Diferencia entre revisiones de «Scadrial»

Kwaan, the man who first brought Alendi before the Conclave of Worldbringers, noticed this alteration because of his prodigious memory. He attempted to convince the Conclave of Worldbringers of his mistake, but they would not listen to him, much as they didn't listen to him when he first brought the possibility of Alendi being the Hero of Ages to their attention. He turned on Alendi, and did his best to undermine Alendi's rule. By this point Alendi was in control of most if not all of Scadrial. He was also no longer entirely his own master. Alendi had the prophesied "piercings of the Hero" which were actually Hemalurgic spikes, which allowed Ruin to subtly influence him.{{qa ref|727|30|Alendi's "Piercings of the Hero"?|date=2008-10-16}}

 

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 Terrisman 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's mind was also doing it's best to stop Alendi. In the form of the mist spirit it followed Alendi, and knifed his companion Fedik when he became too interested in Ruin's Shardpool, 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, he had no experience with using it. Rashek attempted to destroy the Deepness by moving Scadrial closer to the star in Scadrial's system, to burn away the mists. Unfortunately Scadrial's new location was too hot for life, so Rashek moved it further away from it's parent star, which left the planet too cold. Rashek then moved it closer to the star again, but it was still too hot. Rashek had no point of reference for where the planet should go, so he just decided to leave it too close to the star. He began working retroactively to fix problems he had created himself, because the intent of Preservation, who's power made up the Well, was affecting him. To counter the increased heat he made the Ashmounts, volcanoes who pumped gas and ferromagnetic ash into the air, to shadow the land near the north pole, which was one of the coolest places on Scadrial. This gas made the atmosphere thicker too, which raised temperatures in the rest of the world, turning it even hotter, resulting in the a massive dessert called the Burnlands, which covered most of the planet. Rashek realized that the ash from the Ashmounts would eventually bury the whole land. He 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 southern hemisphere, in the other cooler 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 one in the north to disguise what had happened.

 

 

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