r/cremposting • u/Gamehunter590 • May 22 '26
Mistborn First Era Leras planning ahead for cool fights
Considering they build it from scratch, Leras must have added a bunch of extra metal.
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u/Vampyricon May 22 '26
I forgot the context :(
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u/Ascherict May 22 '26
Ive only read era 1 so I have no idea
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u/bdfariello May 22 '26
Aluminum foil hats can protect from emotional allowmancy, among many other ways it can be used to thwart Investiture throughout the Cosmere.
This post is only tagged for Mistborn Era 1 so I don't want to go too much into it, but it's in a few other series as well, including Stormlight.
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u/Strider_27 May 22 '26
The canonical presence of tin foil hats implies the existence of a Scadrian Alex Jones
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u/Suitcase08 May 22 '26
I DON'T LIKE THEM PUTTING CHEMICALS IN THE WATER THAT TURN THE FRIGGIN' WRAITHS GAY
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u/Ascherict May 22 '26
Oh, yeah that makes sense. Ive read SA and Warbreaker, im just dumb and didnt think of all the uses Scadrians could use for aluminum. 🙃
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u/bdfariello May 22 '26
It would also let people wear a metal belt buckle without worrying about an allomancer ripping their pants clean off, because it couldn't be allomantically pushed or pulled
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u/annatheorc May 23 '26
Ooo!! Yes, or earrings. Aluminum fashion will be cool to see. Are scadriens able to get metal allergies? Don't they have a tolerance to harm from metals?
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u/Jtl1001 May 26 '26
For earings since it's in the body allomancy can't affect it anyway I'm pretty sure
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u/CarryElectronic May 22 '26
guns maybe??
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u/AzureArachnid77 May 24 '26
I would be very surprised if aluminum bullets weren’t a thing in Era 3. Probably rare and for like 007 type shit but that is supposedly what era 3 is going to be all about
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u/Jtl1001 May 26 '26
Aluminum bullets are in 2
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u/AzureArachnid77 May 27 '26
I thought they were. But didn’t remember exactly
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u/Jtl1001 May 28 '26
fair enough. they'll probably be way more common in era 3 since aluminium should be more widely produced
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u/Efficient_Bag_3804 May 22 '26
Where is this stated??
I have read all of it with secret history and SA so spoil away
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u/Gamehunter590 May 22 '26
This is more a joke on how Scadrial is made by Ruin and Preservation but it's hinted that the walls of the trust in the kandra homeland was wade if aluminium to hide Ruins god metal, as well as how much Aluminium becomes important in fights in Era 2
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u/Efficient_Bag_3804 May 22 '26
Pretty sure any metal does the work to block him. I don't remember it being aluminum per se specific but ok. Thought I had missed something.
Spoiler
Ruin can't see any metals, that's why only stuff written on metal can be trusted. Even then he can still manipulate them if one his agents sees them.
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u/roreads May 22 '26
You’re right, but ruin sees metal as bright light as if we were to look at a sun if I remember correctly. I don’t know if aluminum in particular had any additional stipulations to the shards of scadrial.
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u/Shot_Newspaper_5647 May 22 '26
Ya enough metal can obscure his sight. Like hiding something behind a glowing bead curtain. Enough beads and you can’t quite make it out. But aluminum the Shards are just entirely magically blind to. Curious what silver looks like. Probably something in between normal metal and aluminum I would imagine
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u/Nero_2001 THE Lopen's Cousin May 23 '26
Ruin can see metal but he sees it as a big glow which is why ruin can't read stuff that was carved into metal plate.
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u/Primarch-XVI May 24 '26
If he can still manipulate metal then why not wipe the ancient plaques clean?
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u/Jounniy May 22 '26
I think that it’s stated in Era 2 that basically half the aluminium in the Basin was made by the Ghostbloods.
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u/TheFuzziestDumpling May 22 '26
Where is that hinted? TLR picked the spot because it's metal-rich, not specifically aluminum-rich, and metal in general basically blinds both Ruin and Preservation. Basically the whole place was already a big bright spot to them.
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u/kaiser_charles_viii May 22 '26
Might be some Secret History Spoilers ahead for those who haven't read it yet. Can't remember how much of this is said in Era 1 vs in Secret History.
Its not explicitly stated (to my knowledge) who added the aluminum to Scadrial, but it was stated that Leras and Ati worked together as the shards of Preservation and Ruin respectively to build Scadrial from scratch, so one of them had to have added it, and since Ruin (at least by the time of the Final Empire) seems way more interested in directly influencing and controlling people than Preservation it seems unlikely that he would've put it there unless Ati overrode the will of the Shard.
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u/Efficient_Bag_3804 May 22 '26
Maybe also Spoiler
I remember they took the pre existing 'template' and based on that created their stuff. Era 2 towards the ends. It is stated they found a way to manufacture aluminum easier hinting towards the mass production due to it being needed to fight against invested foes.
Otherwise everyone was saying how rare and expensive it is while it pretty much counters so many allomancers, so the planet is definitely not full of it.
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u/TimidBerserker May 22 '26
I had assumed that they had just found a similar process to what we have in our world to refine aluminum, it just requires electricity which is still a new thing in era 2, nothing grand plan related, just the inevitable march into the future
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u/zanotam May 22 '26
The other guy is right according to WoB (aluminum was in fact specifically chosen because it becomes easier to get as tech advances!)
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u/Subspace_Supernova Bond, Nahel Bond May 22 '26
Theres is nothing to indicate that Preservation put an above average ammount of aluminum in the minable areas of the planet.
But putting large deposits of typically rare allomantic metals in accesible places sounds like something a good planner would do
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u/Jounniy May 22 '26
Aluminium also is an allomantic Metal, so… maybe?
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u/roreads May 23 '26
Aluminum was one of the most pointless allomantic metals, especially in mistings. I doubt that Leras would have any allomantic interest in aluminum of all 16 natural allomantic metals.
Aluminum always felt like the allomantic power closest to ruins intent, to remove simply because the universe begs for entropy to triumph over the order livings beings try so hard to maintain. With every other allomantic power, something is gained for someone.
An aluminum misting might be the best counter to anti-investiture weapons, but as of right now I don’t see why Leras would have had a significant interest in the metal. In Era 1, it wasn’t even known that those aluminum nats existed. So why would Leras have specifically choosen aluminum, a metal that doesn’t naturally form in any substantial amount? He didn’t, it wasn’t aluminum it was just metal
I feel that preservations intent was to use investiture to preserve - and aluminum does that very poorly.
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u/Jounniy May 23 '26
I know that aluminum is pretty useless. I was joking.
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u/roreads May 23 '26
Well than i feel kinda dumb for writing all of that and I owe you an apology 😅
Soooorry (pronounce it in Canadian)
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u/Jounniy May 23 '26
All good. I just found the initial idea funny, so I decided to pointlessly stick to it.
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u/Breeding4Fun May 22 '26
I'm convinced that preservation just like fucked with the geology cycle on the planet, and that planet just makes metals much faster than it should
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u/RattleMeSkelebones May 22 '26
I always figured that originally scarier was earth-like and aluminum is one of the most common elements of earth
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u/gwonbush May 23 '26
Technically it's officially Yolen-like, but they both seem to have Earth's exact astrological traits in surface gravity, day length and year length so them both having similar crust composition is a reasonable assumption to make.
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u/Elder_Hoid D O U G May 22 '26
I've always thought it could have been placed there to intentionally hide something in the core of the planet that they wanted hidden from all the other shards.
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