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Aluminiumfoil hat Theory: Silver
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A lot of metals are important in the Cosmere, mainly in Mistborn. But one specific metal is interesting to me, because it ahs no meaning there - silver.

One of the most basic metals on earth, but yet, no allomantic powers. Why? Is this just because Brandon didn't find any good Silver alloy so he replaced it with tin... Or something else?

And then I have read Shadows for Silence. And there, Silver is anything. It can hurt shades, and keep them away. It can cure their deadly touch. Why? Is this something of this planet only, or there is some cosmere-wide secret about silver?

So here is my stupid Theory: silver destroys investiture. And not like Aluminium, where it blocks investiture, can't be affected, and burning it clears your investiture. It destroy any investiture that tries to attach to it. That's why it doesn't do anything on Scadriel - the uninvestable metal can't hold investiture to burn and use, can't be the key to anything. That's also why it hurts shades - they are pure investiture, cognitive shadows, and the metal that destroys any investiture in there destroy the only thing that makes them.

But, you might say, some alloys use silver! Well, one - Electrum. The famous eleventh metal. The metal that was supposed to kill the Lord Ruler. EDIT: this section is wrong, I was stupid. Electrum is either a whole in the theory, or a place when silver was used as a way to weaken the investiture in gold, making it different

And I am taking it a bit far, but it makes sense a little bit of the investiture ruining metal will change a metal and not destroy it - taking down a little of the investiture to change it - but also... TLR lived on his gold and atium, his infinite Investiture. What if the eleventh metal could change it? What if the silver in it, used right, could destroy his health stored in the gold? What if there was a base to this rumor, even if it was a part of ruin's scheme?

Maybe I am outthinking it. Maybe silver is Threnody-only thing.

But maybe, silver will be soon the most important metal of all while fighting cognitive shadows and gods.

And maybe, just maybe, Nightblood is somehow tied to all of this.

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