The Final Empire

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For a thousand years ash has fallen from the sky, mists have covered the night, and the immortal Lord Ruler has reigned over the Final Empire, where the nobility live off the labor of the enslaved skaa. Kelsier, a half-skaa thief who escaped the Lord Ruler's worst prison camp, is one of the rare Mistborn, able to draw magical powers from metals. He gathers a crew of thieves for an impossible job: to bring down the empire itself. Among his recruits is Vin, a wary girl from the streets who is only beginning to learn what she can do. The Final Empire, published in 2006, is the first book of Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy.

• Women revolutionaries
• Adventure
• Magic
• Courts and courtiers
• Thieves
• Nobility
• Epic
• Good and evil