Elend Venture

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Template:CharacterInfobox Elend Venture was a noble from Scadrial.

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 women to make him a "real man." 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 fathers orders.

Elend met Vin at a ball in Keep Venture, where she sat at a table he was reading a book at. At most of the balls, he would often bring many books and sit there reading them.

After the Fall of the Lord Ruler, Elend was made king over the Final Empire. During his reign, other nobles, including his father, tried to take over Luthadel in hope of finding the atium cache. When Elend first started his reign as king, he was not that confident with himself, and did not make a good appearance of others.

He was deposed by a majority vote. He then founded the New Empire.

Other

Elend means misery in German.[1] He has viewpoints in all three books, but is only a primary character in the second two.

Notes

  1. AN ANNOTATION
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