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i still don't agree that you need to sacrifice a mistborn to get an inquisitor, but it would be easier to make mistborn if the Inqs have a good supply of the metal that made Elend a mistborn.

Ah ! I had some nice catching to do ! Fun ! But this time, I cannot add significantly to this thread. Only this quote :

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The Inquisitor paused, and she was rewarded by what seemed to be a look of confusion on its twisted face. Then a hundred shadow images shot from his body.

Lord Ruler ! Vin thought. He had atium too.

So, Inquisitors can "use" atium and it seems available upon simple request. Somehow, I just can't imagine an Inquisitor saying to himself  "I will get my atium dose just in case I meet a silly mistborn that will want to fight me today"... Because, really, does atium have any other influence on an Inquisitor other than give him allomantic powers ? And atium being so rare to start with, would Mistborns (or a potential atium misting) really risk to fight an Inquisitor ? I doubt that very much.

yes, i don't quite understand the theory that they always swallow atium in the morning. OK, the Lord Ruler has about ten times as much as anyone else. If we assume he gave it all to the Inquisitors and is not using it to make malatium or simply hoarding it, there still isnt enough for them to have a dose every single day.

im sorry but i have trouble feeling sorry for a dictator/mass murderer. He kinda sums up his feelings for the skaa in this statement

how many more of you must i kill?

I guess what this comes down to is, do the ends justify the means? Is it alright for someone to subjugate and enslave an entire race as long as he also is supposedly protecting the world? Is it ok to stick huge metal spikes in someone and using unspeakable blood sacrifices tear them from all they have ever known? Is it fine to cull your entire race by carefully controlling their breeding and killing any who may be a threat to your power?

It seems to me that Qarlin does raise an interesting point, though; the deserts. Where the deserts there before the Ascension of the Lord Ruler? Also, are the Ashmounts a local phenomenon or spread worldwide?
also, im just going to ignore the above post because i dont have my copy of the book  i'll just let somebody else puzzle that one through 

well all the people seem to have very short life-spans....Vin is getting married at, what, 16? and no one seems to think that is strange...

yeah, i think thats exactly what Sanderson was saying, Kelsier got his inspiration for the final part of his plan from other religions. I remember him asking Sazed something along the lines of "what made this religion strong? how did they hold on?" and Sazed explains how the leaders had been martyred.

I guess what I am saying is that, yes, it is scientifically possible for it to be both red naturally and red through the fog, but do you really think an author is going to provide 2 different reasons for the same effect in his book?
Although your theory that the ash is protecting the planet from burning up is pretty good, would explain the desert.

I would just say, add in more about Pahn Kahl. When i first read about the "Bluefingers is from Pahn Kahl, i kinda ignored it and assumed it was just part of an author's worldbuilding.