Mistborn · Character

Jed

Also known as old Jed

  • Minor
  • First seen · Book 2 · Ch. 4

His form speaks of quiet rural endurance twisted into something nightmarish, gray hair wild in final disarray. Pallid skin stretches over a face frozen in unrelenting agony, ragged clothes whispering of fields long untended. An eerie stillness clings to him, pulling the eye with unspoken tragedy.

Gender
male
Age
old
First appears
Book 2 · Ch. 4
Books
1

Old Jed is discovered as a corpse among the first victims of the deadly mist sickness gripping the Outer Dominance, his body contorted in unnatural spasms with arms and legs twisted, face locked in a rictus of pain but bearing no wounds. As a simple farmer, his agonized remains serve as an early, horrifying indicator of the mists' lethal turn under the Well of Ascension's influence. His discovery heightens the growing dread of an incomprehensible plague ravaging the skaa.

Description

Jed, an elderly male of average build, lies with his corpse unnaturally twisted—arms and legs contorted in rigid angles, face locked in a grim rictus of pain. Disheveled gray hair frames his pallid skin, while ragged farmer clothes hang loosely on the frozen form. No overt wounds mark the agonized posture, lending an eerie, haunting quality to his rigid presence.

Story so far

  1. BOOK 2The Well of Ascension

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