The Alloy of Law
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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.
Vin, Kelsier, Elend, Sazed, Spook, and the rest are now part of history—or religion. Yet even as science and technology are reaching new heights, the old magics of Allomancy and Feruchemy continue to play a role in this reborn world. Out in the frontier lands known as the Roughs, they are crucial tools for the brave men and women attempting to establish order and justice.
One such is Waxillium Ladrian, a rare Twinborn, who can Push on metals with his Allomancy and use Feruchemy to become lighter or heavier at will. After twenty years in the Roughs, Wax must now put away his guns and assume the duties incumbent upon the head of a noble house—until he learns the hard way that the mansions and elegant tree-lined streets of the city can be even more dangerous than the dusty plains of the Roughs.
Brandon Sanderson
The Alloy of Law
Mistborn - 4
ePub r1.0
Titivillus 02.07.2021
Brandon Sanderson, 2011
Illustrations: Isaac Stewart, Ben McSweeney
Cover art: Chris McGrath
Cover design: Titivillus
Digital editor: Titivillus
ePub base r2.1
CONTENTS
Cover
The Alloy of Law
Acknowledgments
The Alloy of Law: A Mistborn Novel
Map of Elendel Basin
Map of Elendel
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Broadsheet: The Elendel Daily, Part 1
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Broadsheet: The Elendel Daily, Part 2
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Broadsheet: The Elendel Daily, Part 3
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Broadsheet: The Elendel Daily, Part 4
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Epilogue
Ars Arcanum
About the Author
FOR JOSHUA BILMES
Who is never afraid to tell me
what is wrong with a book,
then fight for that same book
no matter who else gives up on it.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I first pitched the idea of later-era Mistborn novels to my editor back in 2006, I believe. It had long been my plan for Scadrial, the planet these books take place upon. I wanted to move away from the idea of fantasy worlds as static places, where millennia would pass and technology would never change. The plan then was for a second epic trilogy set in an urban era, and a third trilogy set in a futuristic era—with Allomancy, Feruchemy, and Hemalurgy being the common threads that tied them together.
This book isn’t part of that second trilogy. It’s a side deviation, something exciting that grew quite unexpectedly out of my planning for where the world would go. The point of telling you all of this, however, is to explain that it would be impossible to list all of the people who have helped me along the years. Instead, the best I can do is list some of the wonderful people who helped me with this specific book.