Magic Systems

Allomancy

Known facts

metals-grouped-internal-externalMarsh lays out the structure of the lower eight Allomantic metals for Vin: they come in pairs and groups of four, with an external and an internal metal for each push/pull direction. Iron Pulls on outside metal; steel Pushes on outside metal. Tin Pulls on the user's own senses; pewter Pushes on the user's own body. Bronze and copper are the internal mental metals; zinc and brass the external ones.MB1:TFE:Ch 20
cannot-burn-feruchemical-storesVin swallows a pewter Feruchemical store of Sazed's and tries to burn it; she senses the reserve only as a faint shadow she cannot reach. Feruchemical stores cannot be appropriated by an Allomancer — even another Feruchemist can only draw from stores they made themselves.MB1:TFE:Ch 29
metal-inside-the-body-is-shieldedMetal carried inside a person's body cannot be Pushed or Pulled by another Allomancer. Zane wins a sparring match against Vin above Keep Hasting by keeping a single coin in his mouth — invisible to her steel-sight and immune to her Push — and producing it at the moment they would both have fallen. The trick is not obscure once stated, only one no one in the Survivor's line had thought to use.MB1:WoA:Ch 17
first-rule-consequenceThe first rule Kelsier taught Vin, and the first rule Vin in turn taught Elend, is that every Allomantic act has a consequence: a Push on a heavy object pushes the Allomancer back; a Push on a light object sends the object away. For every Push there is a Pull; the system is closed and lawful, more like physics than mysticism. Vin takes the rule as a clue to the nature of Ruin.MB1:HoA:Ch 21
has-sixteen-metals-in-four-groups-of-four-not-fourteenYomen supplies the part Elend needed: the known Allomantic metals come in groupings of four — four physical, four mental, four enhancement, four temporal — and assuming Vin's inference about the pair for atium is right, two more must exist. The full set is sixteen, not fourteen. Two by two by two by two. Sixteen is also the number of original Inquisitors and the days the Lord Ruler took to reach the Well.MB1:HoA:Ch 70
there-are-still-two-undiscovered-metalsThe postscript to Sazed's letter notes — almost teasingly — that two further Allomantic metals remain unknown at the end of the era. Spook, freshly made Mistborn and standing in the new world, is invited to find them. The next age's Mistings and scholars will spend lifetimes on the puzzle.MB1:HoA:Epilogue

Backreferences

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factThe Lord Mistborn · description
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factGold · description
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factCompounding · description
factPulser · description
factCadmium · description
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factRanette's Townhome · description
factHazekiller Round · description
factVindication · description
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factMiles · gold-misting-augur
factThe Set · description
factAugur · description
summaryMB2:AoL:Epilogue
factMarsh · description
factEdwarn Ladrian · description
factThe Set · private-allomancers
factWaxillium Ladrian · village-year-as-asinthew
summaryMB2:BoM:Ch 7
factThe Man With the Cane · description
factThe Allomancy-Disruptor Cube · description
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factApe Manton · description
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factThe Set's Kill Squads · description
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factMedallion · grants-feruchemy-on-touch
factThe Hidden Flier · description
factAllik Neverfar · reveres-allomancers-as-metallic-ones
factExcisor · description
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factEdwarn Ladrian · walked-into-temple-under-parley
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factEdwarn Ladrian · hemalurgically-spiked-allomancer
factTelsin Ladrian · hemalurgically-spiked-allomancer
factThe Set's Hemalurgic Program · description
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factMistborn · description
factMisting · description
factTwixt · description
factSmoker · description
factPewter · description
factAtium · description
factThe Eleventh Metal · description
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factHazekiller · description
factSteel · description
factIron · description
factTin · description
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factBronze · description
factCopper · description
factZinc · description
factBrass · description
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factKelsier · trained-by-gemmel
summaryMB1:TFE:Ch 11
factCamon · hook-executed
factAtium · description
factAllomantic Highway · description
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factSteel Inquisitor · allomancer
factRashek · soothing-aura
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factPewter · keeps-alive
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factSnapping · description
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factAllomancy · metals-grouped-internal-external
factMarsh · snapped-mother-taken
factBronze · pulse-signatures
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factThe Pits of Hathsin · atium-extraction-economy
factThe Great Houses · metal-as-fashion
factFeruchemy · description
summaryMB1:TFE:Ch 23
factVin · cleared-to-resume-allomancy
factShan Elariel · is-a-soother
factMisting · noble-blood-inheritance
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factSteel Inquisitor · age-and-recruited
factSoothing station · description
summaryMB1:TFE:Ch 29
factAllomancy · cannot-burn-feruchemical-stores
factVin · pierces-coppercloud
factVin · pierces-coppercloud-confirmed
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factKelsier · shatters-pits-atium-crystals
factThe Pits of Hathsin · description
summaryMB1:TFE:Ch 36
factVin · deduces-twelfth-metal
factThe Eleventh Metal · description
factVin · rescued-by-elend-and-sazed
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factVin · description
factThe Eleventh Metal · description
factRashek · both-allomancer-and-feruchemist
summaryMB1:TFE:Epilogue
factThe Mist · description
factFeruchemy · description
factHarmony · explains-lord-ruler-power
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factSteel Inquisitor · description
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factSteel Inquisitor · shown-to-move-faster-than-pewter-explains
factElend Venture · unusually-strong-as-allomancer
factElectrum · description
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factSteel Inquisitor · counted-ten-spikes-with-distinct-metals
factSteel Inquisitor · elend-suspects-third-power-behind-them
factRashek · built-five-numbered-supply-caches-for-the-mists
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factTenSoon · told-vin-the-secret
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factElend Venture · emperor-must-make-everything-better
factVetitan · cache-held-first-eight-allomantic-metals
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factVin · acknowledges-mists-are-her-enemy
factAllomantic savant · description
factQuellion · burns-allomancer-pewter
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factAllomancy · first-rule-consequence
factVin · can-mask-her-allomantic-scent
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factLestibournes · has-two-allomantic-powers-tin-and-pewter
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factElend Venture · shard-of-preservation-allows-him-to-soothe-an-entire-room
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factMarsh · spike-sight-renders-the-world-in-allomantic-lines
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factVin · shares-koloss-bond-with-elend
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factSteel Inquisitor · made-by-fusing-multiple-allomancers
factHemalurgy · kandra-koloss-inquisitors-are-cousin-creations
factHemalurgy · description
summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 41
factLestibournes · publicly-becomes-the-survivor-of-the-flames
factQuellion · extracts-allomancers-from-burning-buildings
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factMarsh · was-turned-into-an-inquisitor-the-night-he-was-arrested
factHemalurgy · spikes-can-be-small-and-leak-charge-while-outside-a-body
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factSteel Inquisitor · pierce-coppercloud-explained-by-layered-powers
factAradan Yomen · is-mistborn-and-burns-atium
factAradan Yomen · traps-vin-in-the-cache
factAradan Yomen · description
summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 45
factLestibournes · takes-charge-of-the-urteau-operation
factQuellion · secretly-recruits-mistings-from-his-own-burnings
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factVin · silver-manacles-and-purified-rainwater-keep-her-without-metals
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factQuellion · not-an-allomancer-only-his-sister-was
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factElend Venture · koloss-bond-persists-as-long-as-the-allomancer-lives
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factRashek · bred-feruchemy-out-of-the-terris-population-because-of-his-friends
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factQuellion · self-spiked-bronze-from-a-captured-allomancer
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factAllomancy · has-sixteen-metals-in-four-groups-of-four-not-fourteen
factMist sickness · is-the-snapping-of-latent-allomancers
factMist sickness · description
summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 71
factAtium · is-the-focused-body-of-ruin
factAtium · description
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factAradan Yomen · is-an-atium-misting-a-seer
factSeer · description
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factDemoux · demoux-soldiers-are-snapped-mistings
summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 81
factDemoux · soldiers-are-seers
summaryMB1:HoA:Epilogue
factAllomancy · there-are-still-two-undiscovered-metals
factAllomancer Jak · description
factMarasi · pulser-cadmium-grenades
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summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 22
factDuralumin · revived-by-hemalurgy
factWaxillium Ladrian · metalmind-embedded-under-skin
factSequence · multipower-stack
factLeecher · description
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factWaxillium Ladrian · reconciled-with-the-thrill-of-allomancy
summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 56
factArmal · unregistered-rioter
factThe Community · edwarns-allomantic-breeding-experiment
factThe Community · description
summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 57
summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 59
factGave Entrone · spiked-godhood
factGave Entrone · description
summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 60
factMarasi · plan-burn-the-perpendicularity-pool
summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 64
factThe Perpendicularity Pool · burned-out
summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 69
summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 71
factWayne · drinks-lerasium-becomes-mistborn
factWayne · wears-sazeds-hat
factWayne's Lerasium Vial · description
factWaxillium Ladrian · gentleman-bounty-hunter-persona
summaryMB2:SoS:Ch 1
factAluminum-Lined Hat · description
factHemalurgy · description
summaryMB2:SoS:Ch 5
factWaxillium Ladrian · year-in-the-village
factVwafendal · description
summaryMB2:SoS:Ch 6
factHemalurgy · takes-feruchemical-talents
factBleeder · description
summaryMB2:SoS:Ch 13
factBleeder · lord-rulers-own-kandra
factSoothing Parlour · description
summaryMB2:SoS:Ch 24
summaryMB2:SoS:Epilogue
factTrell · another-god-blocking-harmony
factTrell's Spike · description
summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 3
factFadrex City · description
factPreservation · description
factThe Mist · description
factTerion · description
factAluminum · description
summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 8
factVin · pierces-copperclouds
factkandra · internal-storage-of-objects
factHarmony · vow-to-kelsier-to-protect-vin
summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 12
factSteel Inquisitor · description
summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 13
factkandra · immune-to-mental-allomancy
factkandra · cannot-burn-metals
factPreservation · description
summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 14
summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 17
factAllomancy · metal-inside-the-body-is-shielded
factZane · precise-steel-control
summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 20
factBronze · pulse-carries-emotional-target
summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 22
factVin · hears-distant-pulse-on-bronze
factStraff Venture · breeds-allomancers-from-his-mistresses
summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 30
factVin · confirms-mist-spirit-to-sazed
summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 32
summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 35
factVin · pierces-copperclouds
factAshweather Cett · accepts-no-atium-in-luthadel
summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 36
factBreeze · soother-philosophy
summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 40
factkandra · enslaved-by-mistborn-duralumin-soothing
factkandra · description
factThe Well of Ascension · vin-theorises-initial-burst-creation
summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 47
factZane · engineered-vins-doubts-about-elend
factAllomantic control of kandra · description
factVin · allomancy-stronger-than-other-mistborn
factAllomantic control of koloss · description
summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 56
factPreservation · appears-to-elend-pointing-north
factKredik Shaw · capstone-over-storage-cavern-and-well
summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 59
factElend Venture · becomes-mistborn-via-disk-bead
summaryMB1:WoA:Epilogue