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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 ==
{{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
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 was mainly involved as a sentry of key locations; watching the area around Clubs' shop from a six-story tenement two streets over.{{book ref|mb1|32}} He participated in the crew's planning sessions, but rarely contributed to them other than serving drinks or getting things.{{book ref|mb1|32}}
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 situation grew desperate, however, and the crew planned to send Vin and Elend out of the city to survive the [[Battle of Luthadel]], they enlisted Spook to be their guide. Spook agreed, and
=== 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
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 [[
Spook received [[Breeze]], [[Allrianne]] and [[Sazed]] into the city and helped them hide providing them with information. He showed 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}}
{{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 these gossips. 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 approached him and asked to save his seven-year-old sister from the Citizen. Spook realized he is now in a better position to make a difference and decided 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}}▼
▲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 these gossips. 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
He bribed people to find the place where the executions would take place. It was another noble building and he understood they were built with passages which Quellion used to take the Allomancers out. He went in to save the people and under Ruin’s influence killed the soldiers. One of them though took the child as a hostage, causing Spook to ask the leaving prisoners to lock him down. Though he was able to beat the remaining soldier, even with Pewter he was unable to open the door. Thus, he had to jump out of the building, still in flames with the child in his arms. Breeze and his other friends were there and caused a riot to help him escape.{{book ref|mb3|41}}
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}}
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The city was ready for a revolt, Quellion was 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 got there and shoots Spook to save her brother. The City riots as they understood what she is and that their ruler had killed their noble blood family but not his sister. Spook felt betrayed and Kelsier’s voice pushed him to kill her and use her spike to get her power. The hate speech from Kelsier and the spike information helped 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 took out Quellion's spike first and then his. He lost Pewter and was almost out of breath. He saw the city in flames and waited
After Spook saved the city from destruction, while he was in a coma, Kelsier was able to communicate with him. He gave encouragement and praise, but mostly explained Vin had a spike and was hearing Ruin.{{msh ref|6|6}} Spook then wrote [[Spook's note|a message]] on a metal sheet saying "Don't trust anyone pierced by metal. Even the smallest bit can taint a man." [[Goradel]] offered to take it to Vin, but was intercepted and killed by [[Marsh]], who was under Ruin's control.{{book ref|mb3|58}}{{book ref|mb3|64}} However, just as Kelsier had intended all along,{{msh ref|6|7}} the note allowed Marsh to figure out that [[Vin's earring]] was a spike and resist Ruin's control for long enough to rip the earring out.{{book ref|mb3|72}}
After the [[Final Ascension]], Spook woke to the new world created by [[Sazed]], and found 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. It explained 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}}
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
{{sidequote
|And you? What do you get from this?
|Spook to Kelsier on working together to better understand the [[Metallic Arts]]{{msh ref|epilogue}}
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}}
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
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
== 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 continued to follow Spook. In
=== 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 had a cautious relationship in the beginning as the
=== 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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