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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: 3

Mistwraiths begin as grotesque, centipede-like scavengers in the Final Empire, their translucent bodies a patchwork of mismatched animal limbs and fused heads. By the time of the Catacendre they have evolved into oozing, bone-constructing horrors whose unnatural skeletons of stone, metal, and wood mark them as distant kin to the shapeshifting kandra. Centuries later they reappear as stealthy, face-stealing predators that lurk beneath beds, their ancient scavenging nature now weaponized into a chilling urban legend.

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 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 7Mistborn 07 - The Lost Metal
Face-stealing monsters that hide under beds and steal faces of known people