Spook

Spook
by Laura MacMahon
Family Parents Jedal, Margel Relatives Clubs
Born	1007
Abilities	Tineye, Mistborn, Hemalurgist
Titles	Survivor of the Flames, Lord Mistborn
Aliases	Jedal, Lestibournes
Groups	Kelsier's crew, Venture army
Birthplace	Eastern Dominance
Residence	Luthadel
Ethnicity	Skaa
Homeworld	Scadrial
Universe	Cosmere

Spook is a skaa Misting on Scadrial. His original name is Jedal, after his father, but he abandons that name and goes by Lestibournes after being adopted by Cladent. Kelsier later gives him his nickname Spook.

Appearance and Personality

In early 1021 FE, as Kelsier's plan to overthrow the Final Empire was getting started, he was fifteen.

Spook is initially very shy after joining Kelsier's crew, as he still speaks in Eastern street slang, which makes it hard for the rest of the crew to fully understood him.

After the Collapse, he is much more confident. He stops using his street cant and grows to over six feet tall, barely resembling the gangly boy he was before. On at least one occasion, wore a beard as disguise.

It is around this time that he starts to show his like for women, almost any type. He doesn’t get much response, but he likes to flirt a lot.

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History

Childhood

Spook Snapped into a Tineye at age five; he got his noble blood from his grandfather, who he never knew. He grew up on the streets in the far east of the Final Empire. His mother, Margel, allowed him to run around with some of the street gangs, from whom he learned Eastern street slang. After his family found out about his Allomancy, his father tried to kill him so that the Steel Ministry wouldn't kill the family for having noble blood. Margel, however, had known about Spook's Allomancy for some time, and had sent word to her brother Cladent, who knew having another Tineye would be useful. He arrived before Jedal could kill Spook and took traded coins in return for Spook, promising to take the young boy back to Luthadel. When Cladent asked for his name, Spook decided he no longer wanted to go by the same name as his father, and told him it was Lestibournes, an Eastern street slang contraction of "lefting I'm born," which means "I've been abandoned."

Kelsier's Crew

During his time on Kelsier's crew, Spook is mainly involved as a sentry with important watches, watching the area around Clubs' shop from a six-story tenement two streets over. He participates in the crew's planning sessions, but rarely contributes to them other than serving drinks or getting things.

After the crew thought Marsh had been captured by the Ministry, they sent Spook with the House Renoux canal procession that left Luthadel, as he was their best Tineye. The Steel Inquisitors, however, had just tracked Vin to her Valette Renoux alias, and attacked the caravan to try to find her. When they didn't find her in the convoy, the brought Spook, OreSeur, and the Renoux servants back to Luthadel, ostensibly to be executed, by actually as a trap for Kelsier. Kelsier fell right into the trap and attacked the prision cart guards as they passed by. With help from Hammond, some skaa rebels, and the rest of the crew, he managed to rescue Spook and the rest of the prisoners, before being killed by the Lord Ruler. After that, during the Collapse, Dockson sent him to fetch some of Clubs' apprentices to run messages.

Siege of Luthadel

The rest of Kelsier's crew asks Spook to help them lead Elend and Vin away from Luthadel so that they would not be killed in the siege. He leads them away to the Terris mountains under the pretense of showing Vin to the Well of Ascension. Vin and Elend eventually realize that they have been tricked, and Vin is able to return and save Luthadel.

Urteau

During his stay at Urteau, he becomes an Allomantic savant, flaring tin all the time, to spy on Quellion and Beldre. He becomes so sensitive to light that he has to wear a blind fold, however, his other sharpened senses are able to make up for the inconvenience. During a fight, Spook is stabbed with a sword piercing a pewterarm. The tip of the sword become a Hemalurgic spike and grants him the ability to burn pewter. Thus he is corrupted by Ruin, which causes him to have visions of Ruin in the appearance of Kelsier. He eventually realizes this and pulls the spike out of himself. Guided by Ruin, he survived Quellion's fire execution and is later called the Survivor of the Flames. When Spook realizes Ruin's plan, he diverts water back to the canals to stop the raging fire, almost dying in the process. After Spook saves the city from destruction, he awakens from his collapse and is given a message to send to Vin by Kelsier in a vision.

The Final Ascension

After the Final Ascension, he leads the survivors into the new world created by Sazed and is given the full powers of a Mistborn. However, he does not have the strength of a lerasium Mistborn, but a Mistborn of the strength of a typical Allomancer around the end of The Final Empire. Sazed also heals the damage Spook had done to himself by becoming a tin Savant.

Spook was referred to as the Lord Mistborn. It is not clear what his role in that early government is, but he is clearly very prominent and powerful, judging by the fact that his Eastern street slang becomes known as High Imperial. He is also known to have engaged in philosophy and appears to be somewhat aware of the inner workings of the Shards, and is noted for asking the question, "Having the has Sazed a metal?" However, Spook is confirmed to be a "stud" after the Final Ascension, having over a dozen children. After the Catacendre, Spook had a relationship with Beldre.

He is visited at some point by the Cognitive Shadow of Kelsier, who says they should work together to unravel the mysteries of the cosmere, use the spikes from koloss to make Spook a Hemalurgist, and find a way to bring Kelsier back to the Physical Realm.

Steris implies that Spook ruled as an emperor for a century before stepping down from power. Marasi later refers to him as a "governor" who ruled for a century.

Attributes and Abilities

“Tin burning ... Notting about the seeing. Wasing about the not seeing. ”

—Spook to Vin giving advice on burining Tin

Spook's grandfather had noble blood; it is likely this was his maternal grandfather as his mother's brother was also an Allomancer. As a result, Spook is a Tineye. He is the best one on Kelsier's crew, and so usually gets the most important watches.

While working in Urteau, Spook gets stabbed with a Hemalurgic spike that turns him into a Pewterarm. He later rips the spike out after realizing it leaves him open to Ruin's influence.

During the Final Ascension, Kelsier convinces Sazed to turn Spook into a Mistborn. Afterwards, Kelsier's Cognitive Shadow visits him and convinces him to start studying Hemalurgy.

Relationships

Vin

Vin liked Spook, though she considered him strange and young. Sensing her kindness, he gave her a pink handkerchief as the traditional gift a young man gives a lady that he wishes to seriously court, she was not interested though. After that, Spook was uncomfortable with Vin’s presence until they had a quick chat and she confessed she would always love Elend; he understood and even gave her good advice on using tin.

Trivia

• Spook is based very loosely on a person Brandon knew from the Timewasters Guide forums. Zack, known as Gemm on the forums, sometimes posted random gibberish that, if looked at very closely, turned out to actually be rather poetic. This inspired Brandon to write a character who spoke with a dialect that had an interesting rhythm, yet was difficult to make out.

Notes

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