Difference between revisions of "Pits of Hathsin"

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==History==▼

[[Kelsier]] is the only known person to survive imprisonment in the Pits. This feat gains him the title, "The Survivor of Hathsin". He is forced into labor there along with his wife [[Mare]] as punishment for attempting to infiltrate and rob the Lord Ruler's palace, [[Kredik Shaw]]. After Mare dies in the Pits, Kelsier [[Snap]]s and escapes using his newfound abilities as a [[mistborn]]. {{book ref|mb1|4}}▼

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. 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 become the new home of the Terris people, as the remaining infrastructure from the old mining camp have buildings, shelters, and most importantly, fresh water along with farm crops of resilient hardy plants adapted to ash that need little water. Once settled, the Terris people improve 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 become easier than most on Scadrial, living in pastoral villages that replace the once brutal prison camps.▼