Difference between revisions of "Steel Inquisitor"

The most notable feature is the large Steel spikes where their eyes should be. These spikes fill the eye socket and protrude out the back of the head several inches. Steel inquisitors, like the obligators from which they were created, are bald with a large number of tattoos spreading from their eye sockets across their head. These tattoos indicated many things including rank and what kind of [[Allomancer]] they were before recruitment. Steel inquisitors have several more Spikes on their body, most of which are not visible▼

To create an Inquisitor, metal spikes are inserted at various points in the subject's body by hammering the metal spike through the heart of a [[misting]] or [[Feruchemist]] into the new Inquisitor, this reduces the loss of power through the Hemalurgic process, due to the spike spending a minimal amount of time outside of a body. These spikes, now hemalurgicaly charged, tear into and forcibly splice information from the victim to the subject's [[spiritweb]]. This process moves vital organs, allowing the spikes to be inserted practically anywhere without fatally wounding the subject. This process is not painless for either person involved, as both violent changes to the spiritweb and having metal spikes driven into one's body causes pain. The [[Steel]] spikes inserted into eye sockets allow the Inquisitor to navigate via the blue Allomantic lines from the traces of metals in everything. The spikes create a chain in an inquisitor's body, and there is a central spike or Linchpin spike that acts as a Connector to the lower and upper spikes. If this spike is removed, the inquisitor dies.▼

Creating an Inquisitor bestows many of allomantic and some feruchemical abilities onto the subject, on top of their any of their own natural allomantic powers, meaning any abilities the subject had prior to the transformation are augmented by the spikes. As such, Mistborn and seekers were the preferred subjects, as their increased Seeking ability would allow them to pierce copper clouds.▼

== Weaknesses ==▼

Steel Inquisitors were very powerful and - with feruchemical healing - nearly invincible. Rumors in the skaa underground held that Inquisitors were immortal, that they could see into people's souls and that they were warriors with no equal.{{book ref|mb1|3}} However, removing spikes from an Inquisitor could effectively kill it, most notably the linchpin spike located between their shoulder blades. This was a weakness build into them by The Lord Ruler. Similarly, Inquisitors could not survive beheading this is because the chain of Spikes in a inquisitor would be broken. Removing one eye spike is not enough to kill most inquisitors. Most inquisitors need to rest frequently to charge their feruchmical powers. ▼

Another major weakness in Inquisitors came from the Hemalurgic spikes they bore. Though this was not a problem before Ruin was release. Any Spike in a person allows for influence to be more easily pushed on a person via the tears in their spirit web. These tears allow for people to control a Hemalugic construct using allomancy. This weakness is present in both kendra and koloss. This also allowed them to be controlled by [[Ruin]] the more spikes they had, the greater the weakness was. However the stronger a creature's will is the more it can resist that influence or even break free from it for a time. Because of their Hemalurgic origins, all Steel Inquisitors were able to hear the voice of [[Ruin]].▼

Inquisitors who had been made from [[Mistborn]] were notably more powerful, having their Allomantic abilities almost doubled. Some of the Inquisitors who obtained Feruchemical spikes also discovered out how to Compound, gaining more power from their [[metalmind]]s. This is not something the Lord Ruler taught the Inquisitors. Compounding was something they had to figured out themselves.▼

== Notable Steel Inquisitors ==▼