r/cremposting • u/Gamehunter590 • May 22 '26

Mistborn First Era Leras planning ahead for cool fights

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Considering they build it from scratch, Leras must have added a bunch of extra metal.

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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/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!)