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The '''koloss''' are a bestial race of creatures on [[Scadrial]], created by the [[Lord Ruler]] through the use of [[Hemalurgy]].{{book ref|mb3|37}}{{book ref|mb3|40}} During the time of the [[Lord Ruler]], koloss serve as a powerful, fiercely loyal army to him, thanks in no small part to the fact that they can be controlled through the use of [[Allomancy]] by any powerful [[Allomancy|Mistborn]] or group of [[Soother]]s and/or [[Rioter]]s.{{book ref|mb2|54}}{{book ref|mb3|3}}{{epigraph ref|mb3|21}}

 

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The koloss are physically very large and very powerful. Koloss have blue skin and red eyes.{{book ref|mb2|19}} A full-sized koloss could grow to be as tall as twelve feet. Koloss have a fixed amount of skin that does not change over their lifetime. Because of this, the younger a koloss is, the fatter it appears, due to having so much baggy skin covering itself. The skin itself doesn't hold terribly well to the koloss' body.{{book ref|mb2|19}} As the koloss grow taller, their skin tears and fits tightly to them. An ancient koloss will have little to no skin at all, being covered instead in leather wrappings.{{book ref|eltania}} A koloss continuously grows until its death. When it reaches about twelve feet, its heart can no longer sustain its body, and it dies shortly thereafter.

 

Similar to [[Steel Inquisitor]]s, the creation of a koloss is very brutal. To create a koloss, four humans are stabbed with individual iron spikes through their heart, and these spikes are then placed strategically on to a fifth person. Once placed, the spikes turn the recipient into a koloss "very quickly".{{wob ref|8075}} It is possible to create Hemalurgic constructs similar to koloss using animals instead of humans as a base.{{wob ref|3590}} It is possible to create sapient creatures similar to koloss from primates.{{wob ref|12581}}

 

Because of this, after the Lord Ruler's control over the koloss ends, many of the koloss attack nearby human inhabitants in an attempt to make more koloss. When [[Vin]] visits a koloss camp, they request for her to give them more koloss. She does not know how, but they expect a human to be able to provide them with more koloss, since that is what they have experienced in the past.

 

 

== Powers ==

Koloss have four [[Hemalurgy|Hemalurgically]] charged [[iron#Hemalurgic Use|iron]] spikes, which grant them increased strength. This allows them to wield their enormous blades, which are about the same size they are. The blades are blunt and not well made; koloss seem to rely on their brute strength to smash the blades into opponents, rather than any true technique. The Hemalurgic spikes, however, come with a price. In addition to twisting their bodies, the spikes also diminish a koloss' intelligence. However, they still retain the faint ability to reason, and the ability to communicate, and the re-use of spikes from dead koloss to create more resulted in koloss that retained more of their former humanity.{{epigraph ref|mb3|42}}

 

 

Allomancers who are transformed into koloss will retain their Allomantic abilities, though they may not necessarily retain the knowledge to use those abilities.{{wob ref|10117}}

 

== Culture==

After the [[Lord Ruler]]'s death, [[Jastes Lekal]] created some fake wooden coins and by "paying" with the coins, he recruited an army of koloss. The koloss carry the coins in a small sack and would kill each other for them.{{book ref|mb2|19}} This is probably caused by the reusing of the spikes which increases their intelligence to the point that they can understand economy values.

 

 

 

== Notable Koloss ==