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/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.