Author Topic: A use for Aluminum  (Read 4119 times)

Omelethead

  • Level 5
  • *
  • Posts: 125
  • Fell Points: 0
  • The Member Formerly Known as Gher
    • View Profile
Re: A use for Aluminum
« Reply #15 on: October 02, 2010, 04:29:23 PM »
Shortly after Hero of Ages was released, Brandon revealed in a Q&A thread (which is apparently no longer stickied) here that, while pretty much all actual feruchemists were killed by the Steel Inquisitors in Hero of Ages, feruchemy remained in the Terris bloodlines.  The death of all those feruchemists plus interbreeding with other peoples diluted the feruchemical heritage to the point where the abilities split and started producing feruchemical mistings.  Thus, by the time of the planned sequel trilogy several hundred years later, single-metal users would be common for both magic systems, and occasionally someone would have both allomantic and feruchemical ability, each with one metal.  If the metals happen to be the same, then that person would be able to pull off The Lord Ruler's trick with that particular metal.

Some metal combinations do work with different metals though.