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 detail with which Sanderson explores the hows and whys of allomancy in the novel, setting up a crescendo of action and adventure by its end, is a solid illustration of his own “First Law of Magics,” which posits that a writer’s capacity to resolve a story’s conflict using magic is directly correlated with readers’ understanding of how that magic works.What if the whole world were a dead, blasted wasteland?įor a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. The 2006 epic fantasy follows a pair of allomancers-individuals who ingest small amounts of metal to fuel magical abilities-as they rebel against an immortal ruler’s thousand-year reign. With Mistborn: The Final Empire, Sanderson popularized his approach to crafting complex magic systems, in which the rules that govern the extraordinary have more in common with a chemical equation than with a wave of a wand. Now, he’s one of the genre’s most beloved-and prolific-authors. Mistborn: The Final Empire wasn’t Sanderson’s first novel to find a publisher-that was 2005’s Elantris-but it was the book that defined his approach to writing fantasy and set him on a path toward widespread recognition. For years, Brandon Sanderson spent his nights behind the desk at a Provo, Utah hotel, churning out manuscripts that he hoped one day might take their place on shelves.
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