Metalmind Businesses

[Aspiring Writer]

1 hour ago, robardin said:

Well, addressing your original topic first - as a standalone topic of "what unsealed Feruchemical metalminds would be valuable to have as a commodity", the obvious answer would be the unsealed goldmind in an emergency medical kit, yeah?

The only ethical question there would be how the goldminds got filled. Was it thrrough clean, harmless Compounding, or through a number of Bloodmakers being paid for their "down time" while storing Identity-free health (however the yet-to-be-shown Excisor technology for Identity removal is achieved), or through a number of unwilling or captive people somehow having their health leached from them, like caged hens in an egg factory?

And small unsealed metalminds of various types could be the Scadrial version of illegal PEDs (Performance Enhancing Drugs) in any professional sports. Especially since Seekers have not yet been seen to use their ability to detect Feruchemy. It's implied by numerous WoBs to be possible, but that is different from anybody in-world having figured out exactly how it's done yet, which surely would require extensive practice time that's hard to come by.

So imagine being a prizefighting boxer or wrestler. There would probably be Seekers on hand to try to detect an Allomancer secretly burning pewter to gain an illegal advantage, but unable to detect a quick tap of an ingestion-hidden pewtermind, steelmind, or ironmind, just a small quick burst, at one particular moment of time.

And forget Adderall abuse around exam time, you know it'd be all about the zincminds.

I honestly thought about hemalurgy being more of a thing, like you can sign yourself up to be spiked like you can sign to have your cornea's put on the market, and so they would have specific compounding people for health. Though on that topic, can you imagine how medical technology would advance with goldminds? They could perform medical procedures on people without too much worry of permanently damaging them because they can just tap health and heal, letting them makes leaps and bounds ahead of us in medical tech.

[Raven Wilder]

On 11/30/2020 at 0:34 PM, robardin said:

And small unsealed metalminds of various types could be the Scadrial version of illegal PEDs (Performance Enhancing Drugs) in any professional sports. Especially since Seekers have not yet been seen to use their ability to detect Feruchemy. It's implied by numerous WoBs to be possible, but that is different from anybody in-world having figured out exactly how it's done yet, which surely would require extensive practice time that's hard to come by.

So imagine being a prizefighting boxer or wrestler. There would probably be Seekers on hand to try to detect an Allomancer secretly burning pewter to gain an illegal advantage, but unable to detect a quick tap of an ingestion-hidden pewtermind, steelmind, or ironmind, just a small quick burst, at one particular moment of time.

And forget Adderall abuse around exam time, you know it'd be all about the zincminds.

I'm gonna assume pro-sports would have Chromium Mistings on hand to erase athletes' metal reserves immediately prior to the game.

But school exams are an interesting question. Would Scadrian schools allow Feruchemist students to bring zincminds or copperminds with them to tests?

[+robardin]

1 minute ago, Raven Wilder said:

I'm gonna assume pro-sports would have Chromium Mistings on hand to erase athletes' metal reserves immediately prior to the game.

But school exams are an interesting question. Would Scadrian schools allow Feruchemist students to bring zincminds or copperminds with them to tests?

We don't know how Leechers would operate with Feruchemy, do we? It might only leech away what is being actively tapped by the Feruchemist?

If a Leecher could drain a metalmind, would it need to be worn by a Feruchemist keyed to it first?

[Raven Wilder]

We've never seen a Leecher in action, but their ability is described as causing the person they touch to "lose their metal reserves", just like aluminum does to a Mistborn who burns it. When Vin was forced to burn aluminum, it eliminated all the metals in her system, not just the ones she was actively burning. I think we can assume chromium would do the same thing.

Now, what effect a Leecher would have on metalminds kept outside the body, I do not know.