The Final Empire

The Mists rule the night... The Lord Ruler owns the world. FOR A THOUSAND YEARS THE ASH FELL. For a thousand years, the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years, the Lord Ruler reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Every attempted revolt has failed 'miserably. YET SOMEHOW HOPE SURVIVES. A new kind of uprising is being planned, one that depends on the cunning of a brilliant criminal mastermind and the courage of an unlikely heroine, a Skaa street urchin, who must learn to master Allomancy, the power of a mistborn. What if the prophesied hero had failed to defeat the Dark Lord? The answer will e found in the Mistborn trilogy, a saga of surpris that begins here.