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The Bands of Mourning

by Brandon Sanderson Publisher: TOR BOOKS

A changing Scadrial and a search for legendary metal minds

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A changing Scadrial and a search for legendary metal minds

Set three centuries after the original Mistborn trilogy, the novel places Waxillium Ladrian in a Scadrial moving toward modernity: railroads, electric lighting, and steel-framed skyscrapers are reshaping daily life. The mystery centers on the Bands of Mourning, metal minds reputed to hold the Lord Ruler’s powers. When images and unreadable writings bring their possible existence into question, Waxillium is sent to investigate in the southern city of New Seran. Clues along the way connect the search to his uncle Edwarn and the organization known as The Set, joining magical artifacts to political intrigue in a world undergoing technological change.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in epic fantasy set against a society entering an industrial age.
  • Those who enjoy mysteries involving legendary artifacts and political intrigue.
  • Readers continuing the Mistborn: The Wax and Wayne series.

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Technological changePower and legacyMystery and investigationPolitical intrigue

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Book overview

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action.

Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now 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.

The Bands of Mourning are the mythical metal minds owned by the Lord Ruler, said to grant anyone who wears them the powers that the Lord Ruler had at his command. Hardly anyone thinks they really exist. A kandra researcher has returned to Elendel with images that seem to depict the Bands, as well as writings in a language that no one can read. Waxillium Ladrian is recruited to travel south to the city of New Seran to investigate. Along the way he discovers hints that point to the true goals of his uncle Edwarn and the shadowy organization known as The Set.

Other Tor books by Brandon Sanderson

The Cosmere

The Stormlight Archive

The Way of Kings
Words of Radiance
Edgedancer (Novella)
Oathbringer

The Mistborn trilogy

Mistborn: The Final Empire
The Well of Ascension
The Hero of Ages

Mistborn: The Wax and Wayne series
Alloy of Law
Shadows of Self
Bands of Mourning


Collection
Arcanum Unbounded

Other Cosmere novels
Elantris
Warbreaker

The Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians series
Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians
The Scrivener's Bones
The Knights of Crystallia
The Shattered Lens
The Dark Talent

The Rithmatist series
The Rithmatist

Other books by Brandon Sanderson

The Reckoners

Steelheart
Firefight
Calamity

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