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This page contains a chapter by chapter summary of The Hero of Ages. We hope this summary will make it easier to find specific areas of the book, as well as providing a quick plot refresher for anyone who doesn't want to take the time to reread the entire book.


The Hero of Ages

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Prologue

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Plot Summary

From the very start the process of Hemalurgy is revealed. Marsh basks in the pleasure of the fear of the Terrisman steward tied to the table. Below him is the Inquisitor they are about to create. For a moment, Marsh is able to regain control of his own mind, seeing the horror in what he is about to do, before Ruin completely subjugates him into continuing the task. He drives a brass spike through the heart of the Terrisman.

Part One: Legacy of the Survivor

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Chapter 1

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I am, unfortunately, the Hero of Ages.

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The book opens several months since Vin released Ruin from his prison within the Well. Fatren and his town are one of many that have been devastated by Ruin's malevolent horde of koloss and the killer mists. As they prepare for death having reports of an approaching koloss army they are greeted by a lone rider. This rider proves to be an Allomancer identifying himself as their emperor: Elend Venture.

At first Fatren considers Elend to be lying about who he is. Elend doesn't try to assume control of the town, but instead allows the people to assume that Fatren had called for his aid. Two armies are approaching the town but they will not arrive in time before the koloss so Elend offers to train the men in fighting koloss while he can.

The koloss army comes within sight, setting up camp a little distance from the bulwark of the town. Instead of mounting it for a defensive gambit, however, Elend convinces the town to charge the koloss camp with him while they're tired from marching. At first Elend leads the assault alone, but is shortly joined by Fatren and then the towns-people.

Chapter 2

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Holding the power did strange things to my mind. In just a few moments, I became familiar with the power itself, with its history, and with the ways it might be used. Yet, this knowledge was different from experience, or even ability to use that power. For instance, I knew how to move a planet in the sky. Yet, I didn't know where to place it so that it wouldn't be too close, or too far, from the sun.

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TenSoon moves about his prison cell in the kandra Homeland, awaiting his sentence. His form lacks bones and sensory organs but he can feel the vibrations of his cell being opened, the pain of being lifted out by hooks. By the First Contract he should have a chance to state his defense: the guards give him a skull but begin to dissolve him with acid, twisting the words of the law.

However, TenSoon has enough practice to form the necessary components for speech and asks for judgment. By law, the guards have to grant him his request, though they urge him to accept death than speaking in a public forum and condemning himself to an eternity of suffering. Still, he persists, desiring something more than his own defense.

Chapter 3

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In some ways, having such power was too overwhelming, I think. This was a power that would take millennia to understand. Remaking the world would have been easy, had one been familiar with the power. Yet, I realized the danger inherent in my ignorance. Like a child suddenly given awesome strength, I could have pushed too hard, and left the world a broken toy I could never repair.

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Leading the charge, Elend muses how Allomancy has given him the abilities to be in this position. His assumption about the koloss proves true as they're startled about the initial attack. This gives the assailants enough time to take down several hundred koloss before the blood frenzy kicks in. As the sounds of it alert Elend to its start he calls for the men to form up, simultaneously Soothing away their fear and Pushing on their emotions as he emboldens them. The battle drags on and Fatren loses his confidence, screaming about Elend leading them to die before Elend points at a speck in the sky.

Vin drops into the middle of the koloss, a storm of death and effortless acrobatics. Seeking out a thirteen foot koloss is all she needs to envigorate the fear in the surrounding koloss, killing it with a single boot to the head. Sparing a glance for Elend's force there are now several koloss fighting alongside the humans. Their plan was to instill fear in the koloss army and take control of them by the secret TenSoon had betrayed to her in Well of Ascension.

The combination of Elend and Vin taking control of the koloss one by one pulls a Steel Inquisitor into the battle as she'd intended. Trying Marsh's trick of wrenching out the spike in its back Vin finds a metal plate protecting that particular weakness of the Inquisitor's. Soon, Elend joins Vin's struggle as they move the fight to the top of a hill, away from the koloss. They struggle against the Inquisitor's experience but Vin manages to take control of a nearby koloss to kill the Inquisitor moments before it had a chance to kill Elend.

Chapter 4

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This is actually what happened to Rashek, I believe. He pushed too hard. He tried to burn away the mists by moving the planet closer to the sun, but he moved it too far, making the world far too hot for the people who inhabited it. The ashmounts were his solution to this. He had learned that shoving a planet around required too much precision, so instead he caused the mountains to erupt, spewing ash and smoke into the air. The thicker atmosphere made the world cooler, and turned the sun red.

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Sazed reviews the tenets of the Canzi religion, but rejects them as self-contradictory. As Breeze and Sazed await the signing of a treaty by King Audil Lekal to submit to Elend's rule, Breeze asks Sazed to preach of one of the religions in the Keeper's copperminds, but Sazed declines, stating his faith is shaken by the recent world events. An aide to the king delivers the signed treaty to Sazed and Breeze.

Chapter 5

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Each time Rashek tried to fix things, he made them worse. He had to change the world's plants to make them able to survive in the new, harsh environment. Yet, that change left the plants less nutritious to mankind. Indeed, the falling ash would make men sick, causing them to cough like those who spent too long mining beneath the earth. And so Rashek changed mankind itself as well, altering them so that they could survive.

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Elend has mental control of the koloss army, with the steel inquisitor now deceased. Vin realizes this inquisitor had a non-allomantic speed enhancement, and after investigation, finds and removes a pewter spike from its heart. Elend ponders if there is a third power besides allomancy and feruchemy. Elend and Vin discuss their losing battle against their nebulous foe.

Fatren guides Elend and Vin to the Ministry building in Vetitan, and they locate a hidden storage cache, which Elend claims for the empire. Elend and Vin debate about the emperor's leadership ability and the changes in the ashfalls and weather. They find a metal plate inscribed by the Lord Ruler with information on Malatium, using emotional allomancy to control kandra and koloss, and the location of another undiscovered storage depot in Fadrex City. Vin finds a postscript note on the plate that states that their foe can learn anything they speak or write, and that only thoughts are safe.

Chapter 6

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Rashek soon found a balance in the changes he made to the world—which was fortunate, for his power burned away quite quickly. Though the power he held seemed immense to him, it was truly only a tiny fraction of something much greater.

Of course, he did end up naming himself the "Sliver of Infinity" in his religion. Perhaps he understood more than I give him credit for.

Either way, we had him to thank for a world without flowers, where plants grew brown rather than green, and where people could survive in an environment where ash fell from the sky on a regular basis.

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Marsh regains lucidity as Ruin lessens his control over the inquisitor. He is in a large koloss camp, and is accompanied by several inquisitors, many of whom have new hemalurgic spikes charged by Terris keepers. He ponders that he will never get enough control to kill himself, and that he wishes Ruin would keep control over him permanently to let him see the beauty in the destruction of the world.

Chapter 7

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I speak of us as "we." The group. Those of us who were trying to discover and defeat Ruin. Perhaps my thoughts are now tainted, but I like to look back and see the sum of what we were doing as a single, united assault, though we were all involved in different processes and plans. We were one. That didn't stop the world from ending, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

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TenSoon consumes a new body. Four kandra of the Fifth Generation, including VarSell, escort TenSoon to trial in the Trustwarren.

Chapter 8

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It is too easy for people to characterize Ruin as simply a force of destruction. Think rather of Ruin as intelligent decay. Not simply chaos, but a force that sought in a rational—and dangerous—way to break everything down to its most basic forms. Ruin could plan and carefully plot, knowing if he built one thing up, he could use it to knock down two others. The nature of the world is that when we create something, we often destroy something else in the process.

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Vin watches as the mists attack the refugees from Vetitan, causing sickness and killing a nearly predictable number of them. Fatren is disbelieving about exposing his townsfolk to the mists, but Elend counters that it is necessary and that the survivors are now inoculated and will suffer no further.

Vin interrogates her tamed koloss about him and the koloss in general, trying to learn how they reproduce especially since she has never seen any females, but Human isn't very forthcoming.

Elend and Vin lead the refugees to a canal, where a large portion of Elend's soldiers, led by General Demoux, are bivouacked. Elend orders the refugees escorted to Luthadel, and two task forces of soldiers back to Vetitan to retrieve the supplies.

Notes

First appearance of Human.

Chapter 9

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Allomancy was, indeed, born with the mists. Or, at least, Allomancy began at the same time as the mists' first appearances. When Rashek took the power at the Well of Ascension, he became aware of certain things. Some were whispered to him by Ruin; others were granted to him as an instinctive part of the power. One of these was an understanding of the Three Metallic Arts. He knew, for instance, that the nuggets of metal in the Chamber of Ascension would make those who ingested them into Mistborn. These were, after all, fractions of the very power in the Well itself.

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KanPaar of the Second Generation asks if TenSoon insists upon being tried, and TenSoon replies in the affirmative. Hundreds of kandra arrive at the Trustwarren to watch the proceedings, including MeLaan, a close friend of TenSoon's. TenSoon believes that he is a proxy for a contest between KanPaar's and TenSoon's entire Generations.

Chapter 10

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Nuggets of pure Allomancy, the power of Preservation itself. Why Rashek left one of those nuggets at the Well of Ascension, I do not know. Perhaps he didn't see it, or perhaps he intended to save it to bestow upon a fortunate servant. Perhaps he feared that someday, he would lose his powers, and would need that nugget to grant him Allomancy. Either way, I bless Rashek for his oversight, for without that nugget, Elend would have died that day at the Well.

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Sazed pontificates on the religion of Larstaism, which revolved around financial donations to create art that increased mankind's understanding of divinity. Sazed and Breeze debate on the existance of a supernatural force and whether said force is the cause of the increased volcanic activity and killer mists. Sazed rejects Larstaism as not viable due to the ongoing massive natural disasters affecting the lands.

They reach the army and Allrianne greets them.

Sazed tells Vin that he feels very depressed due to losing Tindwyl and feeling self-pity, though Vin tries to encourage him and says how much he is needed. Vin leaves him the picture of the flower that had belonged to Mare, who was a follower of the Larsta religion.

Chapter 11

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The First Contract, oft spoken of by the kandra, was originally just a series of promises made by the First Generation to the Lord Ruler. They wrote these promises down, and in doing so codified the first kandra laws. They were worried about governing themselves, independently of the Lord Ruler and his empire. So, they took what they had written to him, asking for his approval.

He commanded it cast into steel, then personally scratched a signature into the bottom. This code was the first thing that a kandra learned upon awakening from his or her life as a mistwraith. It contained commands to revere earlier generations, simple legal rights granted to each kandra, provisions for creating new kandra, and a demand for ultimate dedication to the Lord Ruler.

Most disturbingly, the First Contract contained a provision which, if invoked, would require the mass suicide of the entire kandra people.

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KanPaar interrogates TenSoon on why he killed a fellow kandra, and TenSoon replies that he was compelled by his Contract to obey. The issue of kandra killing kandra leading to their extermination is raised to weaken TenSoon's trustworthiness as a witness, but he counters with an argument that Kelsier, the man who planned to kill their Father was allowed a Contract, a treacherous act in itself. KanPaar then asks why TenSoon broke Contract with Zane, to which TenSoon replies that he upheld a greater Contract, the First Contract with the Lord Ruler, by upholding Vin, who he labels as Mother, since she killed Father and replaced him in the sense of being the prime oppostion to Ruin. TenSoon states that he revealed their secret weakness to emotional allomancy to Vin and that they should pledge service to Vin in the same way they served the Lord Ruler, but KanPaar shouts down his arguments, and informs him that he will receive his punishment in one month's time.

Chapter 12

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Rashek moved the Well of Ascension, obviously.

It was very clever of him—perhaps the cleverest thing he did. He knew that the power would one day return to the Well, for power such as this—the fundamental power by which the world itself was formed—does not simply run out. It can be used, and therefore diffused, but it will always be renewed. So, knowing that rumors and tales would persist, Rashek changed the very landscape of the world. He put mountains in what became the North, and named that location Terris. Then he flattened his true homeland, and built his capital there.

He constructed his palace around that room at its heart, the room where he would meditate, the room that was a replica of his old hovel in Terris. A refuge created during the last moments before his power ran out.

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Elend and Vin discuss how the members of Kelsier's crew are losing hope and what they can do about it.

Elend convenes a council meeting with Vin, Lord Cett, Breeze, Allrianne, Hammond, Demoux, Gneorndin and Sazed. They discuss the encroaching mists and options for growing food, and plans to capture the caches in Urteau and Fadrex City. Elend states that he may expose his army to the mists when marching on Fadrex City, despite the risks. Elend asks the crew "What would Kelsier do?" as a means to motivate them.

Chapter 13

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Hemalurgy, it is called, because of the connection to blood. It is not a coincidence, I believe, that death is always involved in the transfer of powers via Hemalurgy. Marsh once described it as a "messy" process. Not the adjective I would have chosen. It's not disturbing enough.

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Marsh sits unmoving in the koloss camp, deliberating about Kelsier, Mare, his leadership role in the skaa rebellion, and his role in Ruin's plans. He decides that he will cease his futile struggles against Ruin and feign compliance so that he can lull his master into a false sense of security and foil his plans at a critical moment when Ruin is least expecting it.

Part Two: Cloth and Glass

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Chapter 14

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Ruin's consciousness was trapped by the Well of Ascension, kept mostly impotent. That night, when we discovered the Well for the first time, we found something we didn't understand. A black smoke, clogging one of the rooms.

Though we discussed it after the fact, we couldn't decide what that was. How could we possibly have known?

The body of a god—or, rather, the power of a god, since the two are really the same thing. Ruin and Preservation inhabited power and energy in the same way a person inhabits flesh and blood.

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Spook flares tin constantly despite the dangers, having done so for over a year, first over guilt at Clubs' death, and then to follow Vin's example and to try to maintain every advantage that he could get. As he skulks through Urteau at night, his enhanced senses allow him to see by the stars as if in daylight, make his skin feel extremely sensitive to pebbles and wind, and hear ambient noises through walls. He wishes to prove himself valuable to the crew and takes the initiative to spy on Quellion's, aka the Citizen's meetings, and to secretly watch Beldre, the Citizen's sister. Spook observes as Quellion and his council discuss Elend's conquests, the ambassador Elend is sending to Urteau to negotiate with them, and various laws to deal with the nobility.

Chapter 15

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The ash.

I don't think the people really understood how fortunate they were. During the thousand years before the Collapse, they pushed the ash into rivers, piled it up outside of cities, and generally just let it be. They never understood that without the microbes and plants Rashek had developed to break down the ash particles, the land would quickly have been buried.

Though, of course, that did eventually happen anyway.

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Vin wonders why the mists seem different and why she doesn't feel sheltered by them anymore. She watches as the mists retreat for the day and the soldiers leave their tents to prepare to march for the day. Elend and Hammond discuss the pros and cons of not exposing the soldiers to the mists.

Elend tells Vin that Human is causing a disturbance and Vin goes to talk with the koloss. Human says that the mists hate him, and that they hate Vin as well, and she is surprised to agree with that assessment. Vin concludes that the mists are her enemy.

Chapter 16

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