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The Seco1nds had seen him as more orthodox and obedient than his brethren, all because he had continually wanted to leave the Homeland and serve Contracts The Second Generation had always misunderstood him TenSoon hadn't served out of a desire to be obedient He'd done it out of fear: fear that he'd becoin to think that the outside world didn't matter to the kandra people
He shook his head, then rose to all fours and loped off down the side of the hill, scattering ash into the air with each bound As frightening as things had gotten, he was happy for one thing The wolfhound's body felt good on him There was such a power in it--a capacity for movement--that no human form could match It was almost as if this were the form he always should have worn What better body for a kandra with an incurable wanderlust? A kandra who had left his Ho under the hated hands of human masters, all because of his fear of coh the thin forest cover, over hills, hoping that the blanket of ash wouldn'tash did affect the kandra people--it affected theood was the First Contract, what good was the waiting, the protection of the Trust? To s had becos in TenSoon hadn't been alive back then However, he had known the First Generation and been raised by the Second He grew up during days when the First Contract--the Trust, the Resolution--had been more than just words The First Contract was a set of instructions Actions to take when the world began to fall Not just cerehtened some of the kandra For them, it was better that the First Contract be a philosophical, abstract thing--for if it were still concrete, still relevant, it would require great sacrifices of the; he was up to his wolfhound knees in deep black ash The location looked vaguely fah a s for a place he had been over a year before A place he'd visited after he had turned against Zane, his master, and left Luthadel to return to the Homeland
He scrambled up a few rocks, then rounded the side of a stone outcrop, knocking lu They broke apart as they fell, throwing more flakes into the air
And there it was The hollow in rock, the place where he had stopped a year before He remembered it, despite how the ash had transforain Hoould he get along without it?
I would not be sentient without it, he thought, s on a ht the creature to wakefulness and true life Each kandra got one of the four: Presence, Potency, Stability, or Awareness It didn't ive hi the mistwraith into a fully conscious kandra
In addition to sentience, each Blessing gave so else A power But there were stories of kandra who had gainedthem from others
TenSoon stuck a paw into the depression, digging out the ash, working to uncover the things he had hidden a year before He found the one--then the other--out onto the rock shelf in front of him Two sle Blessing TenSoon didn't knohy this was It was sis
TenSoon lay down, co the skin of his shoulder to part, and absorbed the spikes into his body Heseveral organs, then re-for theh hier It wasof ave eachthem work much better, much more powerfully, than they would have otherwise
The Blessing of Potency He'd stolen the two spikes fro, TenSoon would never have been able to follow Vin as he had during their year together It more than doubled the power and endurance of each e the level of that added strength--this was not Feruchey
A person had died to create each spike TenSoon tried not to think about that too much; just as he tried not to think about how he only had this Blessing because he had killed one of his own generation The Lord Ruler had provided the spikes each century, giving the nueneration
He now had four spikes, two Blessings, and was one of the thened, TenSoon ju soround below He took off, running farof Potency rese pewter, but it was not the sa indefinitely, nor could he flare it for an extra burst of power On the other hand, it required no metals to fuel it
He made his path eastward The First Contract was very explicit When Ruin returned, the kandra were to seek out the Father to serve him Unfortunately, the Father was dead The First Contract didn't take that possibility into consideration So--unable to go to the Father--TenSoon did the next best thing He went looking for Vin
Originally, we assumed that a koloss was a co Koloss are not theof two people, but five, as evidenced by the four spikes needed to make them Not five bodies, of course, but five souls
Each pair of spikes grants what the kandra would call the Blessing of Potency However, each spike also distorts the koloss body a little ly inhuy
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"NOBODY KNOWS PRECISELY how Inquisitors area sroup, which included Ham, Cett, the scribe Noorden, and theto sort through what she had discovered Humanall kolossthey had once been people
"There are lots of theories about it, however," Elend said "Once the Lord Ruler fell, Sazed and I did so facts froators we interviewed For instance, Inquisitors are ain new Allomantic abilities"
"Our experience with Marsh proves that as well," Ham said "He remembered who he was, even after he1 had all of those spikes driven through his body And he gained the powers of a Mistborn when he became an Inquisitor"
"Excuse me," Cett said, "but will someone please explain what the hell this has to do with our siege of the city? There aren't any Inquisitors here"
Elend folded his arms "This is important, Cett, because we're at ithfar greater than those soldiers inside of Fadrex"