Heavy Metals: Allomancy in Mistborn 

We all know Brandon writes his books in a speed bubble. 🙂

*objects in the Cosmere have self awareness* “I am a stick!!”

“And men who can’t burn any metals are called “Mister.”” When that finally *clicked* I had to stop and laugh #DadJokes 🤣🤣🤣

Okay I´m convinced Brandon is a World Hopper and all of his magic systems come from real parallel dimensions

"You might be able to get some Miles out of that second definition." Brilliant.

An augur was a roman priest who could view the future and important omens. It’s as simple as that. The word related to ”inauguration”, where the emperor/president is blessed with a fortunate reign/term

It's "augur" not "auger" augur is a mildly archaic term for someone who tells the future.

This video make my little nerd heart so happy! And now I need to go reread Mistborn....

You know, if Kelsier had a vial of Atium and also had Nightblood, I'm pretty sure that Odium would be shattered within the week.

This channel is so... Informative! Looking forward to that hemalurgy video @rafo

The Kelsier bar spinning bit I think is closer to what Wax does in era two against the creepy sadistic Terris boy. When he see’s the separate parts of the bullet due to him perceiving it as three separate pieces of metal. While the bar was one metal, Kelsier was able to perceive the object as a whole rather than its center of self, allowing him to manipulate it at a different point. If I recall, I believe it even makes notes to say that he pushed on it off center.

Thanks to Steve and RAFO the internet became a better place today. Thanks Steve. I Can't wait for more Metallic Arts videos.

lovely to have you back Steve! Video was awesome, can't wait for your ones about the other two arts.

You could apply Snell's law to speed bubbles.

Best metalic arts video on youtube?

Thank you so much for your laid back informative style. I love Sanderson but it’s a lot and these videos help me sort through it all. Currently rereading Stormlight A. but look forward to going back through Mistborn soon. I get to missing certain characters so much.

When Elland Duralumin burst Atium and saw EVERYTHING

Augur as a fortune teller does come from the Romans, but not from August. An augur was an ornithomancer, or someone who reads birds' flight patterns to divine the wills of gods.

The chemical symbol for Gold is AU which comes from the original name for gold which was Auron. This is probably where the name for "AU"gers comes from, I think.

Man I really wish you made more videos. They're amazing and I always want more lol

Auger is another word for soothsayer so that's probably where the name for gold mistings comes from

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"France but with volcanoes" Well what does that make Roshar? "India with crabs?"

so when a person considers themselves to be their brain, would that person's allomantic lines start pointing to their head instead?

3:37 "almost supernatural" Great video BTW

Nice work man

Or you know AUgur which AU is the periodic tables symbol for gold.

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I’ve somewhat enjoyed sanderson books...but now I appreciate and understand them better...making me enjoy it on another level. Thanks for channel

Awesome video!

If a mistborn swore the oaths of a knight radiant, turned their shard-blade into a little ball, swallowed and burned it, do you think that it would kill the spren? Also, I wonder if they could somehow alloy shard-blade metal with Lerasium if that would permanently turn them into a surge-binder, but with no shards.

“No, the example spear” It’s been four years and it’s still too soon

Yes.

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Me after reading Mistborn: Haha Atium go Wrum! This guy: Starting schooling me with physics love it

I always thought Augar came from the periodic table name for gold, Au which itself comes from the latin word for gold, Aurum.

Augur comes from Augury actually. It was a form of "magical" divination used to see both the past and the future by reading changes in the health (or damages) in the intestinal lining of animals raised specifically for the purpose. This weirdly implies that this may have been a practice performed in pre-ascension religions just as it was a common practice in both the Helenistic, Ptolmeic/Egyptian, and Babylonian religions of our world.

You didn’t even touch on the moment when Wax saw the steel line on a bullet split into three, pointing to the various parts of the bullet rather than the bullet as a whole! Intent and Perception!!!

"thinking about that spear- no, the example spear" bruh

OK… I laughed way too hard at that Miles joke 🤣

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“Men who can use any are called Mister” #DadJokes

The way I'd imagine the bubbles is that the spear touches the bubble, and stretches it. The moment the bubble breaks to let the spear out (immediately resealing itself) is the point that the spear enters normal time

That opening joke... 😂🤣😂🤣😂😭

9:43 Wouldn't it be because bending time also bends space, at least some? Kind of like light refraction, just with physical matter rather than light, and warped space rather than altered particle density/transparency.

What a great explanatory video! Steve, do you have a background in physics or just really good at doing your homework?! Either way, I applaude you.

An augur is also a fancy word for an oracle.

Damn, dude, amazing video. So much. And, well, i still waiting one of hemalurgy. The most (in my opinion) great Art. I think what Ruin was won; I say, Ruin have much logic; a little crazy and phsicotic, but logic to the end xD Don't arrest me, i'm not crazy (? Well, like and waiting another video... and sorry for my bad english xD

Okay interestingly i've just finished the lost metal and whilst watching this video made me remember a specific scene where Wax reaches just his finger tips out so that they are inside Waynes speed bubble as he raises it. He explains in the book that as long as any part of the body is touching the speed bubble then the whole body is effected by the time dilation. But that kind of doesn't line up for me with the whole cognitive center being the point of transition. Surely Waxs cognitive center is not in his fingers?

The mister joke killed me

loved this video

Augur (the name for gold mistlings) comes from the word augur, referred to a priest of the ancient Rome that practiced the adivination.

Important note - the time bubble is tied to a cognitive item as well. Like, if you on a ship in movement or something - the bubble will contain the ship and everything above it.

at 7.13 my theory is that "Augurs" are more likely a reference to the roman prophets of the same name, who did ceremonies and sacrifices in attempt to divine the future and/or fortunes. it could be simply a reference to seeing into the future, or as i would like to believe, a cheeky meta-commentary about how the roman augurs didnt see anything true or of any value

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Maybe future allomancers could gain more control over their perception and push from different parts of their bodies? Could be interesting

There's a scene in 6 Underground on Netflix that looks just like a Duralumin Steelpush to my headcanon. They use magnets to do it, but still, I was fist-pumping my Mistborn mania there.😀

That thing about never being in both has some real craxy implications when you consider swords. Sure, they're not very common on Scadrial, but if you have a longsword in a bendalloy-bubble, you can probably get quite a bit of the blade out of it so that it's still in the bubble. Now if you slash in that way, it'd be incredibly fast. Maybe sound barrier breaking? Speaking of swords and speed bubbles, it has to be brought up: Nightblood. Could Nightblood pop a speed bubble by just cutting at the bubble? Let's say the Allomancer making it is lying on the floor for this scenario and you're doing a horizontal swing so you won't accidentally hit them.

A spears centre of self could also be the point where it is normally carried or held when it is thrown

I just had a thought that has never crossed my mind before. How would tin affect someone who needs glasses? And to go a bit further, how would it affect someone that is completely blind or deaf? Would it fix these issues or would it just function weirdly? I'll add it to the pile of questions I'll probably never get to ask Brandon.

I remember a video where you predicted autonomy was the red mists around scadriel, which one is that?

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Most westerners consider their self to be in the head, where most easterners consider their self to be in the heart. To us westerners, we often think of the self in the head like its controlling the rest of the body like its a megazord of sorts. So, a cognitive self in the cosmere, presumably, would depend on the culture that person comes from.

"Men who can't use any metals are called mister" That was... well played

if the spear becomes slow partway out of the speed bubble, than part of the spear is still physically within the bubble right? How would someone inside interact with the spear shaft left inside the bubble.

What if you have someone burning cadmium who then burnt duralumim (97% sure I misspelt it) would they just have a very large bubble for a "short" time or would it speed up time outside the bubble (relative to inside it) to a much higher rate yet have the time relative to the person in the bubble happen nearly instantly since their reserves disappear For example at the end of the first second era book the one girl is burning cadmium but there was still enough time inside the bubble for wayne to get beat pretty badly but if she someone burned the other metal (or perhaps got a nicro burst) could the authorities have arrived even quicker relative to the people inside the bubble

Just a thought. If you asked me to point at "myself" I would actually point at my head. I mean if I touch my nose it feels sort of "in front of me". While if I touch my chin it feels "below me" in a sense. My centre is just behind my eyes. Of course in older cultures the heart was considered to be the centre of self so it makes sense for that to be where the lines from for Kelsier or Vin. But does it mean for someone else who viewed their centre different the lines would go elsewhere? Like would the lines go to my head because that is how I view the centre of myself? Also I hope that there is a separate video for each of the arts, and then one for the interplay between them. Would be awesome

I enjoyed seeing you at the starsight release and do you think burning a hemalurgic spike would do anything similar to burning a metal mind

Just had to write that Augury was the art of seeing the future in Ancient Rome. Augurs did that. Thats why gold mistings are called augurs

Well you center of mass shift around based on fat distribution, limb length relative to body length. But the big question is, what other metal can be used? Can uranium speed up nuclear decay? What counts as a metal, is calcium or lithium a metal?

Bend Alloy Not bendaloy It's written as one word but treat it like two. Fun fact, it is indeed a real thing. Quite a complicated alloy actually. Reading the audiobooks is very helpful if you want to figure out how things like this and Duralumin are said.

I have a question about savantism; when you become a savant, you increase your strength with magic you are using, but does it continue to grow over time, or do you simply get a small initial increase of power, but then none extra after that?

Goddamn that was interesting. Very interesting. Esp the red shift stuff. I still don't see how time bubbles will lead to FTL tech tho . Can't wait for ur videos on feruchemy and hemalurgy

I lost it at Waxillium Steve.

One of my favorite things about Sanderson's books it that the magic systems all have rules, and everyone (hero or villain) follows them. There are in universe explanations for why Vin could pierce copperclouds, or why the Lord Ruler was so powerful. Compare that to the Force in Star Wars or magic in the Harry Potter franchises (full disclosure, I love both of those), where there are no real rules. Or at best the rules are vague and broken.

Auger no. Augury YES. It means to ask the gods a question. Its part of divination in spells especially in video games or table top rpgs.

Hey, do you think that you could please make a video about the Rhythms of Roshar, and the implications of humans being able to use them?

8:55 How would the mechanics of this work? Speed bubbles can't move, right? You'd need the allomancer to be constantly dropping and re-making the bubble to get anywhere. Or maybe the Identity mechanics in era 2 allow for some kinda manipulation of that where you can produce a mobile speed bubble. At that point tho, why? Surely it should be Bendalloy that has this application. Even with just an allomancer running, you'd get a lot of speed out of making a bubble, running to the edge of it in what is, from an outside perspective, super speed, and then re-making the bubble. Applying this to a mobile ship would be interesting. If it travels a given distance, from the crew's perspective, they went at normal speed and took the expected long ass amount of time to get to the other end of a nebula. But from the outside, their journey was much quicker. And then wait, Cadmium would do the opposite, meaning you have two versions of FTL. One that actually moves faster than light from the outside, but would take ages for the people on the ship. And another that will take a long ass time from the outside, but be real quick for the crew. The former would be great for fast travel, but be super expensive. You'd have to feed and house a crew working presumably round the clock for a long time. The latter would be about as fast as conventional spaceships are by this point, but would be much cheaper from a crew perspective, as you only need to provide enough to last them a few moments inside the bubble. Edit: Just remembered that applying allomantic effects to objects is 100% a thing we see done in era 2. Edit 2: Cadmium would also be effective for transporting large stores of food without having to worry about spoiling, because from the food's perspective, the travel time is much shorter. All of this means we should eventually get some insight into the more scientific side of these metals, like the exact ratio of time within a speed bubble vs outside that bubble.

That's a weird way to pronounce Feruchemy.

Fantastic as always. I think most time stuff is spiritually-based, not cognitively, personally. Also, I wouldn't necessarily phrase it as, the way the spear thinks of itself. I think the cognitive aspect of things is shaped more by what people think about spears as a whole or that spear in particular than the self-awareness of the spear. What was the thing Brandon canonized at Starsight premiere?

7:20 i see what u did thar

if you have a spear and the spear head breaks and you replace it. Then later, the spear shaft breaks and you replace it. Is it the same spear with the same cognitive self?

Ha Ha Ha, Ruin was here LOL. I'm sorry. And I have a question, I read somewhere that Atium and Lerasium had alloys of their own, is that cannon? Because that could explain a lot to me.

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*Cough*What about The Mists? *Cough*

Where is the hemalurgy vid bro? Been waiting a while for it...

I personally disagree with how Sanderson has described Cadmium and Bendalloy. If you pull time into yourself, you should have a surplus of time and be and to move faster. Likewise if you push time away or exclude it, you should be slower. His description of push pull would* be accurate if they were instead pulling on gravity and not time. If you sit at the bottom of a gravity well, time would slow. (This might be a revelation he does for Era 4..... Warp bubbles)

Where is the Hemalurgy video?

Imagine Kaladin burning Atium!

Wait so if an alloy of atium and gold can be made then does that mean that theres like... 15 OTHER atium-normal-metal alloys out there with their own powers? And what about other god metals?

Six people who watched this video are simply misters.

I like this video, but I remember watching it right after finishing Mistborn and being extremely confused as to what the hell anything in the intro meant, so I didn't watch it. It should be considered best-practice for Cosmere channels to notify when a video is story-specific, or universe spanning in scope. If I read Mistborn and come here, I don't expect to hear terms like Shards or Investiture.

11:13 Brendan actually contradicted this hmmmmm 😅

There is an actual english term for augur ...

TIL I'm a Mister

That means a Japanese using allomancy would probably attract metallic objects to his or her... nose. Japanese point to their nose to designate themselves.

One thing I never got was how Kelsier was able to spin those bars. How can he be pulling/pushing on diferent ends of a single piece of metal? Surely he can only push/pull on its cognitive center, just as he can't push/pull from his own toes or scalp.

Greetings. Hopefully, you or someone else will see this comment. I am doing my MA on Theoretical Linguistics, and I am currently analyzing fantasy words. I am trying to find online how "Allomancy" is pronounced. I noticed, if I heard correctly, that you use an preantepenultimate stress, meaning on the first /a/? Thank you!

Uh... Which were the high metals again?