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'''Scadrial''' wasis a planet of the [[Cosmere]] and wasis the setting of the [[Mistborn (series)|Mistborn series]]. It contains several other planets in its system. Scadrial has no moon, but there is an [[Starbelt|extremely bright patch of stars visible in the night sky]]. {{qa ref|727|60|How many moons does Scadrial have?|date=2008-10-17}}People from Scadrial are called Scadrians.{{17s ref|post|42111|Selish, Scadrian, Nalthian, Rosharan.|date=26 September 2012}}

Scadrial beforeBefore the Lord Ruler took the power at the [[Well of Ascension]], Scadrial was extremely Earth-like. It had a blue sky, with clouds, a yellow sun, flowers, green plants, and animals such as horses.

At the time of the [[Final Empire]], the planet was characterised by its ashfalls and nightly mists. When Scadrial was moved closer to the sun by Rashek, causing the temperature on Scadrial increasedto increase dramatically. To counter this Rashek created the [[ashmounts]] in the northern hemisphere nearby the pole, to pump ferromagnetic ash and gas into the sky to reflect some of the heat back into space. This decreased heat near the north pole but unfortunately, the thicker atmosphere raised the temperature of the rest of Scadrial, turning it into an uninhabitable desert, known as the [[burnlands]]. Rashek also radically altered the geography of Scadrial, rotating the crust of the planet further south, and flattening mountain ranges, and creating new ones elsewhere, all to hide the location of the Well of Ascension. The magnetic and geographic poles of Scadrial used to bewere the same, but when Rashekthe movedWell thewas Wellmoved south from the north pole, the magnetic pole followed it.{{annotation ref|hoa|chapter=76}}

The Final Empire existed in the northern hemisphere, but life managed to survive elsewhere as well. Rashek realized that this ash would make it hard for humans to survive, and the new plants that could survive the ash would be difficult for them to live off of. So he altered the physiology of humanity, changing them so that they were more capable of living in this new world. He also created the Balance; he made the noblemen taller, stronger, more intelligent, and less fertile, and changed everyone else, except the Terrismen, into the race that would be known as the skaa. They were shorter, hardier, and had many children.{{epigraph ref|mb3|25}} Rashek was worried that his changes to humanity would result in some unseen complication that would cause humans toand becomehuman extinctextinction. He decided to movemoved a portion of the population to the south pole, and leaveleft them unchanged, givingand themgave somethem otheran unknown method of survival.

Few plants and animals survived from the world before, except horses, and some dogs. Rashek also created some entirely new animals. He designed new plants that could break down the falling ash, and microbes that broke it down as part of their biological processes, in order to prevent the ashfalls from covering the world, as [[Ruin]] later attempted to do by making the ashmounts produce more ash.

The most notable new animal however was the [[mistwraith]], a creature thatmade was madeof mostly of muscle, and useduses the bones of other deceased animals to create unique skeletal structures for itself. They were created from all the living Feruchemists at the time of the Lord Ruler's Ascension. When the correct Hemalurgic spikes are placed in mistwraiths, they turn into the sentient [[kandra]]. Rashek also used Hemalurgy to design [[koloss]], made from humans, and [[Inquisitors]].

When [[Sazed]] took both Ruin and [[Preservation]], he remade the planet and moved it back from the sun, removing the need for the ashmounts. He returned the world to the way it was before Rashek took the power at the Well of Ascension. He used the knowledge of his copperminds to return the geography to its original form, and restored all the animals that were extinct. HoweverThe theresole difference was one difference, the Elendel Basin.