Skaa Meal Chip

The skaa meal chip begins as a simple wooden token in The Final Empire, representing the meager sustenance provided to enslaved skaa workers under the Lord Ruler's regime. As the series progresses, these chips become symbols of both oppression and resistance, with their distribution and use reflecting the shifting power dynamics between skaa and nobility. By later books, the meal chip evolves from a tool of control into a relic of the old order, its significance transformed by the Catacendre and the establishment of a new society.