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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Part of Elendel's widespread corruption is dealt with, the mob that was about to burn down the city was eventually dispersed, and the city took a step towards progress by electing a governor without a drop of noble blood. In the process Wax discovers that Lessie, the woman he loved in the Roughs, was actually a kandra bodyguard planted by Harmony who then kills herself in order to remain free of Harmony's influence. Oh, and another Shard is interfering with Scadriel]].
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Part of Elendel's widespread corruption is dealt with, the mob that was about to burn down the city was eventually dispersed, and the city took a step towards progress by electing a governor without a drop of noble blood. In the process Wax discovers that Lessie, the woman he loved in the Roughs, was actually a kandra Kandra bodyguard planted by Harmony who then kills herself in order to remain free of Harmony's influence. Oh, and another Shard is interfering with Scadriel]].
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* BodyHorror: Bleeder has learned enough hemalurgy to create a deadly, bullet-resistant hemalurgic being. One which only uses a single spike, so Harmony can't control them. They look like a cross between a werewolf and a pachycephalosaur...and they used to be human.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Bleeder can do something similar with hemalurgy. While she can't completely control someone who is spiked, they [[SanitySlippage become very emotionally unstable]]. This combined with the fact that [[HearingVoices she can whisper to them constantly]] means that she can drive and manipulate them to do what she wants.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Bleeder can do something similar with hemalurgy. While she can't completely control someone who is spiked, they [[SanitySlippage become very emotionally unstable]]. This combined with the fact that [[HearingVoices she can whisper to them constantly]] means that she can drive and manipulate them to do what she wants.
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* BodyHorror: Bleeder has learned enough hemalurgy Hemalurgy to create a deadly, bullet-resistant hemalurgic Hemalurgic being. One which only uses a single spike, so Harmony can't control them. They look like a cross between a werewolf and a pachycephalosaur...and they used to be human.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Bleeder can do something similar withhemalurgy.Hemalurgy. While she can't completely control someone who is spiked, they [[SanitySlippage become very emotionally unstable]]. This combined with the fact that [[HearingVoices she can whisper to them constantly]] means that she can drive and manipulate them to do what she wants.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Bleeder can do something similar with
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* TheCameo: Hoid appears this time as Waxillium's new coachman - on a very important ride, during which Waxillium holds a conversation with [[spoiler: Harmony]]
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* TheCameo: Hoid appears this time as Waxillium's new coachman - on a very important ride, during which Waxillium holds a conversation with [[spoiler: Harmony]]Harmony]].
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* ChekhovsHobby: Marasi learns horse-riding as a child, as a part of her dream to become a law keeper in the Roughs. It turns out very useful when she has to accompany her boss, constable-general Aradel, to the governor's mansion and no coaches are available. Aradel does mention that it's an untypical hobby for a city girl.
* CombatPragmatist: The people ambushing the team early on. Crossbows for fighting allomancers, taking hostages, distractions...
* CombatPragmatist: The people ambushing the team early on. Crossbows for fighting allomancers, taking hostages, distractions...
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* ChekhovsHobby: Marasi learns learned horse-riding as a child, as a part of her dream to become a law keeper in the Roughs. It turns out very useful when she has to accompany her boss, constable-general Aradel, to the governor's mansion and no coaches are available. Aradel does mention that it's an untypical hobby for a city girl.
* CombatPragmatist: The people ambushing the team early on. Crossbows for fightingallomancers, Allomancers, taking hostages, distractions...
* CombatPragmatist: The people ambushing the team early on. Crossbows for fighting
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* DyingAsYourself: A rare villainous example. [[spoiler: the other kandra tell Wax that they want Bleeder taken alive so that she can be cured of her madness, and he does try - but in the end, Bleeder chooses to die rather than to let Harmony back into her mind.]]
* ExtremelyShortTimeSpan: The bulk of the narrative, not counting the intro, the epilogue, and a few flashbacks, takes place over the course of less than two days. This is a plot point, as none of the main characters have a chance to get any sleep and the characters are run ragged by the end.
* ExtremelyShortTimeSpan: The bulk of the narrative, not counting the intro, the epilogue, and a few flashbacks, takes place over the course of less than two days. This is a plot point, as none of the main characters have a chance to get any sleep and the characters are run ragged by the end.
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* DyingAsYourself: A rare villainous example. [[spoiler: the other kandra Kandra tell Wax that they want Bleeder taken alive so that she can be cured of her madness, and he does try - but in the end, Bleeder chooses to die rather than to let Harmony back into her mind.]]
* ExtremelyShortTimeSpan: The bulk of the narrative, not counting the intro, the epilogue, and a few flashbacks, takes place over the course of less than two days. This is a plot point, as none of the main characters have a chance to get any sleep andthe characters they are run ragged by the end.
* ExtremelyShortTimeSpan: The bulk of the narrative, not counting the intro, the epilogue, and a few flashbacks, takes place over the course of less than two days. This is a plot point, as none of the main characters have a chance to get any sleep and
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* ImmuneToBullets: Ten Soon warns Wax that his modern weapons will be useless against the new hemalurgic constructs Bleeder has created. Subverted immediately though: it turns out they just take MoreDakka, which [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter Wax is happy to provide.]] PlayedStraight with the Kandra.
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* ImmuneToBullets: Ten Soon [=TenSoon=] warns Wax that his modern weapons will be useless against the new hemalurgic constructs Bleeder has created. Subverted immediately though: it turns out they just take MoreDakka, which [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter Wax is happy to provide.]] PlayedStraight with the Kandra.
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* InterspeciesRomance: Though he didn't know it at the time, [[spoiler: Wax and Lessie]] were a human and a [[spoiler: kandra]].
* LordErrorProne: The prologue reveals Wax had shades of this early in his bounty-hunting career. His Twinborn powers, AwesomenessByAnalysis, and CrazyEnoughToWork tendencies ([[spoiler: not to mention pretty much literally being watched over by an Angel of God]]) see him through until he grows out of it.
* LordErrorProne: The prologue reveals Wax had shades of this early in his bounty-hunting career. His Twinborn powers, AwesomenessByAnalysis, and CrazyEnoughToWork tendencies ([[spoiler: not to mention pretty much literally being watched over by an Angel of God]]) see him through until he grows out of it.
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* InterspeciesRomance: Though he didn't know it at the time, [[spoiler: Wax and Lessie]] were a human and a [[spoiler: kandra]].
Kandra]].
* LordErrorProne: The prologue reveals Wax had shades of this early in his bounty-hunting career. His Twinborn powers, AwesomenessByAnalysis, and CrazyEnoughToWork tendencies([[spoiler: not ([[spoiler:not to mention pretty much literally being watched over by an Angel of God]]) see him through until he grows out of it.
* LordErrorProne: The prologue reveals Wax had shades of this early in his bounty-hunting career. His Twinborn powers, AwesomenessByAnalysis, and CrazyEnoughToWork tendencies
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: During his final confrontation with Bleeder, Wax spends most of it desperately trying to believe [[spoiler: the kandra he's killing isn't his wife Lessie]]. He realizes the truth just as she commits suicide to stop Harmony from controlling her, and only has time to let her know that he knew before she died. He spends the denouement in a deep depression.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: During his final confrontation with Bleeder, Wax spends most of it desperately trying to believe [[spoiler: the kandra Kandra he's killing isn't his wife Lessie]]. He realizes the truth just as she commits suicide to stop Harmony from controlling her, and only has time to let her know that he knew before she died. He spends the denouement in a deep depression.
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* OutsideContextProblem: [[spoiler:Paalm used spikes made from an unknown metal in her Hemalurgy. Not atium or lerasium or even the new Harmonium, but a godmetal from an entirely different world. Marasi wonders if it had anything to do with "Trell," one of the ancient gods from before the Lord Ruler, who Miles worshiped]].
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* OutsideContextProblem: [[spoiler:Paalm used spikes made from an unknown metal in her Hemalurgy. Not atium Atium or lerasium Lerasium or even the new Harmonium, but a godmetal from an entirely different world. Marasi wonders if it had anything to do with "Trell," one of the ancient gods from before the Lord Ruler, who Miles worshiped]].
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* DistressedDude: [[spoiler: Wayne figures out Bleeder was the Governor the whole time, and gets tied up and thrown in the closet until Wax finds him, having figured it out himself.]]
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->''"Our killer is a Faceless Immortal. A creature who calls herself Bleeder. She can change shapes by taking the bones of the dead, and she's been driven mad. Even Harmony doesn't know her purposes."''
-->-- '''Waxillium "Wax" Ladrian'''
-->-- '''Waxillium "Wax" Ladrian'''
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* AdultFear: [[spoiler: Causing the death of a loved one...twice, watching a loved one go insane, realizing a loved one isn't who they said they were...]]
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* FromBadToWorse: [[spoiler: Causing the death of a loved one...twice, watching a loved one go insane, realizing a loved one isn't who they said they were...]]
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Legacy Characters are those who take up a mantle of another character, Hoid is always the same guy so he's not an example.
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* TheCameo: Sanderson's LegacyCharacter Hoid appears this time as Waxillium's new coachman - on a very important ride, during which Waxillium holds a conversation with [[spoiler: Harmony]]
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* TheCameo: Sanderson's LegacyCharacter Hoid appears this time as Waxillium's new coachman - on a very important ride, during which Waxillium holds a conversation with [[spoiler: Harmony]]
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* ExtremelyShortTimeSpan: The bulk of the narrative, not counting the intro, the epilogue, and a few flashbacks, takes place over the course of less than two days. This is a plot point, as none of the main characters have a chance to get any sleep.
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* ExtremelyShortTimeSpan: The bulk of the narrative, not counting the intro, the epilogue, and a few flashbacks, takes place over the course of less than two days. This is a plot point, as none of the main characters have a chance to get any sleep.sleep and the characters are run ragged by the end.
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* RealityEnsues: The entire story takes place over two days. As such, no one gets a chance to sleep and the characters are run ragged by the end.
** Marasi fires a gun point-blank beside her ear into a person's jaw. Not only is she ''covered'' in blood, but she's partially deaf for the next chapter or so, and Wax is worried that she might have permanently damaged her hearing.
** Marasi fires a gun point-blank beside her ear into a person's jaw. Not only is she ''covered'' in blood, but she's partially deaf for the next chapter or so, and Wax is worried that she might have permanently damaged her hearing.
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* RealityEnsues: The entire story takes place over two days. As such, no one gets a chance to sleep and the characters are run ragged by the end.
**SteelEardrums: Averted. Marasi fires a gun point-blank beside her ear into a person's jaw. Not only is she ''covered'' in blood, but she's partially deaf for the next chapter or so, and Wax is worried that she might have permanently damaged her hearing.
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** Marasi fires a gun point-blank beside her ear into a person's jaw. Not only is she ''covered'' in blood, but she's partially deaf for the next chapter or so.
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** Marasi fires a gun point-blank beside her ear into a person's jaw. Not only is she ''covered'' in blood, but she's partially deaf for the next chapter or so.so, and Wax is worried that she might have permanently damaged her hearing.
