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The '''Coup of Urteau''' was one of the major events on [[Scadrial]], in the city of [[Urteau]] between the end of the [[Final Empire]] and [[Sazed]]'s ascension.
When [[Straff Venture]] left [[Urteau]] to [[Siege of Luthadel|besiege Luthadel]], the skaa overthrew the government, placing [[Quellion]] as their new leader. Emperor [[Elend Venture]] sent [[Sazed]] and [[Breeze]] to bring the city under his control.{{book ref|mb3|12}} After failing to negotiate with [[Quellion]], Sazed and Breeze
== Previous History ==
Urteau is the historical home of [[House Venture]], and the capital city of the [[Northern Dominance]] of the Final
== Lead
In the years after the [[Collapse]], [[Straff Venture]] retreated to Urteau to regroup before he went to [[Siege of Luthadel|besiege]] [[Luthadel]]. While he
== Importance of Urteau ==
Historically, Urteau
Even more importantly, Urteau is the location of one of the [[Lord Ruler]]'s storage caches. It contains not only food, resources and equipment, but also information about [[electrum]], one of the previously undiscovered metals.{{book ref|mb3|5}} The information left there also discusses the upcoming danger that Ruin represented.{{cite}} It is later discovered that the Lord Ruler redirected the canal's water to the city's storage cavern. This causes the canal to dry out but ensures a fresh water supply for the cavern.{{cite}}
These are reasons why Elend sent Spook to the city of Urteau to gauge the political climate.
== Political
With the collapse of the [[Final Empire]], the people of Urteau followed the rebellion along with many cities. A skaa named Quellion
== The Coup ==
Following an encounter with [[Quellion]], where the Citizen refused to join [[Elend Venture|Elend’s]] empire, [[Breeze]] and [[Sazed]] met with [[Spook]], who had been residing in [[Urteau]] and gathering information for several months. The crew took up residence in an abandoned
After an earlier encounter with the Citizen and his guards, Spook
While Sazed was developing the mechanism to flood the canals, and while Spook was planning how to get Quellion to expose his
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