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{{quote
| I did not make a mistake. I have never made a mistake. However, it is time for a change.
| The Lord RulerRashek's words after lord prelan [[Tevidian Tekiel]]'s death.{{book ref|mb1|36}}
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'''Rashek''' is a [[Terrisman]] from [[Scadrial]]. Known as the '''Lord Ruler''', the '''Sliver of Infinity''' and the '''Father''', he has access to the full range of abilities of both a [[Feruchemist]] and an [[Allomancer]], and has [[Hemalurgic]] spikes in his body. As a result, he is an extremely powerful [[Compounding|Compounder]], and he was able to unify the world into an empire that lasted for one thousand years.
He is charismatic.
 
He enjoys playing and listening to music and keeps a small wooden flute among his Terris relics.{{redditwob ref|books|2ytg2h|csvfhre|text=Across a thousand years he tried pretty much everything. He was most fond of music.|date=7 july 20153606}}{{book ref|mb2|46}}
 
Prior to his Ascension, he disliked the people of [[Khlennium]], and was hostile and angry towards them, despite never having been to the state, because of their oppression of the Terris people.{{epigraph ref|mb1|7}}{{epigraph ref|mb2|50}} Though he hated them, he also envied several aspects of their culture, later incorporating them into the culture of the Final Empire.{{epigraph ref|mb1|32}}{{epigraph ref|mb3|26}}
Rashek was part of a growing number of young Terris who had more violent attitudes than was seen as typical of their people. They believed that their Feruchemy should have been put to greater use than it was as a tool for simple labour. Alendi believed Rashek and his fellows to be dangerous, given the opportunity.{{epigraph ref|mb1|11}}
 
Rashek believed that [[Alendi]] was not the true [[Hero of Ages]], and was resentful of him.{{epigraph ref|mb1|21}} He thought that an outsider -- someone not pure Terris, as well as an oppressor of Terris -- could not be the Hero, and that Alendi had tricked the Terris philosophers.{{epigraph ref|mb1|27}}{{epigraph ref|mb2|50}} He led Alendi to the [[Well of Ascension]] and killed him, under instructions from his uncle, [[Kwaan]]. He was ignored by Ruin up until the moment he murdered Alendi.{{qawob ref|727|30|text=(...) Alendi was under Ruin's influence. He ignored Rashek, though.|date=Oct, 20085767}} He then took and used the power of [[Preservation]], ascending to become the Lord Ruler.
 
=== Ascension ===
Though he had already created the kandra in his Terris friends, he gained much knowledge of the three Metallic Arts in the brief moments he held the power of the Well. With his knowledge of Hemalurgy, he was able to create koloss and Inquisitors. Despite all the knowledge gained from his holding the power of the Well, in a thousand years he was unable to create more than the three Hemalurgic constructs which he had already created.{{epigraph ref|mb3|9}}{{epigraph ref|mb3|44}}
 
Finally, he rebuilt himself to be a Mistborn, rather than ingesting one of the beads of [[Lerasium]] at the Well of Ascension.{{qawob ref|1034|12|text=He did not use the bead. In all of this he granted himself basically, he rebuilt himself to be extremely powerful and he did not use one of the beads.|date=Sep 24th, 20139889}}
 
=== The Final Empire ===
[[File:Lordruler.jpg|thumb|200px|The Lord Ruler, by [[Ben McSweeney]]]]
He formed the [[Final Empire]], partly as a means of revenge against the people he viewed as encroaching on Terris land,{{qawob ref|689|25|Part of the Lord Ruler's motivation for setting up The Final Empire was revenge|date=Nov 8th, 201110043}}, and conquered the whole of the world. He was obsessed with order, and he subjugated all but ten foreign kings, who he made [[Allomancy|Mistborn]] and allowed them to rule over the masses.{{annotation ref|mb3|chapter=62-2}} He made use of both Allomantic and Feruchemical powers in order to Compound to keep himself alive. The Lord RulerRashek was also called ''Sliver of Infinity'' by the people of the Final Empire.{{book ref|mb1|4}}{{book ref|mb1|8}}{{book ref|mb1|10}}
 
The Lord RulerRashek said his empire lasted a thousand years. More specifically, it had lasted 1024 years. {{qawob ref|691|3|Why did the Well of Ascension refill every thousand years rather than 500 or 200, etc.?|date=2010-055511}}
 
He has had several children, who had some relation to his attempt to end the Final Empire. His children mixed among the population, and post-[[Catacendre]], he still has living descendants.{{redditwob ref|books|2ytg2h|crp8mn|text=Did the Lord Ruler have children?|date=29 may 20152005}}{{redditwob ref|books|2ytg2h|crwx3j1|text=Did the Lord Ruler's children have something to do with the Lord Ruler's plot to once "give up" in the Final Empire?|date=6 june 20153434}}{{qawob ref|1152|55|text=He had several [children], they mixed with the population.|date=February 17, 20164868}}{{17swob ref|post|392616|text=Are any of the Lord Ruler's descendants alive at the time of Alloy of Law?|date=January 26th, 20162624}}
 
[[Vin]] kills him using the power of the mists, after his own powerful steel push ripped her Hemalurgic [[Vin's earring|earring]] free; allowing her to access Preservation's power and use her new found strength to remove his atium bracers. His death leads to the [[Collapse]], and the end of the [[skaa rebellion]].
 
== Powers and Abilities ==
Rashek has the powers of a full Mistborn and a full Feruchemist. In addition to this, hishe arm bracers arehas Hemalurgic spikes, filled with an unknown attribute.{{qawob ref|727|16|text=His arm bracers, which pierced his skin, were his spikes.|date=Oct, 2008}}{{qa ref|727|38|text=He used Hemalurgy to pull off his most dramatic effects.|date=October 20085865}} With a combination of all three Metallic Arts, he was able to Compound all sixteen metals and pull off his most impressive abilities. By Compounding Feruchemical gold and Feruchemical Atium, he effectively made himself immortal. However, as he aged, he required more and more stored youth to keep himself alive, and he would have eventually had to resort to other means to retain his immortality.
 
== Quotes ==
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| Let the executions begin.
| The Lord RulerRashek, after killing [[Kelsier]].{{book ref|mb1|34}}
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| My lord, look outside your window! Do we not have better things to discuss? The entire city is in rebellion! Skaa torches light up the night, and they dare go out into the mists. They blaspheme in riots, attacking the keeps of the nobility!
| [[Tevidian Tekiel|Tevidian]] arguing against the Lord RulerRashek about the skaa rebels{{book ref|mb1|36}}
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{{quote
|'''God''' cannot be killed. '''God''' cannot be overthrown. Your rebellion—you think I haven't seen its like before? You think I haven't destroyed entire armies on my own? What will it take before you people stop questioning? How many centuries must I prove myself before you '''idiot''' skaa see the truth? How many of you must I kill!
| The Lord RulerRashek{{book ref|mb1|38}}
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{{quote
| You don't know what I do for mankind. I '''was''' your god, even if you couldn't see it. By killing me, you have doomed yourselves...
| The Lord RulerRashek's final words{{book ref|mb1|38}}
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== Trivia ==
* He is aware of the possibility of life on other planets in the [[cosmere]], but has no interest or experience in leaving Scadrial. If he so wished, he could have left Scadrial during his Ascension.{{qawob ref|1084|42|Did The Lord Ruler know about Worldhopping?|date= August 8th, 2014955}}
* If he had joined the [[Knights Radiant]], he would most likely have been in the [[Order of Skybreakers]].{{qawob ref|1093|4|What order would he fit in best?|date=2014-8-202705}}▼
* He has a swivel chair.{{book ref|mb1|36}}{{url ref|url=http://pmendicant.tumblr.com/post/114252496659|text=post with animated gif|date=2015-03-21|site=[[user: therustyrobot|pmendicant]]'s tumblr}}
* He didn't destroy Alendi's logbook because Ruin manipulated his nostalgia in order to keep the book around.{{wob ref|4416}}
▲* If he had joined the [[Knights Radiant]], he would most likely have been in the [[Order of Skybreakers]].{{qa ref|1093|4|What order would he fit in best?|date=2014-8-20}}
* Although it wasn't necessary for the process of atium Compounding, Rashek intentionally stayed aged at times in spite of that fact.{{qawob ref|972|36|text=He didn't really have to, but he let himself.|date=Feb 20th, 20134534}}▼
* He didn't destroy Alendi's logbook because Ruin manipulated his nostalgia in order to keep the book around.{{qa ref|690|40|text= First, Ruin had his fingers in the Lord Ruler’s soul by then already. Subtle things are easier to influence. He played off the Lord Ruler’s natural nostalgia and desire to hold onto something so important to his past.|date=Jul, 2009}}
▲* Although it wasn't necessary for the process of atium Compounding, Rashek intentionally stayed aged at times in spite of that fact.{{qa ref|972|36|text=He didn't really have to, but he let himself.|date=Feb 20th, 2013}}
* Rashek has used his metals enough to become nearly a [[savant]], if not a full savant, in every area.{{wob ref|4070}}
 
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