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Elend Venture and Hammond stare outwards from the tops of Luthadel's walls at the eve of their siege. [[Straff Venture]] and his fifty thousand estimated soldiers have Elend worrying the Assembly will surrender the city to avoid bloodshed. [[Breeze]] has disappeared too and Elend is unsure where Vin is.
Vin skulks through the streets to meet [[OreSeur]]. Having her suspicions of being followed deflated, she suggests returning to the wall, just before a hail of steel
*[[bws: mistborn-2-chapter-one|Chapter 1]]
===Chapter 2===
Vin is ambushed by a group of eight allomancers, consisting of thugs, a coinshot, a lurcher, a smoker and a mistborn. She battles and defeats them with minor assistance from [[Zane Venture|The Watcher]], though she has to use her last bead of [[Atium]]. OreSeur is gravely injured with broken bones, but Vin doesn't allow him to take one of the bodies of the foes she has just slain.
*[[bws: mistborn-2-chapter-two|Chapter 2]]
===Chapter 3===
'''Point of View: Elend, Vin
Elend works on a proposal to the [[Luthadel Assembly]], to prevent them from taking any actions that he feels are rash, before he can parlay with Straff Venture.
Vin watches him from the outside of his [[Keep Venture|palace]], while also keeping an eye out for threats. She senses allomantic pulses that seem to be distant, but turn out to be caused by a figure made out of mist that is standing near her on the rooftop. The mist figure vanishes when Vin uses steel to push coins at it.
[[Hammond]] arrives, and tells Elend and Vin that the allomancers that Vin killed were sent by [[Ashweather Cett]], a king from the [[Western Dominance]].
*[[bws: mistborn-2-chapter-three|Chapter 3]]
===Chapter 4===
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{{epigraph|Oddly, it was Alendi's simple ingenuousness that first led me to befriend him. I employed him as an assistant during his first months in the grand city.}}
'''Point of View: Elend, Vin
Guards in the palace find two skeletons that were left behind by kandra, including a very fresh set of bones, and Vin realizes that a kandra is probably impersonating one of Elend's inner circle.
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==Part Two: Ghosts in the Mist==
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{{epigraph|And yet, any who know me will realize that there was no chance I would give up so easily. Once I find something to investigate, I become dogged in my pursuit.}}
The Terriswoman's name is [[Tindwyl]], an acquaintance of [[Sazed]]. Her [[coppermind]] specialty is biographies -
===Chapter 15===
===Chapter 16===
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{{epigraph|Yes, he was the one who
[[Vin]] pulls apart [[Alendi]]'s logbook, looking for references to the [[Preservation|mist spirit]] and the [[Deepness]]. She realises that the mist spirit watching her was the same one the followed Alendi around. However, Alendi's logbook gives little information regarding the creature, and The Deepness.
Vin sits in night mists, fretting over her losing control over changing circumstances. She prepares a trick to check if Hammond is an imposter, by having OreSeur startle him while he is on his patrol route while she uses bronze to see if he burns pewter, which he does. Vin tells Hammond that she is out of atium and asks for tips on fighting a mistborn, and he tells her of two possible methods to win, by either surprising the enemy or setting an unavoidable trap.
OreSeur confirms that Vin's methods will help eliminate suspects in her search for the impostor. Vin tells OreSeur that she resents that he was the only one who
Their discussion is interrupted by the sound of footsteps, and Vin and OreSeur find that Sazed has returned to Luthadel.
Zane looks for Vin at Keep Hasting, but she is not there so he searches further and finds her at Keep Venture. He watches her unseen, but she is able to discover him somehow.
Zane asks Vin why she doesn't do anything that she wants to now that she has the power, and she replies that she is mature enough to not abuse her abilities. Zane asks what Vin would do if there were no repercussions and she replies that she would kill the enemy
===Chapter 25===
'''Point of View: Vin, Elend
Vin is invited by Tindwyl to go shopping for a dress to wear for her meeting with Straff Venture, and they are accompanied by Allrianne, Spook and OreSeur. Tindwyl confronts Vin about her relationship with Elend and her refusal of his
Vin hears warning drums and rushes to the city wall to help fight off Straff's invading army. Elend's soldiers are ill-prepared, but the attack is a feint to test the city's defenses and is called off quickly.
===Chapter 30===
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'''Point of View: Sazed
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{{epigraph|This is the problem. Though I believed in Alendi at first, I later became suspicious. It seemed that he fit the signs, true. But, well, how can I explain this? Could it be that he fit them too well?.}}
'''Point of View: Vin, Elend
In the first round of voting, Penrod receives fifteen votes, Elend seven votes and Cett two votes. Lord [[Habren]] asks for permission to change his vote, and Elend reveals that it is allowed as long as the results haven't been announced. Habren changes his vote to Penrod, so it can count for something, as does Lord [[Hue]], and Penrod is elected king with a two thirds majority. Elend concedes.
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==Part Four: Knives==
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{{epigraph|And yet ... something about all this seemed so convenient. It felt almost as if we constructed a hero to fit our prophecies, rather than allowing one to arise naturally. This was the worry I had, the thing that should have given me pause when my brethren came to me, finally willing to believe.}}
'''Point of View: Vin
Vin wakes up in a hospital bed, and Elend is there. He tells her that Penrod is now king, and flinches unconsciously when Vin touches him, thinking of when she killed the assassins. Vin hears Reen's voice saying that everyone will abandon her. Elend tells Vin that OreSeur lived and is consuming a new host body.
Elend leaves and Vin goes back to sleep. When she awakes, Zane is in the room. He tells her that the assassins were from Cett, and that Penrod made a deal with Straff. Zane gives Vin a nugget of atium and leaves, after telling her to stay safe.
OreSeur visits Vin, with a new dog host body. OreSeur states he didn't break the Contract by attacking a human, since his actions didn't cause death. OreSeur reluctantly tells Vin some non-confidential information about kandra, such as that they are not immortal, that they did not exist before the Lord Ruler's Ascension, that the Lord Ruler created them, and built in a means to control them. Vin experimentally uses a duralumin brass push on OreSeur and succeeds. OreSeur gets upset that he revealed too much and Vin promises not to soothe OreSeur again. OreSeur says that Vin should not have been able to do that, and that she is like the powerful Allomancers of old.
===Chapter 41===
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{{epigraph|After that, I began to see other problems.}}
'''Point of View: Sazed, Elend
Sazed and Tindwyl debate about the metal plate at the Conventical of Seran and Alendi's logbook. They are confused as to why Kwaan opposed Alendi taking the power from the Well of Ascension to defeat the dangerous Deepness. Sazed reads the rubbings and Tindwyl says something is wrong though she isn't sure what. They discuss this and ponder why Kwaan sent Rashek to kill or hinder Alendi, since it doesn't make sense based on what they know. They realize that when Luthadel is conquered, many people will be killed, and that further study is needed to determine what Alendi's motives were.
Elend deliberates on his failures to protect Luthadel. He visits Sazed and Tindwyl to get advice, and they spend some time debating about why Elend lost his throne. Sazed and Tindwyl both applaud Elend for sticking to his convictions, and Elend leaves.
===Chapter 42===
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{{epigraph|Some of you may know of my fabled memory. It is true; I need not a Feruchemist's metalmind to memorize a sheet of words in an instant.}}
'''Point of View: Elend
Elends works on keeping the city residents from freezing, and on discovering who poisoned the city water supply. A skaa named [[Larn (Scadrian)|Larn]] tells Elend that he saw an Inquisitor in Luthadel. Hammond shows up, and Elend tells him that Cett is staying in Luthadel to continue to oppose Straff.
Elend and Hammond use [[Hilde|a passwall]] that Hammond has been using for years to discretely exit Luthadel. Elend proceeds on his own, finding a koloss patrol to lead him to [[Jastes]]. Elend and Jastes argue and Jastes threatens to take Elend hostage until Elend reveals that he has been deposed. Elend asks Jastes to take the koloss away before they attack Luthadel in a frenzy, but Jastes says that he is in control of them. Elend stabs Jastes, then uses him as a hostage to escape the human camp. Elend attacks a small koloss and kills it and takes its sword and its pouches, which turn out to contain currency.
===Chapter 43===
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{{epigraph|The others call me mad. As I have said, that may be true.}}
'''Point of View: Vin, [[Wellen]]
OreSeur tells Vin about Elend's trip to the koloss army. Zane shows up, stating that Demoux is betraying Elend at Cett's behest. Zane suggests that they get revenge on Cett for this, and force his army to withdraw. OreSeur warns Vin to not go, but she ignores the kandra and retrieves the atium bead that he was holding.
Wellen is on night guard duty at Keep Hasting and watches as Vin and Zane arrive and kill many guards using coins.
Vin and Zane work together to kill a squad of regular soldiers, then a large group of hazekillers. They reach Cett and Gneorndin.
Vin shoves Cett's son to the floor, then Cett, to try to see if either is Mistborn, but neither is. Cett says his last allomancers died months ago. Zane arrives but Vin asks him to have mercy on Cett and Gneorndin, and he says that Vin is still controlled and he leaves.
===Chapter 44===
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{{epigraph|But must not even a madman rely on his own mind, his own experience, rather than that of others?}}
'''Point of View: Breeze, Elend
Breeze watches as Cett's army withdraws, and Clubs speculates that Straff can withdraw and let the koloss attack and weaken Luthadel to make his own invasion easier.
Elend, Hammond and Spook speculate why Vin attacked Cett's keep. Hammond says that Vin is keeping secrets and working with another mistborn. OreSeur leads Elend to Vin, who is hiding in an abandoned building which turns out to be Camon's former lair. Vin speaks of the soldiers she killed the previous night, and of how she got her earring. She says that she has to leave Luthadel and go north to Terris. She gives the bead of atium to OreSeur to hold, after having regurgitated it to avoid being poisoned.
===Chapter 45===
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{{epigraph|I know what I have memorized. I know what is now repeated by the other Worldbringers.}}
'''Point of View: Sazed
Tindwyl tells Sazed that the hero of ages won't be Terris, and Sazed agrees. Tindwyl and Sazed debate the purpose of religion.
Tindwyl discovers several copies of transcriptions with the corners mysteriously ripped off, and the same sentence contained in the destroyed text.
Vin shows up to talk to Sazed, and Tindwyl gives them privacy. Vin asks for advice about love, and about whether she should be with Elend or someone more like her. Vin leaves and Elend appears to ask for similar advice of Sazed. Sazed thinks they were meant for each other and that he must make sure they are not in Luthadel when it is conquered.
===Chapter 46===
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{{epigraph|The two are not the same.}}
'''Point of View: Breeze, Vin, Zane
Breeze gets a secret request in writing to meet Sazed. Breeze goes to the meeting which is also attended by Clubs, Hammond and Dockson. They discuss the possibility of Straff withdrawing and the koloss attacking. Sazed wants to stay and defend the city but send away Elend and Vin, along with Spook and Tindwyl.
Vin goes to the secret chamber within Kredik Shaw where the Lord Ruler spent time. She isn't sure why she went there, however, and leaves.
Zane is awoken by a special alarm and kills a would-be assassin. He goes to confront Straff, who attempts to bribe Zane with inheritance and atium. Zane counters by saying that Straff should withdraw and allow Luthadel to be attacked by the koloss, and that Vin was going to leave with Zane. Zane departs, fetching a never-worn mistborn cloak and some vials of metals and beads of atium. He reflects on the hemalurgic spike in his chest.
===Chapter 47===
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{{epigraph|Alendi believes as they do.}}
'''Point of View: Vin, Zane
Vin broods about her perceived failures and listens to a distant thumping which she realizes is the Well of Ascension being restored to power. OreSeur tells Vin that he doesn't like Terrismen since they are difficult to imitate, but has done so since they are always around powerful people. Vin notices the mists behaving oddly, staying indoors without vanishing for a long period of time. Zane appears and tries to get Vin to leave Luthadel with him. She almost does, but realizes that she values Elend's trust in her, and declines. Zane is angered and attacks Vin. Vin issues a command to OreSeur to give her the atium he was holding for her but he ignores her, and instead obeys Zane who is revealed to be his real master. Zane calls the kandra TenSoon. Vin realizes that TenSoon is the spy. As Zane and Vin fight, TenSoon cries out about how Vin knows about kandra, giving aid to Vin by reminding her of his weakness. She burns duralumin and brass, and is able to use soothing to control TenSoon. She takes the bead of atium from TenSoon though it only had a few seconds worth of atium, and it runs out quickly, as Zane intended. However, she uses Zane's dependance on atium to somehow feint him into revealing where she was going to attack, and diverts her dagger to where Zane didn't anticipate it, stabbing him in the neck and killing him.
Zane lies dying, realizing that Vin somehow tricked him despite his burning atium. He thinks that Vin was special because the voice of Ruin which claimed to be God never told him to kill her. Ruin tells him that of course he didn't want Zane to kill Vin, and that he was never insane.
Vin watches as Zane perishes, then tells TenSoon to take his body, since the wolfhound body is critically injured, but TenSoon declines, stating he can patch together this body and another wolfhound body that Vin provided. TenSoon says that his contract is void since Zane is dead and that he must return to the kandra homeland, and asks forgiveness from Vin for his betrayals. TenSoon says that he has betrayed his people by revealing how allomancers could control kandra, and says good bye. Vin goes to Elend.
===Chapter 48===
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{{epigraph|He is a good man—despite it all, he is a good man. A sacrificing man. In truth, all of his actions—all of the deaths, destructions and pains he has caused—have hurt him deeply. All of these things were, in truth, a kind of sacrifice for him.}}
'''Point of View: Elend, Sazed
Elend considers his options for dealing with Jastes' koloss army. Vin appears, injured from her fight, and tells Elend that she killed his brother Zane, which shocks him. Elend summons Sazed to provide medical care for Vin. Vin speaks of Elend's and Kelsier's capacity for trust and proposes to Elend and he accepts. Sazed performs a brief [[Larsta]] ceremony and declares them married.
Sazed mentions the Well of Ascension as a solution to their problems and advises Elend to accompany Vin to the Well to the north in the Terris mountains on the [[Derytatith]] peak. Sazed also advocates letting Straff take Luthadel to increase the odds of a peaceful transition while Elend rebels from outside the city. Sazed also thinks that the Synod would assist Elend militarily if he asked. Elend and Vin plan to leave the next day, along with Tindwyl and Spook.
Sazed watches Elend and Vin leave, thinking to himself about how he lied about the Well of Ascension to save their lives by tricking them into leaving before Luthadel falls, and wonders about how history will judge his interventionist tendencies.
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==Part Five: Snow and Ash==
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{{epigraph|He is accustomed to giving up his own will before the greater good, as he sees it.}}
'''Point of View: Elend, Breeze, Straff
Elend prepares to depart for the Well of Ascension, while Tindwyl berates him for abandoning his people. Tindwyl questions Elend's and Vin's belief in the supernatural properties of the Well of Ascension. Elend grows angry and orders Tindwyl to leave, though he agrees to deliver a package to the Synod in [[Tathingdwen]]. Spook arrives, as does Allrianne, and she convinces them to allow her to join their company, stating that Breeze ordered her to leave the city. They leave the city through the Tin Gate, stating to the guards that they are going for help and will return. A group of archers tries to intercept them outside the city but Vin fights them off. Allrianne then parts ways with them.
Breeze, Demoux, Sazed, Hammond and Clubs watch from atop the city wall as Elend's party evades Straff's army. Sazed tells Breeze that Tindwyl decided to stay, but he doesn't know why. Clubs derides the Church of the Survivor and says that he doesn't like Demoux preaching to his soldiers. Clubs also states that Sazed's beliefs are situational and inconsistent, a point that Sazed does not contend. Hammond observes there is a large amount of smoke coming from the koloss camp.
Straff, feeling ill, receives a messenger who brings news of riders escaping from the city. Straff collapses to the ground, dizzy, and tells the guard [[Grent]] to summon [[Amaranta]]. She arrives and begins preparing an antidote but Straff realizes that something is wrong, and burns tin to increase his level of alertness. Straff realizes that Amaranta was sleeping with Zane, and she says that Zane had never poisoned him, but that rather his illness was due to withdrawal from a drug she was addicting him to. Angered, Straff strangles Amaranta and prepares a haphazard antidote by mixing various herbs into boiling water, drinks it and falls unconscious.
===Chapter 50===
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{{epigraph|I have no doubt that if Alendi reaches the Well of Ascension, he will take the power and then—in the name of the presumed greater good—give it up.}}
'''Point of View: Allrianne, Elend, Straff, Sazed
Allrianne arrives at her father's army escorted by bandits that she used Rioting and the promise of a reward to manipulate into helping her. She confronts her father and argues that he should turn his army back to Luthadel instead of proceeding to their home dominance to improve their chances of survival.
Elend, Vin, and Spook break camp, confident that they have eluded Straff's scouts, though Spook does state that there is something following them, and Vin responds that it is the mysterious mist spirit.
Straff wakes up after being unconscious for almost three days. He issues orders to move their army back to their home dominance to give time for Zane's machinations to proceed.
Sazed fills metalminds in preparation for a koloss attack on Luthadel, and learns from Clubs that Straff's army has withdrawn. They discuss the dire circumstances of having to defend the city while being outnumbered by Jastes' army. Sazed tells Clubs of a religion of artists that he might be interested in, and presents him with a symbol of the [[Dadradah]] faith. Clubs says that Tindwyl is looking for Sazed so he leaves to meet with her. Sazed finds Dockson and Tindwyl discussing the deployment of their soldiers under command of Lord Penrod and city nobles. Sazed realizes that Dockson may be planning a rebellion and advises that it is not a good time, and Dockson concurs. Sazed and Tindwyl argue over why they remained in the city while having Elend and Vin leave, then they embrace each other briefly before an alarm sounds.
===Chapter 51===
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{{epigraph|And so, I have made one final gamble.}}
'''Point of View: Vin, Sazed, Straff
Vin sees the mist spirit in her tent, hovering over Elend, and tries to stab it with her dagger and makes contact with something, but the spirit vanishes. Elend wakes up from the disturbance, but Vin tells him that she is just feeling anxious. Spook says that they are being followed by five men. Spook laments that he feels useless with only one allomantic ability, but decides to utilize it as much as possible even when it doesn't seem to be needed at the time.
Clubs reports to Breeze and Sazed that the koloss are fighting a massive brawl, increasing their rage levels to the point where they attack the city. Clubs issues orders to deploy soldiers and archers to defensive positions.
Straff receives word of the koloss attack, and orders his army which is still near Luthadel to march back toward the city.
Sazed watches from the city wall as the koloss attack progresses, and the koloss move to surround the city while the defenses respond.
Vin invades the camp of the men that are following her party, and finds they are led by Jastes, who decided to abandon the koloss to follow Elend's group to safety. Jastes says that the supply carts with the currency burned down and the koloss became too unruly for him to control them any longer. Elend grows angry that Jastes left the koloss outside Luthadel without any leaders or control and executes his old friend. Spook reveals that Sazed tricked Elend and Vin into leaving the city so they would survive the coming attack. Vin realizes the Well of Ascension is in Luthadel, and they decide to return to try to aid any survivors of the attack.
===Chapter 52===
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{{epigraph|My pleas, my teachings, my objections, and even my treasons were all ineffectual. Alendi has other counselors now, ones who will tell him what he wants to hear.}}
'''Point of View: Breeze, Vin
Breeze consumes great quantities of brass as he soothes the defending human soldiers who await the koloss attack at the Zinc Gate. Breeze tells Clubs that he has tried to soothe the koloss but was unable. Clubs says that he never lost a battle in twenty years of fighting, but that he always had the koloss on his side in the past.
Vin races along toward Luthadel on a pewter drag, fearing that she will be too late to save her friends.
Breeze and Clubs wonder how a bunch of thieves ended up leading a doomed army as the koloss break down the Zinc Gate and enter the city.
Sazed learns of the breach at the Zinc Gate but feels that the defenses will hold there, and requests that a new noble be sent to his location since he thinks that the defenses here are unreliable. The leader, Captain [[Bedes]], asks Sazed for advice and Sazed responds for him to act like he is in charge. Sazed sees a group of skaa and tells them to return to their homes but they refuse, saying they are there to see the koloss be defeated by Vin. He informs them that Vin was gone, but the skaa remain, stating that they will watch Sazed, who they call the Holy First Witness. The koloss break through the gate, and Sazed stays to fight, tapping his pewtermind and slays a giant koloss with one punch, and leads the soldiers into battle.
Vin, running low on pewter, reaches a village hours outside of Luthadel. She gathers up horseshoes to create an impromptu Mistborn spikeway and resumes her trek after telling the villagers to flee to Terris due to the siege on Luthadel.
===Chapter 53===
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{{epigraph|I have a young nephew, one Rashek. He hates all of Khlennium with the passion of an envious youth. He hates Alendi even more acutely—though the two have never met—for Rashek feels betrayed that one of our oppressors should have been chosen as the Hero of Ages.}}
'''Point of View: Straff, Sazed, Breeze, Dockson, Allrianne
Straff and his army are just outside Luthadel, and Straff tells General Janarle that they will let the koloss fight for a few hours and tire themselves out before they invade the city to drive the koloss out.
Sazed fights at the Steel Gate, and manages to clear the koloss out of the area sufficiently to reclose the gate and use his ironmind to gain weight to keep the gate closed. This only gives a temporary reprieve as Sazed's ironmind runs out and the koloss break through again, and Sazed learns that Tin Gate, where Tindwyl was in charge, has fallen.
Koloss break through Zinc Gate and Clubs orders Breeze and the soldiers there to retreat into the city. Breeze watches as a koloss cuts down Clubs, and he flees to hide in a nearby building.
The koloss invade Keep Venture and slay Dockson as he tries to retreat.
Straff ignores Janarle's entreaties to attack the city, hoping the koloss damage it greatly so that he can remake it in his own design.
Allrianne implores her father to send his army to fight off the koloss, but he refuses, saying that he will submit to Straff instead, and that all the good men died in Luthadel.
Sazed manages to fight for hours against the mighty but unskilled koloss until his pewtermind runs out and prepares to be killed, but is spared as Vin arrives. The skaa start chanting as Vin uses allomancy on the gate to smash all the nearby koloss. Sazed convinces the skaa to flee the area.
Breeze despairs over his cowardice as Hammond and Sazed locate him and decide to lead the remnants of their army to Keep Hasting to find refuge.
===Chapter 54===
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{{epigraph|Alendi will need guides through the Terris Mountains. I have charged Rashek with making certain that he and his trusted friends are chosen as those guides.}}
'''Point of View: Vin, Sazed
Vin battles against the koloss but realizes that she won't be able to defeat all of them by herself.
Sazed stands outside Keep Hasting, yelling to get Lord Penrod's attention, eventually succeeding. However, Penrod refuses to flee or allow refugees to shelter inside the keep.
Vin runs out of pewter and almost falls unconscious, as the koloss rage and Luthadel burns. As a last resort, she uses a duralumin push on some nearby koloss and is able to control them telepathically and realizes this is the weakness the Lord Ruler built into them.
Vin arrives with her controlled koloss at Keep Hasting and orders Lord Penrod to send out soldiers to protect citizens and locate koloss for her, and he obeys. Sazed updates her on the status of their crew and Hammond gives her some pewter before she heads to Keep Venture.
Sazed locates Tindwyl's body after hours of searching, and mourns but is unable to choose a religious rite to perform for her since he doesn't believe in any of the religions that he has studied.
===Chapter 55===
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{{epigraph|Rashek is to try and lead Alendi in the wrong direction, to discourage him, or otherwise foil his quest. Alendi doesn't know that he has been deceived, that we've all been deceived, and he will not listen to me now.}}
'''Point of View: Straff, Vin, Allrianne, Sazed
Straff wakes up the morning after the koloss attack, and General Janarle reports that the fighting in the city seems to be over. However, they notice that there are koloss lining up outside the city wall, as well as human soldiers, taking Straff off guard. The koloss and humans charge Straff's army, and Straff suddenly notices Vin hurtling through the air toward him.
Vin strikes down both Straff and his horse as she lands from her duralumin steelpush, and begins attacking the officers of the army.
Allrianne urges her father to help Vin's army against Straff's but he refuses, until she forces his hand by charging alone toward the battle.
Sazed watches the battle from a safe distance, and mentally reviews the prophecies about the Hero of Ages. He watches as Cett's army joins the battle against Straff's, and afterward, as Vin forces Penrod, Cett and Janarle to accept Elend as Emperor. She leaves Sazed in charge and leaves to rest after her ordeal.
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==Part Six: Words in Steel==
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{{epigraph|If Rashek fails to lead Alendi astray, then I have instructed the lad to kill Alendi.}}
'''Point of View: Elend
As Elend and Spook travel to Luthadel, Elend encounters the mist spirit. It points north and apparently tries to mentally push Elend, but then vanishes when Spook shows up. They encounter a group of Terris refugees, who were fleeing from Tathingdwen toward Luthadel because a group of Steel Inquisitors appeared there and attacked the Synod, killing them. Elend and Spook decide to accompany the Terrismen on their journey, and Elend states that he believes that Vin has prevailed somehow in Luthadel.
===Chapter 57===
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{{epigraph|It is a distant hope. Alendi has survived assassins, wars, and catastrophes. And yet, I hope that in the frozen mountains of Terris, he may finally be exposed. I hope for a miracle.}}
'''Point of View: Sazed, Elend, Vin
Sazed listens in as Penrod, Cett and Janarle impatiently debate on their future courses of action, while they await Elend's arrival and Vin's return to consciousness.
Elend and Spook arrive at Luthadel and join a group of refugees entering the city.
Sazed reviews the journal that he wrote along with Tindwyl, and reminisces. He reads their notes on the Hero of Ages, and has a premonition that something doesn't seem right. He notices the phrase "Holy First Witness" and realizes this is what the skaa called him, but never made the connection before. Vin appears and tells Sazed that the Well of Ascension is in Luthadel and that she feels it pulling on her. She also speaks of how she pulled on the mists to defeat the Lord Ruler. Sazed counters that the Well was in the Terris Mountains but Vin says that the Lord Ruler changed the world's geography. They are interrupted by shouts that the King has returned.
Elend, Hammond and Spook walk through a crowd in the Luthadel streets and meet with Vin, who informs Elend that he is now Emperor, and he sheds his previous misgivings about governing.
Sazed notices a ripped piece of paper with his handwriting that says "Alendi must not reach the Well of Ascension for he must not be allowed to take the power for himself" and wonders why Kwaan thought this since it seems to contradict what he knows of Kwaan's opinion.
Vin leads Elend, Hammond and Spook towards Kredik Shaw, where she believes the Well of Ascension is located. Elend observes that the mists seem to be pulling away from Vin. Vin thinks the Well is pulsing more strongly now that its power has reached its maximum capacity. They enter the keep, and Vin finds a secret allomantic door, using a duralumin pull to open it.
Sazed reads Kwaan's notes and observations that he was incorrect in proclaiming Alendi as the Hero of Ages. Sazed is confused by an apparent contradiction that he can't pinpoint. The mist spirit appears suddenly, startling Sazed, and points toward the center of the city. Sazed deduces that it may not be a good thing for Vin to find the Well, and starts heading toward Kredik Shaw as people start screaming in terror outside.
Vin, Elend, Hammond and Spook find a storage cache of food and a map of the Final Empire etched in metal with [[Statlin City]] circled. They continue their search for the Well.
Sazed finds the body of a skaa who died painfully as he follows the mist spirit which is urging him toward Kredik Shaw. The spirit denies killing the skaa. Sazed enters the keep as the spirit stays outside in the mists. Sazed encounters Marsh, who says that Sazed should not have come there and that he wishes he knew why he had to kill Sazed. Marsh then allomantically pushes on Sazed's arm bracers, causing him to slam into the wall.
===Chapter 58===
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'''Point of View: Vin, Sazed, Elend
Vin, Elend, Hammond and Spook find a second, larger cavern, with a lot of smoke, and they go towards a light.
Sazed gets severely injured by Marsh, suffering a broken rib and broken arm as he is pushed around. Marsh picks up a pouch that Sazed dropped, and uses a steelpush on the metal rings within to cause them to get embedded in Sazed's flesh. Sazed taps into these metalminds to heal and improve his senses, and confronts Marsh.
Elend follows Vin toward the source of the light, which turns out to be a glowing white pool. Vin says it is the Well of Ascension, and worries that she won't use the power properly if she takes it, but Elend reassures her. Elend finds a small bit of metal embedded in a disk of clay.
Sazed and Marsh fight, and Sazed manages to injure Marsh, but his metalminds run out and Marsh gains the upper hand. Marsh tries to finish off Sazed but he is attacked from behind by someone who cracks a dueling cane into his skull.
Vin and Elend arrive at the Well, and the mist spirit shows up and stabs Elend in the gut, mortally wounding him.
Marsh falls unconscious from Hammond's attack. Sazed and Hammond continue downstairs to find Vin.
As Elend lies dying, Vin walks into the glowing pool.
Sazed arrives but is too late to stop Vin.
Vin absorbs the power of the Well, removing her earring due to a flare of pain, and feeling like she is on fire from the power that she is taking in. A Voice tells her that she knows what she must do. She sees across the world and the Voice says the Deepness is the killing mists and that is has returned now, and that if she tries to stop the Deepness along that the world will be ruined. She lets the power go, and hears a voice that proclaims "I am FREE!"
===Chapter 59===
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'''Point of View: Vin
Vin holds Elend as he clings to life, and despairs, as the Well is drained and the thing is gone. The mist spirit urges Vin to pick up the metal bead then leads her back to Elend, and she realizes that she must feed the metal to Elend. She gives him one of her metal vials to wash the bead down with, and watches in shock as Elend burns pewter and returns to full health.
==Epilogue==
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'''Point of View: Sazed, Vin
Sazed arrives at the Conventical of Seran, and compares his rubbing to the metal plate and sees that the two don't match. The metal plate states that "Alendi must not reach the Well of Ascension for he must not be allowed to release the thing that is imprisoned there". Sazed reads the final section on the plate, which references prophecies that are altered by a malevolent force to cause
Alendi to release the power of the Well, leading to disaster, and Kwaan's contingency plan of Rashek killing Alendi to prevent this from happening. Sazed loses all faith upon reading these words.
Vin and Elend stand on the Luthadel city wall. Vin tells Elend that she made a disastrous mistake by freeing the creature that was trapped in the Well and that this may be worse than anything the Lord Ruler has ever done. Elend reassures her that they will survive nonetheless.
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