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{{quote|You realize the forces I can bring to bear against you, child? You realize the power I have, the destruction I represent? I am mountains that crush. I am waves that crash. I am storms that shatter. I am '''the end.'''|Ruin to [[Vin]].{{book ref|mb3|72}}}}
'''Ruin''' is a [[Shard|Shard of Adonalsium]]. Its original [[Shardholder]] was [[Ati]], but is currently held by [[Sazed]]. Ruin's power has
== Intent ==
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 Shard, and was thus unable to act against its intent.
[[Sazed]] picked up both Ruin and Preservation following Vin's sacrifice, and is the current holder of both Shards. Ruin's power was
== Quotes ==
{{quote|I am FREE!|Upon Ruin's release.{{book ref|mb2|58}}}}
{{quote|"Ah, Vin," Ruin said, its voice almost fatherly in tone. "You act as if I were your enemy."
▲"You are my enemy. You seek to end the things I love."<br><br>
"And is an ending always bad?" it asked. "Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?"|Ruin to [[Vin]].{{book ref|mb3|45}}}}
{{quote|Do not mourn because the day of this world's end has arrived. That end was ordained the very day of the world's conception. There is a beauty in death--the beauty of finality, the beauty of completion.
For nothing is truly complete until the day it is finally destroyed.|Ruin to [[Vin]].{{book ref|mb3|45}}}}
{{quote|For Ruin, there is Preservation. Time immemorial! Eternity! And each time I push, YOU push back. Even when dead, you stopped me, for we are forces. I can do nothing! And you can do nothing! Balance! The curse of our existence.|Ruin to Vin after her ascension.{{book ref|mb3|76}}}}
{{quote|Balance, Ruin spat. Balance imprisoned me. Preservation's sacrifice--that was to siphon off the part of me that was stronger, to lock it away, to leave me equal with him again. For a time.
▲Only for a time. And what is time to us, Vin?<br><br>
Nothing.|Ruin to Vin as she tries to get a message to Elend.{{book ref|mb3|77}}}}
{{quote|How do you like that! I killed him! I Ruined everything you love! I took it from you!|Ruin to Vin as he kills Elend{{book ref|mb3|81}}}}
{{quote|He gave up his power at the Well, and into the mists, giving it to us so that we could take it. He always intended this to happen. You think this was your plan? It was his. His all along.
You created the thing that can kill you, Ruin. And you just made one huge final mistake. You shouldn't have killed Elend.
▲You created the thing that can kill you, Ruin. And you just made one huge final mistake. You shouldn't have killed Elend.<br><br>
You see, he was the only reason I had left to live.|Vin's last words.{{book ref|mb3|81}}}}
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