Feruchemy
A second magic of Scadrial in which a person uses a worn metal object — a metalmind — to store an attribute of themselves and draw it back later. A Feruchemist who stores weight in iron grows lighter as the metalmind fills, and can draw the stored weight back when it serves them. MB2:AoL:Prologue
The Terris art practised by the Keepers — a metal-storage discipline whose attributes include strength, sharpness of sight, recent memory, weight, and even age itself. Pay one end, draw the other. Sazed now suspects that a person who is both Feruchemist and Allomancer can burn their own filled metalmind as a new Allomantic metal — releasing its stored attribute many times over. That, he believes, is how the Lord Ruler stayed young for a thousand years. MB1:TFE:Epilogue superseded at MB2:AoL:Prologue
The Terris art practised by the Keepers. Unlike Allomancy, Feruchemy does not burn metals away — each piece of metal is used as a reservoir. A Feruchemist diverts some bodily attribute — strength, sharpness of sight, recent memory — into a metalmind, paying it down at one end and drawing it back at the other. What attribute a metalmind can carry is fixed by which metal it is and how much of it. The art is the reason Terris dress is heavy with rings and earrings and bracers. MB1:TFE:Ch 22 superseded at MB1:TFE:Epilogue
Known facts
- age-storageAmong the powers a Feruchemist can store is age itself — by spending a period feeling and looking older than he is, he banks a corresponding period during which he can appear younger. As with every Feruchemical attribute, the balance is exact.MB1:TFE:Ch 29
- ironmind-stores-weightFeruchemical iron — an ironmind — stores a person's own bodyweight. Sazed uses one to climb a thin aspen and drop softly out of it, light enough that the climb takes little strength and the fall hits the ground without bruise.MB1:WoA:Ch 19
- tinmind-stores-senseA tinmind stores a single sense and gives it back at need. Sazed taps his tinmind from a tree-top perch to see Jastes Lekal's army across the hollow at distance — at the cost of being briefly short-sighted for anything close enough to touch him, which is how a koloss patrol surrounds his aspen unnoticed.MB1:WoA:Ch 19
- survived-rasheks-cull-via-recessive-terris-heritagePer epigraph: when the Lord Ruler turned the living Terris Feruchemists into mistwraiths to found the kandra, he overlooked the Feruchemy still carried recessively in the Terris he allowed to live. Feruchemists continued to be born among them, rarely, throughout the thousand years of his subsequent breeding program — a flaw that, the writer notes, cost him much and gave the world more.MB1:HoA:Ch 67
Backreferences
- summaryMB2:AoL:Ch 2
- factThe Originators
- summaryMB2:AoL:Ch 6
- factBloodmaker
- summaryMB2:AoL:Ch 9
- factWayne
- factGold
- summaryMB2:AoL:Ch 11
- factMiles
- factCompounding
- summaryMB2:AoL:Ch 13
- summaryMB2:AoL:Ch 15
- factMiles
- factWaxillium Ladrian
- summaryMB2:BoM:Ch 3
- factThe Bands of Mourning
- factIdentity
- factChromium
- factNicrosil
- factFull Feruchemist
- summaryMB2:BoM:Ch 12
- factKelesina's Gold Bracelet
- factUnkeyed Metalmind
- factMedallion
- summaryMB2:BoM:Ch 21
- factMedallion
- factThe Sovereign
- factExcisor
- factFiremothers and Firefathers
- summaryMB2:BoM:Ch 25
- factEdwarn Ladrian
- factThe Set's Hemalurgic Program
- summaryMB2:BoM:Ch 31
- factCoppermind
- summaryMB1:TFE:Ch 22
- factKeeper
- factRashek
- factHarmony
- factHarmony
- summaryMB1:TFE:Ch 25
- summaryMB1:TFE:Ch 27
- summaryMB1:TFE:Ch 29
- factAllomancy
- factFeruchemy
- summaryMB1:TFE:Ch 37
- factHarmony
- summaryMB1:TFE:Ch 38
- factVin
- factRashek
- summaryMB1:TFE:Epilogue
- factHarmony
- summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 4
- factHarmony
- factHarmony
- factHarmony
- summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 5
- factSteel Inquisitor
- factSteel Inquisitor
- summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 10
- factHarmony
- factKeeper Synod
- summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 31
- factHarmony
- factHarmony
- summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 40
- factHemalurgy
- factHemalurgy
- summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 46
- factHarmony
- summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 58
- summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 60
- summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 62
- factMistwraith
- factkandra
- factRashek
- factFirst Generation
- summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 65
- factSteel Inquisitor
- summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 66
- factFeruchemy
- factFirst Generation
- summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 72
- factSteel Inquisitor
- summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 73
- summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 78
- factHarmony
- summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 80
- summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 81
- factThe Bands of Mourning
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 3
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 6
- factCycle
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 25
- factWaxillium Ladrian
- factSequence
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 34
- factTelsin Ladrian
- summaryMB2:SoS:Prologue
- factWaxillium Ladrian
- summaryMB2:SoS:Ch 2
- factHemalurgy
- summaryMB2:SoS:Ch 4
- factSteelrunner
- summaryMB2:SoS:Ch 5
- factVwafendal
- factIdashwy
- summaryMB2:SoS:Ch 6
- factHemalurgy
- factBleeder
- summaryMB2:SoS:Ch 9
- summaryMB2:SoS:Ch 13
- factBleeder
- summaryMB2:SoS:Ch 16
- summaryMB2:SoS:Epilogue
- factTrell
- factTrell's Spike
- factHarmony
- factHarmony
- factHarmony
- summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 14
- factKeeper
- factTindwyl
- factTindwyl
- summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 15
- factUrbene
- factHarmony
- summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 19
- factFeruchemy
- summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 30
- factTindwyl
- summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 36
- summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 37
- factThe Breeders
- factHarmony
- summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 50
- summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 52
- factHarmony
- summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 54
- summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 58
- factHarmony
- summarySA:WaT:I-13