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The most notable feature is the large steel spikes where their eyes should be. These spikes fill the eye socket and protrude out the back of the head several inches. Steel Inquisitors, like the obligators from which they were created, are bald with a large number of tattoos spreading from their eye sockets across their head. These tattoos indicated many things including rank and what kind of [[Allomancer]] they were before recruitment. The Lord Ruler's steel Inquisitors have eleven spikes in all--two through the eye sockets, one in the middle of the spine on the back, and eight--one for each known Allomantic power--in the torso.
Although created from humans, they were physiologically and mentally distinct.{{wob ref|7713}}{{wob ref|2615}} They could, however, still mate with humans.{{wob ref|5530}} Children from Steel Inquisitors are more likely to have Allomancy compared to children from two humans, but the strength of Allomancy and Feruchemy would still weaken over time.{{wob ref|4148}}{{wob ref|12858}} There are also complications that can happen with the children of an Inquisitor.{{wob ref|4148}} Steel Inquisitors have slightly longer lifespans compared to humans.{{wob ref|5532}}
; Gallery of Steel Inquisitor appearances
According to [[Aradan Yomen]], one of the ways in which the number 16 made itself known in their time was that the [[Lord Ruler]] had originally made 16 Steel Inquisitors.{{book ref|mb3|70}} The number 16 in relation to the Inquisitors showed up once again, as [[Ruin]] created or otherwise used 16 Inquisitors to further his goals during the time after the [[Collapse]] (as there were 13 during the final battle, while [[Elend]] and [[Vin]] had already dispatched 3 previously).{{book ref|mb3|55}}{{book ref|mb3|73}}
To create an Inquisitor, metal spikes are inserted at various points in the subject's body by hammering the metal spike through the heart of a [[Misting]] or [[Feruchemist]] into the new Inquisitor; this reduces the loss of power through the Hemalurgic process, due to the spike spending a minimal amount of time outside of a body. These spikes, now Hemalurgically charged, tear into and forcibly splice information from the victim to the subject's [[Spiritweb]]. This process moves vital organs, allowing the spikes to be inserted practically anywhere without fatally wounding the subject.{{book ref|mb3|41}} The process is not painless for either person involved, as both violent changes to the Spiritweb and having metal spikes driven into one's body causes pain. The [[steel]] spikes inserted into eye sockets allow the Inquisitor to navigate via the blue Allomantic lines from the traces of metals in everything. The spikes create a chain in an Inquisitor's body, and there is a central spike or linchpin spike that acts as a connector to the lower and upper spikes. If this spike is removed, the Inquisitor dies. A linchpin is needed to avoid deadly side effects if four or more spikes are used on an Inquisitor.{{file ref| Hemalurgy table.jpg | Hemalurgy Table}}
Creating an Inquisitor bestows many Allomantic and some Feruchemical abilities to the subject, on top of the Inquisitor's own natural Allomantic powers, meaning any abilities the subject had prior to the transformation are augmented by the spikes. As such, Mistborn and Seekers were the preferred subjects, as their increased Seeking ability would allow them to pierce [[coppercloud]]s.{{book ref|mb3|37}}{{book ref|mb3|45}}
There of forty seven total bindpoints that can be used for an Inquisitor. Eleven are physical, twelve are mental, twelve are temporal, and twelve are spiritual.{{file ref| Hemalurgy table.jpg | Hemalurgy Table}} There are no differences in bindpoints between males and females.{{wob ref|5533}} If a Steel Inquisitor would want every base power for both Allomancy and Feruchemy, thirty two spikes would be needed, leaving room for fifteen extra spikes.
Regular humans who were turned into Inquisitors could fully remember who they were and what life had been like before their transformation.{{book ref|mb3|40}}
== Powers ==
[[File:Hemalurgy table.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Possible bind points and abilities for Inquisitors by [[Isaac Stewart]]{{file ref| Hemalurgy table.jpg | Hemalurgy
All Inquisitors exhibit a high tolerance to pain and most forms of physical damage. Depending on which Hemalurgic spikes the Inquisitor had, their abilities could vary immensely. Not all Inquisitors had an atium spike, nor could all of them tap health. During the time of Kelsier, however, most had those spikes.
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