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Steel Inquisitors

Also known as Inquisitors

creature

Tall, imposing figures with metal spikes driven through their eyes, powerful Allomancers who serve the Lord Ruler

Category: creature
First appears: Book 1 · Ch. 6
Books: 3

Steel Inquisitors begin in The Final Empire as the Lord Ruler's terrifying enforcers—tall, spike-eyed Allomancers who hunt skaa rebels and maintain order through fear. By The Well of Ascension, their nature is revealed as Hemalurgic constructs: robed priests whose eye-spikes and skull-spikes grant stolen Mistborn powers, transforming them from mere servants into living weapons of Ruin's influence. Their evolution exposes the deeper Hemalurgic mechanics that bind them to the malevolent Shard, setting the stage for their role as both terrifying antagonists and tragic victims of the metallic arts.

Evolution

BOOK 1Mistborn: The Final Empire
Tall, imposing figures with metal spikes driven through their eyes, powerful Allomancers who serve the Lord Ruler
BOOK 2The Well of Ascension
Hemalurgic creatures: robed priests with massive metal spikes hammered point-first through eyes and out back of skull, granting Mistborn powers