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Large statues of her and Elend stand atop their tomb and museum in the [[Field of Rebirth]] and dominate the area.{{book ref|mb4|10}} In [[New Seran]], an old, sunken statue of Vin, eight feet tall and made of black marble, resides in a graveyard among the graves of the impoverished.{{book ref|mb6|13}} [[Ranette]] created a gun which she named [[Vindication]], after Vin.{{book ref|mb4|14}} Vin is depicted ripping out the Lord Ruler's insides in several illustrated religious texts.{{book ref|mb6|2}} In some artwork of her, such as the murals in [[Kelesina Shores]]' mansion in New Seran, she is depicted rising above a flock of ravens, symbolic of Steel Inquisitors.{{book ref|mb6|12}}

 

Being a Mistborn, Vin has the ability to access and burn all of the Allomantic metals. Vin showed proficiency in using her abilities with even Kelsier mentioning her talent surpassing his own. However due to the limitations of the Final Empire, Vin had no experience burning Nicrosil, Chromium, Cadmium, or Bendalloy. In addition Vin’s natural curiousity and ingenuity allowed for extreme demonstrations of her power. A great example of Vin’s ingenuity is the discovery of Duralumin. Knowing that every pure allomantic metal had a supplementary alloy, Vin contracted metallurgists to develop multiple alloy variations for testing.

 

Vin demonstrated varying proficiencies in her allomantic usage. This is primarily caused by Vin’s predilection toward combat oriented metals, and her being a full [[Allomancy#Mistborn|Mistborn]]. If she could not immediately see how a particular metal could aid in a fight, Vin would often consider them less useful. However for the time period, Vin developed a deep understanding of allomantic theory. She was considered the most powerful Mistborn of her time even with [[Elend Venture]] consuming Lerasium directly, and therefore not suffering a dilution of power from genetic transfer.

 

'''[[Electrum]]-''' The “poor man’s atium” Vin uses electrum to fight Steel Inquisitors when it appeared the supply of atium had depleted.

 

In terms of melee combat and weapon skills, Vin was very talented. Having undergone training in combat from both Kelsier (a full [[Allomancy#Mistborn|mistborn]]), and Hammond (an accomplished thug), Vin has developed a unique set of skill. Primarily using obsidian daggers to prevent Allomantic influence by her opponents, Vin uses various steel pushes and iron pulls to quickly maneuver around the battlefield. Doing so she will often surprise her opponents by striking from unforeseen angles. Vin will often utilize tricks to allow her to position herself for surprise attacks as well. An example of this is pushing her coin pouch away to make it seem as if she was moving in that direction, only to strike from an alternate one. In addition to the use of daggers Vin has been trained in the use of staffs, and even handled a koloss great sword to devastating affect. Though in the case of the sword Vin wielded through the strength granted by pewter and not pure skill.

 

Later when she took the shard of Preservation, Vin was imbued with a large amount of power. She was shown to be able to augment the powers of Allomancers as seen when she strengthened Elend's Allomantic abilities.

 

Despite Vin's amazing displays of allomancy and melee prowess, she is still extremely small in stature. When deprived of allomantic metals, Vin is left weak and nearly defenseless. When forced to burn aluminum, she was unable to achieve any reasonable resistance against her captors.