Mistborn 1: The Final Empire Marriage Against the sweeping backdrop of

Against the sweeping backdrop of a world seared by war and plagued with uncertainty

he falls into a lengthy affair with an Italian bartender and is confounded and tortured by his sexual identity as he oscillates between the two

dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century—from overcoming death to creating artificial life

bumbling around in a world of bizarre monsters and crazy people without a clue

Mistborn 1: The Final Empire Marriage Against the sweeping backdrop ofMistbornFor a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart broken half Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler's most hellish prison. Kelsier