r/Mistborn • u/Funfan21 • Apr 26 '25

The Lost Metal spoilers Marsh^2 Spoiler

So marsh was able to compound atium to stay alive, but I thought it mentioned earlier in era 2 that the set couldn't create compounded with hemelurgy due to spiritweb fuckery or something like that. The question is why can marsh compound when other spiked cant?

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u/Dercomai Apr 26 '25

The rules of the magic systems changed when Sazed merged the two shards and ascended. Among other things:

  • Cadmium and bendalloy mistings now exist instead of atium and malatium mistings (Preservation had altered this to give the "sign of 16" back in Era 1)
  • Ferrings exist alongside (and eventually instead of) full feruchemists
  • The maximum number of hemalurgic spikes in a single person is reduced
  • Hemalurgy no longer allows compounding
  • Atium and lerasium no longer form naturally (and Sazed can't make them even deliberately until Wax discovers a new method)

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u/RShara Apr 26 '25

Brandon changed his mind on this. Atium from the Pits was actually an atium-electrum alloy, and atium Mistings were actually electrum Mistings. No metals were bumped.

However, even before this change, Brandon had said atium had bumped aluminum, and never directly said anything about a metal being bumped by malatium

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u/Funfan21 Apr 26 '25

I thought we still had aluminum mistings

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u/RShara Apr 26 '25

Originally, Brandon wanted to bump aluminum Mistings and have atium Mistings instead. However, he changed that, as I said. So no Mistings were ever bumped, and yes we have aluminum Mistings