Difference between revisions of "Mistfallen"

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As [[Ruin]] gained control and attempted to destroy all life on Scadrial, [[Preservation]]'s plan to thwart him was triggered.{{msh ref|1|2}} The [[Mist]]s, (thewhich are manifestation of his power), lashed out at seemingly random individuals, causingraising weakerpeople's individualsAllomantic to diepotential and otherssnapping tothem simplywith fallthe side effect of falling ill for a short time. Due to Ruin's intervention, the mists became more violent, killing the weaker ones in the process. [[Noorden]], [[Elend]]'s scribe, discovers that exactly 16 percent of any group of people that fall to the mists become sick, whether they be villagers, soldiers, etc.{{book ref|mb3|21}} Sixteen matched the (known) number of allomantic metals -- the exact percentage was a clue from Preservation that those who were struck (and were thereby [[snapping|snapped]]) wereinto mistings. Preservation chose to leave the clue this way so that even Ruin cannot alter it.

Some of the soldiers "attacked" by the mists in Elend's army were sick for two16 weeksdays{{book ref|mb3|40}} (sixteen days{{book ref|mb3|81}}) rather than a few days. They were also exactly 1/16th of the number of total men in the armythose thatwho were struck. Others in the army consider them to be cursed because they took longer to recover. Multiple fights break out between them and the mistfallen, (a name they presumably took upon themselves). Even General [[Demoux]] is struckattacked by a soldier, [[Bilg]], causing the soldier's execution. Elend finally decides to separate them from the main army, sending them away on the pretext of helping out the apparently dire situation in [[Luthadel]].{{book ref|mb3|47}}

Later, when Elend meets the mistfallen company in the [[Pits of Hathsin]], where the wealth of atium is hidden away from Ruin, he realizes that they were sick longer because they are the most powerful type of misting: an atium mistingmistings. Such a mistingmistings waswere not known to exist until Elend learned thatof [[Aradan Yomen]]'s is oneexample. Elend commands Demoux and his men to fightfought the attacking [[Koloss]] with atium Allomancy in order to buy them someElend time and burn away Ruin's body.{{book ref|mb3|81}}