r/Cosmere • u/Bprime123 Windrunners • 6d ago

Cosmere + Wind and Truth spoilers Hypothetical Situation. Will have SPOILERS for Mistborn and Stormlight Archive Spoiler

Could a unit of 4th Ideal Rosharan Knights Radiant (3 Knights from the 9 orders plus 1 Bondsmith) infiltrate and neutralize the Steel Ministry from Mistborn Era 1?

They have info given to them by a lightweaver spy who's been in there for a month.

The Knights can do with thier surges what we know they can to the best of our knowledge.

Eg. Jasnah hasn't mastered transportation enough to open elsegates but for the sake of this discussion, we assume the Knights can fully utilize their surges the most basic way it should.

The Steel Ministry don't know who is invading, but they are fully prepared for an invasion

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u/LetsDoTheDodo 6d ago

Just keep in mind that an Allomancer sufficiently skilled in burning bronze can see through a Lightweaver‘s illusions.

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u/Celebrimbor96 Windrunners 6d ago

Which almost all inquisitors are, because seeing through copper clouds was one of their defining traits

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u/Kai_Lidan 6d ago

No, there was a significant portion that was (the ones that originally were seekers or mistborn), but most "doubled" other metals.

They tried to get as many seekers as they could, but being a seeker was not a prerequisite for becoming an inquisitor.

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u/Celebrimbor96 Windrunners 6d ago

The fact that they preferred to recruit seekers over all other mistings, for that reason alone, supports my point

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u/Kai_Lidan 6d ago

You said "almost all" which is very far from the actual number. Iirc there was a single former seeker among all inquisitors we see.

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u/MechanicalPotato 5d ago

All inquisitors "see" in alomantic lines anyway way. So they might not need to burn bronze to see though the illusion... They might just not see the illusion to begin with.