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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.
 
== Appearance and Personality ==
 
=== Ascension ===
As Rashek was using the power of the Well, he changed many aspects of life on Scadrial, in order to save the world from the Deepness. Many of his changes, however, created even more problems that needed to addressed. He moved the planet closer to its sun in an attempt to burn the mists away. The new orbit was too close to the sun, and he created active volcanoes to produce large amounts of ash and smoke to cool down the world.{{epigraph ref|mb3|4}} The climate of ceaseless ashfalls required some mechanism to break down the ash, that the world did not suffocate on it, so Rashek altered the plantlife to be able to survive the ash and created microbes to break break it down. However, that was still not enough to save humanity. Rashek altered the physiology of humans on Scadrial to be able to survive the ashfall.{{epigraph ref|mb3|5}}{{epigraph ref|mb3|15}}
As he was using the power of the Well, he changed many aspects of life on Scadrial.
 
* He moved the planet closer to its star in order to burn the mist away.
Further alterations to the world and humanity were made to secure his rule over the world. The Terris mountains were flattened, and new mountains were raised in the north in order to hide the location of the Well of Ascension.{{epigraph ref|mb3|12}} While he had adapted humanity to the ash, he made other changes, creating the nobility and the skaa of the Final Empire with slight alterations to their physiology. The nobility he made taller, stronger and more intelligent, but less fertile. The skaa he made more fertile, shorter and hardier.{{epigraph ref|mb3|25}}
* As a result of the new orbit, he added a number of active volcanoes to the planet, which allowed him to cool the world down a bit.
 
* The new climate of the planet needed drastically different plants to be created.
He offered his friends a choice to make on behalf of all living Feruchemists, to transform them into mistwraiths. His friends he further transformed into kandra to allow them to retain their minds and their memories. In this process, he failed to account for Feruchemy genes still dormant in the Terris population, an oversight which allowed more Feruchemists to be born into following generations.{{epigraph ref|mb3|68}}
* He created or changed microbes to break down the ash as part of their metabolic functions.
 
* He altered mankind so that they would survive the continuous ashfall.
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}}
* He transformed all living Feruchemists into [[mistwraith]]s, creating the first of the species.
 
* He changed his most favoured allies to be taller, stronger, more intelligent and less fertile to create the [[noble]]s.
*Finally, Hehe rebuilt himself intoto anbe extremelya powerfulMistborn, mistbornrather than ingesting one of the beads of [[Lerasium]] at the Well of Ascension.{{qa 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, 2013}} Even so, his Allomantic strength was the same as those to whom he gifted the Lerasium.▼
* He changed his enemies into the [[skaa]], making them shorter, hardier, and more fertile.
* He converted all the Terris [[Worldbringer]]s to [[kandra]].
* He flattened the original Terris homeland, where the Well of Ascension was and built [[Kredik Shaw]] on top of it .
* He raised mountains in the North and named the location Terris.
▲* He rebuilt himself into an extremely powerful mistborn.{{qa 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, 2013}}
* He became functionally immortal, [[compounding]] both [[gold]] and [[atium]].
* He gained knowledge of all three Metallic Arts on Scadrial, allowing him to develop the three hemalurgic constructs that existed in the Final Empire.
 
=== 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{{qa ref|689|25|Part of the Lord Ruler's motivation for setting up The Final Empire was revenge|date=Nov 8th, 2011}}, 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|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, and even had Hemalurgic piercings to produce some of his most dramatic powers.{{qa ref|727|38|He used Hemalurgy to pull off his most dramatic effects|date=2008-10-16}} The Lord Ruler 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 Ruler said his empire lasted a thousand years. More specifically, it had lasted 1022 years. {{qa ref|691|3|Why did the Well of Ascension refill every thousand years rather than 500 or 200, etc.?|date=2010-05}}
 
He has had atseveral least one childchildren, 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.{{reddit ref|books|2ytg2h|crp8mn|text=Did the Lord Ruler have children?|date=29 may 2015}}{{reddit 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 2015}}{{qa ref|1152|55|text=He had several [children], they mixed with the population.|date=February 17, 2016}}{{17s ref|post|392616|text=Are any of the Lord Ruler's descendants alive at the time of Alloy of Law?|date=January 26th, 2016}}
 
[[Vin]] kills him using the power of the mists, after he removed her Hemalurgic [[Vin's earring|earring]]; 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]].
 
{{quote|He suffered much beneath Ruin's hand, but he was a good man, who ultimately had honorable intentions.|[[Sazed]] on Rashek's corruption by [[Ruin]]. A note on the reverse of the [[flower picture]] in a book written by Sazed after his ascension.{{book ref|mb3|epilogue}}}}
 
== Powers and Abilities ==
Rashek has the powers of a full Mistborn and a full Feruchemist. In addition to this, his arm bracers are Hemalurgic spikes, filled with an unknown attribute.{{qa 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 2008}} With a combination of all three Metallic Arts, he was able 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 ==
 
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}}
 
His arm bracers are Hemalurgic spikes.{{qa ref|727|16|text=His arm bracers, which pierced his skin, were his spikes.|date=Oct, 2008}}
 
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 still has living descendants after the [[Catacendre]].{{17s ref|post|392616|text=Are any of the Lord Ruler's descendants alive at the time of Alloy of Law?|date=January 26th, 2016}}
 
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