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|books=[[Mistborn trilogy]] |
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|groups={{tag+|army|Venture}} |
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|species=Koloss |
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|world=Scadrial |
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|universe=[[Cosmere]] |
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|introduced=[[The Hero of Ages]] |
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⚫ | '''Human''', originally '''Vershad''', was a [[koloss]] that was created some time before the [[Lord Ruler]]'s death. Human, when pushed, showed [[Vin]] how koloss were made, and served Vin to a very limited degree for a short time, although hating her by his own admission. He is also one of the koloss that discovers the empty [[atium]] cache in the [[kandra Homeland]] just before [[Ruin]]'s death. |
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|That is my name. Human. You call me Human. |
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|Human to Vin{{book ref|mb3|8}} |
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⚫ | '''Human''', originally '''Vershad''', a |
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== History == |
== History == |
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=== Vershad === |
=== Vershad === |
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Before he was spiked to become a koloss, Human was a [[skaa]] rebel known as Vershad. |
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Before he was transformed into a koloss, Human was a [[skaa]] rebel known as Vershad. He was the leader of a rebellion in the southeast of the [[Final Empire]], in the same area where [[Clubs]] fought in his youth. Vershad lived in the desert outside the borders of the Final Empire, and crossed the border to raid outlying villages and steal supplies.{{wob ref|7707}} |
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He was the leader of a rebellion in the southeast of the [[Final Empire]], in the same area where [[Clubs]] fought in his youth. |
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Vershad lived in the desert outside the borders of the Final Empire, and crossed the border to raid outlying villages and steal supplies. |
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His preferred methods involved converting the local skaa population to his side, and convince them to give him supplies. |
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In return, he and his band would "raid" the village, only attacking the mansions of the [[noble|nobility]]. |
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This allowed the skaa to get revenge against the nobility, as well as earning more supplies due to the assumption that their food stores had been raided as well. |
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Vershad was a charismatic and intelligent skaa, managing even to keep his band alive when the Lord Ruler began to turn his attention to them. |
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His preferred methods involved converting the local skaa population to his side, and convince them to give him supplies. In return, he and his band would "raid" the village, only attacking the mansions of the [[noble|nobility]]. This allowed the skaa to get revenge against the nobility, as well as earning more supplies due to the assumption that their food stores had been raided as well.{{wob ref|7707}} |
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Eventually, however, the Lord Ruler sent a koloss army against Vershad and his men, with the aid of an [[Inquisitor]], who set an ambush as well as betraying the rebels. |
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For their crimes, Vershad's men were slaughtered, and he himself was turned into a koloss. |
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Vershad was a charismatic and intelligent skaa, managing even to keep his band alive when the [[Lord Ruler]] began to turn his attention to them. Eventually, however, the Lord Ruler sent a koloss army against Vershad and his men, with the aid of an [[Inquisitor]], who set an ambush as well as betraying the rebels. For their crimes, Vershad's men were slaughtered, and he himself was transformed into a koloss.{{wob ref|7707}} |
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=== Human === |
=== Human === |
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Human |
Human's met [[Elend]] and Vin shortly after they exposed villagers to the [[mist]]s outside of [[Vetitan]] in order to inoculate them. He diffused Vin's assumption that all koloss were of a homogeneous mentality - "just the same stupid beast repeated over and over", in her words - with his observations and remarks. This continued in following scenes with the two of them, where she discerned that he could use fair logic and somewhat keen observations. However, she was puzzled by Human's insistence that he was human.{{ref|b|mb3|c|8}} |
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Later, Human again |
Later, Human again insisted that he was human, and expressed the desire for human things, such as a house. Vin attempted to explain that he couldn't have those things, because human ways are not the same as koloss ways, stating that humans don't kill someone because they make them feel uncomfortable. Human observed that instead of killing each other, humans just use koloss to kill one another. |
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Vin |
Vin questioned Human about the mists, whether he and the other koloss feared them. He responded by stating that mist does not kill, thus it is nothing to fear, just like any other weather. But he continued his line of thought, and stated that he hates the mists, because he can feel their hatred of him, and reckognised that Vin felt the same; that the mists hate her. This was, of course, due to having [[hemalurgy|hemalurgic]] spikes, but niether of the two realised this at the time.{{ref|b|mb3|c|15}} |
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Yet again later, shortly after [[Aradan Yomen]]'s attack upon Elend's camp, Human surprises Vin with the first known indication of values from a koloss, stating that it's not right that he shows her how koloss are made. Vin Pushes Human [[Allomancy|Allomantically]] to get him to reveal how koloss are created, and he screamed, then proceeded to run into the human camp with a dead koloss, and immediately attempted to take the hemalurgic spikes from the koloss and place them into a wounded human soldier, but Vin stopped him, and finally discovered how koloss are created. Human once again stated that he is human.{{ref|b|mb3|c|37}} |
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During the final conflict between [[Ruin]] and [[Preservation]], Human |
During the final conflict between [[Ruin]] and [[Preservation]], ([[Ati]] and Vin) Human lead koloss soldiers inside the underground tunnels of the kandra Homeland, all under the influence of Ruin. Human was aware that it was Ruin controlling him, and that Ruin was far more powerful than Vin. Ruin forced Human and his soldiers to ignore the humans in order to find the atium, and he entered the kandra atium storage, only to find it empty of all the atium.{{ref|b|mb3|c|81}} |
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When [[Harmony]] |
When [[Harmony]] ([[Sazed]]) took up the power and began to restore Scadrial to what it had been before the Lord Ruler took up the power at the Well of Ascension over one thousand years prior, Human and the other koloss soldiers with him were still in the underground tunnels, and survived the reshaping of the world. Harmony altered these surviving koloss to become true-breeding, although it is not known how this was achieved.{{annotation ref|mb3|chapter=81-2}} |
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== Quotes == |
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|I will be human, (...) We will kill you. Take your cities. Then we will be human. |
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|Human explaining his morbid belief of how koloss can become human to Vin.{{book ref|mb3|8}} |
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|I'm bigger than some, (...) Smaller than some--but not very many. That means I'm old. |
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|Human demonstrating his ability to reason.{{book ref|mb3|8}} |
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|We're not like you, (...) We're big on the outside only. |
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|Human failing to grasp the meaning of Vin's inquiries about gender.{{book ref|mb3|8}} |
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|No, (...) You make '''us''' kill them instead. |
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|Human's observation skills about humans and murder surprising Vin.{{book ref|mb3|15}} |
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|I can't, (...) It's not right. |
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|Human demonstrating koloss values and morality.{{book ref|mb3|37}} |
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== Notes == |
== Notes == |
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