This room in the palace is another reason why I had to make this book about much more than just stealing atium. Kelsier is half-convinced that the Lord Ruler keeps his atium stash in this room, rather than in the treasury. Either way, it wouldn’t be TOO difficult for a Mistborn like Kelsier to break into a room like this—or even the treasury—and be off with the atium. (At least, that’s what he thinks. Right up until he gets stopped in this chapter, anyway.)
Either way, Kelsier wouldn’t feel that he needs a crew in order to break into a room and steal some metal. He does that just fine to Keep Venture earlier in the book. By making Mistborn so relatively powerful, I needed a task for Kelsier’s group that went far beyond a simple heist. Only something like raising an army and overthrowing an empire would present them with a challenge.
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