![]() ![]() It’s feudal in scope and feel, but one must remember that it has been this way for a thousand years through artificially-imposed stagnation. Sanderson doesn’t really date his empire with much. Oh, and while they do this, an army will attack the city so they can overthrow the empire. ![]() They and a small crew will steal the Lord Ruler’s cache of atium, a super-rare allomantic metal. Vin’s a Mistborn too, able to use all of the allomantic metals instead of just one, and Kelsier recruits her for a caper. (Well, it’s more complicated than that, but spoilers!) Vin is a street urchin and smalltime thief who gets discovered by Kelsier, the Survivor of the Pits of Hathsin and a powerful Mistborn. He starts the story a millennium after the coming of the Chosen One … because the Chosen One failed. Brandon Sanderson chooses a clever one in Mistborn: The Final Empire. There are a lot of ways to subvert this trope. ![]() It might be what hooked me (and a lot of other readers) but it’s been done to death. These books vary in terms of quality, but both adhere to what one might call the standard fantasy plot involving an unassuming, young protagonist prophesied to overthrow the Dark Lord. The book that motivated me to continue reading fantasy was The Belgariad (more of a series, really), by David Eddings. My first fantasy novel was The Lord of the Rings, but it was an isolated incident. ![]()
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