But Kelsier, the hero who masterminded that triumph, is dead too, and now the awesome task of building a new world has been left to his young prot g, Vin, the former street urchin who is now the most powerful Mistborn in the land, and to the idealistic young nobleman she loves.
The Lord Ruler the man who claimed to be god incarnate and brutally ruled the world for a thousand years has been vanquished. Readers of Elantris thought they’d discovered someone special in Brandon Sanderson. She will have to learn to trust, if Kel is to help her master powers of which she never dreamed. Vin has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets, and gotten it. Like him, she s a half Skaa orphan, but she s lived a much harsher life. Only then does he reveal his ultimate dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot.īut even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel s plan looks more like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life. Kelsier recruited the underworld s elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high stakes challenge. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark.
Kelsier snapped and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart broken half Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler s most hellish prison. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the Sliver of Infinity, reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. Brandon Sanderson, fantasy’s newest master tale spinner, author of the acclaimed debut Elantris, dares to turn a genre on its head by asking a simple question: What if the hero of prophecy fails? What kind of world results when the Dark Lord is in charge? The answer will be found in the Mistborn Trilogy, a saga of surprises and magical martial arts action that begins in Mistborn.įor a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed.
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