Waxillium Ladrian

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Waxillium Ladrian
por botanicaxu
Casa Ladrian Cónyuge Lessie (primer matrimonio), Steris Harms (segundo matrimonio) Hermanos Telsin Parientes Edwarn, Hinston Ancestros Brisa, Allrianne Cett, Vwafendal
Nacido en	299 PC
Capacidades	Nacidoble🐱︎: Ajustador y Lanzamonedas (Chocador)
Apodos	Disparo al amanecer, Asinthew
Oficio	Vigilante, Gran Señor
Residencia	Elendel
Etnia	de Terris
Mundo natal	Scadrial
Universo	Cosmere

“Lo que define a un agente de la ley, tío, es muy simple... Somos los que estamos dispuestos a parar una bala con nuestro cuerpo para evitar que alguien más resulte herido. ”

—Wax

Waxillium Ladrian, o Wax, es un nacidoble y el Gran Señor de la Casa Ladrian en Scadrial. Los terrisanos conocen a Wax como Asinthew. Creció en Elendel, pero se marchó de la ciudad para escapar de la política, viviendo como un vigilante de la ley en los Áridos durante veinte años. Regresó a Elendel en el año 341 PC, tras enterarse de la muerte de su tío, convirtiéndose en el Gran Señor de su Casa, aunque continúa investigando a importantes criminales, particularmente aquellos relacionados con el Grupo.

Apariencia y personalidad

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“Esa es la parte que no tiene sentido. Todo el mundo sabe que soy irreparablemente guapo. ”

—Wax

Wax es alto con una cara y ojos intensos que son descritos en ocasiones por ser tan fríos como el hielo. Aunque los veinte años que pasó viviendo en los Áridos han hecho mella en su apariencia, dejándole sus manos callosas y su pelo negro con vetas grises, sigue manteniendo el esbelto y musculoso cuerpo de su juventud. Acostumbrado a sentarse para afeitarse, Wax todavía cree que le quedaría bien una cicatriz en la cara, al más puro estilo de los Áridos.

“Sus ropas estaban terriblemente cubiertas de polvo, pero eran de buen paño: un bonito traje, un pañuelo plateado al cuello, chispeantes gemelos en las mangas de su elegante camisa blanca. Había cultivado un aspecto físico que parecía fuera de lugar, como si planeara asistir a un baile de gala en Elendel en vez de recorrer una población muerta en los Áridos a la caza de un asesino.”

—Wax persiguiendo a un bandido

En adición a sus mentes de meatl, un par de brazaletes de hierro que lleva puestos en la parte superior de sus brazos, normalmente ocultos por los puños de sus mangas; a Wax le gusta portar un sombrero al estilo de los Áridos con forro de aluminio, así como un largo gabán de bruma sobre su fino traje de ciudad, su chaleco y su pañuelo. Wax tiende a ser antinaturalmente ligero incluso cuando camina, debido a su hábito de estar llenando constantemente sus mentes de metal con un pequeño porcentaje de su peso.

Cuando está patrullando, Wax añade una escopeta en el bolsillo de su gabán de brumas y se ata un cinturón completamente equipado con casquillos de bala gastados y viales de metal llenos de whiskey, para complementar a las dos pistolas encartuchadas que lleva en su cintura.

Wax es temperamental, con defectos y desconfía de la sociedad noble moderna, pues le desagradan los "juegos" de la gran ciudad. Admira la simpleza de los Áridos, donde los problemas son resueltos rápidamente y un hombre armado es capaz de marcar la diferencia; en contraste con la política de Elendel, donde las grandes casas ocultan sus verdaderas intenciones tras sonrisas falsas y descaradas mentiras.

Wax también tiene el hábito de inspeccionar cautelosamente los lugares, intentando dar con posibles ataques o cualquier otra forma de daño o amenaza. Esto es apreciable en su constante tendencia por sentarse en el lugar más seguro de una habitación, o por examinar un lugar para encontrar la posición más fácil de defender.

Atributos y habilidades

por Zenna Grover

Volando mediante empujones de acero

Artes Metálicas

Waxillium es un chocador; un nacidoble con las habilidades de un lanzamonedas y de un ajustador. La combinación de estos poderes convierte a Wax en un individuo particularmente peligroso, puesto que la fuerza de sus empujones de acero depende, en gran medida, de la masa del alomante.

Alomancia

Waxillium es un lanzamonedas extremadamente habilidoso. Quizá, la mayor muestra de su maestría es su habilidad para regular la fuerza de sus empujones de acero. Por lo general, es muy difícil para los alomantes mantener un control preciso sobre sus empujones de acero, así que, en vez de eso, muchos de ellos optan por regular la duración de estos. Levitar sin balancearse arriba o abajo, por ejemplo, requiere una elevada disciplina que pocos alomantes logran conseguir; la mayoría emplea pequeños estallidos de empujones de acero, caen, y vuelven a empujarse. Wax es capaz de aplicar suficiente presión sobre una pequeña vara de metal como para pegarla al lado de una mesa sin mover la propia mesa en sí misma.

Wax también usa su habilidad para crear una burbuja defensiva alrededor de sí mismo que no afecta a sus propios objetos de metal, pero que desvía ligeramente las balas dirigidas hacia él. Para incrementar la velocidad de sus balas, las empuja tras haberlas disparado para forzarlas a traspasar la cobertura del oponente; y para viajar a través del aire, en conjunto con su habilidad de ajustador para regular su propia masa. Wax no parece utilizar las habilidades más comunes de un lanzamonedas con asiduidad, pues se le tuvo que recordar que puede disparar una bala sin un arma, aunque siempre emplea acero como tercer botón de su chaleco, ya sea para una reserva extra de metal o para usarlo como arma en caso de emergencias.

Feruquimia

Como ajustador, mediante el uso de mentehierros, Wax puede almacenar su peso a cambio de ser más liviano de lo normal, y decantar esos depósitos para volverse más pesado. Wax almacena constantemente parte de su peso, quedándose con tres cuartos de su peso normal, siendo más ligero de lo normal. También emplea esta habilidad para navegar verticalmente junto con sus empujones de acero y una escopeta. Wax no suele decantar su peso muy a menudo, puesto que prefiere almacenarlo para ser más ligero y, consecuentemente, la enorme cantidad de peso que puede decantar de sus mentes de metal le permite atravesar con facilidad y sin esfuerzo el suelo, cayendo directamente a través de este. Emplea este poder a favor propio en varias ocasiones.

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Hemalurgia

Waxillium posee un pendiente con una ligera carga hemalúrgica. Se desconoce el tipo de carga que tiene. Este pendiente es una característica de El Camino, los creyentes de esta religión llevan normalmente pendientes metálicos mientras rezan. Esto le permite a Armonía comunicarse directamente con él. Se lo dio la kandra MeLaan.

Fuerzas de la ley

Wax pasó veinte años de su vida como un vigilante de la ley en los Áridos. Sus proezas son registros públicos, guardados en la universidad de Elendel, donde son estudiados por los alumnos de derecho y criminología.

Casos notables

“Las noticias de los Áridos vuelan. La mayoría son escritas por alguien. Se pueden encontrar en la universidad o en la librería adecuada. ”

—Marasi sobre los casos notables de Wax

• Peret el Negro, violador y brazo de peltre. El primer hombre al que capturó Wax.
• Pars el Muerto, un carnicero que se convirtió en un asesino. Wax necesitó a Miles Cienvidas para acabar con él.
• Sangriento Tan, un enterrador desquiciado que creó escenas macabras con los cuerpos de sus víctimas.
• Miles Dagouter, un vigilante que se convirtió en criminal. Líder de los Desvanecedores.
• Paalm, una kandra demente.
• Edwarn Ladrian, el tío perdido de Wax que es miembro del Grupo.

Otras habilidades

Wax es un tirador talentoso, prefiriendo usar sus dos pistolas a la vez. Miles Cienvidas afirmó que Wax era el tirador más preciso y excelente que había vito jamás, y le había visto haciendo tiros que creía imposibles. Se le había visto disparando a una bala desviada por la burbuja de velocidad de un deslizador, acabando en un tiro mortal como resultado. Sin embargo, tras un traumático tiro fallido que resultó en la muerte de su amada, Lessie, Wax suele ponerse nervioso cuando se encuentra en situaciones con rehenes de por medio.

Wax practica también metalurgia básica como un hobby, y demuestra ser un investigador con talento.

Historia

Vida temprana

Waxillium is a descendant of Edgard Ladrian and Allrianne Cett. He is of mixed heritage, with Terris on his mother's side and Noble on his father's side, and he is said to have more Terris blood than most. He was raised under a noble house and lived a life of luxury--something he detested. He and his sister, Telsin, were mostly raised by their uncle in Elendel. At the age of 12, his uncle began grooming him to run the family-operated First Central Bank. Wax became disgusted by the unethical practices of the bank and distanced himself from the role.

La Aldea

At the age of 15, Wax spent a year living in the Village, with the option to stay if he wished. During his last months in the Village, he encountered Forch, a Twinborn Terris boy who committed arson. Wax investigated the crime and brought his evidence to the attention of the constables, but this was ultimately disregarded by his grandmother who insisted that the Terris people manage themselves and their criminals. Wax unintentionally spotted Forch later that night and believed he was going to commit arson again. Investigating further, Wax unknowingly stumbled upon Forch attempting to dissect a living boy he had kidnapped. Despite being heavily outmatched by another Twinborn, Wax ultimately killed Forch in self defense during a Steelpushing battle, rescuing the child from him. This is when Wax decided to leave the Village and strike out on his own.

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Los Áridos

In his early years in the Roughs, Wax developed an image of himself as a "Gentleman Bounty Hunter"; although initially incompetent and unfamiliar with his Twinborn abilities, he would eventually hone them. At one point, he had a deputy named Paclo. He pro-actively worked with other law enforcers in the area, eventually working with Jon Deadfinger and finding a 17 year old Wayne who he would ultimately spare from execution and turn his life around to become a lawman.

During a bounty claim on Granite Joe, he encountered Lessie--a woman he would fall in love with and eventually marry.

After the reported death of his uncle, Wax was implored to return to Elendel to begin managing the ledgers of his house. Initially ignoring this request, Wax chose instead to hunt the murderous Bloody Tan as his final bounty. In a horrifying turn of events, Waxillium mistakenly shot Lessie in the forehead when he attempted to free her from Bloody Tan's clutches. With nothing left for him in the Roughs, Wax returned to his family mansion in Elendel.

Regreso a Elendel

“He always felt stronger in the mists. He felt like someone was watching, when he was out in them.”

—Wax thinks of the mists

In his early months in Elendel, Wax earned a reputation for frequently disappearing early from social functions, preferring to steel-push through the mists, in patrol of the city. On one such night, Waxillium paused his patrol and intervened in a shootout. Believing he heard a woman's whimper, which reminded him of Lessie, Wax froze during the gunfight. Coming to the conclusion that he was no longer capable of being a lawman, and with the effectiveness of the city constabulary forcing him to face the irrelevance of vigilante justice in general, Wax hung up his guns for good.

Throwing himself into the much more mundane effort of saving his house's financial future, Waxillium spent half a year working to reverse his late uncle's squandering of the family funds. Believing there was no other choice, he entered into a marriage agreement with Lord Harms' daughter, Steris, hopeful that her father's money would help bring House Ladrian back from the brink of destitution. That same day, Wayne, an old partner from his time in the Roughs, re-entered Wax's life--carrying with him an aluminum bullet and a tantalizing mystery surrounding a gang of train robbers known as the Vanishers, which threatened to draw Wax away from his house responsibilities and right back into the life of a lawman.

Los Desvanecedores

Against his better judgement, and under the disapproving eye of his butler, Tillaume, Wax began to piece together the history of the Vanishers, hoping to discover the reason for their unorthodox targets as well as the secret behind the way they commit their crimes. Realizing the distraction this had created for his house duties, Waxillium endeavored to put away this new obsession and attended the Yomen-Ostlin wedding dinner with Steris, marking their public debut as a couple.

“It was so hard not to recall the sight of him breaking through the line of tables, gun in hand as he expertly felled two of the men trying to haul her out into the night. Or the sight of him soaring through the air—gunshots exploding up from beneath, the chandeliers shattering and crystal spraying light around him—as he shot a man from midair and dropped to rescue his friend. She was talking to a legend.”

—Marasi calls on Waxillium in his study

After the wedding was interrupted by the arrival of bandits from the Vanishers gang, who proceeded to rob the lords and ladies in attendance at gunpoint, Wax initially refused Wayne's insistence that he take up a pistol--having convinced himself that the Elendel constabulary would be able to handle the disturbance with far less bloodshed. When the gang went too far, killing a man and taking Steris as a hostage, Wax admitted that he could not stand idly by, and attacked the gang with his backup pistols and the full fury of his Steelpushing. In the ensuing gunfight, Wax, Wayne, and Steris' cousin Marasi worked together to subdue the majority of the attackers, while successfully minimizing civilian casualties. When Marasi was suddenly held at gunpoint by one of the gang, in the same fashion as Lessie a year ago, Wax nearly froze up again. Marasi struggled, successfully stunning the Vanisher holding her, momentarily opening up the shot for Wax--forcing him to make a choice to overcome his fear to pull the trigger and save her. As the robbers retreated, Waxillium was surprised to discover the identity of the Vanishers' leader, Miles "Hundredlives" Dagouter--another former lawman from the Roughs.

With Steris kidnapped, Wax re-doubled his efforts into his previous investigation. Having obtained one of the Vanishers' aluminum guns, Wax poured himself into researching its makeup and possible origin as well as uncovering the mystery of the Vanishers' ultimate goal. In the middle of his investigation, Wax, Wayne, and Marasi were caught up in an explosion in his study, set off by his butler in a botched attempt to assassinate him.

Eventually discovering the location of the Vanishers' hideout and confirming Hundredlives' involvement, Wax began forming a plan to take down the unbeatable, former lawman. Focusing his attention on puzzling out the Vanishers' peculiar robbery methods, Wax was taken by surprise when the Vanishers attacked his train en route back to Elendel. Wounded in the attack and shaken by Hundredlives' claim that the real evil in the world is the corruption of Elendel itself, Waxillium escaped to Ranette's house, where he obtained Hazekiller bullets and a new prototype revolver, Vindication.

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Wax shooting Miles

Correctly deducing the Vanishers' next target, Wax set Wayne and Marasi to work, zeroing in on the protection of Lord Tekiel's next shipment train, which included the new, Breaknaught cargo car. Infiltrating the car just before the predicted robbery took place, Wax allowed himself to be taken to the Vanishers' lair. Making use of a large amount of dynamite smuggled alongside him in the Breaknaught, Waxillium fought his way through the Vanishers' hideout, unfortunately losing Vindication in the fray. Successfully springing a trap made specially to capture Hundredlives, Wax was then forced to flee when the outlaw opted to blow himself up with a personal explosive, rather than be captured. Escaping into the mists, Waxillium briefly experienced a conversation with Harmony, which culminated in the realization that Harmony had worked behind the scenes to orchestrate the delivery of Wax's old, lost weapons to the Vanishers' hideout, just in time to help.

Newly re-armed, Wax located and rescued Steris, killed numerous members of the Vanishers gang, and destroyed their hideout with a tremendous feat of Metalborn power. As the building collapsed, several surviving Vanishers, led by the now fully-healed, Miles Hundredlives, held Marasi at gunpoint. Refusing to freeze up and lose another woman's life to the same type of standoff, Wax called for Wayne to create a speed bubble. Firing at the Vanisher through the speed bubble, Wax compensated for the unavoidable veering of the time-slowed bullet by firing a second time, in an incredibly aimed shot which struck his first bullet and caused it to ricochet directly into the thug's head. Miles and an already injured Wax squared off, with Hundredlives beating Wax mercilessly. Waxillium held on, taking the punishment of Miles' blows as Marasi secretly held them in a time bubble. Wax successfully distracted the outlaw, laying all of his hopes on the absent Wayne, who finally returned, having surrounded the three of them with Elendel's constables.

Conciendo al Señor Elegante

After the surviving Vanishers were taken into custody and interrogated, Waxillium recognized the description of a man working with Miles whom they called "Mister Suit," which led him to believe they were talking about his supposed late uncle, Edwarn Ladrian. Following up on a lead to Suit's current whereabouts, Wax boarded a train at Dryport and confirmed his suspicions. Confronting his uncle face to face, Waxillium demanded that Edwarn give up the location of the other women the Vanishers had kidnapped. Unthreatened, Edwarn welcomed Wax to attempt to expose his operation, as there was no real proof pointing to the old man's involvement. Wax listened as his uncle chastised him for his purported self-righteousness, just as he did when Wax was a child. When Wax moved to take matters into his own hands, Edwarn called in his men, who threw Wax off the back of the train--but not before Wax swiped his uncle's appointment book.

Sandgradora

Newly rescued, Steris suggested to Wax that their shared ordeal afforded the two of them an opportunity to speed up their marriage contract and announce their engagement much sooner then previously planned. Initially hesitant, Wax agreed that the couple should move forward with Steris' suggestion, endeavoring to push away any potentially romantic thoughts of Marasi and bury his painful memories of Lessie.

Due to his invaluable contributions toward the resolution of the Vanishers case, Wax was granted a citywide deputized forbearance by the Elendel Senate as well as certain allowances to practice his Roughs-style justice in the city.

Atormentado por el pasado

Months later, while Steelpushing through the crowded city streets in hot pursuit of a bank robber known as the Marksman (an Allomancer connected with the Set who featured in Edwarn's appointment book) Wax was stunned and deeply disturbed to recognize the face of an onlooker on the sidewalk below--Bloody Tan, Lessie's murderer. Shaken and unable to locate Tan among the crowds, Wax enlisted the help of Wayne and Marasi to continue the chase into the Breakouts. Eventually catching Marks, Wax was prevented from bringing the man in for questioning when Marks was suddenly killed by an assassin's crossbow.

Approached by a number of constables who arrived late on the scene, Wax learned that Constable-General Claude Aradel would like to quietly enlist his assistance in investigating the recent murder of Elendel Governer Replar Innate's brother, Winsting, who had been killed among thirty of Elendel's most notorious criminals. Examining the scene, Wax determined that Winsting was stabbed by someone familiar to the man, citing the location of the killings, the position of the bodies, and the sheer number of victims--details which also dictated that Feruchemically enhanced speed would have been required to perform the grisly feat. Wax steeled himself, knowing he was now on the trail of a Steelrunner.

Starting his search in the best place to find word of a rogue Feruchemist, Wax visited the Terris Village to obtain the counsel of his grandmother, Vwafendal. Recognizing the name Idashwy, a Steelrunner from his past who had recently left the Village, Wax continued his investigation elsewhere, enlisting Wayne's help to discover the woman's address in the city. Blindsided by another momentary glimpse of Bloody Tan on the crowded streets, Wax began to doubt his own senses. Shaking off the distraction, Wax joined Wayne in discovering Idashwy's corpse, laying in her kitchen with a large hole bored through her chest. Having spent great amounts of time studying a book gifted to him by Ironeyes himself, Wax recognized the likelihood of Idashwy having been the victim of the creation of a Hemalurgic spike. Guessing that the killer used the spike to steal her Feruchemical speed, Wax was surprised to find a note written to himself hidden in the victim's pocket. On the note were some of the last words Bloody Tan said to him, back in the Roughs.

“Someone else moves us, lawman.”

—Bloody Tan

Needing time to think, Wax rode alone in his carriage, driven by Hoid. Casually musing upon whether his Pathian earring may have once been a Hermalurgic spike, Wax placed it into his ear. Immediately, Harmony spoke to Wax directly--careful to reassure him that he had not gone insane. Harmony admitted that the earring was a spike, which was the reason they were able to converse. Additionally, Harmony explained that Wax's earlier sightings of Bloody Tan were real and not imagined, though the murderer Wax had been chasing all this time was not a man, but actually a Faceless Immortal using Tan's bones, named Bleeder.

Persecución de una mujer loca

While attending Lady ZoBell's party with Steris, Wax met MeLaan, a Faceless Immortal sent to help in the hunt for Bleeder by Harmony himself. In between chats with various nobility of the city, Wax began to hear a new voice in his head--mocking him and the people of Elendel. Wax soon realized he was hearing the voice of Bleeder, who had somehow learned to use the same Hermalurgic connection to him that Harmony had. Using their connection to discover Bleeder's location at the party, Wax attempted to apprehend her, giving chase out a window and through the Mists of the city outside.

His pursuit of Bleeder waylaid by a dozen armed men, Wax was convinced that she must be aligned with the Set. Wax listened closely as Bleeder spoke in his mind of her plans to kill the governor and free the city from Harmony's influence, but first she claimed she would need to murder Wax's father. Guessing that she must have been threatening Lord Harms' life, Wax raced across the city, spiriting the old man and Steris to separate, secret locations. Finally believing he had moved one step ahead of Bleeder, Wax reported to Governor Innate to warn him of the dire threat to his life, only to discover that during his absence Bleeder had brutally killed Father Bin, the Survivorist priest who was to perform his marriage ceremony to Steris.

Tracking Bleeder's path, Wax located the carriage she had used to escape the scene of the killing. Inside, Wax found traces of Perchwither, a substance only found in the Homeland of the Faceless Immortals. Puzzled, Wax followed her trail back to the Governor's mansion. Once close enough to her location, Bleeder's voice immediately returned to his mind, keen to convince Wax that Harmony did not care and was only using him. Sowing doubt, Bleeder asked Wax to attempt to explain why Harmony had failed to step in and save Lessie's life. Distracted, Wax was unable to prevent Bleeder from using her stolen Steelrunner abilities to attack Innate's chambers. By the time Wax arrived, Bleeder had already disappeared, though thankfully leaving the governor alive. Looking closer, Wax found another message from Bleeder, this time written in the blood of her latest kill.

“I rip out his tongue to stop the lies. I stab out his eyes to hide from his gaze. You will be free.”

—Bleeder

Seeking more information on Bleeder, Wax entered the museum in the Field of Rebirth. Locating the secret path through the historical atium mines, Wax entered the cavern leading to the Homeland, and encountered TenSoon, legendary wolfhound of the Ascendant Warrior. TenSoon told Wax much of Bleeder's history and showed him a torn up and desecrated copy of the Words of Founding--the product of one of her last acts before leaving the Homeland and evidence of her descent into madness. Wax and TenSoon found themselves chased from the Homeland by the sudden appearance of Hemalurgic chimeras--deformed humans under Bleeder's control--but not before Wax came to realize the full scope of her plan. She didn't want to simply kill the governor; she wanted to incite a city-wide riot. Wax immediately returned to Innate's mansion, intent on saving his life once and for all. After entering the governor's study, Wax noticed a carefully placed gumball, which he recognized to be a sign of trouble, left for him by Wayne. Immediately realizing the truth--that Bleeder had been secretly impersonating the governor the entire time--Wax pulled out his gun. Bleeder opened fire first, killing Innate's guards as she escaped out the window.

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Wax crying with Steris after killing Lessie

Confrontando un recuerdo

Steelpushing through the night after Bleeder, Wax easily found her, changing bodies again just before she moved to escape. Finally confronting her on the Eastbridge, Wax saw that Bleeder had pointed her gun at him, but she did not fire. With tears in her eyes, she pleaded with Wax to forsake Harmony and be free. Wax ignored the pain he felt, seeing that Bleeder was now wearing the face of his dead wife, Lessie. He did his best not to listen to how well Bleeder could mimic Lessie's voice and mannerisms. Wax levelled Vindication and shot her in the head with the bullet from the gun's special chamber. The bullet had been made to his request by Ranette, molded from his Pathian earring. It was designed to give Bleeder a second spike, allowing Harmony to reassert Hemalurgic control over the mad kandra.

Bleeder screamed that she would not be controlled again. As she died in Wax's arms, having terminated her own life to prevent Harmony from returning her to his service, Bleeder begged Wax to ask Harmony why he originally sent her to protect him, back in the Roughs. Telling Wax that she loved him, she demanded to know why, if Harmony was such a wonderful, all-knowing god, he would use Wax to kill her. Too late, Wax realized that the woman he had shot was not just Bleeder, an insane murderer and Faceless Immortal who looked like Lessie; she was Lessie.

In the weeks that followed, Wax bitterly grieved his wife's final death, greatly distancing himself from Harmony for keeping Bleeder's identity secret from him. Forsaking even the mists he used to cherish, Wax largely shied away from his public responsibilities, showing little interest in following up on the city intrigues Wayne, MeLaan, and Marasi had uncovered while Bleeder's plan unraveled. Offering little in the manner of resistance, Wax even agreed to postpone the wedding with Steris as he flirted with surrendering to his depression.

Los Brazales de Duelo

“In the back of his noggin, he'll be relieved that I stopped the wedding. He'll figure it was me, deep in his subcontinence, and will pay for the damages—no matter what the assessor says. And he won't say anything, won't even investigate. Watch.”

—Wayne speaks with Marasi

Six months later, spurred on by a slowly growing bond with Steris and determined not to remain in the same well of despair that had tried to claim him when he lost Lessie the first time, Wax had returned to the pursuit of his constabulary duties with Wayne. When the day of his wedding with Steris arrived, Wax found himself pursued once again by a member of Harmony's kandra; this one claiming to have a matter of great importance to discuss. Rebuffing him, Wax continued on to the Survivorist church where he walked down the aisle with Steris, whose genuine tears moved him in a way he did not expect. Realizing he was still not ready to let go of Lessie's memory, Wax was blessedly spared the need for any further heartbreak when a water tower outside suddenly tipped onto the roof of the church, bathing all those in attendance and postponing the ceremony once again, much to Wax's relief.

Hacia Nueva Seran

Wax unholstered Vindication and downed a new vial of metals as he returned to Ladrian mansion later that day; the telltale clues of intrusion in his own home had quickly brought him to high alert. Discovering that this newest threat turned out to be nothing more than the same kandra as before, now seated in Wax's own study, had done little to encourage him to lower his pistol. The kandra, VenDell, of the sixth generation, had successfully ensnared Marasi and Wayne in his appeal for assistance, but Wax believed that VenDell had done so simply as another way to entangle him into the affair, while ignoring his earlier refusal. Pouncing on Wax's curiosity, VenDell produced an evanoscope, which he used to engage him in a presentation on the nature of Investiture and Identity, as well as the myth of the Bands of Mourning. Wax's patience wearing thin, VenDell explained that these evanotype images had been taken by another kandra, ReLuur, who was obsessed with the Bands and convinced they were Identity-less metalminds which held the potential to grant anyone Metalborn powers to rival those of the Lord Ruler. Dismissing the idea outright, Wax was shocked to see another evanotype impressed with an image of his sister, Telsin, who was being dragged somewhere against her will. VenDell informed him that ReLuur had been accosted by the same thugs in New Seran, where one of his spikes had been stolen. Convinced of the danger and worried for his sister, Wax agreed to help.

“What is it about you that makes me want to punch you, even when you're saying something helpful?”

—Wax to VenDell

With real proof that his sister was alive for the first time in years, Wax knew he was being manipulated into doing Harmony's bidding again; though this time, he endeavored to step in with his eyes wide open. Wax categorically rejected VenDell's extended gifting of another Pathian earring. He would do this on his own, without Harmony's voice in his ear.

Joined on the train to New Seran by Steris, who was becoming increasingly familiar and useful company, Wax soon found it difficult to interrupt her intense reading of a book. He needed to mine her keen knowledge of local politics and slake his curiosity after he noticed increased protests of Elendel's tariffs, visible out the windows as they passed through the outer cities. Distracting her further, Wax was delighted to finally catch a glimpse of what had earlier held Steris' attention so doggedly--she had been reading a book on basic human reproduction. Mortified, Steris attempted to change the subject, but the discovery only added to Wax's growing affection for the woman.

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Looking over the house finances with Steris on the train

Feeling the train car suddenly slowing, Wax sprang into action. Guessing rightly that robbers had disconnected their car, he leaped to the tracks below and then tapped his metalmind to greatly increase his weight, which allowed him to Steelpush the train car back down the tracks fast enough to reconnect. Wax pushed himself back onto the train, which was already being boarded by a large group of gunmen on horseback. Leaving Steris in Marasi's care, Wax fought his way through the train, eventually squaring off against, a huge Metalborn brute, whose large bulk turned out to be a great target for Ranette's latest gift to Wax's arsenal--an Allomantically-triggered hook device which proved particularly well suited to throwing people from a train.

After securing the train and allowing a doctor to tend to his wounds at Ironstand station, Wax began to worry that the still missing Wayne might have been seriously hurt or incapacitated in the battle. Wax's concern soon melted to annoyance when his long search of the train turned up both Wayne and MeLaan who were holed up together in a private compartment, groggy from a tussle of their own.

Eventually arriving in New Seran, Wax and Steris agreed that the best way to begin their investigation was to attend a ball at the home of Lady Kelesina Shores, where they would be sure to scrape as much information as possible from the city's upper crust. As they approached the mansion, Wax gave a bank note to a well spoken beggar, who insisted he take in exchange a strange coin, made of two different metals, branded with the face of a man spiked through one eye, and covered in symbols that Wax could not read. Separating, the two mingled among the elite and gathered what rumors they could, including some regarding a hushed building project that may have involved Allomancers, north east of the city. Gruff around the edges as ever, and surrounded by as practiced liars and thieves as he had ever faced before, Wax knew he still had a lot to learn about politics. Still, he gained more information than he expected, even detecting that there was more going on with Lady Kelesina than she let on. Interrupted just as he was about to extend an invitation to Lady Felise Demoux, Wax instead shared a dance with Khriss, who was excited to question Wax extensively about his particular pairing of Feruchemical and Allomantic abilities. Pushing for more information than seemed proper, and displaying an uncomfortably high level of knowledge of his powers, Khriss increased Wax's already heavy suspicions, as he returned to asking other guests of the party questions of his own.

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Flying through the air with Steris

Sensing that Lady Kelesina was making a quick escape from the party, Wax scrambled to find a way to exit in pursuit, without alerting anyone that he was following. Ever prepared, Steris armed Wax with a pistol she had snuck into the dance and then produced the requisite distraction, from the bottom of a vial of ipecac. Following as carefully as possible, Wax caught up to Kelesina deep in her mansion, where he overheard the unmistakable voice of his uncle through the door to her bedroom. Wax listened as Edwarn detailed his involvement in both the train robbery from the day before as well as further plans to stymie Wax and keep him off his trail. Bursting through the door without any hesitation, Wax was immediately disarmed by Kelesina's pewter-burning steward. Beckoned by Edwarn, whose words were actually emitted from an odd voice projector sitting in the room, the steward turned and murdered Kelesina with Wax's gun, tidily implicating him, a visiting noble from Elendel, in the assassination of one of New Seran's political elite.

With the timely arrival of MeLaan, Wax fought his way out of the mansion and escaped with Steris, who he found waiting for him behind a shrub outside. Taking her close, Wax Steelpushed their way straight up into the sky and through the evening mists, which gave way to the breathtaking view of The Ascendant's Field, where they shared a quiet moment of mutual respect and kissed above the clouds.

Descubriendo el arma

Staying ahead of the local authorities and following up on their only lead from the party, Wax rode a stagecoach toward the construction site to the northeast. Along the way, he helped Marasi field test the cube device she had taken from the train robbers, which they took to calling an Allomantic grenade as it seemed to somehow extend the area of effect of its user's Allomancy. Wax, Wayne, MeLaan, and Marasi successfully infiltrated the construction site, discovering that a large, nondescript building was actually a facade covering up Edwarn's real effort in New Seran--the apparent construction of a huge, wooden warship.

Splitting from Marasi and MeLaan, who went in search of ReLuur's stolen spike, Wax and Wayne entered the warship, determined to locate Edwarn himself. Using a spyglass borrowed from MeLaan, Wax immediately changed their plan when he located the chamber where Telsin was being held. Easily bypassing the workmen and engineers blocking his path, Wax quietly entered the room dead set on saving his sister. Finally reunited, Wax was surprised when Telsin immediately took brutal retribution on one of her captors. The years had really changed her just as, he supposed, they had changed him. Fighting their way out, accompanied by a generous helping of speed bubble assistance from Wayne, Wax joined in a grand escape after Allik, a masked man that Marasi had rescued, revealed the existence of a second, smaller ship which could detach from the main vessel and lift into the sky.

“You were always the quiet one. The thoughtful one. How did you get here? I... Your face, Waxillium. You're old.”

—Telsin

Briefly stopping their ship to pick up Steris, Wax and Marasi pored over a notebook that she stole from Edwarn, which seemed to show the location of a second work site, south of their position. This corroborated Telsin's claims that Edwarn had been obsessively working to find a great weapon in the south that promised to give the Set the ability to dominate the whole of the Basin. Telsin warned Wax that their uncle had set off to retrieve the weapon not long ago; it was clear that there wasn't much time. Marasi's notebook also included a map showing a temple marked for excavation in the peaks of the southern mountains, which reignited the palpable fear that the Set could be dangerously close to obtaining the fabled Bands of Mourning, just as VenDell had warned back in Elendel.

Taking advantage of their more efficient form of travel, Wax's group arrived on the mountain peaks soundly before Edwarn and his men could complete their slow climb through the snow. Locating the temple from Marasi's notebook, Wax ventured inside, proceeding with caution after he encountered the scattered remains of treasure hunters who had been there before him. Making grand use of MeLaan's nigh-invincibility, Wax and Allik worked slowly through the temple's ancient security system, safely triggering traps that would have spelled certain death for any other group of trespassers.

Halted by a door which was inscribed with writing that none of them could decipher, Wax returned to the entrance of the temple, where Steris, Marasi, and Wayne held Edwarn at gunpoint; his expedition had arrived at the temple just before Wax's return. Edwarn claimed to know the secret to opening the temple's final door and threatened Wax that he had an overwhelming force of Allomancers and goons surrounding the temple who would not hesitate to kill every member of Wax's pitiful group, unless he was allowed to join them in collecting the Bands. When the temple's last chamber proved to be missing the Bands, Wax suddenly found himself in an armed standoff with Telsin, who he had rightly suspected to be a mole for the Set. Both siblings fired at once; Wax's bullet went wild and missed, but Telsin's shot hit Wax just below the neck. A number of bullets later, Wax fell into a pit below the Bands' supposed resting chamber. Trailing blood and weakening by the moment, Wax was soon tracked down by Edwarn, now fully revealed as an Allomancer, by way Hemalurgic spikes. Edwarn cruelly triggered another of the temple's traps, which collapsed the roof and crushed Wax's already wounded body under a punishing avalanche of rubble. In a daze, Wax was forced to watch helplessly as his uncle approached, unholstering his pistol and intent on finishing him off. When Wayne arrived to attempt his rescue and broke down at the sight of him, Wax used his remaining breath to tell his friend to go on living and keep fighting. No longer able to hold on, Waxillium Ladrian died.

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Speaking with Sazed

Retorno

“Wax clenched his jaw, but couldn't force down the trembling that took him. He lived it again, holding her as she died. Knowing he'd killed her. That hatred seethed inside of him. Hatred for Harmony. Hatred for the world. And yes. Hatred for himself.”

—Wax reflects on Lessie's death.

Immediately, Wax found himself in the presence of Harmony. Face to face with the god he had shunned for so long, Wax did not shirk away; instead, Wax laid into Harmony for his inaction that had led to so many people suffering. He chastised him for using Wax all these years with what appeared to be so little regard. He demanded an explanation for what happened to Lessie. Together, the two of them philosophized on the nature of cause and effect. Harmony patiently explained that his workings were larger in scope than Wax could currently understand. He expanded Wax's worldview-- showing him a representation of the planet and allowing him a small glimpse of the greater conflict in which he was currently embroiled. Allowing Wax to choose, Harmony offered him a chance at "another adventure," which Wax accepted. Wax opened his eyes and screamed, throwing the rubble from his body with the pure strength of steel itself. His body instantaneously healed, Wax focused his view on Marasi who had placed something like an oversized spearhead in his hand: the real Bands of Mourning, an unkeyed metalmind of nearly limitless power.

Tapping the enormously potent metalmind inside the spearhead, Wax burst through the confines of the temple and out into the open air, trailing mist in his wake. Able to sense and call upon what seemed to be endless trace metals in the surrounding area, Wax knew that he could crush Edwarn and Telsin's fleeing ship with little effort. Bringing himself under control, Wax confronted his uncle for the final time, choosing to subdue him without the use of the spearhead's dangerous power.

Wax finally returned to Elendel, where he gave over the spearhead into the hands of the kandra. No longer willing to put it off, and ready to move on with his life, Wax convinced Steris to marry him in a quiet ceremony, highlighted by their newly blossomed love for each other. On their honeymoon, Wax was suddenly awakened by the sound of an explosion in the distance. Wandering their suite, Wax found himself absently handling the dual metal coin that the beggar had given him, before the party in New Seran. Looking closely at the coin for what seemed like the first time, Wax hesitantly tested tapping it like a metalmind, which sprang to life a copper-stored memory, seemingly belonging to the mysterious Sovereign.

Relaciones

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Wax with Wayne

Lessie

Wax mantuvo una relación amorosa con una mujer vigilante llamada Lessie en los Áridos, pero murió de un disparo tras ser retenida como rehén por el infame criminal Sangriento Tan. Sin que Wax lo supiera, era la kandra Paalm, enviada para protegerle mientras estaba en los Áridos. Depués de que se quitara uno de sus clavos hemalúrgicos, Wax disparó a Paalm con una bala cargada hemalúrgicamente, permitiendo a Armonía tomar el control de ella de nuevo.

Wayne

El mejor amigo de Wax es Wayne, un compañero vigilante de los Áridos. Wax ayudó a Wayne a cambiar su vida después de que Wayne accidentalmente disparase y matase a un hombre en un chapucero intento de robo. Acompañará a Wax en sus aventuras, y es el aliado en quien más confía este último.

Steris Harms

Tras regresar a Elendel, Wax acepta, a regañadientes, un acuerdo matrimonial con Steris Harms, para beneficiar así a ambas casas. Así es como conoce a Marasi, la hermanastra ilegítima de Steris. Podría parecer que Wax y Marasi manifestarían una relación romántica entre ellos dos, sin embargo, esto nunca llega a ocurrir. Con el tiempo, se quedaría fascinado por las idiosincrasias de Steris, haciendo que ambos se enamorasen y se acabaran casando por motivos emocionales.

Sazed

Waxillium guarda un resentimiento personal hacia Armonía. Aunque está de acuerdo con la Esquirla sobre que no hubiese querido que otro matara a Paalm o que ella hubiese continuado sufriendo por el clavo de trellium que usaba, está resentido por el hecho de que no sabía que la kandra era su mujer hasta que esta estaba muriéndose.

Citas

“Lo descubrí primero en sus ojos, ese afán... ese fuego. Y después lo he descubierto también dentro de mí. Es una llama, Waxillium, y su pasión es contagiosa. Cuando estoy aquí, cuando estoy con él... ardo, Marasi. Es maravilloso. ”

—Steris

“The law is there to keep us from ruining everyone else's ability to explore. Without law, there's no freedom. That's why I am what I am. ”

—Wax

“I have known you for an entire year now, Lord Waxillium. I can accept you for who you are, but I am under no illusions. Something will happen at our wedding. A villain will burst in, guns firing. Or we'll discover explosives in the altar. Or Father Bin will inexplicably turn out to be an old enemy and attempt to murder you instead of performing the ceremony. It will happen. ”

—Steris

“You're wrong about me... I'm not Harmony's hands. I'm His sword. ”

—Wax confronts Bleeder

“Steris, I think we're all like that. Shuffled from place to place by duty, or society, or God Himself. It seems like we're just along for the ride, even in our own lives. But once in a while, we do face a choice. A real one. We may not be able to choose what happens to us, or where we'll stop, but we point ourselves in a direction. ”

—Wax

“I have done something to help. I sent you. ”

—Harmony speaks to Wax

Curiosidades

• Brandon tenía pensado, originalmente, que la habilidad instintiva de Wax para crear una burbuja de acero fuese el resultado de ser un sabio en la combinación de sus poderes alománticos y feruquímicos. Abandonó esa idea cuando se percató de que Wax no mostraba ninguna consecuencia que mostraría un sabio.
• Wax es uno de los tres chocadores que han nacido a lo largo de la historia.
• Wax prefiere whiskey Stagin en sus viales alománticos. Steris prefiere emplear aceite de hígado de bacalao en los viales que ella le prepara.

“El whiskey es perjudicial para ti, lord Waxillium. Una mujer debe velar por la salud de su esposo. ”

—Steris

• Wax ha recurrido a las brumas en algún momento.
• Wax ha estado involucrado en diecisiete explosiones.

Notas

Antecesor Edwarn

jefe de la Casa Ladrian

Sucesor Incumbent

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