The Coppermind

Difference between revisions of "Bloody Tan"

Bloody Tan (edit)

Revision as of 11:44, 7 April 2024

5,277 bytes added ,  1 month ago
no edit summary
 
(29 intermediate revisions by 18 users not shown)
{{character
|image=Bloody Tan BUST by VectorHTC.png
|world=Scadrial|residence=Roughs▼
|profession=Mortician, criminal
|books=[[The Alloy of Law]]▼
|died={{date|341|PC}}{{book ref|mb4|prologue}}
▲|world=Scadrial|residence=Roughs
|world=Scadrial
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
▲|booksfirst appeared=[[The Alloy of Law]]
}}
{{quote
|Each life is a performance. But we are not the performers. We are the puppets. I have seen God, lawkeeper. I have seen Death himself, with the nails in his eyes. I have seen the Survivor, who is life. Other men wonder, but I know. I know I’m a puppet. We all are.
|Bloody Tan, to [[Waxillium Ladrian]]{{book ref|mb4|prologue}}
}}
'''"Bloody Tan"''' was a criminal living in the [[Roughs]] on [[Scadrial]].▼
 
▲'''"Bloody Tan"''' wasis a criminal living in the [[Roughs]] on [[Scadrial]] who was pursued by [[Waxillium Ladrian]].{{book ref|mb4|prologue}}
Before living in the [[Roughs]] Bloody Tan was a mortician in [[Elendel]], moving to the Roughs slightly prior to the beginning of the book. Thereafter, several people start disappearing, including a mailman and a geologist. Both are later found dead in Bloody Tan's hideout with others, having been preserved and strung out in various positions resembling puppets.
 
== Appearance and Personality ==
{{image|Bloody Tan by VectorHTC.jpg|side=left|width=250px}}
Bloody Tan is a slender man with thinning, greased-back black hair and long, thin fingers.{{book ref|mb4|prologue}} His face looks drawn and nearly skeletal.{{book ref|mb5|2}} A mortician by trade, he usually wears fine suits.{{book ref|mb4|prologue}}
 
Tan seems to be unhinged; Wax considers him to be a psychopath. He believes that people are all puppets being controlled by some outside force, which causes him to place no value on human lives, regarding each one as simply a "performance".{{book ref|mb4|prologue}} Despite his violent tendencies, he is not belligerent; he is soft-spoken and his voice has a morose quality.{{book ref|mb5|10}}
 
== Attributes and Abilities ==
Tan is a proficient criminal. He is able to steal a valuable shipment of [[bendalloy]] from a gang led by [[Donal]]. He is also able to kill at least eight victims within a two month span and stay well-hidden, despite being pursued by lawmen and rival outlaws. He is an effective killer and prefers to murder people up close using a garrote or other means; he only uses a gun as a last resort, and even then he likes to shoot at close range in order to see the fear in his victim's eyes. He is able to shoot and capture [[Lessie]] when she invades his lair.{{book ref|mb4|prologue}}
 
Presumably due to his background as a mortician, he is able to mummify corpses if he has adequate time and resources; he is able to partially mummify people in a short period of time.{{book ref|mb4|prologue}}
 
Although Tan stole bendalloy, he did it for the money, as he is not an [[Allomancer]].{{wob ref|5849}}
 
{{theory}}
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.{{book ref|mb4|prologue}}{{book ref|mb5|6}} Although Harmony was responsible for some of the events that led up to Lessie's "death",{{book ref|mb5|20}}{{book ref|mb5|26}} Tan was not under the direct control of either Harmony{{wob ref|6301}}{{wob ref|10647}} or [[Kelsier]].{{wob ref|14897}} However, he was affected by an unrevealed outside influence.{{wob ref|1506}} He claims to have seen [[Marsh|Death]], the [[Kelsier|Survivor]], and [[Harmony|God]];{{book ref|mb4|prologue}} although it is unclear whether those claims are actually true, he genuinely believes them.{{wob ref|10647}}
 
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,{{book ref|mb4|prologue}} invoking the language typically used to describe [[Hemalurgy]].
 
== History ==
In {{date|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.{{book ref|mb4|prologue}}
 
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.{{book ref|mb4|prologue}}
 
=== 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.{{book ref|mb4|prologue}}
{{sidequote|side=right|size=300px
|I figure ... we're all just puppets ... you see... Someone else moves us. Someone else moves us, lawman.
|Bloody Tan, to Wax{{book ref|mb4|prologue}}
}}
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.{{book ref|mb4|prologue}}
 
[[Wax]]Tan andexplained [[Lessie]]to wereWax chargedthat withpeople bringingare Tan toall justicepuppets, and foundthat himhe holedhad set up inthe [[Feltrel]].morbid Duringdisplay of corpses as a confrontation,performance Tanof captured"true Lessieart" andthat usedcould hernever asbe areplicated. humanHe shieldemphasized againstthe anfact armedthat Wax."someone Aselse" controlled people. Wax attemptedtook toaim shootwith Tanhis during[[Sterrion]] theand standofffired, but Tan somehow managedpulled toLessie pulldirectly Lessie ininto the path of Wax'sthe bullet,. killingAfter her. ImmediatelyLessie thereafterfell, Wax shot andTan killedin Tanthe forehead.{{book ref|mb4|prologue}}{{book ref|mb5|2}}
 
== Legacy ==
Bloody Tan seemed to be unhinged, and used human bodies pierced with metal as ornaments (or for some other purpose) in his lair. Due to these clues, it is possible that he knew something of [[Hemalurgy]]. In addition, the way that he was able to perform his "trick" of moving Lessie in the path of Wax's bullet indicates that he could have had some power related to the [[Metallic Arts]] himself.
Bloody Tan was the last criminal that Wax hunted in the Roughs before coming to [[Elendel]].{{book ref|mb5|6}} 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.{{book ref|mb5|2}}{{book ref|mb5|6}} Wax feared that Tan had somehow survived, but Harmony informed him of Paalm's true nature.{{book ref|mb5|7}} Although Paalm had been concerned that impersonating Tan would give Wax a clue to her identity,{{book ref|mb5|25}} she did it anyway knowing that it would provoke him into pursuing her.{{book ref|mb5|22}}
 
== Notes ==
<references />
{{stubcomplete}}
{{Mistborn|adventuresEra 2}}
[[es:Sangriento Tan]]
Reinhartmax
Editors
8,480

edits

Retrieved from "https://coppermind.net/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/49757...192447"