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'''Miles Dagouter''', also known as '''Miles Hundredlives''',{{book ref|mb4|10}} was the former lawman of [[True Madil]] in the [[Roughs]] of [[Scadrial]] and leader of the gang of thieves and kidnappers known as the [[Vanishers]].{{book ref|mb4|11}} Miles was determined to bring the government of the Elendel to its knees in his quest to get justice for its perceived mistreatment of the people of the Roughs.
=== Personality ===
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:''See Also:'' [[Survivorism]] and [[Trellism]]
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At one point in his life, Miles was a [[Survivorism|Survivorist]].{{book ref|mb4|19}} However, he felt that Elendel's current social and political establishment made a mockery of the religion, professing to believe in the independence and self-reliance of [[Kelsier]] but in actuality discouraging people from thinking for themselves.{{book ref|mb4|17}} Once Miles came into contact with Edwarn Ladrian and the Set, his religious beliefs began to change.{{book ref|mb4|epilogue}}
Miles converted to [[Trellism]], a religion explained in the [[Words of Founding]]{{book ref|mb4|11}} that preaches the divinity of Metalborn and their superiority to those without access to the Metallic Arts.{{book ref|mb4|18}} Because of Miles' invincibility, he has come to think of himself as divine.{{bws ref|/annotation-the-alloy-of-law-chapter-eighteen/|Alloy of Law Annotation Chapter 18|date=November 30, 2015}}{{book ref|mb4|18}} Miles believes that the reason that Trell made men like him is to right the wrongs of the world.{{book ref|mb4|11}} He thinks that because of his powers, Miles and other Metalborn have been chosen to rule. Miles has an extreme zealotry for Trellism;{{book ref|mb6|29}} even in his last moments he implored that others worship Trell.{{book ref|mb4|epilogue}} Miles tried to get Wax to agree with this belief, with no success.{{book ref|mb4|18}} Despite Miles' conversion to Trellism, some of his Survivorist beliefs still linger to inspire him.{{book ref|mb4|15}}
== Attributes & Abilities ==▼
=== Twinborn ===▼
;Allomancy▼
:''See Also:'' [[Allomancy]]▼
Miles is an Allomancer, more specifically an Augur.{{book ref|mb4|15}} Burning gold is not terribly useful on its own, and has become synonymous with one who does nothing. It grants him the ability to see the person that he would have become if he had made other choices.{{book ref|mb4|part=ars}} This power is not nearly as combat useful as the Physical metals, which is sometimes an irritation for Miles.{{book ref|mb4|15}} He makes a point of burning gold on occasion, though, to take a careful look at his present character and what he could have been. Due to constantly confronting changes in his personality, Miles does not fear change, because he knows it also brings opportunities to become something you're not. Miles believes that occasionally confronting these possibilities allows him to mix the best of what he is with the best of what he could be. However, usually Miles ignores the Allomantic side of his powers, except when using it in concert with his Feruchemy.▼
;Feruchemy▼
:''See Also:'' [[Feruchemy]]▼
Miles' Feruchemical power is also gold.{{book ref|mb4|11}} As a Bloodmaker, Miles can store health in his goldminds, spending some time in poor health, in order to heal himself instantly later.{{book ref|mb4|part=ars}} This allows Miles to take wounds that would otherwise permanently cripple or kill another ordinary man. Gold returns a man to the state he was before the injury. Therefore, it tends to not cure long-term injuries or genetic problems. It does heal the [[Spiritweb]], and as such could heal someone who has had their soul damaged by the theft of spiritual attribute via Hemalurgic spike.{{wob ref|6335}} The greatest limit on gold Feruchemy is the amount of health stored up, which can be difficult to collect. However, Miles manages to overcome many of these limitations via Compounding. Miles has used this ability with Compounding enough to [[savant]] in the metal.{{wob ref|13393}}▼
;Compounding▼
:''See Also:'' [[Compounding]]▼
As Miles can both create Feruchemical reserves in goldminds, and burn gold, he is capable of Compounding.{{book ref|mb4|11}} A powerful technique, this allows him to essentially create a new metal, burning his metalminds which instead of showing gold's usual visions, power his Feruchemical healing directly via Preservation and the powers of creation.{{wob ref|4702}}{{wob ref|6072}} This allows Miles to sustain truly horrifying wounds and be healed to full strength nearly instantaneously.{{book ref|mb4|13}} Miles is not continuously burning his goldminds though. Rather, he spends some time burning them for a massive amount of health, and then stores a huge amount of health in his metalminds, which he wears as spikes that pierce his body all over. As they are inside of Miles, they are incapable of being Pushed or Pulled on by most Allomancers. This gives Miles access to a constant supply of nearly limitless health.{{book ref|mb4|11}}▼
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Due to the large amount of health available to Miles at all times, he can overcome many of the limits of the average Bloodmaker. Most obviously, normal Bloodmakers are limited in how many wounds or how large a wound they can heal. If their Feruchemical storages are not enough, they have to wait for a wound to heal naturally, or if the wound is severe enough, they simply die. Miles does not have to worry about conserving his Feruchemical storages, because his goldminds are more or less infinite. As a result, Miles is constantly drawing on his goldminds, even when there is no real wound to heal. This impacts him in several ways, both minor and major. Miles has not been sick in years; he never has to deal with sore muscles or headaches or feelings of tiredness.{{book ref|mb4|15}} Even when there is nothing for the gold to heal, Miles can still feel a faint sense of extra energy from the health he is drawing. By drawing even more additional health, Miles can eliminate his need to breathe, as he is constantly healing the damage done to his cells from hypoxia.{{book ref|mb4|17}} It should be noted that this is not the same thing as [[cadmium]] [[Feruchemy]]. Gasper Ferrings have the ability to store breath in a cadmiummind.{{book ref|mb4|part=ars}} They store oxygen and then withdraw it later so they do not have to breathe. Miles cannot do that. His gold Feruchemy continually heals the damage done to his cells dying of oxygen starvation rather than provides them with oxygen. However, the power of gold is not limitless. It cannot allow Miles to stop his heartbeat{{book ref|mb4|17}} or reverse the process of aging{{book ref|mb4|11}} like the [[Lord Ruler]] managed with his atium Compounding.{{book ref|mb1|epilogue}} Additionally, after suffering the pain of thousands of wounds that should have killed him, Miles has also grown completely invulnerable to pain.{{book ref|mb4|13}} It is little but a distant memory to him.{{book ref|mb4|17}} It also potentially has an impact on Miles' stamina, allowing him to run longer and farther than a normal man, although this is uncertain.{{book ref|mb4|13}}▼
This constant influx of health allows for Miles to do things that would destroy a lesser man. He can fall from great heights and break his legs, only to have them heal as they break.{{book ref|mb4|15}} As such he has no fear of falling and can therefore engage in fights on places such as the top of a moving train, jumping from car to car without fear.{{book ref|mb4|13}} He can take a shotgun blast to the face without flinching.{{book ref|mb4|11}} He has no need to seek cover from gunfire and can walk through a firefight like nothing is happening.{{book ref|mb4|18}} It also increases his ability to brawl.{{book ref|mb4|13}} He can punch as hard as he likes without injuring himself and cannot feel the pain of others hitting him.{{book ref|mb4|19}} One of Miles' favorite tricks is to detonate a piece of dynamite in his hand to free him from any ropes or nets or kill those near him.{{book ref|mb4|18}}▼
The largest downside of Miles' Compounding abilities is the high cost.{{book ref|mb4|13}} A normal Feruchemist needs to only buy metal once. Their metalminds are not consumed by their Feruchemy like they would be in Allomancy, so a single metalmind could, in theory, be used for a person's entire life. However, Miles must burn some of his metalminds to Compound their Feruchemical attribute. In his case, the metal he consumes is [[gold]], so his Compounding is even more expensive than other types of Compounding that make use of more common metals, such as [[iron]] or [[steel]]. Miles must have a steady stream of income to keep up his constant Compounding or he risks having to stop.▼
=== Hemalurgy ===▼
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While Miles' metalminds may have taken the form of spikes piercing his form, it appears that he may have had at least one [[Hemalurgy|Hemalurgic spike]].{{bws ref|/annotation-the-alloy-of-law-chapter-fifteen/|Alloy of Law Annotation Chapter 15|date=November 30, 2015}} It is unknown what metal Miles is spiked with and what attributes it granted. Due to his last words,{{book ref|mb4|epilogue}} it appears that Miles may be influenced by or have have some connection to the [[Shard]] currently known only as [[Trell (Trellism)|Trell]].{{wob ref|1019}} It is possible that the metal his Hemalurgic spike was made from is [[trellium]], the same metal that the rogue [[kandra]] [[Bleeder]] used for her spikes.{{book ref|mb5|epilogue}}▼
=== Fighting Skills ===▼
For all of his incredible durability, Miles lacks the power of the prime battle metals, such as [[steel]], [[iron]], and [[pewter]].{{book ref|mb4|15}} Therefore, he has no Allomantic or Feruchemical powers to enhance his combat abilities. This means Miles is reliant primarily on guns and other mundane weapons when he wishes to deal damage. Most of the time, Miles makes use of a pair big-bore pistols.{{book ref|mb4|11}}{{book ref|mb4|13}} He prefers firepower to accuracy, believing it is better to miss a handful of times and be sure that when you do hit someone they stay down. As leader of the Vanishers, Miles' guns{{book ref|mb4|11}} and bullets{{book ref|mb4|13}} are typically made of aluminum, making them impossible to affect with a Steelpush or Ironpull.{{book ref|mb4|2}}▼
Miles' true combat skills are in knife fights and brawls.{{book ref|mb4|13}} He fights with a long-bladed knife that he usually keeps tucked into the back of his boot. Miles is known as one of the best knife-fighters in the Roughs. One of his strategies is to stab his own knife into his forearm. This prevents the knife from being able to be Pushed or Pulled by an Allomancer until he gets into close quarters with them. It also frees up his hands for grappling, while still keeping the knife within easy reach. Miles cannot feel pain, so this does not hurt him at all. As leader of the Vanishers, Miles fights with an aluminum knife. Miles is also still relatively young, as well as fast and strong, which allows him the advantage in brawls.▼
=== Weaknesses ===▼
Miles' abilities have a few primary ways to be countered. Other than keep killing him until his gold runs out, which can take a lot of time, the first way would be via Hemalurgy. If someone could manage to remove his ability to both burn and tap gold with a Hemalurgic spike, Miles would be unable to heal himself, and his abilities would be countered.{{wob ref|6335}}{{wob ref|6335}} However, Hemalurgy is nearly always fatal and during Miles' time, Hemalurgy is basically unknown on Scadrial, so this is not a viable option. Another easy way to counter Miles is to simply catch him. His abilities do not truly allow many offensive capabilities, so once Miles has been captured, there is little he can do to escape.{{book ref|mb4|15}} Tangling Miles in nets,{{book ref|mb4|18}} or simply delaying him until overwhelming force arrives can physically capture him, though if he brings a bomb, he can blow himself up along with the trap then heal himself.{{book ref|mb4|19}} Another way to defeat Miles would be to remove his metalminds, which permit him to constantly be tapping health.{{book ref|mb4|epilogue}} He has so many metalminds that he would need to be captured before this method would be possible. However, this cannot be done completely since some of his metal minds are buried in his body, which cannot be removed. The final way would be to shoot him with aluminum bullets, as the presence of aluminum in a wound prevents Feruchemical healing until it is removed.{{wob ref|6365}}▼
== History ==
=== Early Years in the Roughs ===
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After the robbery at the Coolerim Playhouse, Miles chose the [[Yomen-Ostlin wedding dinner]], attended by High Lord [[Waxillium Ladrian]] and [[Wayne]], as his next target.{{book ref|mb4|5}} He personally took part in the robbery, wearing a knit mask over his face to hide his identity. During the robbery he ranted about the injustices of the City and the mistreatment of the Roughs. When Lord [[Peterus]] protested the robbery and challenged Miles, he hit Peterus, cutting his head. Miles ordered the valuables of the partygoers seized and attempted to have his men take Lady [[Steris Harms]] and Lady [[Marasi Colms]] as hostages to be turned over to Edwarn Ladrian. This action enraged Peterus once again, who called Miles a coward and demanded to be taken as a hostage himself in their place. Losing his temper, Miles shot Peterus in the head to silence him, and told the Vanishers that they were allowed to have some fun with the guests now.
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=== Capture and Execution ===
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The Vanishers' theft of the Breaknaught went smoothly and without incident, although Miles deduced that Wax had hidden himself in the train car itself.{{book ref|mb4|17}} The Breaknaught was carried back to the Ironspine in Elendel on the Machine, Miles' barge with a crane. Miles brought the train car to the subterranean foundry, where he used the electric lift's engines and winch to pull off the door of the Breaknaught. When the door was ripped off, Miles found that Wax had attached dynamite to the inside of the door, which he detonated in an attempt to slow Miles and kill his men. Miles and his men began to fire on Wax but were interrupted when Wayne and Marasi blew open the doors in the ceiling of the foundry leading the the lift, opening the lair to the outside. Miles and his men did their best to kill Wax and Wayne while Marasi fired down on them from above.
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=== Legacy ===
The most enduring component of Miles Dagouter's legacy is a Set that has gained far more power than it once possessed. Miles contributed to the growth of the Set in several ways. The first, and most simple, is in the funds he supplied the organization. The Set took a portion of the Vanishers' profits for their own personal use, although the rest goes to the Vanishers.{{book ref|mb4|15}} The next way that Miles aided the Set is his role in the Set's seizure of crucial financial organizations in the City from [[House Tekiel]].{{book ref|mb4|epilogue}} By purchasing the insurance companies bankrupted by the robberies, the Set gained ownership of a large part of the financial sector. They always intended for Miles to be captured so the goods would be recovered and they could avoid paying out any insurance claims. The final, and most important way that Miles impacted the Elendel was in the kidnapping of the women from Allomantic bloodlines.{{book ref|mb4|7}} Whatever the specifics of the Set's plans, it is clear that the women are very important in achieving their long-term goals. Without Miles and his Vanishers, the clandestine capture of noblewomen would have been far more difficult.
▲== Attributes & Abilities ==
▲=== Twinborn ===
▲;Allomancy
▲:''See Also:'' [[Allomancy]]
▲Miles is an Allomancer, more specifically an Augur.{{book ref|mb4|15}} Burning gold is not terribly useful on its own, and has become synonymous with one who does nothing. It grants him the ability to see the person that he would have become if he had made other choices.{{book ref|mb4|part=ars}} This power is not nearly as combat useful as the Physical metals, which is sometimes an irritation for Miles.{{book ref|mb4|15}} He makes a point of burning gold on occasion, though, to take a careful look at his present character and what he could have been. Due to constantly confronting changes in his personality, Miles does not fear change, because he knows it also brings opportunities to become something you're not. Miles believes that occasionally confronting these possibilities allows him to mix the best of what he is with the best of what he could be. However, usually Miles ignores the Allomantic side of his powers, except when using it in concert with his Feruchemy.
▲;Feruchemy
▲:''See Also:'' [[Feruchemy]]
▲Miles' Feruchemical power is also gold.{{book ref|mb4|11}} As a Bloodmaker, Miles can store health in his goldminds, spending some time in poor health, in order to heal himself instantly later.{{book ref|mb4|part=ars}} This allows Miles to take wounds that would otherwise permanently cripple or kill another ordinary man. Gold returns a man to the state he was before the injury. Therefore, it tends to not cure long-term injuries or genetic problems. It does heal the [[Spiritweb]], and as such could heal someone who has had their soul damaged by the theft of spiritual attribute via Hemalurgic spike.{{wob ref|6335}} The greatest limit on gold Feruchemy is the amount of health stored up, which can be difficult to collect. However, Miles manages to overcome many of these limitations via Compounding. Miles has used this ability with Compounding enough to [[savant]] in the metal.{{wob ref|13393}}
▲;Compounding
▲:''See Also:'' [[Compounding]]
▲As Miles can both create Feruchemical reserves in goldminds, and burn gold, he is capable of Compounding.{{book ref|mb4|11}} A powerful technique, this allows him to essentially create a new metal, burning his metalminds which instead of showing gold's usual visions, power his Feruchemical healing directly via Preservation and the powers of creation.{{wob ref|4702}}{{wob ref|6072}} This allows Miles to sustain truly horrifying wounds and be healed to full strength nearly instantaneously.{{book ref|mb4|13}} Miles is not continuously burning his goldminds though. Rather, he spends some time burning them for a massive amount of health, and then stores a huge amount of health in his metalminds, which he wears as spikes that pierce his body all over. As they are inside of Miles, they are incapable of being Pushed or Pulled on by most Allomancers. This gives Miles access to a constant supply of nearly limitless health.{{book ref|mb4|11}}
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▲Due to the large amount of health available to Miles at all times, he can overcome many of the limits of the average Bloodmaker. Most obviously, normal Bloodmakers are limited in how many wounds or how large a wound they can heal. If their Feruchemical storages are not enough, they have to wait for a wound to heal naturally, or if the wound is severe enough, they simply die. Miles does not have to worry about conserving his Feruchemical storages, because his goldminds are more or less infinite. As a result, Miles is constantly drawing on his goldminds, even when there is no real wound to heal. This impacts him in several ways, both minor and major. Miles has not been sick in years; he never has to deal with sore muscles or headaches or feelings of tiredness.{{book ref|mb4|15}} Even when there is nothing for the gold to heal, Miles can still feel a faint sense of extra energy from the health he is drawing. By drawing even more additional health, Miles can eliminate his need to breathe, as he is constantly healing the damage done to his cells from hypoxia.{{book ref|mb4|17}} It should be noted that this is not the same thing as [[cadmium]] [[Feruchemy]]. Gasper Ferrings have the ability to store breath in a cadmiummind.{{book ref|mb4|part=ars}} They store oxygen and then withdraw it later so they do not have to breathe. Miles cannot do that. His gold Feruchemy continually heals the damage done to his cells dying of oxygen starvation rather than provides them with oxygen. However, the power of gold is not limitless. It cannot allow Miles to stop his heartbeat{{book ref|mb4|17}} or reverse the process of aging{{book ref|mb4|11}} like the [[Lord Ruler]] managed with his atium Compounding.{{book ref|mb1|epilogue}} Additionally, after suffering the pain of thousands of wounds that should have killed him, Miles has also grown completely invulnerable to pain.{{book ref|mb4|13}} It is little but a distant memory to him.{{book ref|mb4|17}} It also potentially has an impact on Miles' stamina, allowing him to run longer and farther than a normal man, although this is uncertain.{{book ref|mb4|13}}
▲This constant influx of health allows for Miles to do things that would destroy a lesser man. He can fall from great heights and break his legs, only to have them heal as they break.{{book ref|mb4|15}} As such he has no fear of falling and can therefore engage in fights on places such as the top of a moving train, jumping from car to car without fear.{{book ref|mb4|13}} He can take a shotgun blast to the face without flinching.{{book ref|mb4|11}} He has no need to seek cover from gunfire and can walk through a firefight like nothing is happening.{{book ref|mb4|18}} It also increases his ability to brawl.{{book ref|mb4|13}} He can punch as hard as he likes without injuring himself and cannot feel the pain of others hitting him.{{book ref|mb4|19}} One of Miles' favorite tricks is to detonate a piece of dynamite in his hand to free him from any ropes or nets or kill those near him.{{book ref|mb4|18}}
▲The largest downside of Miles' Compounding abilities is the high cost.{{book ref|mb4|13}} A normal Feruchemist needs to only buy metal once. Their metalminds are not consumed by their Feruchemy like they would be in Allomancy, so a single metalmind could, in theory, be used for a person's entire life. However, Miles must burn some of his metalminds to Compound their Feruchemical attribute. In his case, the metal he consumes is [[gold]], so his Compounding is even more expensive than other types of Compounding that make use of more common metals, such as [[iron]] or [[steel]]. Miles must have a steady stream of income to keep up his constant Compounding or he risks having to stop.
▲=== Hemalurgy ===
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▲:''See Also:'' [[Hemalurgy]]
▲While Miles' metalminds may have taken the form of spikes piercing his form, it appears that he may have had at least one [[Hemalurgy|Hemalurgic spike]].{{bws ref|/annotation-the-alloy-of-law-chapter-fifteen/|Alloy of Law Annotation Chapter 15|date=November 30, 2015}} It is unknown what metal Miles is spiked with and what attributes it granted. Due to his last words,{{book ref|mb4|epilogue}} it appears that Miles may be influenced by or have have some connection to the [[Shard]] currently known only as [[Trell (Trellism)|Trell]].{{wob ref|1019}} It is possible that the metal his Hemalurgic spike was made from is [[trellium]], the same metal that the rogue [[kandra]] [[Bleeder]] used for her spikes.{{book ref|mb5|epilogue}}
▲=== Fighting Skills ===
▲For all of his incredible durability, Miles lacks the power of the prime battle metals, such as [[steel]], [[iron]], and [[pewter]].{{book ref|mb4|15}} Therefore, he has no Allomantic or Feruchemical powers to enhance his combat abilities. This means Miles is reliant primarily on guns and other mundane weapons when he wishes to deal damage. Most of the time, Miles makes use of a pair big-bore pistols.{{book ref|mb4|11}}{{book ref|mb4|13}} He prefers firepower to accuracy, believing it is better to miss a handful of times and be sure that when you do hit someone they stay down. As leader of the Vanishers, Miles' guns{{book ref|mb4|11}} and bullets{{book ref|mb4|13}} are typically made of aluminum, making them impossible to affect with a Steelpush or Ironpull.{{book ref|mb4|2}}
▲Miles' true combat skills are in knife fights and brawls.{{book ref|mb4|13}} He fights with a long-bladed knife that he usually keeps tucked into the back of his boot. Miles is known as one of the best knife-fighters in the Roughs. One of his strategies is to stab his own knife into his forearm. This prevents the knife from being able to be Pushed or Pulled by an Allomancer until he gets into close quarters with them. It also frees up his hands for grappling, while still keeping the knife within easy reach. Miles cannot feel pain, so this does not hurt him at all. As leader of the Vanishers, Miles fights with an aluminum knife. Miles is also still relatively young, as well as fast and strong, which allows him the advantage in brawls.
▲=== Weaknesses ===
▲Miles' abilities have a few primary ways to be countered. Other than keep killing him until his gold runs out, which can take a lot of time, the first way would be via Hemalurgy. If someone could manage to remove his ability to both burn and tap gold with a Hemalurgic spike, Miles would be unable to heal himself, and his abilities would be countered.{{wob ref|6335}}{{wob ref|6335}} However, Hemalurgy is nearly always fatal and during Miles' time, Hemalurgy is basically unknown on Scadrial, so this is not a viable option. Another easy way to counter Miles is to simply catch him. His abilities do not truly allow many offensive capabilities, so once Miles has been captured, there is little he can do to escape.{{book ref|mb4|15}} Tangling Miles in nets,{{book ref|mb4|18}} or simply delaying him until overwhelming force arrives can physically capture him, though if he brings a bomb, he can blow himself up along with the trap then heal himself.{{book ref|mb4|19}} Another way to defeat Miles would be to remove his metalminds, which permit him to constantly be tapping health.{{book ref|mb4|epilogue}} He has so many metalminds that he would need to be captured before this method would be possible. However, this cannot be done completely since some of his metal minds are buried in his body, which cannot be removed. The final way would be to shoot him with aluminum bullets, as the presence of aluminum in a wound prevents Feruchemical healing until it is removed.{{wob ref|6365}}
== Relationships ==
:''See Also:'' [[Waxillium Ladrian]]
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Miles Dagouter and Waxillium Ladrian are perhaps more similar than they are different.{{book ref|mb4|11}} They share an odd sort of mutual respect for one another, especially in each other's lawkeeping abilities. Miles is the only man other than Wayne that Wax trusted to watch over Weathering in his absence.{{book ref|mb4|2}} Wax was aware of some of Miles' hatred for the City though, and hoped that he would never act on his feelings.{{book ref|mb4|11}} His own similarity to Miles scares Wax. Miles for his part had huge respect for Wax, particularly for his skill as a Metalborn.{{book ref|mb4|19}}
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Miles thinks that Wax is incredibly dangerous,{{book ref|mb4|17}} but one of the finest men in the world, but that in returning to Elendel to associate with the nobility, he has abandoned any right he has to protection.{{book ref|mb4|11}} Miles also believed that Wax was too soft though, he always wondered if he would one day have to hunt down Wax for letting someone go that he should not have.{{book ref|mb4|13}} This mutual respect did not extend to actual friendship though, neither man felt particularly close to the other.{{book ref|mb4|15}}
Miles and Wax's minds work in the same way as well. Miles deduced that Waxillium's strategy for catching the Vanishers would be to hide in the train car that they were stealing simply because he knew Wax so well.{{book ref|mb4|17}} Miles is disappointed in Wax for becoming one of the men that, in his mind, are the cause of all of the problems in the Roughs.{{book ref|mb4|13}}
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He also feels that Wax wasted his potential, afraid to seize the true power that is his birthright as a Metalborn.{{book ref|mb4|19}} When fighting against Wax, Miles often becomes reckless, throwing aside his normally cautious nature in his attempts to prove that his actions are justified.{{book ref|mb4|11}}
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Miles and Wayne have never gotten along well.{{book ref|mb4|11}} Even before Wayne knows that Miles is responsible for the Vanishers, he refers to him as a terrible human being.{{book ref|mb4|2}} Wayne has disdain for the way Miles kills people himself rather than determining their guilt or innocence. Miles for his part finds Wayne to be a petty annoyance.{{book ref|mb4|13}} Miles has quietly wanted an opportunity to shoot Wayne in the head for a long time. Wayne is unsurprised to find out that Miles is the leader of the Vanishers, recalling Miles' hatred for Elendel.{{book ref|mb4|11}} Miles' actions as the leader of the Vanishers, especially killing Lord [[Peterus]] angered Wayne greatly.{{book ref|mb4|5}}
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Miles and Tarson's relationship was less like a friendship between equals, and more like that between a master and a servant. Tarson was the Vanisher most loyal to Miles, following Miles out of respect, instead of simply for money.{{book ref|mb4|15}} Tarson's loyalty makes Miles more fond of him than most of his men. Despite Tarson's rank as second in command of the Vanishers, he did not take much of independent initiative in his leadership role within the Vanishers. Miles kept him in an enforcement role,{{book ref|mb4|8}} keeping him around to take hostages{{book ref|mb4|5}} and hit whatever Miles wanted him to hit.{{book ref|mb4|8}} He also reported findings from the other Vanishers, as well as their general morale to Miles.{{book ref|mb4|11}} Tarson assisted Miles personally during Vanisher robberies.{{book ref|mb4|5}}{{book ref|mb4|17}} When Waxillium and his allies confronted Miles in the foundry below the Ironspine, Tarson was the last of Miles' allies to die, shot by Wax while holding Marasi at gunpoint.{{book ref|mb4|19}}
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