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'''Scadrial''' is a planet of the [[Cosmere]] and is the setting of the [[Mistborn (series)|Mistborn series]]. It contains several other planets in its system. Scadrial has no moon, but there is an [[Starbelt|extremely bright patch of stars visible in the night sky]]. {{qa ref|727|60|How many moons does Scadrial have?|date=2008-10-17}}People from Scadrial are called Scadrians.{{17s ref|post|42111|Selish, Scadrian, Nalthian, Rosharan.|date=26 September 2012}}

 

== History & Mythology ==

=== Creation of Scadrial ===

Millenia ago, the [[Shard]]s [[Ruin]] and [[Preservation]] arrived on Scadrial. Since they were paired Shards with opposite intents, nothing could be created or destroyed, as they wished it could be. They were locked in an eternal conflict. But then a pact was struck. Preservation offered Ruin a bargain. If Ruin would help him create life on Scadrial, to make plants and animals, Preservation would eventually allow him to destroy the whole planet. In addition to his word, Preservation offered him proof that Ruin could destroy everything. Preservation's greatest wish was to create sentient life, humans patterned after the other humans [[Ati]] and [[Leras]] had once known. In order to create humans with the spark of intelligence required a small amount more of Preservation's power then Ruin's. This made Preservation slightly weaker, meaning Ruin would eventually overcome his opposite, and destroy Scadrial. However, Preservation decided to break the agreement, in order to save the world. He couldn't overcome Ruin with his power, he was too weak. So Preservation decided to trap Ruin's mind in a prison, where Ruin would be practically powerless. In order to trap Ruin's mind Preservation used his own mind to forge the prison, sacrificing his cognition for the greater good.

 

However, Alendi had still failed to stop the Deepness, and there was only one hope, the [[Well of Ascension]]. As the power returned to the Well, Alendi could hear the pulses because he was a Seeker. He hoped that giving up the power would stop the Deepness. Kwaan knew that Alendi mustn't be allowed to reach the Well, for he knew that giving up the power was just what Ruin wanted. Kwaan's only hope to stop Alendi was his nephew [[Rashek]], a Feruchemist who hated Alendi, and the nation of Khlennium from which he hailed. The reason for Rashek's hatred was because he believed that the Terrismen should be dominant because of their Feruchemical abilities. Also, as just a poor herder, he was also jealous of the Khlenni sophistication and culture. Kwaan commanded his nephew to become Alendi's pack man, and to attempt to mislead on his way to the Well. If Rashek failed at that, Kwaan asked him to kill Alendi. The last remnant of Leras' mind was also doing its best to stop Alendi. In the form of the mist spirit, it followed Alendi, knifing his companion Fedik when he became too interested in Ruin's Perpendicularity, the Black Lake, which the party encountered on their journey to the Well. Ultimately, Rashek failed to lead Alendi astray and killed him. At that point, Rashek himself took the power at the Well of Ascension and refused to give it up, denying Ruin his chance at freedom.

 

 

While holding the power, Rashek's mind was expanded, but he wasn't accustomed to such great power and had no experience with using it. Rashek attempted to destroy the Deepness by moving Scadrial closer to its star, in order to burn away the mists. Unfortunately Scadrial's new location was too hot for life, so Rashek moved it further away from its parent star, which left the planet too cold. Rashek then moved it closer to the star again, but it was still too hot. Having no point of reference for where the planet should go, Rashek elected to leave it too close to the star. He began working retroactively to fix problems he had created himself, because the intent of Preservation, whose power made up the Well, was affecting him. To counter the increased heat, he made the Ashmounts, volcanoes which pumped gas and ferromagnetic ash into the air. These shaded the land near the north pole, which was one of two relatively cool places remaining on Scadrial, the other being the south pole. Gas from the Ashmounts also made the atmosphere thicker, which raised temperatures in the rest of the world, turning it even hotter. This resulted in a massive desert called the Burnlands covering most of the planet. Rashek realized that the ash from the Ashmounts would eventually bury the whole land. He thus created plants and microbes that broke down the ash. When Rashek altered the humans of the north pole to make them able to survive in a world so full of ash, he worried that the changes he made to their physiology would kill them. He left some of the humans on Scadrial unaltered, as a control, and moved them to the relatively cool area near the south pole. He gave them an unknown method to survive there. Rashek also wished to disguise the location of the Well, so he flattened the Terris mountains, moved them south from the pole, and raised new mountains in the north to disguise what had happened.