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|born={{date|1000|fe}}
|died={{date|1025|fe}}
|groups={{tag|Kelsier's crew}}, {{tag+|army|Venture}}, {{tag|Luthadel Assembly}}
|religion=[[Survivorism]]
|ethnicity=Noble
|residence=Luthadel
|world=Scadrial
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
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'''Elend Venture''' is a [[noble]] in [[Scadrial]]. After the [[Collapse]], he becomes King of the [[Central Dominance]], and later, High Emperor of the [[New Empire]]. After swallowing a bead of [[lerasium]], he becomes [[Allomancy|Mistborn]]. He is married to [[Vin]].
== Appearance and Personality ==
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=== Appearance ===
|Elend before the vote for king.{{book ref|mb2|37}}
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In his early life, Elend was an idealist. He was curious about the conditions of the skaa and their intelligence{{book ref|mb1|18}}{{book ref|mb1|23}} and believed in creating a coalition of houses to exert pressure on the [[Lord Ruler]].{{book ref|mb1|23}} However, he struggled to be forceful and to impose his will in others.{{book ref|mb2|20}} He saw himself as a friendly and a comfortable man, but also a bit of a fool.{{book ref|mb2|16}} He considered running an empire mostly as an academic exercise.{{book ref|mb3|51}} However, he had a buried desire to lead, and the skills to become a king, if he learned to use them.{{wob ref|5449}} After Tindwyl's coaching, Elend became more forceful and realistic. He still wants to follow his ideals of freedom, but he also knows sometimes he must impose his rule on others, for their own good. He tries to find a balance between the man he thinks he should be and the man he needs to be,{{wob ref|7500}} but he considers himself a hypocrite for speaking of democracy, but taking the throne by force.{{book ref|mb3|36}} Even after becoming Emperor, he considers himself a scholar rather than a king.{{book ref|mb3|32}} Eventually, Elend comes to terms with his choices, recognizing himself to be an amalgamation of scholar, nobleman and soldier.{{book ref|mb3|70}} Elend is the type of person who is always preparing, up until the last minute.{{wob ref|2363}}
== Attributes and Abilities ==
Elend was born with no Allomantic abilities. After swallowing a bead of [[lerasium]] at the [[Well of Ascension]], he becomes [[Allomancy|Mistborn]]. His Allomantic power, not weakened by interbreeding, is stronger than that of contemporary Allomancers.{{epigraph ref|mb3|21}} Though his raw power is bigger than Vin's, she is more skilled in its use.{{book ref|mb3|5}} He is more comfortable with emotional Allomancy than with physical Allomancy.{{book ref|mb3|3}} He could learn how to pierce weaker copperclouds, though he does not do so in the books.{{wob ref|4303}}▼
▲Elend was born with no Allomantic abilities. After swallowing a bead of [[lerasium]] at the [[Well of Ascension]], he becomes [[Allomancy|Mistborn]]. His Allomantic power, not weakened by interbreeding, is stronger than that of contemporary Allomancers.{{epigraph ref|mb3|21}} Though his raw power is bigger than Vin's, she is more skilled in its use.{{book ref|mb3|5}} He is more comfortable with emotional Allomancy than with physical Allomancy.{{book ref|mb3|3}}
Though his roots are in philosophy,{{book ref|mb2|37}}, Elend has extensive knowledge on many different subjects. He is proficient in political theory, economics{{book ref|mb2|3}}, and military theory.{{book ref|mb3|12}} He claims to be no statistician, but he has worked with numbers in his research.{{book ref|mb3|21}}▼
▲Though his roots are in philosophy,{{book ref|mb2|37}}
== History ==
=== Early History ===
As a child, Elend was beaten to near death to determine whether he was an Allomancer.{{book ref|mb3|21}} His mother is presumably dead, since he speaks about her in the past tense,{{book ref|mb1|28}} but she had a great influence on him.{{wob ref|1713}} When he was thirteen, his father forced him to sleep with a skaa woman. He was horrified after discovering that she would be killed afterward.{{book ref|mb1|23}}
He started a drinking group with [[Jastes Lekal]], [[Telden Hasting]], [[Kevoux]], and another young noble, to talk about philosophy and form an alliance to exert pressure on the Lord Ruler.{{book ref|mb1|23}} The group was also at least in part formed to annoy Elend's father.{{book ref|mb1|28}} While the other young Nobles were only interested in more independence from the Lord Ruler, Elend showed interest in the [[skaa]] and was horrified by the way they were treated. He wanted to use his power to improve their lives.
{{image|Lord Elend Venture by Stephanie McCrea Rainosek.jpg|side=left|height=260px}}
=== Pre-Collapse ===
Elend met [[Vin]] (disguised as Valette) at a ball at [[Keep Venture]]. After returning from getting a drink, he found she was in his reading spot.{{book ref|mb1|12}} He began a casual friendship with her, often sitting with her at balls and reading. Vin spread the rumor that he's a friend of her family, showing her the ways of the court, so that potential dancing partners aren't intimidated by her.{{book ref|mb1|18}} When the house war is imminent, Elend decided that "Valette" had to leave Luthadel, because the war would be too dangerous for a little house with no allies.{{book ref|mb1|28}} When she ignored him, he broke off the relationship, hoping that it would encourage her to leave the city.{{book ref|mb1|31}}
=== The Siege of Luthadel ===
==== King of the Central Dominance ====
After the Collapse, Elend established himself as king of the Central Dominance. He drafted a law code that applied the philosophies of his books, but had also a strong element of realism.{{book ref|mb1|epilogue}}{{book ref|mb2|34}} The law code established a parliamentary council called the [[Luthadel Assembly]], which was composed of twenty-four Assemblymen, including Elend himself: eight noblemen, eight skaa workers, and eight skaa merchants.{{book ref|mb2|10}} A few months later, Elend proposed Vin in marriage, but she refused, feeling that he deserved a better woman.{{book ref|mb2|25}} Unfortunately, their army was relatively small and weak,{{book ref|mb2|5}} with only about twenty thousand soldiers,{{book ref|mb2|1}} and peace didn't last long.
A year after the Collapse, [[Straff Venture]] lay siege to the town with an army of fifty thousand soldiers.{{book ref|mb2|1}} Elend passed a proposal for the Assembly to wait to decide anything about the future of the city until he had parlayed with Straff, and they accepted it.{{book ref|mb1|10}} Soon later, a second army with forty thousand{{book ref|mb2|32}} arrived at the city, led by [[Ashweather Cett]]. Breeze had persuaded Cett to march on Luthadel so that a [[wikipedia:Mexican Standoff|three-way standoff]] was created; if either Straff or Cett attacked Luthadel, he would be weakened enough that the other could beat him easily.{{book ref|mb2|11}} Afterward, [[Tindwyl]] arrived and (forcefully) started coaching Elend in the art of leadership. Later, a third army of twenty thousand [[koloss]] led by [[Jastes Lekal]] arrives to the city.
A few days later, Elend went with Vin inside Straff's camp to parlay. Elend offers an alliance against Cett's army and bluffs, saying they have the atium cache.{{book ref|mb2|26}} Elend argues Straff can't win without his help, but Straff says he already has a treaty with Cett, and he'll only agree to the alliance if Elend goes to the city's walls and surrenders the city. Elend says that if Straff killed him, Vin would kill Straff, and they demonstrate Vin's powerful emotional Allomancy, ending with Vin burning [[brass]] with [[duralumin]] and soothing away all of his emotion. Straff is frightened and agrees to let Elend return to the city.{{book ref|mb2|27}} However, during the meeting with Straff, the Assembly had invoked a no-confidence clause, deposing Elend from the position of king.{{book ref|mb2|27}}
{{image|Vin and Elend Shuravf.jpg|side=left|width=300px|Writing at his desk with [[Vin]] sitting on the floor behind him}}
==== The Elections for King ====
In a later meeting, Elend
In the day of the election for king, Elend
==== The Trip for Terris ====
Elend
Believing the city
A group
==== The Well of Ascension ====
{{image|The_Well_of_Ascension_by_Eleonor_Piteira.jpg|Vin at the [[Well of Ascension]]|side=right|height=200px}}
Vin and Elend
=== The New Empire ===
After the foundation of the [[New Empire]], Vin and Elend set out to recover the five storage caches of the [[Rashek|Lord Ruler]]. They
{{image|Vin and Elend by clarinking.jpg|side=left|width=250px|Dancing with [[Vin]]}}
==== The Siege of Fadrex City ====
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After discovering the cache's location, Elend marched on Fadrex City with forty thousand soldiers, twenty thousand [[koloss]], and a contingent of Allomancers.{{book ref|mb3|30}} Because of the city's fortifications, and of a reluctance to loose the koloss upon people, he decided to lay siege to the city, and try to negotiate with Yomen.{{book ref|mb3|12}} So, Elend and Vin went to a ball in [[Keep Orielle]], inside the city, to talk with the obligator.{{book ref|mb3|30}} Elend
▲After discovering the cache's location, Elend marched on Fadrex City with forty thousand soldiers, twenty thousand [[koloss]], and a contingent of Allomancers.{{book ref|mb3|30}} Because of the city's fortifications, and of a reluctance to loose the koloss upon people, he decided to lay siege to the city, and try to negotiate with Yomen.{{book ref|mb3|12}} So, Elend and Vin went to a ball in [[Keep Orielle]], inside the city, to talk with the obligator.{{book ref|mb3|30}} Elend discusses about philosophy with Yomen, and is impressed by the man's arguments, that called him a hypocrite for taking the throne by force.{{book ref|mb3|32}}{{book ref|mb3|36}} After that, Elend and Vin dance, though he teases her by picking up a copy of [[Trials of Monument]]--the book he was reading when the two first met--and starting to read it.{{book ref|mb3|32}}
At a suggestion from Cett, Elend ordered the wells of Fadrex City poisoned, and warned the city's people so that they wouldn't get hurt by it.{{book ref|mb3|36}} Yomen sent a raid on the camp, but it was a distraction; simultaneously, his men threw rocks at the koloss, driving them to a rage that caused them to start killing each other, and half the twenty thousand koloss died.{{book ref|mb3|37}} He and Vin went to another ball at the Canton of Resource. There, Elend distracted Yomen to gain time for Vin to search for the cache.{{book ref|mb3|43}} However, Yomen believed he was the one distracting Elend, while Vin got trapped in the cache building.{{book ref|mb3|44}} Fearing that Yomen might manipulate him again, instead of negotiating Elend decided to go searching for more koloss as a threat to use against Yomen.{{book ref|mb3|52}} He took control of thirty thousand additional koloss.{{book ref|mb3|53}}
{{image|Mistborn_by_Hunter_Bonyun.jpg|side=right|height=300px}}
In his trip back, feeling burdened by his responsibilities, he kneels down in the ash, and almost gives up. However, Leras appears to him. They communicated with Elend asking yes/no questions, and Leras answering by waving his arms to indicate a positive answer. He said Elend shouldn't attack Fadrex City, and pointed at Elend's metal vials. Elend asked whether Ruin can be beaten, and Leras waved his arms hesitantly, indicating "maybe".{{book ref|mb3|55}} He had used his last bits of life to talk with Elend, and he died soon after.{{epigraph ref|mb3|54}}▼
▲In his trip back, feeling burdened by his responsibilities, he
Despite from what Leras told Elend, the emperor decided to launch a surprise attack on Yomen on the next morning.{{book ref|mb3|61}} However, he realized Vin wouldn't have done this, and decided to pull back. However, Ruin took control of the koloss and made them start attacking Elend's army. Ordering her koloss to attack Yomen's army, Vin manages to convince the obligator to retreat and let Elend's army enter Fadrex.{{book ref|mb3|65}} An enormous army of koloss begins to gather outside the city.{{book ref|mb3|67}} Seeing a boy being taken by the mistsickness, he realizes the mists are snapping the skaa, and the mistfallen are in fact Allomancers.{{book ref|mb3|70}} Even with the new Allomancers, the koloss army is too big for Elend's and Yomen's army to face. However, the koloss retreat, going toward Luthadel.{{book ref|mb3|73}} Yomen gives Elend his last atium bead, and Elend goes toward Luthadel to find Vin.{{book ref|mb3|74}}▼
▲Despite from what Leras told Elend, the emperor decided to launch a surprise attack on Yomen on the next morning.{{book ref|mb3|61}} However, he realized Vin wouldn't have done this, and decided to pull back. However, Ruin took control of the koloss and made them start attacking Elend's army. Ordering her koloss to attack Yomen's army, Vin
{{image|Vin and Elend by Gar_leyva.jpeg|side=left|height=250px}}
==== The Battle of Hathsin ====
▲{{image|Mistborn_by_Hunter_Bonyun.jpg|side=right|width=300px}}
{{quote
|Lost? We've won, Marsh.
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In Luthadel, Elend
Marsh and Elend fought, with Marsh using the atium he got from
=== Legacy ===
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[[Vin]] and Elend's first encounter was pure happenstance on the part of Vin, but as Elend had grown up in the Luthadel Noble Society, he saw everything as being plots within plots, so a hitherto unknown scion of the Renoux house just so happening to come to his alcove left him baffled. He became interested in her early on when he saw that Vin was entirely forthright in her opinions and actions though still oblivious that she loved him, he did develop love for her when he realised what she had been doing to protect him and she had been captured by the Lord Ruler.{{book ref|mb1|37}}
At the beginning, [[Vin]] loved Elend{{book ref|mb2|2}}, but she believed he deserved someone better, someone who shared his interests{{book ref|mb2|20}} and ideals{{book ref|mb2|47}}, someone who saw nobility in his decision of giving up the throne.{{book ref|mb2|47}} She also thought she hurt his pride by being Mistborn while he was just a common man, that he deserved a woman he could protect.{{book ref|mb2|20}} She thought she didn't deserve because she thought she didn't deserve to be happy at all.{{book ref|mb2|28}}▼
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During the final years of the World of Ash, Elend's trust and faith in his wife were shown implicitly by considering her on her own being an army,{{book ref|mb3|3}} having complete trust in her during the various fights with and command over Koloss armies that they controlled via [[Hemalurgy]]. Coming to a complete understanding during the fight at [[Fadrex City|Fadrex]] by silently explaining their bluff to divert [[Ruin]]'s attention.{{book ref|mb3|67}}
During the Siege of the Pits of Hathsin and Vin's Ascension, she assisted Elend by providing him additional powerful Investiture via contact that remained until the moment he was cut down by [[Marsh]], leading to Vin's sacrifice as she kills Ruin.{{book ref|mb3|81}}
▲However, Elend loved her; he felt he needed her genuine realism to keep him grounded,{{book ref|mb2|44}} and thought himself lucky that she needed him;{{book ref|mb2|3}} he believed she was ten times as capable as him.{{book ref|mb2|44}} He was sometimes frustrated by her idiosyncrasies, but he still loved her.{{book ref|mb2|3}} Most of all, he trusted her; he defended her actions even when she attacked [[Cett]], killing hundreds of men, and he trusted her to make the right decisions even when he didn't know what she was deciding.{{book ref|mb2|44}}
After their death's and the ascension of Sazed as [[Harmony]], both Elend and Vin decline Kelsier's offer to remain in the Cognitive Realm and journey on together into the Beyond.{{msh ref|6|8}}
=== Kelsier ===
In the battle before [[Kelsier]]'s death, despite his hate of noblemen, he saved Elend's life because he knew Vin loved the nobleman.{{book ref|mb1|34}} But when he found out that Elend was king, he was angry for days.{{msh ref|2|2}} However, when Elend came to him in the Well, he wasn't angry, because he considered not Elend's fault that he became king, considering him "too oblivious to be dangerous".{{msh ref|2|3}}
While king, Elend compared himself to Kelsier on numerous occasions, even though they had never really met.{{book ref|mb3|12}} He thought that if Kelsier were alive, he would be king instead of Elend, and that he would have been a better king than Elend.{{book ref|mb2|5}} However, he later accepted that there was no one mold for a leader, and that he didn't need to be Kelsier to be a good king.{{book ref|mb2|37}}
=== Tindwyl ===
== Notes ==
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