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The Steel Ministry developed out of the bureaucratic mercantile system of the [[Hallant]] people. They were a people focused on systems of measurements.{{epigraph ref|mb3|27}} The Lord Ruler used the Ministry in many ways, including discovering new Allomantic metals and their uses as well as searching for [[Terris]] bloodlines that bred pure.{{book ref|mb3|5}} They banned political and historical literature that contested or expressed dissidence to the Lord Ruler's reign.{{book ref|mbmb2|5}} They stocked the [[storage cache]]s beneath various Ministry buildings. The obligators were also the Lord Ruler's spy network throughout his Empire.{{book ref|mb2|part=ars}}

In the year 1022, the Ministry was presided over by Lord Prelan [[Tevidian]]. The Canton of Orthodoxy was thethen currentlythe leadingpresiding Canton, but after members of the Canton of Inquisition capturecaptured [[Vin]] and proveproved that she iswas the Lord Prelan's half-breed daughter,. theyThe gainedLord Ruler restructured the Ministry by giving control of the Ministry to the Canton of Inquisition.{{book ref|mb1|36}}