Difference between revisions of "Koloss"

The '''koloss''' are a bestial race of creatures on [[Scadrial]], created by the [[Lord Ruler]] through the use of [[Hemalurgy]].{{book ref|mb3|37}}{{book ref|mb3|40}} During the time of the [[Lord Ruler]], koloss serve as a powerful, fiercely loyal army to him, thanks in no small part to the fact that they can be controlled through the use of [[Allomancy]] by any powerful [[Allomancy|Mistborn]] or group of [[brass]] and/or [[zinc]] [[misting]]s.{{book ref|mb2|54}}{{book ref|mb3|3}}{{epigraph ref|mb3|21}}

 

The koloss are physically very large and very powerful. Koloss have blue skin and red eyes.{{book ref|mb2|19}} A full-sized koloss could grow to be as tall as twelve feet. Koloss have a fixed amount of skin that does not change over their lifetime. Because of this, the younger a koloss is, the fatter it appears, due to having so much baggy skin covering itself. The skin itself doesn't hold terribly well to the koloss' body.{{book ref|mb2|19}} As the koloss grow taller, their skin tears and fits tightly to them. An ancient koloss will have little to no skin at all, being covered instead in leather wrappings.{{book ref|eltania}} A koloss continuously grows until its death. When it reaches about twelve feet, its heart can no longer sustain its body, and it dies shortly thereafter.