Mistborn: The Final Empire
by Brandon Sanderson · 2006
Ash falls from the sky and a god-emperor has ruled for a thousand years. A street thief with rare powers joins a crew plotting the impossible.
Book Series
The Mistborn Saga
8 books, listed in publication order.
The Well of Ascension
by Brandon Sanderson · 2007
The tyrant is dead, and now the rebels have to govern, with three armies besieging the capital and the economy collapsing under them.
The Hero of Ages
by Brandon Sanderson · 2008
The mists are killing people, ash is burying the world, and the god-like Ruin walks free. The finale of the original Mistborn trilogy.
Mistborn: Secret History
by Brandon Sanderson · 2016
A novella that runs alongside the original Mistborn trilogy and quietly rewrites what you thought was happening in it. Read it after The Hero of Ages.
The Alloy of Law
by Brandon Sanderson · 2011
Three centuries on, Mistborn's world has railroads and revolvers, and Allomancy is a lawman's tool. A frontier lawman is pressed back into the city.
Shadows of Self
by Brandon Sanderson · 2015
A killer who can wear other people's faces is stoking unrest in Elendel, and the hunt drags Wax into the machinery of his own religion.
The Bands of Mourning
by Brandon Sanderson · 2016
A treasure hunt for the Lord Ruler's mythical metalminds turns into something much larger when evidence surfaces that the Bands are real.
The Lost Metal
by Brandon Sanderson · 2022
Wax has traded law work for the Senate, but the conspiracy Wayne and Marasi are chasing reaches far beyond Elendel, and beyond the planet.
About This Series
Brandon Sanderson's flagship fantasy sequence, built on an unusual premise: the prophesied hero already tried, and lost. Magic here is a system with rules, powered by metals a user swallows and burns, and Sanderson treats those rules as seriously as a physicist treats conservation laws. The saga runs in eras. The first is epic fantasy in a world under ash; the second, beginning with The Alloy of Law, jumps centuries forward into an industrial age where the old magic meets railways and revolvers. Mistborn: Secret History is a novella best read after The Hero of Ages, as it re-frames events you have already seen.
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