Usuario:Chaos2651/Allomancy

Here is the last little bits of the Allomancy article I need to work on before I would consider it exemplary.

Other things I need to add: mist fabrials as a theory, maybe. Allomancy in Southern Scadrial

Rules of Allomancy

Pushes and Pulls

Not invincible

Soothing can take a koloss.

History

Classical Era of Scadrial

For much of Scadrial's history, Allomancy was exceedingly rare. Allomancy requires the user to have a sufficient connection to Preservation, and for typical Scadrians, this power was buried too deeply for them to Snap. Preservation knew this, and before he created the Well of Ascension and imprisoned his counterpart, Ruin, he designed the mists to make people sick with the purpose of Snapping them. This would occur when the Well's power was about to be filled, when Ruin was most likely to be free. That way, Allomancers could exist in a small way, and this would eventually lead to the creation of atium Mistings and Ruin's defeat.

But Ruin countered Preservation's plan with the mists Snapping, and strengthened the mists so people could be killed from its effect. This threat would eventually be called the Deepness.

Alendi, who was proclaimed the Hero of Ages and apparently destined to destroy the Deepness, was actually a Seeker who was Snapped by the mists, which helped him sense the Well of Ascension. Similarly, a thousand years later, Vin would sense the Well due to her power in bronze.

However, Rashek killed Alendi before he could complete his task And Rashek--the future Lord Ruler--would change the way Allomancy was used on Scadrial for a millennia.

The Ascension and the Early Final Empire

When the Lord Ruler entered the Well of Ascension, he learned a great many things, such as intrinsic knowledge of all three Metallic Arts, including Allomancy. He also learned that the nuggets inside the Chamber of Ascension--beads of lerasium--had the power to make a person a Mistborn. He took one bead of lerasium for himself, becoming the first Mistborn.

The Lord Ruler took nine other beads as well. He knew some would not agree that he was the Hero of Ages, and so he used the lerasium to bribe kings into coming to his side. These were the original Allomancers, and formed the backbone of what would become the nobility later in the Final Empire's history. The original Allomancers were incredibly powerful, Each of these original Allomancers had th

The amount of concentrated Preservation inside lerasium was so much that even over a thousand years later, Allomancy could still be inherited. In fact, with exception of the few Allomancers Snapped by the mists the next time they appeared, every Allomancer was descended from these ten people.

Only ten metals

Every Allomancer since

Everyone was originally Mistborn

Allomancy in that era was so powerful that a simple Push or Pull on a kandra's emotions could get it under an Allomancer's control.

But, as these Allomancers passed down their genes, Allomancy’s power started to diminish. The power diluted more and more until Mistings began to appear instead of solely Mistborn.

The Late Final Empire

A thousand years after the Lord Ruler's Ascension, Allomancy was much weaker (making the Lord Ruler's Allomantic strength seem divine in comparison), but it became even more important to the Final Empire's society. To the Great Houses, Mistborn were seen as prized possessions and vital weapons. Mistborn made for fantastic assassins, so if two Great Houses each had a Mistborn, they were too cautious to strike at one another. Mistborn became both a threat and deterrent to opponents. Mistborn could cause massive house wars with relative ease.

For the skaa, however, Allomancy was mostly a thing of myth and legend, and Mistborn were something to be feared. A skaa born with Allomantic abilities meant that the skaa was a half-breed--part noble, part skaa. Steel Inquisitors would systematically hunt down half-breeds, both by the Lord Ruler’s command and also because in order to create new Inquisitors, they required Allomancers as sacrifices for Hemalurgy.

The Steel Ministry favored Allomancers in their ranks, and almost all high ranking obligators and prelans were Allomancers. This predisposition of the Ministry would eventually allow Marsh to infiltrate their ranks, as he was a Seeker.

The Ministry and its obligators knew of more metals than the ten that were commonly known to have Allomantic properties. They at least knew of aluminum, duralumin, and electrum. The Ministry also knew that atium Mistings could exist; they would spike drinks at a ball and then send an Inquisitor to rile them up, usually causing anyone who had latent atium abilities to Snap and instinctively burn their metals.

Kelsier and the Eleventh Metal

Kelsier discovering the "Eleventh Metal"

Destruction of the Pits of Hathsin

Inquisitors using aluminum on Vin.

11th metal use on the Lord Ruler

Vin discovering duralumin

Using electrum (discovered at Urteau)

Discovery of mistsickness at Fadrex, atium Mistings at the Battle of Hathsin. Victory.

Spook was a Mistborn

Post-Final Ascension

After Harmony's ascension and the restoration of the world, Allomancy continued to play a vital role in the new society of Elendel. However, Allomancy also steadily became less potent. Mistborn became a thing of legend.

That is not to say Allomancy became useless. In fact, new combinations of Allomancy and Feruchemy appeared. After the cataclysmic battle and with so few survivors, the Terris peoples, who largely bred amongst themselves, now interbred with everyone, allowing Feruchemy to be much more widespread. The combination of Allomancy and Feruchemy gave rise to the Twinborn, people with one Allomantic ability and one Feruchemical ability. As Mistborn were a thing of legend, Waxillium Ladrian says that a Twinborn is as much power as one person can have with Allomancy.

A Twinborn who had an Allomantic and Feruchemical ability in the same metal were considered Compounders, who could effectively do the same trick as the Lord Ruler. They were immensely powerful and feared.

Atium and lerasium also became a thing of legend, and Harmony had no plans to release either of the two metals or their alloys. Fortunately, Scadrians discovered cadmium, bendalloy, chromium, and nicrosil, and corrected the error of atium being considered a temporal metal, and instead reserved it as a "god metal" (which, in reality, was more accurate anyway).

Harmony altered the way the Snapping worked, but it is not clear how Snapping works in this new era.

The Set was kidnapping Allomancers through Miles Dagouter, possibly in an attempt to breed another Mistborn.