Mistborn: The Final Empire
core novel 2006 Cosmere
Record
| First published | 2006 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.48 (1,079,418 ratings, collected 2026-09-11) |
| Page count | 541 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780765311788 |
Synopsis
Mistborn: The Final Empire is set on the ash-choked world of Scadrial, where the immortal Lord Ruler has governed a rigid, oppressive society for a thousand years. Vin, a street urchin who has learned to survive through cunning and a hidden magical talent, is recruited by Kelsier, a half-skaa thief who escaped the Lord Ruler's most notorious labor camp. Kelsier assembles a crew of skilled allies for an audacious plan to bring down the Final Empire by draining its treasury and turning its own nobility against itself, hoping to spark a rebellion among the oppressed skaa underclass. As Vin trains to master her abilities as a Mistborn, capable of drawing power from ingested metals, she is sent to infiltrate the aristocracy by posing as a noblewoman at the city's balls, gathering information even as she begins to question where her loyalties truly lie.
Where it sits
- Universe: Cosmere
- Series: Mistborn Era 1 core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Brandon Sanderson
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Mistborn Era 1: position 1 of 3: next The Well of Ascension (2007)
Sources
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