History Literature / TheMistbornAdventures

* AlternateSelf: Mile's other besides healing is to burn gold, seeing his past self and who he could become. His KnightTemplar Lawman alternate self hates him, but the process lets him take on some of those mental qualities.

See also ''Literature/{{Elantris}}'', ''Literature/{{Warbreaker}}'' and ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'' for more books by Creator/BrandonSanderson taking place in TheVerse known as Franchise/TheCosmere.

* HumanPuppetCollector: Bloody Tam, the serial killer at the beginning, makes carefully composed scenes using corpses.

** Aluminium and duralumin Mistings are referred to as "Aluminum/Duralumin Gnats" due to their powers having no practical uses at all. Both their metals have no effect except on other metals that the user is burning; aluminum instantly depletes a Mistborn's reserves of all metals, and duralumin works as a sort of "super-flare" for any other metals being burned at the time, depleting it all in an instant for a single massive effect. Both of these are only useful to full Mistborn, however, as they are the only people who can burn more than one metal- and since there are no Mistborn anymore, those people unlucky enough to be aluminum or duralumin Mistings essentially have no powers at all.

* MedievalStasis: Averted. Technology has progressed in many many fields since the events of the first trilogy. Also, the way people talk about philosophy and criminology is downright modern.

* ChekhovsSkill: Marasi is convinced her Allomantic power is useless. [[spoiler:Being able to slow down time by a significant factor for a large area allows the Wax and Marasi to stall for time as Wayne goes to fetch the military to apprehend the indestructible Miles.]]

Originally conceived while Sanderson was taking a break from working on the last volumes of ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' as a writing exercise, the story quickly grew beyond its planned scope, and was deemed suitable for publishing as a fully-fledged novel. Brandon Sanderson plans to write three or four books in this series before the release of the second ''Mistborn'' trilogy (planned to be set in a modern day universe with an Allomantic SWAT Team). There are currently two officially named books:

# ''Shadows of Self'' (Working Title, planned for Fall 2015)

# ''Shadows of Self'' (Working Title, planned for 2016)

** Wayne is able to rapidly heal from injuries as long as he has "health" stored in his gold metalminds (metal used for storing Feruchemy). Since the exchange is one-to-one, the net effect is still equivalent to normal healing -- each "unit" of health stored that can be tapped to speed up healing required him to worsen his health by an equivalent amount at some point in the past. Attempting to store up health and then using it to heal up while injured just means that the periods of lowered health will cancel out the periods of heightened health.

* HenpeckedHusband: At first it looks like Wax is doomed to become one of these; his fiancee Steris at first appears to be a joyless, humorless matron who hands him a fifty-page prenuptial agreement. Averted, however, in that it later becomes apparent [[spoiler: that Steris is just socially awkward and a meticulous planner, who fully intends to respect Wax's privacy and personal freedom. He marries her after all, probably in part so she can manage his business empire while he chases down criminals.]]

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** AlternateCharacterInterpretation: [[spoiler: And it's just possible that it ''is'' in effect. Steris certainly gets aroused during the rescue, though it's unclear whether the trigger was Wax's heroics or his Allomancy or what.]]

->''"When I found my way out to the Roughs, when I started bringing in the warranted, I started to... Well, I thought I'd found a place where I was needed. I thought I'd found a way to do something that nobody else would do. And yet, it appears that all along, the place I left behind might have needed me even more. I'd never noticed."''
--> --'''Waxillium "Wax" Ladrian'''

''The Mistborn Adventures'' is a SequelSeries to Creator/{{Brandon Sanderson}}'s [[Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy the first]] ''Franchise/{{Mistborn}}'' trilogy, set roughly 300 years later. It features Waxillium Ladrian, a noble that became a lawman in the WildWest-esque Roughs returning to his home in the city of Elendel to try and settle down. His attempts at the quiet life are quickly foiled, however, by the return of his old friend Wayne, his own internal desire to do the right thing, and the appearance of a mysterious group of thieves called "The Vanishers". Now, Wax, Wayne, and newcomer Marasi Colms, must team up to solve crimes and save the city. However, the Vanishers are only just the beginning of a much deeper conspiracy...

Brandon Sanderson plans to write three or four books in this series before the release of the second ''Mistborn'' trilogy (Planned to be set in a modern day universe with an Allomantic SWAT Team). There are currently two known books.

This page has its own [[Characters/TheMistbornAdventures Character Sheet]].

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!!This series provides examples of:
* AccidentalAimingSkills: Wax jokes that he once hit a criminal in the eye with a throwing knife while aiming for his balls.
** Wax later confessed was [[SubvertedTrope just trying to hit the man]], since his aim with knives isn't very good.

* AGodAmI: Miles
* AntiMagic: Aluminum (and some alloys thereof) is allomantically inert, and can't be Pushed or Pulled allomantically like other metals, also wearing an [[StealthPun aluminum foil hat (or just one lined with aluminum)]] protects against emotional Allomancy.
* AxeCrazy: Bloody Tan, the villain of the prologue. Also several other criminals from Wax and Wayne's BackStory are mentioned in passing.
* {{Badass}}: Wax, Wayne, and Miles.
* BadassBookworm: [[spoiler: Marasi]].

* BattleCouple: Wax and Lessie [[spoiler: until Lessie dies in the prologue]].
* BatmanGambit: Wax successfully pulls one off to defeat [[BigBad Miles]] at the end.
* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding: Everybody lives, but the ManBehindTheMan gets away, and Wax rejects Marasi]].
** [[spoiler: Also the first 4 hostages (and possibly Wax's sister) are still missing and presumably being repeatedly raped in an attempt to breed a new Mistborn.]]
*** [[spoiler: Or possibly worse, if that book that Marsh really wants Wax to read is about Hemalurgy. After all, making new Steel Inquisitors would need a lot of Mistings of varied abilities, and would be quicker than trying to breed even one new Mistborn.]]

* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: Done by Wax to [[spoiler: Miles]] repeatedly. The third or fourth time he complains about it. "Stop ''doing'' that! [[CurseCutShort You bast--]]"
** It should be noted he was blasting it "out" of his hand by blowing up the hand...
** It should also be noted that "bast--" was interrupted by [[spoiler: Miles]] being shot in the face. [[HealingFactor He got better.]]
* BuildingSwing: Wax, sorta.
* TheCameo: Hoid, Sanderson's LegacyCharacter who appears in every other book in the overarching multiverse of his setting, briefly appears at the wedding party, though not directly referenced by name, instead being mentioned as a shabby-looking fellow in black who might have been a beggar.
** Also, the wedding in question is of two 17thShard worldhoppers, by [[WordOfGod Word Of Brandon.]]
* ChekhovsGun: Oh so many, some of which are actual guns...
** When Marasi and Wax are trying to looking for a motive, Wax mentions the extensive genealogical resources in his uncle's library. [[spoiler:"It was a hobby of his."]]
* ChekhovsGunman: Ranette the gunsmith is mentioned early in the book, it's no surprise when she shows up nearer the end.
** Not to mention [[spoiler:Marsh aka Ironeyes, showing up right at the end.]]
* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler: Hmm, I wonder if Marasi's apparently useless Allomantic power will come in handy after all?]]
* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler: Mister Suit]]

* CurbstompBattle: [[spoiler: Miles]] gives one to [[spoiler: Wax]] near the end. [[spoiler: Of course Wax was just trying to buy time as part of a BatmanGambit...]]

** That or the , who are either EliteMooks or [[MiniBoss mini-boses]]
* ExactWords: Wayne says that Wax was lying about not bringing a gun. Wax replies that he didn't bring ''a'' gun and draws a second one.
** Also after Steris asks that people stop talking about shooting people and hitting them with bricks, Marasi brings up throwing knives at them.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Miles]], though his time as a Face was before the book started.
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: Wax's uncle.]]

* GuileHero: Wax, full stop. Wayne and Marasi are no slouches either. Sanderson really loves this trope.
* HealingFactor: Wayne. [[spoiler: Miles]] makes {{Wolverine}} look like a wimp.

* InsaneTrollLogic: PlayedForLaughs: "Logic doesn't work on Wayne."
--> "I bought a ward against [logic] off a traveling fortune-teller," Wayne explained. It lets me add two 'n' two and get a pickle."
* LegendFadesToMyth: The events of the original trilogy have taken on mythological and religious significance to the later generations. The most humorous of these changes is the ancient [[SacredLanguage High Speech]]; when an example of it is given, it's quickly recognizable to readers as the silly-sounding thieves' cant used by a few characters in the original trilogy!
** There are no more full Mistborn, and Wax considers them at least half-mythical. Hemalurgy is also forgotten according to the appendix. Given how messy it is, and how obscure it was, this is probably for the best.
* LighterAndSofter: It's much less serious then the original trilogy and the setting is much less grim.
* MagicPants: [[spoiler: [[NighInvulnerable Miles]] sets off dynamite in his hand to escape a net. His shirt is destroyed, but his pants survive.]]

* MasterOfDisguise: Wayne.

* MiniBoss: If the vanishers with aluminum guns count as EliteMooks then most of the enemy allomancers must count as this. In particular Push and Pull are introduced right before the climax entirely to help defeat Max and together seem worthy of MiniBoss status

* TalkingIsAFreeAction: The most common use of Wayne's slow-time bubbles.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Tillaume]] attempts this after trying two other methods of assassination.
* TheCavalry: [[spoiler: Wayne arriving at the head of a small army of constables to take down Miles in the finale.]]
* ThemeNaming: The heroes are Wax and Wayne.

* [[UltimateBlacksmith Ultimate Gunsmith]]: Ranette.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: Miles]] thinks of himself as one.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Marasi feels this way about her Allomantic ability [[spoiler: but it ends up being instrumental in stopping Miles.]]
** Aluminium and duralumin Mistings follow this trope to the letter however. Both their metals have no effect except on other metals that the user is burning; aluminum instantly depletes a Mistborn's reserves of all metals, and duralumin works as a sort of "super-flare" for any other metals being burned at the time, depleting it all in an instant for a single massive effect. Both of these are only useful to full Mistborn, however, as they are the only people who can burn more than one metal- and since there are no Mistborn anymore, those people unlucky enough to be aluminum or duralumin Mistings essentially have no powers at all.
*** According to WordOfGod however the full ability of aluminum burning is not yet understood. Rather than simply depleting the metal reserves of the burner it is in fact removing ''all'' magical influence from the body.
**** Which, given the logical nature and strict parallelism of Allomancy, implies that the full nature of Duralumin, and the external matches to these metals (nicrosil and chromium) are also not fully understood.
** The fact that they are mistings with effectively no power is why Aluminum and Duralumin Mistings are referred to as "Aluminum Gnats" and "Duralumin Gnats" as far as Misting nicknames go. They don't get cool names, instead they're shown as pretty much worthless.
* XanatosGambit: Turns out that Mr. Suit was running a masterful one throughout the whole book...

Brandon Sanderson plans to write three or four books in this series before the release of the second ''Mistborn'' trilogy. There are currently two known books.

*** [[spoiler: Or possibly worse, if that book that Marsh really wants Marasi to read is about Hemalurgy. After all, making new Steel Inquisitors would need a lot of Mistings of varied abilities, and would be quicker than trying to breed even one new Mistborn.]]

** Wax's last name, Ladrian, ties him directly to Breeze. So, presumably he's a distant descendant of Breeze and Allriane.

->''The more alone you are, the more important it is to have someone you can rely upon.''
-> -- The first rule of the Roughs

The Alloy of Law is the fourth book in the Franchise/{{Mistborn}} series, a stand alone story set roughly 300 years after the events of [[Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy the first trilogy]]. It features Waxillium Ladrian, a lawman from out in the [[WildWest Roughs]] coming to the city to try and settle down. His attempts at the quiet life are quickly foiled, however, by the return of his old friend Wayne and his own internal desire to do the right thing.

See also ''Literature/{{Elantris}}'', ''Literature/{{Warbreaker}}'' and ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'' for more books by Creator/BrandonSanderson taking place in TheVerse known as Franchise/TheCosmere. Per WordOfGod, Sanderson plans two or three direct sequels to ''Alloy'' featuring the same characters, as well as two more ''Mistborn'' trilogies set further down the timeline. The first sequel is tentatively titled ''Shadows of Self'', but is not yet written and no release date or other info has been revealed.

This page has its own [[Characters/{{TheAlloyOfLaw}} Character Sheet]].

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