Feruchemy: The Most Versatile Magic System In Mistborn

baraki is one of the three magic systems present on scadrial the planet that Brandon sanderson's mistborn series takes place on it is perhaps the most versatile of the three metallic Arts with its applications ranging from fighting to scholarship in this video we will explore ferm's mechanics discuss how femal abilities are gained learn about each of the femal metals and discover the origins and history of Fermi mechanics of the three magic systems on scadrial faky is the second most common it is an end neutral magic system meaning that power is neither gained nor lost when practicing the art people who are able to practice faky are known as fists they have the ability to use pieces of metal as a kind of battery filling them with attributes of themselves that they can then withdraw at a later time different types of metal store different attributes for instance iron stores weight pwor stores strength and Brass stores warmth we will go over each fer chemical metal and the attributes they store in Greater detail later in the video a piece of metal that a ferak chemist has stored an attribute in is known as a metal mind metal mins can vary greatly in size but the bigger they are the more of an attribute they can hold impure metals can still be made into metal mines but the less pure they are the less of a Ferro chemical charge they will hold specific spe ific metal mins are named after the metal they are made of so an iron metal mind is called an iron mind a brass metal mind is called a brass mind and so on in order for a Ferro chemist to store or access an attribute in one of their metal mins they must be touching that piece of metal because of this many fak chemists choose to wear their metal mines as jewelry often in the form of metal bracers around their arms and legs rings on their fingers and piercings in their ears and face as they are actively filling a metal mind with an attribute that attribute becomes diminished this is because the power they are storing is coming directly from their body this can look quite extreme depending on the attribute being stored for example when a fist fills a peer mind with strength they seem to deflate their muscles growing weak and scrawny as soon as they stop filling that putor mind their muscles return to normal size and strength a fist can choose how much of an attribute they store at once but it has to be at a reasonable rate it's common for them to store 25% of an attribute leaving them with 75% of that attribute to work with while they're filling their metal mind the act of withdrawing a reserve of an attribute back out of a metal mind is known as tapping when a ferak chemist is actively tapping one of their reserves that attribute is increased if that same ferak chemist who stored up strength in a put M decides to tap that strength Reserve their muscles will increase in size and they will become considerably stronger until until they either release the power or it runs out baraky is a very balanced art meaning that you typically get out what you put in if a fist spends 1 hour storing 50% of their weight in an iron M they can tap that Reserve at a later time to be 15% of their normal weight for an hour they can also choose to tap a Reserve at an accelerated rate but if they do that some of the power is lost for instance that same Ferro chemist who stored 50% of their weight for 1 hour might only be able to T to make themsel weigh 200% of their normal weight for 25 minutes rather than a full half hour or 250% for 10 minutes the quicker they tap a reserve the more power is lost even with this loss faky can be very powerful there's no upper limit to how much of a reserve a Ferro chemist can tap at once they just won't be able to use it for as long in the books we've seen a ferak chemist draw in days worth of stored weight in a single moment making himself heavier than a building ordinarily a ferak chemist's metal mind is keyed to their identity this makes them inaccessible to other ferak chemists although those other Ferro chemists are still able to tell that there is a fer chemical charge stored within the metal they'll see a kind of shadow of the reserve but won't be able to access the power itself there's a special type of metal mind known as an unkeyed metal mind that isn't limited to one Ferro chemist as the name suggests they aren't keyed to any specific identity they're creation requires a fakem to manipulate their identity using aluminum faky there's another type of metal mine that takes this one step further and can be used by anyone whether they're a Ferro chemist or not these are called unsealed metal mines the exact method for creating one of these isn't known yet but it likely involves Ferro chemical aluminum nikil duramen and a device called an exciser we'll probably learn more about these special metal mins in mbor a three gaining femal abilities the most common way to gain Ferro chemical abilities is to simply be born with them baraky is a spiritually hereditary trait meaning that it's passed on through spiritual DNA a person has to have Terrace ancestors to have the chance of being born with baraky though even then it's extremely rare it's pretty easy for an individual to find out if they have Fair chemical abilities they just need to go around touching a bunch of different Metals if they can use a metal femally they'll feel a kind of empathy for that metal when touching it another way a person can gain the powers of faky is through the use of hemic spikes these spikes steal the spiritual DNA associated with fakem from one person and transfers it to another this method of gaining fical abilities is rather unethical because it not only steals the ability from the first person it also kills them in the process we'll be covering hemery in DET detail in a future video so be sure to hit the Subscribe button and turn on post notifications so you'll know when that video is posted there's a third way to gain Ferro chemical abilities that involves the use of the two scri and God metals larium and aium I think it most likely involves alloying the two God Metals in some way and then either consuming the metal or tapping it but as of right now it's a mystery types of ferak chemists there are two classifications of chemists those who can store attributes in all the Ferro chemical Metals known as full ferak chemists and those who can only store an attribute in a single Ferro chemical metal known as fairings the only known methods to access a combination of Ferro chemical powers that falls outside of these two classifications is through the use of hemery or unsealed metal mines during the time periods of classical scadrial and the final Empire everyone who was born with femic powers was a full femst this was because the Terrace Bloodlines were very pure due to the Terrace people staying isolated keeping the spiritual DNA very strong after the katandra however the Terrace people began to interbreed with the general population and the spiritual DNA responsible for femy began to weaken by the time of mistborn era 2 there are no longer any full fists and instead fairings have began to appear in the population each type of fairing has been given a particular name depending on their abil ability such as steel Runner skimmer or fire soul we'll go over each of the names and the metal they are associated with when we talk about the Ferro chemical Metals after terrorist genetics got introduced into the general population it became possible for a person with both Terrace and Noble Heritage to be born with one femal ability and one Alantic ability those lucky few people are known as twin born Ferro chemical Metals There are 16 basic baroch chemical Metals the metals can be divided into four groups of four metals each based on the attributes they store these groups are physical cognitive spiritual and hybrid we'll start with the physical group of metals iron allows a phoch chemist to store physical weight reducing their effective weight while actively storing this reduction of weight can be very useful when falling from Heights because their surface area Remains the Same while their mass is reduced so wind resistance slows their fall enough to land safely it can also help when climbing up things such as trees they can tap their Reserve at a later time to increase their effective weight a fist can use this increased weight to add momentum to attacks when fighting make themselves harder to push or pull and even to fall on top of an enemy while greatly increasing their weight crushing their enemy's bones an iron fairing is known as a skimmer steel allows a ferak chemist to store or physical speed draining their body of speed and making every motion even their breathing more difficult while actively storing since you can't do much while moving incredibly slowly speed is one of the most difficult attributes to store up ferak chemists will often enter a kind of meditative trance while filling difficult metal mines they can tap this speed Reserve at a later time to increase their speed substantially we see how useful steel faky can be in the well of Ascension when seed used month's worth of speed to travel the equivalent of 6 weeks worth of walking in just 6 days a steel fairing is known as a steel Runner tin allows a ferak chemist to store the Acuity of one of their five senses a different tin mind must be used for each sense while storing their Acuity in that sense is reduced actively storing a sense can be useful at times for instance a fakem can store their sense of smell when there is a bad odor in the air to vent themselves from gagging on the other hand actively storing the sense of sight can be a hindrance and fists will often wear spectacles to compensate for their reduced eyesight The Well of Ascension has a great chapter showing what it's like to store all five senses at once it seems like a terrible experience when tapping a tin mind the sense it stores is enhanced some of the most useful applications of tin faky are tapping hearing to listen in on conversations and tapping eyesight to see the detail details of things far off in the distance when tapping eyesight the edges of the ferak chemist's vision fuzzes but things directly in front of them seem to grow much closer tapping a lot of eyesight at once will make the fak chemist feel nauseous a tin fairing is known as a wind Whisperer putor allows a ferak chemist to store physical strength reducing their strength while actively storing and causing their muscles to shrink this can be a difficult attribute to store since being extremely weak can make get hard to do daily activities because of this the Terrace Pacman of classical scadrial would make themselves weaker in the evenings before sleeping in order to store up strength to use the next day when a ferak chemist Taps their putor mind they gain muscle mass and become physically larger tapping extreme amounts of strength can make the fakem grow to nearly the size of a colos but being that large can make it difficult to walk metal mines are often built to expand so they can accommodate for this increased size with braces and Rings not connecting on one side so they can bend full ferak kemist Warriors prior to the katandra would commonly wear a pair of bracelets one iron one peor around their ankles a peor fairing is known as a brute next we'll talk about the cognitive group of metals zinc allows a ferak chemist to store mental speed dulling their ability to think and reason while actively storing this can make conversations more difficult as it takes a while to process the words people are saying they can tap their zinc mind at a later time to think very quickly and work through problems much faster than normal a zinc fairing is known as a sparker brass allows a femus to store warmth cooling thems off while actively storing this can be useful if the fist is in a hot climate or if they're around a source of heat such as a fire they can tap their brass mind at a later time to warm themselves this can be used to walk around in frigid temperatures without the need for warm clothing a brass fairing is known as a fire Soul copper allows a ferak chemist to store memories they can take mental images thoughts or sounds that are fresh in their mind then store them away the sensation feels like they are sucked from their mind leaving a blank Hollow behind and they won't be able to remember the specifics of what they stored away they can tap memories stored in their copper mind at a later time and recall them with crisp clarity as clear as they were when they were first placed in the coppermind but they will begin to Decay the longer they are out of the coppermind to help reduce this decaying ferak chemists will often dump some of the memories into their mind make a note of the relevant information and then redeposit the memories back into the copper mind reading the note tells them what they had just forgotten fak chemists can also create indexes and gazers within their copper mins to help them quickly find information stored within them copper faky was the most important femic ability during the final Empire allowing the keepers to preserve pre- Ascension knowledge a copper fairing is known as an archivist bronze allows a ferak chemist to store wakefulness making themsel drowsy while actively storing this is the only type of metal mind that can be filled while the fakem sleeps and doing so will force them to sleep longer they can tap the bronze mind at a later time to reduce drowsiness or to heighten their awareness if a premist has enough wakefulness stored up they can stay awake for days on end in The Well of Ascension we see one use it to stay awake for a week straight during an intense study session a bronze fairing is known as a centry the third group is the spiritual group of metals duraman allows a ferak chemist to store spiritual connection reducing other people's awareness and friendship with them during active storage this could prove useful in Espionage situation when a fist doesn't want to be recognized they can tap their duraman mind at a later time to speedily form trust relationships with others we've also seen Southern scadron tap unsealed duraman mindes to enable them to speak the local language in foreign lands though they still retain their accent a duraman fairing is known as a connector aluminum allows a farer chemist to store their spiritual sense of identity this verro chemical metal is not well understood and it's rarely spoken of outside of terrorist communities though we do know that aluminum faky is involved in the creation of unkeyed metal mines and aluminum fairing is known as a true self nikro Cil allows a fist to store investure similar to aluminum faky the powers of nikro Sil faky are also not understood very well even by the people of Terrace nicrosil faky seems to be a necessary component for the creation of unsealed metal mindes a nikro Sil fairing is known as a soul Bearer chromium allows a ferak chemist to store Fortune making thems unlucky while actively storing they can tap their chromium mind at a later time to increase their luck this could be particularly useful for making money through gambling a chromium fairing is known as a spinner the fourth and final group of metals is the hybrid group gold allows a ferak chemist to store Health causing them to be sickly week while actively storing gold ferak chemists will often spend extended periods of time in bed feeling wretched so they can store up as much health as possible they can tap their gold mind at a later time to quickly heal from wounds such as gunshots knife stabs and broken bones it can also be used for recovering from diseases but it is much less effective at that those lucky few people who possess both gold Fermi and gold alaman can compound their fermic gold reserves to heal nearly instantaneously they can survive extreme injuries such as flings decapitations head shots and even Point Blank explosions a gold fairing is known as a blood maker electrum allows a femus to store determination causing them to enter a depressed state during active storage they can tap their Electro mind at a later time to enter a state of mania and electrum fairing is known as a pinnacle cadmium allows a fair chemist to store breath they must hyperventilate during active storage in order for their bodies to get enough air they can tap their cadmium mind at a later time to eliminate or reduce the need for breathing they can also use it to highly oxygenate their blood a cadmium fairing is known as a Gasper Bend alloy allows a ferak chemist to store nutrition and calories they can consume enormous amounts of food during active storage without feeling full or gaining weight a separate B alloy mind can be used to store fluids intake in a similar fashion the fist can tap their bendalloy mind at a later time to go without the need to eat or drink while tapping the metal mind a bendalloy fairing is known as a subsumer those are all 16 fer chemical Metals if I could become a fairing I would want to be a subsumer because I love eating and it would be a great way to take ultr light backpacking one of my favorite hobbies to the extreme let me know in the comments what type of a fairing you would be there's also God Metals which are made from the pure investure of the various shards but we only know the Ferro chemical properties of ATM from mistborn era 1 which is actually an alloy of pure ATM and electrum a fer chemist can use that metal to store youth they age while actively storing and can then tap that Reserve at a later time to become younger this can be useful when a ferak chemist needs to disguise thems if that ferak chemist can also Alantic burn an ATM then they could compound their Reserve to live for hundreds of years it's not known what an ATM fairing is called the fical properties of all the other God metals are currently unknown Origins and history of fakim faky like the other two metallic Arts came into existence as a result of the natural state of scadrial and its interaction with preservation and ruin the two shards who created the planet baraky isn't more of one shard or the other but is instead equally attuned to both forming a balance between each during The Classical period of scadrial History fakem seemed to be the only magic system known to humans with the power emerging in the spiritual genetics of the Terrace people because the terrorist people kept themselves so isolated femic abilities never spread outside of their communities some of these early fists formed a group known as the world Bringers and they used their copper Minds to amass knowledge collecting Tales of history and folk Traditions from any Source they could many considered the world Bringers as holy men other ferak chemists of that era chose to use their powers to help them with their jobs as herders or Mountain guides eventually one of these Terrace fists named rashik took the power at the well of Ascension and changed the world while holding the power of the well he turned all living ferak chemists save one into Mists and made himself a mistborn he chose to give blessing spikes to the Mist rths that were once his close friends turning them into the first generation of condra he became the Lord ruler and formed the final Empire he thought he had wiped out all other fists from scadrial but he hadn't accounted for the recessive ferak chemical genes within the still living Terrace people so new ferak chemists were still born because of this he heavily subjugated Terrace people from that point forward forcing them into breeding program in an attempt to eradicate fermic genes despite all his efforts fmy was never wiped from the population and some of these fakem ists inspired by the world Bringers of the past founded the Secret order of the keepers they dedicated themselves to seeking out all the pre Ascension knowledge they could the Terrace Keepers would wear four large copper bracers two on the upper arms and two on the forearms these copper mines contain the knowledge of all the history and Rel religions prior to the Lord ruler's Ascension this knowledge was passed down from keeper to keeper over the Thousand Years of the final Empire the Lord ruler was eventually killed and his Empire collapsed the keepers took this opportunity to come out of hiding and begin spreading the valuable knowledge they had been collecting in secret this turned out to be a bad idea because steel inquisitors sought them out and killed them to create hem allergic spikes for themselves only one keeper named seid survived heent ually ascended taking up the powers of the shards ruin and preservation and becoming Harmony 300 years after Harmony's Ascension mistborn era 2 takes place and femic genes have mixed with the general population weakening them so now only fairings are born that concludes this deep dive about fakim the most versatile magic system in mistborn I've also made a video about alaman you can check that one out too if you haven't already I'll put a link to it in the description there's plenty more cosm content on the way so be sure to give the video a like hit the Subscribe button and join me on this journey of exploring the cosmere [Music]

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Published: Sat Apr 13 2024