Fantasma

Fantasma
por Ben McSweeney
Familia Padres Jedal, Margel Parientes Clubs
Nacido en	1007
Capacidades	Ojo de estaño, Nacido de la bruma, Hemalurgo
Títulos	Survivor of the Flames, Lord Mistborn
Apodos	Jedal, Lestibournes
Grupo	Kelsier's crew🐱︎, Ejército de Venture
Lugar de nacimiento	Eastern Dominance
Residencia	Luthadel
Etnia	Skaa
Mundo natal	Scadrial
Universo	Cosmere

Spook is a skaa Misting on Scadrial. He was a member of Kelsier's crew and worked for Elend Venture after the Collapse. After the Catacendre, he became known as the Lord Mistborn and ruled the Elendel Basin for a hundred years before stepping down.

Appearance and Personality

In early 1021 IF, as Kelsier's plan to overthrow the Final Empire was getting started, he was fifteen. Spook is initially very shy after joining Kelsier's crew, as he still speaks in Eastern street slang, which makes it hard for the rest of the crew to fully understood him.

After the Collapse, he is much more confident. He stops using his street cant and grows to over six feet tall, barely resembling the gangly boy he was before. On at least one occasion, wore a beard as disguise. Around this time he starts to show his like for women, almost any type. He doesn’t get much response, but he likes to flirt a lot.

His confidence is however not constant, and he has a feeling of inferiority, of being invisible, dismissible and ignored. After Clubs' death he adds to this a sense of guilt for leaving he crew and trying to escape Luthadel taking Vin and Elend. The greatest consequence was for him to keep burning tin for a year and sensing it all. He had a huge desire to feel useful and being recognized for it.

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  Portrait by Laura MacMahon
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  Spook by Ben McSweeney

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  Spook by User: Botanicaxu

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  With Vin by User: Botanicaxu

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  Spook by Bernardo Curvello

Attributes and Abilities

“Tin burning ... Notting about the seeing. Wasing about the not seeing. ”

—Spook to Vin giving advice on burining Tin

Spook's grandfather had noble blood; it is likely this was his maternal grandfather as his mother's brother was also an Allomancer. As a result, Spook is a Tineye. He is the best one on Kelsier's crew, and so usually gets the most important watches. After Clubs' death, he begins constantly flaring his tin because he thinks it will make him more useful, turning himself into a tin savant. As a result of this, he can feel disturbances in the air, sense tremors in the floor, and could know where people were simply by how close their heartbeats sounded. However, it also leaves him very vulnerable to sudden and strong stimuli, and he often keeps his ears partially plugged and his eyes covered.

While working in Urteau, Spook gets stabbed with a Hemalurgic spike that turns him into a Pewterarm. He later rips the spike out after realizing it leaves him open to Ruin's influence.

During the Final Ascension, Kelsier convinces Sazed to turn Spook into a Mistborn, though Sazed only makes him a regular-strength Mistborn, not a lerasium-empowered one. After that Catacendre, Kelsier's Cognitive Shadow visits him and convinces him to start studying Hemalurgy.

History

Childhood

Named Jedal after his father, Spook was born and raised in the Eastern Lands, wastelands of grit and sand. His mother, Margel, allowed him to run around with some of the street gangs, from whom he learned Eastern street slang.

At age five, Spook Snapped into a Tineye; he got his noble blood from his grandfather, who he never knew. After his family found out about his Allomancy, his father tried to kill him so that the Steel Ministry wouldn't kill the family for having noble blood. Margel, however, had known about Spook's Allomancy for some time, and had sent word to her brother Cladent, who knew having another Tineye would be useful. He arrived before Jedal could kill Spook and took traded coins in return for Spook, promising to take the young boy back to Luthadel. When Cladent asked for his name, Spook decided he no longer wanted to go by the same name as his father, and told him it was Lestibournes, an Eastern street slang contraction of "lefting I'm born," which means "I've been abandoned."

Kelsier's Crew

During his time on Kelsier's crew, Spook is mainly involved as a sentry with important watches, watching the area around Clubs' shop from a six-story tenement two streets over. He participates in the crew's planning sessions, but rarely contributes to them other than serving drinks or getting things.

After the crew thought Marsh had been captured by the Ministry, they sent Spook with the House Renoux canal procession that left Luthadel, as he was their best Tineye. The Steel Inquisitors, however, had just tracked Vin to her Valette Renoux alias, and attacked the caravan to try to find her. When they didn't find her in the convoy, the brought Spook, OreSeur, and the Renoux servants back to Luthadel, ostensibly to be executed, by actually as a trap for Kelsier. Kelsier fell right into the trap and attacked the prision cart guards as they passed by. With help from Hammond, some skaa rebels, and the rest of the crew, he managed to rescue Spook and the rest of the prisoners, before being killed by the Lord Ruler. After that, during the Collapse, Dockson sent him to fetch some of Clubs' apprentices to run messages.

Siege of Luthadel

During the Siege of Luthadel he was rarely given any important tasks. When Tindwyl caught him with nothing to do, she enlisted him to serve as a "packman" for Vin and Allrianne's dress-shopping trip; he also occasionally worked as a coachman or honor guard to Elend or went on a spying mission. As the stiation grew desperate, however, and the crew planned to send Vin and Elend out of the city to survive the Battle of Luthadel, they enlisted Spook to be their guide. Spook agreed, and lead them away to the Terris mountains, where Sazed said they would find the Well of Ascension. Vin and Elend eventually realize that they have been tricked, and Vin raced ahead to Luthadel in time to save the city. Spook returned with Elend a few days later, and used his tin to enhance his eyes and inform Elend that his flag still flew from the city gates, indicating that it has not been conquered.

Urteau

Elend and Vin sent him to Urteau to gather as much information as he could about the Citizen and his government there. He was a very good at sneaking into the Citizen’s house, where he went not only to listen to important information of the city, confirming the Quellion’s (the Citizen) ideology and concerns on Elend as a tyrant; but to watch his sister Beldre. Spook liked her for her beauty and her sadness. He becomes so sensitive to light that he has to wear a blindfold; however, his other sharpened senses are able to make up for the inconvenience.

He scouted the city and understood the mood of the people. He was horrified with the killings of not only nobles but their descendants and all other inhuman practices in the City. Spook hired a thief lord Durn who helped him get some news from the City, he took him to the execution of 10 skaa with noble blood but asked him to count the skulls.

During the speech after the execution, Spook got infuriated and when he got close to Beldre he spoke to her, first asking if she agreed with the executions, later letting her know he was the man who would kill his brother. He was so into the conversation he failed to notice he was exposed and Quellion´s men went after him. He understood they were Allomancers when they used their power and he lost the fight.

During the fight, Spook was stabbed with a sword that also pierced a pewterarm. The tip of the sword became a Hemalurgic spike and granted him the ability to burn pewter. The spike also gave Ruin access to Spook and got into his mind using Kelsier´s voice. So when he wakes up from the lost fight inside the burning building and hears Kelsier asking him to move on, find vials and burn pewter, he obeys, thus finding his new ability (which he doesn’t recognize as Hemalurgy) and thus trusting the voice in his head.

Spook receives Breeze, Allrianne and Sazed into the city and helps them hide providing them with information. He shows them the cave where the Lord Ruler’s cache was and suggested it as their base. He tried to talk to Sazed about Kelsier’s voice but with Sazed doubting his beliefs, Spook didn’t fully confide and just trusted they were being protected by the Survivor.

Ever since his unexpected survival from the flames, Spook had heard people gossiping of him and that he was part of Kelsier’s crew and that Durn was behind it. He eventually decided to confront him and found that Durn had been plotting against Quellion and had used the event to make him look bad. He decides to trust him and asks him to find Breeze. On his way out, a man approaches him and asked to save his seven-year-old sister from the Citizen. Spook realizes he is now in a better position to make a difference and decides to help. He asked in return for ten men to help him dig the skulls from the fire where the Citizen had burned the prisoners days before. He found only nine skulls and understood Quellion was taking the Allomancers.

He bribed people to find the place where the executions will take place. Another noble building and he understood it was built with passages like others used to take the Allomancers out. He went in to save the people and under Ruin’s influence killed the soldiers. One of them though took the child as a hostage, causing Spook to ask the leaving prisoners to lock him down. Though he was able to beat the remaining soldier, even with Pewter he was unable to open the door. Thus, he had to jump out of the building, still in flames with the child in his arms. Breeze and his other friends were there and caused a riot to help him escape.

He convinces Sazed to reverse engineer the lake built by the Lord Ruler so he can bring a miracle into the city. Along with him surviving the flames, he expects to outcast Quellion and cause the people to rebel against him.

Because he liked Beldre, he went to see her again, asked her to join him, but she refused and started screaming. Later, she went to their place and spoke on her brother’s behalf. Under Ruin’s influence with Kelsier’s voice, Spook takes her captive spreading the rumor she had escaped her brother. He is looking for Quellion to attack. They both have another conversation later, where she confirms her brother used to be a good man corrupted by power and Spook is bothered by the conversation, still with the encouragement of Ruin, he accepts the title of Survivor of the Flames and is happy with the attention.

The city is ready for a revolt, Quellion is about to do a hate speech against Spook. The latter killed the Citizen’s guards and fought him, looking for him to shoot coins and prove himself an Allomancer to complete the city’s hatred. Beldre gets there and shoots Spook to save her brother. The City riots as they understand what she is and that their ruler had killed their noble blood family but not his sister. Spook feels betrayed and Kelsier’s voice pushes him to kill her and use her spike to get her power. The hate speech from Kelsier and the spike information helps him understand it was the spike at the first fire that had caused all this. Looking at Quellion he correctly guessed he was being affected too. He takes out Quellion's spike first and then his. He loses Pewter and is almost out of breath. He sees the city in flames but is looking forward to the water to flood the city. Beldre confirms she had killed the soldiers to escape and there is no one to flood the city. They go back along with Sazed and find the building in flames, they are about to return defeated when he heard Kelsier’s real voice, who said he had chosen him as his friend. Spook goes into the burning building and he has no more strength, he just throws his weight to the machine and collapses.

After Spook saves the city from destruction, in the middle of him waking up, Kelsier is able to communicate with him. He gives encouragement and praise, but mostly explains Vin has a spike and is hearing Ruin.. He sends a message saying “Don’t trust anyone pierced by metal. Spook’s letter. Even the smallest bit can taint a man.” Goradel offers to take it; it was written on a metal sheet. It was intercepted by Marsh who was being physically controlled by Ruin, but could still think on his own, upon reading it he figures out it is Vin’s earring the metal piece where Ruin is controlling her and uses his last will to take it out setting her free.

The Final Ascension and Aftermath

After the Final Ascension, goes into the new world created by Sazed, and finds the bodies of Vin and Elend, along with the Words of Founding. Sazed also left a special note for him, telling Spook that he had tried to bring Vin and Elend back, but couldn't, explaining that he had healed the damage Spook had done to himself by flaring tin and had made Spook a Mistborn, and hinting at the existence of more Allomantic metals.

Spook was raised as King and got lectures on it from Breeze and training with Ham. He moved to a log house of two stories which seemed like a mansion and Beldre moved in.

In dreams Kelsier found a way to connect with him and asked for a hermalugic spike. Spook managed to get it and against his better judgement placed it on his ear. After that he was able to see Kelsier. “Broken mind, Hemalurgic spike. You can see just enough into the Cognitive Realm” Kelsier explained. He went on explaining how ignorance almost cost the world and that they could find answers together. It is implied Spook would seek strength and immortality like the Lord Ruler’s and Kelsier would find the “string” that could bring him back to life.

Steris implies that Spook ruled as an emperor for a century before stepping down from power and that he would be the last Emperor/King and move to more Governor type of ruling. Marasi later refers to him as as "The most powerful Allomancer who ever lived. A nearly mythological figure, someone who had all sixteen Allomantic powers in one body." It is also known he built buildings for the poor trying to avoid slums and creating laws where power would go to common people like Elend wanted.

Spook was referred to as the Lord Mistborn. It is not clear what his role in that early government is, but he is clearly very prominent and powerful, judging by the fact that his Eastern street slang becomes known as High Imperial. He is also known to have engaged in philosophy and appears to be somewhat aware of the inner workings of the Shards, and is noted for begging the question, "Having the has Sazed a metal?" He wrote a book on Hemalurgy which was not of the like of Harmony However, Spook is confirmed to having been a "stud" after the Final Ascension, having over a dozen children.

Relationships

Kelsier

Spook had a particular relationship with Kelsier. The latter named him Spook and gave him a spot in his Crew. It was more than a favor to Clubs which is shown by Kelsier’s interest on talking with him on his native language and giving him moral support. After Kelsier’s death, much of Spook's efforts are to become someone that he would have been proud of to the point where Ruin uses this connection to impersonate Kelsier's voice in Spook’s mind.

After his death, Kelsier continues to follow Spook. In Uretau, when he almost lost himself to anger and Ruin, Keliser sends him "Hope" messages which might have helped him get understanding and taking out his spike. Spooks exhaustion knocked him out and Keliser held him with Peservation's power, encouraging him and when Spook doubted his connection to Kelser he reminded Spook on who had named him. He saw Spook react at this and then, save the city. He also interceded for him with Sazed, asking to fix his body and make him a Mistborn.

Vin

Vin liked Spook, though she considered him strange and young. Sensing her kindness, he gave her a pink handkerchief as the traditional gift a young man gives a lady that he wishes to seriously court, she was not interested though. After that, Spook was uncomfortable with Vin’s presence until they had a quick chat and she confessed she would always love Elend; he understood and even gave her good advice on using tin.

Elend

Elend and Spook have a cautious relationship in the beginning as the first one can sense the latter liked Vin But they continue to grow fond of each other as they spend more and more time together. Elend later on reinforces Spook that he is not being dismissed and he is valued for his skills of scout and Tineye.

Trivia

• Spook is very loosely based on a person Brandon knew from the Timewasters Guide forums. Zack, known as Gemm on the forums, sometimes posted random gibberish that, if looked at very closely, turned out to actually be rather poetic. This inspired Brandon to write a character who spoke with a dialect that had an interesting rhythm, yet was difficult to make out.

• Ruin, who doesn't believe in building things up or improving the lives of others, but who relies on shells of reputation and impressive acts for his followers. Much as Hemalurgy is a false way to become an Allomancer, Ruin is using false methods to bring Spook notoriety.

Notes

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