The Steel Ministry
The Lord Ruler's priesthood and bureaucracy, organized into Cantons (Finance, Orthodoxy, Inquisition, and others). Its bald, tattooed obligators run the empire's commerce, contracts, and worship; its Steel Inquisitors hunt skaa Allomancers. MB1:TFE:Ch 4
Known facts
- monopoly-on-witnessingBy imperial law, no contract, marriage, divorce, land transfer, title inheritance, or even a wager between noblemen is real unless an obligator has witnessed it. Anything an obligator has not seen has not happened; anything one has not sealed might as well not have been written. This is the Ministry's grip on the empire's paperwork, and one of the principal reasons there is no part of Luthadel life the Lord Ruler cannot observe at need.MB1:TFE:Ch 23
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- factThe Luthadel Assembly
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