Difference between revisions of "Elend Venture"

|died={{date|1025|fe}}

|groups={{tag|Kelsier's crew}}, {{tag+|army|Venture}}

|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 ==

 

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}}

== History ==

=== Early History ===

 

{{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}}

After the foundation of the [[New Empire]], Vin and Elend set out to recover the five storage caches of the [[Rashek|Lord Ruler]]. They found the second one in [[Statlin City]],{{book ref|mb2|57}} containing large amounts of lumber, and a description of [[aluminum]].{{book ref|mb3|5}} The second cache was in [[Urteau]], and though the city was in control of [[Quellion]], Vin managed to sneak into it and discover the location of the third storage cache, [[Vetitan]], as well as a description of the metal [[electrum]].{{book ref|mb3|5}} They conquered Vetitan, taking control of a group of ten thousand{{book ref|mb3|1}} [[koloss]] that were attacking the city, and took its people further towards the center of the empire, where food could still be grown.{{book ref|mb3|8}} In the cache, they discovered large quantities of the first eight Allomantic metals,{{book ref|mb3|12}} as well as a description of [[malatium]] and the location of the fifth and final cache, [[Fadrex City]], which was held by [[Aradan Yomen]].{{book ref|mb3|5}}

 

==== The Siege of Fadrex City ====

 

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}}

 

In his trip back, feeling burdened by his responsibilities, he knelt down in the ash, and almost gives up. However, Leras appeared to him as the mist spirit. 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}}

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 managed to convince the obligator to retreat and let Elend's army enter Fadrex.{{book ref|mb3|65}} An enormous army of koloss began to gather outside the city.{{book ref|mb3|67}} Seeing a boy being taken by the mistsickness, he realized 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 was too big for Elend's and Yomen's army to face. However, the koloss retreated, going toward Luthadel.{{book ref|mb3|73}} Yomen gave Elend his last atium bead, and Elend goes toward Luthadel to find Vin.{{book ref|mb3|74}}

 

==== The Battle of Hathsin ====

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Due to Vin's nature as a Mistborn and her traits trained into her by Kelsier as an assassin, 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}}

Elend 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}} At the [[Well of Ascension]], however, she knew that Elend would want her to sacrifice him to save his people, and she loved him enough to trust his wishes and give up the power instead of saving him.{{book ref|mb2|58}}

 

 

 

 

=== 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}}

 

 

=== Tindwyl ===

== Notes ==

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