Difference between revisions of "Atium"

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's access ofto part of his power. During the Final Empire, atium is classified as one of the two high metals along with gold and was thought to be only accessible to [[Allomancy|Mistborn]]. However, atium mistings did exist. Due to the scarcity of atium and the [[Lord Ruler]]'s intended misleading,{{wob ref|8037}} such existence was unknown to most people until the exception of [[Aradan Yomen]] occurred. The [[Steel Ministry]] sometimes blended atium into food during a ball, to find out hidden atium mistings.{{wob ref|6119}} These people were used to make [[Steel Inquisitors]] or put to other uses.{{wob ref|8038}}

In actuality, the atium mistings were not natural. Supposedly, there are only sixteen kinds of Mistings, one for each kind of basic metal. But Preservation altered this as a part of his plan to defeat Ruin. The atium Mistings served as a way to burn away Ruin's power without being affected so much by the destructive [[Shard|intent]]. Also, when the [[mist]]s started to snap people, onesixteen sixteenthpercent of them became [[Mistfallen]], whom were later found out to be atium mistings.