Sazed

Sazed
por Ben McSweeney
Capacidades	Feruquimista, Esquirla Harmony
Títulos	Hero of Ages, Master Vaht, First Holy Witness, Chief Ambassador of the New Empire, Harmony
Oficio	Keeper, Steward
Grupo	Kelsier's crew🐱︎, Ejército de Venture
Nacionalidad	de Terris
Mundo natal	Scadrial
Universo	Cosmere

By the Forgotten Gods!

This page has extensive spoilers for all of the Mistborn books and short stories, particularly the ending of The Hero of Ages.

“The religions in my portfolio weren't useless after all. None of them were. They weren't all true. But they all had truth. ”

—Sazed

Sazed is a Terrisman steward from Scadrial. He is part of Kelsier Kelsier's crew. He is a Keeper , considered something of a rebel by the others of his kind. He is the current Vessel of the Shard of Harmony.

Appearance and Personality

Tall and long-limbed, Sazed had the build of a scholar. His arms and legs were a bit to long for his body, a medical condition caused by his being castrated as a boy. He has a shaven head, his earlobes had been stretched out, and the ears themselves contained studs that ran around their perimeter. He wore the lavish, colorful robes of a Terris steward—the garments were made of embroidered, overlapping V shapes, alternating among the three colors of his master’s house. He was soft spoken with a higher pitch and almost with a melodic accent.

Sazed is kindly, peaceful and respectful but did have a smart tongue, which is unusual for a stward. A eunuch due to the Lord Ruler's breeding program, which also made him very docile. Sazed, as a Keeper, has many earrings, bracelets and bands that act as his Feruchemical metalminds. However after the death of the Lord Ruler, he had to stop wearing much of the jewelry to avoid tempting the bandidts.

As a Keeper, he was necessarily secretive, for the Lord Ruler had hunted them practically since the Day of Ascension itself. He believed in all religions, embracing their contradictions, but respecting what he considered the truth behind them all.

History

The Skaa Rebellion

Para more information, ver skaa rebellion.

The only Terrisman to actively support the skaa rebellion. His main task was to gather information and is used as messenger several times. Sazed is Kelsier´s steward appointed to serve Lord Renoux and later Vin who he prepared to play the part of a noble woman. He helped her memorize the names of powerful families, practice dinners, gone over conversational etiquette, memorized gossip and later dancing among other things.

He accompanied Vin to Luthadel balls, at the start of them he stayed as close as possible giving advice and support, but later moved to the steward’s dinner to gain intelligence He would later report all details including the people who asked Vin to dance. Sazed found Vin missing after she followed Keliser to Kredik Shaw, he managed to get there just in time to retrieve her, though severely wounded, and took also book they found there.

After that event, he spent most of his time translating the book, which turned out to be Alendi’s journal but at the time he believed it was from the Lord Ruler itself. He spent long hours in the library, poring over its pages with an uncharacteristically excited air.

Sazed was fascinated with the information from the journal, mostly on information from his people (Terris) and from how the land looked (green). He and Vin also tried having her use some of his stored powers by burning his metals, but found the feeling was similar to what it feels to recover information from the metal of a different Feruchemy owner. This was the key to understand the immortality of the Lord Ruler.

After Kelsier’s death, he continued to believe in the cause and explained to Vin and the crew that his death might have been just part of his plan. With this he inspires Vin to go to the highly secured chamber of the palace complex.

True to his vow of protecting Vin, he followed her. When she was captured and imprisoned, he left himself get weak, captured and beaten. He was placed in a very bad shape at the cell next to her. He however used his metals to grow strong and open the cells, he almost got her out but his strength ended. Elend came with some of his men to save them. With that support, Vin was able to find the cloak they had taken from her and inside her vials. They defeated the guards and Sazed took Elend out into safety so Vin could go and fight the Lord Ruler.

After seeing to his safety, Sazed came back for Vin. She had beaten the Lord Ruler but had not fully killed him. They were all present when he explained that by killing him hey had doomed themselves and when Vin finally killed him with a spear.

He figured out that the Lord Ruler was both a Feruchemist and Allomancer. And understood how the Lord Ruler kept himself young and powerful. This also explained the breeding program and his hate of the Terris and Keepers. He had the fear of someone that could have his same powers.

The Siege of Luthadel

Para more information, ver Siege of Luthadel.

A portrait of Sazed by Kit Buss

After the Lord Ruler's death, Sazed left Luthadel in order to fulfill his duty as a Keeper and spread the knowledge of the time before the Lord Ruler to the people of the Final Empire. Sazed's carried the complete knowledge of the Terris people, but his specialty was religion, especially those from before the Final Empire. He went south, the direction where Kelsier thought the eleventh metal stories came from, he was frustrated not have information on it.

He saw the land was full of chaos, death, hatred, and disorder now that the Lord Ruler’s no longer patrolled those places. Sazed was disappointed to understand that the people were hoping for him to come back and didn’t understand or care enough to learn a new religion, thus he decided to teach them more practical things. After the year passed and the dispassion of the people and the rejection form his kind continued, Sazed’ started to question the results of the rebellion. He also came across mysterious deaths somehow related to the mists.

He was then found by Marsh, who led him to the Conventical of Seran where the Inquisitors had left after slaughtering all servants. He found spikes and started to ask question on how Inquisitors were “created”. He also found the last words of Kwaan inscribed on a metal plate where he confessed to have found and later betrayed Alendi looking to avoid him from completing his quest. Sazed copied the information by marking it with charcoal and decided to go back north to pass the information.

Sazed returned to Luthadel and worked with Kelsier's old team to convince Vin and Elend Venture to leave the city before it fell to the besiegers. Sazed attempted to spare Vin and Elend by drawing them away from the siege with a fake map to the Well of Ascension. While in Luthadel, Sazed found himself falling in love with a Terriswoman Tindwyl, a member of the Synod who had come to Luthadel train Elend. He studied Kwaan's message with Tindwyl who became as captivated by it as he. Sazed and Tindwyl fought to defend the city during the Koloss attack and Tindwyl was killed. Sazed was left to help defend Luthadel and used his metal minds to great effect. Vin realized that the Well of Ascension was in Luthadel and returned only just in time to save Sazed from some koloss.

Sazed eventually realized that Vin should not release the power at the Well of Ascension and tried to prevent it, but was stopped by Marsh. He had discovered that Ruin was changing the words on Sazed's copy of Kwaan's message, so Sazed returned to the Conventical to find that Kwaan had left a warning: "Alendi must not reach the Well of Ascension, for he must not be allowed to release the thing that is imprisoned there."== Attributes and Abilities == Spook is the crew’s best Tineye, so he usually got the most important watches. He snapped at 5 years old. After Kelsier’s death, he worked as scout and spy. He had flared his tin nonstop for a year straight—never letting up, keeping his body in a constant state of super-heightened senses—and it had changed him; he became an Allomantic savant. Because of this, he had a blurring array of sensory knowledge that his body could instinctively use. He could feel disturbances in the air, sense tremors in the floor, and could know where people were simply by how close their heartbeats sounded. He is finally given full Mistborn abilities by Sazed when becoming Harmony. However, he does not have the strength of a lerasium Mistborn, but a Mistborn of the strength of a typical Allomancer around the end of The Final Empire.

Attributes and Abilities

Sazed was a Feruchemist and he used the ability to keep information. He held the information of old and current religions. He held five hundred and sixty-two different religions: their prayers, their beliefs, their mythologies.

Relationships

Kelsier

“ A very good man, Mistress. One of the best I’ve known. ”

— Sazed to Vin answering if Keliser was a good man

Sazed served Kelsier but did it willingly. He got to know Kelsier well and they had several religious and philosophical conversations. They tend to talk often of different religions, which Kelsier sometimes use to keep his spirits up. Even after Kelsier’s death Sazed believed in him and decided to record his stories. It is implied he knew of his plan to die to become an inspiration to finish with the Lord Ruler.

Vin

Sazed was appointed to coach Vin to play the part of Valette Renoux a noblewoman. He saw that her hair, makeup, and dressing were appropriate. During that time, he also offered information on religions to see if Vin would find one interesting.

Quotes

“ People are valuable, Mistress Vin, and so—therefore—are their beliefs. ”

— Sazed to Vin on why he keeps the information of religions

“ … When the Steel Ministry no longer holds sway—men will wish to return to the beliefs of their fathers. On that day they will look to the Keepers, and on that day we shall return to mankind his forgotten truths. ”

— Sazed to Vin on why he keeps the information of religions

Trivia

He was sometimes referred as “Vaht”, apparently, the proper title for a Terrisman steward.

Portfolio of Religions

Sazed's focus as a Keeper was religions, and he knew over 500 that existed prior to the Ascension of the Lord Ruler. He made a habit of preaching various religions to people, trying to find the one that fit them the best. Though many of them contradicted each other, he believed there was truth behind all of them. Following Tindwyl's death, he stopped preaching the religions he knew to others and rejected all belief, trying to find a way to empirically verify the religions. After learning the old Terris religion from the kandra and considering peoples' faith in the context of their lives, he once again accepted the truths of his religions and adopted the Terris faith. During his Ascension, the truths recorded by the various religions provided the knowledge he needed to restore Scadrial to its pre-Final Empire state. The following is a list of the religions Sazed mentioned:

• Jaism, founded by a man known as the Ja, which preaches discord. Its followers end almost every sentence by saying "Praise the Ja."
• The Truths of the Bennet, which considers mapmaking to be a holy duty and whose priests are ship captains. Sazed once preached this religion to Kelsier.
• Trelagism, whose adherents worship the stars, which they call the Thousand Eyes of their god, Trell. Sazed once preached this religion to Vin.
• The Cazzi, who worship death and study the human body. Sazed once offered one of their prayers over the dead bodies of Camon's crew.
• The Dadradah, who believe worshiping art brings them closer to god. Sazed once preached this religion to Clubs, and it was the last one he ever taught.
• The Larsta, who worship the beauty of nature. Kelsier's wife, Mare, was a follower of this religion. Sazed used this religion to marry Vin and Elend.
• The Astalsi, who believe each person has a certain amount of luck allotted to them. Sazed preached this religion to Vin
• Duis, a god known to watch over weary travelers. Sazed said a prayer to them while running from the Conventical of Seran to Luthadel.
• HaDah, a religion that worships an agricultural god. Sazed used their funeral rites for the first skaa he encountered who had been killed by the mist.
• The Valla, who survived the Lord Ruler's persecution of other religions the longest, lasting even after their leaders were killed.
• The Steel Ministry, the religion of the Lord Ruler.
• The Church of the Survivor, the religion that began to worship Kelsier after his death.
• The Terris religion, responsible for the Terris Prophecies, which celebrates scholarship and tells of Ruin and Preservation.

Notes

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