The Bands of Mourning (Mistborn, #6)

by Brandon Sanderson

“Do you ever wonder if perhaps the cosmere is out to overwhelm you, Lord Waxillium?” “The cosmere? You mean Harmony?”

“No, not Him,”

dice anytime I pass, and always hitting all ones. There seems to be...

Because people were people, and if there was one thing you could count on, it was that

some of them would be weird. Or rather that all of them would be weird when circumstances happened to align with their own individual brand of insanity.

I don’t want someone I have to convince, someone I have to rope into submission. That sort of thing is for the courtroom, not the bedroom.”

It displayed the Field of Rebirth in the center of Elendel, where the tombs of Vin and Elend Venture were to be found.

Trell. It was a god from the old records, long before the Catacendre—indeed, long before the Lord Ruler. Harmony had memorized this religion, with many others, during his days as a mortal.

Wax wasn’t certain whether her claim was true or not that the worship of Trell was involved in what had happened to Lessie, but the spikes they’d discovered … they didn’t seem to have been made of any metal known to man.

we’re worried about the possible intrusion of another god upon this domain.”

Fortune, Investiture, Identity, and Connection.

“Chromium,”

“nicrosil, aluminum, duralumin. These aren’t metals that most ancients knew. Only in recent times have modern metallurgical processes allowed them to become commonplace.”

Bauxite refining, modern chemical processes,

“The raw power of both Allomancy and Feruchemy,”

“is something we call Investiture. This is very important, as in Feruchemy, an individual’s Investiture is keyed specifically to them. To what we call Identity.”

“Each man or woman has a Spiritual aspect, a piece of themselves that exists in another Realm entirely. You might call it your soul. Your Investiture is keyed

to your soul—indeed, it might be a part of your soul, much as your blood is a part of your body.”

“Anyone could be a Feruchemist,”

“Investiture—the innate ability to burn metals or tap metalminds—is also one of the things Feruchemy

“In the ancient days, the Last Emperor discovered a metal that transformed him into a Mistborn. A metal anyone could burn, it is said. This whispers of a hidden possibility, something lesser, but still incredible. What if one could somehow manipulate Identity

and Investiture to create a set of bracers which imparted Feruchemical or Allomantic ability upon the person wearing them? One could make any person a Mistborn, or a Feruchemist, or both at once.”

My uncle,

So far as he could tell, Edwarn—the man known as Mister Suit—was trying to breed Allomancers. What would he do with Hemalurgy, if he knew about it?

“One of the cosmere’s great mysteries.”

“Breeze did say I could have them after he died. Excellent metacarpals. I bring them out for special occasions.”

Ladrian, Counselor of Gods … had given this creature his hands.

Rashek. The First Emperor. The Lord Ruler.

“What do you know of the Bands of Mourning, Miss Colms?”

“The Lord Ruler’s met...

“Relics from mythology, like the Lady Mistborn’s knives, or the Lan...

“There are four indi...

“who, to our knowledge, have held the power of Ascension. Rashek, the S...

Warrior, and Lord Harmon...

He understood Identity as a Feruchemical ability, and knew the hidden metals. Indeed, he gave aluminum to his Inquisitors.”

if you held the Lord Ruler’s bracers, you supposedly gained his powers.”

a peak, hands raised above him and a glowing spear hovering there, just beyond his touch.

Stormlight?

he is able to recall being attacked in New Seran. We believe someone ambushed him there, on his return, and stole the artifacts he had discovered.”

“Since about six months ago. I put one into my purse in case you might need

carry the other two because I’m neurotic.”

was unnerving, and it was such a waste! If you had to shoot a man, society had already failed.

lost metal

“So, it has been my experience that the safest place in a gunfight is near you, Lord Waxillium.”

was surprised to find a small metal cube with bizarre symbols on it.

The ghostbloods. Is this the seon communication cube from Mraize?

A little metal cube.”

The symbols on that coin

bar. They’re the same ones as on the walls in the pictures ReLuur took.

The coin hoid gave him. Maybe from mistborn era 1?

“A face with one eye spiked through. Does it mean something?”

Kelsier?

Crasher: a Coinshot and a Skimmer.”

You are one