Tobal Copper's Desk Bullet Hole

Tobal Copper's Desk Bullet Hole first appears in The Lost Metal as the grim forensic centerpiece of a murder investigation, its splintered wood and embedded blood-and-bone residue serving as the only physical proof that the victim was executed at his own desk. The hole transforms from a simple crime-scene detail into a symbol of the new, post-Catacendre world's lethal tensions between law, politics, and emerging technologies. Across the series, it quietly marks the moment when the Mistborn saga shifts from allomantic duels to the moral complexities of forensic science and civic justice.