Shadows of Self/Statistical analysis

This page contains some statistical analysis of Shadows of Self, the second book in the Wax and Wayne series.

For a full series overview see Mistborn/Statistical analysis, and for other books in the series see The Alloy of Law/Statistical analysis and The Bands of Mourning/Statistical analysis.

The information on this page can be found here.

Chapter by Chapter Breakdown

Chapter	Character	Word Count	Percentage
Prologue	Wax	4,911	4.46%
Chapter 1	Winsting	1,858	1.69%
Chapter 2	Wax	3,595	3.27%
Chapter 3	Wayne	2,171	1.97%
	Wax	1,991	1.81%
Chapter 4	Wax	838	0.76%
	Marasi	3,167	2.88%
Chapter 5	Wayne	1,603	1.46%
	Marasi	706	0.64%
	Wax	741	0.67%
	Wayne	2,277	2.07%
	Wax	1,461	1.33%
	Marasi	1,922	1.75%
Chapter 6	Wax	1,439	1.31%
	Marasi	1,216	1.11%
	Wax	973	0.88%
	Marasi	1,303	1.18%
	Wayne	654	0.59%
	Marasi	275	0.25%
	Wax	608	0.55%
Chapter 7	Wax	2,734	2.49%
	Marasi	1,877	1.71%
Chapter 8	Wax	4,059	3.69%
Chapter 9	Wayne	1,151	1.05%
	Wax	2,590	2.35%
	Wayne	934	0.85%
	Wax	679	0.62%
Chapter 10	Wayne	386	0.35%
	Wax	1,264	1.15%
Chapter 11	Wax	3,347	3.04%
Chapter 12	Wayne	629	0.57%
	Wax	695	0.63%
	Steris	551	0.5%
	Wax	2,083	1.89%
	Marasi	3,211	2.92%
Chapter 13	Wayne	1,904	1.73%
	Wax	3,359	3.05%
Chapter 14	Wax	2,498	2.27%
	Marasi	2,206	2.01%
Chapter 15	Wax	1,120	1.02%
	Marasi	1,993	1.81%
	Wax	958	0.87%
Chapter 16	Wax	3,573	3.25%
Chapter 17	Wayne	2,480	2.25%
	Wax	1,510	1.37%
Chapter 18	Marasi	2,824	2.57%
	Wax	910	0.83%
Chapter 19	Wayne	2,549	2.32%
	Marasi	1,564	1.42%
	Wax	1,159	1.05%
Chapter 20	Wax	2,839	2.58%
	Wayne	1,147	1.04%
Chapter 21	Wax	2,372	2.16%
	Wayne	346	0.31%
	Wax	900	0.82%
Chapter 22	Wax	2,067	1.88%
Chapter 23	Wax	722	0.66%
	Wayne	682	0.62%
Chapter 24	Wax	734	0.67%
	Marasi	656	0.6%
Chapter 25	Wax	301	0.27%
	Marasi	517	0.47%
	Wax	449	0.41%
	Marasi	904	0.82%
	Wax	278	0.25%
Chapter 26	Marasi	963	0.88%
	Wax	778	0.71%
Epilogue	Wax	1,211	1.1%
	Marasi	1,516	1.38%
	Wax	131	0.12%

Unique POV Breakdown

Character (5)	# of POVs (70)	% of Total POVs	Word Count (110,019)	% of Word Count
Wax	37	52.86%	61,877	56.24%
Marasi	17	24.29%	26,820	24.38%
Wayne	14	20%	18,913	17.19%
Winsting	1	1.43%	1,858	1.69%
Steris	1	1.43%	551	0.5%