Alternate Self: Miles's other ability besides healing is to burn gold, allowing him to see his past self and who he could have become.Wax later confessed was just trying to hit the man, since his aim with knives isn't very good. Accidental Aiming Skills: Wax jokes that he once hit a criminal in the eye with a throwing knife while aiming for his balls.

Ace Custom: Wax starts the story with his two Sterion revolvers, then ends it with those and the Vindicator, all specially designed revolvers.Later Wax get a few special bullets of his own, each bullet designed to work against a specific type of Allomancer by behaving differently then a normal bullet when the Allomancer uses their allomancy on it. Abnormal Ammo: The Vanishers have aluminum bullets, designed to be used against an Allomancer, since the bullets would not be affected by allomancy.This novel provides examples of the following tropes: The sequel, Shadows of Self, was released in October of 2015. Despite his attempts to stay out of it, Wax is soon drawn in by his friend Wayne, and finds that the scheme hits closer to home than expected. His house depends on him, and the city has enough lawmen of its own.īut criminals called the Vanishers are staging high-drama robberies and kidnapping women. He enters into an arrangement with a young woman for a marriage of mutual benefit, firmly resolving to put his past behind him, no matter how much he wishes he could just fly into the night, fighting criminals and saving people. On the day he receives a summons back home (which he intends to ignore), the insane outlaw Bloody Tam tricks him into shooting his girlfriend, Lessie.įive months later, with nothing else left in his life, Wax returns to Elendel to take up the Ladrian family name and return the house to solvency following his uncle's carousing and poor business deals.

Waxillium Ladrian is a lawman out in the Roughs, the untamed land beyond the mountains. First book in the Wax and Wayne series, a Sequel Series to Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn: The Original Trilogy.

The alloy of law