It's sort of haphazard, GreenMonsta. There isn't a real option to move a conversation to a different (I really wish there was), you just need to do a lot of quoting.
There's a lot for me to comment on this thread. I think I'll just comment on this one, though:
Do we know of any reason the Inquisitors would especially want Marsh in their ranks? That always seemed kind of rushed to me, they didn't really do a thorough backround check or anything like that just grabbed him, inadvertently allowing him to infiltrate them. Now we see that even his full induction was rushed; they didn't even bother to bring him back to Kredik Shaw, just used what was there.
They say he was a good actor and good at what he did. He could simply have been such an amazing prospect they didn't care about his background or care to wait for him.
Or maybe it was another of Ruin's plots...
I do not believe Marsh's induction into the Inquisitors was a devious plot by Ruin. In fact, I am steadfastly convinced Ruin did not have any ability to influence the world while the Lord Ruler was alive. The Lord Ruler said "You don't know what I do for mankind". I take this to mean he is keeping Ruin at bay, so that the Deepness would not return. From what I've seen, there is no evidence in MB1 that suggests Ruin
did have any power for devious plotting. The way I see it, whatever it is the Lord Ruler was doing was keeping a very good hold on Ruin, because obviously, once the hold was gone, we began to see the evidence for Ruin's existence via the killing mists and voices.
(Side note: We also don't see any mist spirits in MB1. The Lord Ruler could have a similar hold on Preservation to prevent the manifestation of such a mist spirit.)
Besides, the Lord Ruler, as evil as he was, is extremely intelligent. I seem to remember that in an annotation Brandon said "The Lord Ruler knew lots of things that most people didn't know." or something along those lines. He has a significant amount of knowledge of Hemalurgy to create the Inquisitors, and has an incredible grasp of Allomantic and Feruchemical theory in order to make himself so powerful. The Lord Ruler, both knowing about Hemalurgy
and of Ruin's existence (because he is actively holding Ruin at bay. He wouldn't be able to do this if he didn't know what it was), would not create an army of super-Mistborn like the Steel Inquisitors if he knew that Ruin could so easily get a hold on them. I think the logical explanation is either: 1. He was not aware of Ruin's power to influence metals, merely that it was killing mists or 2. The Lord Ruler
was aware of that ability of Ruin, but, he never anticipated on actually dying. He wouldn't have anything to fear from creating the Inquisitors which could potentially be controlled by Ruin because the Lord Ruler was keeping Ruin at bay. Problem solved, for him.
The problems began to arise when he died. The thing that the Lord Ruler was doing to keep Ruin from manipulating the world (note that what the Lord Ruler was doing is separate from Ruin being imprisoned at the Well of Ascension. This is totally something we have no knowledge about) is gone, so Ruin came back to its senses. It began to exert its will onto the tools that had been created right in front of him: the Steel Inquisitors and Zane.
Now that I think about it, Ruin must have some way to sense what people are thinking. He couldn't manipulate them, but merely be aware of them. Follow my reasoning: all throughout MB2, Ruin was cultivating events to make Vin begin to
think she was the Hero of Ages in order to go to the Well and free Ruin. The basis for Vin's thought process on the matter, though, is that she and the Lord Ruler can do things normal Allomancers can't do (like pierce copperclouds). I would think Ruin would need to sense this perception in Vin's mind. From there, Ruin knew he had a pawn or tool that was easy for him to utilize, just like the Inquisitors and the Terris Prophecies.
The most important thing I am saying overall is that Ruin did not do scheming in the Lord Ruler's time. It was only after the Lord Ruler's hold on Ruin ended that its plan began to set in motion. We cannot even be sure if Ruin was aware of what was happening in the world while the Lord Ruler was in power. Ruin could have just have come out of the equivalent of a deep abyss and see all of the pawns in front of him and say to itself, "It's time to set my plan into motion."
...That should really have gone in the Ruin and Preservation thread.