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Meanwhile the lack of food in the capital resulted in a lot of riots, and this only got worse when food stores were being pillaged.{{book ref|mb3|40}} Growing food was clearly a priority above maintaining any order, indicated by the many heaps of trash and mounts of ash within the city.{{book ref|mb3|42}} King Penrod failed to keep the city under control, and sent lieutenant Conrad as a messenger to Elend's main army, with the request for more troops to restore order.{{book ref|mb3|40}} Elend answered this request by sending General Demoux and his three hundred mistfallen soldiers back to the capital, to prevent further friction in the main army as these men weren't very well liked among the soldiers; this way two problems were solved at once.{{book ref|mb3|47}}
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|Luthadel was to have been their rock in all of this—their secure position. If it was falling apart, what did they have?▼
|Vin after hearing about the riots in Luthadel{{book ref|mb3|40}}▼
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However, the worst had yet to come. Before the reinforcements could arrive Marsh/an Inquisitor infiltrated Keep Venture, the seat of Elend's government, and attacked King Penrod who resided there. Penrod was not killed, but a Hemalurgic spike was driven through his heart, and the surgeons realized that Penrod would not survive removing the shard of metal. The spike through his heart was left in place, which brought Penrod under Ruin's influence.{{book ref|mb3|42}} <br>
After this event the king started talking the air and giving strange orders, like forcing the skaa to fight each other for food, or killing those who disagree with him.{{book ref|mb3|52}} He went mad, finding traitors within the nobility and his own army, dividing the city.{{book ref|mb3|80}} Because of this terrible leadership the dangers that Kelsier rioted up and nearly loosed on the city four years ago finally snapped and were allowed to run free,{{wob ref|8045}} resulting in a house war that got half of the city burned down and nearly all of the soldiers killed.{{book ref|mb3|80}}
Shortly before it came this far TenSoon arrived in Luthadel. Since he had been away from Luthadel for months, the kandra retrieved Kelsier's bones that were left behind by TenSoon's [[OreSeur|generation brother]] in a warehouse turned into a church, so he could imitate the Survivor and question a couple of guards about recent events. The [[Rittle|first guard]] was too awed by this appearance, but the [[Wellen|second guard]] told TenSoon much about the situation. Upon learning about Penrod's madness, TenSoon ordered the guards to gather as many people as possible and immediately find shelter underground, after which he made another appearance to followers of the Church of the Survivor and announced the same message.{{book ref|mb3|52}} <br>
A large part of the population listened, they would leave Luthadel to hide in or near the Arguios Caverns.{{book ref|mb3|52}} There they would join the camp of Terris refugees at the Pits of Hathsin,{{book ref|mb3|77}} who had kept a good communication with Penrod when the king was still sane.{{book ref|mb3|22}} This camp now counted several hundred thousand people, but because of the organizational skills of the Terris and Demoux's soldiers to police the mass of refugees there was order in the camp.{{book ref|mb3|80}} Yet, an equal amount of people never left Luthadel but hid underneath Kredik Shaw.{{wob ref|8045}}
Not long after the city was abandoned Vin led all Inquisitors to Luthadel and fought with them at Kredik Shaw. Lending power from the mists she killed them all except Marsh, but Kredik Shaw was completely destroyed in the process.{{book ref|mb3|72}}{{book ref|mb3|73}} It is after this event that Vin took up the power of Preservation and Ascended.{{book ref|mb3|76}}
Luthadel was left ruined beyond salvation, and was wiped out of existence during the Catacendre. Its position as capital got taken over by Elendel in a new era.
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▲|Luthadel was to have been their rock in all of this—their secure position. If it was falling apart, what did they have?
▲|Vin after hearing about the riots in Luthadel{{book ref|mb3|40}}
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