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{{for|Ati#History|the history of Ati prior to becoming Ruin}}
=== The
The [[Shard]] of Ruin was created on the planet [[Yolen]] at the [[Shattering]] of [[Adonalsium]], along with fifteen others, and taken up by [[Ati]].{{msh ref|3|2}} He, along with [[Preservation]]'s Vessel [[Leras]], departed the planet, and eventually wound up in an empty star system.{{au ref|Scadrial}}
However, Preservation broke the terms of the agreement by sacrificing his mind to create a prison for Ruin's mind, preventing him from
=== Plotting Escape ===
{{quote
|'Giving the power up’ is a stand-in for giving the power to [Ruin]. The powers would interpret that as me releasing him. My power, accepting his touch back into the world, directly.
|[[Leras]]{{msh ref|2|3}}
}}
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Ruin's prison, the [[Well of Ascension]], had a fatal flaw: every thousand and twenty four years, the [[perpendicularity]] would fill, requiring someone to take up the power. Were that person then to release it, Ruin's prison would vanish, letting him out; only by using the powers themselves could that person, the [[Hero of Ages]], keep Ruin trapped.{{msh ref|2|3}}
Despite being trapped in the Well, Ruin could still affect the world in minuscule ways, and thus began to plan for exploiting this fatal flaw to free himself. His initial plan was to use [[Alendi]], chosen by the power of the Well, and convince him, thorugh altering the [[Terris Prophecies]], to free him. However, a [[Terrisman]] named [[Kwaan]] realized Ruin's alterations, and thus sent a relative of himself, [[Rashek]], to try and stop Alendi from reaching the Well.{{epigraph ref|mb2|55}} Rashek eventually killed Alendi and took the power for himself, becoming [[the Lord Ruler]] and perpetuating Ruin's imprisonment.
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Undeterred, Ruin began working on another plan, timing it with the Well's next call, a thousand years later. His plan was two-pronged: first, to ensure that Rashek would be killed, thus opening the way to the Well for others; second, to create someone who would enter the Well and release the power. For the first, he manipulated [[Kelsier]], a [[skaa]] [[Mistborn]], with fabricated tales of the so-called Eleventh Metal, [[malatium]], convincing him that it would be the key to defeating the Lord Ruler; which, in a way, it turned out to be.{{epigraph ref|mb3|24}}
For the second, Ruin picked a perfect pawn: another skaa Mistborn, a baby girl named [[Vin]] with an insane mother an an [[Allomancer]] sister. Speaking to the mother's, Ruin caused her to kill the older daughter and fashion a Hemalurgic spike out of her, then pierce Vin with the spike.{{epigraph ref|mb3|74}} Vin, unaware of this, eventually started wearing the spike as an earring and refused to give it up due to Ruin's influence, thus letting him subtly manipulate her.{{epigraph ref|mb3|75}} He did so mostly through the voice of her deceased brother, [[Reen]].{{book ref|mb3|54}}
The end of Ruin was Preservation's plan all along. Leras had held Preservation for so long that he was bound by its intent, and could not kill or destroy anything, not even Ruin. He arranged to have the Shard pass on to a new Vessel, who would not be so strongly bound by the Shard's intent and thus would have more freedom to use its power.▼
Eventually, the Well filled again, and Vin entered its chamber. [[Kelsier]], now a [[Cognitive Shadow]] and up to speed on Ruin's plan thanks to [[Leras]] bringing him up to speed, attempted to stop her from filling the Well.{{msh ref|2|3}} To no avail, though -- Vin released the power, and freed Ruin along with it.{{book ref|mb2|58}}
=== Destruction upon Scadrial ===
{{quote
|I have come to claim what was promised me. The only point in creating something is to watch it die.
|{{book ref|mb3|57}}
}}
Once free, Ruin immediately set out on his plan to destroy [[Scadrial]]; however, his power locked in [[atium]] still diminished him enough to equal him with Preservation, and so his plans were slowed down. He tried to amend it by sending people out to find the missing atium stash.{{epigraph ref|mb3|47}} At the same time, he began his work on killing all Scadrians. [[Ashmounts]] would erupt much more frequently, causing the omnipresent ash to fall more heavily and lava flows to endanger several towns.{{epigraph ref|mb3|48}} Earthquakes also became much more frequent, and started appearing in more places; while they used to be practically unheard of in the [[Dominance|Inner Dominances]], they began to appear there frequently.{{book ref|mb3|36}}
Prompted by [[Ati]]'s inherent need to gloat, Ruin began appearing to both [[Vin]] and [[Kelsier]] to boast about his achievements; it was those meetings that allowed the two to realize that Ruin was a person, and not merely a force.{{book ref|mb3|57}}{{msh ref|4|4}} However, Ruin was also manipulating people to sow further chaos -- he took control of the [[Steel Inquisitor]]s and the [[koloss]] to create more of both.{{book ref|mb3|prologue}} He also manipulated [[Penrod]] and [[Spook]] through Hemalurgic spikes to make sure that [[Luthadel]] and [[Urteau]] were both too disorganized to mount a defense, requiring Vin and [[Elend]]'s attention.{{book ref|mb3|42}}{{wob ref|7973}} Though his scheme in Luthadel was successful, he ultimately failed in Urteau thanks to both Spook's force of will and the intervention of [[Kelsier]].{{msh ref|6|5}}
=== Achieving Harmony ===
{{quote
|You think this was your plan? It was [Preservation]'s. His all along. You created the thing that can kill you, Ruin.
|[[Vin]]{{book ref|mb3|81}}
}}
Seeking to fight Ruin, Kelsier, now the temporary vessel of [[Preservation]], sought a way to pass on the power onto Vin, whom Leras pointed out as its intended recipient. After freeing Spook from Ruin's influence, he told him to send a message to her written in metal, telling her about what was going on.{{msh ref|6|6}} Ruin, knowing what Kelsier was planning, sent [[Marsh]], one of his Inquisitors, to kill the messanger and read the text out-loud, thus letting Ruin know what had been written. However, that was part of Kelsier's plan -- as Marsh found out what was going on, he managed, in a moment of lucidity, to tear the earring out of Vin's ear, letting Kelsier bestow Preservation upon her.{{msh ref|6|7}}
After her Ascension, Vin clashed with Ruin a few times, though she was never able to overpower him, as at the time, the two Shards were far too balanced.{{book ref|mb3|80}} The tipping point, however, came during the [[Battle of Hathsin]]. There, Ruin, though the [[koloss]] and Inquisitors it controlled, sought to find the atium cache while [[Elend]] and his armies, their [[Allomancy]] boosted by Vin, confronted Ruin's forces on the surface. Eventually, the stash turns out to be empty -- Elend had used all the atium with his mistings during the fight. At the same time, [[Marsh]], under Ruin's control, managed to kill Elend, and taunted Vin about it. Mourning, Vin, now free from all ties to the world, attacked Ruin directly. The collision between two equal and perfectly opposing forces killed both Vessels.{{book ref|mb3|81}}
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However, the planet was still dying, and thus Preservation's plan reached its conlcusion. [[Sazed]], present at the battle though not directly participating, saw the two powers and took up both of them, mixing them together into [[Harmony]], and with them, reconstructed [[Scadrial]] back into a livable place.{{book ref|mb3|83}}
== Influence ==
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