Trell
An ancient god, named in the religious passages of the Words of Founding and worshipped in secret by the Set — operating, by the testimony of its red-eyed servant in Suit's cell, on a timeline its own and capable of speaking through agents Harmony cannot perceive. Its stated objective, declared as it dissolves the Set hierarchy, is no longer to govern but to remove life from the planet. MB2:BoM:Epilogue
A god Miles privately petitions in moments of doubt — the deity of Trellism, whose tenets Miles believes single out men like himself as marked for a special purpose. Mentioned in the religious passages of the Words of Founding. MB2:AoL:Ch 11 superseded at MB2:BoM:Epilogue
Known facts
- final-metal-prophecyTrellism is shown to carry an open prophecy of return: a host wearing gold and red, wielding a metal still nameless, before whom humanity will one day kneel. Miles yells it at his firing squad as his last words, and asks the crowd to keep faith with Trell until the day arrives.MB2:AoL:Epilogue
- another-god-blocking-harmonySurfaces by name at the end of Marasi's precinct conversation with MeLaan. Paalm's strange spike is not made of any metal kandra or Allomancer knows — and per MeLaan, it is not a metal Harmony knows either. Spikes like it stole Allomancy and Feruchemy for her use and hid her from God. What stops a god, MeLaan says, is another god. Marasi remembers the name Miles Hundredlives spoke at his execution and decides she had been too distracted at the time to chase it properly. She will dig now.MB2:SoS:Epilogue
- pivots-to-extinctionBy the mouth of its servant in Suit's cell, Trell declares that recent advances on this sphere — implicitly, the Basin's access to the Bands and southern medallion technology — have made civilization here too dangerous, and that its objective is no longer to rule but to remove life from the planet entirely. The Set hierarchy is dissolved in the same breath.MB2:BoM:Epilogue
- choosing-hostsThrough the dying mouth of the Cycle in the cavern below the Fourth Octant, Trell speaks in a grating, otherwise-not-his voice — the speaker's eyes lit a vivid red — and tells Marasi that ash is coming again, that the world will fall to it, and that her end will come either in ash or at the hands of the men of gold and red.MB2:TLM:Ch 6
- avatar-of-autonomyHarmony confirms for Wax that Trell is an avatar of Autonomy — one of the Shard's many splintered identities. The god of Trellism is the *male* face from ancient Scadrian records; the woman holding Autonomy is Bavadin.MB2:TLM:Ch 19
Backreferences
- summaryMB2:AoL:Ch 11
- factTrellism
- summaryMB2:AoL:Epilogue
- factMiles
- factTrell
- summaryMB2:BoM:Ch 6
- summaryMB2:BoM:Epilogue
- factMarasi
- factEdwarn Ladrian
- factTrell
- factTrell's Faceless Immortal
- factNelazan
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 1
- factMarasi
- factMarasi
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 6
- factTrell
- factCycle
- factMarasi
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 13
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 19
- factHarmony
- factTrell
- factAutonomy
- factTrellium Earring
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 20
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 21
- factEmbrier
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 28
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 34
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 35
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 55
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 62
- factHarmony
- summaryMB2:TLM:Epilogue
- summaryMB2:SoS:Epilogue