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Of course, there was another part for him to play. Granted, not large, but still important, all things considered.}}

 

 

TenSoon reaches Urteau, and finds that the city has a great number of burned buildings, though the canals are again flowing. He finds Elend's soldiers guarding a ministry building and wanting to save time, tells them he is a messenger from Elend and wants to speak to the city leaders. He finds Breeze in charge, who thinks he is OreSeur, but TenSoon corrects him. They both go to Sazed to discuss the situation. Sazed explains that Vin is at Fadrex City, and TenSoon is upset since that is a great distance from Urteau. Sazed asks why TenSoon wants to see Vin, and he replies that it has to do with the Hero of Ages and the end of the world. TenSoon is puzzled by the lack of reaction on Sazed's part.

 

I wonder what he thought when those creations repeatedly failed him.}}

 

 

Vin mock attempts to escape from her confinement, attacking guards as they retrieve her to bring her to Yomen. She downs four of them, but there are twenty at least, and they easily foil her. She is brought to Yomen, and after being shackled to a bench, secretly rubs some grease from her food on her hands and wrists. She is able to escape her shackles and throws silver screws at the guards to distract them but she is unable to grab Yomen since he is burning atium. He has her sit back down, unshackled. She says he is a mistborn but he denies this and tells her it is time to make a decision about her execution. Some other obligators join Yomen and Yomen questions why Vin's army is there, and she tells of needing the supplies and of Cett wanting to reclaim his kingdom. Ruin walks around Yomen proclaiming him a disappointment. Yomen asks Vin about her role in the Church of the Survivor. Yomen questions faith in an unseen god and Vin replies that is what Yomen is doing, but he denies the Lord Ruler is gone. Yomen asks her to tell about her slaying the Lord Ruler and she gives all the details save about her drawing from the mists. Yomen states that this is all a ploy by the Lord Ruler. Vin replies that she isn't the Survivor's Heir, but rather the Lord Ruler's, and that he isn't returning.

 

True, the mists did also cause some deaths in those who went out in them, but the number killed was not a large enough percentage of the population to be a threat to our survival as a species. The ash, that was our real problem. The smoke filling the atmosphere, the black flakes covering up everything beneath, the eruptions of the volcanic ashmounts . . . Those were what would kill the world.}}

 

 

Elend arrives at his camp with his group of koloss. Elend tells Hammond that Vin is still alive, since her bonded koloss haven't lost control. Hammond says that scouts from the Central Dominance say that Luthadel and many villages are in very bad shape, and that some cities have been destroyed by earthquakes and lava. Elend orders Hammond to plan a surprise attack for the morning with the koloss leading the way.

 

The power in these few beads was so concentrated that it could last through ten centuries of breeding and inheritance.}}

 

 

Spook is alive but unconscious, badly burned and slowly recovering in a hospital, as Sazed watches on. He gave pewter to Spook but this does not speed up his healing. Beldre is there also and she speaks of how Spook got her brother to act as he did in the past, and that he will survive and that he is a hero to the city.

 

Ruin did actually manage to get a spike into Yomen, once. Yomen, however, removed the spike before Ruin got a firm grip on him. It was much easier for Ruin to get a hold on people who were passionate and impulsive than it was for him to hold on to people who were logical and prone to working through their actions in their minds.}}

 

 

Ruin gloats to Vin about his pending victory. Vin listens to his ramblings, looking for clues to defeat him.

 

 

Marsh shows up, smiles at Vin, bows to Ruin, and tells Yomen that an attack is imminent. Marsh says he isn't there to protect the city, but rather to take the atium cache, but Yomen replies there was no great cache, just seven beads, and that he was bluffing Vin about having more. Ruin screams in frustration at learning this. Yomen pleads for help from Marsh but is rejected, saying the Lord Ruler is dead and that he was an unprofitable servant. Vin interjects that Elend won't attack and offers an alliance to Yomen now that Marsh refuses him. Marsh scoffs that Elend wouldn't attack the city to save Vin, but she says that Elend is a better man than that.

He tried to spike Yomen, failed, and by that time, Elend's army had arrived. So, he used a different pawn to investigate the cache for him and discover if the atium really was there or not. He didn't commit too many resources to the city at first, fearing a deception on the Lord Ruler's part. Like him, I still wonder if the caches were, in part, intended for just that purpose—to distract Ruin and keep him occupied.}}

 

 

 

=== Chapter 65 ===

He could have, I suppose, kept Allomancy secret and used Feruchemists as his primary warriors and assassins. However, I think he was wise to choose as he did. Feruchemists, by the nature of their powers, have a tendency toward scholarship. With their incredible memories, they would have been very difficult to control over the centuries. Indeed, they were difficult to control, even when he suppressed them. Allomancy not only provided a spectacular new ability without that drawback, it offered a mystical power he could use to bribe kings to his side.}}

 

 

Elend asks Hammond if attacking the city with his koloss is the right thing to do, and Hammond replies that it isn't. Elend orders the camp packed up, and for them to return to Luthadel.

 

 

Elend and Hammond observe Yomen's inferior force charge out to attack their army, but is suspicious of this and orders the koloss to retreat, since it is similar to his own strategy when he took control of the koloss.

Yes, it would have taken a man of supreme will to resist Ruin even slightly while bearing the spikes of an Inquisitor.}}

 

 

Sazed rides TenSoon, who has taken the form of a very muscular horse, to the kandra homeland. TenSoon tells about the creation and abilities of kandra, and about other creatures of Ruin. TenSoon tells Sazed that Vin will lead an army of allomancers to the homeland, and that Sazed is to convince the First Generation how dire the situation is, since they have a task to do. They arrive at their destination, which turns out to be a cave complex at the Pits of Hathsin, where the homeland is located. TenSoon leaves and Sazed enters the kandra tunnel complex, and encounters a couple of kandra guards, who escort him forward.

 

Four spikes also made them easier for Allomancers to control. In our time, it required a duralumin Push to take control of a kandra. Koloss, however, could be taken by a determined regular Push, particularly when they were afraid.}}

 

 

Elend and Vin and Yomen watch from inside Fadrex as an enormous army of koloss gathers outside. A gigantic earthquake hits, doing great damage to the city. Vin is again unable to use the mists, and she is wearing her earring. She ponders trying to bluff Ruin, and how to make the mists help her again. She tells Elend that she has to get the atium cache and bring it there, and leaves for Luthadel, hoping to make Ruin tip his hand.

 

 

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Marsh, under Ruin's almost total control, breaks Vin's other leg and starts breaking her fingers while a small part of his brain tries to resist. He thinks of how Kelsier treated her as the daughter he and Mare never had and how he had given up shortly before the rebellion that he worked so hard to bring about succeeded. He notices Vin's earring and remembers her story about it, and thinks of the note from Spook about the dangers of any metal piercing the body. Without thought, Marsh rips the earring out of Vin's ear.

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{{epigraph|She once asked Ruin why he had chosen her. The primary answer is simple. It had little to do with her personality, attitudes, or even skill with Allomancy.

There were other reasons, of course. But even Ruin didn't know them.}}

 

Marsh attacks Elend burning the atium he got from a kandra. Elend's pewter runs out, but he is still able to burn pewter somehow. He looks up and sees Vin, and sees a dark force guiding Marsh. Elend then burns duralumin and atium, and has a flash of insight and knowledge.{{wob ref|5667}} Elend buries his sword in Marsh's neck as Marsh's axe takes him in the chest. However Marsh is able to heal his wound while Elend isn't. Marsh claims victory but Elend says that he is wrong and that Elend won.

 

 

Elend tells Marsh that all the atium has been burned up and none is left for Ruin.