Burning An Unkeyed Metalmind

[1AdolfoJose1]

We remember the scene where Vin swallowed Sazed’s Metalmind and nothing happened. Because the Identity in the Metalmind didn’t match Vin’s. 

But what if Sazed had access to aluminum and blanked his Identity while Filling the Metalmind? We know that only people with the relevant Feruchemical ability can extract the power from an Unkeyed Metalmind(Ex. Wayne using an Unkeyed Goldmind). But could a Mistborn, or any Allomancer with the matching metal, gain something from it?

[Halyo_Alex he/him]

39 minutes ago, 1AdolfoJose1 said:

We remember the scene where Vin swallowed Sazed’s Metalmind and nothing happened. Because the Identity in the Metalmind didn’t match Vin’s. 

But what if Sazed had access to aluminum and blanked his Identity while Filling the Metalmind? We know that only people with the relevant Feruchemical ability can extract the power from an Unkeyed Metalmind(Ex. Wayne using an Unkeyed Goldmind). But could a Mistborn, or any Allomancer with the matching metal, gain something from it?

Yup. This would effectively double the powers an Allomancer could access, giving them a second effect for every metal they can burn.

[StanLemon]

Yeah, it would work but for some powers it would mostly be a waste without the Feruchemical ability to store the excess. Though it could be very useful for when they need it.

[Eternal Khol he/him]

It would work. 

in your method, you're effectively creating a new "key" -overwriting the old one- to access the power. A key which will grant Feruchemical abilities(or more specifically, Allomantic abilities that mimic Feruchemy -how i view it-) when burned by an Allomancer.

Though, they will be unable to store the attributes they get from burning the metal(no compounding), because they arent feruchemists

Edited January 27, 2021 by Eternal Khol

[Raphaborn]

Still, it is useful. An Augur could use an unkeyed goldmind like Wayne's for healing. That would unfortunately become extinct, and so would gold, but I doubt that you will bother with it when you are close to death.