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One of the main purposes of the Ministry was to witness a myriad of contracts and agreements, even something as simple as promise to come to a game of shelldry. {{book ref|mb1|23}}
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=== Cantons ===
The Cantons were the subsections of the Steel Ministry.
=== Canton of Orthodoxy ===
The bank of the Final Empire.
=== Canton of Resource ===
There are many philosophers in the Steel Ministry and most end up in the Canton of Resource, the best place for those with analytical minds. {{annotation ref|mb3|chapter=43}}
Tasked with trade, transport, and taxation.
=== [[Canton of Inquisition]] ===
Organized the [[Steel Inquisitor]]s and acted as law enforcement over the Allomantic community.
There was a long standing rivalry between the Canton of Orthodoxy and Inquisition, for the Canton of Inquisition believed that they should have dominance over the other Cantons. They are eventually given the dominance when they capture Vin and prove that she is the Lord Prelan's half-breed daughter. {{book ref|mb1|36}}▼
During his argument with Elend, Yomen mentions how the Canton of Inquisition had been formed sometime during the sixth century, and it was this Canton which suggested the Terris breeding programs to the [[Lord Ruler]] in order to keep that population under control. The Lord Ruler agreed to it provisionally, and the programs were then kept until the collapse of the Final Empire. However, it is also mentioned that the subjugation of the Terris people had started far before the Canton of Inquisition had come up with the idea of the breeding programs.{{book ref|mb3|44}}
=== Obligator Ranks ===
== History ==
=== Year 1022 ===
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=== Post-[[Catacendre]] ===
== Culture ==
The Steel MInistry was notorious for taking bribes. It functioned similar to being its own noble house, with contracts and agreements to gain wealth and leverage. Corruption was commonplace, during the Final Empire. [[wob ref|5498}} Rising through the ranks of the Ministry was very influenced by Allomantic abilities. Those with abilities, especially with metals judged to be valuable, rose quickly and were placed in positions of power. {{annotation reference|mb3|chapter=74}} [[Atium]] mistings were one of the most valuable. In order to search them out and recruit them, Inquisitors would put trace amounts of the godmetal into the nobility's drinks at balls periodically. They would then cause a disturbance while burning bronze to seek out those who began to burn the metals instinctively. When someone joined the Ministry who was not already a Misting, they would unknowingly be given a larger amount of atium and forced through a series of rituals designed to drain the recruit physically so his body would reactively burn the metal. {{wob ref|6119}} Both men and women could be part of the Steel Ministry and some women even became Inquisitors. {wob ref|5533}}
Noblemen would address Inquisitors, and presumably obligators, as "Your Grace". {wob ref|7764}}
There was a long standing rivalry between the various Cantons for control of the Ministry.
To find
== Doctrine ==
Daily prayer was a facet of the religion. {{annotation ref|mb3|chapter=34}} There is a ritual that involves an altar made of gold. It is centered in a room with four candelabra at the corners. Near the altar, [[Alendi's journal]], written in Khlenni, was kept. Near the doorway, a bowl of small, triangular knives was kept on a pillar to be used in the ritual. {{book ref|mb1|14}} The knives were occasionally used for the worshipper to slice their own body. {{annotation ref|mb3|chapter=34}} Marsh later uses these triangle knives as a weapon of choice.
The Ministry's position on sexuality was dependent on how much they were paid. {{wob ref|8203}}
Skaa and nobles alike were required to fulfil their roles in the Empire and obey the Lord Ruler, but neither devotion nor faith was requested. Weddings were characterized only by the presence of an obligator to witness the fact. Sometimes additional ceremony would be added, but there wasn't a standard; the obligator's presence was the only requirement. {{annotation reference|mb2|chapter=48}}
== Obligators ==
There were also assassins in the Steel Ministry. {{book ref|mb1|23}} Any assassination in the Empire would have required the Ministry's approval from bribery. {{wob ref|5498}}
▲:;Obligator
▲:;Prelan
▲:;High Prelan
▲:;[[Steel Inquisitor]]: Outside the regular chain of command, but technically ranked lower than the Lord Prelan {{book ref|mb1|26}}
▲:;Lord Prelan
=== Known Obligators ===
*High Prelan [[Arriev]]: Canton of Finance
*[[Noorden]]
*Prelan [[Aradel Yomen]]: Canton of Resource {{book ref|mb2|27}}{{annotation ref|mb3|chapter=43}}
*[[Marsh]]
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