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. He went back to Luthadel, the capital city of the Last Empire, where he assembled his old thieving team. Like him, she's a half-Skaa orphan, but she's lived a much harsher life. The Last World, the very first publication in a trilogy by Brandon Sanderson, is a tale of a subjugated individuals called the Skaa, in addition to their defend liberty versus an obviously invincible God referred to as the Lord Leader. 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. The fast-paced action scenes temper Vin's interminable ballroom intrigues, while the characters, though not profoundly drawn, have a raw stereotypic appeal.From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action.įor a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. This mystico-metallurgical fantasy combines Vin's coming-of-age-in-magic and its well-worn theme of revolt against oppression with copious mutilations, a large-scale cast of thieves, cutthroats, conniving nobles and exotic mutants. Kelsier uses Vin, a street urchin with the same Mistborn powers Kelsier possesses, to infiltrate the Great Houses' society, where she falls in love with philosopher prince Elend Venture. ), set in a mist-haunted, ash-ridden world, pits Kelsier, 'the Survivor of Hathsin,' against the immortal Lord Ruler's 1,000-year domination of both the Great Houses and their serflike 'skaa.' Through Allomancy acquired in the Ruler's most hellish prison, Kelsier can 'burn' 10 metals internally, fueling superhuman powers he uses to assemble rebels in a loose plan to destroy the nobility, the empire and the Lord Ruler himself.

Sanderson's eerie second fantasy (after 2005's Elantris

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