Mistborn series

Mistborn is a series of epic fantasy novels written by American author Brandon Sanderson and published by Tor Books. The first series consists of the original trilogy of The Final Empire, The Well of Ascension, and The Hero of Ages published between 2006 and 2008.

To prepare readers for the second trilogy, Sanderson wrote a transitional sequel, The Alloy of Law, which then turned into the first installment in the four-book Wax and Wayne series set 300 years later The Wax and Wayne book titles are The Alloy of Law released on 8 November 2011, Shadows of Self, released on 6 October 2015, The Bands of Mourning published on 26 January 2016, and The Lost Metal (working title), in production.

There are two other planned trilogies, but they have no projected completion dates.

Books in the series

Setting

The series primarily takes place in a region called the Final Empire on a world called Scadrial. One thousand years before the story begins, the ruler of the Final Empire, the Lord Ruler, gained access to a divine power at what is called the "Well of Ascension". With this power, he remade the world and everything in it into its state at the beginning of the first book. In the Final Empire, a Dominance is a territory within the Lord Ruler's empire.