Sangriento Tan
| Sangriento Tan | |
|---|---|
| Fallecido | 341 PC[1] |
| Oficio | Funerario, criminal |
| Residencia | Roughs |
| Mundo natal | Scadrial |
| Universo | Cosmere |
“Cada vida es una representación. Pero nosotros no somos los actores. Somos las marionetas. He visto a Dios, vigilante de la ley. He visto a la misma Muerte, con los clavos en los ojos. He visto al Superviviente, que es la vida. Otros hombres dudan, pero yo lo sé. Sé que soy una marioneta. Todos lo somos. ”
—Sangriento Tan, a Waxillium Ladrian[1]
"Sangriento Tan" es un criminal que vive en los Áridos en Scadrial, y que fue perseguido por Waxillium Ladrian.[1]
Apariencia y Personalidad
Sangriento Tan es un hombre larguirucho, con pelo grasiento, negro y largo, y dedos delgados.[1] Su cara parece prácticamente cadavérica.[2] Funerario de profesión, suele llevar trajes refinados.[1]
Tan parece desquiciado, y Wax le considera un psicópata. Cree que todo el mundo son marionetas controladas por una fuerza externa, lo que hace que para él las vidas humanas no valgan nada, alegando que son simples "actuaciones".[1] A pesar de sus tendencias violentas, no es beligerante. Habla de forma calmada y su voz tiene un tono hosco.[3]
Atributos y Habilidades
Tan es un criminal competente, capaz de robar un valioso cargamento de bendaleo de un grupo liderado por Donal. También es capaz de asesinar a al menos ocho víctimas en dos meses y mantenerse bien escondido, siendo perseguido por la justicia y por enemigos de fuera de la ley. Es un asesino eficaz, y prefiere asesinar de cerca utilizando un garrote u otros medios. Solo utiliza pistolas como último recurso, y aun en estos casos prefiere disparar de cerca para poder ver el miedo en los ojos de la víctima. Es capaz de disparar y capturar a Lessie cuando esta invade su guarida.[1]
Presumiblemente debido a su pasado como funerario, es capaz de momificar cuerpos si tiene el tiempo y los recuersos adecuados. Es capaz de momificar parcialmente gente en un periodo de tiempo corto.[1]
Aunque Tan robó bendaleo, lo hizo por dinero, ya que no es alomántico.[4]
Tan displays some behaviors and abilities that are not fully explained. He is not an Allomancer, yet he seemingly moves Lessie into the path of a bullet fired by Wax with superhuman reflexes.[1][5] Although Harmony was responsible for some of the events that led up to Lessie's "death",[6][7] Tan was not under the direct control of either Harmony[8][9] or Kelsier.[10] However, he was affected by an unrevealed outside influence.[11] He claims to have seen Death, the Survivor, and God;[1] although it is unclear whether those claims are actually true, he genuinely believes them.[9]
Additionally, several of the bodies in Tan's hideout are stuck to the walls; the word "spiked" is used to describe the method of attachment,[1] invoking the language typically used to describe Hemalurgy.
History
In 341 PC, several people including Geormin and Annarel disappeared in the Roughs, attracting the attention of local law enforcement including Wax and Lessie. Tan was not particularly stealthy, as Wax had a lot of information about him and his methods, but he chose a hiding spot in the ghost town of Feltrel that proved very difficult to find. Tan killed at least eight people altogether while operating from his base in Feltrel; he committed at least one robbery to help fund his activities.[1]
Wax, Lessie, Wayne, and Barl eventually decided to search for Tan in Feltrel once they realized that the population had suddenly dwindled from a few people to almost none. An outlaw named Donal who had a vendetta against Bloody Tan came to the same conclusion, and both groups closed in on him at the same time.[1]
Tan's Hideout and Lessie's Death
While searching for Tan, Wax and Lessie had a brief conflict with Donal's men, and then split up. Wax discovered the entrance to Bloody Tan's hideout, an old cold cellar behind a store that connected to a long tunnel formerly used for smuggling. The tunnel served as a "gallery" of Tan's mummified victims, with each body lit by a lantern and placed in various poses using spikes and wires, some of them evoking the people's professions in life.[1]
“I figure ... we're all just puppets ... you see... Someone else moves us. Someone else moves us, lawman.”
—Bloody Tan, to Wax[1]
Wax was sickened by the display but continued through the tunnels until he reached a hole in the ceiling that led into a decrepit chapel of the Church of the Survivor, with benches and statues strewn about. Tan began speaking to Wax from behind some rubble in the back of the church. Wax quickly found Tan and realized that he had been able to shoot Lessie and then overpower her due to her blood loss; she was bound and gagged and had a garrote to her neck.[1]
Tan explained to Wax that people are all puppets, and that he had set up the morbid display of corpses as a performance of "true art" that could never be replicated. He emphasized the fact that "someone else" controlled people. Wax took aim with his Sterrion and fired, but Tan somehow pulled Lessie directly into the path of the bullet. After Lessie fell, Wax shot Tan in the forehead.[1][2]
Legacy
Bloody Tan was the last criminal that Wax hunted in the Roughs before coming to Elendel.[5] When Paalm began terrorizing the city, she used Tan's face and words to unnerve Wax, who was still suffering psychological distress from Tan's display and Lessie's death.[2][5] Wax feared that Tan had somehow survived, but Harmony informed him of Paalm's true nature.[12] Although Paalm had been concerned that impersonating Tan would give Wax a clue to her identity,[13] she did it anyway knowing that it would provoke him into pursuing her.[14]
Notes
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Aleación de ley prólogo#
- ↑ a b c Sombras de identidad capítulo 2#
- ↑ Sombras de identidad capítulo 10#
- ↑ White Sand vol.1 release party
— Arcanum - 2016-06-28# - ↑ a b c Sombras de identidad capítulo 6#
- ↑ Sombras de identidad capítulo 20#
- ↑ Sombras de identidad capítulo 26#
- ↑ Shadows of Self Chicago signing
— Arcanum - 2015-10-12# - ↑ a b FanX 2018
— Arcanum - 2018-09-06# - ↑ JordanCon 2021
— Arcanum - 2021-07-16# - ↑ Arcanum Unbounded Chicago signing
— Arcanum - 2016-12-06# - ↑ Sombras de identidad capítulo 7#
- ↑ Sombras de identidad capítulo 25#
- ↑ Sombras de identidad capítulo 22#