| 1 | While ''Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy'' doesn't have as big a cast size as some other fantasy books, it still has a sturdy group of characters. |
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| 3 | This page is for characters from Creator/BrandonSanderson's original [[Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy Mistborn trilogy]]. See [[Characters/WaxAndWayne here]] for characters in the SequelSeries, ''Literature/WaxAndWayne''. |
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| 5 | For characters from the other worlds of The Cosmere, see Characters/{{Elantris}}, Characters/{{Warbreaker}}, and Characters/TheStormlightArchive. See [[Characters/TheCosmere here]] for characters from the greater Cosmere, including characters which appear in ''Mistborn'' itself. |
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| 9 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 11 | !!The Crew |
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| 13 | [[folder:Vin]] |
| 14 | !!Vin/Lady Valette Renoux |
| 15 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vin.jpg]] |
| 16 | ->"I'm not a good person or a bad person. I'm just here to kill things." |
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| 18 | The main character of the series. Vin is a Mistborn, a special type of Allomancer who can use the powers of all the metals. This is because she is the bastard child of a Skaa woman and Lord Prelan Tevidian Tekiel, the leader of the Steel Ministry. At first, she is the member of a thieving crew, but Kelsier recruits her to his rebellion. For some strange reason, she has powers unlike any Mistborn ever before. |
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| 21 | * AchievementsInIgnorance: While Kelsier very clearly lays out the rules of Allomancy for her, Vin has no problem trying to break them just to see what will happen. In particular, she tries combining Allomancy and Feruchemy by asking Sazed to let her burn one of his disposable metalminds. While it doesn't work, Sazed compliments her on a well-thought-out experiment. In later books, she actually starts researching other Allomantic metals, discovering (or rediscovering) duralumin and electrum, which turn out to give her huge advantages. |
| 22 | * ActionGirl: A powerful and well-trained mistborn, by the time she gets a handle on her powers she's pretty much a one woman army. |
| 23 | * ActionHero:... and she's usually the first to solve her problems by beating the bad guy to a pulp with her bare hands. |
| 24 | * ACupAngst: A mild case. Vin is a slender young woman, and notes several times that despite how gorgeous her gowns are, the other noble ladies fill theirs out much more than she does. It doesn't stop her from attracting quite a few potential suitors, and at least two very serious ones. |
| 25 | * AlliterativeName: [[spoiler:After getting married to Elend, her name is Vin Venture.]] |
| 26 | * AntiHero: She's pretty ruthless when she needs to be and has basically no hesitation when it comes to killing people, but at the end of the day she is genuinely trying to help the people around her. She does veer into darker territory at several points, most notably when she assaults Cett's keep with Zane in ''The Well of Ascension''. |
| 27 | * AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: In the finale of the first series, Vin manages to become the Shard of Preservation, giving us the first look at what its like being a Shard in the Cosmere.]] |
| 28 | * BadassCape: Mistcloaks are very cape-like and Vin wears one for quite a while. They're the most common symbol of a Mistborn; when you see someone wearing one of these, you look away, mind your own business, and pray to the Lord Ruler that they're not after you. |
| 29 | * BattleCouple: [[spoiler: Thanks to Elend getting Mistborn powers at the end of ''The Well of Ascension'', the two of them fight together in ''The Hero of Ages''.]] |
| 30 | * BerserkButton: Anything that is targeted at Elend. |
| 31 | * BeyondTheImpossible: She can [[spoiler:pierce copperclouds]], something which the laws of Allomancy and all of Kelsier's crew state is impossible. ''The Hero of Ages'' reveals that [[spoiler:she's actually using Hemalurgy to enhance her abilities as a Seeker.]] She can also push and pull metals inside someone's body [[spoiler:while burning mists]]. |
| 32 | * BookDumb: Vin isn't very well educated and doesn't think very highly of reading and books in general. She is however a quick thinker, a quick learner and good at piecing together information. |
| 33 | * BoyishShortHair: Initially, owing to her fear of being even slightly feminine. She grows it out a bit longer as the series goes on. |
| 34 | * BrokenBird: At the beginning of ''Mistborn: The Final Empire'', but she gets better after joining Kelsier's crew. |
| 35 | * BullyingADragon: Constantly on the receiving end. Despite being an open Mistborn and [[spoiler:correctly reputed to have killed the Lord Ruler]] as of ''Well of Ascension'', that she is ninety pounds soaking wet leads to all manner of aggressors towards her, Elend and Luthadel disregarding her. |
| 36 | * ChosenOne: Sort of. [[spoiler:She's Preservation's chosen successor, but ''not'' the Hero of Ages--so she's ''a'' Chosen One, but not ''the'' Chosen one. As well, she was Ruin's ChosenOne since her combination of an insane mother that Ruin could manipulate, a baby sister who was a seeker and fuel for a hemalurgic spike, and her being a Mistborn made all added up to person who Ruin could manipulate to his ends]]. |
| 37 | * CuteBruiser: As a Mistborn, she can burn pewter for enhanced strength and endurance. She may look like a scrawny teenager, but she could tie an Olympic weightlifter up in knots without breaking a sweat. |
| 38 | * DatingCatwoman: |
| 39 | ** In ''Mistborn: The Final Empire''. She's a member of a thieving crew trying to overthrow the Final Empire; he's the heir to the most powerful Noble House in the Final Empire. They fight crime! |
| 40 | ** Echoed darkly in ''The Well of Ascension,'' when she feels drawn to Zane, Straff Venture's (duplicitous, mad) Mistborn [[spoiler:son]]. |
| 41 | * DeadpanSnarker: Vin has a very dry, dark wit. |
| 42 | * EleventhHourSuperpower: [[spoiler:Drawing on the mists]] in ''Mistborn: The Final Empire''. Later in ''The Hero of Ages'', [[spoiler:she absorbs all the mists near the end, becoming the host of Preservation's power]]. |
| 43 | * EmotionBomb: She has a penchant for using emotion-affecting Zinc or Brass in combination with the power-enhancing Duralumin, to either compltely overwhelm or dampen someones emotions. Straff Venture compares the dampening effect to the feeling of ''death itself''. It also comes in handy when she needs to [[spoiler:uses massive amounts of emotional Allomancy take control of a Koloss.]] |
| 44 | * FirstTimeInTheSun: |
| 45 | ** In ''Mistborn: The Final Empire'', she uses Tin to see the stars for the first time. |
| 46 | ** In ''The Hero of Ages'', her Duralumin-Steelpush is so powerful that it sends her above the mists and makes her the first person in a thousand years to see the stars without the mist. |
| 47 | * GirlinessUpgrade: She becomes more traditionally feminine as the series progresses, particularly as an early part of her character is infiltrating parties as a noblewoman. This in no way makes her less of a Badass ActionGirl, and if anything she TookALevelInBadass as her femininity increased, although she has a hard time figuring out how to balance her enjoyment of being both a proper lady and a super-powered assassin in her view of herself. |
| 48 | * GuileHero: She's nowhere near the planner Kelsier is, but don't think that means she's not really good at thinking on her feet. |
| 49 | * TheHero: She's the main character of the books, and evolves into the BigGood and biggest badass on the good guys' side [[spoiler:after Kelsier dies.]] Subverted in that [[spoiler:she's ''not'' actually the Hero of Ages.]] |
| 50 | * HeroicBastard: She's the child of a Skaa prostitute and [[spoiler:Tevidian Tekiel, the leader of the Steel Ministry]]. |
| 51 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Uses the full force of her power on Ruin so that they both die]]. |
| 52 | * HyperAwareness: Even before gaining tin, Vin's senses are unusually keen and she is extremely alert. With them, she's capable of outwitting atium-burners. She's even wary enough that when she spots Hoid in ''The Hero of Ages'', she immediately cons onto the fact that there is something very ''wrong'' about him. [[spoiler:She's right, too, as he is not exactly from around Scadrial....]] |
| 53 | * IndyPloy: How she wins all her major fights, including [[spoiler:her battle with Ruin]] in ''The Hero Of Ages''. Special note goes to her atium-challenged battles, such as her fight with [[spoiler:Shan Elariel]] in ''Mistborn: The Final Empire'', and her battle with [[spoiler:Zane Venture]] in ''The Well of Ascension''. It's notable that in a series where you can't wave a stick without hitting a Chessmaster, Vin's plans hardly ever work out. Fortunately, she's good at thinking on her feet. |
| 54 | * TheInfiltration: Her role in the crew is infiltrating the nobility under the guise of Renoux's favorite niece. |
| 55 | * InsecureLoveInterest: Thinks that she is too violent and unintellectual for Elend. |
| 56 | * ISurrenderSuckers: During her fight with rival mistborn [[spoiler:Shan Elariel]] in ''Mistborn: The Final Empire'', she stops burning her atium to give her opponent the belief that it has run out. Then she stuns and kills them by reactivating it. |
| 57 | * JeanneDArchetype: How the skaa see her, more or less. Vin herself is ''deeply'' bothered by this. |
| 58 | ** Gets much worse when her LoveInterest [[spoiler: and later husband]] Elend joins The Church Of The Survivor for political reasons, which means that he officially accepts her as this. |
| 59 | * KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: She dies in the third book. ''Secret History'' confirms she went into The Beyond, so she isn't coming back like Kelsier did]]. |
| 60 | * LukeYouAreMyFather: After the Lord Ruler uses emotional Allomancy on her, she points out [[spoiler:Tevidian]] as her father. |
| 61 | * MeaningfulEcho: [[spoiler:Her PreMortemOneLiner to the Lord Ruler echoes Kelsier's last words.]] |
| 62 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: The ending of ''The Well Of Ascension'' where she [[spoiler:releases Ruin from the Well]]. |
| 63 | * NotQuiteFlight: Can use Steel and Iron in tandem to "fly" across long distances. She actually invents a technique of using three-to-five horseshoes, in coordinated Pushes and Pulls, to "fly" pretty much wherever she wants, dropping one and Pushing off it, Pulling up the one behind her, and throwing another down in front of her. |
| 64 | * NotSoDifferentRemark: She admits she has a lot in common with The Lord Ruler: [[spoiler:they're both powerful Allomancers with bizarre powers, they both forcibly subjugated their lands, and they both killed the one who would use the Well of Ascension and used it themselves]]. |
| 65 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: As Lady Valette Renoux and also as Vin the StreetUrchin at the beginning of the first book, she hides how intelligent and capable she really is. |
| 66 | * OlderThanSheLooks: Her short stature sometimes throws people off. There was a skaa couple in ''The Well of Ascension'' that mistook her for a ''child''. |
| 67 | * OneWomanArmy: Elend actually refers to her as 'an army' in ''The Hero Of Ages''. |
| 68 | * OrphansPlotTrinket: The earring her mom gave her. [[spoiler:It's a Hemalurgic spike]]. |
| 69 | * ParentalAbandonment: Her mom was crazy and tried to kill her. Her dad was high priest of the CorruptChurch and never knew nor cared that she existed. She was raised, more or less, by her half-brother, who wound up abandoning her too. [[spoiler:Or so she thought. Turns out he was captured by Steel Inquisitors that had been trying to find her for years]]. |
| 70 | * PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:In ''The Hero of Ages'', she becomes the Shardvessel of Preservation after absorbing all of the mists]]. |
| 71 | * PintsizedPowerhouse: Barely over five feet tall, about 90 pounds, and made of 100% asskicking. Ham suggests in ''Well of Ascension'' that Vin's small size might actually be a boon, as the energy released by burning pewter is concentrated in a much smaller area, making Vin able to achieve acrobatic feats a typical heavy Pewterarm would not. |
| 72 | * PowerNullifier: [[spoiler:The earring. While still fully capable as a Mistborn, the earring is a Hemalurgic spike, and makes it impossible for Vin to access the power in the mists, as Ruin blocks Preservation. Once Marsh pulls it free, [[PhysicalGod however....]]]] |
| 73 | * PreMortemOneLiner: Her page quote is the one she gives [[spoiler:the Lord Ruler]]. |
| 74 | * ProfessionalKiller: Considers herself an assassin, though there's more to her character than that. |
| 75 | * ProperlyParanoid: Doesn't trust anyone, sees secret Allomancers everywhere, automatically assumes powerful nobility to be Mistborn [[spoiler:especially after almost being killed by atium-burning Shan]] or have one within reach and is constantly worried about someone assassinating Elend. It's not paranoia when you grow up in Luthadel. |
| 76 | * RagsToRoyalty: [[spoiler:From a StreetUrchin to an Empress.]] |
| 77 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: She delivers a ''scathing'' one to the crew, accusing them of knowing nothing of the skaa's troubles and being little better than noblemen themselves. Even Kelsier can only respond with StunnedSilence. |
| 78 | * RedBaron: The Heir of the Survivor. |
| 79 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: [[spoiler:Empress Vin Venture is every bit as badass as Vin the Mistborn insurgent was.]] |
| 80 | * SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Very, very much on the cynical side, with instinctual trust issues. Becomes less cynical and learns to trust others as the series goes on. |
| 81 | %%* SonOfAWhore |
| 82 | * StreetUrchin: Where she starts the series, the younger half-sister of a minor street tough and daughter of a prostitute. Then Kelsier finds her and realizes what she is... |
| 83 | * TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:She defeats Ruin by causing her power to react with his, destroying them both]]. |
| 84 | * TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:With Elend in ''The Hero of Ages''. Was actually an invocation by Elend, as he his death would no longer give Vin a reason to live, and thus be capable of her necessary HeroicSacrifice.]] |
| 85 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Vin is almost this ensemble in one person. |
| 86 | * {{Tsundere}}: She constantly scoffs about how dumb the crew is for being so trustful, sometimes lashing out and berating them. Still, she really does love the group. Her attitude mostly fades after the first book. |
| 87 | * ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: DO NOT mess with Elend. |
| 88 | --> '''Elend:''' "Plus, you've mangaged - in our short three years together - to kill not only [[spoiler: my god]], but my [[spoiler:father]], my [[spoiler:brother]], and my [[spoiler: fiancée]]. That's kind of like a homicidal hat trick.” |
| 89 | * WaifFu: Her ability to burn pewter gives her this - she may ''look'' small and harmless, but she can acquire incredible SuperStrength pretty much whenever she needs it. This works especially well against Koloss, who literally do not seem to be able to comprehend that someone so small can match them in combat. |
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| 93 | [[folder:Kelsier]] |
| 94 | !!Kelsier ("Kell") |
| 95 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kelsier.jpg]] |
| 96 | ->He forced himself to smile-not out of pleasure, and not out of satisfaction. He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn't beaten. No, he wasn't going to walk away. He wasn't finished yet. Not by far. |
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| 98 | One of the most legendary men known to the Skaa. Before the trilogy began, Kelsier was the greatest Crewleader any Skaa had known. Together with his wife Mare, he led daring heists and gained great renown. However, during an attempt to rob the Lord Ruler, he and his wife were captured and sent to work in the Pits of Hathsin, the Lord Ruler's Atium mine. After being a slave to the Final Empire for many years, Kelsier was Allomantically Snapped by the death of Mare. Awakening as a Mistborn, he used his powers to escape the Pits of Hathsin, which was said to be impossible. This feat earned him the title "The Survivor of Hathsin". |
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| 100 | When ''Mistborn: The Final Empire'' begins, he has returned to attempt the greatest job the world will ever know. Gathering a team of Allomantic Specialists, Kelsier sets out to end the thousand year reign of the Lord Ruler and topple the Final Empire. Armed with the fabled Eleventh Metal [[WordOfGod (Malatium)]], which is said to hold the key to defeating the Lord Ruler, Kelsier begins his battle. |
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| 102 | * AlternateCharacterInterpretation: In-universe, no one is entirely sure whether he's just an egotistical GloryHound, a MagnificentBastard bent on rather spectacular revenge, or a GuileHero who really does care for the ideals of the revolution, possibly [[WellIntentionedExtremist a little too much]]. Or all of the above. As shown in ''Literature/MistbornSecretHistory'', [[spoiler:even he isn't entirely sure]]. |
| 103 | * AntiAntiChrist: It's all but stated he was [[spoiler: influenced to overthrow the Lord Ruler by Ruin. While he managed to set his goal of restoring the world in motion and eventually watch it succeed, and may or may not have had ultimately good intentions, Literature/MistbornSecretHistory and Literature/TheEleventhMetal make it clear he had more in common with Ruin than he would've liked to admit.]] |
| 104 | * AntiHero: Kelsier is ruthless, manipulative, and driven by an obsessive desire for personal revenge. He is a liar, a career thief, and a murderer who has killed probably hundreds of people, though most or all of his victims were [[AristocratsAreEvil the evil nobility or their servants]] and [[AssholeVictim generally deserved it]]. At least, he assumes that they do. Whether or not Skaa guards that worked for nobility count is something that both Kelsier and his brother [[WhatMeasureIsAMook argue about]]. But he has a sense of compassion and honour, fights a genuinely evil and tyrannical empire, and really does believe in the cause of Skaa liberation. Which Type he is ultimately depends on how selfish he truly is, and that is left largely ambiguous. |
| 105 | * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: He returns from the dead in Literature/MistbornSecretHistory.]] |
| 106 | * BadassCape: His Mistcloak. |
| 107 | * BattleCouple: With Mare until she died. |
| 108 | * ByronicHero: Kelsier has a very scary dark side, though the fact that he's given a clearly evil enemy to square off against keeps him one of the good guys. |
| 109 | * CatchPhrase: "There's always another secret." |
| 110 | * TheChessmaster: Manipulates everything so that he can overthrow the Lord Ruler. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, this is played by an even better Chessmaster... [[Literature/MistbornSecretHistory who he subsequently outplays]].]] |
| 111 | * CondescendingCompassion: Vin notes that his attitude to the skaa is a lot closer to that of a father and child than a relationship between peers. |
| 112 | * CoveredInScars: Both of his arms are covered completely in scars. He was a slave in Hathsin, forced to dig for atim with his bare hands, frequently getting his arms cut on the crystals the metal is found in. |
| 113 | * CrazyIsCool: In-universe, his crew thinks he's insane, but nobody can deny he's good at what he does, usually. |
| 114 | * CripplingOverspecialization: Vin worries that Kelsier is so focused on using all the metals that he is merely "good" at them all, and would fall to a true master in one of them. [[spoiler:Subverted when she realizes that Steelpushes and Ironpulls have always been his specialty, which was hinted throughout the book.]] |
| 115 | * CrystalDragonJesus: [[spoiler: Is revered by his own church in the rebuilt world, and seems to be more popular than the actual god, Harmony.]] |
| 116 | ** In Era Two[[spoiler: Twice as the Church of the Survivor and the Southerners both view him as this.]] |
| 117 | * DecoyProtagonist: Gives every indication of being the main character. [[spoiler:Dies at the beginning of the climax of the first book, leaving Vin to shoulder protagonist duties from there out]]. |
| 118 | * DimensionalTraveler: In [[spoiler: ''Literature/RhythmOfWar'', it's all but outright said that he is Thaidakar, the leader of the Ghostbloods who are operating on the world of Roshar. He is referred to as the "Lord of Scars" and Hoid mentions having beaten him up.]] |
| 119 | * DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Becomes something of a signature for Kelsier. Not only does he fight the Lord Ruler, but [[spoiler:after his death, he ends up punching Ruin, Preservation, AND Hoid in the course of a single novella.]] |
| 120 | * DoomedMoralVictor: Deliberately invoked; [[spoiler:he martyrs himself against the Lord Ruler to provoke his skaa followers to rebel]]. |
| 121 | * {{Deuteragonist}}: He's our second POV character who handles leading the rebellion while Vin handles the nobility. |
| 122 | * EdgyBackwardsChairSitting: He frequently sits on chairs "the wrong way" during meetings. |
| 123 | * FamedInStory: And he knows it and uses it as part of his campaign against the Lord Ruler. |
| 124 | * FantasticRacism: He hates all aristocrats with a passion and is very satisfied when he has to murder one. Of course, one can hardly blame him, given what they did to him and since [[AristocratsAreEvil most of them are evil anyway]]. However, it makes him unable [[spoiler:at first]] to realize that there are a few [[TokenGoodTeammate Token Good Teammates]] among them. His hate also extends to the guards JustFollowingOrders, including the skaas who chose to serve them to escape poverty. |
| 125 | * GentlemanThief: A half-skaa, half-noble, he's equally at home on a heist on in high society. |
| 126 | * GoodIsNotNice: Not to noblemen that is. |
| 127 | * HeroicBastard[=/=]BastardBastard: As a skaa Mistborn, he's half-noble and half-skaa. Still, nobody can tell what his character was actually like. In the end, not even him. |
| 128 | * HopeBringer: Deliberately sets himself up as one of these to the skaa [[spoiler:so they'll have something other than the Lord Ruler to believe in]]. |
| 129 | * IAmTheNoun: "I am hope." |
| 130 | * IHaveManyNames: He begins to rack up quite a collection: Survivor of Hathsin, Survivor of Mists, Survivor, Lord of the Mists, [[spoiler: [[Literature/TheBandsOfMourning Sovereign]], [[Literature/TheStormlightArchive Thaidakar, and Lord of Scars]]]]. |
| 131 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:After the Lord Ruler bitchslaps Kelsier to the ground, he kills him with a spear through the chest]]. |
| 132 | * ImprobableWeaponUser: Early in ''Mistborn: The Final Empire'', he defeats six [[EliteMooks Hazekillers]] with a paperweight. |
| 133 | * LikeAGodToMe: Deliberately invoked to give the skaa something other than the Lord Ruler to believe in. |
| 134 | * MasterOfNone: Vin worries that he spent too much time learning to use all the powers of Allomancy, leaving him without a specialty. During the Fountain Battle, she realizes that he does have a specialty: Steelpushing and Ironpulling. |
| 135 | * MemeticBadass: In-universe, he becomes the standard against which other {{Chessmaster}} heroes are held after the first book. Also parodied, in that Elend believes that "even his handwriting is legendary". |
| 136 | * TheMentor: Teaches Vin basic Allomancy. |
| 137 | * MentorOccupationalHazard: [[spoiler:Killed by the Lord Ruler so, narratively, Vin can come into her own]]. |
| 138 | * MessianicArchetype: {{Invoked}} in order to give the skaa a figure to rally around so that the rebellion could actually succeed. |
| 139 | * MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: [[spoiler:Dying to trigger a massive skaa uprising was his master plan... [[Literature/MistbornSecretHistory or at least that's what he let everyone else think]]. He made it work for him, though]]. |
| 140 | * NotQuiteFlight: Can use Steel and Iron in tandem to "fly" across long distances. |
| 141 | * NotTooDeadToSaveTheDay: [[spoiler: ''Twice.'' Unusually for Sanderson, he manages to keep himself intact as a temporary host of Preservation postmortem, giving hope to Spook, then Vin, as a voice. He is thrust out to true death when Vin takes up Preservation. [[Literature/MistbornSecretHistory Except not really.]] Sanderson has even lampshaded the unusual nature, saying that [[SpotlightStealingSquad he had too much force of personality to stay dead the first time]].]] |
| 142 | * ParentalSubstitute: He comes to view Vin as the daughter he and Mare never had. Vin admits in ''The Well of Ascension'' she viewed him the same way. |
| 143 | * PersonOfMassDestruction: When Kelsier gets involved in a fight, things blow up very quickly. |
| 144 | * RebelLeader: Basically hijacks the pre-existing skaa rebellion to get his own revenge [[spoiler:and bring down the Final Empire]]. |
| 145 | * RedBaron: The Survivor of Hathsin. This is shortened to just "the Survivor" after [[spoiler:his death]]. |
| 146 | * SadClown: He always laughs and cracks jokes as a way of rebelling against [[CrapsackWorld how bleak the world is]]. |
| 147 | * SecretlySelfish: Possibly. While his plan will bring up a lot of good for others, his friends aren't entirely sure that he's not doing it for revenge and/or to stroke his own ego. Nobody is sure. Not even him. |
| 148 | * SlasherSmile: Kelsier always smiles, but his smiles are calculated and certainly come off like this to his enemies. |
| 149 | * SociopathicHero: Confirmed by [[WordOfGod Word of Brandon]] to be intended as this. While he is instrumental in the defeat of The Lord Ruler and [[spoiler:Ruin, posthumously]], he doesn't do it with any altruistic purpose. He spent decades ignoring the tyranny of the Final Empire before changing his mind because [[ItsPersonal the Pits of Hathsin made it personal]], and [[spoiler: he only started trying to defeat Ruin because he considered it an interesting challenge]]. In a lot of other stories, his callous, egotistical ambitions would have made him the villain. |
| 150 | ** When talking about ''Literature/{{Warbreaker}}'', Brandon has said that he wrote [[spoiler:Denth]] to be an EvilCounterpart to Kelsier as a charismatic and cunning man driven by revenge. The major difference between the two is that Kelsier is working with the protagonists whilst [[spoiler:Denth]] is revealed to have been [[EvilAllAlong working for the antagonists the entire time.]] |
| 151 | ** [[spoiler:In fact, it's heavily implied in ''Literature/RhythmOfWar'' that he's the leader of the Ghostbloods, a secret organization that is... morally-ambiguous at best.]] |
| 152 | * ShroudedInMyth: He worked hard to make himself a semi-mythic figure. |
| 153 | * SpiritAdvisor: [[spoiler:A fake Kelsier appears to Spook in ''The Hero of Ages'' and acts as one, but was really Ruin. Then, after Spook turns on fake Kelsier, the real Kelsier shows up and restores Spook's hope and determination.]] |
| 154 | * StepfordSmiler: Despite not feeling happy very often, he always wears a smile. He says that while the Lord Ruler has enslaved the Skaa and taken their freedom, he can never take away happiness. |
| 155 | * StraightManAndWiseGuy: The Wise Guy to Dox's StraightMan. |
| 156 | * ThanatosGambit: [[spoiler:His plan was to die so that the skaa would be inspired to start their uprising]]. |
| 157 | * TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:With Mare. SubvertedTrope, as [[Literature/MistbornSecretHistory he had an opportunity to do this, but he's too determined to survive and help people to allow himself to die for real]].]] |
| 158 | * VillainOfAnotherStory: Brandon has often said Kelsier could be an unusually literal example of this. [[spoiler: As of ''Rhythm of War'' this appears to have come to pass, since he is the leader of the Ghostbloods, who are major antagonists in Shallan’s plotline.]] |
| 159 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: Often veers perilously close to this. If his plan succeeds, he will free the skaa from a tyranical opression. But his methods are often extreme. |
| 160 | * WhatMeasureIsAMook: He invokes this trope to justify his killing of the guards JustFollowingOrders, arguing that every skaa knows deep in his heart that it's the worst crime to defend the Final Empire and its oppression on other skaa. Marsh's introductory scene has him butting heads with Kelsier over this. |
| 161 | * XanatosSpeedChess: Despite several ''major'' hiccups with The Crew's original scheme, he manages to pull off [[spoiler:as inspiring and legendary a death as he had in mind all along. His final bout with a Steel Inquisitor was, after all, the result of Renoux's household getting captured...]] |
| 162 | * YouAreNotAlone: To Vin in ''Mistborn: The Final Empire'' [[spoiler:and to Spook in ''The Hero of Ages''.]] |
| 163 | [[/folder]] |
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| 165 | [[folder:Sazed]] |
| 166 | !!Sazed ("Saze") |
| 167 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sazed.jpg]] |
| 168 | ->"Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days, I think. What is belief-what is faith-if you don't continue in it after failure?" |
| 169 | |
| 170 | A Terrisman who is a member of Kelsier's rebellion. He is a Feruchemist, a person with the ability to conserve their attributes (such as strength, weight, etc.) and use them later. He is also [[spoiler:the true Hero of Ages, as a result of taking the Shards of Preservation and Ruin.]] |
| 171 | |
| 172 | ---- |
| 173 | * AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:Near the end of ''The Hero of Ages,'' Sazed claims Ruin and Preservation and ascends to godhood. By ''Literature/TheAlloyOfLaw,'' he is known as Harmony]]. |
| 174 | * BadassBookworm: He manages to incapacitate a Steel Inquisitor early in the first book; it happens off-camera, but it's the first instance of a Steel Inquisitor encounter being treated as anything other than "run or die". |
| 175 | * BattleButler: He's trained as a high-class servant and scholar, but is fully capable of getting his hands dirty [[LetsGetDangerous if pushed to that point]]. |
| 176 | * BigDamnHeroes: Pulls this several times throughout the trilogy. |
| 177 | ** At the end of the second part of ''Mistborn: The Final Empire'', he uses his Feruchemy to save Vin from the Steel Inquisitors attacking her. |
| 178 | ** In part five of ''Mistborn: The Final Empire'', he lets himself be captured by the Steel Inquisitors so that he can break Vin out of the cage they put her in. |
| 179 | * BlingOfWar: His physical metal minds are rings and earrings. |
| 180 | * CatchPhrase: He says "I think," almost every other sentence. |
| 181 | * ChekhovsSkill: The Feruchemist skill to store vast amounts of knowledge in copperminds. Sazed's specific field of knowledge is pre-Ascension religions, driven extinct by the Lord Ruler's persecution. [[spoiler:This knowledge is not only theological: several religions studied fields related to their deities, such as astronomy, agriculture and human phisiology. The combination of all this knowledge is what truly qualifies Sazed to be the Hero of Ages and return the world to what it once were, using both Ruin's and Preservation's powers]]. |
| 182 | * TheChosenOne: Inverted: [[spoiler:He is the last person who anyone expected to become the Hero of Ages]]. |
| 183 | * TheConfidant: Both Vin and Elend trust Sazed and his advice implicitly. |
| 184 | * CulturalRebel: An '''incredibly''' subdued example. His ever so slight [[ServileSnarker snarks]] and, more importantly, refusal to follow some of the Synod's instructions make him practically [[WellIntentionedExtremist unruly]] when compared to other Terrisman. |
| 185 | * DeadpanSnarker: Occasionally snarks at his masters' expense. |
| 186 | ** DisabledSnarker: A eunuch, to be specific. |
| 187 | ** ServileSnarker: He remains unfailingly polite, ''especially'' while snarking. |
| 188 | * DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Tindwyl]]'s death hits him ''very'' hard. |
| 189 | * EunuchsAreEvil: Averted. He's quite possibly the nicest character in the whole series. In fact, his status as a eunuch is actually one of the signs [[spoiler:he's the Hero of Ages]]. |
| 190 | * AGodIAmNot: [[spoiler:Tries to avoid taking the powers of Ruin and Preservation by claiming he would only make things worse. He snaps out of it when he realizes that he can use the memories in his Copperminds to put the world back to normal]]. |
| 191 | * GodsHandsAreTied: He writes some of the chapter headers in ''Literature/RhythmOfWar'', explaining his discoveries regarding the Shards and their Vessels, noting that the Vessel's free will gets more limited over time, as the nature of the Shard asserts itself more and more. As such, [[spoiler:Sazed, bearer of the conflicting Shards Preservation and Ruin]] finds himself less and less able to act as the centuries pass. |
| 192 | * HeroicSelfDeprecation: He's the only one unable to see his many qualities. |
| 193 | * ISurrenderSuckers: In the fifth part of ''Mistborn: The Final Empire'', he lets himself be captured by the Steel Inquisitors and taken to Vin's cage. The trick is that he ate his Pewterminds, allowing him to gain enough strength to break her out. |
| 194 | * LetsGetDangerous: He's a polite, kindly servant/scholar who hates fighting. Threaten his friends or his life's work, though, and you'll find out one of the reasons why the Lord Ruler feared Feruchemists. |
| 195 | * MagicalNegro: Member of an oppressed people? Check. Mentor-slash-father figure to one of the main characters? Check. Mysterious past? Check. Not a bad fighter himself? Check. Becomes a main character from the second book onward? Che - [[SubvertedTrope wait a second]]. Ends the series [[spoiler:as the ''real'' Hero of Ages?]] [[ZigZaggingTrope Now hold on just a]] ''[[ZigZaggingTrope minute]]''-- |
| 196 | * MagicalJew: The Modern Terris culture is based somewhat off Jewish communities, and their oppression in Era 1 more closely resembles that of the Jewish communities as well (as opposed to the Skaa, who more closely resemble Black Chattel Slavery), making them something of a Fantasy Counterpart Culture. This means Sazed fits this trope as well, though - as above - it is subverted. |
| 197 | * MessianicArchetype: [[spoiler:''He's'' the real Hero of Ages]]. |
| 198 | * NiceGuy: The most consistently nice character in the series |
| 199 | * NoManOfWomanBorn: [[spoiler:What marks him as the Hero of Ages in the end. The original language describing the Hero of Ages refers to the Hero as gender neutral. Sazed is a eunuch, and so can be considered genderless.]] |
| 200 | * PhotographicMemory: Variation. He doesn't actually have one himself (though his memory ''is'' very well trained) but through the use of his copperminds he can perfectly store a tremendous amount of memory. Basically, he achieves this through magic rather than being born with it. |
| 201 | * PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:Becomes one after taking the powers of Preservation and Ruin]]. |
| 202 | * ReligiousRussianRoulette: During ''Hero of Ages'', [[spoiler:he runs through all his religions disproving them while trying to come to terms with Tindwyl's death.]] |
| 203 | * ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Keepers are explicitly forbidden from aiding in the rebellion, but Sazed saw the potential to win. A few characters wonder what must annoy the Synod more: that Sazed disobeyed them and fought, or that Sazed disobayed them [[spoiler:[[TheExtremistWasRight and won]]]]. |
| 204 | * SuperStrength: When he taps his pewterminds. |
| 205 | * TitleDrop: [[spoiler:"I am, unfortunately, the Hero of Ages."]] |
| 206 | * YinYangBomb: [[spoiler:The power of both Preservation and Ruin makes him the Hero of Ages]]. |
| 207 | |
| 208 | [[/folder]] |
| 209 | |
| 210 | [[folder:Dockson]] |
| 211 | !!Dockson ("Dox") |
| 212 | |
| 213 | A friend of Kelsier, and a member of his rebellion. He hates nobles, but not with the same fiery passion as Kelsier. |
| 214 | ---- |
| 215 | * BadassNormal: The only non-magic user in the crew, but certainly capable. |
| 216 | * BoringButPractical: Everyone else have the cool magical abilities. Dockson is simply ''very'' good at organizing things, at buying what they need and at handling the group's finances. Vin quickly theorizes that the whole band would fall apart without him. |
| 217 | * DeadpanSnarker: His drier, more understated wit is a contrast to the more enthusiastic Kelsier. |
| 218 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:Against the attacking koloss in ''Well of Ascension'']]. |
| 219 | * FantasticRacism: He hates all aristocrats, even though he's less passionate than Kelsier. Of course, one can hardly blame him, given what they did to him and since [[AristocratsAreEvil most of them are evil anyway]]. However, it makes him unable [[spoiler:at first]] to realize that there are a few [[TokenGoodTeammate Token Good Teammates]] among them. |
| 220 | %%* {{Foil}}: To Kelsier. |
| 221 | * HeWhoFightsMonsters: Of all Kelsier's crew, he is probably the most violently prejudiced against the nobility outside of Kelsier himself. This proves problematic once Elend takes over. |
| 222 | * HypercompetentSidekick: Of sorts. Kelsier's the one with the vision, but Dox's careful eye for details keeps the crew running long enough for him to realize it. |
| 223 | * KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: He dies in the second book]]. |
| 224 | %%* TheLancer: To Kelsier. |
| 225 | * MasterOfDisguise: He's very good at making costumes that can be used for the purposes of disguise. |
| 226 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Defied. A large part of the reason he refuses to accept that not all AristocratsAreEvil stems from having to reflect on what Dox did to them in revenge. No, it's easier to accept they were the monsters than realize [[HeWhoFightsMonsters he might have been the bad guy]]. |
| 227 | * NumberTwo: Again, to Kelsier. |
| 228 | * OnlySaneMan: He's the most down-to-earth, straightforwardly rational member of the crew, a fact he's rather strongly aware of. |
| 229 | * TheRunaway: Ran away from his plantation after the girl he loved was killed. |
| 230 | * TheSmartGuy: For the old crew. He's got a knack for organization and logistics. |
| 231 | * StarCrossedLovers: He loved another Skaa when he lived on a plantation. However, the lord raped and killed her. |
| 232 | * StraightManAndWiseGuy: The StraightMan to Kelsier's Wise Guy. Vin thinks he feels ''too'' stuff and serious after [[spoiler:Kelsier's death since his attitude has no one to complement.]] |
| 233 | * TheTeamNormal: Again, the only ordinary human in the crew. |
| 234 | |
| 235 | [[/folder]] |
| 236 | |
| 237 | [[folder:Breeze]] |
| 238 | !!Breeze/Lord Edgard Ladrian |
| 239 | |
| 240 | A Soother, one who has the ability to calm emotions through Allomancy. He aides Kelsier as part of the Skaa rebellion. |
| 241 | ---- |
| 242 | * DarkSecret: He's a full noble. He just never told anybody. |
| 243 | * DeadpanSnarker: Especially when dealing with Ham. |
| 244 | * DefectorFromDecadence: He's actually a full-blooded aristocrat, albeit he never revealed this secret to anyone. |
| 245 | * EmbarrassingFirstName: Claims that his name "Ladrian" is one, but it's actually a lie. In reality, he doesn't want anyone to connect him to a certain Lord Edgard Ladrian who mysteriously disappeared several years ago. |
| 246 | * FamousAncestor: Becomes this for the main character of ''Literature/WaxAndWayne'', Lord Waxillium Ladrian, who's a direct descendant of his. |
| 247 | * GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: An arguable and generally benevolent case; he often toys with the emotions of those around him, lessening the effects of negative emotions such as fatigue, fear, or sadness, in order to emphasize the effect of positive emotions the subjects already feel. |
| 248 | * GoodIsNotNice: He's overbearing, manipulative... and caring to a fault. |
| 249 | * HeroicBastard: Subverted. Because he's a member of the skaa rebellion, everybody thinks that he's a half-skaa, half-noble. In reality, he's a full noble. |
| 250 | * HeroicBSOD: Suffers one of these after seeing all the suffering and death at [[spoiler:the fall of Luthadel]]. He gets better by the next book, with Sazed's help. |
| 251 | * HiddenHeartOfGold: He's not nearly as selfish as he acts, but he prefers to downplay this. |
| 252 | * ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: The foundation of his friendship with Clubs. As a Smoker, Clubs is immune to emotional Allomancy, and he is immune to mundane manipulation because everything just makes him grumpy. |
| 253 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He appears, at first, to be a pompous, selfish, lazy, egotistical, and manipulative scoundrel. All of this is absolutely true, but it becomes clear (especially in the second and third books whenever he becomes a point-of-view character) that at least as much of his manipulation goes toward helping others as toward getting his own way. |
| 254 | * MayDecemberRomance: [[spoiler:With Lady Allrianne Cett. He's over 40, she's in her early 20s. Note that ''she's'' the one who seduces ''him,'' and it takes him a while to get comfortable with the idea of having a relationship with someone that much younger than him.]] |
| 255 | * NonActionGuy: Despite carrying around a dueling cane, there's little indication that Breeze is a warrior of any kind. |
| 256 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His name isn't Breeze. It's Edgard Ladrian. His first name isn't even revealed until the ''Literature/WaxAndWayne'' series, centuries after he's dead.. |
| 257 | * SeenItAll: By the end of the trilogy he doesn't even react to a talking dog or Spook suddenly going from [[spoiler:horrifically burned to fully healed]]. [[spoiler:The world being restored though, that surprises even him.]] |
| 258 | * SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Claims to be on the cynical side, despite his actions and emotions pushing him toward idealism. |
| 259 | * VitriolicBestBuds: Has something of this sort of relationship with Ham, due to the latter's insistence on submitting philosophical questions for consideration. |
| 260 | |
| 261 | [[/folder]] |
| 262 | |
| 263 | [[folder:Ham]] |
| 264 | !!Hammond ("Ham") |
| 265 | |
| 266 | A Pewterarm, one who has the ability to enhance their physical prowess with Allomancy. He aides Kelsier in his rebellion. |
| 267 | ---- |
| 268 | * TheBigGuy: As a pewterarm, his primary role in the group is to enhance his strength and then, to quote Breeze, "hit things, usually people, that are interfering with what the rest of us are doing". |
| 269 | * DumbMuscle: WordOfGod is that he's a deliberate subversion- between his physical appearance and role in the crew, you'd expect him to be this, but he's really an intelligent, thoughtful guy. |
| 270 | * {{Foil}}: In the annotations of ''Mistborn: The Final Empire'', Brandon [[WordOfGod states that he made Ham]] because he wanted a character to contrast Breeze. |
| 271 | * GeniusBruiser: He's the most physically powerful non-mistborn in the crew, but also enjoys pondering, though not answering, philosophical puzzles. |
| 272 | * GentleGiant: He may be a hulking professional soldier, but he's also an amiable family man who'd rather not fight at all if he can avoid it. |
| 273 | * HappilyMarried: Though his work with thieving, the rebellion, and running a country keep him away from home most of the time. |
| 274 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Ham's little philosophical puzzles are more just for fun, and he never comes to an answer for them. So when he directly tells Elend that [[spoiler:marching a koloss army on Fadrex]] is wrong it hits Elend hard. |
| 275 | * ThePhilosopher: Though he's more interested in ''posing'' questions than answering them. |
| 276 | * RedHerringMole: [[spoiler:Suggested as a possible impostor in ''The Well of Ascension''. The listed trope should be enough for you to know that it's not him]]. |
| 277 | * SleevesAreForWimps: Ham wears vests rather than shirts if he has any say in the matter--he even rips the sleeves out of his general's uniform to create a makeshift one. |
| 278 | * SuperStrength: As a Pewterarm, he can use Allomancy to become extremely powerful. |
| 279 | * VitriolicBestBuds: With Breeze. |
| 280 | |
| 281 | [[/folder]] |
| 282 | |
| 283 | [[folder:Clubs]] |
| 284 | !!Cladent ("Clubs") |
| 285 | ->"The Lord's going to get me sooner or later. At least this way, I'll be able to spit in his face as I go. Overthrowing the Final Empire...It's got style. Let's go, kid." |
| 286 | |
| 287 | A Smoker, one who has the ability to hide Allomantic pulses. He aides Kelsier in his rebellion. |
| 288 | ---- |
| 289 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Dies violently at the hands of a Koloss during the Battle of Luthadel, said death being what first really pushes Breeze into a HeroicBSOD.]] |
| 290 | * FourStarBadass: Becomes a general in Elend's army. |
| 291 | * GoodIsNotNice: He's kind of a jerk. He's also ''very'' loyal and dependable and a key member of the crew. |
| 292 | * GrumpyOldMan: The most basic way to describe him. |
| 293 | * HandicappedBadass: Has a permanent limp as a result of an old war wound. |
| 294 | * HiddenDepths: Despite being mainly a grumpy old ex soldier, he has a deep passion for his art as a carpenter. |
| 295 | * TheInfiltration: Infiltrates the Lord Ruler's army. |
| 296 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's not always a particularly pleasant person, but he's loyal, honest, and brave. |
| 297 | * KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: He dies in the second book]]. |
| 298 | * ParentalSubstitute: To his nephew, Spook. |
| 299 | * PowerNullifier: To an extent; as a Smoker, he's immune to emotional Allomancy himself and can shield others from being detected by Seekers, but he can't interfere with other Allomantic powers. |
| 300 | * RetiredBadass: Left the army a long time ago and doesn't really get into the thick of it again until near the end of the first book. |
| 301 | * ScrewPolitenessImASenior: He's the oldest member of the crew, and also the grouchiest and most standoffish, but his word is good and when he gives his loyalty, he means it. |
| 302 | * SixthRanger: From the perspective of the other crew members- though he joins up near the beginning of the book, he's the only major crewmember apart from Vin who Kelsier has never worked with before. |
| 303 | * SourSupporter: Kelsier has his loyalty, but he's also one of the first to criticize when things go wrong, just because that's his personality. |
| 304 | |
| 305 | [[/folder]] |
| 306 | |
| 307 | [[folder:Marsh]] |
| 308 | !!Marsh |
| 309 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/marsh_6.jpg]] |
| 310 | ->"They were ''people'', just like everyone else. And you killed them. Is this all a game to you, Kelsier?" |
| 311 | |
| 312 | Kelsier's older and more level-headed brother. He is a Seeker, an Allomancer who can detect the use of Allomancy in others. He was involved in a love triangle with Kelsier over Mare, and grew a deep resentment of his brother when Mare died in the Pits of Hathsin. Marsh was formerly the the leader of the Skaa Rebellion, but he decided that his cause was hopeless and quit. |
| 313 | |
| 314 | In the present day, he returns to call out Kelsier on his murderous tendencies. Kelsier ends up recruiting him to the Crew. Marsh's role in the mission is to infiltrate the Steel Ministry, learning their secrets and telling to Kelsier and his crew. |
| 315 | ---- |
| 316 | * ActuallyPrettyFunny: He finds the [[Literature/WaxAndWayne Second Era Scadrians]] viewing him as TheGrimReaper to be pretty amusing. |
| 317 | * AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Trapped inside his own head, forced to watch as Ruin does terrible things using his body, and often overwhelmed so completely he's forced to ''like it'']]. |
| 318 | * TheAtoner: In ''The Alloy of Law'', we find out [[spoiler:he's working for Harmony, probably for this reason]]. |
| 319 | %%* BaldOfEvil: As [[spoiler:Ruin-Marsh]]. |
| 320 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Courtesy of Ruin]]. |
| 321 | * DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Ruin takes control of him because of his spikes]]. |
| 322 | * {{Determinator}}: Manages to resist [[spoiler:Ruin some even with the most spikes in him]]. |
| 323 | * TheDragon: [[spoiler:To Ruin, being the Inquisitor used for the most important tasks]]. |
| 324 | * EyeScream: [[spoiler:Has spikes shoved into his eyes when he becomes a Steel Inquisitor]]. |
| 325 | * GaveUpTooSoon: One of his deepest regrets was leaving the Skaa Rebellion shortly before Kelsier [[spoiler:managed to win]]. He considers never giving up to [[spoiler:Ruin's influence]] to be [[MyGreatestSecondChance his redemption]]. |
| 326 | %%* GoodIsNotNice: At first. |
| 327 | * GoneHorriblyRight: When he vanishes and is presumed dead, the others assume the Canton of Inquisition must have found out that he was TheMole. [[spoiler:In reality, they never knew - they converted him into an Inquisitor because he had impressed them with his diligence and competence as an acolyte, which ultimately leads to him becoming TheDragon, which is infinitely worse]]. |
| 328 | * TheGrimReaper: [[spoiler:By ''The Alloy of Law'', the Church of the Survivor has a god of death named "Ironeyes." Kelsier would probably have found this hilarious]]. |
| 329 | * HeroicWillpower: Resisting [[spoiler:Ruin]] even to a small degree required phenomenal amounts of this. [[spoiler:It pays off when he saves the world]]. |
| 330 | * {{Immortality}}: [[spoiler:The same way as the Lord Ruler; in fact, he's still alive three hundred years later in ''Literature/TheAlloyOfLaw'']]. |
| 331 | %%* ImplacableMan: [[spoiler:As an Inquisitor]]. |
| 332 | * TheInfiltration: Kelsier's plan has him infiltrate the Steel Ministry. He chooses to infiltrate the Canton of Inquisition. [[spoiler:This later leads to his transformation into a Steel Inquisitor]]. |
| 333 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's grim and embittered, but he loves his brother and nobody believes in the rebellion as strongly as he does. |
| 334 | * TheLeader: Formerly lead the skaa rebellion. [[spoiler:Later leads the Steel Ministry]]. |
| 335 | * PhlebotinumRebel: [[spoiler:Initially. He kills every other Inquisitor in Kredik Shaw, then helps Vin fight the Lord Ruler]]. |
| 336 | * ReforgedIntoAMinion: Turned into an Inquisitor near the end of the first book. Subverted in that he retains control of his faculties and helps Vin take down the Lord Ruler. [[spoiler: Played straight in the next two books, when Ruin takes control of him]]. |
| 337 | %%* TheMole: [[spoiler:Within the Steel Ministry]]. |
| 338 | * SourSupporter: He's extremely skeptical of his brother's motives in fighting the Lord Ruler, and helps the group more ''despite'' Kelsier than ''because of'' him. |
| 339 | * SpikesOfVillainy: [[spoiler:During his stint as Ruin's [[TheDragon super inquisitor]]. He had upwards of 20 spikes by the time he confronted Vin]]. |
| 340 | * TheStoic: Earns him the nickname "Ironeyes". [[spoiler:Prophetically, as it turns out]]. |
| 341 | * ThatManIsDead: He doesn't say it himself, but in ''The Hero of Ages'', Vin repeatedly tells herself that Marsh is dead, and only [[spoiler:Ruin is left]]. |
| 342 | * TragicMonster: [[spoiler:He never wanted to be an Inquisitor, and certainly didn't want to be Ruin's puppet]]. |
| 343 | * WalkingSpoiler: Everything that happens to him from the climax of ''The Final Empire'' through ''The Hero of Ages'' is a massive spoiler. |
| 344 | * WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:Being turned into an Inqusitor gives you tremendous power, but also makes you something other than human]]. |
| 345 | * WhatTheHellHero: To Kelsier when he first shows up, pointing out Kelsier's disregard for human life. |
| 346 | |
| 347 | [[/folder]] |
| 348 | |
| 349 | [[folder:[=OreSeur=]]] |
| 350 | !!Lord Teven Renoux (Impostor)/[=OreSeur=] |
| 351 | |
| 352 | A man working for Kelsier as part of his plan to overthrow the Lord Ruler and the Final Empire. After Lord Renoux's death at the hands of Kelsier and [=OreSeur=] himself, his life is taken over by this man. He somehow looks exactly like Lord Renoux, and has copied all of his mannerisms. His role in the operation is to serve as a front for the weapons purchased for use by the crew and the skaa rebellion. He is actually a kandra, a special type of mistwraith who has human level intelligence due to the third magic art on Scadrial, Hemalurgy. His true role is only revealed after Kelsier's death: he is to devour Kelsier's bones to make the Skaa of Luthadel believe that Kelsier is a god. This will make them rise up and overthrow the Lord Ruler. |
| 353 | |
| 354 | In ''The Well of Ascension'', his contract has been passed to Vin. |
| 355 | ---- |
| 356 | * BlobMonster: In his true form, just like every other kandra. |
| 357 | * CanineCompanion: Forced to take a dog's form at Vin's request since she doesn't want to kill a person just to give him a body. [[spoiler:He never gets to use it, because he is killed by [=TenSoon=]]]. |
| 358 | * DeadPersonImpersonation: |
| 359 | ** He impersonates Lord Renoux, who died because of Kelsier. He was able to do this because his race's ability to assume the form of living creatures after absorbing their bones naturally makes him very good at this. |
| 360 | ** [[spoiler:His impersonating talent gets reversed on him when he is killed and impersonated]]. |
| 361 | %%* FaceStealer: His nature as a kandra. |
| 362 | * PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler:We learn most of what we know about him after his death]]. |
| 363 | * {{Squick}}: [[invoked]] When Breeze realizes what he is, he tells Yeden not to ask about it, as the answer would seriously squick him out. When his secret is finally revealed to the members of The Crew who were left in the dark, it really, ''really'' bothers Vin. This feeling is increased tenfold because one of the people he ate was [[spoiler:Kelsier]], albeit with permission. |
| 364 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: Kandra have precise control over their physical bodies once they have a skeleton to operate. [=OreSeur=] demonstrates this by creating an opening in his shoulder for Vin to store metal vials inside him. |
| 365 | * YouAreWhoYouEat: Kandra, like Mistwraiths, consume dead bodies and keep their bones to create a skeleton for themselves. Kandra memorize the exact physical details of what they ate and form the right flesh around their new bones, becoming a perfect physical copy of who or what they just consumed. |
| 366 | |
| 367 | [[/folder]] |
| 368 | |
| 369 | [[folder:Spook]] |
| 370 | !!Lestibournes ("Spook") |
| 371 | |
| 372 | A Tineye, one who can enhance their senses with Allomancy, who is the nephew of Clubs. He aids Kelsier's rebellion, becoming more important as the story progresses. By the time of ''Hero of Ages'' he's become so dependent on tin that he is permanantly forced to burn it, giving him extreme senses at the cost of not being able to turn them off. |
| 373 | ---- |
| 374 | * AscendedExtra: In the first book, he's just the kid with the weird accent who tags along with Clubs and has a crush on Vin. In the second, he's somewhat more prominent. In the third, he's one of the main viewpoint characters. |
| 375 | %%* TheApprentice: To Clubs. |
| 376 | * BlindfoldedVision: In ''The Hero of Ages'' his constant tin burning his enhanced his super senses to such a level that he needs to wear a blindfold during the day to even function. |
| 377 | * DarkMessiah: [[spoiler:Ruin tries to turn him into one]] in ''The Hero of Ages''. It almost works. |
| 378 | * DatingCatwoman: With Beldre in ''The Hero of Ages''. |
| 379 | * DiscardAndDraw: At the end of the series, [[spoiler: Harmony reverses the transformation into a tin savant and makes him Mistborn instead.]] |
| 380 | * ElectiveBrokenLanguage: He speaks with such heavily accented street cant that the rest of the crew barely understands him. Half the reason for it is that he is a kid who feels out of his element with the rest of the (much older) crew and does it on purpose. By book three he has mostly grown out of it. |
| 381 | * IJustWantToBeSpecial: He wants to be a Mistborn like Vin, or even just to be able to say that Kelsier choose him for the crew instead of just being an extra. [[spoiler:He finally gets his wish when Harmony turns him into the world's only Mistborn,]] though he seems content in who he is by then. |
| 382 | * {{Irony}}: His character is partly defined by his OvershadowedByAwesome and ICouldaBeenAContender attitude to the full Mistborn members of the crew. [[spoiler:He gains full Mistborn powers from Harmony at the end and is the only Mistborn left in the world. By the time of ''The Alloy of Law'' he is known as "''the''" Lord Mistborn]]. |
| 383 | * JiveTurkey: He speaks a certain dialect of street slang. It is very nearly utterly incomprehensible to both the reader and to anyone in-setting. At least one bit of translation is given in ''The Hero of Ages'', saying that 'wasing' means 'was doing,' and 'wasing the run of there' means 'I was running to that place'. It's ''still'' confusing. |
| 384 | ** Hilariously, by the time of ''The Alloy of Law'' this once annoying street slang is now known as High Imperial, the world's equivalent to Latin. |
| 385 | * KungFuClairvoyance: As a tin savant, his senses are so acute that he can perfectly pinpoint an enemy soldier through hearing his heartbeat, or track a sword swinging at the back of his head by the noise it makes cutting through the air. |
| 386 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When he realizes he's being manipulated by [[spoiler:the Ruin-created hallucination of Kelsier]] and tears out [[spoiler:his pewter-burning spike]], he immediately understands that in his attempt to help against an apparent EvilOverlord in the city he had been sent to, he in fact has just resulted in [[spoiler:setting the entire city on fire and causing mass chaos]]. He makes quick work to revert the damage as best as he can. |
| 387 | * TheOnlyBeliever: Was the only member of the original Crew to actually ''believe'' in Kelsier's divinity, which also meant that he was the only one who Kelsier could speak to while holding the power of Preservation. |
| 388 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Lestibornes is street slang translating as "Lefting I'm born", or "I've been abandoned." So far as anyone knows, it's his real name; he never uses or thinks about his birth name [[spoiler:Jedal]] because he was named after his father. |
| 389 | * OvershadowedByAwesome: Being a Tineye is pretty cool. Unfortunately, being surrounded by people whose powers are ''even cooler'' leaves him feeling somewhat left in the dust. By ''Hero of Ages'', he's clearly got something of a complex about it, but becoming a Tin Savant helps bring him up to par. |
| 390 | * ParentalAbandonment: Rejected by his parents for being an Allomancer. |
| 391 | * PowerIncontinence: Due to his permanently enhanced senses. |
| 392 | * SuperSenses: Especially in ''The Hero of Ages''. |
| 393 | * SuperStrength: With pewter. |
| 394 | * TookALevelInBadass: In ''The Hero Of Ages''. First, he becomes a Tin Savant, having super-enhanced senses beyond what any Tineye should have. Then, [[spoiler:Ruin]] gives him pewter. After [[spoiler:learning the truth about Hemalurgy he pulls out his spike, but he later gets pewter back when Sazed makes him a full Mistborn]]. |
| 395 | * TheUnintelligible: The accent/slang he has at first. He gets better. |
| 396 | |
| 397 | [[/folder]] |
| 398 | |
| 399 | [[folder:Yeden]] |
| 400 | !!Yeden |
| 401 | |
| 402 | The leader of the skaa rebellion. He joined Kelsier's crew in hopes of overthrowing the Lord Ruler. |
| 403 | ---- |
| 404 | * DecapitationPresentation: [[spoiler:Though it's never confirmed if he was decapitated in battle or posthumously, scouts sent to look over the remains of the slaughter to confirm deaths report finding his head mounted on a spear left in the battlefield.]] |
| 405 | * GeneralFailure: His only act as a military leader [[spoiler:got most of his army slaughtered]]. |
| 406 | * HeroWorshipper: He slowly comes to idolize Kelsier. |
| 407 | * HotBlooded: He's aggressively determined to topple the Lord Ruler, but doesn't have the sense to back it up. |
| 408 | * KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:He dies in the first book]]. |
| 409 | * TheLeader: Of the skaa rebellion. He's serious and competent enough, but Kelsier's prowess at raising his hopes works ''too'' well. |
| 410 | * RebelLeader: Until Kelsier basically swoops in and takes over the job. |
| 411 | * SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: When he's killed off about two thirds of the way into the first book, it becomes apparent just what a bind the heroes are in]]. |
| 412 | * SuicidalOverconfidence: [[spoiler:Believes that Kelsier can grant his Mistborn abilities to others, and so attacks a Final Empire shipment full force. He's wrong, and everyone knows its [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Kelsier]]'s fault.]] |
| 413 | * TookALevelInKindness: He becomes much nicer over the course of ''Mistborn: The Final Empire''. |
| 414 | [[/folder]] |
| 415 | |
| 416 | !!The Skaa |
| 417 | |
| 418 | [[folder:Reen]] |
| 419 | !!Reen |
| 420 | |
| 421 | Vin's abusive half-brother, who warned her to beware of being betrayed. He eventually betrayed her one day, disappearing and never returning. His words still ring clear in Vin's head. |
| 422 | ---- |
| 423 | * AbusiveParents: Not Vin's actual parent, but very abusive. |
| 424 | * AloofBigBrother: Seems to have shown hardly any affection for his sister, beyond being the only person who paid attention to her at all. |
| 425 | * AssholeVictim: Played with in an odd way. He was an asshole who [[spoiler:got tortured and killed by the Steel Inquisitors, but he did so heroically, protecting Vin from danger]]. |
| 426 | * BigBrotherBully: He beat Vin quite frequently. [[spoiler:This is later revealed to be a bizarre mix with BigBrotherInstinct. He abused Vin because he thought that [[BrokenBird breaking her]] was the only way she'd survive]]. |
| 427 | * BigBrotherInstinct: [[spoiler:He will do anything to protect Vin, including beating her up to toughen her up and withstanding torture to protect the secret of her existence]]. |
| 428 | * ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Both warns Vin of it and exhibits it himself. |
| 429 | * DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:He never betrayed Vin. He was actually captured and killed]]. |
| 430 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Letting Kar and the other Inquisitors kill him so that they wouldn't find Vin]]. |
| 431 | * {{Jerkass}}: Not a nice guy by any stretch of the imagination. The rest of this entry should make the details abundantly clear. |
| 432 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: It's pretty clear that Reen was cruel to Vin primarily because he thought that she'd only survive if he toughened her up and taught her to always be suspicious and cynical. Unfortunately, this ''also'' lead directly into the BrokenBird nature she exhibits, particularly early in the series. Probably an example of why emotionally damaged cynical {{Jerkass}}es, even well-intentioned ones, shouldn't raise kids. |
| 433 | * ParentalSubstitute: To Vin, after their mother went crazy. |
| 434 | * PosthumousCharacter: Though his presence hangs over Vin's storyline, he disappeared shortly before the first book began. It later turns out he was [[spoiler:captured and tortured to death by the Inquisitors]]. |
| 435 | * PromotionToParent: What with [[DisappearedDad their father being out of the picture]] and their mother going AxCrazy, he became Vin's primary caretaker. |
| 436 | * RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Never personally threatened Vin with this, but did threaten to sell her to a skaa brothel fairly often. Skaa brothels have ''very'' high employee turnover rates, since by law noble men are required to kill any skaa women they sleep with, to prevent Allomancy from making its way into the genetics of the slaves. So he never personally threatened to rape and murder her, just send her to a place where she'd be raped and murdered in very short order. [[SarcasmMode What a swell guy.]] On the other hand, he took great care to help her downplay her femininity, so the men of the thieving crews they were staying with would be less tempted to rape her. AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther |
| 437 | * SpiritAdvisor: Vin frequently hears his voice, normally warning her not to trust people. [[spoiler:Turns out to have actually been Ruin some of the time]]. |
| 438 | * ToughLove: {{Deconstructed}}. His frequent beatings of Vin were supposed to toughen her up, but they end up doing a lot more bad than good on the long run. |
| 439 | |
| 440 | [[/folder]] |
| 441 | |
| 442 | [[folder:Camon]] |
| 443 | !!Camon |
| 444 | |
| 445 | The abusive leader of Vin's thieving crew. |
| 446 | ---- |
| 447 | * AssholeVictim: Killed by an Inquisitor who believed him to be an Allomancer. Honestly had it coming. |
| 448 | * ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Happens often, but it's most notable when he betrays Theron, who had spent years building up a plan, simply to get a few boxings. |
| 449 | * {{Jerkass}}: A pompous, cruel, ill-tempered man all around. |
| 450 | * LaserGuidedKarma: Kelsier ensures it by getting his crew to turn on him and beat him. |
| 451 | * TheLeader: Of a thieving crew. |
| 452 | * MasterOfDisguise: He's supposedly really good at imitating noblemen. In reality, he's so arrogant that everyone thinks he's a nobleman. |
| 453 | * SmallNameBigEgo: As Vin and Kelsier put it, he thinks of himself as a predator, but he's actually a scavenger. |
| 454 | * SmugSnake: Camon's competent enough at what he does, but he's hardly the genius he thinks he is. |
| 455 | |
| 456 | [[/folder]] |
| 457 | |
| 458 | [[folder:Milev]] |
| 459 | !!Milev |
| 460 | |
| 461 | The second in command of Camon's thieving crew. |
| 462 | ---- |
| 463 | %%* ColdBloodedTorture: His death. |
| 464 | * TheLeader: Takes over after the crew turns on Camon. |
| 465 | %%* NumberTwo: To Camon. |
| 466 | |
| 467 | [[/folder]] |
| 468 | |
| 469 | [[folder:Ulef]] |
| 470 | !!Ulef |
| 471 | |
| 472 | A member of Camon's crew. Vin considers him almost a friend, although he's just as bad as the rest. |
| 473 | ---- |
| 474 | * FalseFriend: He's not so much a "friend" as "slightly less sadistic." |
| 475 | |
| 476 | [[/folder]] |
| 477 | |
| 478 | [[folder:Theron]] |
| 479 | !!Theron |
| 480 | |
| 481 | The leader of a skaa thieving crew. He uses Camon as part of a plan he had been setting up for five years. |
| 482 | ---- |
| 483 | * ChekhovsGunman: When Vin and The Crew need to get Marsh on the obligator boats, Theron and his contact come in handy. |
| 484 | * ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: He's perfectly willing to betray anyone to get ahead. |
| 485 | * EnemyMine: Works with Camon against the Steel Ministry. |
| 486 | %%* TheRival: To Camon. |
| 487 | %%* SmugSnake: Not ''quite'' as bad as Camon, but still qualifies. |
| 488 | |
| 489 | [[/folder]] |
| 490 | |
| 491 | [[folder:Demoux]] |
| 492 | !!Captain/General Demoux |
| 493 | |
| 494 | A younger man in the rebel army. He has a prominent scar on his head, and is appointed a captain by Kelsier, due to his bravery. |
| 495 | ---- |
| 496 | * CombatClairvoyance: [[spoiler:He's an atium Misting]]. |
| 497 | * FourStarBadass: He eventually becomes one of Elend's generals. And yes, he is badass. |
| 498 | * MauveShirt: He's pretty much the face of the rebel army. |
| 499 | * NeatFreak: In contrast to Ham, he always keeps himself neat and tidy. |
| 500 | * PlotArmor: He's named after one of Brandon's friends, and Brandon had to promise said friend that Demoux would survive to the end of the story and find a LoveInterest. By WordOfGod, this is the reason he survived the mistsickness and the koloss battle. |
| 501 | ** [[spoiler:He's still alive 300+ years later on Roshar]] |
| 502 | * RedHerringMole: [[spoiler:Vin believes that he has been impersonated by a kandra. In reality, he was just joining the Church of the Survivor]]. |
| 503 | * ScarsAreForever: Picks up a fairly impressive collection of these as the series goes on. |
| 504 | * SwordsAreHeroic: His preferred weapon. |
| 505 | * YoungerThanTheyLook: His prominent scar makes him look older than he really is. |
| 506 | |
| 507 | [[/folder]] |
| 508 | |
| 509 | [[folder:Goradel]] |
| 510 | !!Captain Goradel |
| 511 | |
| 512 | A skaa soldier from Luthadel who works for the Lord Ruler and The Final Empire by extension. In the climax of ''Mistborn: The Final Empire'', he is standing guard at Kredik Shaw when Vin decides to raid it. She tells him about the skaa uprising, leading to his decision to leave the Final Empire and join Vin. |
| 513 | ---- |
| 514 | * BadassNormal: He has no allomancy [[spoiler:and thus died very quickly to Marsh in ''The Hero of Ages'', but he lasted longer than most would have against a Ruin-controlled Steel Inquisitor.]] |
| 515 | * BigDamnHeroes: Shows up with Elend in ''Mistborn: The Final Empire'' when they go to save Vin from the Lord Ruler. |
| 516 | * {{Courier}}: Carries Spook's secret message about [[spoiler:Hemalurgy]] in ''The Hero of Ages''. [[spoiler:Ruin has Marsh kill him and read the message, but this actually gives Marsh the knowledge to free Vin from Ruin's influence the moment he regains control of his body.]] |
| 517 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Ruin tracks him down via Marsh in ''The Hero of Ages''. He stood no chance of winning, let alone winning, but still made Marsh work for the kill.]] |
| 518 | * MookFaceTurn: He starts out as one of the Lord Ruler's guards, but Vin convinces him to change sides. |
| 519 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: He's a very minor character, but he is pivotal to saving the world on two separate occasions. |
| 520 | * {{Tuckerization}}: Named after the author's friend Gordon. |
| 521 | |
| 522 | [[/folder]] |
| 523 | |
| 524 | [[folder:Quellion]] |
| 525 | !!Quellion |
| 526 | |
| 527 | Also known as "The Citizen". A man who wants to follow Kelsier's ways, which he does by executing nobles and Allomancers. He rules in Urteau. |
| 528 | ---- |
| 529 | %%* ArchEnemy: For Spook. |
| 530 | * BlackAndWhiteInsanity: Skaa with no noble blood are good. Anyone with the slightest connection to the nobility is evil [[spoiler: though he'll make an exception for his half-sister]]. This attitude was doubtless [[spoiler: provoked beyond all reason by Ruin]]. |
| 531 | %%* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: He was under Ruin's influece]] |
| 532 | * BreadAndCircuses: How he maintains his VillainWithGoodPublicity status. He allows the people small freedoms like cheap wine and no curfew, coupled with constant invocation of the Survivor, to distract them from his increasingly tyrannical methods. |
| 533 | * DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Severely misinterprets Kelsier's views on nobles, which was that their ''society'' was corrupt and everyone who defended them could be killed, skaa or noble. He never suggested that people should be executed for simply being related to nobles - in fact Kelsier himself and most of his crew would have been fit for execution under Quellion's metrics. |
| 534 | %%* {{Expy}}: He's very remniscent of UsefulNotes/MaximilienRobespierre. |
| 535 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: He went from just another skaa to rebel leader to a tyrant in his own right. |
| 536 | * TheFundamentalist: An extreme follower of the Church of the Survivor. |
| 537 | * HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Upon being freed from Ruin's influence, he expresses regret and horror at what he did and helps the heroes]]. |
| 538 | * HeWhoFightsMonsters: Few would deny that the Final Empire's system was corrupt and brutally oppressive. Quellion's methods of creating a new order are hardly any better, though. [[spoiler: It's unclear at what stage of the proceedings Ruin got involved]]. |
| 539 | * JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: [[spoiler: Though it might be better to say that Ruin pushed him off]]. |
| 540 | * JustTheFirstCitizen: Or rather, just "the Citizen". |
| 541 | * KnightTemplar: He follows a radical interpretation of the Church of the Survivor and kills anyone who disagrees with him. |
| 542 | * ModestRoyalty: Though essentially the king of Urteau, he wears regular skaa worker's clothing (albeit dyed red or, later, blue) and takes no title grander than "The Citizen" - the better to present himself as a man of the people. |
| 543 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: his reaction after being freed from Ruin's control]]. |
| 544 | * NonActionBigBad: Despite being the main villain of Spook's storyline in the third book, when separated from his followers he's not that tough in a fight. |
| 545 | * PresidentEvil: His role in Urtaeu, after kicking the nobility out. |
| 546 | * TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: Took over Urtaeu and promptly set himself up as dictator while brutally executing any nobles he got his hands on. |
| 547 | %%* ShadowArchetype: To Kelsier and [[spoiler: Spook, too]]. |
| 548 | * SpikesOfVillainy: [[spoiler:Ruin got a spike in there at some point]]. |
| 549 | * StrawHypocrite: Denounces allomancers while being a coinshot himself. [[spoiler: Except he's not - his ''sister'' is the coinshot, though Quellion does have a Hemalurgic spike that grants him the power of a Seeker]]. |
| 550 | * TyrantTakesTheHelm: After the revolution in Urteau he set his own tyrannical system in place. |
| 551 | %%* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:To Ruin]]. |
| 552 | * VillainWithGoodPublicity: He's charismatic enough to be popular in Urteau despite his despotic rule. Spook has to spend a lot of time tearing his reputation down, partially by building up his own. |
| 553 | * YoungAndInCharge: Though his exact age isn't specified, he's noted to be young for the ruler of a city-state. |
| 554 | |
| 555 | [[/folder]] |
| 556 | |
| 557 | [[folder:Beldre]] |
| 558 | !!Beldre |
| 559 | |
| 560 | Quellion's sister. She doesn't like her brother's extreme methods, but she does believe that he is a good person. |
| 561 | ---- |
| 562 | * ActionGirl: Sort of. She hates fighting, but because [[spoiler:she's a Coinshot]], she can still take out most trained soldiers if they're not ready for her. |
| 563 | * DatingCatwoman: With Spook. |
| 564 | * GlassCannon: Being [[spoiler:a Coinshot]] who isn't a warrior otherwise, she can't take much punishment but can dish out a ''lot'' of it if she's in the right mood. |
| 565 | * HiddenDepths: She may look and act like a sad, rather naive girl, but she's [[spoiler:also a Misting, and her brother's hidden bodyguard]]. |
| 566 | %%* MoralityPet: To her brother Quellion and later, to Spook. |
| 567 | * WideEyedIdealist: She's basically Vin's opposite in this regard; where Vin doesn't trust anybody easily, Beldre wants to trust everybody and thinks she can solve the conflict between her brother and Spook just by talking it out. Actually, that probably would have worked if Ruin hadn't been prodding both Quellion and Spook to act more and more irrationally. |
| 568 | |
| 569 | [[/folder]] |
| 570 | |
| 571 | [[folder:Mennis]] |
| 572 | !!Mennis |
| 573 | |
| 574 | One of the Skaa on Lord Tresting's plantation. |
| 575 | ---- |
| 576 | * BreakoutCharacter: His popularity among the alpha readers caused Brandon to increase his role in the first book. |
| 577 | * ChekhovsGunman: Takes charge of the rebellion until Kelsier can arrive. |
| 578 | * IntroOnlyPointOfView: His only POV is in the prologue to the first book. |
| 579 | * MortonsFork: He has this placed upon him by Kelsier's actions: Stay and be killed by the Final Empire, or leave and be forced to join the rebellion. |
| 580 | |
| 581 | [[/folder]] |
| 582 | |
| 583 | [[folder:Tepper]] |
| 584 | !!Tepper |
| 585 | |
| 586 | One of the skaa on Lord Tresting's plantation. |
| 587 | ---- |
| 588 | %%* TheLancer: To Mennis. |
| 589 | * ProperlyParanoid: He was right to believe that no noble would pay his skaa. The man Kelsier told him about was actually a kandra. Though it's strangely subverted by supplementary material, which reveals that aristocrats from the Farmost Dominance actually do reward loyal skaa with lands or titles. |
| 590 | |
| 591 | [[/folder]] |
| 592 | |
| 593 | %%[[folder:Cobble]] |
| 594 | %%!!Cobble |
| 595 | %%An apprentice to Clubs. |
| 596 | %%---- |
| 597 | %%* TheApprentice: To Clubs. |
| 598 | %%[[/folder]] |
| 599 | |
| 600 | [[folder:Amaranta]] |
| 601 | !!Amaranta |
| 602 | |
| 603 | A herbalist who was a former mistress of Straff Venture. Nowadays, she hangs around Straff and prepares antidotes for Zane's poisoning attempts. [[spoiler:In reality, Amaranta got Straff hooked on drugs, and by Zane's suggestion, tricked him into thinking that drug withdrawal was a poisoning attempt. She's also Zane's lover.]] |
| 604 | ---- |
| 605 | * TheDogBitesBack: She finally gets sick of Straff and turns on him after [[spoiler:Zane's death. It didn't do her much good]]. |
| 606 | * KilledMidSentence: Straff strangles her as she gloats to him. |
| 607 | * LoveMakesYouCrazy: But it's actually her love for [[spoiler:Zane]], not Straff. |
| 608 | * MagicAntidote: She has a herbal mixture that can cure every single poison that Zane throws at Straff. [[spoiler:Actually, that's not true. Straff mistakes the feeling of drug withdrawal for the feeling of being poisoned, and she simply prepares him more of the drug]]. |
| 609 | * OldMaid: How Straff views her. Though the extent of how unattractive he finds his objectively beautiful and most devoted mistress, along with the comment that he started to view her like this ''in her early 20's'' says a lot of how repulsive Straff is as a human being. |
| 610 | |
| 611 | * WomanScorned: Straff treated her cruelly and rejected her when she was too old to meet his ridiculous standards of attractiveness [[spoiler:so she teamed up with Zane to get revenge]]. |
| 612 | [[/folder]] |
| 613 | |
| 614 | !!The Nobility |
| 615 | |
| 616 | [[folder:Elend]] |
| 617 | !!Lord Elend Venture |
| 618 | ->"We're going to do what we've always done, Vin. We're going to survive." |
| 619 | |
| 620 | A young and idealistic noble who is the heir to the powerful Venture house. He meets Vin by chance, and grows quite close to her. |
| 621 | ---- |
| 622 | * AmazonChaser: Considering he's in love with Vin, should be obvious. |
| 623 | * AuthorAvatar: More specifically, Brandon Sanderson has said he's partly based on a younger version of himself, who likely really would get out a book at a party. His character is also influenced by one of Sanderson's friends as well. |
| 624 | * BadassBookworm: Always a bookworm, slowly becomes a badass across ''Well of Ascension'' [[spoiler: culminating in becoming a mistborn himself]]. |
| 625 | %%* BattleCouple: With Vin in ''The Hero of Ages''. |
| 626 | %%* CainAndAbel: He's Abel; [[spoiler:Zane is Cain]]. |
| 627 | * DatingCatwoman: In ''Mistborn: The Final Empire''. He's the heir to the most powerful house in the Final Empire; she's a member of a thieving crew that's trying to overthrow the Final Empire. |
| 628 | * {{Deuteragonist}}: Of ''The Well of Ascension'' as he tries to grow into his new role as [[spoiler:king]]. |
| 629 | * DubNameChange: The German translation changed his name to "Elant", likely because "Elend" in German means "suffering". |
| 630 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: At the end of ''The Hero of Ages'', [[spoiler:having seen the future effects of his actions by way of flaring his atium, he allows Marsh to kill him knowing that Vin will defeat Ruin immediately afterward]]. |
| 631 | * GentlemanSnarker: He has a rather caustic sense of sarcasm, which is one of the reasons Vin is initally attracted to him. |
| 632 | * TheGoodKing: [[spoiler:From the end of Final Empire on]]. |
| 633 | * HasAType: Coincidentally, Vin is so exactly Elend's type that his friends belive she's a plant. |
| 634 | --> '''Jastes''': They created the perfect woman to attract you: dark-haired, a bit mysterious, and outside the regular political structure. They made her lowborn enough for it to be a scandal. |
| 635 | * HeroicBSOD: In ''Hero of Ages'' he has a brief one before Preservation manages to snap him out of it. |
| 636 | * HonorBeforeReason: For the first couple of books. He eventually gets over it. |
| 637 | * {{Hunk}}: Come the third book, his regal bearing mixed with his toned warrior's figure and beard makes him quite a sight to the ladies of the court. |
| 638 | * {{Hypocrite}}: Yomen accuses him of being one. Elend likes to tote on about giving the people a say in their government, but after [[spoiler:they voted Elend out he just took rule again through force]]. Elend mentally admits Yomen's right. |
| 639 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: He gives Vin the freedom to do what will make her happy, even if that means she leaves him. [[spoiler:Remembering this is what ultimately stops Vin from going with Zane, since she realizes she'd rather be with someone who she can trust and who trusts her in turn.]] |
| 640 | * LightIsGood: [[spoiler: when he becomes the GoodKing and later Emperor, he dons an all white outfit, in contrast to Vin's [[DarkIsNotEvil black clothes.]] ]] |
| 641 | * MirrorCharacter: In ''Hero of Ages'' he starts to realize his actions [[spoiler:as emperor are very similar to what the Lord Ruler did to keep the empire intact]]. |
| 642 | * NiceGuy: If you can say anything about Elend it's that he's an honorable man who truly cares about his people. |
| 643 | * NiceToTheWaiter: Downplayed in regards to his attitude towards the skaa. He views them more as a fascinating subject rather than outright people, but that's still leaps and bounds better than any other noble's view. It becomes a straight example when he learns more about them. |
| 644 | * NonActionGuy: At least until the third book. |
| 645 | * OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Marsh lops his head off with an ax.]] |
| 646 | * ThePowerOfTrust: His unquestioning trust of Vin helps her solve a few problems. [[spoiler:It's convinces her not to go with Zane, and allows her to have his support against Ruin without giving anything away]]. |
| 647 | * ProfessionalSexEd: Straff forced him to sleep with a whore when he was 13. Elend later found out the woman was executed to prevent half-breed children, and this would haunt him for the rest of his life. |
| 648 | * {{Protectorate}}: To Vin. |
| 649 | * RebelliousPrincess: Gender flipped. Basically, became an idealistic scholar initially for no other reason than because he knew it would tick his father off. [[BecomingTheMask Then he found out it suited him]]. |
| 650 | * SatelliteLoveInterest: He doesn't get much development in the first book, though when he becomes a POV character in books two and three, this changes. |
| 651 | * TheSmartGuy: After Sazed, the most intelligent and well-read of the main cast. |
| 652 | * TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:With Vin in ''The Hero of Ages'']]. |
| 653 | * TookALevelInBadass: Twice. First under Tindwyl's tutelage in ''The Well of Ascension'', and then another after [[spoiler:becoming Mistborn himself at the end of that book]]. |
| 654 | * {{Troll}}: Elend is an ''expert'' on annoying people, both to get a reaction out of them and to draw their attention. |
| 655 | * UnskilledButStrong: [[spoiler:As a Mistborn, he's got more raw Allomantic power than anyone in the series short of the Lord Ruler himself- but he's also the first to admit that Vin has a far more subtle affinity for her powers. Justified because he acquired his Mistborn powers directly from the same metal that was used to grant the ''original'', near-godlike Mistborn their powers by the Lord Ruler]]. |
| 656 | * WideEyedIdealist: Politically, at least. |
| 657 | * TheWisePrince: Dedicates himself to scholarly pursuits and is one of the few nobles who cares at all about the injustices of their system and the plight of the skaa. |
| 658 | [[/folder]] |
| 659 | |
| 660 | [[folder:Straff]] |
| 661 | !!Lord Straff Venture |
| 662 | ->"I set the fashion now, boy." |
| 663 | |
| 664 | Elend's abusive father, who is also a Tineye. In ''The Well of Ascension'', he leads a massive army in an attempt to take over Luthadel. |
| 665 | ---- |
| 666 | * AbdicateTheThrone: He makes Elend the leader of House Venture, but only because he thinks that his son is going to die. |
| 667 | * AbusiveDad: Pretty much made no secret of the fact that he thought Elend was worthless. [[spoiler: Zane got treated even worse]]. |
| 668 | %%* ArchnemesisDad: To Elend [[spoiler: and Zane]]. |
| 669 | * AristocratsAreEvil: ''Very'' evil. Even most of the other nobles, corrupt and tyrannical and they are, think Straff is excessive in both regards. |
| 670 | * AscendedExtra: Was a minor, although important, villain in ''Mistborn: The Final Empire''. In ''The Well of Ascension'', he's one of the contenders for the title of BigBad. |
| 671 | * BigBadWannabe: He spends most of the second book being outwitted or outplayed or reacting to events, and is a threat mainly because he has the biggest army, the greatest resources, and the fewest moral qualms of all the kings (that is to say, [[TheSociopath none]]). [[spoiler:After he is killed, the story continues for another Act until ''Ruin's'' EvilPlan comes to fruition, and Ruin had been manipulating half the cast the whole time, including Straff's own Dragon Zane, whom Straff never truly controlled anyway]]. |
| 672 | * BullyingADragon: Despite being only a Tineye Allomancer, Straff starts off ''The Well of Ascension'' personally antagonizing not one but ''two'' dangerous Mistborn. He browbeats Zane despite the latter being AxCrazy and alternates between scorning Vin and implicitly threatening her with sexual abuse and Elend with death. [[spoiler:Elend's ultimate gambit on escaping Straff's camp is pointing out exactly how suicidal messing with Vin is, with Vin emphasizing the point with blatant emotional manipulation.]] |
| 673 | * CompositeCharacter: Of a sort. The original version of Kelsier's informant scene had Kelsier talking to Lord Hastings, and it was the only scene featuring the latter. In the final version, Kelsier speaks to Straff Venture, making Straff a combination of himself and Lord Hastings. |
| 674 | * DirtyOldMan: Keeps a HUGE number of mistresses, which he prefers to be young. How young? Finds his mature but still beautiful mistress in her late 20's repulsive, and reminiscent about how she had been once beautiful... a decade ago. |
| 675 | * {{Ephebophile}}: Prefers his mistresses in this age range. He even has one who looks a lot like Vin, who he uses to taunt Vin and Elend with what he can and will do if he gets his way. |
| 676 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: Dear God, does he have a bad case of this. The very idea of altruism is alien to him and he ascribes nefarious or selfish motives to ''everything'' that ''anyone ever does''. For example, the idea that somebody could save the life of another because they didn't want to see an innocent man die is an idea he finds both hilarious and stupid. He's also surprised that his second in command, Janarle, didn't take over the army [[spoiler: after acute drug withdrawal nearly kills him]], and ends up concluding the man is afraid of Zane's retribution rather than personal loyalty. |
| 677 | * EvilOverlord: Sets himself up as one [[spoiler:after the Lord Ruler dies]]. |
| 678 | * {{Expy}}: To [[Literature/{{Dune}} Baron Vladimir Harkonnen]]. They are both presented as powerful nobles under an Emperor, and widely know as sadistic [[DirtyOldMan Dirty Old Men]] who like [[{{Ephebophile}} much younger]] partners. They are primarily {{Non Action Big Bad}}s and rely on more talented (if somewhat mentally unstable) younger relatives to do the legwork and their arch-enemies are also people from their blood. [[spoiler:They are disposed with little fanfare and, after their deaths, the descendants they opposed would succeed on become Emperors themselves]]. |
| 679 | * FantasticRacism: Continues to viciously abuse skaa even after the system that demanded it is overthrown. In fairness, he doesn't treat most nobles much better, his son included. |
| 680 | * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler: Vin comes screaming down from the sky using a duralumin-Steelpush, wielding a [[{{BFS}} Koloss sword]] and lops him in two, along with his horse. ''Lengthways'']]. |
| 681 | * HateSink: There isn't a single redeeming quality about Straff aside from MAYBE his cold sense of propriety in the first book. But once he becomes a king in ''The Well of Ascension'', and he's allowed to indulge in his basest desires openly, he does so with relish, leaving even Elend surprised at what a monster his father is in every regard, as well as how reliant on more competent minions he really is. |
| 682 | --> '''Elend:''' "You are a pig, Father. A sick, disgusting man. You thought you were a brilliant leader, but you were barely competent. You nearly got our house destroyed—only the Lord Ruler's own death saved you! You may take Luthadel, but you'll lose it! I may have been a bad king, but you'll be a terrible one. The Lord Ruler was a tyrant, but he was also a genius. You're neither. You're just a selfish man who'll use up his resources, then end up dead from a knife in the back." |
| 683 | * InsistentTerminology: In ''The Well of Ascension'', Straff wants everyone to call him ''King'' Straff Venture. |
| 684 | * ItsAllAboutMe / LackOfEmpathy: Straff doesn't seem to care at all about anyone who isn't him. |
| 685 | * JerkassHasAPoint: while talking to a disguised Kelsier, he claims that there is no legend of an Eleventh Metal, and that Kelsier might have been replaced by a kandra. [[spoiler: Both of these are eventually revealed to be true.]] |
| 686 | * ManipulativeBastard: Though he's just as often the one being manipulated, and fails to realize it. |
| 687 | * OffingTheOffspring: Sends assassins to kill Elend, and tries to have [[spoiler:Zane]] killed. Near the end of ''The Well of Ascension'', it backfires on him when he does kill [[spoiler:Zane]], [[spoiler:prompting his mistress to turn on him]]. |
| 688 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Viciously misogynistic and racist. |
| 689 | * PrideBeforeAFall: His final moments are filled with self gratification at his percieved victory...[[spoiler:mere moments before Vin bisects him with a {{BFS}}. As fitting as it is cathartic.]] |
| 690 | * SmugSnake: He's competent enough, but his ego far exceeds his capabilities. |
| 691 | * TheSociopath: Devoid of empathy and compassion with a distinct sadistic streak. |
| 692 | * SuperSenses: It comes with being a Tineye. |
| 693 | * TykeBomb: Straff made it a point to have ''many'' mistresses so that he could produce countless children who could potentially possess Misting or Mistborn powers, to serve as his personal assassins. He went so far as to deliberately violate the Lord Ruler's prohibition against allowing skaa women to bear children born from noblemen to ensure he had Misting children. |
| 694 | * VillainousBreakdown: During ''The Well of Ascension'' [[spoiler:as it sinks in that Zane is uncontrollable and Vin is virtually unstoppable. And again, when Vin has killed Zane and Amaranta reveals she's been addicting him to drugs rather than curing (nonexistent) poisons.]] |
| 695 | |
| 696 | [[/folder]] |
| 697 | |
| 698 | [[folder:Janarle]] |
| 699 | !!Janarle |
| 700 | |
| 701 | Straff Venture's second in command. He becomes one of the three kings under Elend Venture. |
| 702 | ---- |
| 703 | %%* CoDragons: With Zane. |
| 704 | %%* TheDragon: To Straff Venture |
| 705 | * DragonWithAnAgenda: Implied, Straff suspects that Janarle will betray him if he learns of Zane's death. Of course, it could just be Straff projecting what ''he'd'' do in Janarle's place. |
| 706 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. While Janarle was willing to have a chuckle with Straff at the idea of letting the Koloss "have their fun" for a bit by sacking Luthadel, thereby doing most of the hard work for them, he seemed taken aback by the [[VillainousBreakdown ever-paranoid Straff's]] idea to let the Koloss raze the whole of Luthadel entirely and killing everyone within the city before coming in and slaughtering them. |
| 707 | * HeelFaceTurn: Vin basically scares him into swearing fealty to her and Elend. |
| 708 | %%* NumberTwo: To Straff Venture. |
| 709 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:The heroes stop hearing from him after a certain point in ''The Hero of Ages'', and while it's heavily implied that he's one of the offscreen casualties of Ruin's destruction of the world, it's neither confirmed nor denied by the end of the book. WordOfGod indicates he was captured by koloss and turned into one of them.]] |
| 710 | |
| 711 | [[/folder]] |
| 712 | |
| 713 | [[folder:Shan]] |
| 714 | !!Lady Shan Elariel |
| 715 | |
| 716 | Elend's fiance. She's a soother, and is arrogant and manipulative. |
| 717 | ---- |
| 718 | * AlphaBitch: She's in a court, rather than school, setting, but otherwise fits the trope to a "t" though she's rather more dangerous than most. |
| 719 | %%* ArchEnemy: To Vin in the first book. |
| 720 | %%* BadassCape: [[spoiler:Namely a Mistcloak.]] |
| 721 | * DarkActionGirl: [[spoiler: Very capable in combat, very arrogant and ruthless]]. |
| 722 | * GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: She's a Soother, so she can mess with emotions. [[spoiler:And she can also Riot, due to being a full Mistborn]]. |
| 723 | * HiddenBadass: [[spoiler:She's not just a soother, she's a full mistborn.]] |
| 724 | * MurderTheHypotenuse: Vin kills Shan when she [[spoiler:tries to assassinate Elend]]. It wasn't Vin's intention, but Shan ''was'' Elend's fiancee. Elend makes a dark joke along these lines in ''Hero of Ages'', mentioning that Vin married him after killing his fiancee, [[spoiler:his [[AbusiveParents father]], his [[CainAndAbel brother]] and [[GodEmperor his god]]]], to boot. |
| 725 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: She pretends to be obnoxious but ultimately not a real threat. [[spoiler: But she's a mistborn.]] |
| 726 | * PsychoKnifeNut: [[spoiler:Like Vin, favors the traditional allomancer's glass knives. Unlike Vin, she's quite crazy.]] |
| 727 | * TheReveal: For most of her appearances, she's built up as practically a female [[Literature/HarryPotter Draco Malfoy]]- arrogant, obnoxious, and annoying, but ultimately harmless. [[spoiler:Then it turns out she's a Mistborn nearly as powerful as Vin and fully trained besides. Even Kelsier is surprised that Vin lived through the fight]]. |
| 728 | * RichBitch: Shan is the daughter of a wealthy, powerful House and is extremely proud of that fact, looking down not only on the skaa but on lesser nobles as well. |
| 729 | %%* TheRival: Kinda was this to Vin. |
| 730 | * SmugSnake: Exceedingly arrogant [[spoiler:though it may at least partially be a facade]]. |
| 731 | * StarterVillain: Odd mix with ArchEnemy. [[spoiler: As a full Mistborn, she's Vin's first real Allomantic opponent, and Vin defeating her proves she has the skills to challenge the first book's ''real'' nemesis, The Lord Ruler.]] Though she is the primary antagonist Vin deals with for the majority of the first book. |
| 732 | |
| 733 | [[/folder]] |
| 734 | |
| 735 | [[folder:Kliss]] |
| 736 | !!Lady Kliss |
| 737 | |
| 738 | The court gossip, who Vin uses to spread rumors about House Hastings. She's actually an informant, and she's on to Vin. |
| 739 | ---- |
| 740 | * EntertaininglyWrong: She successfully guesses Vin and Renoux are up to something, and are using her to spread rumors in order to weaken other noble Houses. However, she completely misinterprets their end goal. She thinks House Renoux is trying to weaken its political rivals, when in truth the Crew is attempting to escalate the tensions and cause a House War. When she blackmails Vin, the Crew plays along and pays her, as it helps them to conceal their secret. |
| 741 | * GossipyHens: Her initial impression on Vin, and pretty much everyone else, is that of an air-headed gossip. [[ObfuscatingStupidity It's only a front.]] |
| 742 | * IFightForTheStrongestSide: Well, the side with the most money. A girl's gotta eat. |
| 743 | * TheInformant: Pretends to be a gossip in order to gather plenty of juicy information to sell to the highest bidder. |
| 744 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: She pretends to be an air-headed gossip, but it's only a front to make people let their guard down. In truth, she's an informant. |
| 745 | |
| 746 | [[/folder]] |
| 747 | |
| 748 | [[folder:Hastings]] |
| 749 | !!Lord Hastings |
| 750 | |
| 751 | The leader of House Hastings. He's apparently a pretty evil guy, even if we don't get to meet him. He gets what's coming to him when his house is destroyed by Elariel assassins. |
| 752 | ---- |
| 753 | * AristocratsAreEvil: What we're told about him suggests this. |
| 754 | * TheGhost: We never actually get to meet him. He was originally going to have a one-shot appearance when Kelsier was posing as an informant, but his role was given to the much more important Straff Venture. |
| 755 | |
| 756 | [[/folder]] |
| 757 | |
| 758 | [[folder:Cett]] |
| 759 | !!Lord Ashweather Cett |
| 760 | |
| 761 | The king of Fadrex, Cett left his city after hearing about Straff Venture's siege of Luthadel. Fearing that Straff would take the atium within the city, Cett besieged Luthadel himself, wanting to take the atium and increase his wealth. |
| 762 | ---- |
| 763 | * AtLeastIAdmitIt: He's a greedy power-hungry tyrant, but he takes great pride in being upfront about how much of a bastard he is. |
| 764 | * BigBadWannabe: Cett presents himself as a powerful, CardCarryingVillain tyrant but he's neither as evil or as powerful as he'd like you to believe. |
| 765 | * BoisterousBruiser: Played with; he has the personality, but is actually a cripple. |
| 766 | * CardCarryingVillain: Subverted. He certainly talks the talk, but then does a HeelFaceTurn. |
| 767 | * CountryMouse: Has a chip on his shoulder about Luthadel attitudes to provincial nobility like himself. |
| 768 | * EvilCripple: Subverted when he has a HeelFaceTurn. |
| 769 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Loves his son and his daughter. |
| 770 | * HeelFaceTurn: Allrianne initially tricks him into it. Vin's threats cement it. |
| 771 | * IFightForTheStrongestSide: Defects to Team Elend when he decides that it holds the strongest chance of survival for him. |
| 772 | * ObfuscatingDisability: Subverted. Vin thinks he's faking his paralysis to hide being a very powerful Mistborn. Nope. It's genuine, and he's had the condition since childhood. |
| 773 | * SirSwearsALot: "Where I come from, people are ashamed to use pretty words like "damn"!" |
| 774 | * ThrowingOffTheDisability: [[spoiler:[[https://wob.coppermind.net/events/243-hero-of-ages-qa-time-wasters-guide/#e5859 His legs were healed a a part of Sazed remaking the world. Cett spends the epilogue just wandering around in shock.]]]] |
| 775 | * TokenEvilTeammate: Sort of. He's not exactly ''evil'', per se, but is the most traditional Imperial nobleman in Elend's court. |
| 776 | %%* WarriorPoet: Not expecting that, were you? |
| 777 | |
| 778 | [[/folder]] |
| 779 | |
| 780 | [[folder:Allrianne]] |
| 781 | !!Lady Allrianne Cett |
| 782 | |
| 783 | Lord Ashweather Cett's young and idealistic daughter. |
| 784 | ---- |
| 785 | * BabiesEverAfter: Inferred with Breeze, since the one of the heroes of ''Literature/WaxAndWayne'' is their descendent. |
| 786 | * BrattyTeenageDaughter: How she presents herself to begin with. It's only part of the truth, though; underneath she's far more savvy and canny. |
| 787 | * TheHeart: Definitely the traditionally girly one, especially compared to Vin, and has extremely useful emotion-based powers, but is no fighter herself. |
| 788 | * HiddenDepths: Allrianne is gradually revealed to be a much more intelligent and principled person than she initially lets on. |
| 789 | * MayDecemberRomance: With Breeze. Note that ''she'' is the one to seduce ''him.'' |
| 790 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: More like Obfuscating Superficiality. Most of what you see ''is'' Allrianne's real personality, true - but it's not all that there is to it by a long shot; she's ''much'' smarter than she looks. |
| 791 | * OppositesAttract: Both she and Breeze can manipulate emotions, but while he's a Soother who can calm people down and make them more suggestible, she's a Rioter who can amplify passions and feelings. |
| 792 | * PrincessesPreferPink: She is technically a princess, and ''boy'' is she pink. |
| 793 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: She's the Girly Girl to Vin's Tomboy. Yes, even Vin at her most feminine looks ''plenty'' tomboyish next to Allrianne. |
| 794 | |
| 795 | [[/folder]] |
| 796 | |
| 797 | [[folder:Penrod]] |
| 798 | !!Lord[[spoiler:/King]] Ferson Penrod |
| 799 | |
| 800 | One of the members of Elend's Assembly, and later his political rival. |
| 801 | ---- |
| 802 | * AntiVillain: He plots to take Elend's place as king, but isn't particularly villainous. He never does anything truly evil [[spoiler:before being mind-controlled by Ruin in the third book]], he actually [[spoiler:obtains the crown legally and without violence]] and he seems to respect Elend's idealism. He wants to give Luthadel to Straff, but only because he thinks that's the only way to survive. |
| 803 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Marsh sticks a spike in him to make him go mad.]] |
| 804 | * TheCaligula: [[spoiler:Goes crazy because of Ruin's corruption.]] |
| 805 | * DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler:Kills himself in a moment of sanity.]] |
| 806 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Kills himself so that Ruin can't further corrupt him.]] |
| 807 | * KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:Elend arrives and finds him already dead.]] |
| 808 | |
| 809 | [[/folder]] |
| 810 | |
| 811 | [[folder:Jastes]] |
| 812 | !!Lord Jastes Lekal |
| 813 | |
| 814 | The young heir to the Lekal house. He is a good friend to Elend, and the two of them often sneak away from parties to discuss politics, along with Teldu. He is idealistic, but not to Elend's extent. |
| 815 | ---- |
| 816 | * TheAtoner: Tries to become this when he [[spoiler:loses control of the koloss, but Elend doesn't buy it and chops his head off]]. |
| 817 | * BigBadEnsemble: Is on of the main villains of ''The Well of Ascension'', alongside "King" Straff Venture and Lord Ashweather Cett. |
| 818 | * BigBadWannabe: Though in the grand scheme of things, he's not personally that dangerous... it's his [[spoiler: koloss]] you want to watch out for. |
| 819 | %%* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: When [[spoiler:controlling the koloss]]. |
| 820 | * FaceHeelTurn: Goes from an idealistic youth in ''The Final Empire'' to one of the main villains in ''The Well of Ascension''. |
| 821 | * FreudianExcuse: He tried ruling the same way Elend did [[spoiler:after the death of the Lord Ruler]], only for his rivals to [[spoiler:take advantage of it and overthrow him. And to slaughter his whole family.]] |
| 822 | * HeelFaceDoorSlam: Starts to become TheAtoner, but [[spoiler:Elend beheads him because of what he did to his kingdom]]. |
| 823 | * KidWithTheLeash: To [[spoiler: the koloss]], though eventually he loses control of them. |
| 824 | * OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Elend kills him by beheading him]]. |
| 825 | * ProperlyParanoid: He is convinced that Valette Renoux, the girl Elend has fallen for, is more than she seems. He's right to presume so, as she's a half-Skaa trying to overthrow the Final Empire, but his paranoia extended way too far. Granted, he probably couldn't have foreseen that she was trying to overthrow the Empire, so it's safe to say that his paranoia just didn't extend in the right directions. |
| 826 | * ReformedButRejected: Played with. [[spoiler:Elend does forgive him for his transgressions after he apologizes for it all. However, he reasons that his kingdom can't forgive him, so he executes him on the spot.]] |
| 827 | * RightForTheWrongReasons: His paranoia about Valette (Vin). He's completely right that she's more than she seems and she has an ulterior motive, but completely wrong about why. Not that he could've foreseen that, mind. |
| 828 | * SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: Being surrounded day-in-day-out with koloss clearly took a toll on his mental wellbeing]]. |
| 829 | * WideEyedIdealist: He starts this way, but turns to the dark side when [[spoiler:the Final Empire collapses]]. |
| 830 | |
| 831 | [[/folder]] |
| 832 | |
| 833 | [[folder:Lekal]] |
| 834 | !!Lord Lekal |
| 835 | |
| 836 | The leader of House Lekal. Flees during the Fall of Luthadel, but Sazed and Breeze later go to meet him. |
| 837 | ---- |
| 838 | * DrowningMySorrows: [[spoiler:Drinks himself into a stupor when he realizes that the world is ending.]] |
| 839 | * HumanSacrifice: [[spoiler:Marsh uses his death to create a Hemalurgic Spike.]] |
| 840 | |
| 841 | [[/folder]] |
| 842 | |
| 843 | [[folder:Tresting]] |
| 844 | !!Lord Themos Tresting |
| 845 | ->"One would think that a thousand years working in the fields would have bred them to be a little more effective at it." |
| 846 | |
| 847 | One of the nobles of the Final Empire. |
| 848 | ---- |
| 849 | * AristocratsAreEvil: Noted to be cruel even by noble standards. |
| 850 | * AssholeVictim: Seriously, nobody shed any tears when Kelsier killed him. Overlaps with HateSink, as it was important that the first person Kelsier kills was not sympathetic in the least. |
| 851 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: Killed by Kelsier off-page. |
| 852 | * IntroOnlyPointOfView: He's the first POV in the series, but the prologue is the only time he appears. |
| 853 | * OhCrap: Has a moment of this when he notices one of his Skaa (actually Kelsier looking over the fields) smile at him. |
| 854 | * SmugSnake: Like most nobles. Noticing a theme? |
| 855 | * StarterVillain: He's the earliest bad guy in the series, as he is the villain of ''Mistborn: The Final Empire''[='=]s prologue. |
| 856 | * VillainOpeningScene: The very first scene of the trilogy features him and an obligator. |
| 857 | |
| 858 | [[/folder]] |
| 859 | |
| 860 | [[folder:Renoux]] |
| 861 | !!Lord Teven Renoux |
| 862 | |
| 863 | One of the nobles of the Final Empire. Kelsier offs him before the story begins. For the kandra impersonating him, see "[=OreSeur=]". |
| 864 | ---- |
| 865 | * DeadAllAlong: A few characters are surprised to hear that Lord Renoux had been killed and replaced. |
| 866 | |
| 867 | [[/folder]] |
| 868 | |
| 869 | [[folder:Melend]] |
| 870 | !!Lord Melend Liese |
| 871 | |
| 872 | A young noble who asks Vin to dance with him at an early ball she attends. |
| 873 | ---- |
| 874 | * CasanovaWannabe: Fairly flirty, but also noticeably self-conscious about it. |
| 875 | * ShrinkingViolet: A male variant. Vin notes that he won't stop blushing. |
| 876 | |
| 877 | [[/folder]] |
| 878 | |
| 879 | [[folder:Entrone]] |
| 880 | !!Lord Charrs Entrone |
| 881 | ->Lord Entrone, in particular, would not be missed. He was infamous for his twisted sense of pleasure. |
| 882 | -->--Kelsier, thinking about Lord Charrs Entrone |
| 883 | |
| 884 | A cruel man, who relished Skaa Bloodfights. After a bloodfight in which he gambled against Crews Geffenry, he got drunk and was killed by Kelsier on his way home. |
| 885 | ---- |
| 886 | * AristocratsAreEvil: Noted for his sadism. |
| 887 | * AssholeVictim: Kelsier specifically singled him out for being a bad guy even compared to most nobles. |
| 888 | * {{Tuckerization}}: Named after the author's friend Charlie. |
| 889 | |
| 890 | [[/folder]] |
| 891 | |
| 892 | [[folder:Crews]] |
| 893 | !!Crews Geffenry |
| 894 | ->Crews was a known Mistborn, and a very competent knife fighter. |
| 895 | -->--Kelsier, thinking about Crews Geffenry |
| 896 | |
| 897 | A Mistborn of the Geffenry house, and an excellent knife fighter. The Geffenry house had been petitioning for a stronger alliance with House Tekiel around the time of Lord Charrs Entrone's death. Because Crews was gambling against Charrs on the night of his death, Kelsier believes that Crews will become a suspect in the murder of Lord Charrs. |
| 898 | ---- |
| 899 | * AristocratsAreEvil: Anyone who takes pleasure in skaa bloodfights has to be pretty evil. |
| 900 | * BadassCape: Presumably sported a mistcloak, like most mistborn. |
| 901 | * TheGhost: He never actually appears in the story, unless he was the Mistborn aiding [[spoiler:Lady Shan Elariel]] when she tried to assassinate Lord Elend Venture near the end of ''Mistborn: The Final Empire''. |
| 902 | * GuiltByCoincidence: Kelsier believes that he will become a suspect in the Entrone murder purely by happenstance. |
| 903 | [[/folder]] |
| 904 | |
| 905 | !!Final Empire Administration |
| 906 | |
| 907 | [[folder:The Lord Ruler]] |
| 908 | !!The Lord Ruler |
| 909 | ->"How dare you? After what I gave you? I made you superior to regular men! I made you dominant!" |
| 910 | |
| 911 | The immortal tyrant who rules the Final Empire. All-powerful and invincible, he is revered as God. He apparently defeated The Deepness in the past. After doing so, he somehow gained god-like powers, and used them to conquer the world. He calls himself "The Sliver of Infinity" because he is apparently only a small part of God. He is the main villain of ''Mistborn: The Final Empire''. |
| 912 | |
| 913 | ---- |
| 914 | * AchillesHeel: He is one of the deadliest magic users in the series, [[spoiler:but without his Atiumminds he's toast]]. |
| 915 | * AGodAmI: Presents himself as God to the Final Empire. |
| 916 | * AllYourPowersCombined: The only known character to use Allomancy, [[spoiler:Feruchemy]], and [[spoiler:Hemalurgy]] together. It makes him ''very'' powerful. |
| 917 | * AntiVillain: [[spoiler: Believe it or not. He genuinely wanted to be a good king and tried his hardest to protect the world from Ruin even as he slowly went mad and became a terrible tyrant, and even that madness was at least partially due to Ruin tormenting him mentally for nearly a thousand years]]. |
| 918 | * ArchEnemy: Kelsier's stake in the scheme to cripple the Final Empire is deeply personal, as the Lord Ruler sent him to The Pits where he was tortured for months, causing a chain of events that led to Mare's death and making him awaken to Allomancy, kickstarting the events of the first book. He becomes Vin's as well [[spoiler:after he kills Kelsier.]] |
| 919 | * BeyondTheImpossible: He is able to use Allomancy to do things thought impossible, like Push the metals inside a person's blood stream, pierce copperclouds, or Riot and Soothe hundreds of thousands of people at once. Justified due to the aforementioned AllYourPowersCombined. |
| 920 | * BigBad: As the evil tyrant ruling the Final Empire, he serves this role. [[spoiler:Except that there are forces much Bigger and Badder than him out there, and he was keeping one of them imprisoned...]] |
| 921 | * CrazyPrepared[=/=]SurvivalistStash: [[spoiler:The supply caches and shelters he built across the Final Empire.]] |
| 922 | * CreepyMonotone: He's extremely calm and composed in his speech and behavior [[DissonantSerenity even in the midst of attempts on his life]]. [[spoiler: Ultimately subverted when Vin calls him by his real name and he ''flips out'']]. |
| 923 | * CurbStompBattle: Gives [[spoiler: Vin and Marsh - that's a Mistborn and an Inquisitor, for the record, two of the most powerful beings on Scadrial - a virtually effortless drubbing before Vin figures out his AchillesHeel. The scary thing is, FridgeBrilliance and WordOfGod make it plain he wasn't even trying]]. |
| 924 | * DarkIsEvil / LightIsNotGood: His usual outfit has black and white elements, and no other colors. WordOfGod indicates that it represents that the Lord Ruler feels he has gained mastery over all opposing forces [[spoiler: like Ruin and Preservation. Though as Sazed notes in the last book's chapter headers, he was greatly overestimating his own importance]]. |
| 925 | * DarkMessiah: Saved the world. Turned it into an ash-choked hellscape he ruled as king and god in the process. |
| 926 | * DeathByDepower: [[spoiler:The bracelets he wears sustain his youth and HealingFactor. Once destroyed, he dies in seconds.]] |
| 927 | * DeityOfHumanOrigin: Even his followers agree that before he became the Lord Ruler, he was a mortal man. [[spoiler: A mortal man named Rashek, as it happens. And though he's not technically a god by in-universe standards, he did briefly hold and use Preservation's power at the Well of Ascension]]. |
| 928 | * DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler:He dies at the end of the first book. There's two more to go in this trilogy.]] |
| 929 | * TheDreaded: Almost everyone believes he's God. Even those who don't know he's the most powerful Allomancer alive. Either way, hardly anyone would dare cross him. In fact, he perpetuates this with his EmotionBomb. |
| 930 | * EmotionBomb: Casts a super-powerful Soothing cloud wherever he goes, essentially projecting hopelessness and despair by deadening all other emotions. |
| 931 | * EvilOverlord: Tyrannical ruler of an empire that covers the known world. |
| 932 | * FallenHero: Zig-zagged. He's initially presented as being the Hero of Ages, who became corrupted and conquered humanity rather than saving it. [[spoiler: Then we find out he's Rashek, the Hero's packman, who betrayed and murdered him and took his place. ''Then'' we find out that said murder was a case of ShootTheDog to prevent Alendi from releasing Ruin, and Rashek actually was trying to protect the world, even as he gradually became corrupt and insane during his reign. So he ''was'' a FallenHero after all]]. |
| 933 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler:He went from a packman to a legendary tyrant]]. |
| 934 | * GodEmperor: Spiritual and temporal ruler of the Final Empire, revered by his followers as the "Sliver of Infinity", a piece of God in human form. The skaa think he's evil and with good reason. The truth's a bit more complicated. [[spoiler:He really does mean well and his harshness is arguably necessary, but Ruin's been attacking his mind for the last thousand years and it's getting to him]]. |
| 935 | * HealingFactor: He has unlimited regeneration powers thanks to [[spoiler:the Feruchemical applications of gold Compounded with Allomancy]]. |
| 936 | * HowDoIShotWeb: [[spoiler:When using the power at the Well of Ascension, he first sent Scadrial closer to its sun in order to burn away the mists he believed to be killing more than helping, but it caused serious overheating of the planet, leading to him creating [[DarkIsEvil the ashclouds]] to protect the planet's people, and making other changes to make sure the planet could survive with said ash. It ended up sucking for Scadrial, because his screw-up is what made it what it is today.]] |
| 937 | * ImmortalityInducer: [[spoiler:His bracers are Atiumminds, which have been keeping him alive all this time.]] |
| 938 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Combined with a bare-handed slap to kill [[spoiler:Kelsier]]. In the climax of ''Mistborn: The Final Empire'', [[spoiler:Vin kills him by ramming Sazed's spear into his chest]]. |
| 939 | * ImplacableMan: With a HealingFactor as good as his, he can keep coming with even being impaled little more than a minor nuisance. |
| 940 | * JerkassHasAPoint: Much of the Final Empire, although for large values of "Jerk" and a point he's not planning to explain to you. Among the more notable: a vicious standing decree that any noble who sleeps with a Skaa woman is to put them to death. Why? So long as Allomancer births occur in the noble families he granted those powers to, the Lord Ruler knows who all of them are and how much of a threat they might be. In other words, no Vin, Kelsier or any other potential rival from low origins that might take him off guard. The "Point", however, was that much of his actions amounted to [[spoiler:[[SealedEvilInACan keep Ruin imprisoned.]]]] |
| 941 | ** Wouldn't it be an even stronger deterrent to execute the Noblemen who sleep with Skaa women as well? You'd think so, unless you knew that [[spoiler: creating Inquisitors requires the murder of multiple Allomancers. It's a lot less hassle to sacrifice illegal bastard Allomancers than noble children.]] |
| 942 | * LastVillainStand: Has a dramatic final duel with Vin and Marsh that basically consists of thrashing them with minimal effort [[spoiler:until Vin figures out his AchillesHeel]]. |
| 943 | * LivingLieDetector: Thanks to his being a despair EmotionBomb, mustering the willpower to lie to his face is nearly impossible. Even if you ''do'', his combination of SuperSenses and a thousand years of practice at reading people means he'll almost always know. |
| 944 | * LogicalWeakness: His immortality and god-like power stem from [[spoiler:his combination of Allomancy and Ferruchemy to multiply and store essentially infinite power on his person]]. Remove those tools, and he's just a guy. |
| 945 | * MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: [[spoiler: "In killing me, you have doomed yourselves..."]] |
| 946 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:His delving into Hemalurgy opened himself up to Ruin's manipulation, and created numerous potential agents for the god of entropy to exploit. The excessive brutality of the Final Empire also was counterproductive, albeit that was caused by Ruin's influence.]] |
| 947 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: He thinks nothing of Pushing all the metals in Vin's body... and in the process Pushes out [[spoiler:the earring that keeps her from using Preservation's power in the mist]]. |
| 948 | * NoImmortalInertia: [[spoiler:After Vin removes his Atiumminds, he rapidly ages until he is as old as he should be. It makes sense considering the magic system; the Atiumminds literally contained his youth and vitality]]. |
| 949 | * OneManArmy: Claims to have defeated entire armies by himself, and makes casual comments that he will crush the rebellion ''personally'' if they become too irritating. [[spoiler: Vin, who by this point has become a good judge of Allomantic power, sees no reason to doubt him]]. |
| 950 | * PhotographicMemory: In an early chapter of ''Mistborn: The Final Empire'', he is said to have one. [[spoiler:He actually just uses his copperminds to hold memories until he needs them]]. |
| 951 | * PhysicalGod: By [[spoiler:combining Allomancy, Feruchemy, and Hemalurgy]], he gained this status. Details given in ''Literature/WaxAndWayne'' make it clear that if he had been using his full power, no one would have ever lasted more than five seconds against him. If he had all 16 Allomantic metals, he could, among other things, [[SuperSpeed speed his body infinitely, speed his mind infinitely]], [[SuperStrength draw upon infinite reserves of strength]], [[HealingFactor draw upon infinite healing]], [[TheAgeless never age]], [[WindsOfDestinyChange draw upon infinite luck]], [[TheNeedless never need to sleep, and never need to eat, drink, or breathe]]. [[labelnote:*]]Fortunately, he doesn't have access to the metals which allow him to compound Fortune, oxygen, and calories[[/labelnote]] And on top of all that, WordOfGod is that he had been using his Allomancy for so long that he was either nearly or actually a savant with ''every'' metal. The only reason he didn't do most of those things is because he had been unchallenged for so long that he didn't see the need. |
| 952 | * PleaOfPersonalNecessity: "You don't know what I do for mankind." [[spoiler:It turns out that he's telling the truth.]] |
| 953 | * PoorCommunicationKills: Justified. He couldn't tell Vin about [[GreaterScopeVillain what was going on]] because [[spoiler:Ruin would hear him]]. |
| 954 | * RapidAging: [[spoiler:After Vin pulls his Bracers off, his body quickly ages as it tries to make him as old as he should be]]. |
| 955 | * RavenHairIvorySkin: Described as dark-haired and pale. |
| 956 | * ShadowArchetype: To Kelsier[[note]]another charismatic leader who means well but is willing to take less-than-upstanding actions in pursuit of his goals[[/note]] and Sazed[[note]]TLR is a Terrisman Feruchemist who pretends to be the Hero of Ages. Sazed is ''also'' a Terrisman Feruchemist, but is the real deal[[/note]]. |
| 957 | * ShroudedInMyth: A large part of the series deals with finding out what kind of man the Lord Ruler really was, and where the man ends and the myth begins. |
| 958 | ** Crucial to the plot of the first book, no one living has any real idea of what the Lord Ruler can truly do, other than be immortal and a powerful Allomancer. [[spoiler: He's actually far more powerful than even Kelsier believes, much to Vin's horror. He doesn't ''need'' his various armies to crush rebellions, which makes Kelsier's brilliant gambit functionally mass suicide.]] |
| 959 | * StoryBreakerPower: He's a [[spoiler:Preservation-made]] Mistborn, so he has complete and undiluted Allomantic power. [[spoiler:He's also a Feruchemist, and he knows how to use Allomancy and Feruchemistry together to create an infinite loop of Feruchemical power. This grants him immortality, regeneration, and numerous abilities that he can use in a pinch. If that wasn't enough, he has Hemalurgy as well, making him a master of all the magic systems on Scadrial. He may not be a real god, but that doesn't mean he's not just about the most lethal magic-user possible in the setting]]. |
| 960 | * SympatheticMurderer: He killed [[spoiler:Alendi]], but he had to do it [[spoiler:to protect the world from Ruin.]] |
| 961 | * VillainsDyingGrace: [[spoiler: Minor example. He could have spent his last breath cursing Vin for defeating him, but instead he uses it to (try to) warn her about Ruin and give her a sliver of a chance, because whatever else he was, he didn't want the world to end if he could do anything about it]]. |
| 962 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Rashek ''will'' protect humanity from Ruin, no matter how many people he himself kills in the process]]. |
| 963 | * WhoWantsToLiveForever: Before she kills him, Vin senses nothing from him but overwhelming fatigue and sorrow. |
| 964 | * WillNotTellALie: It's generally believed in the Final Empire that the Lord Ruler never lies. After all, he's the all-powerful god-king, so why would he even ''need'' to? [[spoiler:The only exception seems to be the obfuscation neccessary to convince the world that he's the righful Hero of Ages, and even then he kept the document that would allow a clever reader to discern the truth around under guard rather than destroying it outright]]. |
| 965 | * WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Unusually, both inverted and played straight. [[spoiler:WordOfGod is that Rashek actually grew as a person as a result of acquiring and being forced to responsibly use godlike power; pity that the Hemalurgy he used brought him into telepathic contact with Ruin, who]] wormed his way inside his head and drove him to increasingly brutal, irrational, and tyrannical actions in the name of the greater good. |
| 966 | * WorldsStrongestMan: Easily takes the cake for the series. Physically, politically, Allomantically, [[spoiler: Feruchemically]]... if there's a form of raw power in this series, he beats any other human for it. |
| 967 | * YoungAndInCharge: Physically, not mentally. Though he's a thousand-year-old tyrant, thanks to his [[spoiler: atium compounding]], he maintains the appearance and physique of a man in his twenties. |
| 968 | [[/folder]] |
| 969 | |
| 970 | [[folder:Tevidian]] |
| 971 | !!Lord Prelan Tevidian Tekiel |
| 972 | ->"What does a skaa girl have to do with the government of the Ministry?" |
| 973 | |
| 974 | The leader of the Obligators, and a dutiful member of the Final Empire. He usually sticks to the laws, except for the one time when he inadvertently fathered a child. He is Vin's father. |
| 975 | ---- |
| 976 | * ArchnemesisDad: To Vin, his daughter, but only from her perspective. He doesn't even learn he ''has'' a daughter until [[spoiler:the Inquisitors reveal her as their trump card]]. |
| 977 | * AlliterativeName: Tevidian Tekiel certainly is one. |
| 978 | * AristocratsAreEvil: He had to give up his noble status to become an obligator. Not that it made him less evil. |
| 979 | * AssholeVictim: An evil man killed off brutally by the even more evil Inquisitors. |
| 980 | * BaldOfEvil: Shaved his head, like all obligators, and was certainly evil by all accounts of him. |
| 981 | * CurbStompBattle: He gets attacked by [[spoiler:six Steel Inquisitors]]. You can tell how it turns out. |
| 982 | * TheDragon: To the Lord Ruler, [[spoiler:until he is deposed]]. |
| 983 | * TheLeader: He leads the obligators. |
| 984 | * MinorMajorCharacter: He has very little screen time, but holds a very high position. |
| 985 | * NonActionGuy: As a member of the government, he doesn't care much for fighting. |
| 986 | * OhCrap: When Vin tells the Lord Ruler that he is her father. |
| 987 | * SinisterMinister: Goes with the territory of being head of the CorruptChurch. |
| 988 | * SmugSnake: He thought he was untouchable. Not quite... |
| 989 | * VillainousBreakdown: When Kar is trying to [[spoiler:have him executed for having a skaa daughter]]. |
| 990 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: After lingering in the background for most of ''Mistborn: The Final Empire'', he finally comes into the spotlight after Vin's capture. [[spoiler:Kar's plan for his execution immediately comes to fruition]]. |
| 991 | |
| 992 | [[/folder]] |
| 993 | |
| 994 | [[folder:Kar]] |
| 995 | !!Kar |
| 996 | ->"By allowing common men to rule your Ministry, you have unwittingly allowed corruption and vice to enter the very heart of your holy place." |
| 997 | |
| 998 | The leader of the Steel Inquisitors. For many years, he has been plotting to gain control of the Steel Ministry. |
| 999 | ---- |
| 1000 | * AchillesHeel: He dies when his spikes are removed by [[spoiler:Marsh]]. |
| 1001 | * BaldOfEvil: Like obligators, Inquisitors shave their heads- but they're even ''more'' brutal. |
| 1002 | * BloodMagic: [[spoiler:Hemalurgy, the magic art used to make him into a Steel Inquisitor]]. |
| 1003 | * ChekhovsGunman: Introduced as a nameless Inquisitor during Vin and Kelsier's raid on Kredik Shaw. Becomes much more important in the conclusion of ''Mistborn: The Final Empire''. |
| 1004 | * TheChessmaster: Spent years manipulating the Lord Ruler into granting the Canton of Inquisition power over the Steel Ministry. [[spoiler:It backfires horribly for everyone involved]]. |
| 1005 | * DragonWithAnAgenda: It's implied he has no real loyalty to the Lord Ruler, and privately calls him a fool for proclaiming himself infallible. Presumably [[spoiler: his true master was Ruin, though he died before his allegiance was revealed.]] |
| 1006 | * EyeScream: To become a Steel Inquisitor, he had to have spikes stuck into his eyes. |
| 1007 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: Has some scars after being shot full of arrows. |
| 1008 | * HealingFactor: He gets shot full of arrows, but is able to heal from them. |
| 1009 | * {{Immortality}}: He has been alive for two hundred years. As [[spoiler:Marsh]] proves, immortality and invincibility are not the same thing. |
| 1010 | * ImplacableMan: As an Inquisitor, he can keep coming even after taking a ridiculous amount of punishment. |
| 1011 | * TheRival: He has a serious political rivalry with Tevidian. In the climax of ''Mistborn: The Final Empire'', [[spoiler:he ends up the winner when Tevidian is executed]]. |
| 1012 | * SlasherSmile: Has one when he leads Vin to the Lord Ruler as part of his plan to take control of the Steel Ministry. |
| 1013 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: His plotting with Bendal and the other Steel Inquisitors caused a great deal of the bad events in Vin's life. They even have a background subplot in ''Mistborn: The Final Empire'', in which the Canton of Inquisition gains power over the Steel Ministry, paving the way for [[spoiler:Marsh's rise]]. |
| 1014 | * SmugSnake: On the high end of this. The man was certainly extremely clever, but he [[spoiler: never imagined he'd be betrayed by one of his own order]]. |
| 1015 | * SpikesOfVillainy: They serve a purpose, that being [[spoiler:giving him the power of Hemalurgy]]. |
| 1016 | * WasOnceAMan: Started out as a human before being turned into an Inquisitor. |
| 1017 | |
| 1018 | [[/folder]] |
| 1019 | |
| 1020 | [[folder:Bendal]] |
| 1021 | !!Bendal |
| 1022 | |
| 1023 | One of the Steel Inquisitors. He was sent by High Prelan Arriev to kill Camon's crew, but Kelsier led him off their trail. |
| 1024 | ---- |
| 1025 | * AxCrazy: All Inquisitors are bloodthirsty, but Bendal relishes it particularly. |
| 1026 | * ChekhovsGunman: He seems to drop out of the plot after he foils Kelsiers first infiltration of Kredik Shaw, but then he [[spoiler:kidnaps Spook, [=OreSeur=], and a bunch of Skaa]]. |
| 1027 | * DefeatingTheUndefeatable: Everyone thought that being a Steel Inquisitor made him unstoppable. [[spoiler:Kelsier proves them wrong]]. |
| 1028 | * TheDreaded: ''All'' Inquisitors are TheDreaded, but Bendal shadows Kelsier's crew [[spoiler: and Vin]] specifically for most of the first book. |
| 1029 | * EvilIsPetty: Casually beheads a few skaa in the skirmish at the city square late in ''The Final Empire'', just to provoke Kelsier into attacking directly as opposed to leading him away. |
| 1030 | * EyeScream: Has two spikes shoved through his eyes. |
| 1031 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Kelsier chops his head off with his own ax]]. |
| 1032 | * ImplacableMan: But he's still vulnerable to [[spoiler:decapitation]], as Kelsier proves. |
| 1033 | * OffWithHisHead: How Kelsier kills him. |
| 1034 | * TheRival: He has a rivalry with Kelsier, and they battle several times throughout the first book. |
| 1035 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: His plotting with Kar and the other Steel Inquisitors caused a great deal of the bad events in Vin's life. |
| 1036 | * SpikesOfVillainy: Has many, as a result of being an Inquisitor. The two most obvious are the ones [[EyeScream straight through his eyes]]. |
| 1037 | * VillainRespect: Gives Kelsier a respectful nod mid-duel after Kelsier proves more than capable of holding his own against him. |
| 1038 | * WasOnceAMan: Started out human before being turned into an Inquisitor. |
| 1039 | |
| 1040 | [[/folder]] |
| 1041 | |
| 1042 | [[folder:Yomen]] |
| 1043 | !!Lord Aradan Yomen |
| 1044 | |
| 1045 | An Obligator from Urteau who was Lord Ashweather Cett's political rival. When Cett left Fadrex to besiege Luthadel, he takes over. |
| 1046 | ---- |
| 1047 | * AntiVillain: He genuinely wants to rule well and protect his people. Unfortunately, he also wants the heroes (and Vin especially) dead for overthrowing the Lord Ruler. |
| 1048 | * AwesomeButImpractical: How he views his abilities as a [[spoiler:Seer]]. [[spoiler:Atium might be easily the strongest of all metals, but he's rarely in a position where he needs to use it. And it's not like he can just pop it ahead of time due to [[TooAwesomeToUse how rare and valuable]] it is]]. |
| 1049 | * BadassBookworm: Can match Elend word for word in philosophical debate ''and'' defend himself capably from assassination. |
| 1050 | * TheChessmaster: Barring the Lord Ruler and Ruin themselves, he's probably the smartest "bad guy" in the series. |
| 1051 | * CombatClairvoyance: [[spoiler:He is an atium Misting]]. |
| 1052 | * ExactWords: He never actually ''said'' he [[spoiler:had the atium]], he just let Vin assume that he did. |
| 1053 | * GreyAndGreyMorality: He and Elend both make good points, and considering the circumstances are both pretty justified in their actions- Yomen just has incomplete information. |
| 1054 | * HesJustHiding: [[invoked]]His opinion regarding [[spoiler:the Lord Ruler]]. Since obviously [[spoiler:a god can't be killed, he must have ''let'' the skaa overthrow him]] as part of some {{plan}}. Yomen spends a lot of ''Hero of Ages'' trying to figure out just what that plan is. |
| 1055 | * HeelFaceTurn: Ends up deciding that the Lord Ruler would rather he help Vin and Elend [[spoiler: stop Ruin]] instead of work against them. |
| 1056 | * ShadowArchetype: He's basically Elend, if Elend had been an Obligator. |
| 1057 | * WorthyOpponent: Again, he's Elend's intellectual equal, and the two of them actually enjoy their philosophical sparring, though their larger conflict is very serious. |
| 1058 | |
| 1059 | [[/folder]] |
| 1060 | |
| 1061 | [[folder:Laird]] |
| 1062 | !!Prelan Laird |
| 1063 | |
| 1064 | An Obligator who met with Camon to discuss a transport deal. In reality, the transport deal was a scheme made by Camon and Theodar. |
| 1065 | ---- |
| 1066 | * NoSell: He is able to shrug off Vin's emotional Allomancy thanks to his training. |
| 1067 | * SinisterMinister: Subverted. Unlike the other Obligators, he seems quite pleasant. |
| 1068 | |
| 1069 | [[/folder]] |
| 1070 | |
| 1071 | [[folder:Arriev]] |
| 1072 | !!High Prelan Arriev |
| 1073 | |
| 1074 | An Obligator who met with Camon to discuss a "transport deal" (in reality a scam by Camon). He was actually meeting with Camon to investigate Laird's report of emotional Allomancy. He sends Bendal to kill Camon and his crew. |
| 1075 | ---- |
| 1076 | * SinisterMinister: He's a high ranking member of the CorruptChurch, and is perfectly willing to send an Inquisitor after people who annoy him. |
| 1077 | |
| 1078 | [[/folder]] |
| 1079 | |
| 1080 | [[folder:Kurdon]] |
| 1081 | !!Kurdon |
| 1082 | |
| 1083 | A taskmaster working for Lord Tresting. His role on the plantation is to make sure the Skaa are doing their duties well. He beats them if they don't meet his expectations. Kelsier blows him up at the end of the prologue of ''Mistborn: The Final Empire''. |
| 1084 | ---- |
| 1085 | * AssholeVictim: Another killed by Kelsier who really had it coming. |
| 1086 | * TheDragon: To Lord Tresting. |
| 1087 | |
| 1088 | [[/folder]] |
| 1089 | |
| 1090 | [[folder:Hazekillers]] |
| 1091 | !!The Hazekillers |
| 1092 | |
| 1093 | Soldiers of The Lord Ruler or the Great Houses who are equipped and trained to counter Allomancy. |
| 1094 | ---- |
| 1095 | * BadassNormal: Their enemies have SuperStrength, telekinetic coin-bullets, and more. They have wooden sticks, shields, and teamwork. |
| 1096 | * CapeBusters: Specifically trained to fight allomancers. |
| 1097 | * EliteMooks: [[InformedAttribute What they're presented to the reader as. Though every time we see them in battle it's against our main characters,]] [[PlotArmor thus the Hazekillers get their asses kicked.]] |
| 1098 | * OwershadowedByAwesome: They're recruited among the best fighters of the Empire. The narration and supplementary materials highlight they're a force to be reckoned with, as no Allomancer - save maybe for a Mistborn burning Atium or an Inquisitor - can easily emerge unscathed from a fight with a team of Hazekillers. Unfortunately for them, the Hazekillers we actually see in action are always extras pitted against main characters. |
| 1099 | |
| 1100 | [[/folder]] |
| 1101 | |
| 1102 | !!Other Modern Day Characters |
| 1103 | |
| 1104 | [[folder:Mare]] |
| 1105 | !!Mare |
| 1106 | |
| 1107 | Kelsier's wife, who died in the Pits of Hathsin. Together they were part of a thieving crew, which was one of the most successful crews in the Final Empire. However, during a daring heist on Kredik Shaw, Mare betrayed Kelsier to the Steel Inquisitors. The Lord Ruler thanked her, then sent her to the Pits of Hathsin anyway. She died giving Kelsier an atium geode, claiming that she had already found one. |
| 1108 | ---- |
| 1109 | * ActionGirl: As accomplished a thief as her husband. |
| 1110 | * BattleCouple: With Kelsier until her untimely death. |
| 1111 | * HappilyMarried: With Kelsier, but then she died. |
| 1112 | * HeroicSacrifice: Gave Kelsier an atium geode so that he could survive, even though she knew that she would be beaten to death. |
| 1113 | * LoveTriangle: Involved in one with Kelsier and Marsh. |
| 1114 | * TheMole: Although she claimed that she didn't betray Kelsier, nobody else could have. It turns out that she really didn't betray Kelsier, but her use of tin gave away the crew to the Steel Inquisitors, who can pierce Copperclouds. |
| 1115 | * PosthumousCharacter: She's been dead for several years, but her influence is felt throughout Kelsier's plotline. |
| 1116 | * SuperSenses: She is a Tineye, so she can enhance her senses by burning tin. |
| 1117 | * TogetherInDeath: With Kelsier. [[spoiler: If Kelsier had actually chosen to ''stay'' dead, that is.]] |
| 1118 | |
| 1119 | [[/folder]] |
| 1120 | |
| 1121 | [[folder:Tindwyl]] |
| 1122 | !!Tindwyl |
| 1123 | |
| 1124 | A Terriswoman who arrives in Luthadel during ''The Well of Ascension''. She believes in things being "proper". |
| 1125 | ---- |
| 1126 | * BreedingSlave: Was used as one in the past as part of the program to keep Terris stewards available for the nobility. Specifically, she was placed in the program ''by her own people'' to keep Feruchemical blood in the Terris population (when the whole point of the breeding programs, as The Lord Ruler established them, is to breed Feruchemy ''out'' of the Terris people). |
| 1127 | * CoolOldLady: Intelligent, determined, and perhaps most impressively still alive and thriving after just about the crappiest backstory of anyone in the series (and in [[CrapsackWorld the Final Empire]], that's saying something). |
| 1128 | * CynicalMentor: To Elend. |
| 1129 | * DeadpanSnarker: She can even give Vin a run for her money in this regard. |
| 1130 | * {{Determinator}}: Even Vin is shocked she managed to survive her life working for the breeders. |
| 1131 | * DrillSergeantNasty: Elend finds out the hard way. It's explicitly stated she's like this to him because as an idealistic nobleman's son, she feels he needs to be hit over the head with reality before he can become a good leader. She's much nicer to Vin, based on the fact that Vin's been the target of physical and emotional abuse for good chunks of her life and what ''she'' needs is confidence and self-worth. |
| 1132 | * GoodIsNotNice: She can be pretty harsh, but it's mostly to force Elend to sit up and take notice of what she's saying. |
| 1133 | * MentorOccupationalHazard: [[spoiler: Killed in the Battle of Luthadel]]. |
| 1134 | * SternTeacher: She's serious and no-nonsense, but she knows exactly what she's doing when it comes to training Elend. |
| 1135 | |
| 1136 | [[/folder]] |
| 1137 | |
| 1138 | [[folder:Zane]] |
| 1139 | !!Zane Venture/The Watcher |
| 1140 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zane_8.jpg]] |
| 1141 | -> "You were supposed to save me!" |
| 1142 | |
| 1143 | A mysterious Mistborn in ''The Well of Ascension''. He haunts the nights, having Allomantic duels with Vin. He's House Venture's hidden assassin. |
| 1144 | ---- |
| 1145 | * AxCrazy: But not quite for the reasons he thinks. He thinks he is crazy because he hears voices in his head--until the voice in his head tells him he isn't crazy, because the voice in his head is very, very real. On the other hand, he's still an emotionally unstable, sociopathic StalkerWithACrush, so he still qualifies. |
| 1146 | * AntiVillain |
| 1147 | * BastardBastard: Is Straff's illegitimate son. |
| 1148 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Straff puts up with Zane's constant attempts to kill him and his madness because otherwise he won't have a Mistborn. [[spoiler:Turns out Zane hardly ever actually tried to kill him; not only were his few attempts half-hearted, what Straff thought was poison were actually withdrawl symptoms, the result of Straff being an ignorant drug addict. Ignorant in that the drug was the "antidote" his WomanScorned servant had been giving him over the years to cure what he thought were Zane's poisoning attempts, which were usually either somebody ''else's'' poisoning attempts, or all in Straff's head to begin with]]. |
| 1149 | * CainAndAbel: He's Cain, [[spoiler:Elend is Abel]]. |
| 1150 | * TheCorrupter: Tries to convince Vin to abandon Elend because Mistborn like them don't need to serve others; they should stand apart from them, and be above them. |
| 1151 | * CrazyPrepared: Keeps a private atium stash and always sleeps with at least some metals already swallowed, among other things. |
| 1152 | * DatingCatwoman: He ''thinks'' this is relationship with Vin. Except, Vin doesn't and never really loved him at all. [[spoiler: He doesn't take rejection well]]. |
| 1153 | * DiesWideOpen: When he is killed. |
| 1154 | * TheDragon: To Straff. |
| 1155 | ** DragonWithAnAgenda: It's pretty clear he feels little real loyalty to Straff; he's mostly in it to try and convince Vin over to his way of thinking. |
| 1156 | ** CoDragons: With Janarle. |
| 1157 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: He doesn't kill his father because "a man shouldn't kill his own father", even though Straff has been a horrible parent and had just tried to kill ''him''. |
| 1158 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Tells Vin that he loves her. Also, he admits to himself that he loves his father despite everything. |
| 1159 | * ForcefulKiss: Does one to Vin[[spoiler: whilst his knife in her chest.]] |
| 1160 | * HearingVoices: ''Kill him''. "Him" being everyone he meets. Except Vin, which is why he thinks [[StalkerWithACrush she is the only one who can save him]]. But it's really because the voice in his head is real, and has plans for her. |
| 1161 | * IfICantHaveYou: [[spoiler: Towards Vin in the end.]] |
| 1162 | * ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: He's subordinate to Straff, but also a much more personal foil and enemy for Vin than Straff is. |
| 1163 | * KickTheDog: A near literal example is when he kicks [=OreSeur=] [[spoiler: (or rather, [=TenSoon=])]] who is in the form of a dog. |
| 1164 | * ManipulativeBastard: Much, much more subtle about it than Straff is, though that isn't really difficult since Straff has all the subtly of a sledgehammer in nearly everything he does. |
| 1165 | * MightMakesRight: Believes that Mistborn are just plain better than everyone else, though he doesn't really desire to lord over others even if he thinks they should treat him like a god. |
| 1166 | * TheResenter: Towards Elend. For having everything he feels he should have had. Especially Vin. |
| 1167 | * SanityHasAdvantages: He certainly thinks so, and feels he has to compensate for his self-admitted insanity. |
| 1168 | * ShadowArchetype: To Vin. |
| 1169 | * TheSociopath: He's not quite as bad as Straff- he's more emotionally dead than sadistic, generally- but it's pretty clear that everything- even his relationship with Vin- ultimately comes down to what ''he'' wants, not how it affects anyone else. |
| 1170 | * SpikesOfVillainy: ''The Well of Ascension'' mentions his spike several times. [[spoiler:It's a Hemalurgic spike connecting him to Ruin]]. |
| 1171 | * StalkerWithACrush: To Vin, due to the voices in his head not telling him to kill her. |
| 1172 | * TheStarscream: Subverted. He continually pretends to try and kill Straff, because that's what Straff expects, but he has no real desire to do it--he muses to himself that if he did, Straff would already be ''dead''. |
| 1173 | * UnwittingPawn: The voice in his head isn't just in his head. |
| 1174 | * VillainousBreakdown: When he realizes Vin neither loves him nor is going to save him, he has a total psychotic breakdown. |
| 1175 | * WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: He's an extremely talented mistborn, and more than a little unstable. [[spoiler: Both can be at least partially put down his having a Hemalurgic spike]]. |
| 1176 | %%* WorthyOpponent: To Vin. |
| 1177 | * {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler: Turns out to be one towards Vin. Manipulating a series of rather dangerous events to drive a wedge between her and Elend, then going full on AxCrazy when she still chooses Elend.]] |
| 1178 | |
| 1179 | [[/folder]] |
| 1180 | |
| 1181 | [[folder:[=TenSoon=]]] |
| 1182 | !![=TenSoon=] |
| 1183 | |
| 1184 | A kandra employed by the Venture family. |
| 1185 | ---- |
| 1186 | * ApologeticAttacker: [[spoiler:He apologizes to Vin when he reveals his true allegiances to Zane]]. |
| 1187 | * BlobMonster: In his true form. |
| 1188 | * BriarPatching: [[spoiler: During his imprisonment for his crimes against the Contract and kandra-kind, he is given a dog body after he complained loudly of how degrading it was. He neglected to mention how [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere fast]] it was, but was perfectly happy to demonstrate during his trial.]] |
| 1189 | * CanineCompanion: [[spoiler:Forced to be one for Vin when impersonating [=OreSeur=]]]. |
| 1190 | * ChekhovsGunman: You know the unnamed kandra mentioned in one scene of the first book? Thought he was a really minor character? Nope, he starts driving a major subplot in ''The Well of Ascension''. |
| 1191 | * CommonalityConnection: When Vin tells him of her experiences as a member of a thieving crew, he realizes the experience isn't that different from having to follow the Kandra Contract, both being beaten, used and feared by their superiors. Leads to an OddFriendship of sorts. |
| 1192 | * DeadPersonImpersonation: His race's ability to assume the form of living creatures after absorbing their bones makes him very good at this, and his [[spoiler:dead kandra impersonation]] isn't too shabby either. |
| 1193 | * DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:His Hemalurgic spikes allow Ruin to control his mind.]] |
| 1194 | * FaceStealer: As with all kandra, once he's eaten someone he can assume their form. |
| 1195 | * FantasticRacism: He feels this as a result of the way humans treat him. Vin helps him change. |
| 1196 | * HeelFaceTurn: He comes to like and respect Vin after spending time with her. [[spoiler:This leads to him going over to her side during her final battle with Zane]]. |
| 1197 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Pulls his spikes out to stop Ruin from controlling him]]. |
| 1198 | * LikeADuckTakesToWater: He's mentioned to be ''the'' best Kandra at shapeshifting, but never really got beyond average at impersonation. Being given the wolfhound body, with its impressive physical abilities and no personality to imitate, really caused him to blossom. |
| 1199 | %%* TheMentor: To [=MeLaan=]. |
| 1200 | * TheMole: In ''The Well of Ascension'', he kills and impersonates someone in Luthadel. |
| 1201 | * OddFriendship: With Vin after he warms up to her. |
| 1202 | * TheParagonAlwaysRebels: He's considered the most obedient and the biggest fundamentalist of his generation, so the seconds use his status as a contract-beaker to shame all of his generation. |
| 1203 | * {{Squick}}: [[invoked]] His need to eat someone before he can imitate them ''really'' bothers Vin. |
| 1204 | * SuicidePact: All of the kandra are bound by oath to kill themselves if the Lord Ruler were to demand it. [[spoiler: This is eventually shown to be another anti-Ruin measure when he and most of the other kandra follow through with it in ''The Hero of Ages.'' Sazed subsequently restores him and the other kandra after his Ascension.]] |
| 1205 | * TalkingAnimal: [[spoiler:When using a wolfhound body]]. |
| 1206 | * TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: [[spoiler:Turns on Zane so that he can save Vin]]. |
| 1207 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: He can turn himself into just about anything, but needs to eat someone in order to perfectly memorize their features and get a rigid skeleton to use as base. |
| 1208 | ** He's noted on a couple of occasions to be quite possibly ''the'' best kandra at the biological side of impersonation. Notably, when he's given a set of random human bones for his trial, the body he makes is realistic enough that the kandra sent to escort him assumes that he had worn those bones before and knew what the body they came from was supposed to look like. |
| 1209 | |
| 1210 | [[/folder]] |
| 1211 | |
| 1212 | [[folder:[=KanPaar=]]] |
| 1213 | !![=KanPaar=] |
| 1214 | |
| 1215 | The leader of the second generation of Kandra. |
| 1216 | ---- |
| 1217 | * AssholeVictim: He's an antagonist in his own right for most of the third book [[spoiler: and then Ruin takes him over]]. |
| 1218 | %%* DeadPersonImpersonation: It's his job, as a kandra. |
| 1219 | * DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Ruin takes control of him because of his Hemalurgic spike]]. |
| 1220 | * DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:Steals some Atium and flees the Kandra homeland when Ruin's army attacks]]. |
| 1221 | %%* FaceStealer: Like all kandra. |
| 1222 | * ItsAllAboutMe: He has very particular ideas about how kandra society should work, and really cares nothing for how anyone else might object. |
| 1223 | * {{Jerkass}}: He's just plain pompous and unpleasant. |
| 1224 | * TheLeader: Of the second generation of Kandra. |
| 1225 | * ObstructiveBureaucrat: Kandra tradition is far more important to him than doing the right thing, or even a little thing like ''the end of the world''. |
| 1226 | * SmugSnake: Incredibly arrogant and set in his ways. |
| 1227 | * SpikesOfVillainy: Like all kandra, has two Hemalurgic spikes, though he's the only kandra who's really villainous. |
| 1228 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: It comes with being a Kandra. |
| 1229 | |
| 1230 | [[/folder]] |
| 1231 | |
| 1232 | [[folder:[=MeLaan=]]] |
| 1233 | !![=MeLaan=] |
| 1234 | |
| 1235 | A Kandra of the sixth generation. She was trained by [=TenSoon=]. She later becomes a major character in [[Literature/WaxAndWayne Era 2]]. |
| 1236 | ---- |
| 1237 | %%* TheApprentice: To [=TenSoon=]. |
| 1238 | %%* FaceStealer: Being a kandra. |
| 1239 | %%* ShipTease: With [=TenSoon=]. |
| 1240 | * SuicidePact: Like all kandra, she's bound to kill herself if the Lord Ruler were to demand it. |
| 1241 | * WideEyedIdealist: She's young by kandra standards, somewhat naive, but very idealistic. |
| 1242 | |
| 1243 | [[/folder]] |
| 1244 | |
| 1245 | [[folder:Haddek]] |
| 1246 | !!Haddek |
| 1247 | |
| 1248 | The leader of the First Generation of Kandra. He was one of the Terris packmen Alendi took with him to the Well of Ascension. Rashek turned him and the other packmen into Kandra to make them immortal and to remove potential rivals. |
| 1249 | ---- |
| 1250 | * CoolOldGuy: The oldest of the kandra, and also one of the wisest and most reasonable. |
| 1251 | * TheLeader: Of the First Generation of Kandra. |
| 1252 | * MrExposition: His role is to give Sazed information about the kandra and the Terrispeople. |
| 1253 | * SuicidePact: Like all kandra, though he would have been one of the first to agree to it. |
| 1254 | * WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler: Started out human, was changed into a kandra by Rashek to spare his life]]. |
| 1255 | |
| 1256 | [[/folder]] |
| 1257 | |
| 1258 | !!Pre-Ascension Characters |
| 1259 | |
| 1260 | [[folder:Alendi]] |
| 1261 | !!Alendi |
| 1262 | ->"Sometimes I worry that I'm not the hero everyone thinks I am." |
| 1263 | |
| 1264 | The so-called "Hero of Ages", declared as such by Kwaan. He started off as an idealistic youth, but became cynical during his quest to defeat The Deepness. Although the prophecies said that he needed to give up the power at the Well of Ascension, he used it for himself instead, becoming the Lord Ruler. [[spoiler:He didn't. Rashek killed him before he could reach the Well and give up the power, which would have released Ruin and started the end of the world.]] |
| 1265 | |
| 1266 | ---- |
| 1267 | * AngstDissonance: In-universe. Vin thinks he's far too angsty to have become an EvilOverlord. [[spoiler:She's right. He was killed by his packman Rashek]]. |
| 1268 | * TheChainsOfCommanding: Experiences them as he takes over the world. |
| 1269 | * TheChosenOne: The prophesied Hero of Ages, destined to find the Well of Ascension and defeat The Deepness. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that he was killed by Rashek before he did what he was chosen to do. Then [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] when it was revealed he was only chosen in the first place because of Ruin screwing with the prophecies]]. |
| 1270 | * ThePoorlyChosenOne: Instead of giving up the power at the Well of Ascension like he was supposed to, he took the power for himself and became the Lord Ruler. [[spoiler: At least, that's what we're led to believe.]] |
| 1271 | * {{Expy}}: Takes cues from any number of generic ChosenOne types, but specifically resembles [[Literature/TheWheelOfTime Rand al'Thor]]- which became HilariousInHindsight when Sanderson was contracted to finish ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime''. |
| 1272 | * ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne: He continually reminds us of this in his logbook. |
| 1273 | * NoNameGiven: We don't find out until ''The Well of Ascension'' that his name is Alendi. |
| 1274 | * PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler:He's actually been dead for a thousand years, and is not the Lord Ruler]]. |
| 1275 | * RagsToRoyalty: Goes from a humble FarmBoy to the ruler of much of the world. |
| 1276 | * RedHerring: As they read the epigraphs in ''Mistborn: The Final Empire'', the reader gradually comes to understand that the Lord Ruler wrote them. [[spoiler:Then it turns out that he isn't the Lord Ruler]]. |
| 1277 | * StartOfDarkness: His epigraphs detail what would lead up to his fall. [[spoiler:In reality, it details the lead-up to Rashek's]]. |
| 1278 | * UnwittingPawn: He was being manipulated by [[spoiler:Ruin, who sought to free himself from the Well of Ascension. Fortunately, Rashek killed him before he could make things worse]]. |
| 1279 | * {{Wangst}}: [[invoked]] His journal is full of it, in Vin's opinion. |
| 1280 | * WarriorPoet: A warrior and conqueror, but also a thoughtful, somewhat brooding man. |
| 1281 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: Though he apparently became quite ruthless, he always remained dedicated to helping the world and ''not'' taking up the power of the Well of Ascension for himself. [[spoiler:Which is why Ruin chose him in the first place]]. |
| 1282 | * WideEyedIdealist: In the beginning. As time progressed, he eventually became more broken. |
| 1283 | |
| 1284 | [[/folder]] |
| 1285 | |
| 1286 | [[folder:Kwaan]] |
| 1287 | !!Kwaan |
| 1288 | ->"My name is Kwaan. Philosopher, scholar, traitor. I am the one who started this all." |
| 1289 | |
| 1290 | The Terrisman prophet who originally declared Alendi to be the Hero of Ages. Author of the epigraphs in ''The Well of Ascension''. |
| 1291 | ---- |
| 1292 | * CassandraTruth: Nobody believed him when he claimed that [[spoiler:Alendi was in fact, not the Hero]]. |
| 1293 | * {{Determinator}}: Deconstructed. His burning desire to prove that [[spoiler:Alendi was the Hero of Ages allowed Ruin to manipulate the Terris prophecies for his own purposes]]. Had Kwaan not set up countermeasures, [[spoiler:Alendi would have released Ruin]]. |
| 1294 | * ItsAllMyFault: Gains this attitude when he sets the world on the fast track to destruction. It really is. |
| 1295 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His reaction when he put the pieces together and realized that [[spoiler:Ruin was manipulating the prophecies]]. |
| 1296 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: |
| 1297 | ** By declaring Alendi to be the Hero of Ages, [[spoiler:he paved the way for Ruin's release]]. |
| 1298 | ** [[spoiler:Sending his nephew Rashek to stop Alendi worked, but it led to Rashek becoming a tyrannical maniac in his attempts to prevent Ruin's rise to power]]. |
| 1299 | * PhotographicMemory: He can remember things perfectly without even needing to use a Coppermind. [[spoiler:That's ''good'', because Ruin is able to edit Copperminds]]. |
| 1300 | * PrideBeforeAFall: He was already starting to have his doubts about [[spoiler:Alendi being the Hero of Ages]] when the other Terris decided to agree with his views. He notes that it was his pride that kept him from doing the right thing. |
| 1301 | * TheManBehindTheMan: He was the one who [[spoiler:gave Rashek his mission]]. |
| 1302 | * UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:To Ruin]]. But then he wises up. |
| 1303 | |
| 1304 | [[/folder]] |
| 1305 | |
| 1306 | [[folder:Fedik]] |
| 1307 | !!Fedik |
| 1308 | |
| 1309 | One of Alendi's Terris packmen. In his logbook, Alendi mentions that Fedik noticed a lake in the mountains. |
| 1310 | ---- |
| 1311 | * ForcedTransformation: Was turned into a kandra by [[spoiler:Rashek]]. However, he wanted to become a kandra so that he could be immortal. |
| 1312 | * {{Immortality}}: As a kandra, he will never die. |
| 1313 | [[/folder]] |
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