Difference between revisions of "Elend Venture"

 

== Appearance and Personality ==

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=== Appearance ===

Elend has curly brown hair.{{book ref|mb2|10}} Before becoming king, Elend usually kept his hair dishevelled and used clothes too big for him, with the buttons undone. He didn't wear clothes as fine or as bright as those of other noblemen.{{book ref|mb1|12}}{{book ref|mb2|26}} He did that to set him apart from his father and to spite him.{{book ref|mb2|26}} After Elend is king, prompted by [[Tindwyl]], he starts wearing a military uniform. The uniform is completely white, and is composed by trousers, a shirt, and a stiff jacket with wooden buttons. He also cuts his hair and starts wearing a wooden crown.{{book ref|mb2|16}} His uniform is made of special ash-resistant fabrics, but they still have to be scrubbed clean of the ash every day.{{book ref|mb2|36}} He considers the white uniform a symbol of purity.{{book ref|mb3|65}}

 

=== Personality ===

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|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}}

 

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 ====

 

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

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|Lost? We've won, Marsh.

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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}}

 

 

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}}

 

 

=== Kelsier ===