Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)

by Brandon Sanderson

I know what will happen if I make the wrong choice. I must be strong; I must not take the power for myself. For I have seen what will happen if I do.

What is belief—what is faith—if you don’t continue in it after failure?”

“A kandra,” the creature said, its skin losing its transparency. “A mistwraith that has … grown up, you might say.”

And … I’m on the wrong side.

There were the physical metals: iron, steel, tin, and pewter. The mental metals: bronze, copper, zinc, and brass. And … there were the time-affecting metals: gold and its alloy, and atium and its alloy.