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Yet, he was Mistborn, like Vin And now the Inquisitor ounded Koloss were crowding around the hill, clawing their way toward the top, but Vin and Elend still had a fewher knife, and Elend attacked as well The Inquisitor tried to watch both of the It moved to jump away

Elend flipped a co1in into the air A single, sparkling bit of copper spun through the flakes of ash The Inquisitor saw this, and s Elend's Push It assuh the coin, then hit Elend's weight, since Elend would be Pushing as well Two Alloainst each other They would both be thrown back--the Inquisitor to attack Vin, Elend into a pile of koloss

Except, the Inquisitor didn't anticipate Elend's Alloth How could it? Elend did stumble, but the Inquisitor was throith a sudden, violent Push

He's so powerful! Vin thought, watching the surprised Inquisitor fall Elend was no ordinary Alloht not have learned perfect control yet, but when he flared his metals and Pushed, he could really Push

Vin dashed forward to attack as the Inquisitor tried to reorient hied to catch her ar a shock of pain up her already wounded arm She cried out as he threw her to the side

Vin hit the ground and rolled, throwing herself back up to her feet The world spun, and she could see Elend swinging his dueling cane at the Inquisitor The creature blocked the sith an ar the wood, then ducked forward and rarunted

Vin Pushed against the koloss ere now only a few feet away, shooting herself toward the Inquisitor again She'd dropped her knife--but, then, he'd also lost his axes She could see hi to the side, tohere the weapons had fallen, but she didn't give hi to throw hier--and er--than she was He tossed her down in front of hi the breath frorabbed one of the fallen axes, and he struck for the Inquisitor

The Inquisitor moved with a sudden jolt of speed Its for only at e on his face as the Inquisitor ca not an axe, but--oddly--a metal spike, like the ones in his own body but sleeker and longer The creature raised the spike,inhued

That was no pewter run, Vin thought That wasn't even duralu the Inquisitor The creature's strange speed faded, but it was still in a position to hit Elend directly in the back with the spike Vin was too far away to help

But the koloss weren't They were cresting the hill, mere feet frorabbed the emotions of the koloss closest to the Inquisitor Even as the Inquisitor e-like sword, hitting the Inquisitor directly in the face

It didn't separate the head from the body It just crushed the head completely Apparently, that was sufficient, for the Inquisitor dropped without a sound, falling h the koloss army

"Elend!" Vin said "Now!"

The e Inquisitor, and she could see the look of concentration on his face Once, Vin had seen the Lord Ruler affect an entire city square full of people with his eer than she was; far stronger--even--than 1Kelsier

She couldn't see Elend burn duralu on her e thousands of koloss at once They all stopped fighting In the distance, Vin could ard re in an exhausted circle of bodies Ash continued to fall It rarely stopped, these days

The koloss lowered their weapons Elend had won

This is actually what happened to Rashek, I believe He pushed too hard He tried to burn away thethe planet closer to the sun, but hethe world far too hot for the people who inhabited it

The ash a planet around required too much precision, so instead he caused theash and smoke into the air The thicker atmosphere made the world cooler, and turned the sun red

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SAZED, CHIEF AMBASSADOR OF THE NEW EMPIRE, studied the sheet of paper in front of him The tenets of the Canzi people, it read On the beauty of mortality, the importance of death, and the vital function of the human body as a partaker of the divine whole

The words ritten in his own hand, copied out of one of his Feruche literally thousands of books Beneath the heading, filling , he had listed the basic beliefs of the Canzi and their religion

Sazed settled back in his chair, holding up the paper and going over his notes one ood day now, and he wanted to make a decision about it Even before the day's study, he'd knownwith all of the other pre-Ascension religions--for ions had been his passion, the focus of all of his research

And then the day had co had been ion contradicts itself, he decided,a notation with his pen at the side of the paper It explains that all creatures are part of the "divine whole" and implies that each body is a work of art created by a spirit who decides to live in this world

However, one of its other tenets is that the evil are punished with bodies that do not function correctly A distasteful doctrine, in Sazed's mind Those ere born with mental or physical deficiencies deserved compassion, perhaps pity, but not disdain Besides, which of the religion's ideals were true? That spirits chose and designed their bodies as they wished, or that they were punished by the body chosen for thee upon a child's features and temperament?