The Well of Ascension/Statistical analysis

This page contains some statistical analysis of The Well of Ascension, the second book in the first Mistborn trilogy.

For a full series overview see Mistborn/Statistical analysis, and for other books in the series see Mistborn: The Final Empire/Statistical analysis and The Hero of Ages/Statistical analysis.

The information on this page can be found here.

Chapter by Chapter Breakdown

Chapter	Character	Word Count	Percentage
Part 1: Heir of the Survivor
Chapter 1	Elend	614	0.25%
	Vin	875	0.36%
Chapter 2	Vin	3,959	1.62%
Chapter 3	Elend	608	0.25%
	Vin	1,564	0.64%
	Elend	2,754	1.13%
Chapter 4	Sazed	1,590	0.65%
Chapter 5	Vin	6,589	2.7%
Chapter 6	Elend	3,417	1.4%
	Vin	380	0.16%
Chapter 7	Sazed	1,711	0.7%
Chapter 8	Vin	4,434	1.81%
Chapter 9	Sazed	648	0.27%
Chapter 10	Vin	2,937	1.2%
	Elend	719	0.29%
Chapter 11	Elend	686	0.28%
	Vin	4,201	1.72%
Part 2: Ghosts in the Mist
Chapter 12	Sazed	4,467	1.83%
Chapter 13	Vin	2,954	1.21%
	Elend	3,649	1.49%
Chapter 14	Elend	1,095	0.45%
	Vin	2,165	0.89%
Chapter 15	Sazed	2,472	1.01%
Chapter 16	Vin	1,877	0.77%
	Elend	2,799	1.15%
Chapter 17	Vin	4,659	1.91%
Chapter 18	Zane	2,592	1.06%
	Straff	641	0.26%
Chapter 19	Sazed	4,577	1.87%
Chapter 20	Vin	2,796	1.14%
	Elend	1,820	0.74%
Chapter 21	Elend	1,757	0.72%
Chapter 22	Vin	5,084	2.08%
Chapter 23	Elend	2,871	1.17%
	Sazed	1,181	0.48%
Chapter 24	Vin	329	0.13%
	Zane	309	0.13%
	Vin	907	0.37%
Chapter 25	Vin	5,114	2.09%
	Elend	831	0.34%
Chapter 26	Vin	1,408	0.58%
	Elend	4,144	1.7%
Chapter 27	Elend	1,569	0.64%
	Vin	1,466	0.6%
	Straff	771	0.32%
	Elend	913	0.37%
Part 3: King
Chapter 28	Vin	2,659	1.09%
	Elend	869	0.36%
Chapter 29	Vin	1,760	0.72%
Chapter 30	Sazed	4,049	1.66%
Chapter 31	Philen	1,629	0.67%
	Elend	1,347	0.55%
	Vin	1,790	0.73%
Chapter 32	Vin	1,515	0.62%
	Elend	748	0.31%
Chapter 33	Vin	1,333	0.55%
	Elend	482	0.2%
	Vin	2,843	1.16%
Chapter 34	Elend	1,932	0.79%
	Vin	1,648	0.67%
	Zane	943	0.39%
Chapter 35	Vin	527	0.22%
	Elend	347	0.14%
	Vin	3,361	1.38%
Chapter 36	Sazed	983	0.4%
	Breeze	2,345	0.96%
	Vin	3,190	1.31%
Chapter 37	Sazed	1,648	0.67%
	Elend	1,427	0.58%
Chapter 38	Vin	1,659	0.68%
	Elend	462	0.19%
	Vin	2,242	0.92%
	Elend	1,667	0.68%
Part 4: Knives
Chapter 39	Straff	2,252	0.92%
Chapter 40	Vin	4,669	1.91%
Chapter 41	Sazed	1,960	0.8%
	Elend	2,366	0.97%
Chapter 42	Elend	6,846	2.8%
Chapter 43	Vin	1,161	0.48%
	Wellen	377	0.15%
	Vin	2,798	1.14%
Chapter 44	Breeze	340	0.14%
	Elend	3,082	1.26%
Chapter 45	Sazed	4,306	1.76%
Chapter 46	Breeze	4,002	1.64%
	Vin	1,045	0.43%
	Zane	1,113	0.46%
Chapter 47	Vin	4,719	1.93%
	Zane	129	0.05%
	Vin	766	0.31%
Chapter 48	Elend	2,968	1.21%
	Sazed	185	0.08%
Part 5: Snow and Ash
Chapter 49	Elend	2,272	0.93%
	Breeze	816	0.33%
	Straff	1,334	0.55%
Chapter 50	Allrianne	1,585	0.65%
	Elend	1,228	0.5%
	Straff	541	0.22%
	Sazed	3,381	1.38%
Chapter 51	Vin	1,574	0.64%
	Sazed	499	0.2%
	Straff	179	0.07%
	Sazed	716	0.29%
	Vin	1,797	0.74%
Chapter 52	Breeze	864	0.35%
	Vin	541	0.22%
	Breeze	254	0.1%
	Sazed	1,613	0.66%
	Vin	2,144	0.88%
Chapter 53	Straff	300	0.12%
	Sazed	1,415	0.58%
	Breeze	510	0.21%
	Dockson	524	0.21%
	Straff	260	0.11%
	Cett	206	0.08%
	Sazed	1,197	0.49%
	Breeze	491	0.2%
Chapter 54	Vin	608	0.25%
	Sazed	765	0.31%
	Vin	1,484	0.61%
	Sazed	1,590	0.65%
Chapter 55	Straff	565	0.23%
	Vin	200	0.08%
	Cett	491	0.2%
	Sazed	1,307	0.53%
Part 5: Snow and Ash
Chapter 56	Elend	2,587	1.06%
Chapter 57	Sazed	1,383	0.57%
	Elend	264	0.11%
	Sazed	1,606	0.66%
	Elend	280	0.11%
	Sazed	243	0.1%
	Vin	760	0.31%
	Sazed	785	0.32%
	Vin	412	0.17%
	Sazed	766	0.31%
Chapter 58	Vin	112	0.05%
	Sazed	577	0.24%
	Elend	732	0.3%
	Sazed	988	0.4%
	Vin	349	0.14%
	Sazed	112	0.05%
	Vin	268	0.11%
	Sazed	59	0.02%
	Vin	821	0.34%
Chapter 59	Vin	665	0.27%
Epilogue	Sazed	1,562	0.64%
	Vin	397	0.16%

Unique POV Breakdown

Character (11)	# of POVs (147)	% of Total POVs	Word Count (244,371)	% of Word Count
Vin	52	35.37%	105,515	43.18%
Elend	35	23.81%	62,152	25.43%
Sazed	32	21.77%	50,341	20.6%
Breeze	8	5.44%	9,622	3.94%
Straff	9	6.12%	6,843	2.8%
Zane	5	3.4%	5,086	2.08%
Philen	1	0.68%	1,629	0.67%
Allrianne	1	0.68%	1,585	0.65%
Cett	2	1.36%	697	0.29%
Dockson	1	0.68%	524	0.21%
Wellen	1	0.68%	377	0.15%