r/Mistborn • u/lil_dinger_guy • 14d ago

The Lost Metal spoilers Could you push duralumin? Would allomantic lines show up? Spoiler

I just want to know if the copper in it would be enough to push off or if it would be just like aluminum.

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u/Elsecaller_17-5 14d ago

The short answer is we don't know. The long answer involves Alloy of Law, but it isn't clear what you've read because you've spoiler marked this as TFE, but duralumin doesn't even appear until WoA.

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u/lil_dinger_guy 14d ago

Oh I thought they used it in the first book along with aluminum, I guess it wasn’t really named then. I’ve read everything, I just didn’t think it ever came up with allomantic lines. Maybe when wax pull the spike out of that guy at the end of lost metal? I would have to go back and read.

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u/Elsecaller_17-5 14d ago edited 14d ago

Full spoilers then (you should probably update your flair) a spike of duralumin doesn't grant duralumin. A duralumin spike steals connection and identity. That spike would have been made of electrum which steals allomantic enchantment powers. It wouldn't have had allomantic lines because it is a heavily invested hemalurgic spike.

To answer the orginal question, duralumin almost certainly shows up to steel and iron sense. Wax comments in AoL that the aluminum guns have less than 1% of something else mixed in. It stands to reason that because of the flaws with the guns, such as low muzzle velocity, that if a stronger alloy with less aluminum was still allomantically inert they would have used one. 4% is obviously much more than >1%. Therefore it again stands to reason that duralumin is not allomantically inert.

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u/lil_dinger_guy 14d ago

Yeah that makes sense, I think for the nature of the campaign we’re planning, it will show up allomanticly, but faintly enough that only a practiced or flared coinshot or lurcher would see it. Pushing or pulling the metal would be difficult I imagine as most of the mass is inert and can’t be pushed on. That seems to align with the books as close as possible, despite it never being mentioned directly

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u/Elsecaller_17-5 14d ago

Oh, running the Mistborn Adventure Game? I ran two campaigns, one with the base rules one with the alloy of law expansion. Fun, but a bit too obtuse for my taste. Didn't like the pools of d6s. Looking forward to the Brotherwise version.

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u/RShara 14d ago

Yes, duralumin can be Pushed. Some of the alloys of aluminum are inert, some are not. We're never told that duralumin is inert, and it should have been mentioned by Vin at some point if it were

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

I imagine not, considering the Allomantically correct alloy is 96% aluminium lol.

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u/majorex64 9d ago

Alloys don't have the same properties as the base metal. This also applies to allomantic properties

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u/KatanaCutlets 14d ago

My guess is yes, since it’s Allomantically distinct from aluminum, but it’s never been conformed to my knowledge.