Mistborn: The Hero of Ages
Cover of book three of the Mistborn trilogy.
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| Author | Brandon Sanderson |
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| Cover artist | Jon Foster |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Mistborn |
| Genre | Fantasy novel |
| Publisher | Tor Books, Macmillan Audio |
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Publication date
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October 14, 2008 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback), Digital Audio Download |
| Pages | 572 pp (first edition, hardback), 25.5 hours |
| ISBN | (first edition, hardback) |
| Preceded by | Mistborn: The Well of Ascension |
| Followed by | Mistborn: The Alloy of Law |
Mistborn: The Hero of Ages is the third novel of Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy, released on October 14, 2008. It was preceded by Mistborn: The Final Empire and Mistborn: The Well of Ascension.
The Hero of Ages is the prophesied savior of the Terris people, foretold to find and give up the power at the Well of Ascension, in a selfless act to save the world from the Deepness. However, the Terris prophecies proved to be altered, in a ruse intended to allow escape from imprisonment by a force named Ruin that wants the complete destruction of the world.
A mist spirit trying to help Vin and Sazed find the truth of the twisted prophecy, attempts to make Vin keep the power from the Well by deliberately wounding Elend, but believing in the prophecy, she releases it instead of saving Elend. In the Chamber of Ascension were once nuggets of pure Allomancy, the power of Preservation itself, fractions of the power in the Well, which changes those who ingest them into Mistborn. With no power to save the dying Elend, Vin is convinced by the mist spirit to give a remaining bead of Preservation to Elend.
Ruin wanted the world to be destroyed in the blink of an eye but his power was too weakened by his body having been taken and hidden by Preservation. Ruin became obsessed with finding his hidden body. Freedom from the Well of Ascension enabled Ruin to directly affect the world more, with the most destructive results in the increased ashfall from the ashmounts and growing earthquakes breaking the world apart; Ruin focused most of his energy in the last days to geological decay, while also influencing more people and controlling entire koloss armies. He used his thousand years of imprisonment to strategize the timing of the Lord Ruler's downfall to occur when Preservation's power returned to the Well of Ascension, followed with his being freed a few years later.
The Lord Ruler, in preparation of such an event, created storage caches containing valuables such as food and water in cave complexes beneath certain cities, each one providing directions to the next. As Vin and Elend struggle to consolidate the remaining outposts of humanity, they search in the storage caches for hints left by the Lord Ruler and the atium stash. Journeying from cache to cache, the world itself begins to crumble, ash spewing forth in greater quantities and the mists claiming more and more people. The last two unconquered cities are Fadrex City, which has reverted to the Lord Ruler's old structure of mass oppression, and Urteau, the rebel city where the Skaa are free, the nobility overpowered, and a former commoner titled the Citizen rules with increasing violence.
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