Hence, Mistborn. A thousand years ago, the prophesied hero from lore rose up to overthrow a great and terrible evil. Only, he lost, and the Dark Lord took over and has been ruling with an iron fist for a thousand years. Ash falls from the sky in this barren land, and mists come every night, deep and mysterious. In this setting, a gang of thieves decides that the prophecies were all lies and that they can’t trust in some fabled hero to save them. They decide to take matters into their own hands, and plan a daring heist of the dark lord himself, planning to use the emperor’s own wealth to bribe his armies away from him and take over the empire. Mistborn' Review: A Fantasy Masterpiece". Forbes. September 16, 2013. Archived from the original on October 2, 2013 . Retrieved September 30, 2013.

Urteau is a key crossroads city in the Northern Dominance. It was the traditional seat of House Venture, although the family is based mainly in Luthadel. It later came under the control of a Skaa-dominated government led by a man calling himself 'the Citizen'. Urteau is also famous for its canals, which mysteriously ran dry at some point in the past. It plays a key role in the third novel. Allomancers who flare their metal intensely for extended periods of time may be physiologically altered by the constant influx of Allomantic power. These Allomancers are known as Allomantic Savants. They experience heightened ability with, and dependence upon, whatever metal they are burning in such a manner. Under most circumstances, this is considered damaging, and it is believed that this process is irreversible without powerful external intervention. Final Empire · The Dominances · Luthadel · Kredik Shaw · Pits of Hathsin · Kandra Homeland · Urteau · Fadrex City · TathingdwenIntroduction to the Cosmere". November 23, 2009. Archived from the original on August 15, 2018 . Retrieved August 15, 2018. Dominion, Devotion, Ruin, Preservation, Honor, Cultivation, and Odium are Shards of Adonalsium. Elantris · The Sunlit Man · Tress of the Emerald Sea · Warbreaker · White Sand · Yumi and the Nightmare Painter Within the Final Empire, a Dominance is a territory within the Lord Ruler's empire. The dominances are: Librería Gigamesh (November 5, 2016). "Eurocon 2016 - Sala Teatre - Interview with Brandon Sanderson (ENG)". Archived from the original on December 21, 2021 – via YouTube.

Vin’s struggles with love and power inject the human element into Sanderson’s engaging epic. Booklist

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For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. 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. Kelsier: A famous thief who made a fortune stealing from the nobility. He and his wife were eventually caught and sent to the Pits of Hathsin, a notorious prison camp from which no one has ever returned. There, Kelsier witnessed his wife's death, which awakened his Mistborn powers and allowed him to escape. He inherits his wife's dream of overthrowing the Final Empire, and now leads a rebellion to accomplish this goal.