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+# The Mistborn Universe
+
+## Setting
+
+The world of Scadrial is a planet shaped and sustained by two opposing cosmic
+forces — Preservation and Ruin. For a thousand years it was ruled by the
+immortal Lord Ruler, a tyrant who reshaped the planet itself during his
+Ascension at the Well of Ascension. His reign is known as the Final Empire.
+
+### The Final Empire
+#### Bookmarks 1 & 2
+
+The Lord Ruler's world is one of ash and darkness. Ash falls constantly from
+the sky, belched from the ashmounts — massive volcanic peaks scattered across
+the landscape. Plant life is brown and withered. The sun is red and dim. At
+night, thick rolling mists blanket the land, and most people fear to go
+outside.
+
+Society is divided into two rigid classes:
+
+- **Nobility** — Descendants of the Lord Ruler's original allies. They live in
+  keeps and manors, hold political and economic power, and attend elaborate
+  balls. Many noble bloodlines carry the genetic potential for Allomancy.
+- **Skaa** — The vast peasant underclass, descended from those who opposed the
+  Lord Ruler. They labor in fields, mines, and factories under brutal
+  conditions. Forbidden from mixing with the nobility, though it happens in
+  secret — and the Lord Ruler mandates that any skaa who bear noble children
+  must be killed.
+
+### Key Locations
+
+- **Luthadel** — The capital city and seat of the Lord Ruler. Home to Kredik
+  Shaw (the Hill of a Thousand Spires), the Lord Ruler's palace. The city is
+  ringed by a massive wall and divided into noble and skaa districts.
+- **The Pits of Hathsin** — A brutal prison camp where skaa are worked to death
+  mining atium geodes from crystalline caverns. Considered inescapable.
+- **The Ashmounts** — Volcanic peaks that spew ash across the land. Their
+  eruptions are controlled by the Lord Ruler to maintain the planet's ecology.
+- **The Well of Ascension** — A hidden reservoir of Preservation's concentrated
+  power, located beneath Kredik Shaw. It refills every thousand years.
+
+## The Metallic Arts
+
+Scadrial's magic systems are all tied to metals. There are three distinct
+disciplines, each connected to one of the cosmic forces.
+
+### Allomancy (Preservation)
+
+Allomancers ingest and "burn" metals to fuel supernatural abilities. The power
+is genetic, passed through noble bloodlines. Most Allomancers can burn only a
+single metal (Mistings). Rare individuals called Mistborn can burn all metals.
+
+The basic Allomantic metals come in pairs — one that "pushes" and one that
+"pulls" — organized into four groups:
+
+**Physical metals** (affect the Allomancer's body):
+- **Iron** (Lurcher) — Pulls on nearby metals
+- **Steel** (Coinshot) — Pushes on nearby metals
+- **Tin** (Tineye) — Enhances senses
+- **Pewter** (Thug/Pewterarm) — Enhances physical strength, speed, durability
+
+**Mental metals** (affect other people's minds):
+- **Zinc** (Rioter) — Inflames emotions
+- **Brass** (Soother) — Dampens emotions
+- **Copper** (Smoker) — Hides Allomantic pulses from detection
+- **Bronze** (Seeker) — Detects Allomantic pulses nearby
+
+**Temporal metals** (affect time):
+- **Gold** — Shows the Allomancer's past self / alternate lives
+- **Electrum** — Shows the Allomancer's own future shadows
+- **Cadmium** — Creates a bubble of slowed time
+- **Bendalloy** — Creates a bubble of sped-up time
+
+**Enhancement metals** (enhance other Allomantic abilities):
+- **Aluminum** — Wipes the burner's own metal reserves
+- **Duralumin** — Explosively enhances the next metal burned
+- **Chromium** — Wipes another Allomancer's metal reserves on contact
+- **Nicrosil** — Enhances another Allomancer's burn on contact
+
+**God metals:**
+- **Atium** (Ruin's body) — Reveals opponents' future movements, granting
+  near-perfect combat precognition. Extremely rare and valuable.
+- **Lerasium** (Preservation's body) — Transforms anyone who ingests it into a
+  Mistborn. Almost mythically rare.
+- **Malatium** — An alloy of atium and gold. Shows another person's past
+  selves.
+
+### Feruchemy (Balance)
+
+Feruchemists store attributes in metalpieces (called metalminds) for later use.
+The system is balanced — you can only withdraw what you previously stored. While
+storing, you diminish the attribute; while tapping, you enhance it.
+
+Each metal stores a different attribute (e.g., iron stores weight, steel stores
+speed, pewter stores strength, tin stores senses, zinc stores mental speed,
+copper stores memories, gold stores health).
+
+Feruchemy is native to the Terris people, a scholarly and peaceful culture
+nearly eradicated by the Lord Ruler. Terris stewards serve the nobility but
+are systematically bred to remove Feruchemic abilities through the Lord Ruler's
+eugenics programs.
+
+### Hemalurgy (Ruin)
+
+The darkest of the three arts. Hemalurgy uses metal spikes driven through one
+person's body to steal their abilities, then those spikes are hammered into
+another person to grant those stolen powers. The process always involves death
+and always results in some power being lost.
+
+Hemalurgy is Ruin's art — each spike creates a crack in the recipient's soul
+that Ruin can use to influence or control them. The more spikes, the greater
+Ruin's hold.
+
+The Steel Inquisitors are the most visible products of Hemalurgy — former
+humans transformed into terrifying enforcers by having numerous metal spikes
+driven through their bodies, including the signature spikes through their eye
+sockets. They possess stolen Allomantic and Feruchemical abilities and serve
+the Lord Ruler and the Steel Ministry.
+
+### Compounding
+
+When a person has both Allomantic and Feruchemical access to the same metal,
+they can "compound" — burning a metalmind Allomanically to produce a
+Feruchemical effect at Allomantic (effectively unlimited) power levels. This
+bypasses Feruchemy's balance requirement. The Lord Ruler used compounding of
+all metals to achieve functional immortality, among other things.
+
+## Cosmic Forces
+
+### The Shards: Preservation and Ruin
+
+Before the events of the series, a cosmic entity called Adonalsium was
+shattered into sixteen Shards of immense power. Two of these Shards came to
+Scadrial:
+
+- **Preservation** — The force of stability, stasis, and continuation. Its
+  intent is to preserve all things. Preservation sacrificed much of its power
+  to create humanity on Scadrial with Ruin, giving humans a larger portion of
+  its own essence — which is why humans have free will and sentience.
+- **Ruin** — The force of entropy, decay, and destruction. Its intent is to
+  break all things down. Not evil in a cosmic sense — destruction is necessary
+  for change — but utterly single-minded in its purpose.
+
+Each Shard was originally held by a person (a Vessel). Preservation's original
+Vessel was Leras; Ruin's was Ati.
+
+### The Mists
+
+The mists are a manifestation of Preservation's power. They blanket the land
+each night and are generally harmless, though feared by most people. The mists
+occasionally "snap" people — putting them through intense stress that awakens
+latent Allomantic abilities. The Mistborn are named for their ability to move
+fearlessly through the mists.
+
+## Key Organizations
+
+- **The Steel Ministry** — The Lord Ruler's theocratic government and state
+  religion. Headed by obligators (bureaucrat-priests who oversee contracts and
+  governance) and enforced by Steel Inquisitors.
+- **The Canton of Inquisition** — The Steel Ministry's enforcement and
+  investigation arm. Led by the Steel Inquisitors. Hunts skaa Allomancers.
+- **The Keepers (Terris)** — A secret society of Feruchemists who use
+  copperminds to preserve forbidden knowledge — history, religion, and lore
+  that the Lord Ruler tried to destroy.
+- **Skaa rebellion / thieving crews** — Underground resistance networks in
+  Luthadel and beyond. Organized loosely around thieving crews — small,
+  specialized teams that operate like heist groups, often including Mistings
+  or Mistborn.
+- **The Kandra** — Shapeshifting creatures created by the Lord Ruler from
+  mistwraiths using Hemalurgic blessings (pairs of spikes). They can absorb
+  a person's bones to perfectly mimic their appearance. Bound by strict
+  Contracts to serve humans, governed by their own secretive society in the
+  Homeland.
+- **The Koloss** — Massive, violent blue-skinned creatures created through
+  Hemalurgy. Used as shock troops by the Lord Ruler. Driven by rage and
+  controlled through emotional Allomancy or direct Hemalurgic command.
+
+## Tone and Themes
+
+The Mistborn universe blends epic fantasy with heist fiction and political
+intrigue. Core themes include:
+
+- **Oppression and revolution** — The struggle against a seemingly invincible
+  tyranny, and the messy reality of what comes after.
+- **Trust and betrayal** — In a world of shapeshifters, mind-influencing
+  Allomancy, and secret agendas, trust is both precious and dangerous.
+- **Faith and belief** — Prophecy, religion, and the power of belief drive much
+  of the conflict. What does it mean to be a "hero of ages"?
+- **Sacrifice** — Power always has a cost. Hemalurgy demands death. Preservation
+  gave up its mind to imprison Ruin. The heroes repeatedly face choices where
+  winning requires losing something essential.
+- **The nature of power** — From the metallic arts to the Shards themselves,
+  the universe explores how power shapes and corrupts those who wield it.