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| They dress in painted sequins. They drink wine. They laugh, and smile, and play, and dance, and eat, and quietly kill. All part of Harmony's plan. All actors on
| Bleeder speaking in Wax's head for the first time.{{book ref|mb5|9}}
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'''Paalm''' was a female [[kandra]] of the Third Generation. She was an agent of Harmony sent to protect [[Waxillium Ladrian]] in the [[Roughs]], under the guise of a human woman, '''Lessie'''.{{book ref|mb5|26}}
Sometime after Lessie's supposed death, she chose to remove one of her [[Hemalurgy|Hemalurgic spikes]]. She used only a single spike at a time to avoid being under [[Harmony]]'s influence.{{book ref|mb5|7}} She used spikes of a metal unknown even to Harmony to grant herself [[Allomantic]] and [[Feruchemical]] powers.{{book ref|mb5|epilogue}} During that time she went by the alias '''Bleeder'''.{{book ref|mb5|7}} She colluded with the [[Set]]
She ultimately committed suicide to avoid being taken control of by Harmony after she was shot by Wax with a second Hemalurgic spike.{{book ref|mb5|26}}
=== Lessie ===
At Harmony's direction, Paalm took the form of a human woman named Lessie
Wax first encountered Lessie at The Weeping Bull, where she was disguised as a dancer. During their second encounter, he remarked that she was very uncoordinated and wore a pink garter. Wax formally met her while hunting [[Granite Joe]]. She claimed to be hunting him as well but was actually in Granite Joe's employ. As Paalm was
After this time, Lessie became a law-woman alongside Wax. During their time together, the two became romantically involved and were eventually married.
While hunting [[Bloody Tan]] in his lair in the town of [[Feltrel]], Lessie and Wax split up. At some point, she is taken, hostage. Wax attempted to shoot Bloody Tan who is using Lessie as a human shield, but he pulled Lessie into the path of Wax's bullet, making her take the shot to the head, seemingly killing her.{{book ref|mb4|prologue}}
As part of Harmony's plan, Wax moved back to [[Elendel]], and Paalm's time as Lessie was over. Some time afterward, she went on a murderous rampage and broke free of Harmony's influence, disobeying her contract with him.{{book ref|mb5|26}}{{book ref|mb5|7}}{{book ref|mb5|13}}
| TenSoon talking to Wax about Paalm
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Paalm took the name Bleeder and set about a plan to free the people of Elendel from Harmony's influence. At some point, she
Using her newly acquired power, Bleeder disrupted [[Winsting Innate's auction]] for his Senate vote, firing several shots at the guests to get them to begin attacking one another. She then entered Winsting's saferoom ahead of him; murdering him inside and cutting out his tongue in a symbolic gesture, removing Harmony's voice. As she left, she killed his bodyguards outside the saferoom.{{book ref|mb5|prologue}}{{book ref|mb5|6}}{{book ref|mb5|4}}{{book ref|mb5|5}}{{book ref|mb5|23}}
== Abilities ==
As a Kandra of the Third Generation, Paalm excels at creating bodies. Her considerable expertise came from her history of service to the Lord Ruler, time spent crushing entire kingdoms and rebellions for him. She also learned a great deal about Hemalurgy, learning how to grant herself Allomantic and Feruchemical abilities with spikes of an unknown metal. She was proficient with her stolen abilities but seemed to prefer to employ Feruchemical [[steel]]. She
== Trivia ==
* The name "Bleeder" is possibly derived from the doctors of antiquity, who would force patients to bleed profusely,
* According to Brandon, writing her character was "probably the darkest I've gone in one of my books, ... but it was also somewhere I hadn't explored before, and so it was really interesting to me.".{{wob ref|12143}}
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