Once, she had thought that a happy obligator was always a bad sign.

The obligator had a no-nonsense approach to just about everything.

No Inquisitor or obligator would ask twice about a dead child found in the streets.

She felt them, but as a deep obligator, a sense of ongoing rightness, function.

I hear a former Ministry obligator is in charge."

"You are about to be attacked, obligator," Marsh said, sweeping forward, throwing open the large window at the other side of the room.

"I need to know about Yomen, the obligator king."

That obligator is far cleverer than we expected.

"You make a mistake, young Venture," the obligator said, tapping the table idly with his fork.

The former obligator was awake, of course.

The obligator king stood, still meeting Vin's eyes.

Not while the obligator had such hatred of Elend and Vin.

The obligator king stood behind his table, holding a knife red with Elend's blood, watching with anger.

They were in one of the smaller rooms at the Ministry building-one that had once been an obligator's sleeping quarters.

A business deal or promise that wasn't witnessed by an obligator was not considered legally or morally binding.

They are marked by tattoos which decorate their face and body; the more tattooed an obligator is, the higher his rank.

He was a bureaucrat obligator whose lack of muscle or warrior's grace proved that he'd spent his life concerned with forms and records.

As Yomen contemplated her, Ruin walked in a slow circle around the obligator king.

That meant that Yomen, as head obligator at the Resource building, had been the area's top religious authority.

Yomen said things that Elend himself had said, even if they were twisted a bit by his perspective as an obligator.

Assassinating the obligator seemed as twisted an action as sending his koloss to attack the city.

"Various reasons," said the obligator king.

After all, Yomen had captured her-the obligator king was working on Ruin's side.

The former obligator nodded.