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|spouse=[[Waxillium Ladrian]]
|born=Third Generation
|aliases=Bleeder, [[Lessie]], [[Replar Innate]]
|abilities={{tag+|Hemalurgist}}
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|species=kandra
|world=Scadrial
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
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▲| They dress in painted sequins. They drink wine. They laugh, and smile, and play, and dance, and eat, and quietly kill. All part of Harmony's plan. All actors on a stage. That's what you are too, Waxillium Ladrian. It's what all men are.
▲| Bleeder speaking in Wax's head for the first time.{{book ref|mb5|9}}
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'''Paalm''' was a female [[kandra]] of the Third Generation. She was an agent of Harmony sent to protect [[Waxillium Ladrian]] in the [[Roughs]], under the guise of a human woman, '''Lessie'''.{{book ref|mb5|26}}
Sometime after Lessie's supposed death, she chose to remove one of her [[Hemalurgy|Hemalurgic spikes]]. She used only a single spike at a time to avoid being under [[Harmony]]'s influence.{{book ref|mb5|7}} She used spikes of [[trellium|a metal unknown even to Harmony]] to grant herself [[Allomantic]] and [[Feruchemical]] powers.{{book ref|mb5|epilogue}} During that time she went by the alias '''Bleeder'''.{{book ref|mb5|7}} She colluded with the [[Set]]
She ultimately committed suicide to avoid being taken control of by Harmony after she was shot by Wax with a second Hemalurgic spike.{{book ref|mb5|26}}
== Appearance and Personality ==
<gallery caption="Images of Paalm">▼
Lessie portrait.png | <center><small>by {{a|Jamie Knierim}}</small></center> Lessie portrait
Paalm-MotP.png | <center><small>by [[Ben McSweeney]]</small></center> Paalm as depicted in the ''Mistborn Adventure Game''
The Lawman and the Kandra by Ingvild Schage.jpg |<center><small>by {{a|Ingvild Schage}}</small></center>''The Lawman and the Kandra''
GA - SoS - Bleeder by Alex Allen.jpg | <center><small>by {{a|Alex Allen}}</small></center> Bleeder on the cover of ''Shadows of Self'' Graphic Audio adaptation
</gallery>▼
== Abilities ==▼
As a Kandra of the Third Generation, Paalm excels at creating bodies. Her considerable expertise
== History ==
=== The Final Empire ===
=== Lessie ===
Wax first encountered Paalm, disguised as 'Lessie' at The Weeping Bull, where she was disguised as a dancer
When the time approached for Wax to move back to [[Elendel]] Paalm resisted the move deciding that Wax was too happy in the Roughs to move, even with the idea that she could acommpany him to Elendel.{{book ref|sos|25}}{{wob ref|2697}} While hunting [[Bloody Tan]] in his lair in the town of [[Feltrel]], 'Lessie' and Wax split up. At some point, she was taken hostage. Wax attempted to shoot Bloody Tan, who was using 'Lessie' as a human shield, but he pulled her into the path of Wax's bullet, making her take the shot to the head and seemingly killing her.{{book ref|mb4|prologue}} As part of Harmony's plan, Wax moved back to Elendel, and Paalm's time as Lessie was over. Some time afterward, she went on a murderous rampage and broke free of Harmony's influence, disobeying her contract with him.{{book ref|mb5|26}}{{book ref|mb5|7}}{{book ref|mb5|13}}
=== Bleeder ===
{{image|The Lawman and the Kandra by Ingvild Schage.jpg|side=right|height=250px|Wax holding Paalm as she died}}
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Paalm took the name Bleeder and set about a plan to free the people of Elendel from Harmony's influence. At some point, she entered into an alliance with the Set to achieve her goals. She killed [[Idashwy]] with a spike in order to steal her Feruchemical power.{{book ref|mb5|6}}{{book ref|mb5|11}}{{book ref|mb5|17}}▼
▲Paalm took the name Bleeder and set about a plan to free the people of Elendel from Harmony's influence.{{wob ref|309}} At some point, she
Using her newly acquired power, Bleeder disrupted [[Winsting Innate's auction]] for his Senate vote, firing several shots at the guests to get them to begin attacking one another. She then entered Winsting's saferoom ahead of him; murdering him inside and cutting out his tongue in a symbolic gesture, removing Harmony's voice. As she left, she killed his bodyguards outside the saferoom.{{book ref|mb5|prologue}}{{book ref|mb5|6}}{{book ref|mb5|4}}{{book ref|mb5|5}}{{book ref|mb5|23}} ▼
▲Using her newly acquired power and appearance, Bleeder disrupted [[Winsting Innate's auction]] for his Senate vote, firing several shots at the guests to get them to begin attacking one another. She then entered Winsting's saferoom ahead of him; murdering him inside and cutting out his tongue in a symbolic gesture, removing Harmony's voice. As she left, she killed his bodyguards outside the saferoom.{{book ref|mb5|prologue}}{{book ref|mb5|6}}{{book ref|mb5|4}}{{book ref|mb5|5}}{{book ref|mb5|23}}
Bleeder killed and impersonated Governor [[Replar Innate]] to rile up the people of Elendel. She impersonated a man named [[Johnst]] who blew up a dam, causing food shortages and economic instability. She impersonated [[Larskpur]] and killed [[Father Bin]] inside a church with spikes in his eyes -- another symbolic gesture, removing Harmony's eyes{{book ref|mb5|23}} -- to turn the [[Church of the Survivor|Survivorists]] against [[the Path]]ians. When the people grew aggressive, she exposed the Kandra who attempted to calm the violence and pushed harder for violent rebellion against Innate. Exposing the Kandra was symbolic for deafening Harmony, as they were his ears.▼
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As Wax confronted her, she attempted to flee by use of a spike granting herself Allomantic steel. Wax gives chase, stopping her at the Eastbridge. In that confrontation, Bleeder attempted to convince him that she was Lessie, finally succeeding when he shot her with his Pathian earring, reforged as a bullet. Before Harmony could fully take control of her, she committed suicide.{{book ref|mb5|23}}{{book ref|mb5|24}}{{book ref|mb5|25}}▼
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▲<gallery caption="Images of Paalm">
▲Paalm-MotP.png | Paalm as depicted in the ''Mistborn Adventure Game'' by [[Ben McSweeney]]
▲</gallery>
Wax later gave her spikes to the kandra.{{book ref|mb7|15}}
▲== Abilities ==
▲As a Kandra of the Third Generation, Paalm excels at creating bodies. Her considerable expertise came from her history of service to the Lord Ruler, time spent crushing entire kingdoms and rebellions for him. She also learned a great deal about Hemalurgy, learning how to grant herself Allomantic and Feruchemical abilities with spikes of an unknown metal. She was proficient with her stolen abilities but seemed to prefer to employ Feruchemical [[steel]]. She had the knowledge to create at least one new kind of Hemalurgic construct using only a single spike in their creation. She was able to hide herself from Harmony's sight by spiking herself with a [[Trellium|material]] that was not of Harmony, but of Trell.{{book ref|mb5|7}}{{book ref|mb5|13}}{{wob ref|7773}}{{book ref|mb5|21}}{{book ref|mb5|epilogue}}
== Trivia ==
* The name "Bleeder" is possibly derived from the doctors of antiquity, who would force patients to bleed profusely, in an effort to purge sickness and disease. This is comparable to Paalm's actions in ''[[Shadows of Self]]'' in which she causes great harm to Wax, and the Basin
* According to Brandon, writing her character was "probably the darkest I've gone in one of my books, ... but it was also somewhere I hadn't explored before, and so it was really interesting to me.".{{wob ref|12143}}
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