Set three hundred years after the original Mistborn trilogy, this story follows Waxillium Ladrian, a lawman who leaves the frontier Roughs to manage his noble house in the industrializing city of Elendel. The narrative centers on a series of train robberies and kidnappings committed by a criminal group known as the Vanishers. Waxillium utilizes Twinborn abilities, combining the gravity-altering powers of Feruchemy with the rhythmic steel-pushing of Allomancy, to track the thieves alongside his eccentric colleague Wayne and the studious Marasi Colms.
Readers of flintlock fantasy and investigative mysteries will find a detailed system of magic integrated with early twentieth-century technology like revolvers and steam engines. Those interested in technical world-building see how supernatural abilities adapt to urban warfare and ballistics. The book provides a demonstration of how a magical society transitions out of a medieval state into a period of rapid scientific growth. You finish the text with a clear understanding of how resource scarcity and inherited power influence the development of civil law and organized crime in a shifting economy.
Clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
Best for readers like The Escapist Adventurer. Which reader are you?
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
