Telsin Ladrian
Wax's sister, who loved to draw. Not dead in the carriage wreck after all — held somewhere by their uncle Edwarn, who confirms only that "your sister is safe" when Wax asks where she is on the train. MB2:AoL:Epilogue
Wax's sister, who loved to draw — her old artist's easel still sits in Ladrian Mansion. Died in the same accident that killed their uncle Edwarn; Wax grieves more for how distant he had let her become than for the loss itself. MB2:AoL:Ch 3 superseded at MB2:AoL:Epilogue
Known facts
- alive-in-edwarns-keepingNot dead in the carriage wreck after all. Edwarn tells Wax on the train only that "your sister is safe," and refuses to say where she is being kept.MB2:AoL:Epilogue
- revealed-as-set-and-outranks-suitTelsin is the uncle's mole inside Wax's expedition — and his superior in the Set. She holds the rank of Sequence, gives Suit his orders at the Sovereign's temple, and was not kidnapped by Edwarn at all: by her own admission to Wax in the chamber under the dais, *she recruited me*.MB2:BoM:Ch 26
- hemalurgically-spiked-allomancerTelsin reveals herself as an Allomancer in the chamber under the dais — a Steelpush deflects Wax's bullet, an aluminum gun he can't sense puts two rounds in him — and the gift is not natural but a Set spike hidden in her body.MB2:BoM:Ch 26
- heals-and-escapes-on-skimmerTelsin does not die in the snow after all. She heals from Wayne's shotgun blasts during the firefight on the plain, takes the parked skimmer aloft in the chaos, and slips away — leaving only a body-shaped pattern of frozen blood drops where she had fallen. Wax reads it and turns the loss into a vow.MB2:BoM:Ch 30
- autonomy-avatarHarmony saw, in the last moments before he went blind, the mortal Autonomy has chosen as her avatar on this planet — and it is Telsin. She is the one who persuaded Autonomy that the world has value enough to be controlled rather than destroyed; she is the one who presented a plan for its domination. Invested with a portion of Autonomy's power. The leader of the Set.MB2:TLM:Ch 19
- feruchemy-stores-painA Feruchemist can store their pain in a metalmind — Telsin mockingly invites Wayne to torture her if he wants, since she will simply feel none of it and learn to be bored. Whatever she has stored her pain into, she also tells him, the Set has learned to hide so that it cannot be pulled out of her.MB2:TLM:Ch 34
- eyes-glow-faint-redWhile the others stand frozen in Wayne's speed bubble around her, Marasi could swear that Telsin's eyes glow a soft red for a moment — the faintest light, gone again immediately — visible sign of Autonomy's Investiture in her.MB2:TLM:Ch 34
- claims-harmonys-agents-killed-parentsTells Wax on the Bilming rooftop that their parents' deaths were not an accident — they were killed by agents of Harmony trying to get to her, and Harmony has never admitted as much to Wax. Whether the claim is true or another of her tactical lies, Wax cannot tell; she reads his face and walks on.MB2:TLM:Ch 35
- autonomy-army-waiting-on-failureTells Wax that Autonomy has an *army of men of gold and red* held in reserve against her, breathing over her shoulder, ready to take this world herself if Telsin fails. Her path to keeping Autonomy off the Basin altogether is to remove Elendel's leadership and prove she can rule the planet on the god's behalf. Hints, too, at *redundancies upon redundancies* in the plan beyond a single bomb.MB2:TLM:Ch 35
- aims-to-become-sliver-of-autonomyStates her goal openly: once she is fully Invested — *a Sliver of Autonomy* — she will rebuild the Basin in Bilming's modern, efficient image. Her diagnosis of Elendel is that life under Harmony is too easy, too lush; no conflict, no strife, no innovation. That, she says, is what Autonomy has taught her.MB2:TLM:Ch 35
- holed-up-atop-the-shawThrough the trellium earring Wax reaches Telsin near the top of the Shaw and finds her giving frantic orders. She has stationed *hundreds of soldiers* — her Hidden Guard best — across thirty floors below her to stop him, and tells him from inside his head that she is about to *become something incredible* and that he should have left the city when she warned him to.MB2:TLM:Ch 61
- admits-hatred-of-waxAtop the Shaw, cornered after her decoy is exposed, Telsin tells Wax she has hated him for decades — not for any specific wound but because he always judged her without ever once admitting she might be right. The eye-glow deepens as she says it. It is the closest the book gets to a thesis of her resentment of her brother.MB2:TLM:Ch 66
- autonomy-begins-to-withdrawWaking on the smashed Shaw rooftop after Harmony's stun, Telsin feels wrung out and almost mortal. An engineer tells her Wax used a duralumin spike taken from a dead doppelganger to make an impossible Push. Autonomy tells her she is failing — that her failure begins — and the warmth inside her starts to leach away, her skin to grey. The relationship that has carried her through the book is, in this moment, beginning to end.MB2:TLM:Ch 69
- dies-on-the-shaw-with-a-messageTelsin is found dead atop the Shaw after the night of the detonation. Her skin has greyed, and on the grey of her own arm — scratched, Marasi understands, by her own fingernail — is the message her god has left through her body: an acknowledgement that the Basin has held its ground, *for now.* It is, Marasi notes with a chill, the same kind of strangely peaceful tableau in which the Ascendant Warrior and the Last Emperor were found at the end of the Catacendre.MB2:TLM:Epilogue
Events
- MB2:BoM:Prologue At sixteen, Asinthew's elder sister and the easy centre of the Village youths — colourful V-stripe robes, button nose, dark hair — who slips off with three friends to drink in the outsider city the moment Grandmother Vwafendal is called away.
- MB2:BoM:Ch 19 Visibly aged and worn, weeps in Wax's arms, sets her jaw, asks why he never came — and shoots the Coinshot brute dead in the doorway when he turns up.
- MB2:BoM:Ch 20 Tossed onto the ship's gunwale by Wax for safekeeping, climbs back down a rope ladder against orders to keep fighting; eyes frantic, gun cradled.
- MB2:BoM:Ch 20 Pours metal into the strange medallion strapped to her skin and gasps as her weight drops on the bolted-down seat.
- MB2:BoM:Ch 21 Pulls Wax aside to the back bench, cold and modern in her stylish dress, and demands they hunt the Bands themselves before their uncle can reach them.
- MB2:BoM:Ch 21 Sits in the very back of the flier, silent, cold.
- MB2:BoM:Ch 23 Hangs half out of the flier begging Wax to let her shoot their uncle herself, voice passionate.
- MB2:BoM:Ch 23 Strides on ahead through the snow alone, MeLaan tailing her, voicing nothing.
- MB2:BoM:Ch 23 Refuses to be left at the entrance — *I won't be shoved aside, Waxillium* — and follows MeLaan down the trapped corridor.
- MB2:BoM:Ch 24 Glances back over her shoulder constantly, arms wrapped around herself, dwelling on whether she ever actually grew up; tells Wax she has greying hair, half her life behind her, and no clue what any of it is for.
- MB2:BoM:Ch 25 Stays across the vestibule in the trap hallway with Wayne between her and Edwarn, lest she shoot their uncle the way she shot the bandit captain back in Dulsing; calls forward not to trust him — *He'll trick you. He always wins.*
- MB2:BoM:Ch 25 Tries to slip past Wax through the door first and is grabbed by the shoulder; once she's inside, asks how he can possibly wait *knowing what could be back there.*
- MB2:BoM:Ch 26 Reveals herself as the Set's Sequence, shoots Wax twice with an aluminum pistol, paralyses MeLaan and pulls both her spikes.
- MB2:BoM:Ch 27 Rips the warming medallions from the three captives, takes the decoy bracers from Suit, puts them on and burns a metal vial to test them; orders the captives searched thoroughly.
- MB2:BoM:Ch 28 Flung aside by Marasi the same way as Suit and scrambles off into the snow.
- MB2:BoM:Ch 29 Scrambles through snow toward the skimmer, takes Wayne's shotgun blast in the back; turns, recognises him, dies under a second shot.
- MB2:TLM:Ch 33 Walks down the basement stairs through Maraga's locked doors as if they were unlocked, dressed in a man's suit with cravat, irritated only that the envelope's underlined numbers turned out to be an address instead of a locker combination — hours of railway-station locker searches wasted.
- MB2:TLM:Ch 34 Sits on Maraga's basement steps, declines to answer Marasi's questions, mocks Wayne for thinking he can break her, *warns* Wax he has *only two precious days*, eyes faintly red when she is alone in the frozen room; walks her brother out for a conversation.
- MB2:TLM:Ch 35 Leans against the alley wall, then climbs the fire escape and stands at the Bilming rooftop railing, pitching Wax *go back to the Roughs and live*. Offers him Trell, Autonomy, a primer on the cosmere — at length, because the longer she talks the longer she keeps him distracted.
- MB2:TLM:Ch 65 Glimpsed by Wayne from above the rooftop, beside the rocket among engineers — mist held off her in a bubble of invisible glass, hands clasped, staring into the dark.
- MB2:TLM:Ch 66 Stands serenely beside the rocket in a bubble where the mist refuses to touch her, eyes glowing red, until Harmony stuns her and she drops.
Backreferences
- summaryMB2:AoL:Ch 3
- factEdwarn Ladrian
- summaryMB2:AoL:Epilogue
- factEdwarn Ladrian
- summaryMB2:BoM:Prologue
- factKwashim
- summaryMB2:BoM:Ch 3
- factWaxillium Ladrian
- factWaxillium Ladrian
- summaryMB2:BoM:Ch 14
- factWaxillium Ladrian
- summaryMB2:BoM:Ch 18
- summaryMB2:BoM:Ch 19
- summaryMB2:BoM:Ch 20
- factMedallion
- summaryMB2:BoM:Ch 21
- summaryMB2:BoM:Ch 23
- summaryMB2:BoM:Ch 24
- summaryMB2:BoM:Ch 25
- summaryMB2:BoM:Ch 26
- factMeLaan
- factTelsin Ladrian
- factTelsin Ladrian
- factSequence
- factThe Set's Hemalurgic Program
- factKandra-immobilizing fluid
- summaryMB2:BoM:Ch 27
- factWaxillium Ladrian
- summaryMB2:BoM:Ch 28
- factMarasi
- summaryMB2:BoM:Ch 29
- factWayne
- factWayne
- summaryMB2:BoM:Ch 30
- factWaxillium Ladrian
- factTelsin Ladrian
- summaryMB2:BoM:Ch 31
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 1
- factWaxillium Ladrian
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 15
- factWaxillium Ladrian
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 19
- factWaxillium Ladrian
- factTelsin Ladrian
- factAutonomy
- factAutonomy
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 20
- factBilming's Brutalist Reconstruction
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 27
- factWaxillium Ladrian
- factThe Set
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 33
- factThe Rocket
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 34
- factWaxillium Ladrian
- factWayne
- factTelsin Ladrian
- factTelsin Ladrian
- factThe Set
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 35
- factWaxillium Ladrian
- factWaxillium Ladrian
- factTelsin Ladrian
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 37
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 46
- factWaxillium Ladrian
- factGave Entrone
- factElendel Bomb Frame-Up
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 47
- factGave Entrone
- factAutonomy's Invading Army
- factBilming Navy
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 55
- factAutonomy
- factAutonomy
- factThe Community
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 57
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 61
- factWaxillium Ladrian
- factTelsin Ladrian
- factThe Hidden Guard
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 62
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 65
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 66
- factHarmony
- factTelsin Ladrian
- factDecoy Rocket
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 69
- factTelsin Ladrian
- factGabria
- factAutonomy
- summaryMB2:TLM:Epilogue
- factTelsin Ladrian
- summaryMB2:SoS:Ch 4
- factWaxillium Ladrian