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Inquisitor Eye Spikes

item

Inquisitor Eye Spikes appears in Mistborn.

Category: item
First appears: Book 2 · Ch. 7
Books: 2

Inquisitor Eye Spikes first appear as a terrifying, unexplained feature of the Steel Inquisitors in The Well of Ascension, their purpose and power left deliberately obscure. By The Hero of Ages, their true nature is revealed as Hemalurgic constructs—steel spikes driven through the eye sockets that grant the wearer both Ruin’s direct control and an enhanced Allomantic sight that perceives metal lines and color. The spikes become the physical embodiment of Ruin’s influence, turning the Inquisitors into living puppets whose very perception is warped by the dark god’s will.

Evolution

BOOK 2The Well of Ascension
BOOK 3The Hero of Ages
Pair of large steel spikes hammered point-first through eye sockets, one deeper into crushed socket, enabling supernatural vision and Ruin control; Hemalurgic spikes (steel/obsidian/bronze) piercing Inquisitor bodies granting stolen Allomantic/Feruchemical powers, more spikes enhance abilities; spikes through eye sockets granting Allomantic vision of metal lines, color discernment; variable additional spikes for Feruchemical powers.