El Imperio Final (in-world)

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El Imperio Final (in-world)
por Isaac Stewart
Capital	Luthadel
Mundo	Scadrial🐱︎
Universo	Cosmere

Este artículo es sobre el imperio del lord Legislador. Para el primer libro de Nacidos de la bruma Era 1, ver El Imperio Final (libro).

El Imperio Final fue el mayor estado de Scadrial durante más de 1000 años.

Historia

Conforme la Profundidad ganaba fuerza y causaba más problemas, Alendi, considerado el Héroe de las Eras, conquistó el mundo y viajó hasta el Pozo de la Ascensión con la intención de derrotarla. Cuando Alendi y sus compañeros de viaje casi habían llegado a su destino, Rashek mató a Alendi y accedió al Pozo en su lugar. Durante su Ascensión, Rashek usó el poder para rehacer el mundo y creó una serie de nuevas especies, incluyendo a los espectros de la bruma. Utilizó también ese poder para alterar fundamentalmente la posición del planeta, su ecología y hasta a los humanos que lo habitaban, dividiéndolos en skaa y nobles.

Tras volver del Pozo de la Ascensión, Rashek fingió ser Alendi, y sobornó a varios monarcas para que le apoyaran dándoles perlas de lerasium. Después conquistó, mató o siguió sobornando a sus rivales, y acabó fundando el Imperio Final, autoproclamándose el lord Legislador. Gobernó su imperio durante un milenio.

Como el lord Legislador, Rashek construyó un imperio estable y autosuficiente. No se toleraba ningún desacuerdo, ni siquiera de la nobleza, y todas las religiones excepto su Ministerio de Acero fueron prohibidas. La última religión que persistió, la Valla, fue destruida a finales del quinto siglo de reinado.

En algún momento Rashek intentó destruir el Imperio Final.

La banda de Kelsier planificó la rebelión skaa, que consiguió la caída del Imperio Final. El imperio se fracturó en distintos reinos que competían entre sí pero acabaron consolidandose bajo el Nuevo Imperio de Elend Venture.[citation needed]

Geography

El Imperio Final se componía de varios dominios:

• Dominio Central
• Dominio Septentrional
• Dominio Occidental
• Dominio Oriental
• Dominio Meridional
• Dominio Creciente
• Dominio Lejano
• Islas Meridionales
• Dominio Remoto
• Dominio de Terris

Las tierras que rodean el Dominio Central (donde se encuentra la capital, Luthadel) contienen los siete Montes de Ceniza: Tyrian, Zerinah, Faleast, Doriel, Morag, Kalling y Torinost. Estas siete montañas expulsaban ceniza hacia la atmósfera de Scadrial, enfriando así el mundo. Ésta fue la solución del lord Legislador a los cambios que realizó a la órbita del planeta. Los canales se usaron ampliamente ya que lejos de la civilización la ceniza se acumulaba rápidamente.

Culture

The Lord Ruler suppressed most technological advances, killing everyone who discovered gunpowder and the knowledge associated with it. He did allow some advances such as the implementation of canneries, allowing for the easy storage of food. The currency includes Boxings and Clips.

The Final Empire had somewhere around a hundred million citizens. A couple million of those lived in Luthadel.

Military

The empire had a standing army around Luthadel including a number of garrisons. The Luthadel Garrison consisted of twenty thousand troops, mostly skaa, and many of the smaller towns in the Central Dominance had smaller Garrisons of their own, such as Valtroux and Holstep. There is also a substantial army of koloss who can be under the control of the Lord Ruler or a remote Inquisitor. The Canton of Inquisition itself is trained to have formidable warriors, each member more than capable of overcoming any target. Presumably the openly Mistborn and Misting Nobles can be required to form a militia under the Lord Ruler's command at any point. The Noble houses themselves operate guardsmen, militias and armies when necessary. In addition to this the Lord Ruler can field any of the kandra as covert operatives with the ability to accurately imitate and replace any target whose skeleton is available.^{[Falta cita]}

Social Caste

The descendants of the people who originally supported the Lord Ruler during his rise to power are now the nobility of the Final Empire. The Lord Ruler and his allies had access to beads of lerasium, and gained Allomantic powers. Because of this, certain nobles gain the use of Allomancy. There is a wide range of nobles, from the high houses to the impoverished, but even the lowest noble is still higher than the highest skaa.^{[Falta cita]}

Skaa descend from people who did not support the Lord Ruler. When he ascended, the skaa were changed so they were more fertile. Skaa cannot become Allomancers unless they have noble blood recently in their lineage. Skaa are essentially slaves, property for nobles to exchange between them, although they are ultimately owned by the Lord Ruler. The best-off skaa will be craftsmen or tradesmen. They and their families will live in relative comfort, but this happens very rarely for skaa.^{[Falta cita]}

Government

Para más información, ver Steel Ministry.

The Steel Ministry and its obligators are the main bureaucracy for the Final Empire. Despite officially being a religious institution, in reality the Steel Ministry was based on the bureaucratic mercantile system of the Hallant. The main purpose of this bureaucracy was to monitor the noble houses who engaged in financial activity under this system. The noble houses themselves were primarily financial organizations in nature. They also maintained the Lord Ruler's empire from their keeps.^[expandir]

Atium Economy

The atium economy acts as one of the many ways the Lord Ruler takes a firm hold on the Final Empire. Its scarcity, along with its godly Allomantic use, makes atium an extremely valuable currency; a small bead being valuable enough to cover the cost of living for a skaa for several years.

Mining

The only place atium can be mined is at the Pits of Hathsin, where skaa criminals are sent to work as punishment for their crimes until death. A noble house is in charge of the profitable mining camp, with House Venture being the last House to oversee the operation before the destruction of the mine. The fact that atium is mined here is kept top-secret. Not a single prisoner has escaped before Kelsier, hence his nickname "the Survivor of Hathsin".

Transportation

A portion of the atium mined at the Pits of Hathsin is secretly transported to Luthadel by the Canton of Resource, mixed into and disguised as Ministry funds. Since metal coins radiate powerful light in the Cognitive Realm, the atium beads, when mixed with other coins, can be transported safely without being discovered by Ruin.

Kandra

Kandra are known to only accept atium for their service. Their "contract", purchased with steep prices, provides the Kandra's absolute loyalty and their powerful imitating skills. However, the fulfilling of Contracts actually has another purpose. All the atium they earn is brought to their Homeland where it is stockpiled in a metal vault, the Trust. They do this on account of their First Contract with the Lord Ruler. For atium is condensed power of Ruin, by storing it in a place where Ruin has no influence, they deny him access to a part of his power.^{[Falta cita]}

Allomancy

With enough atium, a Mistborn with its future-seeing ability is almost invincible. At the time of the Final Empire, the only known way to counter it is to have more atium than your opponent. The result of an atium match is almost always fatal for the one with less amount of atium. Therefore, it is essential for the Noble Houses, especially the Great Houses with one or more Mistborn, to maintain a steady supply of atium. The atium has to be bought from the Lord Ruler with very high prices. Usually, the uncertainty of who has the more atium forms a balance of terror, making none of the sides dare to start burning atium.^{[Falta cita]}

Lord Ruler

The Lord Ruler Compounds atium to gain access to near-infinite amount of youthfulness. As he ages, he needs more and more atium to remain youthful. It is unknown how much atium he eventually needs to consume at the last years of the Final Empire.

Notes

History of Scadrial
Ascension of the Lord Ruler	El Imperio Final (in-world)	Collapse

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