The Lost Metal/Statistical analysis

This page contains some statistical analysis of The Lost Metal, the fourth 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, Shadows of Self/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	Wayne	2,723	1.74%
Chapter 1	Marasi	1,671	1.07%
Chapter 2	Wax	3,262	2.09%
Chapter 3	Marasi	2,415	1.54%
Chapter 4	Wayne	1,835	1.17%
Chapter 5	Wax	1,259	0.81%
Chapter 6	Marasi	2,013	1.29%
Chapter 7	Wax	1,187	0.76%
Chapter 8	Marasi	1,823	1.17%
Chapter 9	Wax	2,093	1.34%
Chapter 10	Marasi	2,297	1.47%
Chapter 11	Wax	2,638	1.69%
Chapter 12	Wayne	786	0.5%
Chapter 13	Wax	2,138	1.37%
Chapter 14	Wayne	2,205	1.41%
Chapter 15	Wax	2,931	1.87%
Chapter 16	Wayne	1,562	1%
Chapter 17	Steris	2,300	1.47%
Chapter 18	Marasi	1,583	1.01%
Chapter 19	Wax	5,959	3.81%
Chapter 20	Marasi	3,030	1.94%
Chapter 21	Wayne	2,238	1.43%
Chapter 22	Marasi	1,028	0.66%
Chapter 23	Marasi	3,010	1.92%
Chapter 24	Wayne	1,343	0.86%
Chapter 25	Wax	2,216	1.42%
Chapter 26	Marasi	1,121	0.72%
Chapter 27	Wax	2,090	1.34%
Chapter 28	Wax	1,857	1.19%
Chapter 29	Marasi	2,190	1.4%
Chapter 30	Wayne	2,298	1.47%
Chapter 31	Steris	1,863	1.19%
Chapter 32	Wax	1,822	1.17%
Chapter 33	Marasi	2,294	1.47%
Chapter 34	Marasi	2,052	1.31%
Chapter 35	Wax	2,443	1.56%
Chapter 36	Marasi	1,162	0.74%
Chapter 37	Wayne	1,529	0.98%
Chapter 38	Steris	2,139	1.37%
Chapter 39	Marasi	2,557	1.64%
Chapter 40	Marasi	2,207	1.41%
Chapter 41	Wax	1,711	1.09%
Chapter 42	Marasi	1,868	1.19%
Chapter 43	Steris	2,140	1.37%
Chapter 44	Marasi	1,029	0.66%
Chapter 45	Marasi	964	0.62%
Chapter 46	Wax	2,337	1.49%
Chapter 47	Marasi	3,405	2.18%
Chapter 48	Steris	1,467	0.94%
Chapter 49	Wayne	3,053	1.95%
Chapter 50	Marasi	1,564	1%
Chapter 51	Marasi	1,541	0.99%
Chapter 52	Wax	2,273	1.45%
Chapter 53	Marasi	1,857	1.19%
Chapter 54	Marasi	939	0.6%
Chapter 55	Wax	1,034	0.66%
Chapter 56	Marasi	2,194	1.4%
Chapter 57	Marasi	1,905	1.22%
Chapter 58	Wayne	3,608	2.31%
Chapter 59	Marasi	2,439	1.56%
Chapter 60	Marasi	1,153	0.74%
Chapter 61	Wax	1,645	1.05%
Chapter 62	Wax	1,537	0.98%
Chapter 63	Wayne	861	0.55%
Chapter 64	Marasi	445	0.28%
Chapter 65	Wayne	616	0.39%
	Wax	492	0.31%
	Wayne	583	0.37%
	Wax	601	0.38%
	Wayne	359	0.23%
	Wax	922	0.59%
	Wayne	892	0.57%
Chapter 66	Wax	1,822	1.17%
Chapter 67	Steris	874	0.56%
Chapter 68	Marasi	574	0.37%
Chapter 69	Wellid	964	0.62%
	Telsin	323	0.21%
	Wax	1,231	0.79%
Chapter 70	Steris	1,225	0.78%
Chapter 71	Wayne	2,459	1.57%
	Marasi	59	0.04%
	Steris	49	0.03%
	Wayne	451	0.29%
Chapter 72	Wax	282	0.18%
Chapter 73	Steris	439	0.28%
Chapter 74	Wayne	960	0.61%
Epilogue 1	Marasi	2,352	1.5%
	Prasanva	402	0.26%
Epilogue 2	Steris	1,410	0.9%
Epilogue 3	Allriandre	1,251	0.8%
Epilogue 4	Kelsier	1,452	0.93%
Epilogue 5	Ranette	708	0.45%
Epilogue 6	MeLaan	382	0.24%
Epilogue 7	Wax	2,109	1.35%

Unique POV Breakdown

Character (11)	# of POVs (94)	% of Total POVs	Word Count (156,381)	% of Word Count
Marasi	32	34.04%	56,741	36.28%
Wax	26	27.66%	49,891	31.9%
Wayne	19	20.21%	30,361	19.41%
Steris	10	10.64%	13,906	8.89%
Kelsier	1	1.06%	1,452	0.93%
Allriandre	1	1.06%	1,251	0.8%
Wellid	1	1.06%	964	0.62%
Ranette	1	1.06%	708	0.45%
Prasanva	1	1.06%	402	0.26%
MeLaan	1	1.06%	382	0.24%
Telsin	1	1.06%	323	0.21%

This meta article is complete, but has yet to be reviewed.