Thermophile

True. In that case, you'd want a wooden shaft of an arrowhead made of wood, with just the head aluminum, and not bring it close to the Inquisitor until it's too late.

I don't think they'd notice a 'hole', just somebody in a posture that would suggest they're holding something, but with nothing there.

My sister would probably become the epic, and she'd probably hunt me down pretty quick, considering I have a good guess at her weakness. Honestly, my survival would likely depend on what powers she had. There's a place about a quarter mile from my house, but that would only be a short term solution. Yeah, I'd probably die. Horribly.

I you used an arrow that is designed to have the head fall off when pulled, they'd likely die without knowing what happened. But I too, find it hilarious that the TLR true weakness was being used as dishware by noblemen. They had to have known about it's allomantic repression properties, right?

And the fact that gold can't heal aluminum wounds, don't forget about that.

That strategy would still lose you a lot of people. But, there were only ten or so Inquisitors in Luthadel at that time, so...

I meant aluminum-tipped. Feruchemists not willing to fight is a problem, which is why I didn't mention them in the first post.

In book 2, Vin stated that they had defeated several Inquisitors before then, but that one was covering the back spike. A feruchemist with an aluminum spear would still work, though.

Normal humans aren't going to beat a Steel Inquitor for raw strenght or power. You could only win by sneaking up and pulling a spike, or using an aluminum arrow. Having mistings in your group would help, but you're still going to need surprise, at least to some extent. A prepared feruchemist could take out an unsuspecting Inquisitor farily easily, just steel + pewter the back spike.

If you just had a normal bow, and a single arrow with an aluminum head, it could work in theory. The Inquisitor would have to suspect nothing, and the guy would have to be a good shot (to hit the brain but not the spikes) but I could really see it working.

Creepy, but... likely true. Sazed as a person may have disaproved of Hemalurgy, but Harmony (the Intent) would have no problem with using executed mistings and ferrings as fodder.

Oh sure, but guns that work only appeared after Inquisitors, with the exception of Marsh, all died. I can't imagine an inquisitor burning atium for something as seemingly harmless as a shaft of wood, even if aimed at the head. Actually, I'd argue that TLR would be more vulnerable to an aluminum arrohead, since he doesn't have steelvision.

If gold feruchemy can't heal aluminum wounds, so an aluminum-tipped arrowhead would kill an Inquisitor if it hit the head, and the Inquisitor would have no reason to dodge. Heck, it is directly stated that crossbows existed, but were merely repressed by TLR. I imagine one of those with an aluminum tip would kill an Inquisitor quite nicely. Or The Lord Ruler, if you want to go in that direction. EDIT: I don't think the range would be that much of a problem. If someone is 'trained to kill Inquisitors', I'd count hitting a moving target in the head with a crossbow reliably and quickly part of that. The Inqusitor would have no reason to think of the person as a real threat untill it was dead.

Oh. Nevermind. I'm just stupid. Ignore what said about that, I completely forgot about Inquisitors having aluminum, and nobles using it for dishes, and duralumin... Ugh.

Or it was completely inside of him. Ooh. That bring up possibilities for Inquisitor-killing. There wasn't any aluminum in the Final Empire, though, so it's kind of moot.

Double Zinc for Superman, because 'cmon, he needs it.

I don't see weight doing that. You see, when they say 'weight', it actually means 'mass', since Wax speeds up when he stores weight. Your mass can't atrophy. In short, Iron is probably the least dangerous thing to compound, but also the least useful, as you're going to get more benifits from storing it than tapping it. EDIT: What if iron compounders play a role in FTL? You have a guy weighing several megagrams, and once the ship gets going fast, he starts storing, so that he weighs practically nothing. In fact, ones mass may have an effect on the relative speed of light (mass effect FTL would work, if it wasn't impossible).

'Vanilla' Inquisitors have 11 spikes (2 in the eyes, 1 in the back, 8 in the chest) 1 Feruchemist (gold), 1 Thug, 1 Tineye (I assume), 1 Lurcher, 1 Mistborn (atium), 1 (2?) Seeker, 1 (2?) Coinshot, 1 Coppercloud (?), 1 Soother (?), 1 Rioter (?) So, obvioulsy they don't have all of those, but if they only recruit Allomancers, and save one spike on that type, it would add up to 11. Alhtough, steel is used for all physical Allomancy, so those eyespikes could be just about anything.

Not always. Marsh was a Seeker, and Seeker Inquisitors can break through copper clouds, although there were definitely some coinshot Inquisitors. I don't believe (correct me if I'm wrong) that two coinshots are used for an Inquisitor, just one. That's why you have some guys going for tendons and organs (things that take a lot of juice to heal), which is really a distraction for one guy to sneak up and pull out the back spike (can they see that with atium? I don't know exactly how atium + Inquisitor works). Agian, if you were specifically trained to fight an Inquisitor, and you had moderate control of the situation, I think you could kill it with only a couple dozen guys.

I was thinking of a 'vanilla' Inquisitor (no feruchemical speed or strength, and probably with Final Empire tech) If you had people who were trained to fight Inquisitors, they'd probably have some methods of delaying it so it would run out of atium (WIth soldiers hiding in various places) once the Inquisitor was out of atium, they'd surround it, and one would pull out the back spike. This question was mostly inspired when the messenger Spook sent got ambushed by Marsh, who knew what he was up agianst, and actually put up a decent fight, despite not having any real training against Inquisitors, and being alone. In fact, there's a decent chance that, without Feruchemy, Marsh might have actually died there. I guess what I'm saying is this: Inquisitors, while powerful, have big weaknesses, that, if combated by training and teamwork, could be exploited to the extent that maybe twenty or thirty guys could take one out, even without magic.

It would take quite a few bullets to kill a Steel Inquisitor, even if they were to the head.

We know that Kelsier was able to defeat a Steel Inquisitor at the top of his game, and that Vin + Elland were able to do it reliably. But say you had a unit of normal soldiers that were trained to, working together, defeat a Steel Inquisitor. How many of them would it take to kill a Steel Inquisitor? Also, we need a name for them so we can make it sound like a 'screwing in a light bulb' joke.

Still, there does seem to be a lot of energy lost with the use of nicrosil/duralumin. I think that savantisim in either would reduce the loss.

That's the popular theory, I believe.

I believe the text about nicrobursts at the end of AoL and SoS says something like: "causes the target to expend all of their metals in one large burst"