Brandon's RAFO'd it, but I'm sure there is some sort of other effect.
Interesting. Now I'm trying to think what it could do.
And this begs the question: Are there Larasium-mistings? We've obviously seen mistings for the other God Metal (that's what spawned this whole discussion
). And we've seen mistings that get no benefit whatsoever from their metals (Aluminum and Duralumin Gnats), so it should be possible. Although I suppose they could just eat a bead, wait for it to kick in and make them a full Mistborn, then burn any others. And it is all hypothetical, since I doubt anyone will ever get their hands on that much Larasium anyway.
Atium can act like Hemalurgic wild card and can be substituted for any spike, I'm fairly certain.
I believe you, but do you know where this is said? I'd like to see what else was said on the subject. If you can't remember where, that's fine.
I do believe that it is confirmed. I don't have a link for you, so feel free to say [citation needed] But I do believe that Preservation did it for those reasons.
All right. I wanted to see what else was confirmed or discussed along with the Cadmium replacement, but I'll live.
As far as I can remember, the "Larasium Alloys make Mistings" theory was being treated as fact, but then discovered to not have been directly confirmed anywhere. It's an extremely likely theory, but still a theory, last I checked.
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I like how you say that as if I'm some kind of authority on the subject. Which I'm really not.
Well, your explanation sounded plausible enough to me, mainly since it didn't involve Preservation making any overhauls on his magic system, just him changing the way the mistsickness worked to try to send a message to Elend.
And since I just copy+pasted your text, I wanted to give you credit and let other people see where I grabbed it from, but I didn't bother to get the Quote-link that the site can provide.
I actually brought up the atium burning issue in another topic. I have the same problem with it you do.
Oh really? Did you get any satisfactory answers?
Well, didn't some of the soldiers die from the mistsickness? I'm assuming that those might have been the mistborn. A shame they died, but it's not like Preservation could fine tune the mists for them.
I guess they could have been Mistborn, but I don't think so, personally. More likely people who were unable to bear the attempted Snapping for some other reason. Things like heart or lung defects, the old and the young, people who were already sick with some other normal disease, or whatever else. They just couldn't handle the stress of the mistsickness.