Mistborn: The Hero of Ages is the final 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. Vin, after taking the power of the Well of Ascension at the end of the previous book, released it into the world instead of saving Elend. Elend, however, survived by consuming a bead of metal which made him an extremely powerful Mistborn. However, the entirety of the Terrismen prophecies were shown to have been changed by the god, Ruin, in order to trick Vin into freeing it from the Well. Now... Ruin has been released and is beginning to destroy the world. 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 from cache to cache, looking for the atium stash, the world itself begins to crumble, ash spewing forth in greater quantities and the mists claiming more and more people.
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| Author: | Brandon Sanderson |
| Genre: | Speculative fiction, Fantasy |
| Year published: | 2008 |
| Number of editions: | 1 |