Mistborn

Kelsier

Kelsier

Once, Kelsier was one of the most successful thieves in The Final Empire. He had grown rich robbing noblemen in the empire’s capital city of Luthadel. So emboldened was he by his thieving, that he put together a job to do the impossible, rob the empire’s God-King himself, the Lord Ruler. He was caught, and the job ended in tragedy, getting him and his wife sent away to work and die in a mine for the rest of their lives. But that was not to be his end. On the day his wife was killed by taskmasters of the mine, he awoke to his Allomantic powers, gaining a suite of tremendously powerful abilities he could use by ingesting metals. Using his abilities he escaped the mines and eventually returned to his old crew for one last insane job, killing the Lord Ruler and ending the Final Empire.

Unenhanced Physical

  • Kelsier reacts to Vin pulling a nail towards herself without Allomantic enhancement (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 7)

Skill

  • Kelsier kills everyone in an entire manor filled with guards alone (source) (The Final Empire Prologue)
  • Kelsier uses his Allomancy to quickly and silently take out a guard (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 5)
  • Kelsier makes his footsteps quiet enough that Vin, who is specifically listening for them, does not hear them (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 6)
  • Kelsier kills two guards before either can cry out (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 14)
  • After making it dark, Kelsier quickly dispatches an entire squadron of soldiers (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 14)

Pewter - Strength

  • Using Pewter, Kelsier drives a glass shard through the neck of another man (source) (The Eleventh Metal)
  • Using Pewter and Ironpulling, Kelsier rips a large safe out of a wall it’s embedded into (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 5)
  • Kelsier catches an attack from a dueling cane and holds the man there until a pulled piece of metal knocks him out (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 5)
  • Kelsier cuts a guard’s head clean off with a sword (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 5)
  • Kelsier sends a guard flying with a kick (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 14)
  • Kelsier breaks a Steel Inquisitor’s arm with a strike (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 14)
  • Using Pewter and Steel, Kelsier rips a metal door off a prison cart (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 33)
  • Kelsier embeds an Inquisitor’s spikes in a wooden cart by smashing him on the head with a cobblestone (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 34)

Pewter - Speed

  • Kelsier reacts to and dodges another Mistborn launching coins at him (source) (The Eleventh Metal)
  • Using Pewter, Kelsier runs significantly faster than a canal boat can carry travelers for over 16 hours (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 26)
  • Kelsier and his companions reach their destination in two days, while it takes two weeks for others to return the same distance (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 26)

Pewter - Durability

  • Pewter allows Kelsier to survive a long, barely slowed fall without even a broken bone (source) (The Eleventh Metal)
  • While burning Pewter, Kelsier ignores cuts from a shard of glass and strikes that break his bones to stab another Mistborn in the neck (source) (The Eleventh Metal)
  • Pewter enhances Kelsier’s durability to prevent him from splattering against a stone wall he’s flying into at high speeds (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 5)
  • Kelsier blocks a hit from a dueling cane (source) (Mistborn Chapter 5)
  • Pewter mostly protects Kelsier from a blow that would break a normal man’s ribs (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 5)

Pewter - Other

  • Pewter grants Kelsier enhanced balance, allowing him to stand atop a sphere the size of a human head with one foot (source) (The Eleventh Metal)
  • Burning Pewter allows Kelsier to push or pull on an object harder (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 5)
  • Burning Pewter prevents Kelsier from collapsing due to heavy wounds (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 5)

Steel and Iron - Steel Lines

  • When burning Steel or Iron, Kelsier sees metal lines pointing from his chest to every nearby piece of metal (source) (The Eleventh Metal)
  • Kelsier drops coins on the ground and uses them to see where he’s going in a completely dark room (source) (The Eleventh Metal)
  • Burning Steel allows Kelsier to make out guards from a far away keep (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 5)
  • Kelsier pulls himself across a long distance, needing to enhance his strength to avoid splattering against a wall (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 5)
  • Steel lines allow Kelsier to detect Vin through a wooden wall by her metal belt buckle (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 6)

Steel and Iron - Mobility

  • Kelsier easily hops over a 15 foot wall (source) (The Eleventh Metal)
  • Using Iron, Kelsier tethers himself to any metal object and pulls himself to it (source) (The Eleventh Metal)
  • By using his entire bag of coins, Kelsier pushes himself up to the top of a tall building; the more metal pushed on, the higher one can go (source) (The Eleventh Metal)
  • Kelsier uses Steel and Iron to push himself from rooftop to rooftop (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 5)
  • Kelsier performs long jump arcs with Steelpushing and Ironpulling (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 5)
  • Pushing down on a metal ingot allows Kelsier to fly to the top of a large metal wall (source) (The Final Empire Chapters 7 and 8)
  • Vin estimates Kelsier has gone about a hundred feet into the air (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 8)
  • Kelsier quickly launches himself over a city wall (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 26)
  • Kelsier guides himself through a metal cage thrown at him (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 34)

Steel and Iron - Combat

  • Kelsier pushes against two guards with metal breastplates, sending them flying off a balcony (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 5)
  • Kelsier pulls open a trapdoor mechanism (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 5)
  • Kelsier rips a sword out of a guard’s hand (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 5)
  • Kelsier pushes on a sword as he swings it, letting it go after the swing to embed it in a guard’s chest (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 5)
  • Kelsier pushes on a bag of coins, sending himself and an enemy flying back (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 5)
  • Kelsier launches a paperweight at an opponent faster than they can raise a shield (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 5)
  • Kelsier pulls the paperweight back, knocking out a man by hitting him in the back of the head (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 5)
  • Kelsier deftly manipulates a single ingot using Iron and Steel to take out several guards (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 5)
  • When two Allomancers push on the same piece of metal, they are both flung backwards (source) (The Eleventh Metal)
  • Kelsier pulls a metal ingot into his hand from about 100 feet away (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 8)
  • Kelsier catches Vin and guides her to the ground using a weighted belt she’s wearing (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 8)
  • While Vin and Kelsier push on the same coin, Kelsier eventually pushes Vin through a tree (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 9)
  • Kelsier subtly uses Steel and Iron to make a man win a sword duel he is heavily disadvantaged in (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 21)
  • Kelsier lands in the midst of a group of guards and sends them all flying with an omnidirectional push (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 33)
  • Kelsier pulls against a metal door to take out a squad of soldiers (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 33)
  • Kelsier sends a crowd flying away, creating a pocket for him and an Inquisitor to fight (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 33)
  • Kelsier uses his skill at steelpushing and ironpulling to projectileize a soldier directly behind him into an Inquisitor, knocking both into a cart (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 34)
  • Kelsier breaks a metal cage into many pieces and sends them all at an Inquisitor (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 34)
  • Using the same metal cage pieces, Kelsier deflects nearly every arrow fired by a squad of archers (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 34)
  • Kelsier launches his body into an Inquisitor, causing it to drop its axe (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 34)
  • Kelsier expertly manipulates the trajectory of his body as well as a multitude of small pieces of metal, to the point that an Inquisitor burning Atium struggles to defend against every piece (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 34)
  • Kelsier uses the metal to prevent the Inquisitor from using steelpushing or ironpulling to escape, and bloodies and causes the Inquisitor to stumble with his attacks (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 34)

Steel and Iron - Other

  • Kelsier pushes a multitude of Steel launched coins away from him (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 5)
  • Kelsier quickly tears every light source out of a wall and disperses them (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 14)

Zinc and Brass

  • Kelsier soothes Vin’s worry away (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 3)
  • Kelsier riots a man’s fear and belligerence so he speaks out about worries Kelsier was unwilling to, then gets him to agree to a duel (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 21)
  • Kelsier uses Zinc to counter the Lord Ruler’s aura of depression (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 26)

Tin

  • Kelsier hears a woman being taken towards a noble’s manor from a few houses away (source) (The Final Empire Prologue)
  • Burning Tin allows Kelsier to see through mist better (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 5)
  • Burning Tin increases all of Kelsier’s senses at once (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 5)

Bronze

  • Kelsier senses another Allomancer he cannot perceive otherwise in the mists (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 19)
  • Each Allomantic ability gives off a specific pulse, allowing Kelsier to recognize the people he is watching are burning Tin (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 19)

Copper

  • While burning Copper, Kelsier cannot be detected by another Mistborn, and cannot have his emotions influenced by one (source) (The Eleventh Metal)

Atium

  • Burning Atium allows a user to see what a person will do a couple seconds ahead of time, as well as speed up the brain to process the information (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 13)
  • If two people burn Atium, they both create a multitude of images due to both reacting to the Atium shadows, causing the effects to cancel out (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 13)
  • Using Atium, Kelsier sees the path of and intercepts a large amount of arrows (source) (The Final Empire Chapter 34)
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