Difference between revisions of "Battle of Hathsin"

After the [[Siege of Fadrex City]], and [[Vin]]'s realization of Ruin's desire for [[atium]] - a portion of his power hidden from him by the [[Lord Ruler]], she took off towards [[Luthadel]] in a feignfeint to draw his attention, claiming that they had already found the cache. Ruin sent all of his [[Inquisitor]]s after Vin, to stop her and capture the cache, but soon realized her trick as she fought the Inquisitors over [[Kredik Shaw]]. However, [[Marsh]], desperately holding on to a portion of his sanity under Ruin's influence, is aided by [[Kelsier]], who has partial control of Preservation's power, is finally able to momentarily buck the control of Ruin, pushing out Vin's earring and allowing her to finally consume the [[mist]]s and draw in all of Preservation's power, defeating the Inquisitors and Ascending.

Not to be deterred, Ruin senotsent his army of several hundred thousand [[koloss]] to assault the Pits, only for Elend to realize that his Mistfallen battalion were all Seers, [[misting]]s capable of burning atium. With a constant supply of atium dredged out by Sazed and other survivors, they fought spectacularly against seemingly endless waves of koloss. But in the end, their metal reserves begin to dwindle, and they started to fall, one-by-one. Marsh arrived from Luthadel, dueling with an exhausted and drained Elend, who eventually fought only via an infusion of Vin's power. Ruin, through Marsh, taunted Elend, gloating over his impending victory, but Elend revealed their true purpose has been fulfilled: Burning away all of the atium that was stored within the Trustwarren. Marsh beheaded Elend in a final outburst of anger and hacked apart his body. [[Demoux]], one of the few surviving Mistfallen, retreated to the entrance of the caves, watching with Sazed.

However, Elend's death left Vin no reason to continue living, and gave her the motivation to assault Ruin with the full force of Preservation. Her new status as a Vessel allowed her to ignore the Shard's Intent to preserve, and she gave up her life to assure their mutual destruction. Both hershe and Ati died from the clashing of their power. As the powers faltered, the koloss were left without direction and turned on one another, effectively ending the battle.