Skaa

Skaa are a class of people in the Final Empire that are made second-class citizens to the Nobility. Forced into poverty and living on the streets, many even being made into slaves working at plantations in the countryside.

This divide was created by the Lord Ruler as punishment for the deeds of their ancestors, and he took many a precaution to keep them weak and subdued for a thousand years, untill the actions of Kelsier and his crew lead to a large scale Skaa uprising that lead to his death and the overthrowing of the millenia-old system of slavery.