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{{character
|siblings=[[Beldre]]
|aliases=The Citizen
|abilities={{tag+|Hemalurgist}} <small>(formerly)</small>
|books=[[Mistborn trilogy]]▼
|ethnicity=Skaa
|birthplace=Urteau
|residence=Urteau
|world=Scadrial
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
}}
'''Quellion''' is a
Also known as the '''Citizen''', Quellion
== Attributes and Abilities ==
Quellion has a [[bronze]] [[Hemalurgy|Hemalurgic]] spike in his upper arm until Spook removes it.{{book ref|mb3|58}}{{book ref|mb3|70}} Via this piercing, [[Ruin]] appears to Quellion in the image of [[Kelsier]]. Although not originally an [[Allomancer]], the spike gave him the powers of a [[Bronze|Seeker]], which then allowed him to easily find the Allomancers in the population of [[Urteau]] and force them into working for him.{{book ref|mb3|70}}
== History ==
Both Quellion and his sister [[Beldre]] were half-skaa. This is due to the fact that their noble father had married a noble woman who was barren. As she could not conceive children of her own she instead agreed that Quellion's father could father his children with a [[skaa]] maidservant. This was discovered by [[Obligator]]s around the same time that the [[Lord Ruler]] was killed by [[Vin]] and due to the chaos surrounding the event, the two half-skaa managed to slip away from their execution.{{book ref|mb3|53}}
While holding power in [[Urteau]], he would take the families of Allomancers as hostages and keep them as leverage, thus forcing them to work for him as his soldiers by threatening their families, although this was kept highly confidential. He would organise his public executions to take place in noble houses which had secret escape routes, so that the chosen Allomancers could escape the fire and join his ranks.{{book ref|mb3|41}}
He had genealogists catalog everyone's ancestry. Those who have pure [[skaa]] blood five generations back are allowed to serve in his government, while others were barred from office. While he had his scribes check the lineage of everyone five generations back, he only killed those who had noble blood two generations back or later, which was leading to a divide in the skaa population.{{book ref|mb3|26}}
He also kept the peace by allowing his people the freedom to spend their nights drinking fine wine, which would normally have cost a small fortune in gold, for the price of a fraction of a copper clip, thus keeping the populace drunk and content.{{book ref|mb3|26}}
Due to the economic collapse surrounding his ascent to power, Quellion had a new coin minted, to be worth only a fraction of a clip and be called a "pek".{{book ref|mb3|26}}
At first he made it a law that as all men are equal they must all wear the same drab grey clothing. This was later changed so that government officials must wear red, as it will make them easily recognized and those in need will be able to quickly find them. As an official himself he thus also wore regular skaa work clothing which has been dyed red.{{book ref|mb3|16}}
Later on he decided to approve blue solely for himself to wear, and wore a costume which is dyed a deep blue, with the rest of his officials still wearing bright red.{{book ref|mb3|41}}
== Relationships ==
His sister, [[Beldre]], is a [[Coinshot]].{{book ref|mb3|58}}
== Notes ==
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