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|children=[[Vin]], [[Vin's sister]]
|relatives=[[Salmen Tekiel]], [[Kale Tekiel]]
|died={{date|1022|fe}}, killed by [[
|profession={{tag+|lord prelan}}
|ethnicity=Noble
The cantons of the Steel Ministry often had internal political struggles,{{wob ref|2464}} and the [[Canton of Inquisition]] sought organizational dominance over the rest of the Ministry for centuries.{{book ref|mb1|36}} The Lord Ruler grew weary of the Inquisitors' pleas, as he said that they had many other duties and would be wasted doing administration. Still, the Inquisitors persisted, researching weaknesses in the obligator power structure. [[Bendal]] swore that Tevidian had fathered a half-breed child, and hunted Vin's half-brother, [[Reen]], to get him to admit it. Reen died promising Vin had starved to death long ago, but Bendal remained convinced one was out there.{{book ref|mb1|37}}
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Tevidian protested, but the Lord Ruler questioned him, and the lord prelan eventually admitted that Vin's mother had, in fact, borne children. With that confession, the Lord Ruler let the Inquisitors kill Tevidian in his own throne room. The other obligators in the room backed away in horror as the Inquisitors, exulting in the brutality, plunged their daggers into Tevidian repeatedly.{{book ref|mb1|36}} After Tevidian's death, the Canton of Inquisition, with Kar at its head, was given authority over the Steel Ministry.
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