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Interview #1094: Salt Lake City Comic-Con 2014, Entry #4

Question

I actually have a weird question. From the Mistborn series it says there are 16 Allomantic metals but then you go into The Alloy of Law and the 16 are listed there, minus the atium and another one, so are there really 18 metals?

Brandon Sanderson

Well, you see those two were not really metals. Those were pieces, fragments, of a god.

Question

I thought that might be it but the symbols are the same above them from– the atium symbol is the same as–

Brandon Sanderson

No, it’s a different symbol, it might be reversed though.

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