History Fridge / WaxAndWayne

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* Marasi is the anti-Vin. Vin was a tomboyish ActionGirl who nonetheless had some traditionally girly interests, like dancing and wearing fancy dresses and perfumes; Marasi is a girly-girl who nonetheless has some traditionally masculine interests, like shooting and criminology. Vin was jaded and streetwise but had little patience for formal scholarship; Marasi is sheltered but very well-educated. Vin was a Mistborn, the most powerful form of Allomancer but is frequently forced to work around the limits of her powers; Marasi is a Pulser, considered one of the weakest forms of Allomancer but manages to be key in defeating an ImplacableMan with clever use of her abilities. [[http://brandonsanderson.com/annotation-the-alloy-of-law-chapter-four/ Confirmed by Sanderson]], partially.

* The reason why enough Terris blood ended up in the general population within a few hundred years to make Twinborn and Ferrings? The Luthandel Ska and Nobel refugees were living in close proximity to the Terris survivors during the end of ''The Hero of Ages''. Similarly any Terris people near any of the other survival caches/shelters would end up mixed in with the Nobles and Ska there. In the chaos and desperation of what they though was probably the end of the world, it would hardly be a surprise if a whole bunch of people with mixed heritage were born some months later. Even after the Harmony reforms the world, all of these people would contiune living in close proximity in the Elendel Basin, resulting in the mixing of Allomantic and Feruchemist bloodlines.
* An addendum to the above: why are no "true" Feruchemists or Mistborn (just ferrings, Mistings, and Twinborn) encountered? All of the Mistborn and Feruchemists in the world by the end of ''The Hero of Ages'' had been killed by Ruin in one manner or another, save Sazed. On top of this, almost all of the nobility in ''Hero of Ages'' had been killed, either in the chaos or by Ruin's Inquisitors to get spikes, so the Allomantic bloodlines were diluted even more. The only istborn left by the end of the original trilogy is Spook, and he wasn't actually born a Mistborn. It's a plot point that all of the kidnapped women can trace their lineage back to them. The original trilogy mentions at a couple points that Allomantic powers have declined significantly since the beginning of the Final Empire. In the beginning, any emotional Allomancer could control koloss or kandra (as Elend is able to), but by the time of the books, it could only be done with the help of duralamin. Plus it's noted that the Lord Rulers attempts to weed out Ferruchemy had largely been quite successful.

* A meta-one: most angelic names (Raphael, Gabriel, etc) end in -el, meaning 'of God'. Look at which place names in Alloy of Law end in that suffix: Vin's and Elend's. Vin, because she WAS god for a bit and she was chosen by BOTH Ruin and Preservation, in their own unique ways, and Elend, because HE was Emperor, which due to the Lord Ruler was traditionally a GodEmperor position, and because he's also the chosen of a god. ''Vin''.

** Interestingly, this is purely for the reader's benefit, as Scadriel has no moon.
* A bit of symbolism with the power choices for Wax, Wayne, and Marassi. Wax and Wayne both have powers that make them, personally, incredibly dangerous (albeit in [[OneManArmy different]] [[GuileHero ways]]). They're individualists from the roughs, and used to doing the whole lone hero routine. Marassi has a power that is hard to use alone but amazing if you work with one or more partners. She's from a city, and focused on law and community.
* In ''Well of Ascension'', Elend built his new government as a representative republic so that the people would have a voice, with a king to add a sense of stability. While he made some mistakes (most notably not granting the king any emergency powers), the concept itself was sound. Harmony took it to its logical conclusion: The people have a democratic republic, but there is a god above them providing stability. He makes a few minor adjustments here and there, but mostly doesn't interfere unless there is an existential threat to civilization. When such a threat does arise, he sends in agents to fix things.
* Steris contract with Wax can seem odd going as far as to include mistresses and specific lengths of time they can meet. We later learn her father had a child with a mistress, this isn't the first time she has had an arranged marriage and she annoyed her other finances to the point where they left her with letters sent of all her faults. She presumed Wax would get annoyed by her as well so she only left small amount of times to interact. She also presumed Wax would cheat hence the mistress section.

* The Ars Arcanum, presented as an in-universe document, notes that Hemulurgy is a GameBreaker. Hemulurgy is Ruin's magic system. Ruin essentially broke magic posthumously.

* In ''Allomancer Jak'', the WorthlessTreasureTwist is subverted when it turns out that the Hemalurgic spikes were in an expensive aluminum chest, which makes Jak rich. Aluminum can stop Hemalurgic spikes from losing their charge, which raises all sorts of questions on who knew so much about Hemalurgy to hide the Survivor's Treasure...

* Harmony [[spoiler:abandoning the South to the Ice Death]] seems unusually callous of him, but it makes sense. As he, Vin, and the Lord Ruler discover, the power of a god does not come with [[HowDoIShotWeb an instruction manual]] for how to ''safely'' use said power; Sazed restored the world to its last stable state, with small additions like the Marewill flowers and the ridiculously fertile Basin. [[spoiler:Fixing the South would either require altering the climate or moving the whole continent to a warmer latitude, which might have global consequences that he might not foresee. Besides, the same way he helped by sending Wax, he could have helped by sending Kelsier]].