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The '''Words of Founding''' were a book left by Sazed after he took up the [[Shard]]s [[Ruin]] and [[Preservation]] to become [[Harmony]]. They also contained hints about electricity{{book ref|mb4|3}} and powered flight{{book ref|mb4|15}}, as well as the existence of two new metals.{{book ref|mb3|Epilogue}}
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|One entire chamber was dedicated to the Words of Founding, Harmony's books, lore, knowledge, and own holy account of what had happened to the World of Ash.
 
|[[Wax]] describing part of the museum/crypt at the [[Field of Rebirth]]{{book ref|mb5|19}}
 
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The '''Words of Founding''' are a set of literary works left by [[Sazed]] for the people of the [[Elendel Basin]] on [[Scadrial]] after he took up the [[Shard]]s [[Ruin]] and [[Preservation]] to become [[Harmony]].
 
 
==Significance and Contents==
 
The Words of Founding are thought of as holy doctrine by [[Pathian]]s. Even followers of other religions such as [[Trellism]] hold the Words in high regard.{{book ref|mb4|11}} Some religious sects also consider writings by other [[Originators]] as holy canon alongside the Words of Founding, although the [[Docksithium]] is almost universally ignored.{{book ref|mb5|19}}
 
 
The Words of Founding are divided into volumes, at least eighty in total{{book ref|mb5|20}} and possibly far more.{{book ref|mb5|19}} Because of their length, abridged versions of the Words of Founding are common.{{book ref|mb6|20}} They contain a massive amount of information covering everything from religion to city planning documents for [[Elendel]].{{book ref|mb4|1}}{{book ref|mb4|10}} They contain information that would be otherwise unknown to humans, including an extremely detailed chart of [[Feruchemical]] powers{{book ref|mb6|3}} and writings about [[kandra]]{{book ref|mb5|12}} and [[Kelsier]]'s brief stint as Preservation's Vessel.{{book ref|mb5|14}} They also contain hints about electricity{{book ref|mb4|3}} and powered flight,{{book ref|mb4|15}} as well as the existence of four new metals.{{book ref|mb3|Epilogue}} Notably, they do not discuss [[Hemalurgy]] with the same level of detail as the other [[Metallic Arts]].{{book ref|mb5|25}} [[Spook]] saw this as a mistake and wrote a book that included more information about Hemalurgy; Harmony did not agree with his actions but could not forbid him from writing the book.{{book ref|mb5|6}}
 
 
===Known Volumes===
 
*''Beliefs Reborn'', a volume that includes details about [[Larstaism]] (and likely other religions from Sazed's portfolio) from [[Classical Scadrial]].{{book ref|mb6|1}}
 
*The Historica, containing a history of Scadrial prior to the [[Catacendre]]. It details the work that the [[kandra]] did hiding the [[atium]] from [[Ruin]],{{book ref|mb6|24}} as well as general information about kandra and [[mistwraith]]s in general.{{book ref|mb5|7}} [[Wax]] finds the sections on kandra to be boring.{{book ref|mb5|13}} It reveals the details of [[Vin]]'s [[Ascension]].{{book ref|mb5|11}} It also tells the story of [[Kelsier]] and his true motives for overthrowing the [[Lord Ruler]], namely vengeance, not altruistic heroism as the [[Church of the Survivor|Survivorists]] believe.{{book ref|mb5|17}}
 
*The eightieth volume is at least partially written in verse, and includes verses about "Harmony's quest for Truth."{{book ref|mb5|20}}
 
 
== Trivia ==
 
* An excerpt from the Words of Founding makes up the [[The Hero of Ages/Epigraphs|epigraph]]s in the third [[Mistborn (series)|Mistborn]] book, ''[[The Hero of Ages]]''.
 
   
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I am, unfortunately, the Hero of Ages.
 
I am, unfortunately, the Hero of Ages.
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Even now, I can barely grasp the scope of all this. The events surrounding the end of the world seem even larger than the Final Empire and the people within it. I sense shards of something from long ago, a fractured presence, something spanning the void.
 
Even now, I can barely grasp the scope of all this. The events surrounding the end of the world seem even larger than the Final Empire and the people within it. I sense shards of something from long ago, a fractured presence, something spanning the void.
 
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I have delved and searched, and have only been able to come up with a single name: Adonalsium. Who, or what, it was, I do not yet know.
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I have delved and searched, and have only been able to come up with a single name: Adonasium. Who, or what, it was, I do not yet know.
 
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Originally, we assumed that a koloss was a combination of two people into one. That was wrong. Koloss are not the melding of two people, but five, as evidenced by the four spikes needed to make them. Not five bodies, of course, but five souls.
 
Originally, we assumed that a koloss was a combination of two people into one. That was wrong. Koloss are not the melding of two people, but five, as evidenced by the four spikes needed to make them. Not five bodies, of course, but five souls.
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That makes me wonder who or what the minds of Preservation and Ruin were.
 
That makes me wonder who or what the minds of Preservation and Ruin were.
 
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Regardless, the mists—the power of Preservation—chose someone to become their host long before all of this happened. That someone, however, was immediately seized by Ruin and used as a pawn. He must have known that by giving her a disguised Hemalurgic spike, he would keep the mists from Investing themselves in her as they wished.
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Regardless, the mists—the power of Preservation—chose someone to become their host long before all of this happened. That someone, however, was immediately seized by Ruin and used as a pawn. He must have known that by giving her a disguised Hemalurgic spike, he would keep the mists from investing themselves in her as they wished.
 
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The three times she drew upon their power, then, were the three times when her earring had been removed from her body. When she had fought the Lord Ruler, his Allomancy had ripped it free. When fighting Marsh in Fadrex, she had used the earring as a weapon. And, at the end, Marsh ripped it out, freeing her and allowing the mists—which were now desperate for a host, since Preservation's last wisp was gone—to finally pour themselves into her.
 
The three times she drew upon their power, then, were the three times when her earring had been removed from her body. When she had fought the Lord Ruler, his Allomancy had ripped it free. When fighting Marsh in Fadrex, she had used the earring as a weapon. And, at the end, Marsh ripped it out, freeing her and allowing the mists—which were now desperate for a host, since Preservation's last wisp was gone—to finally pour themselves into her.
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Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy.
 
Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy.
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==See also==
 
* [[Sazed's note]]
 
   
 
== Notes ==
 
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*[[Sazed's note]]
 
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