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{{Perpendicularity
|image=Atium geode.jpg
|shard=[[Ruin]]
|use=Produce [[atium]], Realmatic Transition
|nation=Final Empire
|world=Scadrial
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
▲|region=[[Central Dominance]]
▲|books=[[Mistborn trilogy]][[Category:Mistborn]]
}}
The '''Pits of Hathsin'''
== Geography ==
▲The '''Pits of Hathsin''' were a system of caves near [[Luthadel]] on [[Scadrial]] at the time of the [[Final Empire]] in which [[atium]] crystals grew.
The Pits are known to the people of the [[Final Empire]] only as a deadly [[skaa]] labor camp the [[Lord Ruler]] set up, but it actually also produces [[atium]] crystals. It serves the dual purpose of punishing [[skaa]] criminals and concealing the location of the atium mines, as the prisoners cannot leave. During the events of the Final Empire, the Pits of Hathsin are the only known place where atium can be mined. Imprisoned skaa are required to climb down a suffocatingly narrow gorge and reach into crystal-lined niches to find the geodes that contain the atium. Each skaa has to find an atium geode every week; if they fail, they are savagely beaten to death.{{book ref|mb1|21}}
The Pits
== History ==
[[Kelsier]]
Several days before the fall of the [[Final Empire]], Kelsier returns to the Pits. There, he sets free the enslaved skaa prisoners and proceeds to destroy the majority of Hathsin's atium-producing crystals using allomancy. His iron is enough to detect trace amounts of atium in the crystals, and Pulling on them shatters the crystals with kinetic force. Afterwards, he remarks that his actions will likely end atium production in the Final Empire for the next three hundred years, as the crystals will need time to regrow before any more atium can be mined.{{book ref|mb1|32}}{{book ref|mb1|33}}
After the Collapse of the Final Empire and the end of the atium mining, the Pits in the Central Dominance
▲[[Kelsier]] was the only known person to survive the Pits. He was there with his wife [[Mare]] as punishment for sneaking into the [[Kredik Shaw]]. Mare died in the Pits, and Kelsier [[Snap]]s and escapes.
After the events of the [[Final Ascension]], atium is no longer formed within the crystals of the Pits; the atium may or may not regrow in the future.{{wob ref|5600}} The atium does not grow at Wax's time.{{book ref|mb5|21}} However, it is possible that Harmony is doing something to reduce Ruin's power to balance out the extra power that Preservation Invested in humankind.{{wob ref|1155}} By this time, the Pits are also sometimes known as the '''Survivor's Cradle''' for its role in Kelsier's Snapping.{{book ref|mb7|3}}
▲After the Collapse of the Final Empire and the end of the atium mining, the Pits in the Central Dominance became the new home of the Terris people, as the remaining infrastructure from the old mining camp had buildings, shelters, and most importantly, fresh water along with farm crops of resilient hardy plants adapted to ash that needed little water. Once settled, the Terris people improved the valley, building more structures, brushing ash from the plant foliage to provide grazing for the adapted short-legged sheep that roamed the hills, and returning to their heritage of herding, before the Lord Ruler's Ascension. The Terris people's lives became easier than most on Scadrial, living in pastoral villages that replaced the once brutal prison camps.
▲The Pits were also the location of a [[Shardpool]] that was the liquid form of [[Ruin]], similar to the the [[Well of Ascension]] was to [[Preservation]].{{ref|?|691|15|Does Ruin have a pool similar to the Well of Ascension?}}
== Notes ==
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