Keeper
A secret order among the Terris who memorize the religions, languages, and lore of the world before the Final Empire. The Lord Ruler has hunted them nearly to extinction; Sazed is one. They are said to be very dangerous in a fight, by means the Ministry would prefer not to discuss. MB1:TFE:Ch 9
Known facts
- founding-purposeThe order was formed after the Lord Ruler spent the first two centuries of his reign methodically destroying the Terris religion and hunting down the last Feruchemists. The Keepers' charge is to rediscover and remember everything lost — religions, languages, histories — and pass it forward. If even one Keeper outlives the Lord Ruler, the world's people get back what they had.MB1:TFE:Ch 22
- each-keeper-has-a-specialtyEvery Keeper memorises the same collective archive into their copperminds, but each one chooses and deeply studies only a slice of it — the rest is held in metal and recallable, but never lived with as thought. Sazed's slice is religion; Tindwyl's is biography.MB1:WoA:Ch 14
- religions-encoded-the-blueprint-for-remaking-the-worldThe Keepers' thousand-year work — preserving every pre-Ascension faith the Lord Ruler tried to erase — turns out to have been a blueprint for the remaking of the world. None of the religions were uniformly true, but each held a piece of truth: the Bennett gave Sazed the maps, the Nelazan the star charts that fixed the planet's orbit, the Canzi the anatomy that fixed human bodies after a millennium of ash, another faith the species that filled the new ecology, the Dadradah the colors that repainted the sky, and the Larsta — Mare's faith — the poems that put flowers back into the grass.MB1:HoA:Ch 82
Events
- MB1:HoA:Prologue A Keeper of Terris is tied to the table in the Conventical torture chamber and used as the donor for the new Inquisitor's first spike. He pleads with Marsh and insists he has nothing more to say about the Synod.
Relations
- relatedHarmony — Sazed reveals to Vin that he is one of the Keepers — the secret Terris order of Feruchemists preserving everything the Lord Ruler tried to erase. MB1:TFE:Ch 22
Backreferences
- summaryMB1:TFE:Ch 9
- factHarmony
- factThe Cazzi
- summaryMB1:TFE:Ch 15
- factKhlennium
- summaryMB1:TFE:Ch 16
- summaryMB1:TFE:Ch 17
- summaryMB1:TFE:Ch 22
- factFeruchemy
- factHarmony
- factHarmony
- summaryMB1:TFE:Ch 29
- factThe Astalsi
- factHarmony
- summaryMB1:TFE:Ch 33
- summaryMB1:TFE:Ch 35
- factkandra
- factFeruchemy
- summaryMB1:HoA:Prologue
- summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 4
- factCanzi
- factHarmony
- factHarmony
- factHarmony
- summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 6
- summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 10
- factHarmony
- summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 31
- factHarmony
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- factHarmony
- factOstention
- summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 46
- factHarmony
- summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 49
- factHarmony
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- summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 75
- factTerris Religion
- summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 82
- factKeeper
- factBennett
- factNelazan
- summaryMB1:HoA:Epilogue
- summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 4
- factHarmony
- summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 7
- factThe Synod
- summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 9
- summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 12
- factThe Worldbringers
- factHarmony
- summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 14
- factKeeper
- factTindwyl
- factTindwyl
- summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 30
- factHarmony
- summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 33
- factkandra
- summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 37
- factTindwyl
- summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 41
- summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 45
- factThe Kwaan Plate
- factThe Kwaan Plate
- factHelenntion
- factThe Rabzeen
- summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 48
- factThe Larsta
- factHarmony
- factThe Dadradah
- summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 54
- factHarmony
- summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 56
- factSteel Inquisitor
- factTathingdwen
- summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 57
- summaryMB1:WoA:Epilogue
- factKwaan
- factRuin
- factHarmony