![]() For example, you “choose” to burn copper and you do. ![]() It’s a system in which you ingest different types of pure metals and then “burn” them by will in order to temporarily gain enhanced abilities such as increased speed, super hearing, and enhanced strength. ![]() **The magic system in this world is called Allomancy and is quite impressive. Now Kelsier is a legend in the underworld – a masterful thief who could pull off any heist, that is until the Lord Ruler caught him and sentenced him to the Pits of Hathsin - a place from where nobody has ever escaped alive.īut escape Kelsier did, and when he did, he recruited underworld’s elite. Or is it?īut the main characters in this story are a group of misfits who are trying to overthrow the Final Empire, led by a man named Kelsier. So the lives of the Skaa are pretty much that of constant terror. There are two groups of people: The nobility, who are under the Lord Ruler’s thumb and the Skaa, who are more or less peasants and who have lived in slavery, misery and fear ever since the Lord Ruler took power, and who are often killed without cause by the Lord Ruler’s enforcers or by their Noble overlords. In this grim world, ash continually falls from the sky, the sun is glowing red, and there are no flowers or grass. His empire is referred to as The Final Empire. So The Final Empire takes place in a dystopian world that has been ruled for a thousand years by the Lord Ruler who is believed to be immortal and who governs by absolute power and terror. When I was a kid, I read hundreds of Fantasy and Sword & Sorcery novels, so it’s been a lot of fun to dive in once again. I’ve kind of rediscovered my love of fantasy recently. This is the first book in the Mistborn trilogy, which is an epic high fantasy series by Brandon Sanderson.
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