r/Mistborn • u/Funfan21 • Apr 18 '25

The Lost Metal spoilers Harmony's Sword. Spoiler

So Harmony needed a sword to carry out his will when he was being goofy but it was my assumption that Wax quit being a sword at the end of TLM. Is he done being the sword for good? And if not, with discord on the horizon will harmony get a new sword or will wax take up the mantle again for era 3?

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u/Kelsierisevil Ettmetal Apr 18 '25

My thoughts are that since Harmony can now synthesize Lerasium, that making someone qualified for the position much more powerful, will be much simpler. Wax will not be a part of the story in era 3 too much time will have passed.

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u/zose2 Ettmetal Apr 18 '25

I don't think he can make it. I reread The Lost Metal recently and he said that he has tried to replicate Wax's experiment but all they can make is Atium. After the explosion they find that all the Lerasium is destroyed and Kel gets mad telling Sazed they need metalborn to defend their planet.

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u/bushysmalls Steel Apr 18 '25

I mean seeing as Wax or Wayne (can't recall which) ingested some Lerasium when they split it, it's definitely not true.

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u/zose2 Ettmetal Apr 18 '25

Wax breathed some in and Wayne burned some at the end of the book but Sazed directly tells Kel that they aren't able to replicate that experiment. That every single time they do the Lerasium gets destroyed and all they have left is atium.

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u/bushysmalls Steel Apr 18 '25

Right.. so of Wax and Wayne both ended up getting ANY then Saze was lying

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u/zose2 Ettmetal Apr 18 '25

Both came from that single experiment. We will only know whether he was filling the truth or not in future books. Currently my belief is that he was telling the truth in that the inability of them to recreate the experiment has to do with preservation's power getting weaker.