

“Sanderson is crafting an extremely well-thought out saga with Mistborn, one that looks to stand above the pack of his literary peers. Sanderson is astonishingly wise.” - Orson Scott Card “It's rare for a fiction writer to have much understanding of how leadership works and how love really takes root in the human heart. There is simply no other way to describe what he's managed to pull off in this transcendent final volume of his Mistborn trilogy.” - RT Book Reviews (Gold Medal, Top Pick!) on The Hero of Ages Along the way he discovers hints that point to the true goals of his uncle Edwarn and the shadowy organization known as The Set.

Waxillium Ladrian is recruited to travel south to the city of New Seran to investigate.

A kandra researcher has returned to Elendel with images that seem to depict the Bands, as well as writings in a language that no one can read. The Bands of Mourning are the mythical metal minds owned by the Lord Ruler, said to grant anyone who wears them the powers that the Lord Ruler had at his command. Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action.
