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'''Elend Venture''' is an idealistic young [[noble]] and later, a [[Allomancy#Mistborn|Mistborn]] from the [[Final Empire]] on [[Scadrial]]. Alongside [[Vin]] and the remnants of [[Kelsier's crew]], he forms the [[New Empire]] and helps to save the world from its destruction at [[Ruin]]'s hands by uniting as many people as possible, using [[Atium#Allomantic Use|Seers]] to burn the vast [[atium]] cache known as [[Kandra Homeland#The Trustwarren|the Trust]], and allowing [[Marsh]] to kill him during the [[Battle of Hathsin]], giving Vin the drive to kill Ruin.
 
== Appearance and Personality ==
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Elend.jpg | Portrait by [[Kit Buss]]
File: Elend portrait.png | A young Elend <center><small>by [[UserCoppermind:Artists/Laura LuaruMacMahon|Laura MacMahon]]</small></center>A young Elend
File: Elend king portrait.png | Elend as emperor <center><small>by [[UserCoppermind:Artists/Laura LuaruMacMahon|Laura MacMahon]]</small></center>Elend as emperor
The Hero of Ages Cover.jpeg | On ''The Hero of Ages'' cover by [[Chris McGrath]]
VinElend.jpg | Elend and Vin by [[User: Fyrebeam]]
Elend Shuravf.jpg | Portrait by [[Coppermind: Artists/Shuravf|Shuravf]]
Defeinding Preservation.jpg | Defending Preservation by [[Miranda Meeks]]
Lord Elend Venture by Stephanie McCrea Rainosek.jpg | <center><small>by [[Coppermind:Artists/Stephanie McCrea Rainosek|Stephanie McCrea Rainosek]]</small></center>
In the flower field- Vinlend watermark.png | <center><small>by [[Coppermind:Artists/Jewishicequeen|Jewishicequeen]]</small></center> "They were holding hands as lay amid the flowers."
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He was the only legitimate son of [[Straff Venture]], and heir to [[House Venture]]. When he was a child, he was beaten to near death to determine whether he was an Allomancer or not. His father made him sleep with a [[skaa]] woman in a brothel to make him a "real man."{{book ref|mb1|28}} He was later horrified to learn that the woman would be executed to prevent half-breed children{{book ref|mb1|23}}. Throughout his childhood, he was known for disobeying his father purposely to get a response out of him. This included ignoring guests at parties, and disobeying his father's orders. Elend was predominately a scholar and was well versed in many areas including politics and history. He is extremely idealistic and meets with a group of other idealistic nobles after balls to discuss contraband philosophy.
 
[[File: Lord Elend Venture by Stephanie McCrea Rainosek.jpg|thumb|right|x250px|<center><small>by [[Coppermind:Artists/Stephanie McCrea Rainosek|Stephanie McCrea Rainosek]]</small></center>]]
=== The [[Skaa Rebellion]] ===
==== The House War ====
 
==== The Well of Ascension ====
While searching for the Well of Ascension beneath Kredik Shaw, Elend is attacked by the [[Preservation|mist spirit]] in an attempt to get Vin to use the power from the Well to save him, but she chooses to release the power, inadvertently releasing Ruin in the process{{book ref|mb2|58}}. Following this, the mist spirit directs Vin to the last remaining bead of [[lerasium]] at the Well, and she uses it to save his life, transforming him into a [[Allomancy#Mistborn|Mistborn]] and allowing him to burn [[pewter]]{{book ref|mb2|59}}.
 
=== The New Empire ===
==== The [[Siege of Fadrex City]] ====
Elend and Vin decide to take their armies and besiege Fadrex City in the hopes of gaining the contents of their atium stores{{book ref|mb3|5}}. They take many koloss soldiers whose control they had previously wretchedwrenched from several Inquisitors. While in Fadrex, He and Vin attended balls thrown by the proposed king, [[Aradan Yomen]]{{book ref|mb3|30}}. Late in the siege, he and Vin lose control of their koloss, leading to the koloss wreaking havoc on their soldiers, before running off into the night{{book ref|mb3|73}}. After this happens, Yomen allows Elend into Fadrex and seems to seek his help due to the disappearance of the mists, but Elend leaves Fadrex shortly after these events transpire, taking with him some atium Yomen gives him {{book ref|mb3|74}}.
 
[[File: Elend and Vin by Korina Hunjak.jpg|thumb|right|x200px|<center><small>by [[Coppermind:Artists/Korina Hunjak|Korina Hunjak]]</small></center>]]
 
==== The [[Battle of Hathsin]] ====
Elend eventually realises the meaning of the pattern of the mist-sickness which snaps allomancers, and also discovers the Seers in his army were those who were sick the longest. He uses this knowledge to lead the Seers in battle against the [[koloss]] armies under Ruin's control, depleting all of the [[Atium]] stored in the [[kandra]] Trust. He fuels the last of his Atium with duralumin, seeing the ultimate outcome of his actions. With the knowledge gained from this, he allows Marsh to kill him, giving Vin the drive to attack Ruin directly{{book ref|mb3|81}}, resulting in both of their deaths and Sazed's [[Final Ascension]]{{book ref|mb3|82}}.
 
== Attributes and Abilities ==
Despite being born to a noble house, Elend was not born with any allomancy. When he was a child, his father Straff had him beaten with the purposed of causing him to snap, but he was unable to demonstrate any powers. After nearly dying from the mist spirit's knife wound while releasing Ruin from the Well of Ascension, Elend burns a [[lerasium]] bead, and develops Allomantic powers that have not been weakened by interbreeding. As a result of the purity of his allomancy, his Mistborn abilities are incredibly powerful.
In addition to his allomantic abilities, Elend is incredibly intelligent, and while studying under Tindwyl becomes very charismatic as well.{{expand}}
 
== Trivia ==
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