The Lost Metal
core novel 2022 Cosmere
Record
| First published | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.48 (135,994 ratings, collected 2026-09-11) |
| Page count | 507 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780765391193 |
Synopsis
Mistborn: The Lost Metal is a Brandon Sanderson novel set on Scadrial six years after the events of The Bands of Mourning. Waxillium Ladrian has largely set aside his life as a lawman to serve as a senator for the Roughs, settled into family life with his wife Steris and their two children, while Wayne now serves as a full constable and Marasi has risen to detective. Tensions build between Elendel and its outlying Basin cities, worsened by the discovery of distant lands known as the Southern Scadrials. When evidence surfaces that the extremist Set is kidnapping people with Allomantic bloodlines while pursuing a weapon tied to the hostile cosmic power Autonomy, Waxillium and his allies are drawn back into danger, racing to identify who is behind the plot before it can reach the city and threaten Scadrial's fragile peace.
Where it sits
- Universe: Cosmere
- Series: Mistborn Era 2 (Wax and Wayne) core; position 4 of 4 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 2 (Wax and Wayne): position 4 of 4: previous The Bands of Mourning (2016)
Sources
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