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The '''Steel Inquisitors''' were a type of [[Hemalurgic]] construct on [[Scadrial]] created from humans. Steel inquisitorsInquisitors were created and controlled by the [[Lord Ruler]] as the policing force for his ministries. The Steel inquisitorsInquisitors made up the Canton of Inquisition whose job it was to control the use and spread of [[Allomancy]].

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 inquisitorsInquisitors, 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. The Lord Ruler's steel inquisitorsInquisitors have eleven spikes in all--two through the eye sockets, one in the middle of the spine on the back, and eight--one for each known allomanticAllomantic power--in the torso.

; Gallery of steel inquisitorInquisitor appearances

File: Marsh Inquisitor portrait.png| A side view of an inquisitorInquisitor's head by [[User: Luaru]]

File: Steel Inquisitor.jpg | An inquisitorInquisitor stood on top of [[Kredik Shaw]], drawn by [[Ben McSweeney]] as concept art

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 hemalurgicallyHemalurgically charged, tear into and forcibly splice information from the victim to the subject's [[spiritwebSpiritweb]]. This process moves vital organs, allowing the spikes to be inserted practically anywhere without fatally wounding the subject.{{book ref|mb3|41}} This process is not painless for either person involved, as both violent changes to the spiritwebSpiritweb 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 allomanticAllomantic lines from the traces of metals in everything. The spikes create a chain in an inquisitorInquisitor'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 inquisitorInquisitor dies.

Creating an Inquisitor bestows many of allomanticAllomantic and some feruchemicalFeruchemical abilities ontoto the subject, on top of their own natural allomanticAllomantic powers, meaning any abilities the subject had prior to the transformation are augmented by the spikes. As such, Mistborn and seekersSeekers were the preferred subjects, as their increased Seeking ability would allow them to pierce [[coppercloud]]s.{{book ref|mb3|37}}{{book ref|mb3|45}}

During the days after the [[Collapse]], [[Ruin]] gave his Inquisitors several advantages which the [[Lord Ruler]] wouldhad never allowallowed them, lest they become too strong. This included extra spikes to give them additional [[Feruchemy|feruchemicalFeruchemical]] powers, as well as a metal plate which would cover the hemalurgic linchpin spike between their shoulder blades.{{book ref|mb3|3}}{{book ref|mb3|6}}

Another major weakness in Inquisitors came from the Hemalurgic spikes they bore, though this was not a problem before Ruin was released. Any spike in a person allows for influence to be more easily pushed on a person via the tears in their spirit webSpiritweb. These tears allow for people to control a Hemalurgic construct using Allomancy. This weakness is also present in both [[kandra]] 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]].

All inquisitorsInquisitors showexhibit a nigh-indifferencehigh tolerance to pain and most forms of physical damage presumably because they're in worse pain because of their spikes. Depending on which hemalurgicHemalurgic spikes the Inquisitor had, their abilities could vary immensely. Not all Inquisitors had an atium spike, nor could all of them tap health. During the time of Kelsier, however, most had those spikes.

* Steel Spikesspikes: Inquisitors lacked eyes, so they saw via the blue lines from burning iron or steel enhanced by the use of steel spikes

* Bronze spikes: Allows inquisitorsInquisitors to pierce copperclouds. [[Allomancer#Mistborn|Mistborn]] and Bronze [[Misting]]s like [[Marsh]] are usually chosen to allow for this to be easily attained through minimal additional spikes

By revealing that [[Vin]] was the daughter of the Lord Prelan Tevidian, shortly before the death of the Lord Ruler, the Canton of Inquisition gained dominance over the other Cantons.{{book ref|mb1|36}}

In [[The Well of Ascension]], Sazed and Marsh visitvisited a place called the '[[Conventicle of Seran.']], It iswas a sort of temple for the Inquisitors, and as far as we know,. Sazed is the only non-Inquisitor to ever enter and leave alive. While there, Sazed discovers a message inscribed in a sheet of metal. The epigraphs forin the chapters inThe Well of Ascension are taken from this message.

During his argument with [[Elend]], Yomen mentions how the Canton of Inquisition had been formed sometime during the sixth century, and it was this cantonCanton 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}}

[[Marsh]] is the only known surviving Inquisitor.