+Oltux72 he/him Posted April 15, 2021 Posted April 15, 2021 In short, are Steel Inquisitors naturally bald or do they shave? Does Marsh keep the origina look?
+robardin he/him Posted April 16, 2021 Posted April 16, 2021 21 hours ago, Oltux72 said: In short, are Steel Inquisitors naturally bald or do they shave? Does Marsh keep the origina look? Yes and yes. Quote Questioner Are Inquisitors bald? Brandon Sanderson Yes, Inquisitors are bald. Questioner Are they bald from being bald, or do they shave their heads? Brandon Sanderson They shave their heads. Hemalurgy does not automatically make you bald. Steelheart release party (Sept. 24, 2013) Quote Questioner In Mistborn 3, when Ruin is controlling Inquisitors. Before, they said that Inquisitors were bald. When Ruin is controlling them, does he still have them shave and stuff like that? Brandon Sanderson They still kind of go through their daily life. It's not like he's-- His control can get stronger, and weaker at times. And so they mostly kind of just do what they would normally be doing, until he moves that one right there at that moment where he seizes them, if that make sense. So yes, but it's less like he's like "I am now going to puppet-control them to go to the bathroom," right? He just lets them do that, and when he needs them he seizes control. The Great American Read: Other Worlds with Brandon Sanderson (Oct. 25, 2018) And in the epilogue of Alloy of Law, Marsh is seen almost 350 years after the Catacendre still shaving his head; Quote She ran a short distance. Had she lost the figure? She paused at an intersection, where an even smaller alleyway cut off from the first. Her curiosity was almost unbearable. Standing in the mouth of the smaller alleyway, waiting for her, was a tall man in a black robe. She gasped, stepping backward. The man was well over six feet tall, and the enveloping robe gave him an ominous appearance. He brought up pale hands and took down his hood, exposing a shaved head and a face that was tattooed around the eyes in an intricate pattern. Driven into those eyes, point-first, were what looked like a pair of thick railroad spikes. One of the eye sockets was deformed, as if it had been crushed, long-healed scars and bony ridges under the skin marring the tattoos. Marasi knew this creature from mythology, but seeing him left her cold, terrified. “Ironeyes,” she whispered. Why he does this, even without Ruin's control or in fact ever really being an obligator by choice, is up to the reader to assess in terms of Marsh's psychology. Perhaps growing his hair out again to look "more like the human Marsh would have" is something that would be painful to him. 5
EggArdent she/her Posted April 20, 2021 Posted April 20, 2021 On 4/16/2021 at 1:02 PM, robardin said: Why he does this, even without Ruin's control or in fact ever really being an obligator by choice, is up to the reader to assess in terms of Marsh's psychology. Perhaps growing his hair out again to look "more like the human Marsh would have" is something that would be painful to him. Marsh has always been practical, being bald means no hair being pulled in fights and one less thing to maintain besides shaving. or maybe he just likes being bald.
Kingsdaughter613 she/her Posted April 20, 2021 Posted April 20, 2021 59 minutes ago, EggArdent said: Marsh has always been practical, being bald means no hair being pulled in fights and one less thing to maintain besides shaving. or maybe he just likes being bald. He also likes playing death and being bald is part of that. 1
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