Nouxil
| Nouxil | |
|---|---|
| Oficio | Armero |
| Residencia | Elendel |
| Mundo natal | Scadrial |
| Universo | Cosmere |
Nouxil es un armero muy conocido en Elendel, en Scadrial.[1]
Apariencia y personalidad
Nouxil es un hombre bajo y calvo que aparenta cierto miedo.[2] No se conoce si era un hombre naturalmente cobarde o si se convirtió en uno después de su encarcelamiento de un año por parte de los Desvanecedores.
Sin embargo, Nouxil también es un hombre astuto.[1] Ranette, una mujer notoriamente brusca y mordaz, piensa que es un armero lo suficientemente hábil como para mantener una correspondencia con él. También logra ocultar una súplica de ayuda dentro de las empuñaduras de las armas de aluminio que forja para los Desvanecedores.
Ironicamente para un armero, Nouxil no es un gran tirador.[2]
Historia
“ Wasing the where of needing ”
— Nouxil's cry for help in High Imperial, inscribed on the interior of an aluminum pistol grip[1]
Nouxil's early life is unknown, but as an adult he became a skilled gunsmith.[1] He and Ranette began corresponding, discussing their work and mutual interest in gunsmithing. During this time, Nouxil's style became distinctive to Ranette, particularly the shape of his barrels and internal mechanics.
Around the year 340, Nouxil was kidnapped by Miles Dagouter and his crew, the Vanishers.[1] Nouxil was forced to design and forge the aluminum guns and ammunition that the Vanishers used in their robberies. It seems possible that he also created the two specific alloys used in the aluminum guns and bullets. It allowed them to be heavy and sturdy enough to be useful, without losing the invulnerability to Allomancy characteristic of pure aluminum. He likely worked in the foundry in Longard where the Vanishers did most of their forging.[3] During this time, he began inscribing the message "Wasing the where of needing" inside of the gun grips he created, a cry for help in High Imperial.[1] He spent around a year imprisoned there.
After the Yomen-Ostlin wedding dinner, when captured members of the Vanishers compromised the location of the foundry,[4] he was probably moved to the foundry beneath the Ironspine Building, where he could continue his work.[5] High Lord Waxillium Ladrian, Wayne, and Lady Marasi Colms brought one of his aluminum guns, recovered from the wedding dinner, to Ranette's house, where they sought shelter.[1] Ranette recognized Nouxil's style in the make of the gun and discovered his message.
During Wax's attack on the Vanisher hideout beneath the Ironspine Building, Nouxil was locked in a room in the above-ground Vanisher barrack with Lady Steris Harms.[2] Nouxil spent most of that fight cowering in that room. When Wax freed the two of them, he handed Nouxil a shotgun and Pushed on it, throwing Nouxil out of the second story room into the canal, where he could swim to safety. The Elendel constables found him there and pulled him out of the canal alive, if a bit displeased.[6]