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mistwraith

Also known as mistwraiths

creature

Malleable, translucent scavenger with dozens of mismatched animal limbs and multiple heads fused into single bulbous body; crawls awkwardly like centipede; ten feet tall, twice as long

Category: creature
First appears: Book 1 · Ch. 8
Books: 5

Mistwraiths begin as the grotesque scavengers of the Final Empire's misty nights: translucent, malleable masses that fuse mismatched animal bones, limbs, and heads into horrifying bodies and crawl like enormous centipedes after carrion. The Well of Ascension and The Hero of Ages reveal them as kin to the kandra, mindless cousins that build skeletons from whatever they scavenge, including stone, metal, and wood. In the Homeland they are kept smaller and are tied directly to the kandra's origins. By the era of The Lost Metal, mistwraiths have faded into folklore as face-stealing monsters said to hide under beds, while a far stranger, pitch-black tentacled figure that repels the mist rises from the ocean dark and twists the old legend into something new and alien.

Evolution

BOOK 1Mistborn: The Final Empire
Malleable, translucent scavenger with dozens of mismatched animal limbs and multiple heads fused into single bulbous body; crawls awkwardly like centipede; ten feet tall, twice as long
BOOK 2The Well of Ascension
Large goopy amorphous mass, scavenger related to kandra, constructs skeleton from random bones, lurks in mists following scents for trash to eat.
BOOK 3The Hero of Ages
Translucent, oozing masses of muscle and flesh with mismatched stone, metal, or wood forming unnatural bones like angled feet, heads on arms, rib-legs; cousins to kandra, smaller in Homeland.
BOOK 4The Lost Metal (The Mistborn Saga)
Mist-associated creature that steals faces of known people, hides under beds
BOOK 7The Lost Metal
Pitch black humanoid silhouette with hundred curling tentacles, repels mist, emerges from ocean darkness