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== History ==
The Steel Ministry seems to developed out of the bureaucratic mercantile system of the [[Hallant]] people. They were a people focused on systems of measurements.{{epigraph ref|mb3|27}}
 
=== Year 1022 of the Lord Ruler's Reign ===
In the year 1022, the Ministry is presided over by Lord Prelan [[Tevidian]]. The Canton of Orthodoxy was the currently leading Canton. After members of the Canton of Inquisition capture Vin and prove that she is the Lord Prelan's half-breed daughter, they gain control of the Ministry.{{book ref|mb1|36}}
 
== Doctrine ==
The imperial religion, with its obligators, actually appears to have arisen from the bureaucratic mercantile system of the Hallant, a people who were very focused on weights, measures, and permissions. {{quote|The fact that the Lord Ruler would base his Church on a financial institution shows—in my opinion—that he worried less about true faith in his followers, and more about stability, loyalty, and quantifiable measures of devotion.epig.|[[Harmony]] in the [[Words of hoaFounding]]}}{{epigraph ref|mb3|27}}
[[File:The_Lord_Ruler_2_by_Rafael_Sousa.png|thumb|230px|right|<center><small>by {{a|Rafael_Sousa}}</small></center>The Lord Ruler]]
The doctrine most taught by the Steel Ministry is that the skaa are cursed and the nobility are blessed.{{book ref|mb2|14}} The basic doctrine is that the nobility has prestige and access to Allomancy because of their ancestors' loyalty to the Lord Ruler, while the skaa were punished for the sins of their own ancestors. The Mistborn are taught to be descendants of the only men who supported the Lord Ruler before his Ascension.{{book ref|mb1|3}}{{book ref|mb1|7}}
 
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The imperial religion, with its obligators, actually appears to have arisen from the bureaucratic mercantile system of the Hallant, a people who were very focused on weights, measures, and permissions. The fact that the Lord Ruler would base his Church on a financial institution shows—in my opinion—that he worried less about true faith in his followers, and more about stability, loyalty, and quantifiable measures of devotion.epig. hoa 27
 
It is a little-known fact that the Inquisitors' torture chambers were actually Hemalurgic laboratories epig hoa 44
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