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Vin
- Main article: Vin
Vin is the main protagonist in the series. She was recruited to help overthrow the Lord Ruler by Kelsier after it was noticed that she was Soothing Marsh's emotions in a scam that her boss Camon was running. At the begining of the first book when we meet Vin she is a very untrusting girl growing up in Luthadel in the Central Dominance. She knows that she is special in that she has Luck (Allomancy) to help her survive in the thieving crew that she's in.
She has an older brother named Reen, but he deserted her. She still hears his voice in her head, however this is revealed to be Ruin.
Her sister was a Seeker, her mother was insane. Her mom killed her sister and gave Vin an earing, effectively bestowing Vin with increased use of Bronze. Reen, seeing this terror, fleed with Vin. After he deserted her, Vin found out that he had been killed by Steel Inquisitors, trying to protect her by denying her existence.
Her father, Tevidian was the last Lord Prelan, and was executed by the Inquisitors.
Vin lived a hard life, and grew up on the streets. Reen taught her to trust no one. She has trouble going against this, but eventually learns to trust the fellow Crewmembers.
Well attending balls in the guise of Vallete Renoux, Vin falls in love with Elend Venture, a nobleman, and heir to the strongest noble house. Elend becomes King at the end of the first book, marries Vin in the second, loses his title of King, and becomes Emperor at the end of the book. This effectively makes Vin empress.
The Church of the Survivor, especially Captain Demoux, view Vin as a deity, the Lady Heir.
Kelsier
- Main article: Kelsier
Kelsier is the Mistborn who introduced Vin to Allomancy. Kelsier grew up a noble with his parents and his brother Marsh. However, his mother was a skaa, disguised as a noblewoman. When his father learnt of this, he had Kelsier's mother executed and Kelsier and Marsh ran away. Marsh went on to lead the Skaa Rebellion, Kelsier led a crew of thieves, continually stealing from the Lord Ruler and other nobles. Both Kelsier and Marsh fell in love with a woman named Mare, however she only loved Kelsier. This grew resentment from Marsh. Marsh, after seeing the rebellion stopped another time, gave control of the rebellion over to Yeden.
About this time, Kelsier and Mare attempted to steal from a room in Kredik Shaw, but were caught by the Lord Ruler and a few Steel Inquisitor's.
Based on something the Lord Ruler says, Kelsier assumes that Mare betrayed him, and begins to distrust her. They are sentenced to a life of hard labor mining Atium in the Pits of Hathsin.
Sixteen months later, Mare gives Kelsier an ore of Atium she found, claiming she had found another that week. This turns out to be a lie, Mare is put to death. Kelsier protests, earning himself a violent beating. Kelsier Snaps, becoming a fully of fledged Mistborn, and escapes after murdering several guards.
Kelsier now is one of few Skaa Mistborn, learning from another. He decides to fulfill Mare's dream of seeing a world filled with flowers and grass instead of ash and brown weeds. He still doesn't know whether she betrayed him.
Kelsier is offered a deal by Yeden to overthrow the final empire, he graciously accepts. His old crew member and best friend Dockson is the first to accept, they follow up on Marsh's reports of another Skaa Mistborn, finding Vin. Kelsier manages to convince his other former crew members Breeze, Ham, and Clubs to join by telling them tales of the Lord Rulers atium stash, worth more then everything else in the Final Empire combined. Vin joins in exchange for Allomantic training, the mission sets off.
Marsh joins also, hoping to realize his own dream, and impersonates an Obligator, gathering information.
Kelsier does everything necesary to overthrow the Lord Ruler and Steel Ministry, however Yeden loses almost all the troops gathered in a worthless training mission. Kelsier returns to the Pits of Hathsin, using Allomancy to destroy the pits, as Atium ores crumble to nothing when Allomancy is used nearby. These take thousands of years to reform.
Kelsier rebounds, deciding upon a new course of action. He kills a Steel Inquisitor, then is killed by the Lord Ruler. He has the Kandra OreSeur ingest his remains, appearing before many Skaa as Kelsier and telling them to rebel. This provides enough people rebelling to overthrow the empire.
Meanwhile, Vin is captured by the Lord Ruler, but by using The Eleventh Metal, she is able to figure out that the Lord Ruler is really the Feruchemist Rashek, using both Allomancy and Feruchemy to remain immortal. Vin removes the metalminds, and the Lord Ruler is reduced to a dying man.
A new religion forms, the Church of the Survivor, based upon Kelsier's nickname The Survivor of Hathsin. Kelsier has this name because he is the only man to ever escape the Pits of Hathsin.
Dockson
- Main article: Dockson
Dockson is Kelsier's best friend and crewmate. He has known Kelsier for a long time, and worked with him to topple the Lord Ruler. He is no Allomancer, but he seems much more intelligent than the rest of the crew gives him credit for, and they give him a lot of credit. Dockson shares Kelsier's hate for Nobility, and is chosen by Kelsier to be the Governor of Luthadel after his death. Dockson is killed by Koloss during the Siege of Luthadel.
Ham
- Main article: Ham
Ham is a member of Kelsier's crew, and is a Pewterarm or Thug. Ham enjoys philosophical bouts, especially when the receiver of his wisdom is Breeze.
Breeze
- Main article: Breeze
Breeze is another member of Kelsier's Crew, and his allomantic power is soothing. He is very egotistical, and likes wine almost as much as he likes himself.
Clubs
- Main article: Clubs
Clubs is a Smoker, carpenter, and owns a business where he and his employees use their copper clouds to protect skaa from the Lord Ruler. He received his Allomancy from his father, and Spook's uncle. Clubs is a realist, usually saying the depressing facts that nobdoy else will mention. He dies in the second book, during the Battle of Luthadel, where he is cut down by a koloss.
In book two, the well of ascention, in chapter 24 (hardcover), Vin asks Clubs to burn bronze instead of copper, the metal for a seeker and not a smoker. this implies a typo or possibly that mistings can burn their metal pairs.
Spook
- Main article: Spook
Spook is a Tineye, and Club's nephew. He has an incredible respect, even worship, for Kelsier. He always speaks using eastern street slang, causing many unusual situations throughout the series. His real name is Lestibournes.
Spook has expressed romantic interest in Vin, and other female characters in the series. He is sent to spy on the rebellion in Urteau during the third book. Here, he receives a Hemalurgic spike and gains the ability to burn Pewter. Ruin influences the boy, making him think Kelsier is telling him to do things. When Sazed becomes a god, he makes Spook a full fledged Mistborn.
The Lord Ruler
- Main article: Rashek
Rashek is the Lord Ruler, and a former Terris packman. He kills Alendi and takes the power at the Well of Ascension. He rules the Final Empire and appears to be immortal through the combined use of Feruchemy and Allomancy. He created the Steel Ministry, its Inquisitors, Kandra, and Koloss through use of Hemalurgy.
Because he was both Terris and ingested allomancy, the Lord Ruler possesses both Allomancy and Feruchemy, which when combined give incredible power. Through this, he was almost invincible. He also stored up an immense amount of healing power, so much that he could heal almost any wound. For example, in Mistborn(book) Kelsier says that he was burned to little more than a skeleton once, and he healed in a matter of minutes. Rashek himself says he was dismembered once. However, drawing all of this Feruchemical power from his body placed such extreme strains on his body, that if he lost his metalminds, in a matter of minutes, he would decease since he drew so much power from his own body.
Sometimes, what he would do is burn some of his own small metalminds, therefore creating a new allomantic metal entirely, which therefore released tenfold the energy at once.
Marsh
- Main article: Marsh
Marsh is Kelsier's brother. He is a Seeker. As part of a plot to dethrone the Lord Ruler, Marsh became a spy and acted as an Obligator, providing valuable information to Kelsier's crew, including the information about Soothing Stations.
Marsh was selected by the Steel Inquisitors to become a new Inquisitor. Kelsier and the others thought that Marsh had been killed by the Inquisitors and this lead in part to Kelsier's decision to confront the Lord Ruler. After Kelsier died, when Vin fought the Lord Ruler, Marsh killed the other Steel Inquisitors in Luthandel and saved Vin's life.
After the fall of the Lord Ruler, Marsh eventually came under control of Ruin, as Ruin used the Hemalurgic nature of the Inquisitors to control them. While controlled, Marsh fought with Sazed to prevent Sazed from alerting Vin to the true nature of the prophecies.
Eventually, Marsh proved critical to stopping Ruin when he briefly resisted Ruin's control long enough to remove Vin's hemalurgically charged earring, thus allowing her to directly access Preservation's power.
Sazed
- Main article: Sazed
Sazed is a Terrisman, Steward to Lord Renoux and a Keeper of Terris. Sazed is a user of Feruchemy, scholar of religions, and rebel amongst his order. Sazed, like other Terrisman stewards, is a eunuch to prevent breeding and the spread of Feruchemy's gene. Sazed is a scholar, and studies religion and other ideals to teach when the Lord Ruler falls and the people are free. During the second book he falls in love with fellow Keeper Tindwyl. After her death during the Siege of Luthadel, Sazed begins to doubt his religions and usefulness in life. All throughout the third book Sazed tries to rediscover his religion, eventually discovering right before Ruin attacks the Kandra Homeland.
At the end of this battle, Sazed absorbs the power of Preservation and Ruin, becoming "God" and restoring the world through use of knowledge recorded in his copperminds. He makes Spook a Mistborn and heals the damage he did to his body by flaring tin so much. This is revealed to be a request from Kelsier.
Elend Venture
- Main article: Elend Venture
Elend Venture is Vin's lover and husband. He is a nobleman and heir to the prestigious House Venture. He meets Vin at a ball while she is in the guise of Vallete Renoux. He becomes King at the end of the first book. He drafts a constitution so that an Assembly can vote no confidence in the King. The King also has to find their aproval before doing many acts. This is a constitutional monarchy. The council votes no confidence in the king and choses Lord Penrod as the new one. About this time, Elend becomes a member of the Church of the Survivor, as doing so boosts his popularity among Skaa. Elend becomes emperor when Vin kills Straff Venture and intimidates his replacement, Lord Penrod, and Lord Ashweather Cett. Vin finds the Well of Ascension, and then the mist spirit stabs him, with the goal of having Vin take the power. Vin releases the power, along with Ruin. Vin saves Elend by feeding him Larasium, effectively making him a Mistborn, and a powerful one at that.
In the third book Elend and Vin, now married, conquer most of the Final Empire with the hope of finding special storage caches the Lord Ruler left behind, left with messages on how to fight Ruin. Elend dies at the end of the book.
Straff Venture
- Main article: Straff Venture
Straff Venture is Elend's father and the most powerful Noble in the Final Empire before the fall of the Lord Ruler.
Lord Ashweather Cett
- Main article: Lord Ashweather Cett
King from Fadrex City that marched an army to Luthadel in book 2, and then was an ally and general in Elend's army during