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{{character
|image=Spook
|parents=[[Jedal]], [[Margel]]
|relatives=[[Clubs]]
|descendants=[[Elendel]] noble houses{{book ref|mb4|7}}
|abilities={{tag+|Tineye}} <small>({{tag+|Savant}}, formerly)</small>, {{tag+|Mistborn}}, {{tag+|Hemalurgist}}
|titles=Survivor of the Flames, Lord Mistborn
|aliases=Jedal, Lestibournes
|ethnicity=Skaa
|'birthplace=[[Eastern Dominance]]
|'residence={{tag|Luthadel|cat=Residents of Luthadel}} <small>(formerly)</small>, {{tag|Elendel|cat=Residents of Elendel}}
|world=Scadrial
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
|
}}
'''Spook''', or '''Lestibournes''', is a [[skaa]] [[tin]] [[Misting]] (aka a [[Tineye]]) on [[Scadrial]]. He was a member of [[Kelsier's crew]] and worked for [[Elend Venture]] after the [[Collapse]]. After the [[Catacendre]], he became known as the Lord Mistborn and ruled the [[Elendel Basin]] for a hundred years before stepping down.{{book ref|mb6|5}}
== Appearance and Personality ==
{{image|Spook by clarinking.jpg|side=left|width=250px}}
In early {{date|1021|fe}}, as Kelsier's plan to overthrow the [[Final Empire]] was getting started, he was fifteen.{{book ref|mb1|22}} Spook is initially very shy after joining [[Kelsier's crew]], as he still speaks in Eastern street slang, which makes it hard for the rest of the crew to fully understood him.{{book ref|mb1|24}}▼
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{{quote
|Lestibournes. Lefting I'm born.<br>
Street slang for "I’ve been abandoned."</br>
|Spook on his full name{{book ref|mb3|23}}
}}
▲In early {{date|1021|fe}}, as Kelsier's plan to overthrow the [[Final Empire]] was getting started, he was fifteen.{{book ref|mb1|22}} Spook
After the [[Collapse]], he is much more confident. He stops using his street cant and grows to over six feet tall, barely resembling the gangly boy he was before. On at least one occasion, wore a beard as disguise.{{book ref|mb2|6}}▼
Around this time he starts to show his like for women, almost any type. He doesn’t get much response, but he likes to flirt a lot.{{book ref|mb2|25}}▼
▲After the [[Collapse]], he
His confidence is however not constant, and he has a feeling of inferiority, of being invisible, dismissible and ignored.{{book ref|mb1|49}} After Clubs' death he adds to this a sense of guilt for leaving he crew and trying to escape Luthadel taking Vin and Elend. The greatest consequence was for him to keep burning tin for a year and sensing it all. He had a huge desire to feel useful and being recognized for it.{{book ref|mb2|14}}▼
▲Around this time he
▲His confidence
== Attributes and Abilities ==
{{image|Spook-STA.png|side=right|width=300px}}
{{quote
|Tin burning ... Notting about the seeing. Wasing about the not seeing.
|Spook to Vin giving advice on
}}
Spook's grandfather had noble blood;{{book ref|mb3|53}} it is likely this was his maternal grandfather as [[Cladent|his mother's brother]] was also an [[Allomancer]]. As a result, Spook is a [[Tineye]]. He is the best one on Kelsier's crew, and so usually gets the most important watches.{{book ref|mb1|32}} After Clubs' death, he begins constantly flaring his tin because he thinks it will make him more useful, turning himself into a tin [[savant]]. As a result of this, he can feel disturbances in the air, sense tremors in the floor, and could know where people were simply by how close their heartbeats sounded. However, it also leaves him very vulnerable to sudden and strong stimuli, and he often keeps his ears partially plugged and his eyes covered.{{book ref|mb3|16}}
== History ==
=== Childhood ===
Named '''Jedal''' after [[Jedal|his father]],{{wob ref|6098}} Spook was born and raised in the Eastern Lands,
{{image|Spook by Egilde Art.jpg|side=left|width=300px}}
=== Kelsier's Crew ===
During his time on [[Kelsier's crew]], Spook
After the crew thought [[Marsh]] had been captured by the Ministry, they sent Spook with the [[House Renoux]] canal procession that left Luthadel, as he was their best Tineye.{{book ref|mb1|33}} The [[Steel Inquisitor]]s, however, had just tracked [[Vin]] to her Valette Renoux alias, and attacked the caravan to try to find her. When they didn't find her in the convoy,
=== Siege of Luthadel ===
During the [[Siege of Luthadel]] he was rarely given any important tasks. When [[Tindwyl]] caught him with nothing to do, she enlisted him to serve as a "packman" for [[Vin]] and [[Allrianne]]'s dress-shopping trip; he also occasionally worked as a coachman or honor guard to [[Elend]] or went on a spying mission.{{book ref|mb2|35}} As the
=== Urteau ===
{{image|Spook by Bernardo Curvello.jpg|side=right|height=300px|Escaping from the burning building}}
Elend and Vin sent him to Urteau to gather as much information as he could about the Citizen and his government there.{{book ref|mb3|14}}
He was
During this time, and due to the excess use of his powers, he became so sensitive to light that he had to wear a blindfold; however his other sharpened senses were able to make up for the inconvenience.{{book ref|mb3|16}}
He scouted the city and understood the mood of the people. He was horrified with the killings of not only nobles but their descendants and all other inhuman practices in the City. Spook hired a thief lord [[Durn]] who helped him get some news from the City, he took him to the execution of 10 skaa with noble blood but asked him to count the skulls. ▼
▲He scouted the city and understood the mood of the people. He was horrified with the killings of not only nobles but their descendants and all other inhuman practices in the
During the speech after the execution, Spook got infuriated and when he got close to [[Beldre]] he spoke to her, first asking if she agreed with the executions, later letting her know he was the man who would kill his brother. He was so into the conversation he failed to notice he was exposed and [[Quellion]]´s men went after him. He understood they were Allomancers when they used their power and he lost the fight.{{book ref|mb3|16}} ▼
▲During the speech after the execution, Spook got infuriated and when he got close to [[Beldre]] he spoke to her, first asking if she agreed with the executions, later letting her know he was the man who would kill
During the fight, Spook was stabbed with a sword that also pierced a [[pewter]]arm. The tip of the sword became a [[Hemalurgy|Hemalurgic]] spike and granted him the ability to burn [[pewter]]. The spike also gave Ruin access to Spook and got into his mind using [[Kelsier]]´s voice. So when he wakes up from the lost fight inside the burning building and hears Kelsier asking him to move on, find vials and burn pewter, he obeys, thus finding his new ability (which he doesn’t recognize as Hemalurgy) and thus trusting the voice in his head.{{book ref|mb3|16}}{{book ref|mb3|26}} ▼
▲During the fight, Spook was stabbed with a sword that also pierced a [[
Spook receives [[Breeze]], [[Allrianne]] and [[Sazed]] into the city and helps them hide providing them with information. He shows them the cave where the Lord Ruler’s cache was and suggested it as their base.{{book ref|mb3|29}} He tried to talk to Sazed about Kelsier’s voice but with Sazed doubting his beliefs, Spook didn’t fully confide and just trusted they were being protected by the Survivor.{{book ref|mb3|31}}▼
▲Spook
Ever since his unexpected survival from the flames, Spook had heard people gossiping of him and that he was part of Kelsier’s crew and that Durn was behind it. He eventually decided to confront him and found that Durn had been plotting against Quellion and had used the event to make him look bad. He decides to trust him and asks him to find Breeze. On his way out, a man approaches him and asked to save his seven-year-old sister from the Citizen. Spook realizes he is now in a better position to make a difference and decides to help.{{book ref|mb3|35}} He asked in return for ten men to help him dig the skulls from the fire where the Citizen had burned the prisoners days before. He found only nine skulls and understood Quellion was taking the Allomancers.{{book ref|mb3|38}}▼
{{image|Spook Shuravf.jpeg|side=left|width=300px}}
▲Ever since his unexpected survival from the flames, Spook had heard people gossiping of him and that he was part of Kelsier’s crew and that Durn was behind
He convinces Sazed to reverse engineer the lake built by the Lord Ruler so he can bring a miracle into the city. Along with him surviving the flames, he expects to outcast Quellion and cause the people to rebel against him.{{book ref|mb3|46}}▼
▲He
The city is ready for a revolt, Quellion is about to do a hate speech against Spook. The latter killed the Citizen’s guards and fought him, looking for him to shoot coins and prove himself an Allomancer to complete the city’s hatred. Beldre gets there and shoots Spook to save her brother. The City riots as they understand what she is and that their ruler had killed their noble blood family but not his sister. Spook feels betrayed and Kelsier’s voice pushes him to kill her and use her spike to get her power. The hate speech from Kelsier and the spike information helps him understand it was the spike at the first fire that had caused all this. Looking at Quellion he correctly guessed he was being affected too. He takes out Quellion's spike first and then his. He loses Pewter and is almost out of breath. He sees the city in flames but is looking forward to the water to flood the city. Beldre confirms she had killed the soldiers to escape and there is no one to flood the city. They go back along with Sazed and find the building in flames, they are about to return defeated when he heard Kelsier’s real voice, who said he had chosen him as his friend. Spook goes into the burning building and he has no more strength, he just throws his weight to the machine and collapses.{{book ref|mb3|58}}▼
Because he liked Beldre, he went to see her again, asked her to join him, but she refused and started screaming. Later, she went to their hiding place and spoke on her brother’s behalf. Under Ruin’s influence with Kelsier’s voice, Spook took her captive spreading the rumor she had escaped her brother. He expected Quellion to attack.{{book ref|mb3|49}} Spook and Beldre had another conversation later, where she confirmed her brother used to be a good man corrupted by power and Spook is bothered by the conversation, still with the encouragement of Ruin, he accepted the title of Survivor of the Flames and was happy with the attention.{{book ref|mb3|53}}
After Spook saves the city from destruction, in the middle of him waking up, Kelsier is able to communicate with him. He gives encouragement and praise, but mostly explains Vin has a spike and is hearing Ruin.{{msh ref|6|6}}. He sends a message saying “Don’t trust anyone pierced by metal. Spook’s letter. Even the smallest bit can taint a man.” [[Goradel ]] offers to take it; it was written on a metal sheet.{{book ref|mb3|58}}{{book ref|mb3|64}} It was intercepted by Marsh who was being physically controlled by Ruin, but could still think on his own, upon reading it he figures out it is Vin’s earring the metal piece where Ruin is controlling her and uses his last will to take it out setting her free.{{book ref|mb3|72}}▼
{{sidequote
=== The Final Ascension and Aftermath ===▼
|We won’t abandon the city, Sazed.
After the [[Final Ascension]], goes into the new world created by [[Sazed]], and finds the bodies of Vin and Elend, along with the [[Words of Founding]]. [[Sazed]] also left a special [[Sazed's note|note]] for him, telling Spook that he had tried to bring Vin and Elend back, but couldn't, explaining that he had healed the damage Spook had done to himself by flaring tin and had made Spook a Mistborn, and hinting at the existence of more Allomantic metals.{{book ref|mb3|epilogue}} ▼
|Spook to Sazed in the battle of Urteau{{book ref|mb3|58}}
|side=right|size=250px
}}
▲The city
▲After Spook
▲=== The Final Ascension and Aftermath ===
▲After the [[Final Ascension]],
Shortly after the Catacendre, Spook began receiving instruction on how to be a king from Breeze and combat training with Ham.{{msh ref|epilogue}} The other survivors insisted he have a nicer log house with two stories, which he thought of as a mansion and made him uncomfortable since everyone else has so little. Beldre also lived in that house with him.{{msh ref|epilogue}} Spook was also something of a "stud" after the Final Ascension{{wob ref|1093}} having over a dozen children.{{wob ref|4106}}
{{sidequote
|And you? What do you get from this?
|Spook to Kelsier on working together to better understand the [[Metallic Arts]]{{msh ref|epilogue}}
|side=left|size=250px
}}
Kelsier found a way to contact Spook in a dream and told him to forge an old Inquisitor spike into an earring. Spook managed to find a smith willing to do so and, against his better judgment, placed it on his ear. After that, he was able to see Kelsier because, between his broken mind and the Hemalurgic spike, he was able to see far enough into the [[Cognitive Realm]]. Kelsier then convinced him that their ignorance of the [[cosmere]] has almost resulted in the destruction of Scadrial and that they needed to work together to learn about the principles of the cosmere. Kelsier also implied that they could try to find a way to give Spook [[Feruchemy]], and thus the same powers the Lord Ruler had through [[Compounding]], and that he wanted to find a way to return to the [[Physical Realm]].{{msh ref|epilogue}} Likely as a result of these investigations, Spook wrote a book on [[Hemalurgy]]{{book ref|sos|6}} and was later known for having asked whether [[Harmony]] had a God Metal.{{file ref|New Ascendancy broadsheet.jpg|''The New Ascendancy'' Broadsheet}}
According to [[Steris]], Spook ruled as an emperor for a century before stepping down from power, after which [[Elendel]] was no longer supposed to exercise direct authority over the rest of the [[Elendel Basin]].{{book ref|bom|5}} As a ruler, he built buildings for the poor trying to avoid the development of slums{{book ref|bom|3}} and enacted laws to give power to the common people like Elend wanted.{{book ref|bom|9}} He also exerted a personal influence on society; his Eastern street slang became known as [[High Imperial]] and was used for official documents.{{book ref|mb4|14}} It appears he did not enjoy all of the duties associated with kingship, as he had Breeze write most of his speeches for him.{{book ref|mb6|6}} In the book he wrote about Hemalurgy, he advised that creating Hemalurgic constructs is more trouble than it's worth, and argued that the old and sickly Metalborn should be used to create spikes to pass down the Metallic Arts.{{book ref|mb6|6}} By {{date|341|PC}}, his abilities as a Mistborn had transformed him into a near-mythological figure and he was known as the "Lord Mistborn."{{book ref|aol|7}} It is uncertain whether he ended up dying after his reign, as he almost certainly used [[atium]] [[Compounding]] to extend his life past that of a normal human, being at least 115 years old when he stepped down.
== Relationships ==
{{image|Spook and Kelsier by paintweaver.jpg|side=right|width=300px|Spook and Kelsier post [[Catacendre]]}}
=== Kelsier ===
Spook had a particular relationship with Kelsier
After his death, Kelsier
=== Vin ===
Vin liked Spook, though she considered him strange and young.{{book ref|mb1|20}} Sensing her kindness, he gave her a pink handkerchief as the traditional gift a young man gives a lady that he wishes to seriously court, though she was not interested
=== Elend ===
Elend and Spook
=== Sazed ===
{{quote
|Faith... It means that there will always be a way
|Spook to Sazed on worrying if they fail {{book ref|mb3|56}}
}}
Spook and Sazed became closer during their time at Urteau. As Sazed became more depressed, Spook took over the leadership of the crew. Sazed, even though he suspected he was getting mistborn powers like burning pewter, grew to respect him more and more.{{book ref|mb3|49}} Spook sought Sazed’s support with religion during the time he thought he could hear Kelsier.{{book ref|mb3|31}} Sazed, on the other hand, was inspired by Spook to find his faith back.{{book ref|mb3|56}} After Ascending, Sazed cured Spook of his tin savantism and made him a full Mistborn.{{msh ref|6|9}}
== Trivia ==
* Spook is very loosely based on a person Brandon knew from the [[Timewasters Guide]] forums. Zack, known as Gemm on the forums, sometimes posted random gibberish that, if looked at very closely, turned out to actually be rather poetic. This inspired Brandon to write a character who spoke with a dialect that had an interesting rhythm, yet was difficult to make out.{{wob ref|2378}}
* At one point, Spook existed in the [[Alcatraz]] universe.{{wob ref|4551}}
== Notes ==
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