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'''Urteau''' was the capital city of the [[Northern Dominance]] in the [[Final Empire]].{{map ref|Urteau}} It was the ancestral home of [[House Venture]].{{book ref|mb2|3}}
Urteau lacked a city wall as the [[Lord Ruler]] forbad most cities from building fortifications.{{book ref|mb3|29}}
Among the most defining features of the city were the "streetslots", wide canals with ten-foot-high walls that had been drained of water a hundred years prior to the events of the Final Empire. It became commonplace for the inhabitants to use them as roads.{{book ref|mb3|14}} Most buildings were made of wood, rather than stone.{{book ref|mb3|29}}
During [[Straff Venture]]'s siege of Luthadel, [[skaa]] rebels revolted and took control of Urteau with [[Quellion]], also known as the Citizen, at their head.{{book ref|mb3|5}} Under his advisement, noblemen were hunted and exterminated. Skaa rebels burned down noblemen houses, painted over murals, shattered stained-glass windows, and dug up ornamental gardens. They believed Urteau was the only city that successfully achieved what [[Kelsier]] fought and died for, a skaa-ruled nation.{{book ref|mb3|14}}
[[Spook]] was sent by [[Elend]] and [[Vin]] to subtly investigate the new government of Urteau. Via steel-inscribed message, he informed the emperor of the skaa takeover and harsh treatment of noblemen. Unable to spare the troops to march on the city, Elend instructed [[Sazed]] and [[Breeze]] to travel to Urteau with a few hundred soldiers to subdue the rebellion and secure the northern cache.{{book ref|mb3|12}}
With the information acquired from the Lord Ruler's second cache in [[Statlin City]], [[Vin]] went to Urteau and was able to sneak into the [[storage cavern]] where she learned about [[electrum]].{{book ref|mb3|5}} Spook, Breeze, [[Allrianne]], and Sazed gained access to the cavern and discovered an underground reservoir containing pure, filtered water originating from a subterranean river. The Lord Ruler created this lake to provide clean water should a disaster force people to take shelter beneath the city.{{book ref|mb3|31}}
== Notable Residents ==
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