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[[File:Koloss.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Two koloss.]]
The '''koloss''' were a bestial race of creatures on [[Scadrial]], featured in the [[Mistborn trilogy]]. Koloss were created by the [[Lord Ruler]] through the use of [[Hemalurgy]].{{ref|b|mb3|c|37}}{{ref|b|mb3|c|40}} During the time of the Lord Ruler, koloss served as a powerful, fiercly loyal army to him, thanks in no small part to the fact that they could be controlled through the use of [[Allomancy]] by any powerful [[Mistborn]] or group of [[brass]] [[misting]]s. {{ref|b|mb2|c|54}}{{ref|b|mb3|c|3}}{{ref|b|mb3|e|21}}. After Harmony's Ascension, however, the koloss were transformed into a tribal race that could breed, which lived in the [[Roughs]]. {{ref|?|428|10|The Koloss who were in the cavern at the time survived, and were changed to become a race that breeds true, rather than Hemalurgic monsters.}}
When a fellow koloss dies, other koloss in the vicinity would attempt to collect and reuse the spikes from the dead one. This resulted in the koloss being able to reproduce in a manner of speaking, provided that they had someone to stick the spikes into. The koloss were periodically supplied with fresh spikes and skaa captives to produce more koloss, but after the death of the Lord Ruler, they learned how to reproduce on their own, via harvesting the spikes from their dead brethren and re-using them.{{ref|b|mb3|e|42}}
Because of this, after the Lord Ruler's control over the koloss ended, many of the koloss would attack nearby human inhabitants.
The koloss were physically very large and very powerful. A full sized koloss could grow to be as tall as twelve feet. A young koloss had as much skin as it would come to have in its later life. Because of this, the younger a koloss was, the fatter they looked due to having too much baggy skin covering themselves. The skin itself didn't hold terribly firmly to the koloss' body.{{ref|b|mb2|c|19}} When a koloss reached about twelve feet, their hearts could no longer sustain their bodies, and they would die shortly thereafter.
== Creation ==
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