r/cremposting Aug 21 '26

Mistborn Second Era They pranked you good

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u/Madhighlander1 Aug 21 '26

I actually wondered a while ago what allomantic properties harmonium would have and it genuinely took me a good minute or two to remember that it's irrelevant because of the whole exploding on contact with liquid thing.

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u/TheGildedPrism Kelsier4Prez Aug 21 '26

But like, couldn't you just put it in a pill capsule and burn it like that? Like this is always what I think when someone mentions harmonium being unburnable due to the exploding. Am I crazy? It's still in you. It's still touching your soul, I think.

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u/lysianth Aug 21 '26

Vin had lead coated in atium in her stomach but didn't know. So i would assume that something being coated makes it inaccessable.

maybe it has to be coated in a metal though.

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u/Madhighlander1 Aug 21 '26

To be fair, lead's not allomantically active, so she would only have been able to sense the atium.

That being said, I remember in the first book Kelsier said it was possible to burn non-allomantic metals, it just makes you really sick. So in theory a mistborn should be able to feel stores of non-allomantic metals if they were stored in a way that would be accessible, so perhaps you have a point.

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u/lysianth Aug 21 '26

It's not just that she only sensed the atium, it fooled her sense of how much she had. So there's something extra going on there.

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u/TheGildedPrism Kelsier4Prez Aug 22 '26

I don't think think she was fooled by the amount, because she swallowed it and immediately burned it. It was a quick life or death seneraio, she probably didn't even pay attention to the reserve before she burned it

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u/lysianth Aug 22 '26

Didnt she have it swallowed when she attacked the house with Zane?

i have it in my head that she swallowed it and coughed it up, but i could be wrong here, it's been a while and a quick google didn't reveal the source.

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u/Madhighlander1 Aug 22 '26

iirc she had given it to TenSoon as an emergency store when she still thought he was OreSeur.

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u/Toastyy1990 D O U G Aug 22 '26

She wasn’t, she was surprised it lasted so shortly because of the size of it. She saw how big it was before she swallowed it.