Moogle Posted October 6, 2015 Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 We still don't know what power Wax has gotten from his earring, but I did find another instance of Wax feeling mysteriously more powerful in the mists: “Yes. It’s not as bad as it looks.” Wax took off, the woman running at his side. The wound hurt like hell, but there was something about the mists.… He felt stronger in them. It shouldn’t be so— he was no Pewterarm— but there it was. Wax feels this at the end of AoL as well: The punch slammed Wax down to the ground, and he tasted blood. Rust and Ruin … he’d be lucky if his jaw wasn’t broken. He also felt like he’d ripped something in his shoulder. His wounds suddenly seemed to crash down upon him. He didn’t know if it was the mists, some action of Harmony, or simple adrenaline that had helped him ignore them for a time. But he hadn’t been healed. His side screamed from where he’d been shot, and his leg and arm had been burned and scraped raw by the explosion. He’d been clipped by bullets in the thigh and the arm. And now, Miles’s beating. Both times he is wearing his earring. So to reiterate the theory from a while ago, I suspect that Wax's earring has an Allomantic pewter charge (with next to nothing left) and Harmony is directly powering his pewter while he's in the mists. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argent he/him Posted October 7, 2015 Report Share Posted October 7, 2015 Plausible. I noticed that he was feeling stronger in the mists sometimes, but I didn't make the pewter connection. We should verify that this doesn't happen after he gives the earring up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSC01 he/him Posted October 7, 2015 Report Share Posted October 7, 2015 Yeah, I suspect pewter, as well. As to how much charge it has, who knows? Whatever Investiture he's getting is coming directly from the mists, and Sazed could be intentionally making it subtle so as to not too directly sway the balance. If he ever tried to burn pewter, it might be quite a bit more dramatic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galavantes Posted October 7, 2015 Report Share Posted October 7, 2015 Right, to me it seems similar to Vin's burning of pewter before she understood what she was doing. She was burning trace amounts in her blood to the same effect. Vin, however, was a very strong mistborn with a very small amount of investiture from the trace pewter. Wax seem like he is the opposite; a very weak ability with pewter granted from his earring with a very large amount of investiture that he can pull from the mists. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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