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Brandon Sanderson
Chapter Forty
The Creation of New Inquisitors
It was very convenient for the system I built into Hemalurgy that the Inquisitors were designed and commanded to hunt down skaa Mistings. There were always enough of those that they could create new Inquisitors to replace the ones who eventually died of old age.
The Inquisitors were always so determined to catch the skaa. So passionate. With good reason, for that was the only means by which their race—and Inquisitors are a separate race, just like the koloss and the kandra—could perpetuate itself.
Chaos
(paraphrased)
Does being female alter the spiritual overlays on a person, so that a Hemalurgically imbued spike would need to be placed differently than in a male body?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
No. In fact, there are female inquisitors in the huge fight when Vin goes blasting through them, but he felt like bringing that out would have been distracting.
Lhyonnaes
(paraphrased)
Okay, next question. The Hemalurgic bind points for the right and left eyes - are they the same?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
In terms of...?
Lhyonnaes
(paraphrased)
Like, the Inquisitor spikes, is it the exact same process for either eye? Is it interchangeable?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
They're slightly different.
Lhyonnaes
(paraphrased)
And on bind points... are these something that we could figure out ourselves one day, through analysis and guessing? Or is it something we'll just have to wait and see?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
They're... it would be a lot of trial and error, but it's... possible? And you need Intent, so... it would be a lot of trial and error. It wouldn't be easy. Probably not.
Melhay
In Mistborn #3 Hero of Ages: It isn't mentioned where all the Steel Inquisitors, Kandra, and Koloss went in the end. Do you feel that they were removed from the world and Sazed took all the lost souls to his better place?
Brandon Sanderson
Marsh survived. (He'll show up in the Mistborn sequel series.) The Kandra were restored, and have taken a vow to live only in animal bodies. There will never be any more of them, but they are functionally immortal. So you'll see them again. The Koloss who were in the cavern at the time survived, and were changed to become a race that breeds true, rather than Hemalurgic monsters. More below.
zas678
Why on earth does Marsh have a Feruchemical atium spike? You've said that Ironeyes is in fact Marsh. Did Ruin spike someone for him? Or did Sazed grant him the power?
Brandon Sanderson
Dead Inquisitors Vin killed. Some were granted the spike for reasons I haven't spoken of yet.
Questioner
In Mistborn 3, when Ruin is controlling Inquisitors. Before, they said that Inquisitors were bald. When Ruin is controlling them, does he still have them shave and stuff like that?
Brandon Sanderson
They still kind of go through their daily life. It's not like he's-- His control can get stronger, and weaker at times. And so they mostly kind of just do what they would normally be doing, until he moves that one right there at that moment where he seizes them, if that make sense. So yes, but it's less like he's like "I am now going to puppet-control them to go to the bathroom," right? He just lets them do that, and when he needs them he seizes control.
Chaos
(paraphrased)
Can Inquisitors still breed through human reproductive methods?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
Yes.
Hunter of the Rain
Could Steel Inquisitors read phone screens?
Brandon Sanderson
Oh boy. Phone screens are made out of... there's like a liquid almost, liquid crystal. So could you read a phone screen... or are they just asking cause it's metal? No they're saying there's this blank screen, and it's just changing pixel's colors, so would an Inquisitor not be able to see that because it's going to be indistinguishable according to their steel sight, I think that's what they're getting at. I don't know if the question is "Is the phone going to glow too much because there is too much metal in it" or is it "Because the pixels don't really register to steel sight". I'm gonna say phones are a good way to hide things from an Inquisitor. Yeah, an Inquisitor's not gonna enjoy the move to all digital formats probably.
Questioner
If an Inquisitor went to Roshar, would they be a lighteyes or darkeyes?
Brandon Sanderson
If an Inquisitor went to Roshar, they would probably be like someone who has heterochromia, one eye of each, meaning people don't know what to do with them and they are very awkward with trying to figure out how to treat them. The society breaks down a little bit when you run into anything that ruins their perfect system. Which is not so perfect, obviously.
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
Inquisitors knowing how to Compound: some may have figured it out at some point. I [Chaos] got the impression it was not a technique the Lord Ruler taught them.
Elladan259
I have a questions. I read in the book that under the Lord Ruler, the Steel Inquisitors had 9 spikes. So they had 8 spikes for the normal Allomantic abilities, and only one left. But they needed one more. One would be a Feruchemical spike which granted the user healing abilities. And the other one would be an atium spike. In the book they burned it often, but how? But then, how could they burn atium? They would have needed an atium spike (extremely expensive) and an Mistborn (because atium Mistings weren't discovered).
Somehow, the number of the spike just don't make sense. There should be 10. Do you have some ideas, or is it just an mistake by Brandon Sanderson?
Peter Ahlstrom
The official answer is that the number varies depending on how many Mistings they can find and sacrifice. Not all Inquisitors will have all the same powers.
Questioner
(paraphrased)
What metal is the lynchpin spike made of?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
RAFO.
Questioner
(paraphrased)
One fan asked about the exact locations of the Inquisitor spikes.
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
A Hemalurgic table with a list of spike locations, including the Inquisitor spikes, will be forthcoming.
zas678
You've said that Inquisitors could have children. Would those children have a better chance at being Allomancers compared to if they had the kids before they were Inquisitors?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes, but there also could be...complications.
Brandon Sanderson
Lots of Female Keepers (one of the main characters in book two is one), no female Inquisitors or obligators (since the Lord Ruler was pretty much in charge of who got to do both.) However, there weren't actually hard fast rules, so I could see a determined woman ending up in the Steel Ministry if she put her mind to it.
yulerule
Are Inquisitor spikes, kandra Blessings and koloss spikes interchangeable? Like if you it spiked in a different way--
Brandon Sanderson
*Hesitant* You could make that work and it wouldn't be that hard. But just as they are, no.
yulerule
Would nothing happen or would weird stuff happen?
Brandon Sanderson
Weird stuff would happen
*pause*
But that one's not very hard to make work.
Claincy
(paraphrased)
Can Inquisitors see aluminum?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
RAFO.
Chaos
(paraphrased)
How long is the lifespan of an Inquisitor?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
It depends on the powers they're given. Some burn up quickly, and others are extended. In general though they do tend to have slightly longer lives. Since Marsh has the missing bag of atium he's going to be around for a while.
