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|ruler=[[Fatren]]
|dominance=Southern
|nation=Final Empire
|world=Scadrial
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
|books=[[Mistborn Era 1]]
}}
'''Vetitan''' is a small town in the [[Southern Dominance]] of [[Scadrial]].{{book ref|mb3|1}} It
== Geography ==
With about seven thousand people living there, Vetitan is fairly large for a farming community that's slightly more urban than a plantation, which likely is because of the ore mines nearby. Most houses are one-story buildings.{{book ref|mb3|1}}▼
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▲It lies in the Southern Dominance, reasonably close to [[Garthwood]].{{book ref|mb3|1}}
==Landmarks==
There is a lord's manor at the center of the town built with wood and fine stone. There are [[Steel Ministry]] offices in a tall, imposing building.{{book ref|mb3|1}} The Ministry building contains a trapdoor to a cellar that hides the entrance to a storage cache behind a stone wall, accessible only by [[Allomancer]]s.{{book ref|mb3|5}}
== History ==
===Fatren's Administration===
Vetitan was once ruled by some local lords and the Steel Ministry. After the [[Collapse]], the lords and their [[obligator]]s abandoned the city, perhaps intending to return at a later date.{{book ref|mb3|1}}{{book ref|mb3|5}} However, their soldiers eventually left to join other armies when the lords did not return, and a [[skaa]] named [[Fatren]] stepped into a leadership role. He convinced his fellow residents to go ahead with their plantings to produce crops, which he used as bribes to prevent the citizens from being drafted into any of several nearby armies. Instead, he trained a garrison of a thousand soldiers largely made up of former mineworkers, along with another thousand unskilled reserves.{{book ref|mb3|1}}
Fatren competently ran the city, but he came under increasing pressure as the [[mist]]s were getting denser, making agriculture more difficult. The city ran low on resources, and he wondered if he should have kept the mines operating, although he concluded that the ore would not have done him much good. He also worried about [[koloss]]; they had recently destroyed the nearby city of Garthwood, and fewer than a hundred survivors escaped to Vetitan. At the suggestion of Fatren's brother [[Druffel]], they built an earthen fortification around the town with real city gates. The garrison was able to fight off bandits, but Fatren knew his defenses would be inadequate if a koloss army attacked.{{book ref|mb3|1}}
===Koloss Attack===
Three months
===Storage Cache and Evacuation===
{{sidequote|side=right|size=250px
|Be careful what you speak. It can hear what you say. It can read what you write. Only your thoughts are safe.
|The inscription in the Vetitan storage cavern{{book ref|mb3|5}}
}}
Vin and Elend knew there was a storage cache in the city, and quickly located it. The cache contained a large amount of supplies, including food, water, and the first eight Allomantic metals.{{book ref|mb3|5}}{{book ref|mb3|12}} The inscription in the cavern included details about [[malatium]] and the use of emotional Allomancy on koloss and [[kandra]]. Elend already had some of this information, but was heartened by the thought that the [[Lord Ruler]] would not have maintained the caverns if he did not think the [[Deepness]] could be stopped. The pair then learned that the last cache was hidden in [[Fadrex City]].{{book ref|mb3|5}}
== Notes ==
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