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|allomancy=See an expanded view of the future
|misting = unknown
|feruchemy= unknown
|hemalurgy= Steal any power
|type=[[God Metal]] ([[Ruin]])
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{{metal
|allomancy=See the near-future of others
|misting=Seer
|feruchemy=Store youth{{book ref|mb7|part=ars}}
|hemalurgy= Unknown
|type=[[God Metal]] ([[Ruin]])
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'''Atium''' is a [[God Metal]], though the metal primarily known by this name is not its pure form, but a Atium-[[Electrum]] alloy, that [[Preservation]] made naturally produce in the [[Pits of Hathsin]].{{wob ref|15955}}{{wob ref|15962}}{{wob ref|15110}}


An Allomancer burning atium-electrum is able to see into the future by a few seconds, whilst the pure form gives one an expanded view of the future.{{file ref|Table of Allomantic Metals.jpeg|Allomancy Table}} Feruchemists can use atium-electrum to store youth, and when used as a Hemalurgic spike, purified atium steals any property or power.{{book ref|mb7|part=ars}} The metal is a reflective, silvery color, so much so that beads of atium almost appear to be drops of liquid.{{book ref|mb1|13}}

Atium is notable as it is the condensed power of the [[Shard]] [[Ruin]]. As a result, an Allomancer burning atium does not draw on [[Preservation]]'s power; instead, the [[Investiture]] of the metal provides the power.{{wob ref|8028}} It was sequestered away at the Pits of Hathsin by [[Preservation]] when the latter gave up his mind to trap Ruin; to regain the power contained in the atium, Ruin would have needed to manifest in some way.{{wob ref|14839}}

Presumably, the name "atium" is inherited from [[Ati]], the name of the original holder of the Shard Ruin, just as the name "[[lerasium]]" is inherited from [[Leras]], the original holder of the Shard Preservation. Atium cannot be combined with lerasium to make [[ettmetal]], nor can ettmetal be broken down into atium and lerasium. While it would not be possible to get atium and lerasium from ettmetal through distillation or other mundane methods, it is possible through other methods.{{wob ref|12145}}{{book ref|mb7|71}}

== Allomantic Use ==

=== Pure Atium ===
Burning pure atium gives an expanded view of the future, seeing not just shadows a few seconds into the future, but a complete vision far into the future.{{book ref|mb3|81}}{{file ref|Table of Allomantic Metals.jpeg|Allomancy Table}}{{wob ref|15955}}

=== Alloy ===
{{image|Atium Shadow by Danrossidraws.jpg|[[Vin]] burning atium|width=350px|side=left}}

An electrum [[Misting]] who uses the Atium-Electrum alloy (known simply as atium throughout the Final Empire and Post-Catacendric Scadrial) is known as a '''Seer'''.{{wob ref|15955}} Burning atium allows the user to see a few seconds into the future, by producing atium shadows of everything in sight. These shadows perform future actions. Burning atium expands the user's mind to be able to accept and process all of the information, even allowing the Allomancer to dodge incoming attacks from behind. [[Harmony]] speculates that atium makes the Allomancer burning it a more efficient killer because it draws upon Ruin's power.{{epigraph ref|mb3|78}} 

Atium shadows, while hard to beat, are not impossible. The most common way to fight effectively against a Seer is by using another atium Allomancer, as when two Allomancers burn atium at the same time, the shadows they see will split into a multitude of possibilities, as a positive feedback loop is created by each person trying to predict a future the other has just changed. This effect will also occur when fighting against an [[electrum]] Allomancer, due to the nature of that metal's ability. It would also be possible to best a Seer by Compounding steel. While a steel Compounder would not be able to move faster than an atium Allomancer can predict, they could potentially move faster than the Seer is able to process the information they are gaining through their abilities.{{wob ref|244}} It is possible to defeat an atium Allomancer by using their reactions to the future against them, but is only known to have happened once.{{book ref|mb2|47}}

Burning [[duralumin]] with atium will allow Allomancers to see farther into the future, by allowing them to peer into the [[Spiritual Realm]].{{book ref|mb3|81}}{{msh ref|6|9}}{{wob ref|3610}} The same effect can occur if a Hemalurgist has enough spikes enhancing their atium.{{wob ref|3610}} Aluminum objects do not generate atium shadows.{{wob ref|6870}} Atium does not enable a person to anticipate emotional Allomancy.{{wob ref|9038}}

=== Savantism ===
An Allomantic atium savant can sense atium shadows even if they are blind.{{wob ref|4072}}

== Feruchemical Use ==
Atium, when used by a Feruchemist, stores youth.{{book ref|mb7|part=ars}} When storing youth, the Feruchemist spends time older. When tapping youth, the Feruchemist then spends time younger.

=== Compounding ===
An atium [[Compounding|Compounder]] would be able to use atium to have a nearly infinite supply of youth, allowing for practical immortality.{{book ref|mb1|epilogue}}{{wob ref|5264}}

== Hemalurgic Use ==
When used as a Hemalurgic spike, atium is like a wild card.{{wob ref|5971}} Depending on where it is placed, it can steal any power (i.e., the ability to use an Invested Art, such as Allomancy or [[sand mastery]]){{wob ref|14896}} and it does so better than other spikes.{{wob ref|5971}} Atium must be refined to be used in Hemalurgy, this supposedly refers to atium without pollution by electrum.{{file ref|Hemalurgy table.jpg|Hemalurgy Table}}

== Alloys ==
Atium may also be alloyed with any of the other Allomatic metals. Only two atium alloys are currently known, these being [[malatium]], an atium-gold alloy; and the atium-electrum alloy that most people refer to when speaking of atium.{{wob ref|15955}}{{wob ref|15962}}{{wob ref|15110}} 

These alloys grant various expanded mental and temporal effects when burned.{{file ref|Table of Allomantic Metals.jpeg|Allomancy Table}}{{wob ref|4615}}

== Around the Cosmere ==
Atium (and its alloys) can be made into weapons, which can be very useful for doing things like resisting [[Shardblade]]s.{{wob ref|13824}}

== History ==
{{image|Atium geode.jpg|side=right|width=300px|An atium geode}}
As atium is a God Metal, it does not form naturally. The metal only came to exist when [[Preservation]] stole a chunk of Ruin's power and created the Pits of Hathsin, where atium grows in crystals, to deny Ruin access to part of his power.{{epigraph ref|mb3|78}} He formed this into a natural atium-electrum alloy, which is what everyone during the Final Empire, and even into Post-Catacendric Scadrial, referred to as "atium".{{wob ref|15955}}{{wob ref|15962}}{{wob ref|15110}} Although they showed a degree of understanding of its polluted nature, with Hemalurgists understanding that it must be refined and purified.{{file ref|Hemalurgy table.jpg|Hemalurgy Table}}

During the Final Empire, atium was classified as one of the two high metals along with gold and was thought to be only usable by [[Allomancy|Mistborn]]. Though atium Mistings&mdash;known as Seers&mdash;did exist, due to the scarcity of atium and the [[Lord Ruler]]'s obfuscation, their existence was simply unknown to anyone other than a few select members of the [[Steel Ministry]].{{wob ref|8037}} The Ministry worked diligently to find atium Mistings among the nobility, including by occasionally spiking drinks at balls and causing a disturbance to see if anyone's body reacted by instinctively burning the trace amounts of metal and by slipping any non-Allomancers who join the Ministry a bit of atium and then forcing them through a series of physically-draining rituals that will induce their body to burn the metal, if it can.{{wob ref|6119}} Those found to be Seers were told of their power and often rose through the ranks of the Ministry quickly and given important positions where their power could be used for wondrous feats that would help keep people in line and enhance the Ministry's mystique and perceived power.{{wob ref|8038}}

Shortly after the fall of the Final Empire, as the [[Well of Ascension]] grew close to refilling, the [[mist]]s began their efforts to Snap people into Allomancers, though the trauma of this process was initially perceived as a form of attack or sickness. Sixteen percent of those exposed to the mists became Allomancers; most either died or recovered quickly, but one one-sixteenth of those who became Allomancers remained sick for a full sixteen days and became known as [[mistfallen]],{{book ref|mb3|36}} a consequence of the fact that they had become Seers rather than some other form of Misting. These Mistings ultimately proved crucial in Ruin's defeat, burning away the kandra atium cache before Ruin's forces gained access to the [[Trustwarren]] where it had been kept.{{book ref|mb3|81}}

After the [[Catacendre]], atium Mistings no longer existed in the same way that they did before.{{wob ref|3000}}

=== Atium Mining ===
During the time of the [[Final Empire]], atium could only be mined at the [[Pits of Hathsin]], run by the nobles of [[House Venture]]. Several days before the fall of the Final Empire, because of [[Kelsier]]'s second visit to the Pits, the atium mine is destroyed.

=== Post-Catacendre ===
[[Waxillium_Ladrian|Wax]] was later able to split [[ettmetal]] using [[trellium]] to create more atium, the effect of this separation is highly explosive, and only produces a small amount of atium.{{book ref|mb7|71}}{{book ref|mb7|15}} Following his discovery, [[kandra]] began repeating the process in order to produce more, under Harmony's orders.{{book ref|mb7|epilogue|4}}

It is not known if this produced the atium-electrum alloy, or if it produced true atium.

== Trivia ==
* Atium was modeled after platinum, and would be considered a [[wikipedia:platinum group|platinum group]] metal.{{wob ref|10577}}
* Brandon has stated that, since writing ''Mistborn'' Era 1, he has wished he made atium usable by all Allomancers as it "feels off" that a God Metal is only usable by Mistborn (and Seers). If a ''Mistborn'' film is ever made, he would likely want to make this change in the movie.{{wob ref|13821}} On other occasions, he has also indicated interest in some day exploring why atium is limited in this way{{wob ref|416}}{{wob ref|6322}}{{wob ref|13225}} and that the atium present in Era 1 is an atium-electrum alloy.{{wob ref|15299}} This is perhaps supported by the fact that Hemalurgically, atium must be purified.{{file ref|Hemalurgy table.jpg|Hemalurgy Table}} Furthermore, the Allomancy chart states it gives an "Expanded view of the future",{{file ref|Table of Allomantic Metals.jpeg|Allomancy Table}} and has been shown before.{{wob ref|15955}}{{wob ref|15110}} The chart also states that alloys with atium give "expanded mental and temporal effects", seeing the future of other individuals may be an example of this.{{file ref|Table of Allomantic Metals.jpeg|Allomancy Table}}

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