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During the Siege of Fadrex, Preservation appeared one final time to Elend after seeing him almost ready to give up when escorting a large group of captured koloss back to Fadrex. By this time, Preservation was too weak to perform any significant actions and could only vaguely communicate with Elend, and shortly afterward, the remnants of it's mind were destroyed by Ruin, and Leras, fell out of the mists and into the ash as he died.{{ref|b|mb3|e|56}}
In the days of the Breaking, Preservation usedsent his mistthe formmists during the day to touch all of humanity, in a countermove to Ruin being freed from the Well and utilizing the Inquisitors and [[koloss]] to destroy. With the [[kandra]] guarding the Trust of atium, Ruin's body, and the [[Pits of Hathsin]] destroyed, there were no other atium caches for Inquisitors or Mistborn to gain control of. Preservation made the mistsickness effectaffect 1/16a sixteenth of Elend's army.; 16sixteen metals, of which atium was one of. Just beforeprior to the last battle between the human and koloss armies, Elend and his army reachreached the kandra [[Homeland]], and Ruin's body,: the atium stash. Elend realizesrealized that the 1/16one sixteenth of his army that were [[Mistfallen,]] were all atium Mistings. Preservation planned the hundreds of new atium Mistings to burn the Trust, the atium cache, and thus denying Ruin from gaining access to it's bodyown power.
===The death of Ati===
The end of Ruin was Preservation's plan all along. He needed someone new, and therefore not molded to Preservation's intent, to make the sacrifice needed to destroy Ruin. Leras spent too much time holding the Preservation, and was thus unable to act against its [[intent]].
[[Sazed]] pickedtook up both Preservation and Ruin following Vin's sacrifice, and became the holder of both Shards following these events.{{ref|b|mb3|c|82}} He used the power contained by both Shards to reshape the world and fix the damage incurred by Rashek during his time with the power, and Ruin's final attempt to destroy Scadrial.
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