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== Powers ==
Koloss have four [[Hemalurgy|Hemalurgically]] charged [[iron#Hemalurgic Use|iron]] spikes, which grant them increased strength. This allows them to wield their enormous blades, which are about the same size they are. The onlyblades realare powersblunt inand anot well made; koloss' arsenalseem areto superhumanrely on their brute strength andto increasedsmash sizethe blades into opponents, rather than any true technique. HoweverThe Hemalurgic spikes, thishowever, comescome atwith a price. KolossIn inaddition theto [[Finaltwisting Empire]]their arebodies, nowherethe nearspikes asalso intelligentdiminish asa they were askoloss' humansintelligence. However, they still retain the faint ability to reason, and the ability to communicate, and the re-use of spikes from dead koloss to create more resulted in koloss that retained more of their former humanity.{{epigraph ref|mb3|42}}
 
Allomancers who are transformed into koloss will retain their Allomantic abilities, though they may not necessarily retain the knowledge to use those abilities.{{wob ref|10117}}
Because of their diminished intelligence, the Final Empire-era koloss live in barbaric tribes. Usually, social standing is determined by age, because as the koloss age, they get larger and more powerful.
 
Koloss are said to have two emotional states: boredom and rage. Because of this, their day to day lives are filled with milling about and fighting. When there is nothing else to fight near them, the koloss turn to in-fighting. Their [[koloss blades|blades]] arecan be distributedused as a means of population control, as well as weaponry. If a koloss doesn't have a sword it feels is of adequate size, it will have to kill another koloss and take its sword. If there are extra swords, the koloss will expect their handlers to make more koloss to take up those swords, and if there are not enough swords, the koloss will kill each other for them until there are.
 
Most of the killing within a tribe is done solely on a whim, usually to get something the other koloss owns, or because some random glance or act has enraged one of the koloss.{{book ref|mb2|19}}
 
== Notable Koloss ==
{{for|:Category:Koloss|a complete list of Koloss|Category:Koloss}}
* [[Elizandra Dramali]]
* [[Granite Joe]]
* [[Human]]
* [[JanarleTarson]]
*[[Tarson]]
 
== See Also ==
*[[Koloss blades]]
 
== Notes ==