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Vin [[Brass|Soothes]] the obligator Prelan Laird so he won't dismiss Camon's pleas.

MillevMilev's crew leaves for a while so Kelsier can test Vin for being a [[Allomancy#Mistborn|Mistborn]].

Vin subconsciously burns [[pewter]] after Camon hits her with a thrown stool. The likelihood of an allomantic halfbreed is mentioned - about one misting in 10,000.

Kelsier and Dockson had left for a while, letting the crew return for a bit. The crew talks about what happened, speculating on the job. At a certain time, the crew leaves and the others arrive. Kelsier pitches his plan regarding the [[skaa rebellion]]. Kelsier's crew agrees, (except for Clubs, who walks out). Kelsier reveals to the others that Vin is a [[Allomancy#Mistborn|Mistborn]], then tells them about and shows them the [[Eleventh Metal]].

Vin and Kelsier go over the [[Luthadel]] walls, walking out into the night wilderness. Vin notices something following them, and Kelsier shows her that it was a [[mistwraith]]. Kelsier takes her to the main road where they meedmeet up with Sazed, waiting for them with a carriage. He takes them to [[Fellise]]. On the way, Kelsier offers Vin the three thousand boxings and to let her leave the crew if she doesn't believe that he's being honest with her. She takes the boxings but remains on the crew because she wants to see how things turn out. They arrive at Lord Renoux’s estate, and Kelsier and Renoux talk in private briefly. Vin and Sazed talk briefly, with Sazed offering to tell Vin about some of the religions of the past, without using those words. Renoux suggests that Vin can play the part of a daughter of a favored cousinscousin to Renoux, and that he is introducing her to the other noble houses as a ploy to strengthen House Renoux.

A room that Vin stumbled into during her escape from Kredik Shaw contained a golden altar and "other religious paraphernalia"--likely remnants of the original [[Terris]] religion. Also, [[Talk:Mistborn:_The_Final_Empire/Summary#Chapter_14_-_Inquisitor_Sight|Inquisitor Sight]].

I have met maymany other [[Terris]] philosophers since that day. They are, every one, men of great wisdom and ponderous sagaciousness. Men with an almost palpable importance.<br><br>

The crew returns to Clubs’ shop and plan their next moves. Sazed delivers a message from Marsh, telling Kelsier where the two can meet, in the [[Luthadel|Twists]]. Kelsier and Vin head out to observe the meeting point hours before the meeting, and as they wait they talk about the [[Eleventh Metal]]. He also explains [[Feruchemy]], and gives Vin some [[gold]] to burn. (Her first experience with it.) At the meeting, Marsh describes the Soothing stations in Luthadel. Marsh also says that Inquisitors can die of old age.

Vin reads the last of Sazed’s translations of [[Alendi]]’s logbook and is disappointed that there isn’t any more. Sazed also explains [[feruchemy]] to Vin in more detail, and she tries burning one of his [[metalmind|pewterminds]]. Later, Kelsier joins the majority of the crew in Renoux’s estate, going over a very detailed map provided by [[Marsh]]. While studing the map, they discover that [[Theron]]’s crew was recently hit by the [[Steel Ministry|Ministry]], and Vin thinks they they’re still on her tail. After the meeting, later at night, Kelsier is unable to sleep and speaks a bit with Sazed about some of the religions in his copperminds.

Vin and Sazed speak for a time, about [[Kelsier]], about the religion growing around him and his deeds, and he tells her that the crew is likely splitting up, each person going his own way. Sazed, too, will leave, traveling to [[Terris]] to spread among the [[KeepersKeeper]]s the knowledge he has learned. They then observe a group of skaa, led by one man calling others out into the mists. The man makes a claim to the crowd that Kelsier appeared to him that very night, just a few hours after his death. The crew finally realizes what Kelsier’s plan was all along. At Vin’s request, Dockson leads her and the crew to the warehouse where Kelsier held his informant meetings. Inside is a massive stockpile of weapons - and OreSeur, wearing Kelsier’s bones. OreSeur explains Kelsier’s plans, his need of the crew, and shows them a document Kelsier left for them. Before he leaves, OreSeur gives Vin a bag containing a smaller bag of [[atium]] beads, a note, and the [[Eleventh Metal]] - and the picture of a flower that [[Mare]] held so dear. Clubs leaves to bring the group of skaa from earlier to the warehouse, and Dockson starts dispensing arms and armor. Vin decides that she needs to find out what’s inside the guarded chamber in the [[Kredik Shaw|palace]], and starts swallowing various metals - including the Eleventh.

Vin enters [[Kredik Shaw]], convincing the four guards to abandon their post and join the rebels. Upon reaching the building-within-a-building, she was blocked by two Inquisitors. Using cleverness and trickery, Vin manages to incapacitate one of the Inquisitors - Kar - and blind the other, stabbing him in the thigh with a thrown glass dagger while he is blinded with a cloud of pewter dust. Entering her target building, she sees it decorated inside with rugs, skins, and furs, and a lit hearth at the center. She also eventually sees an old, bald man, apparently in his seventies, sitting by the fire. As she tries to escape, the formerly blinded Inquisitor captures her, and asks the Lord Ruler to let her live - so he can use her against the [[Canton of Orthodoxy]]. While she has the chance, Vin burns the [[Eleventh Metal]], but is confused by what she sees. The Inquisitor then knocks her unconscious. Elend meets up with his father, who informs the younger Venture that they are leaving [[Luthadel]] due to the skaa rebellion. Elend tells his father that he’s staying. Straff agrees, hoping that Elend will be killed, and after Straff leaves, Elend orders his soldiers to [[Keep Lekal]], to join forces with them in mutual defense against the skaa. Elend then takes his five best soldiers as an honor guard and goes to turn himself in to the skaa leadership. When Vin awakes, she is forced to swallow and burn [[aluminum]] by an Inquisitor. While trapped in her cell, Vin notices the similarity between the Eleventh Metal and [[gold]]. Kar then comes with another Inquisitor (Marsh) to take her from her cell to the Lord Ruler’s throne room, which is surrounded by one giant, circular stained glass window depicting the [[mists]]. Tevidian argues that they need to pay attention to the rebellion, but the Lord Ruler dismisses it as inconsequential. Kar then argues for the control of the [[Steel Ministry]] to be taken away from the Canton of Orthodoxy - the Obligators - and turned over to the [[Canton of Inquisition]] - the Steel Inquisitors. Vin eventually admits that Tevidian is her father, and the Lord Ruler gives him over to the Inquisitors, who mercilessly murder him with their obsidian knives. Kar, Marsh, and the Inquisitor holding Vin do not take part in the murder.

Goradel informs Dockson that Vin has been captured, and that he and his men likely cannot rescue her. Ham enters and informs Dockson that [[Keep Elariel]] has fallen, but [[Keep Lekal]] is holding. Skaa soldiers then bring in Elend, bound and with a sack over his head. After a brief discussion, wherein Elend tries to convince Dockson to cease attacking the nobles, Elend is informed that Valette - Vin - has been captured by [[the Lord Ruler]]. Kar violently returns Vin to her cell, and a bruised, beaten, and naked Sazed is thrown into the adjoining cell. After Kar leaves, Sazed, using a swallowed [[pewtermind]], makes himself stronger to break his bindings and free himself and Vin. His minute amount of strength exhausted, Vin and Sazed can’t fight their way out easily. Using some torturer’s knives, Vin attempts to fight off some soldiers. She takes out two before she is partially incapacitated. Elend then arrives with six guards, his five plus Goradel, and they attempt to fight off the soldiers. Elend’s team is outnumbered, but Vin sees her possessions and finds a vial of metals. Recharged allomantically, Vin easily dispatches the [[Steel Ministry|Ministry]] soldiers. Vin then asks Sazed to take Elend to safety, while she goes to kill the Lord Ruler.

Sazed speculates with Marsh and Vin on [[Rashek]]'s [[compounding]] abilities - without using that term - and the origins of [[Allomancy]]. When Sazed comments that he can truthfully record that the Lord Ruler was killed by one of the skaa he repressed, Vin hopes that he won't put too much detail in; she still doesn't want attention drawn to her. Marsh then discusses his beginnings as an [[Inquisitor]], describing the process of creating one as "messy". They discuss the [[kandra]], asand Sazed tells Vin that Kelsier transferred [[OreSeur]]'s [[contract]] to her. As Vin reflects on the Lord Ruler's final words, the group discusses the [[Deepness]]. Sazed then talks about Elend's speech after the death of the Lord Ruler.<br><br>