Timewaster's Guide Archive

I don't know whether this has been mentioned or not, or whether this is too much of a spoiler or not, but...

EUOL mentioned in some of his earlier posts something about Inquisitors, and Mare.
He said, "There's more going on here, of course.  If I ever write the Kelsier short story that talks about him discovering the Eleventh Metal, I will get into why the Inquisitors weren't given Mare as they wanted.  The Lord Ruler specifically chose to send her to the Pits rather than handing her over to the Inquisitors.  (Note: She wouldn't have ended up on a hook.  Inquisitors had other...uses for skaa Mistings they captured.  See book three.)
In fact, this already has too many spoilers.  Ask me more after Mistborn 3 is out."


So I suspect that Inquisitors take skaa mistings, and sacrifice them to endow Inquisitors with their powers. Of course, you'd need one misting of each metal to be sacrificed for each power, so that requires multiple bodies. It also explains why they choose someone who already is a misting to become an Inquisitor - it means one less illegal misting to hunt down and sacrifice.

Of course, I don't know how atium mistings could be found... But still; I think its pretty obvious from EUOL's slip-up there that you need mistings to be sacrificed in order for Inquisitors to get their abilities. Vin's sister was also probably a misting, I'm thinking, also.

I always wanted the Hemalurgy magic system to be something other than simply an extension of Allomancy though. I'm crossing my fingers and hoping that its a magic system in its own right, like Feruchemy. Guess we'll have to wait till MS3.