Armal
A distant cousin of Steris and Marasi on the Harms side, kidnapped by Miles Hundredlives and the Vanishers seven years ago in Wax's first Elendel case — found by Marasi in Wayfarer, married and with children, an unregistered Rioter herself, certain the world above has ended in ashfall. MB2:TLM:Ch 56
A cousin of Steris's, taken hostage by the Vanishers when they robbed the Coolerim Playhouse two nights before the chapter. Nothing has been heard from her since; Steris looks ill at the mention. MB2:AoL:Ch 2 superseded at MB2:TLM:Ch 56
Known facts
- unregistered-rioterArmal is an unregistered Rioter — even her own family did not know — which is part of why the Set took her in the Vanishers raid seven years ago. The lottery that selected her for the Community was weighted toward Allomancers and women of childbearing age; she is now married to a fellow captive, with children, and lives at the head of a small circle of residents who quietly distrust Lord Mayor Entrone.MB2:TLM:Ch 56
- rioted-with-pure-investitureQuietly persuaded by Marasi in the Wayfarer townhome and then again by Entrone's own broadcast voice over the radio, Armal arrives at the mansion patio just in time, smashes a jar of pure Investiture at her feet to fuel her gift, and unloads a directional Rioting of shame and worthlessness — at the strength, Marasi estimates, of *a thousand Allomancers* — that catches Entrone as he is lifting Marasi for the kill. With his aluminum hat knocked off, the unspiked townspeople-led arrest holds.MB2:TLM:Ch 59
- reaches-the-surfaceYears after she was abducted into the Community and told the world above had ended, Armal climbs out of a hatch in a Bilming warehouse district behind Marasi and looks at the real city — at electric lights through the mist, at a sky that is not a sheet on a wall. She does not weep so much as ask Marasi whether the people who had this from the start used it.MB2:TLM:Ch 68
Events
- MB2:TLM:Ch 57 Sits with Marasi in the Wayfarer townhome, eventually persuaded (or close enough to it) to lead Marasi along a back promenade of fake trees to Entrone's mansion at the edge of town; turns Marasi's credentials over in her hand as the realisation sets in that the date stamps are real.
- MB2:TLM:Ch 59 Leads Marasi and a knot of Wayfarer townspeople along the back promenade to Entrone's mansion, then — overhearing his radio confession of the invasion — smashes a jar of pure Investiture on the patio, unleashes a thousand-Allomancer-strength Rioting of shame, and finishes binding Entrone while a fellow Leecher drains his healing.
- MB2:TLM:Ch 60 Stands over Entrone on the patio of his Wayfarer mansion, holds the Riot of shame until it pins him to the painted stone, then quietly ties him and reports that one of the others (a Leecher) has drained his healing.
- MB2:TLM:Ch 64 Riots full-cone full-automatic from Investiture while the Community Allomancers drain the pool around Marasi.
- MB2:TLM:Ch 68 Climbs up after Marasi into the surface room; pulls Marasi up short with the question about whether she has used her seven years of freedom.
- MB2:TLM:Ch 71 Walks with Marasi and a few of her surface friends toward Blantach's offices.
Backreferences
- summaryMB2:AoL:Ch 2
- summaryMB2:AoL:Ch 4
- summaryMB2:AoL:Ch 5
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 56
- factArmal
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 57
- factMarasi
- factGave Entrone
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 59
- factArmal
- factGave Entrone
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 60
- factRioter
- factRioter
- factMarasi
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 64
- factThe Perpendicularity Pool
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 68
- factMarasi
- factArmal
- factThe Community
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 71
- summaryMB2:TLM:Epilogue