Allomantic Metals

Bronze

Known facts

pulse-signaturesA skilled bronze-burner can read more than presence in the pulses of another Allomancer: Marsh tells Vin that pulse length, metal group, and Push-versus-Pull variance together identify which specific metal is being burned, and with practice one can tell when an opponent is flaring a metal or running low on it.MB1:TFE:Ch 20
pulse-carries-emotional-targetThe Allomantic pulse a Soother or Rioter gives off, sensed on bronze, carries an underlying vibration that — read with enough focus, or forced through a duralumin flare — discloses the emotion the Misting is touching in his target. Vin, using duralumin on her own bronze in the council room, reads "anxiety, nervousness, worry" off Breeze's pulse and realises he is Soothing Elend confident, not the other way around. Marsh had hinted before Luthadel's fall that bronze held more than most pulsings let on.MB1:WoA:Ch 20