Southern Peoples of Scadrial
“And I still haven't said anything about what happened at the south pole.”
—Hero of Ages annotation discussing Scadrial's tilt and its poles.Template:Annotation ref
The Southern Peoples are a race on Scadrial. They are mysteriously referred to in The Hero of Ages annotations,Template:Annotation refTemplate:Annotation ref suggesting that something is perhaps there. Later, Brandon confirmed that there is life on the southern pole of Scadrial.[1]
Known Facts
During the Final Empire, the Lord Ruler moved Scadrial out of its orbit, instead putting it closer to the sun. Life could only exist at the poles, where a combination of the planet's magnetic field and ferromagnetic ash shielded the land from the heat of the sun.Template:Annotation ref The Final Empire was at the northern magnetic pole of the planet. However, there were people at the south pole.
These people were placed there by the Lord Ruler as a reserve in case his genetic modifications of humanity failed, such as enabling humans to not be killed by the ash. The Lord Ruler managed to find a way other than genetic modifications to help them survive in the world he created.[2] The people of southern Scadrial will be known by the second trilogy, so they will be discovered by the Alloy of Law era or not long after.[3]
The southern peoples do have the seeds of the Metallic Arts, though since none of them had ingested lerasium, Allomancers would have been extremely rare and Mistborn completely unheard of.[2] Also, as opposed to using the Metallic Arts in a way based on genetics like the people of the Final Empire, the southern peoples use them in a more "mechanical way."[4]
Theories
It is theorized that the southern peoples are the men of "red and gold" that Miles Dagouter refers to shortly before his death.
Notes
- ↑ Broken reference - Missing date declaration: Was there anything on the other side of the planet or did the entire population live on one side?
— Theoryland - {{{date}}}# - ↑ a b Broken reference - Missing date declaration: Southern people are genetic control
— Theoryland - {{{date}}}# Cite error: Invalid<ref>tag; name "qa-727-79" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ Broken reference - Missing date declaration: 42360
— 17th Shard forums - {{{date}}}# - ↑ Broken reference - Missing date declaration: How do the [southern peoples of Scadrial use magic differently?]
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