Harmony and the southern scadrians.

[CR0N0S.LXIII]

So I was wondering when did Sazed became aware of the existence of the southern scadrians.

 

We see at the end of The Hero of Ages that Sazed Ascends to Harmony and "fixes" Scadrial, putting it in the old orbit, changing the genetics of the local humans (which was changed by Rashek so scadrians could breath ashes), changing the whole geography and tectonics on the planet, restoring old flora and fauna...

 

By changing the orbit, Sazed is causing Scadrial to become much more cold than it previous was. That is not a concern for northern scadrians, but the southern scadrians adapted to the hotter conditions of the planet's old orbit thanks to some unknown Rashek intervention. So the Catacendre made the land uninhabitable for the southern scadrians, up to the point that were not for Kelsier intervention, they would have gone extinct.

 

Now, causing an extinction on a whole human population does not sound like "fixing", neither does it sound like Sazed, neither does it sound like "Harmony". So the conclusion would be that Sazed had no knowledge of the southern scadrians and didn't know of the consequences his actions were having on them. We also have to conclude that Sazed didn't learn of the southern scadrians at least until Kelsier got there, cause otherwise Sazed would have "fixed" the anatomy of the southern scadrians before, just like he restored the anatomy of the northern scadrians during the Catacendre.

 

But here is the thing: when Vin became a Sliver at the Well of Ascension, she instantly realises there are two groups of humans in Scadrial, located in both poles of the planet. And she realises that while simply "diving" into the Spiritual Realm (that's basically what a Sliver is I believe). So one would assume that Ascending with the power of tho Shards would give you a level of awareness more than enough to realise of the existence of the southern scadrians.

So did Sazed/Harmony become aware of the southern scadrians right after his Ascension? And if so, why didn't he do anything to prevent the extinction of the southern scadrians during the Ice Death?

[JustQuestin2004 he/him]

There's a WOB on this, Sazed was using the knowledge in his Copperminds to return Scadrial to exactly the way it was before Rashek screwed it up. If he made too many enviromental changes for the Southern Scadrians then it could have ruined his efforts entirely.

 

But I wouldn't say he didn't give them any help, I believe that he sent Kelsier to give them a hand.