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Shan Elariel

Known facts

sootherLady Shan is a Soother. Vin catches the touch on her own emotions during a summons to Shan's table — a faint pull at her wariness — and recognises it from Breeze's training.MB1:TFE:Ch 18
is-a-sootherShan is a Soother and uses Allomancy casually in private conversation — Soothing her target's frustration and resistance flat while she delivers whatever insult or instruction she has come to deliver. Vin burns copper against her but still feels the touch.MB1:TFE:Ch 23
presses-vin-against-elendAt the Hasting ball Shan corners Lady Valette, delivers a string of polished insults, and tells her to spy on the titles of the books in Elend Venture's library — read the first pages of each, memorise the titles, and report back. She makes it plain that crossing her would be unwise.MB1:TFE:Ch 23

MB1:TFE:Ch 18 Summons Lady Valette to her table by way of her Terris steward, dismisses her own retinue, and tries to extract — under a careful Soother's pressure — what Elend had said to her, while her steward quietly searches Elend's books at the other table.
MB1:TFE:Ch 23 Strolls up to Vin's conversation circle, sends Milen running with a single barbed line, walks Vin off into a corner, and presses her — under the steady touch of Soothing — into agreeing to spy on Elend Venture's private library.
MB1:TFE:Ch 28 Holds court at her table on the main floor and dismisses Vin when she approaches — the spying assignment Vin was given at Keep Hasting is, abruptly, withdrawn.
MB1:TFE:Ch 30 Leads the assassination team onto the Keep Venture roof in mistcloak — revealed for the first time as a full Mistborn — and pursues Vin to the gatehouse wall, where she finally falls to a broken arrow shaft after burning down her own atium.

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