Aluminio
Aluminum is the internal enhancement pulling metal. An Allomancer burning aluminum will make all of his metal reserves vanish.[1] Feruchemists can use aluminum to store identity, and when used as a Hemalurgic spike, aluminum steals enhancement Allomancy. It is known as Ralkalest in the Rose Empire on Sel.[2]
Aluminum metal (and some of its alloys) are "Allomantically inert" - they cannot be Pushed or Pulled, and can shield people from emotional Allomancy.[3] Aluminum generates no atium shadows.[4] It also interferes with Feruchemical healing, by making it impossible for wounds to heal around the aluminium until it is removed from the body. There is a similar effect on pewter Allomancy.[5]
Aluminum has been confirmed to have strange effects to all magic systems, is magically inert, and will act as an Investiture sink.[6][7]
Allomantic Use
A aluminum Misting is known as an Aluminum Gnat. Burning aluminum causes the body to instantly metabolize its metal reserves without any other effect. As such, an aluminum Misting serves no purpose and gains nothing from their powers.[3]
An Allomancer would be able to heal from the withering inflicted by a Shade by burning aluminium.[8]
It may be possible for an aluminium savant to cleanse their spirit of unwanted effects of Investiture.[9]
Feruchemical Use
[[File:|150px|right|thumb|link=aluminum|The Feruchemical symbol for aluminum]] An aluminum Ferring is known as a Trueself. Aluminum is used to store "spiritual sense of identity." This ability is not fully understood, and is rarely discussed outside of Terris communities.[3] A Feruchemist who fills an aluminummind to the point where they have no identity and then fills another metalmind is able produce a metalmind that anyone can use. In a similar manner, a Feruchemist may be able to tap another person's metalminds by filling their own aluminummind completely.[10]
Mistborn Adventure Game
In the Mistborn Adventure Game, aluminum stores "personal identity". While a Feruchemist is filling their aluminummind they become, "bland, indecisive, mildly forgettable, and emotionally pliable -- essentially, less defined and distinct as an individual," and their "tastes, opinions, loyalties, and the like," become, "much more flexible." When a Feruchemist taps their aluminummind they become "a more fully realized version of [themselves], reinforcing deeply-held convictions and allegiances, and dramatically boosting self-worth. The Feruchemist becomes resistant to brainwashing and manipulation, including Allomancy, Feruchemy, and Hemalurgy that influences [their] emotions." The Feruchemist also experiences a boost in confidence and recovers from mental hardships sooner.
The Feruchemist also has the effects of the world on their personality undone. Tapping an aluminummind reverts their personality to as it was at some point in the past.
Some Feruchemists will store memories in a coppermind before tapping their aluminimminds to gain a whole new perspective on those memories.
Hemalurgic Use
When used as a Hemalurgic spike, aluminum steals enhancement Allomantic powers.
Weaponry
Guns and bullets made from aluminum are highly effective (albeit expensive) because they cannot be Pushed or Pulled. Aluminum bullets are actually composed of an allomantically inert alloy of aluminum since the ballistics of a pure aluminum bullet would not work.[11]
Forgery
Known as Ralkalest in the Rose Empire, aluminum cannot be altered at all via Forgery.[12]
The cells for Forgers in the Rose Palace have ralkalest grates in their ceilings for entrance and a thin plate of ralkalest behind the stone walls.[12]
Nalthis
Aluminium cannot be Awakened. It is possible for aluminium to prevent someone from Returning, but it cannot be achieved with simple methods such as stabbing them.[7]
Notes
- ↑ El Pozo de la Ascensión (libro) capítulo 5#
- ↑ (...) Ralkalest is definitely aluminum (...)
— Foros de 17th Shard - Oct 13th 2015# - ↑ a b c Aleación de ley Ars Arcanum#
- ↑ The aluminum would not give an atium shadow.
— Theoryland - March 6th, 2014# - ↑ the wound would not be able to heal around the aluminum, but once the aluminum came out, and was gone from the system, they would be okay.
— Theoryland - March 1st, 2014# - ↑ Aluminum has some weird properties on all of the magic systems, not just Allomancy
— Theoryland - Mar 21st, 2014# - ↑ a b Aluminum is apparently magically inert and it can also act as a sink for Investiture.
— Foros de 17th Shard - Oct 13th 2015# Error en la cita: Etiqueta<ref>no válida; el nombre «17s-post-340620» está definido varias veces con contenidos diferentes - ↑ I would say if you burned aluminum, that would kind of have the effect that you are wanting it to have, which is the negating and sucking out, so it's probably safer.
— Foros de 17th Shard - Oct 14th 2015# - ↑ However, on the extreme end of aluminum, I have in the notes the possibility of cleansing the spirit of unwanted effects of other investitures.
— Theoryland - Sep, 2012# - ↑ Brazales de Duelo (libro) capítulo 3#
- ↑ Aleación de ley capítulo 7#
- ↑ a b El alma del emperador capítulo day#