“You’ve been trying to divide harmonium into its base metals? You’re trying to create atium!” He looked back into his viewer, continuing to dump flakes into the acid. “Not just atium …” Marasi said. “Lerasium too? That’s the metal that … It created Mistborn! It’s explained in the records left by Harmony. Allomancy entered the world because the Lord Ruler gave lerasium to some of his followers, who burned it and were changed. Those first mythical Mistborn—they held incredible power. You’re trying to replicate that.”
