The Lord Mistborn
A legendary founder of Elendel and its oldest noble lines. As Marasi reads through Wax's genealogy chart, the figure is framed as a near-mythic Allomancer held to have manifested the full set of metal powers in one person — and the urban ordinances of the basin still trace back to architecture he laid down. MB2:AoL:Ch 7
A founding figure invoked in connection with the oldest Elendel bloodlines; many of the city's great houses trace their descent back to him. MB2:AoL:Ch 4 superseded at MB2:AoL:Ch 7
Known facts
- hemalurgy-experimentation-warningIn his writings on Hemalurgy, Lestibournes argues that almost anything can in principle be made by rewriting a Spiritual aspect through a spike — but the failure rate so vastly outweighs the success rate that even the Lord Ruler only managed koloss who killed each other for sport and kandra who fell apart without spikes. His advice to future generations is to confine themselves to transferring abilities and leave the creature-making alone.MB2:BoM:Ch 6
- voluntary-metalborn-spike-proposalIn the same book, the Lord Mistborn sets out a proposal that elderly or terminally ill Metalborn be approached and asked to surrender their abilities at death by being spiked, so that the resulting Hemalurgic spikes can be used to build individuals of greater power. He admits the idea is disturbing and argues it anyway; Marasi finds the case difficult to dismiss.MB2:BoM:Ch 6
- breeze-wrote-his-speechesMarasi finds, in the book's casual tone, an admission Lestibournes makes in passing: that Breeze wrote most of the speeches and inscriptions attributed to him during his century of rule. The famous quotations of the Lord Mistborn are, as a rule, Breeze's words.MB2:BoM:Ch 6
Backreferences
- summaryMB2:AoL:Ch 4
- summaryMB2:AoL:Ch 7
- summaryMB2:AoL:Ch 10
- summaryMB2:BoM:Ch 3
- summaryMB2:BoM:Ch 6
- factThe Lord Mistborn
- summaryMB2:BoM:Ch 10
- factThe Copper Gate
- summaryMB2:BoM:Ch 19
- factMeLaan
- factThe Bands of Mourning
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 4
- summaryMB2:SoS:Ch 8
- factFirst Central Bank
- factThe Defective Coin
- summaryMB2:SoS:Ch 15
- summaryMB2:SoS:Ch 19
- factOriginators' Tomb
- summaryMB2:SoS:Epilogue
- factClaude Aradel