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|profession=[[Keeper]], Steward
|titles=[[Hero of Ages]], Rabzeen, The Anamnesor, Master Vaht,{{book ref|tfe|9}} Holy First Witness, The Announcer, Chief Ambassador of the [[New Empire]], [[Harmony]], God
|aliases= Saze
|groups={{tag|Kelsier's crew}}, {{tag+|army|Venture}}
|nation=Terris
|world=Scadrial
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
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'''Sazed''' is a [[Terris]]man steward from [[Scadrial]] {{nosnippet|and the current Vessel of the [[Shard]] [[Harmony]]|}}.{{book ref|mb1|8}} He is part of [[Kelsier's crew]]
== Appearance and Personality ==
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=== Appearence ===
Tall and long-limbed, Sazed has the build of a scholar.{{book ref|mb2|4}} His arms and legs are a bit too long for his body because of a medical condition caused by his being castrated as a boy.{{book ref|mb2|12}} He has a shaven head,{{book ref|mb1|22}} his earlobes have been stretched out, and the ears themselves contain studs that run around their perimeter. He wears the lavish, colorful robes of a Terris steward—the garments are made of embroidered, overlapping V shapes, alternating among the three colors of his master’s house. He is soft spoken, with a higher pitch and an almost melodic accent.{{book ref|mb1|8}} ▼
==== Mortal ====
▲Tall and long-limbed, Sazed has the build of a scholar.{{book ref|mb2|4}} His arms and legs are a bit too long for his body because of a medical condition caused by his being castrated as a boy.{{book ref|mb2|12}} He has a shaven head,{{book ref|mb1|22}} his earlobes have been stretched out, and the ears themselves contain studs that run around their perimeter. He wears the lavish, colorful robes of a Terris steward—the garments are made of embroidered, overlapping V shapes, alternating among the three colors of his master’s house. He is soft spoken, with a higher pitch and an almost melodic accent.{{book ref|mb1|8}}
==== Vessel ====
His description varies as a Vessel. At times he is described as wearing a Terris garb, with a cloak of timelessness trailing behind him, made of storms and winds, clouds and rain, deserts and forests. His robe was the Terris V pattern, where each V reflected an entire age, akin to a strata of time.{{book ref|mb6|28}} Other times, he is described as being at the centre of two wings, one white and one black, mixing together in the middle with their edges reaching out to infinity.{{book ref|mb7|19}}
Around {{date|348|FA}}, he is described by being trailed by a shadowy reflection of himself.{{book ref|mb7|26}}{{book ref|mb7|71}}
=== Personality ===
==== Mortal ====
When feeling confident, Sazed is a person who—without raising his voice, without seeming to make demands—can control a group and get the information he desires. He always claims that he's no leader, but he's actually a fantastic one when he puts his mind to it. His calm sense of purpose puts people at ease and makes them do as he requests.{{wob ref|8022}}
Sazed enjoys researching and working on texts or engineering, and he keeps his workspace orderly and structured.{{book ref|mb2|34}} As a Terris man, he has specific speech patterns that are also recognizable in the sentence constructions of Tindwyl, [[Kwaan]], the Lord Ruler and [[Alendi]].
==== Vessel of Harmony ====
As Harmony, his personality was warped by the powers that he took up. Though he ultimately remained a calm and kindly individual, who deeply cares about the good of mankind.{{book ref|mb4|3}}{{epigraph ref|sa3|53}} He is very formal to those that he has not met, and often apologizes for his formality.{{epigraph ref|sa4|20}}
He does not enjoy being worshipped, and encourages his followers to not worship him, for he considers doing good in the world as worship enough.{{book ref|mb4|3}} Even as Harmony, he continues to hold his omnist worldview, that all faiths as holding a grain of truth, and encourages his followers to study the religions recorded in the [[Words of Founding]] to learn from their moral codes.{{book ref|mb4|3}} This, alongside his humility, likely plays a role in his acceptance of people following religions other than his own.{{cite}}
He holds to the belief that humanity should discover new technologies and advancements by their own power, arguing that they are subtle consequences to helping them along too much. Alongside this, he believes that humanity should find their own path through the cosmere.{{book ref|mb7|epilogue|4}} He also believes that if he intervenes too much, mankind could become overly reliant upon him, he trusts mankind to be able to solve their problems on their own, as he believes in humanity.{{book ref|mb6|28}} Furthermore, he believes that people shouldn't have their lives controlled or moved by others, and interprets his Intent as creating a way for as many people as possible to make their own choices.{{book ref|mb4|18}}{{book ref|mb7|epilogue|7}} This is all a part of his belief in free will and self-actualization, both on an individual and societal level.
He sees even human flaws as strengths, and encourages his followers to find strength in all of their flaws.{{book ref|mb4|3}}
Despite his ability to manifest however he wishes, he still manifests as a Terrisman in Terris garb, displaying a lingering connection to his old body.{{book ref|mb6|28}}
He believes in an afterlife in the [[Beyond]]. Though professes a lack of objective knowledge on whether or not an afterlife truly exists, he also openly admits that he is not truly omniscient. As such does not attempt to put up pretenses of omniscience or omnipotence, admitting to his limitations.{{book ref|mb6|28}}{{book ref|mb7|74}} He even admits his own naïveté.{{epigraph ref|sa3|54}} As a man open to sharing his limitations, he is even willing to admit his growing difficulty in taking action.{{epigraph ref|sa3|55}} Much like other aspects of his personality, this can be seen rooted in his humility.
He finds great discomfort in his inability to take action due to his nature as Harmony.{{cite}} He considers himself to be one with Ruin and Preservation, as they make him up, and thus he finds it difficult to separate his mind from the power he holds.{{epigraph ref|sa4|35}}{{epigraph ref|sa4|36}} He also considers the choice to not take up a Shard to be a wise one.{{epigraph ref|sa4|38}} He considers himself to be new to the role of a Shard, despite his centuries holding on to it.{{epigraph ref|sa3|54}}{{epigraph ref|sa4|20}}
===== Manipulations =====
Due to his inability to more directly act and effect the world, he is willing to manipulate people in order to groom them for the good of Scadrial. However, he does not take pleasure in it, he feels sorrow for their pain and what he made them do, but he does not feel sorrow for making them do what he felt had to be done.{{book ref|mb6|28}} He does this despite fundamentally believing in human freedom, this contradiction has been observed to cause him internal conflict and guilt.{{book ref|mb4|18}}{{book ref|mb7|19}}{{book ref|mb7|epilogue|7}}
For example, he manipulated Wax into his Sword, so that he could fight for the good of Scadrial, by sending the kandra [[Paalm]] in order to effectively groom him into said Sword.{{book ref|mb5|26}} He made Wax commit many painful actions in the furtherance of his plans for the future of Scadrial. He respected Wax's hatred of him, and even when put in peril by the encroaching threat of [[Trell]], he continued to try and stop it through other methods. This was until he began to feel that Wax was his last choice, in which he came begging.{{book ref|mb7|19}} In the end, he informed Wax that nobody controls his life, and that he is deeply sorry for making him believe otherwise.{{book ref|mb7|epilogue|7}}
== Attributes and Abilities ==
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Sazed served [[Kelsier]] but did
Even after Kelsier’s death, Sazed
From the cognitive realm, Kelsier followed the events and was there with Sazed when he took the power. They were united thereafter.{{msh ref|6|8}}
=== Vin ===
Sazed was appointed to coach [[Vin]] to play the part of Valette Renoux, a noblewoman. He saw that her hair, makeup, and
Sazed
At the siege of Luthadel, they
After Sazed lost Tindwyl and his faith, Vin was one of the few
=== Elend ===
Sazed did not initially trust [[Elend]]
Sazed married him to Vin just before the fight for Luthadel.{{book ref|mb2|48}}
=== Hoid ===
He appears to have known Hoid to some extent before his Ascension, or at least Hoid knew him.{{msh ref|2|1}}
=== Wax ===
{{quote
|I’ve heard distressing things, Waxillium Ladrian, that you’ve been worrying about. I would like to promise you something. With all the essence and axi of my being, I declare this.<br>No one else moves you.<br>Your life is yours.<br>And you have my deepest apologies that I had a hand in teaching you otherwise.
|Harmony to Wax{{book ref|mb7|epilogue|7}}
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He has a fragile relationship with Wax, with Wax being a former worshipper of him,{{book ref|mb4|3}} that came to despise him and renounce his faith, and lose respect for Harmony, due to Harmony's own actions and manipulations. He also came to hate Harmony for his inaction, and the suffering his inaction has brought about on Scadrial.{{book ref|mb6|4}}{{book ref|mb6|28}} Even after his hatred for him waned, his desire to have nothing to do with him grew stronger.{{book ref|mb7|19}}
* Sazed wouldn't want to play video games, but would be very good at them because of his [[Feruchemy]].{{wob ref|14127}}
* Sazed's hair would be black if he didn't shave it.{{wob ref|16090}}
* When asked what his skin color or tone would be, Brandon compared him to [[wikipedia:Keegan-Michael Key| Keegan-Michael Key]], though stated he often imagines him looking like Teferi Akosa from [[wikipedia:Magic: The Gathering|Magic: The Gathering]].{{wob ref|4927}}
== Notes ==
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