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]].

== 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}}

=== 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}} Elend started to intentionally behave in ways that would enrage his father. For example his clothing was always messy and too huge. He blew several engagements with his attitude. In the end however his acts were pointless, and both he and Straff knew it.

 

{{image|Lord Elend Venture by Stephanie McCrea Rainosek.jpg|side=left|height=260px}}

 

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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|Lost? We've won, Marsh.

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}}

 

 

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}}

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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