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The '''mistfallen''' were a group of Seers, or [[Allomanceratium]] [[misting]]s during the last stages of the [[New Empire]] on [[Scadrial]].
 
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 (the manifestation of his power) lashed out at seemingly random individuals, causing weaker individuals to die and others to simply fall ill for a short time. [[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]]) were mistings.
Mistfallen are distinguished from the other soldiers in [[Elend]]'s army because they are sick for sixteen days after being snapped by the mists instead of one and exhibit no apparent Allomantic powers. The other soldiers are superstitious of them because they are supposedly cursed by the mists. The soldiers ostracised them and begin to spar with them, causing Elend to order them to be separated into a different company.{{book ref|mb3|40}}
 
Some of the soldiers "attacked" by the mists in Elend's army were sick for two weeks{{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 army that 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 struck by a soldier, causing his 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, [[Aradan Yomen]]'s revelation that he is an [[atium]] [[Misting]] leads Elend and [[Vin]] to discover that the mistfallen are atium mistings. In the final battle, Elend employs the company of mistfallen to burn away [[Ruin]]'s body of atium to prevent him from getting it.{{book ref|mb3|50}}
 
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 misting. Such a misting was not known to exist until Elend learned that [[Aradan Yomen]] is one. Elend commands Demoux and his men to fight the attacking [[Koloss]] in order to buy them some time and burn away Ruin's body.{{book ref|mb3|81}}
 
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