The Bands of Mourning
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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.
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.
Brandon Sanderson
The Bands of Mourning
Mistborn - 6
ePub r1.0
Titivillus 16.07.2021
Brandon Sanderson, 2016
Illustrations: Isaac Stewart, Ben McSweeney
Cover art: Chris McGrath
Cover design: Titivillus
Digital editor: Titivillus
ePub base r2.1
CONTENTS
Cover
The Bands of Mourning
Acknowledgments
The Bands of Mourning: A Mistborn Novel
Map of Elendel Basin
Map of New Seran
Prologue
Part One
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Part Two
Chapter 5
Broadsheet: The New Ascendancy, Part 1
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Broadsheet: The New Ascendancy, Part 2
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Broadsheet: The New Ascendancy, Part 3
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Part Three
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Broadsheet: The New Ascendancy, Part 4
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Epilogue
Ars Arcanum
Postscript
About the Author
FOR BEN OLSEN
Who keeps putting up with a bunch
of crazy writers as friends,
And finds time to make our books
better all the while.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book comes out in the year that will mark the tenth anniversary of the Mistborn series. Considering all the other things I’ve been doing, it seems like six books in ten years is a grand accomplishment! I can still remember the early months, writing the trilogy furiously, trying to craft something that would really show off what I can do as a writer. Mistborn has become one of my hallmark series, and I hope that you find this volume a worthy entry in the canon.
As always, this book involved the efforts of a great number of people. There’s the excellent art by Ben McSweeney and Isaac Stewarϯ—maps and icons by Isaac, with all the broadsheet art done by Ben. Both also helped a great deal on the text of the broadsheet, and Isaac himself wrote the Nicki Savage piece for it—since the idea was to have Jak hiring out his work now, we wanted to give that a different voice. I think it turned out great!