The Bands of Mourning: A Mistborn Novel: 6 (Mistborn Saga)

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Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds. He perched on the water tower, looming over the church. So he was here, finally. He felt his eye begin to twitch, and an ache rose within him. Theme Naming: The Set's leader is called the Sequence, both mathematical terms. A rank within the Set is called an Array. In Suit's conversation with Trell's servant, it speaks in a very logical, almost calculated fashion, possibly hinting at the nature of Trell. All That Glitters: Subverted. The room behind the trapped corridor is an opulent room with a velvet and gold pedestal, smashed long ago. That's a decoy. Further along is a small, plain room where the corpses of the builders sit in reverence around a simple set of bands. That's also a decoy. The real Bands are the 'aluminum' (read: more valuable than gold) spearhead on the statue in the front. Recoiled Across the Room: Happens a few times thanks to the massive new shotgun Ranette built for Wax, designed to take down Pewterarms and koloss-blooded. The first time, a bandit just breaks his hand trying to fire it from the hip during a Traintop Battle. Moments later in the same battle, Steris tries firing it from a properly braced, kneeling position, and is thrown clear off the train. Finally, near the end of the book, Wax fires it at a Coinshot, who gets Blown Across the Room without even touching the bullet when he tried to Push it away. Ranette specifically states it was designed to be used in conjunction with Wax increasing his weight with Feruchemy to handle the recoil.

In the prologue, Wax sneaks around with his sister Telsin. He listens in on his grandmother as she’s talking to a constable about arson. The constable wants to help her but Wax’s grandmother refuses the help. At the train station, Wax gets attended to by a physician. The local captain tells him that the robbery was perpetrated by the Nightstreet Gang, a notorious gang in the area. Wax talks to the captain about the gang as he worriedly searches for Wayne. Matieu asks Wax for help in catching the ones that got away, but Marasi reminds him that he already has a task. Wax finally sees moving blue lines and finds Wayne in an empty compartment, hiding in the luggage compartment in the floor. MeLaan is there with him, topless. Legion · Skin Deep · Lies of the Beholder · The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds · Stephen Leeds: Death & Faxes When they follow a lead to a gravedigger, Marasi is about to flash her badge again, but Wayne stops her, saying that a petty criminal would clam up in front of a constable. He then disguises them as a fellow criminal and his servant, gets chummy with the man, and the man leads them right to the spot. Wax hears the bomb in his honeymoon suite and wakes up. He examines the strange coin and realizes it is a coppermind. Wax taps the memory and looks through the eyes of the Sovereign.

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Because of the extensive tour I did for Shadows of Self (and because I’ll be going out on tour again in February for Calamity), I’m not planning to tour for this book. We’ll be doing our normal release party. (Midnight at the BYU Bookstore.) And I’ll blog about that tomorrow. Today’s post is for those of you who want to get a signed and numbered copy shipped to your door by Weller Book Works.

Hostile Terraforming: Sazed/Harmony saved Scadrial by reforming it from Ruin's damage and creating the Elendel Basin so the survivors of the Final Empire could live in relative comfort. The people inhabiting the other side of the planet, however, had long adapted to their overheated conditions, and were freezing to death in the new "normal" climate. It took a very different divine intervention for their society to survive and adapt. MeLaan: A female kandra of the Seventh Generation, who first appeared as a companion of TenSoon in the original trilogy. MeLaan has previously worked with Wax and Wayne to take down Bleeder in Shadows of Self.At one point, MeLaan disguises herself as a muscular, handsome man, while wearing a metal skeleton under her flesh. The trilogy’s heroes are now figures of myth and legend, even objects of religious veneration. They are succeeded by wonderful new characters, chief among them Waxillium Ladrian, known as Wax, hereditary Lord of House Ladrian but also, until recently, a lawman in the ungoverned frontier region known as the Roughs. There he worked with his eccentric but effective buddy, Wayne. They are “twinborn,” meaning they are able to use both Allomantic and Feruchemical magic.

Historical In-Joke: The Southerners, who come across as aliens, are flying around in super-advanced airships that they run like a pleasure cruise. Some of the first alien sightings were mysterious airships, full of people on pleasure cruises. Marasi spots a spearhead that’s not made of aluminium. She taps into its powers and she starts glowing. Meanwhile, Marasi has figured out that the spearhead from the statue is the actual Bands of Mourning. Everything else was a decoy to keep people away. She manages to grab it while under guard and starts rampaging with power. She goes to Wax, who has returned to life, and gives him the Bands. Here is a spoiler summary of what happened in The Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson to help refresh your memory before you read the sequel. What happened in The Bands of Mourning? My Own Private "I Do": The wedding between Wax and Steris at the start of the book is an elaborate ceremony attended by her relatives and friends, and some of his workers. That got cancelled due to Wayne's interference, and it takes the rest of the book for Wax and Steris to fall in love with each other. They get married with a simple ceremony in a small chapel at the end, attended only by the priest (who didn't seem happy to be woken up). As Wax points out, they don't need the rest of the ceremony because they already gave their relatives a wedding, just one that didn't end in a marriage.

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Wax's group find the temple and disable its traps, but cannot get through the final door. The Set expedition arrives, and Edwarn, under a banner of truce, opens the final door so that they may all enter. They find the temple empty, the Bands seemingly already taken. Telsin is revealed as a traitor and member of the Set (even higher ranked than Edwarn), and she shoots Wax repeatedly; he falls into a pit trap. MeLaan is incapacitated, Wayne is forced to flee, and Steris, Allik, and Marasi are taken captive. The Mole: Telsin plays along with Wax's rescue, acting the bit of a traumatized survivor, but Wax does put it together. Just a hair too late. Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: We get to see how others react to this trope when Elendel's new governor complains to Wax, at the end of the book, that it really isn't fair that Wax can do whatever he wants, cause whatever problems he wants, and then have one of Harmony's own Faceless Immortals explain things.

That should cover everything! If you’ve got questions, feel free to send an inquiry to the store through my webmail form. I hope this isn’t too confusing or too annoying for you. My goal has been to find a way to continue to get signatures to people, while allowing those who really need something specific to get it—all while donating some money to charity. Arcanum Unbounded · Elantris · The Sunlit Man · Tress of the Emerald Sea · Warbreaker · White Sand · Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

Goodreads Summary:

The new Mistborn books move the series into a richly imagined 19th century analogue world with elements of the wild west mixed with magic and science. It's a wonderful concoction from a master storyteller.