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{{character
|image=Elend Shuravf.jpg
|race=Noble▼
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|parents=[[Straff]], [[Elend's mother|Mother]]
|siblings= [[Zane]]
|spouse=[[Vin]]
|abilities={{tag+|Mistborn}}
|titles=King of the [[Dominance#Central Dominance|Central Dominance]] <small>(formerly)</small>{{book ref|mb2|13}}<br />High Emperor of the [[New Empire]]{{book ref|mb3|30}}<br />Last Emperor{{book ref|mb4|10}}
|born={{date|1000|fe}}
|died={{date|1025|fe}}
|groups={{tag|Kelsier's crew}}, {{tag+|army|Venture}}
|world=Scadrial
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
▲|homeland=Luthadel
|books=[[Mistborn
}}
'''Elend Venture''' is an idealistic young [[noble]] and later, a [[Allomancy|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 ==
[[File:Elend.jpg |thumb|left|150px|<center><small>by [[Kit Buss]]</small></center>]]
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"His suit wasn't the finest she had seen, nor was his vest as bright as most. Both coat and shirt seemed to fit too loosely, and his hair was just a bit disheveled." {{book ref|mb1|12}} Elend's early life was spent rebelling against his father and the court in quiet ways. Fashion called for tight-fitting suits and neat grooming, so Elend contrived to look slightly sloppy. An idealist and dreamer who wanted to study and debate philosophy and law in preparation for his ascension to his House's title, with the idea of being able to get the Houses to band together and apply some pressure on the Lord Ruler to change some things. When Kelsier's crew overthrows the Lord Ruler, Elend realizes a long-foreseen successful skaa rebellion has arrived, and takes steps to curtail the violence, showing a surprising amount of bravery. He tried to put his ideals into law, but his own slightly lackadaisical manner worked against him. With some guidance and advice, Elend sharpened up his appearance and refined his mannerism to be more regal, putting forth an image as respectable as his character actually was.
After becoming the Emperor, Elend went from being an idealist to realizing that sometimes harsh measures and force are required to save someone who doesn't know better. He felt guilty at the erosion of his ideals, and felt sometimes to be a hypocrite in his moments of self-doubt, but he trusted himself to pick the best course in the crisis they were in.
He then founded the [[New Empire]].▼
== Attributes and Abilities ==
== Other ==▼
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}}
He has viewpoints in all three books, but is only a primary character in the second two.▼
== History ==
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 Collapse ===
At the time of the [[Collapse]], Elend is 21 years old.{{book ref|mb1|18}} He meets Vin at a ball in Keep Venture, and begins a casual friendship with her when he finds her in the space where he usually reads{{book ref|mb1|12}}. Elend continues to attend balls and often sits with Vin and reads at her table. He eventually begins to court her.
Elend is saved by Vin from [[Shan Elariel]]'s assassination attempt{{book ref|mb1|30}}, but believes Vin to be a spy for another noble house and refuses to speak with her. He later discovers that she is in fact a skaa and tries to find her.
He is saved from being killed by an [[Inquisitor]] by [[Kelsier]] who protects him for Vin{{book ref|mb1|33}}. Elend eventually mounts a rescue for Vin in [[Kredik Shaw]], where she has been imprisoned, only to find that [[Sazed]] has already released her{{book ref|mb1|37}}.
=== The Siege of Luthadel ===
==== The Luthadel Assembly ====
After the Fall of the [[Lord Ruler]], Elend is made king over the Luthadel Assembly. He attempts to introduce all the political ideas he has formulated from his studies and meeting with other nobles over the years. His rule is destabilized when Straff Venture and [[Ashweather Cett]] besiege [[Luthadel]] in the hopes of securing the atium cache that they believe to be hidden there. During the siege, he is deposed as king by the Luthadel Assembly, under a clause he wrote himself{{book ref|mb2|27}}. Elend begins to receive training from [[Tindwyl]] in how to be a more effective leader, which allows him to effectively try to be re-elected as king. However, he loses the vote to [[Penrod]].
==== The Battle of Luthadel ====
Sazed and the rest of Kelsier's crew convince Elend and Vin to leave Luthadel in order to seek the [[Well of Ascension]]{{book ref|mb2|49}}. While they travel north towards the [[Terris Mountains]] with [[Spook]], they realise the truth, that their friends had lied in order to get them out of the city and save their lives. Elend and Vin come across [[Jastes Lekal]] fleeing Luthadel because his koloss army had turned on him. Elend beheads Jastes for leading the koloss army to Luthadel and then leaving them to attack the city{{book ref|mb2|51}}. Upon their return, Vin defeats the armies, forcing them to swear fealty to Elend as the emperor of the New Empire{{book ref|mb2|55}}.
==== 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]] 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 wrenched 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}}.
* Elend means ''misery'' in German, but this wasn't intentional.{{wob ref|2333}}
▲* He has viewpoints in all three books, but is only a primary character in the second
== Notes ==
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