagnetic radiation (pretty much any type, with increasing power required for higher frequencies/eV).

Tungsten: Feruchemy - Stores shape (when you store you become soft and gooey like a Kandra. When you tap you become hard *chuckles*. No seriously though, you gain a Superman-like hardness. You can still move, but to external things you would act like something made of wood or metal depending on how fast you tap). Allomancy - Absorb Investiture (you generate a "bubble" of aluminum).

Tungsten Steel: Feruchemy - Stores sound (clapping your hands or stomping your feet make almost no sound when storing, the same claps and stomps would sound like gunshots when tapping). Allomancy - Emit Investiture (other peoples powers go haywire near you, but you have basically no control over how. You pretty much become chaos incarnate for other magic users. "Meant to soulcast that into water? Well it turned into live eels instead. Have fun with that.").

I tried to keep the Feruchemical powers all in the theme of how you would describe something physically. Size, shape, color and sound. Sound is kind of an odd duck in that group, but I couldn't come up with something better. I can take solace in knowing that bronze and electrum are in the wrong place, so not even Brandon pulled it off perfectly.

Well, there's one of my fantasy quadrants on the Metallic Arts table. Hopefully I'm not alone, I would love to hear what kind of crazy stuff other people have thought up.

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Time to bring back my old joke thread about mercury, because it's the best alternative metal I can come up with since I'm not able to take this subject seriously.