Aluminum Allomancy

[The New Rashek]

What would be some of the uses of aluminum allomancy?

[Elsecaller_17.5 he/him]

One main use is that it can cleanse the body of unwanted investure.

Shadows of Silence.

Spoiler

We have  WoB confirmed that it could stop a Shades withering

and I believe it could cancel an unwanted lashing. Lots of things in that vein.

Edit: and this should be in the Cosmere Discussion not Stormlight, but I'm not sure how you could fix it. @Chaos can you help?

Edited January 26, 2020 by Elsecaller_17.5

[Karger he/him]

Additionally it has some fun compounding potential.

[Weltall]

Yeah, A-Aluminum is potentially a very useful ability to have in conjunction with other magic systems but standing alone it's really only useful to prevent metal poisoning or in the very specific scenario it's used for in The Final Empire.

32 minutes ago, Karger said:

Additionally it has some fun compounding potential.

There's an old WoB where Brandon said that compounded aluminum would be one of those cases that wouldn't be particularly useful. Of course, this was before we started learning what Identity can do, so that WoB probably no longer applies.

[Honorless he/him]

Duralumin Mistings have it even worse. There will be even fewer situations than Aluminium where it can be useful.

[Karger he/him]

5 minutes ago, Honorless said:

Duralumin Mistings have it even worse. There will be even fewer situations than Aluminium where it can be useful.

You can make the thing lashing you even worse!