u/Former_Sea

Okay so I just finished this chapter and there are couple things that i wanna ask, some of them are probably answered in the future but others might be stuff i have forgot

1- When Ruin sees Trull and vice versa there is a recognition in that but I have sadly forgotten it. Can anyone who remembers remind me their previous encounter?

2- I can understand why Clip attacks Fear, to stop the backstab but why does he + Wither go after Udinaas ?

3- now if i got this right Ruin's actions basically turned this real into a permeant one, basically eliminating all the concerns of the Imass as far as the whole "death of this place" goes. The only ones who would have suffered in the process (assuming no fight happened) would have been Fear and Kettle. Former because he wanted to release the soul and latter, well because she would be killed. Except was Kettle expecting this fate? Did she accept it ? And by the indication at the very end of the chapter Ruin plans to deal with Rhulad anyways, to an extend thats what Fear wanted ? Different means but same desire. It just feels like 90% everything that happened in that cave was a clusterfuck of lack of communication, and everyone jumping the guns. And Fear's death being avoidable, albeit with difficulty.

Overall this was a very tragic chapter end.

Name: Bastion

Age: 19

Height: 183 cm

Weight: 82 kg

Skin color: Olive

Eye Color: Dark brown, bordering on black

Personality: Angry, Rough and Pragmatic

Notable Traits: Has a piercing on his left eyebrow, made from bronze

Backstory: Bastion was born in the slums of Fellis as far as he was concerned. Just another urchin with nothing. Like any other of his kind, the only thing he knew from a young age was how to survive by any means. This meant crime for him, stealing small things when young, like food. And bolder crimes in early adolescence such as extortion and pick pocketing. Finally in his late teens he became a full fledged leader of a thieving crew, performing risky but bountiful heists on the nobility. For all the struggles of being a skaa, Bastion had it easier than most of his kin. He, and his crew could afford certain privileges with the money they stole.

For his 18th birthday Bastion wanted to perform the most ambitious heist of his life. Stealing from one of the great houses on a vacation in Fellis, he imagined that the riches in a villa owned by a nobility of that power would pin him as the greatest thief in the whole Fellis city. With his crewmembers Cat, Afnel and Tessy they planned the heist after months of preparation. On the day of the heist Bastion was tasked to sneak with Cat into the stables of the villa and use an old secret tunnel to get to the main building, just as they reached the end of the tunnel leading to the basement of the villa they heard the distant echoes of footsteps from behind them, and locking of the door ahead of them. It was a trap, and the only way these nobles would know it was having a traitor in the crew.

Over the next couple of days both Cat and Bastion were tortured constantly to reveal everything they knew, and where other members of their crew were. On the third day of a particularly relentless beating by the torturer Bastion snapped. His sudden burst of pain and anger exploded outward from him, sending all the metal tools and unsecured metals in the room flying away, and pulling others. One such metal he pulled lodged into the back of the torturer’s head, a loose hammer hit the chains hanging Bastion by the arms, releasing him. Without knowing what was happening to him fully, Bastion broke free from his cell and quickly navigated himself towards an escape. One thing he noted as he was escaping was that Cat was nowhere, not even his lifeless body.

Bastion spent almost a week hiding from everyone he knew, trying to gather his thoughts and strength. Figuring out what he should do. Finally he decided that he wanted to find which one of his friends was the traitor. During this time he also experimented with his newly awakened powers, trying to understand what he was. Through luck or fate in his time spent hiding in the back alleys Bastion met a crazy homeless man called Ant. Ant called him mistborn, describing him the legends and teaching him few other things about being an Allomancer. Bastion never had a chance to learn how the old man knew any of this, as one day he disappeared without a word.

A few more weeks later Bastion finally figured out what happened to his crew. Apparently Tessy was taken by house Eliale back to Luthadel as a slave, as a form of sick punishment. At least that's what Bastion considered. Afnel was executed in a public execution. Cat however was running his own crew now, with unfamiliar faces, and with the riches that Bastion and his crew should have. With the traitor revealed to him there was only one thing Bastion thought of, revenge. He planned for a whole year, and on the 19th birthday he used steel to enter Cat’s bedroom. Confronting him when he was most vulnerable. It was a revenge slowly but violently taken. On his way back to the shelter Bastion used, he was ambushed by a Steel Inquisitor. Far outmatched and outpowered, Bastion found himself taken out of the city soon after completing his revenge. He was kept blind and deaf during his capture, taken to a location he had no idea of. With that his life in Fellis was over.

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