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== Lead-up ==
With [[Ruin]] released upon the world and [[Preservation]]'s [[Vessel]] [[Leras]] weakening day-by-day, an endless fall of ash, intensifying earthquakes, and erupting [[ashmount]]s threatened the very existence of [[Scadrial]] and its people.{{
After his final conversation with [[Elend]], Leras finally died, leaving [[Preservation]] without a Vessel.{{book ref|mb3|55}}{{epigraph ref|mb3|56}} It would have quickly been absorbed by [[Vin]], who was specially attuned to Preservation's power, except for the fact that she was still wearing her [[Vin's earring|earring]], which was [[Hemalurgy|Hemalurgically charged]], acting as a repulsive factor.{{epigraph ref|mb3|79}}{{epigraph ref|mb3|epilogue}} The [[Cognitive Shadow]] of [[Kelsier]] was able to partially absorb the power of Preservation, helping to delay Ruin's destruction of the world, but could not wield its full power.{{msh ref|6|4}}
== The Final Ascension ==
After Ati and Vin had perished, both Ruin and Preservation were unheld. Sazed, grieving over the body of Vin, who he assumed would be their savior, and Elend, noticed the black and white mists emanating from the bodies of the previous Vessels. With a sudden realization, he understood that he was the one who fit the prophecies of the [[Hero of Ages]] and absorbed the power of the two Shards. The two merged together under a single Vessel and became known as [[Harmony]], and with their power Sazed set about fixing the world.{{book ref|mb3|82}}{{book ref|
== Repercussions ==
The primary repercussion of the Final Ascension was the reforming of Scadrial. The two Shards, working in harmony together, were able to reform Scadrial back to a nearly identical world as it was like before the [[Ascension of the Lord Ruler]]. Sazed had the ability to do this better than most, because of his duties as a [[Keeper]] and thus the knowledge stored in his [[metalmind]]s, which he tapped as he drew in the power of Harmony. The religions he'd studied and rejected due to inconsistencies each held some truths about the past world, including cartography, geology, astronomy, anatomy, zoology, and artwork depicting the world's beauty.{{book ref|mb3|82}} The main exception was the region of [[Elendel Basin]], which replaced the area where Hathsin once was and was designed to be a fertile cradle for civilization's renewal.{{book ref|
In addition to correcting the position of the planet and reforming the landmasses, he returned the various lifeforms which had been lost and restored Humanity's physiology to how it had been, before they had needed to survive ashfalls and had been transformed by [[Rashek]] into altered [[skaa]] and [[noble|nobility]]. He moved all of the survivors, who had moved underground for protection, to the new location of Elendel Basin, and left behind the [[Words of Founding]], books chronicling the events leading up to the Catacendre to be remembered by the population as well as a collection retaining the complete knowledge that had been collected by the Keepers.{{book ref|mb3|82}}{{book ref|mb3|epilogue}}
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