Location from Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
Brutal mining camp where prisoners harvested atium crystals from geodes for the Lord Ruler. Where Kelsier was imprisoned, gained his Mistborn powers through Snapping, and where the kandra Homeland lies beneath.
The Pits of Hathsin are where the Lord Ruler's power was literally mined from the earth — atium, Ruin's condensed body, crystallizing in geodes that prisoners were forced to harvest with their bare hands. Missing a harvest meant death. Kelsier and Mare were sent here as punishment. Mare died; Kelsier Snapped, awakening as a Mistborn, and escaped — earning the name Survivor of Hathsin. The Pits hold deeper secrets: beneath them lies the kandra Homeland, vast caverns where the First Generation dwell. The atium geodes were Ruin's method of recovering his own body, and their destruction by Kelsier's crew was a pivotal strategic act that denied Ruin his power for years.
A desolate valley of sharp volcanic rock and deep cave systems. The surface is scarred with mine entrances and prisoner barracks. Underground, narrow crystal caverns wind through dark stone, their walls embedded with geodes that slowly grow atium beads. The air is damp and metallic. Light comes only from carried torches, reflecting off crystalline formations in unsettling patterns.
Also known as: the Pits