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{{shard info
|image=Preservation.jpg
|status=Whole, conjoined with [[Ruin]]
|vessel={{nosnippet|[[Sazed]]}}
|slivers=[[Leras]], [[Rashek]], [[Kelsier]], [[Vin]]
|splinters=
|perpendicularity=[[Well of Ascension]]
|magic=[[Allomancy]], [[Feruchemy]]
}}
Preservation seeks to provide stability and preserve the world and its inhabitants in their current state. It values the status quo, regardless of whether or not the people living underneath it are happy, and supports those who seek to keep it.{{msh ref|1|1}} It has distinct difficulty acting in a destructive way; it causes the Vessel almost physical pain to wound or kill, even if doing so would likely preserve more than the act itself would destroy.{{msh ref|2|4}}
Preservation is the perfect opposite and complimentary Shard of [[Ruin]]. This is rather unique in the [[cosmere]], as most Shards cannot be paired off in this way.{{wob ref|5518}}
{{for|Lerasium}}
[[Lerasium]] is the
=== Mists ===
Having directly created [[Scadrial]] along with Ruin, Preservation has vast amount of control over the planet. A person holding the Shard's power can rearrange continents, recreate extinct forms of life, and even move the planet within the solar system, permanently changing its orbit. Additionally, Preservation is Invested in every Scadrian, and can alter the way their bodies function.{{book ref|mb3|82}}{{wob ref|8025}} Direct killing is, however, directly against its Intent and thus extremely difficult bordering on impossible.{{msh ref|2|4}}
Preservation is able to hear the voice of any living Scadrian, but cannot speak to them; full two-way communication is only possible through the use of both it and [[Ruin]].{{book ref|mb3|10}} It can manifest a body in Scadrial's [[Cognitive Realm]], which both [[Leras]] and [[Sazed]] use to speak with the recently-deceased before they pass on
== History ==
{{for|Leras#History|the history of Leras prior to becoming Preservation}}
{{image|
=== The deal with Ruin ===
In one such cycle, [[Alendi]] travelled to the [[Well of Ascension]], with the intent of releasing the power. Preservation attempted to stop him, and its mist spirit murdered one of Alendi's travelling companions. Afterward, [[Rashek]] took up the power in the Well to prevent the release of Ruin, and used it to reshape the world of Scadrial in an attempt to get rid of the mists. This was only partially successful, as he ended up moving the planet too close to the sun, and had to make further changes to compensate.{{epigraph ref|mb3|4}}
Eventually, Rashek used the power of the Well to make himself a [[Allomancy|Mistborn]] in addition to being a [[Feruchemist]]. He also empowered a cadre of allies and friends who would become the foundation of the nobility, leading to the creation of [[The Final Empire]].{{epigraph ref|mb3|62}}
{{image|Mist Spirit by Jan Sidoryk.jpg|side=right|width=250px|Preservation's mist spirit}}
=== The release of Ruin ===
A thousand years later, after [[Kelsier]] was killed by [[Rashek]] -- now
Both Preservation and Ruin picked [[Vin]] as one of its unwitting agents many centuries prior, though Ruin attempted to stifle Preservation's influence by piercing child Vin with a [[Hemalurgic]] spike at birth. The first sign of [[Vin]]'s connection to Preservation was when she attempted to fight the Lord Ruler and drew on the mist to fuel her [[Allomancy]].{{book ref|mb1|38}} A year later, she began to hear the beat of the Well as it called for someone to once more take up the power. At the time, Preservation's mist spirit began to appear to her on multiple
Ultimately, Vin and [[Elend]] found themselves at the Well of Ascension, where, unseen to
{{image|Death of Leras by Álvaro González Huertas .jpeg|side=left|width=250px|The death of Leras}}
=== The death of Leras ===
{{quote
|[[Leras]]{{msh ref|6|4}}
}}
Following Ruin's release, Kelsier was once more able to move freely about Scadrial's Cognitive Realm. Resigned, Preservation led him to [[Khriss]] and [[Nazh]], a pair of worldhoppers with knowledge of the greater [[cosmere]] mechanics. Though Khriss insisted that they could not help, Nazh pointed Kelsier towards the [[Ire]], an [[Elantrian]] organization aiming to take the power of Preservation for themselves.{{msh ref|3|1}}{{msh ref|3|2}} In their fortress, Kelsier managed to acquire the [[Ire's orb]], a
At the same time, Leras was rapidly dying. As the mist spirit, he appeared one last time to [[Elend]] as the latter was almost ready to give up when escorting a large group of captured koloss back to [[Fadrex City]]. By this time, Preservation was too weak to perform any significant actions and could only vaguely communicate with Elend, attempting to convince him not to besiege Fadrex.{{book ref|mb3|55}} Shortly after Elend departed, Leras died, and his body fell back into the [[Physical Realm]].{{epigraph ref|mb3|56}}
=== Kelsier ===
{{for|Kelsier#History|the history of Kelsier prior to becoming Preservation}}
{{quote
|Do you know why I always won at card tricks, Ruin? It's because I could always. Force. People to choose. The card '''I wanted them to.'''
}}
Aware of Leras' death, Kelsier broke the orb and used its power to ascend to Preservation himself before the power could
The message was not, however, meant for Vin -- rather, it was meant for [[Marsh]], who was hunting Vin. When Marsh saw the letter, Kelsier put the whole of his power against Ruin to distract Ati. This allowed Marsh the freedom to understand what the letter meant and rip the earring out of Vin.
{{image|Mistborn by Hunter Bonyun.jpg|side=right|width=350px|Vin empowering Elend}}
=== Vin ===
{{for|Vin#History|the history of Vin prior to becoming Preservation}}
{{quote
|You created the thing that can kill you, Ruin.
Initially, Vin was using Preservation's power with little skill, much like Rashek had, and at every turn, her actions were countered by Ruin.{{book ref|mb3|73}}{{book ref|mb3|76}} At the same time, Elend realized that the people being snapped by the out-of-control mists were in one-sixteenth [[atium]] Mistings, who Leras planned on to burn atium, denying Ruin its own power.{{book ref|mb3|81}}
At the [[Battle of Hathsin]], as Marsh and Elend fought, Vin fuelled Elend's Allomancy to allow him to keep up. During the fight, he burned [[atium]] with [[duralumin]], which allowed him to perceive
=== Sazed ===
{{for|Sazed#History|the history of Sazed prior to becoming Preservation}}
{{quote
|I am, unfortunately, the Hero of Ages .
As [[Sazed]] observed the battle drawing to a close, he ran out to find Vin, unaware that she was no longer alive. He eventually managed to find her and [[Ati]]'s corpses. Distraught, he called out to Preservation, raging that despite Ruin's death, the world was still ending. It was then that the two bodies began leaking the powers of Preservation and Ruin. Though initially doubtful that he could hold them, Sazed eventually realized that he was, in fact, the prophesied [[Hero of Ages]], bound to take up both powers and restore the world. Thus, he grabbed both powers and used them to restore Scadrial, merging the two Shards together into [[Harmony]].{{book ref|mb3|82}}
{{for|Harmony#History|the history of the Shard following its merging with Ruin}}
== Influence ==
{{image|Preservation by ML Malandrino.jpg|side=right|width=350px}}
{{quote
|When something grows, or dies, the Jaggenmire make that happen. There is Herr, and his sister Frue, who is also his wife. And she makes things stop, and he makes things go.
The [[kandra]] have some knowledge of Preservation -- or, as they call it, the power of [[Ascension]] -- and its bearers. For an unknown reason, they're only aware of its last four Scadrian holders: [[Rashek]], [[Kelsier]], [[Vin]] and [[Sazed]].{{wob ref|4928}} They might be unaware of [[Leras]], or see him as something different.
Preservation is the author of the [[Terris Prophecies]], a set of legends that foretold the coming of the [[Hero of Ages]]. Leras created them as part of his plan to ultimately defeat Ruin, and although [[Ati]] twisted the prophecies over time to serve his ends instead, they were successful in this regard and have led to the creation of Harmony.{{wob ref|8056}} On a smaller scale, Leras, with aid of [[Kelsier]], was responsible for stabbing [[Elend]] at the [[Well of Ascension]], leading to him becoming a [[Allomancy|Mistborn]], and the mist spirit snapped Allomancers for many centuries.{{msh ref|2|4}}{{epigraph ref|mb3|72}}
== Trivia ==
* The Southern name for Preservation, Frue, is the Danish word meaning "lady" or "Mrs", and is close to German Frau ("Miss"), matching the name for Ruin, Herr (German for "Mister").
* In ''[[wikipedia:Magic: The Gathering|Magic: The Gathering]]'' colors, Preservation would be white.{{wob ref|11057}}
== Notes ==
{{Mistborn|Era 1}}
{{cosmere}}
[[es:Conservación]]
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