Straff Venture

Straff Venture
House Venture Cónyuge wife Hijos Elend, Zane
Fallecido	1023 IF
Capacidades	Ojo de estaño
Residencia	Urteau
Etnia	Noble
Mundo natal	Scadrial
Universo	Cosmere

Straff Venture is a noble on Scadrial during the Final Empire. He is the head of the House Venture, the most powerful great house of the the high nobility. He is the father of Elend and Zane.

Appearance and Personality

Straff is a manipulative and sadistic monster. He is extremely fond of posturing and demonstrating his superiority, and is terrified of anyone having power over him. He enjoys going to brothels knowing that the skaa will be executed, as it gives him a sense of power.

Attributes and Abilities

He is openly known as a tineye.

History

During the Final Empire, Straff is the head of the most powerful of the nobility, House Venture, and controlled the atium mines at the Pits of Hathsin for the Lord Ruler.

After the fall of the Lord Ruler, he proclaims himself king of the Northern Dominance. After securing this area, he lays siege to Luthadel in order to gain possession of the Lord Ruler's fabled atium cache.

He invited Elend over to his warcamp for a meeting, and the situation escalates until Straff sends his guards to kill Elend. However, Elend uses Vin to threaten Straff and manipulate Straff's emotions. Straff succumbs to his fear and lets Elend and Vin leave unharmed. After this encounter, Straff becomes terrified of Vin, commanding Zane to kill her.

One of his spurned mistress, Amaranta, poisoned him with an addictive drug, Black Frayn. Working with Zane, she caused Straff to believe that Zane is poisoning him, while Amaranta "cures" him with the addictive drug. When Zane disappeared from Straff's camp, Amaranta attempted to kill Straff with a poison. Straff realizes her betrayal, and in a fit of rage, strangles Amaranta to death. Straff nearly died but survived with a random antidote he made himself.

He was killed by Vin after letting the koloss army attack Luthadel. Control of his army was given to Janarle who was forced to swear allegiance to Elend.

Relationships

Elend

Elend is Straff's only known legitimate son, and at least initially, his heir. Straff is constantly disappointed in Elend, who he belittles constantly. His abuse includes forcing Elend to sleep with a skaa prostitute when he was just thirteen, saying it was about time he 'became a man'. In the aftermath of the Lord Ruler's death, Straff flees from Luthadel, abandoning Elend to fend for himself. Elend not only survives, but makes a deal with the rioting skaa, and reigns briefly as king of the Central Dominance. Straff amasses his own force in his home dominance, and marches them to Luthadel to attempt to take the city from Elend, who he sees as weak.

Zane

Straff's relationship with Zane is arguably even more strained, Straff even attempts to bribe Zane with atium to keep him in line, fearing his insanity. However, Straff is unaware that Zane has his own atium stash, and the two maintain an uneasy truce, while repeatedly trying to kill each other.

Other children

Though Elend is his only known legitimate child, but he has many mistresses and sires many illegitimate children in an attempt to acquire Mistborn. His attempts are successful, and though among his many children, Zane is his only Mistborn, his misting children number around 18. Elend also describes his father as being 'very fond of skaa brothels' .

Straff's proclivities regarding his mistresses are depraved, even for a Luthadel nobleman, describing one of his mistresses (Amaranta), who is 'creeping up on her late twenties' as having been 'quite attractive a decade before' but is now 'too old to be attractive' and states that he has usually 'got rid of most women long before they reached her age'. He also parades a mistress who bares a resemblance to Vin, who is 'perhaps fifteen' before Elend and Vin, displaying casual cruelty in an effort to induce a reaction and intimidate them.

Trivia

• Straff is German for taut or strict and is Swedish for penalty.

Notes

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