How did Sazed pick up Ruin?

[Arsteel]

Can somebody remind me how Sazed was able to pick up Ruin again? I don't remember his personality or actions having much connection to Ruin, and usually your personality has to be related to a Shard's Intent before you can pick it up, so how could he take both Preservation and Ruin? He certainly seemed to embody Preservation as a Keeper.

[Treamayne]

13 hours ago, Arsteel said:

Can somebody remind me how Sazed was able to pick up Ruin again? I don't remember his personality or actions having much connection to Ruin, and usually your personality has to be related to a Shard's Intent before you can pick it up, so how could he take both Preservation and Ruin? He certainly seemed to embody Preservation as a Keeper.

8 hours ago, robardin said:

It's described like so in Mistborn: Secret History in a conversation in the Cognitive Realm between two beings witnessing Sazed's Double Ascension (which I take it you haven't read, or you wouldn't be asking, so I'll spoiler it):

It's worth noting that even before HoA, while Keepers were generally more connected to Preservation, he already had enough of a connection to Ruin to defy orders and help topple a thousand-year empire. So, to me, his connection was there already but the events of HoA was him learning to make peace with that side of himself.

 

[Dunkum he/him]

Been a bit since I read it, but as I recall his sort of spiral into depression acts as a way of enhancing his connection to Ruin, enough so that he can pick it up.

[The Bookwyrm he/him]

47 minutes ago, Dunkum said:

Been a bit since I read it, but as I recall his sort of spiral into depression acts as a way of enhancing his connection to Ruin, enough so that he can pick it up.

I recently re-read Hero of Ages, and I think that this was what was supposed to be implied.

[+robardin he/him]

It's described like so in Mistborn: Secret History in a conversation in the Cognitive Realm between two beings witnessing Sazed's Double Ascension (which I take it you haven't read, or you wouldn't be asking, so I'll spoiler it):

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Kelsier stood in awe of the way they combined. He'd always seen these powers as opposites, yet as they swirled around Sazed, it seemed that they actually belonged to one another. "How?" he whispered. "How is he Connected to them both, so evenly? Why not just Preservation?"

"He has changed, this last year," Elend said. "Ruin is more than death and destruction. It is peace with these things."

 

 

[Arsteel]

I see, thanks all!