Difference between revisions of "Steel Ministry"

There were also assassins in the Steel Ministry.{{book ref|mb1|23}} Any "legal" assassination in the Empire would have required the Ministry's approval through bribery.{{wob ref|5498}} The Ministry has its own assassins who kill any who are outspoken or too successful. {{book ref|mb1|23}}

There is a Canton of Cartography in Elendel.{{map ref|Elendel}} There is also a road named Canton Avenue in one of Allomancer [[Jak]]'s stories, likely based on a real street in Elendel.{{file ref|House_Record_broadsheetHouse Record broadsheet.jpg|''The House Record'' broadsheet}} "Cantonesque" architecture is described as having long flights of steps and stained-glass windows.{{book ref|bom|11}}

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.{{wob ref|8038}} [[Atium]] mistingsMistings 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 Snap and 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}}

Daily prayer was a facet of the religion.{{wob ref|7695}} 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 worshipperworshiper to slice their own body.{{wob ref|7695}} Marsh later uses these triangle knives as a weapon of choice. The Ministry teaches the basic doctrine that the nobility has prestige and allomancyAllomancy 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 descendentsdescendants of the only men who supported the Lord Ruler before his Ascension.{{book ref|mb1|3}}{{book ref|mb1|7}} The Lord Ruler is revered as the creator and savior of the world, the Sliver of Infinity.{{book ref|mb1|8}} His status in the religion is as a piece of God, not omnipresent or omniscient. He's a physical, independent section of a consciousness.{{book ref|mb1|10}} Before his Ascension, he was only a mortal man.{{book ref|mb1|17}} He is taught to have saved the people from the Deepness and punished their lack of faith with the ash and mists.{{book ref|mb1|6}}

Skaa and nobles alike were required to fulfilfulfill their roles in the Empire and obey the Lord Ruler, but neither devotion nor faith was requested. Skaa aren't taught much of the Ministry's doctrine.{{book ref|mb1|7}} Weddings were characterized only by the presence of an obligator to witness the fact. Sometimes additional ceremonies would be added, but there wasn't a standard; the obligator's presence was the only requirement.{{wob ref|5422}} Worship of any other god was forbidden. {{book ref|mb1|9}}

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