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|world=Scadrial
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
|first appeared=[[The Hero of Ages]]
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== Appearance and Personality ==
{{image|MeLaan
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|Thy snoring is rather loud. It doth be like unto a hundred angry koloss in the middle of a rockslide. Lo, and it doth come near to waking the dead.
MeLaan often takes the form of a very tall (several inches taller than the notably tall Waxillium) and very busty woman named Milan. This True Body is made of a green crystal. However, she also has several others, including one that is ostensibly designed for combat. The skeleton underneath is revealed to be made entirely of aluminum, with many useful implements hidden inside including a reinforced compartment for storage of the part of her that stores her consciousness, needles for stitching wounds, and a set of picks for opening locks. This metal body is very durable (A Feruchemist Brute punched her in the face and her hand essentially exploded).
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Her favorite True Body is emerald.{{book ref|mb7|12}}
Notably, her personality is much more free spirited than most kandra, and she gets along very well with Wayne, engaging in belching contests on occasion. She is also more lax about following the First Contract than other kandra, and is willing to kill humans if she has to.
== Attributes and Abilities ==
As a Kandra, she possesses the ability to shapeshift into various different forms around her True Body. She is also an immortal being, able to live for centuries, and survive wounds that would be fatal to most biological entities, she is also capable of turning off her pain receptors.{{book ref|mb6|24}} She is capable of reforming her body to unlock simple locks.{{book ref|bom|29}} And like all Kandra she can make her flesh go transparent in order to reveal her True Body.
She has various True Bodies made out of various materials, such as emerald and [[aluminum]]. She sometimes uses ones with hidden weapons, such as swords in her arms.{{book ref|mb6|16}} She can also store guns in her body, which she can pull out at will. Unlike most kandra, she doesn't necessarily follow the First Contract, and thus has little qualms about killing.▼
As a kandra, she has unknown hemalurgic blessings which grant her powers, form, and sapience. If these spikes are removed, she reverts back to her mistwraith state,{{book ref|mb6|26}} returning these to her would return her back to her kandra state.{{book ref|mb6|29}}
She is a [[Worldhopper]], and thus knows how to use Shadesmar to pass between worlds.{{book ref|mb7|11}}{{book ref|mb7|epilogue|6}}
▲She has various True Bodies made out of various materials, such as aluminum. She sometimes uses ones with hidden weapons, such as swords in her arms.{{book ref|mb6|16}} She can also store guns in her body, which she can pull out at will.
== History ==
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Before becoming a Kandra, she existed as a mistwraith for an unknown amount of time. But in the seventh century of the Lord Ruler's reign, she was granted form and sapience by Hemalurgic spikes, becoming a kandra of the Seventh Generation.{{book ref|mb3|62}} TenSoon was appointed as her "parent", and tasked with raising her as she developed.{{wob ref|7510}}
Following the Catacendre, her loyalty shifted to Harmony, as she began to follow his orders and act as his hands in the world. It is not known what she did over the majority of the over three centuries between the Catacendre and her interactions with Wax and Wayne.
MeLaan was the kandra who gave [[Waxillium Ladrian]] his earring; a hemalurgic spike to let Harmony communicate with him,{{wob ref|10004}}
==== Paalm's Madness ====
Later, she met Wax, [[Wayne]], and [[Marasi]] at a tavern. She went on to help them on their quest to defeat [[Bleeder]]. MeLaan impersonated one of Governor [[Replar Innate]]'s guards and saved Wax from Bleeder after the rogue kandra revealed herself.{{book ref|mb5|22}}
With Bleeder unmasked and on the run, MeLaan attempted to impersonate Governor Innate in her stead with the intent of placating the angry crowed. While the crowd believed the ruse, MeLaan's natural inclinations to mimicry moved her away from the speech that Marasi planed and she ended up inflaming the crowd instead of calming the people down. Before a riot could break out, [[Aradel]] intervened. He arrested MeLaan and gained the support of the gathered citizenry by promising them justice.{{book ref|mb5|26}}
MeLaan did not know about the true identity of Bleeder and was told only afterward. However she firmly believed that Harmony had done the right thing in not informing Wax of the true identity of his antagonist. After the defeat of Bleeder she continued to impersonate Governor Innate, "hanging" herself in her cell so that she did not have to falsely testify in a court of law.{{book ref|mb5|Epilogue}}
==== Worldhopping ====
After the events involving the Bands of Mourning, she began her relationship with Wayne in earnest
At some point during this period, she began to favor a more androgynous form.{{book ref|mb7|11}}
Six years later, Harmony gave her a mission of going to other worlds in the cosmere to help deal with the rising threat of [[Trell (Trellism)| Trell]]. Before she left, she broke up with Wayne.{{book ref|mb7|12}}
While in the Cognitive Realm, she met with a [[Sho Del]] named [[Jan Ven]], who ferried her across the interplanetary sea.{{book ref|mb7|epilogue|6}} At some point during this boat ride, nineteen months after the detonation of the Set's harmonium bomb, she received a message from Harmony about Wayne's death, shortly before arriving on the shores of a currently unknown planet.{{book ref|mb7|epilogue|6}}
== Relationships ==
=== Wayne ===
She is in a close relationship with Wayne, with him being attracted to her easy-going manner and free spirit,{{book ref|mb5|13}} and her admiring his skill in accents and disguises, considering him "wasted as a human."{{book ref|mb5|19}} After the events in the south, she began a romantic relationship with him, despite the warnings from her fellow Kandra about how differently humans experience time.{{book ref|mb7|12}}
The relationship wasn't as meaningful to her as it was to him, due to differences in how they experienced the passing of time, but she still treasured her time with him,{{book ref|mb7|12}} and greatly mourned his death.{{book ref|mb7|epilogue|6}} She thought of it as a mere fling at first, but it was far more to her, as he made her forget what she was and made her forget what was the smart thing to do.{{book ref|mb7|epilogue|6}} Six years into their relationship, MeLaan breaks up with Wayne because she has a mission from Harmony, and if she stayed it wouldn’t be because she wanted to but because she didn’t want to hurt him.{{book ref|mb7|13}}
Their relationship is sexual in nature, she claims that he gave her the best sex she's known.{{book ref|mb6|9}}{{book ref|mb7|12}} They are known to have engaged in bondage.{{book ref|mb7|37}} This has been confirmed as the honest truth, but that she lived a sheltered life so didn't have much to compare it to.{{wob ref|16018}}
=== Wax ===
She was the one who gave Wax the Hemalurgic spike
== Trivia ==
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