FIVE MONTHS LATER, WAX WALKED through the decorated rooms of a large, lively party, passing men in dark suits with tailcoats and women in colorful dresses with narrow waists and lots of folds through long pleated skirts. They called him “Lord Waxillium” or “Lord Ladrian” when they spoke to him.

Defying decorum, Wax pushed his way through the room’s enormous glass double doors and stepped out onto the mansion’s grand balcony. There, he finally felt like he could breathe again. Accidental Aiming Skills: Wax jokes that he once hit a criminal in the eye with a throwing knife while aiming for his balls. Wax later confessed was just trying to hit the man, since his aim with knives isn't very good. Even years after, Wayne is still haunted by his Accidental Murder, when he accidentally shot a man he was robbing. As a result, he has troubles using guns, as his hands tend to shake every time he holds one. The next day, Marasi visits the Ladrian mansion to find Wax deep in his work with metallurgy, trying to determine the exact alloy of the gun Wayne had given him. Realizing he'd been up all night, Wax shows her what else he'd been working on, pulling out a genealogical tree plotted by himself using information in his uncle's library. Marasi leads him to a startling discovery before Wayne shows up with a report on his own investigation; Wayne had infiltrated the Fourth Octant constabulary to gain knowledge of the Vanishers' hideout from the prisoners.Wayne throws up a speed bubble just as the explosion bursts from the basket. Wax increases his weight Feruchemically and breaks through to the floor below with Marasi on top and Wayne following to land on both of them. They escape the explosion but Wayne is left badly burnt and so with little of his goldmind remaining. Steris has blond hair, [6] which is usually pu Best Fantasy Novel". Goodreads. Archived from the original on July 12, 2017 . Retrieved July 29, 2017.

He smiled, then flared his steel and Pushed off the top of the streetlight to send himself in a wide arc through the air. Mist streamed past him, swirling as the wind rushed against his face. It was thrilling. A man never truly felt free until he’d thrown off gravity’s chains and sought the sky. There are tidbits in each of the books that inform the other books, but you don’t have to notice these things to enjoy the story by itself. Finding these easter eggs is one of the things that makes re-reading the books so much fun. In subsequent books, Marsh's life became entangled with the forces of Ruin and Preservation. He fell under the insidious influence of Ruin, becoming a puppet of the dark force. This control pushed Marsh to resist his brother's influence and align himself with the destructive aspects of Ruin. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. He would see this to the end. Roughs honor. When one of your own went bad, it was your job to see the mess cleaned up.Bittersweet Ending: Everybody Lives, but the Man Behind the Man gets away, and Wax rejects Marasi. Also, the first four hostages (and possibly Wax's sister) are still missing. Miles Dagouter: A former lawman and acquaintance of Wax from his time in the Roughs. He has turned bitter against the system and believes that the wealth and pomp of Elendel is the cause of the deprivation in the Roughs. He now leads the Vanishers. He is also a Twinborn, with the ability to heal any wounds to himself almost instantly due to both Feruchemical and Allomantic gifts with Gold, earning him the name "Miles Hundredlives". Wax and Miles meet and get into a fight on top of a railcar. Miles tries to win Wax over. Wax Pushes Miles off the railcar, leaving him behind. A gold Compounder would be able to use gold to have a nearly infinite supply of health. When Compounding, a Bloodmaker can heal very rapidly, and can survive flaying, decapitations, and point-blank explosions. [15] [16] The recovery from injuries and wounds is almost instantaneous. [17]

First book in the Wax and Wayne series, a Sequel Series to Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn: The Original Trilogy. Wayne escapes and Wax fights Miles barehanded. Miles overpowers Wax thanks to his healing ability. A little while later, it becomes apparent that it was just a delaying tactic to allow Wayne to mobilize the constabulary. Marasi has had them in a cadmium bubble (slowing down time for those inside), allowing the constabulary to get there and arrest Miles. Wayne wants to fight, but Wax is worried about other people’s safety. The Vanishers want people’s jewellery. They take Steris and Marasi as hostages, and the theft is a front. One of the bandits shoots Lord Peterus. Wax and Wayne finally start to fight them. Marasi stuns the bandit who was holding her and wounds him. The leader of the bandits escapes. The Vanishers as a whole are this to the Skaa rebellion in Final Empire. They're both disenfranchised groups who live outside of the law, but where the Skaa join for ideology and usually because they can't live a normal life, the Vanishers mostly join up for money, and one is encouraged to plead guilty and make an honest living. Perhaps the most apparent similarity is the wedding robbery compared to the raid on Holstep Garrison; in both cases, the leader lost control of his men and lost almost everyone, and laments that they're done for. Meta Twist: A rich minor nobleman brings along a 'cousin' to the city, and pays for her education. Meanwhile, tales of mysterious thieves interrupt the conversation. Unlike Vin and Lord Renoux, Lord Harms isn't in league with the Vanishers, and Marasi is not The Mole.Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Played with: Wax has two plans to deal with Miles. We aren't told much of either in advance, but Plan A fails while plan B works. The Hero of Ages consists of eighty-two chapters, one prologue, and one epilogue, reaching a total 225,372 word count. There are ten different unique point-of-view characters in a total of 131 POVs. Artifact Title: This book contains three Twinborn and one Misting, but no Mistborn, unless one counts the brief appearance of Ironeyes in the epilogue.

Wax and Wayne, accompanied by Marasi, go to the bandits' hideout, and find it deserted, with minimal remaining evidence. They visit an old acquaintance – a gunsmith named Ranette - and form a plan to capture the bandits during their next robbery.A fresh view of how a world can grow, building new dimensions into the best of the old. Sanderson continues to show that he is one of the best authors in the genre.” — Library Journal, starred review