Usuario:Chaos2651/Paalm
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 por Jamie Knierim
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| Nacido en | Third Generation | ||||
| Fallecido | 341 PC[1] | ||||
| Capacidades | Hemalurgo | ||||
| Apodos | Bleeder, Lessie, Replar Innate | ||||
| Especie | Kandra | ||||
| Mundo natal | Scadrial | ||||
| Universo | Cosmere | ||||
“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 a stage. That's what you are too, Waxillium Ladrian. It's what all men are.”
—Bleeder speaking in Wax's head for the first time.[2]
Paalm is a kandra of the Third Generation. Prior to the Collapse, Paalm served as the Lord Ruler's personal kandra, overthrowing kingdoms and having extensive skills under his employ. Post-Catacendre, she served Harmony, but eventually grew to hate Harmony. She then called herself Bleeder,[3] and plotted to sow chaos in Elendel to "free" the common people.
Appearance and Personality
“Waxillium, Bleeder is ancient, older than the destruction of the world—almost as old as the Final Empire. Indeed, she is even older than I am, though not older than my powers. She is crafty, careful, and brilliant. And I’m afraid that she might have gone mad.”
“Paalm was the ultimate blank slate. Old-style kandra. Like I said, she spent so much time out on missions that she barely had a personality of her own. She had real trouble with that at the dawn of a new world. [...] She was loyal to the Lord Ruler, and then when he was gone, she became loyal to Harmony. Fanatical about it. Insisted on being given mission after mission, and never spent time with the rest of us. Kept to herself. She was almost always in character. Until...”
—MeLaan on Paalm[4]
Attributes and Abilities
“Waxillium, you do realize what you're dealing with? Paalm was trained by the ancients, and served the Lord Ruler himself. She quashed rebellions and overthrew kingdoms in his service, and she is intimately familiar with the intricacies of Hemalurgy. By your own accounts, she’s learned to use spikes to grant herself Allomancy and Feruchemy--something we thought impossible.”
—MeLaan on Paalm[4]
“She was the Father’s own, the kandra reserved specifically to do missions for the Lord Ruler. She might know things from him. Things the rest of us weren’t told. I think he may even have had her imitate Inquisitors at times, act as a mole among them. Anyway, she wouldn’t have been able to impersonate an Inquisitor without a good grasp of Allomancy and Feruchemy. So maybe that’s where she got the knowledge.”
—MeLaan on Paalm[4]
Imitated Inquisitors (ch 13)
History
Trivia
- The name "Bleeder" is possibly derived from the doctors of antiquity, who would force patients to bleed profusely, in an effort to purge sickness and disease. This is comparable to Paalm's actions in Shadows of Self in which she causes great harm to Wax, and the Basin, to cleanse them of Harmony's control.
- 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.".[5]