The Bands of Mourning: A Mistborn Novel

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Nothing Is Scarier: When Wax is dead, Harmony shows him the threat of what is apparently another god towards Scadrial, and tells him that he's not sure what it is. All That Glitters: Subverted. The room behind the trapped corridor is an opulent room with a velvet and gold pedestal, smashed long ago. That's a decoy. Further along is a small, plain room where the corpses of the builders sit in reverence around a simple set of bands. That's also a decoy. The real Bands are the 'aluminum' (read: more valuable than gold) spearhead on the statue in the front.

Sanderson, Brandon (December 19, 2016). "State of the Sanderson 2016". brandonsanderson.com . Retrieved August 31, 2017. Steris is hyper aware of all the rules of society, and finds herself isolated when she can't figure out the proper social responses, and won't just naturally fit in. She explains this to Wax not two minutes after he muses similar thoughts about his handling of the party. He passed over a field of carriages for hire, rows of vehicles waiting quietly in ranks, early morning workers looking up at him as he passed. One pointed; perhaps the mistcoat had drawn his attention. Coinshot couriers weren’t an uncommon sight in Elendel, and men soaring through the air were rarely a point of interest. Malevolent Architecture: Lampshaded. Wax finds it strange that a temple intended to store something would be so ridiculously lethal; what if the Sovereign died on the way in? Because the Bands aren't inside the temple. Wax shoots several bandits, then deactivates and Pushes overboard the "device," which was really just a case of dynamite. The giant Coinshot reappears, and Wax manages to attach Ranette's ball and cord device to him, yanking him off the train. There are still several more bandits, and Wax is unarmed. Partway through taking turns jumping off into the river, they suddenly stop moving; Marasi has them trapped in a slowness bubble.Edwarn Ladrian: Waxillium's uncle, the former lord of House Ladrian, and a high-ranking member of the mysterious Set.

It's rare for a fiction writer to have much understanding of how leadership works and how love really takes root in the human heart. Sanderson is astonishingly wise.” — Orson Scott Card Ain’t my fault people like to shoot at you, mate,” Wayne said as they reached the coach. “You should be happy; you’re usin’ your talents, like me granners always said a man should do.” Wax also realizes that the bracers were another decoy. Wayne weeps. Wax figures out what the real Bands are, but he dies before he can speak.

Hoid is a recurring character in the cosmere, originally from Yolen. Hoid is not his original name; [5] before telling Kaladin the story of the Wandersail, he claims he stole the name from someone he should have loved. [6] The dragon Frost once asked him in a letter if he is no longer hiding behind the name of his old master, [7] likely referring to the name Hoid. Among the original Vessels, Hoid is often known as Cephandrius, [8] [9] [10] [11] [1] which is one of his earliest aliases. [12] He is known as the god Lunu'anaki to the Horneaters. [13] Professor Irich shuffles along in the ship, feeling himself die. He thinks of Suit and Sequence desiring weapons, but he wants a miracle. His muscles are growing weaker and weaker. He walks through the ship, discussing its secrets with the academics brought in by the Set. The main problem is they don't know how the ship moves. The crew has been tortured, but they haven't revealed anything. He hears a voice call for him, and searches in vain to find the source. He happens upon a cube device that has apparently fallen out of storage compartment. He can now claim that he had recovered the lost cube and get in better standing with Suit. He leaves the ship. The Rithmatist · Dark One Book 1 · The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England · Firstborn · Snapshot · Perfect State · The Original He landed on a rooftop water tower across from the church. Perhaps when it had been built, the church’s dome had been tall enough to overshadow the surrounding buildings. It would have provided a nice profile. Now, buildings were rising taller and taller, and the church was dwarfed by its surroundings. Wayne would find a metaphor in that. Probably a crude one.

The iron metalminds enhanced with nicrosil Feruchemy allow anyone to store weight and make themselves lighter, which, as it turns out, is incredibly useful when in a flying machine where every ounce counts. The owner of the hotel introduces the group to their suite. She becomes quite unnerved at their strange behavior (Wax ripping out windows, MeLaan talking about breast size, etc.) and Steris's list of calamities that may befall the hotel while they're there. (Steris insists that the staff be prepared.) Marasi and Wayne prepare to search graveyards for the missing spike, while the others prepare to go to the party. Steel at a comfortable burn inside his stomach, he shoved on a nearby electric streetlight—still shining, though morning had arrived—and soared higher into the air. Elendel spread before him, a soot-stained marvel of a city, leaking smoke from a hundred thousand different homes and factories. Wax shoved off the steel frame of a half-finished building nearby, then sent himself in a series of leaping bounds across the Fourth Octant. However, while she can mend any flesh wound, she can't repair any damage to her skeleton directly, causing her body to distort further and further as she is forced to keep an increasing number of broken and shattered bones together with awkward improvised muscles. The result is Body Horror even more nauseating than your average Kandra fare, and it's unpleasant and crippling to MeLaan herself, leading to her getting easily overpowered near the end of the book. Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians · The Scrivener's Bones · The Knights of Crystallia · The Shattered Lens · The Dark Talent · Bastille Versus the Evil Librarians

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His particular style of storytelling in which he manipulates sand or smoke to illustrate his stories, as in Warbreaker and The Way of Kings, does not originate from White Sand, but from another unpublished story, The Liar of Partinel. [19] In Warbreaker, Siri asked Hoid where he learned his style of story telling. Hoid answered, "I learned it many, many years ago from a man who didn't know who

Wayne wants a ride to a certain part of the city via gondola. So he disguises himself as a rich gentleman who hires a gondolier's services for the whole day at a suspicious rate. While on a ride to a distant part of the city, Wayne lets slip a trace of a thuggish accent, so gondolier suspects that he's being set up for a robbery and hastily drops him off at the nearest port—exactly the spot where Wayne wanted. The gondolier didn't even ask him to pay. On October 29, 2013, Sanderson and Tor Books announced that there would be two more Mistborn novels following The Alloy of Law in the Wax and Wayne timeframe of the Mistborn world, starting with the publication of Shadows of Self. [2] [3] Sanderson, Brandon (October 29, 2013). "Two More Mistborn Novels". brandonsanderson.com . Retrieved July 13, 2014.

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Rage Against the Heavens: Wax to Harmony, for keeping him in the dark about who kandra Paalm really was and as a result, making him kill his beloved wife Lessie. Again. He gets over it. Fridge Logic: In universe, Khriss asks Wax how changing his weight affects his Coinshot powers, and openly wonders why speed bubbles don't create a red-shift (according to Word of God, it's a required secondary power to keep Wayne from microwaving himself). Intrigue, politics, and conspiracies mesh complexly in a world Sanderson realizes in satisfying depth and peoples with impressive characters." — Booklist on Mistborn Mistborn: The Bands of Mourning is a steampunk fantasy novel written by American author Brandon Sanderson. It was published on January 26, 2016, by Tor Books and is the third book in the Wax and Wayne series and sixth in the Mistborn series. It is preceded by Shadows of Self in 2015 and followed by The Lost Metal in 2022. [1] Plot summary [ edit ] Fastball Special: Wax and Wayne have a maneuver called "Spoiled Tomato" to launch Wayne with Wax's steelpushing as a way of infiltrating past a line of guards. They call it a Spoiled Tomato because frequently, Wayne goes splat when he hits the ground.