Pits of Hathsin

Pits of Hathsin
Era	[[Final Empire]]{{era/Final Empire|}}
Region	[[Central Dominance|Central Dominance]][[Category:Central Dominance]]
World	Scadrial

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.

It was also a skaa labor camp the Lord Ruler set up to mine atium crystals. It served the dual purpose of punishing skaa criminals and concealing the location of the atium mines, as the prisoners could not leave.

Allomancy could not be used to retrieve the crystals, because an Ironpull would caused them to shatter, so the imprisoned skaa had to mine it by hand.

All skaa in the Pits had small scratches along their arms from the jagged crystals. The Pits were overseen by House Venture. Each skaa had to find an atium geode every week; if they failed, they were beaten to death savagely.

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 Snaps and escapes.

Only days before the fall of the Final Empire, Kelsier returned to the Pits, destroying all the atium crystals he could find, and setting all the skaa prisoners free.

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.

After the events of the Final Ascension, the crystals in the Pits were ultimately removed by Harmony. It is however, possible that they have since been recreated. Harmony is doing something to reduce Ruin's power to balance out the power Preservation lost to humankind.^{[citation needed]} It is possible that the crystals are now in the Pits of Eltania.

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