Alloy is set several hundred years after the conclusion of Hero of Ages, and draws significant inspiration from The Wild West and The Gay Nineties.Ī pen-and-paper role-playing game is also in the works, to be released around the same time, and Sanderson is in talks for a film, though nothing concrete has been established thus far. A standalone cum bridging novel, The Alloy of Law, was released on November 8, 2011. Sanderson plans for another two trilogies in this world. Part Heroic Fantasy, part heist novel, Mistborn: The Final Empire is the first novel in Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy. With two Mistborn and the support of the underworld, the rebellion churns along at a pace it never has before, and slowly the populace begins to believe in them. Unbeknownst to her, she also has the power of a Mistborn, so Kelsier quickly recruits her and begins her training. His plans look more prosperous when Kelsier's double-agent brother detects these powers in a Street Urchin named Vin. As for the Lord Ruler himself, Kelsier claims to have a trump card: the so-called 'Eleventh Metal', obtained on the edges of the world where even the Lord Ruler has no power. Unlike previous attempts at rebellion, however, who mostly tried a purely military strategy and were soundly defeated every time they raised their head, Kelsier plans to hit the Lord Ruler at the place where he's most vulnerable: his vaults of atium. Gathering up many of his old friends from the criminal underworld (most of them themselves allomancers), Kelsier begins raising the skaa revolution once more. Among the nobility, Mistborn are mostly used as elite assassins, but Kelsier had other plans. While most magicians ('Mistings') can 'burn' only one type of the eight allomantic metals (iron, steel, tin, pewter, brass, zinc, copper, and bronze), generating a very specific effect, Mistborn can burn all eight and some extra ones besides, giving them extensive power and versatility. In the Pits, Kelsier had come into his powers as a Mistborn-a special, powerful type of sorcerer that comes along only very rarely, and supposedly only among the nobility. No man had ever escaped from the Pits-but Kelsier did, earning him the epithet 'the Survivor of Hathsin' and a seething desire for revenge against the Lord Ruler. Kelsier was once a thief, blithely stealing from the nobility for the sheer joy of it, until he was betrayed, captured, and sent to the Pits of Hathsin, the Lord Ruler's most brutal prison, a mine where prisoners are forced to find one piece of the precious metal atium every seven days or face execution. That man is named Kelsier, who arose from the ranks of the skaa. The main plot begins with a rebel that seeks to overthrow the the Lord Ruler. The Lord Ruler, immortal, with unlimited power, keeps the world stable and relatively prosperous under his autocratic rule, and has reigned for so long that most people consider him virtually unstoppable, a force of nature. The Lord Ruler impassively reigns over both sides as king and god with his bureaucratic priesthood, his army of beastlike monsters known as koloss, and his brutal, near-inhuman enforcers the Inquisitors. A thousand years later the ruling class consists of the decadent descendants of the Lord Ruler's ancient companions, who hold massive balls and festivals in their stone keeps as the rest of the world slaves away. Those who did not support his rule were turned into the downtrodden peasant race, known as 'skaa', who have since worked the fields in virtual slavery for their masters. He granted those who supported him in his quest titles and lands of great power and influence, and a magical power known as Allomancy.

The Hero, having unlocked the secret to immortality, installed himself as the Lord Ruler of the world and became their deity. But humanity survived, even prospered, and years passed. The nature and character of the threat has been lost to the mists of time, but the Hero was evidently successful in his quest, as the Deepness was destroyed and the Hero returned in triumph, but not without great cost-the sun became red, Ashmounts filled the sky with ashes that forevermore fell to the earth, plants withered and turned brown, and mysterious mists (whispered by the superstitious to be sentient and malevolent) enwreathed the lands by night. Long ago, a conqueror and philosopher was acclaimed as the Hero of Ages and sent to vanquish an ancient evil known only as the Deepness.

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