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== History ==
[[File:AtiumBead.jpg|90px|thumb|right|Atium as sold on Brandon's website. Not real 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 of 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]]
Actually, the atium mistings are 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 serve 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, one sixteenth of them became [[Mistfallen]], whom were later found out to be atium mistings.
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