Atium

The Allomantic symbol for atium

Atium is a god metal. An Allomancer burning atium is able to see into the future by a few seconds. Feruchemists can use atium to store age, and when used as a Hemalurgic spike, atium steals any property or power. The metal is a reflective, silvery colour, so much so that beads of atium almost appear to be drops of liquid.

Atium is notable as it is the condensed power of the Shard Ruin. It was sequestered away at the Pits of Hathsin by Preservation when the latter gave up his mind to trap Ruin.

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.

Allomantic Use

An atium Misting is known as a Seer. 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. If another Allomancer burning atium is encountered, the atium shadows will split, since each seeing into the other's future means that they can both make different decisions that affect both Allomancers' outcomes. An Allomancer's atium shadow will also split when burning electrum.

Burning duralumin with atium will allow Allomancers to see the ultimate effects of their actions, allowing them to peer into the Spiritual Realm. Aluminum objects do not generate atium shadows.

Alloys of atium produce various expanded mental and temporal effects.

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Atium as sold on Brandon's website. Not real atium

Stores age bitch

Hemalurgic Use

When used as a Hemalurgic spike, atium is like a wild card. Depending on where it is placed, it can steal any Hemalurgic property and it does so better than other spikes.

Alloys

Atium may also be alloyed with any of the other Allomatic metals. However the only currently known atium alloy is malatium an atium-gold alloy. These alloys grant various temporal effects when burned.

Atium Mining

During the time of Final Empire, atium can only be mined at the pits of Hathsin, run by the noble House Venture. Several days before the fall of Final Empire, after Kelsier's second visit to the pits, the atium mine is destroyed.

After the catacendre, it is possible that atium still grows somewhere, but nothing is known about it.

Trivia

• Atium is different from other Allomantic metals in that when it (and presumably its alloys) is burned, it provides the power from Ruin rather than Preservation, since it is of Ruin.Template:Annotation ref

• Harmony speculates that atium makes the Allomancer burning it a more efficient killer since it draws upon Ruin's power.

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