She meets Elend Venture, a nobleman/scholar, who also opposes the Lord Ruler. She is originally terrified of these parties, but eventually succeeds in becoming skilled at manipulating people.

Kelsier uses Vin to infiltrate the parties of the noblemen, gaining information and spreading disorder. The group is hounded by Steel Inquisitors, intent on stopping their plans from succeeding. The band of thieves are promised the cache of the Lord Ruler's atium, an Allomantic metal that allows Allomancers to see a few seconds into the future, as reward for their contributions. They are intent on overthrowing the Lord Ruler, a god-like tyrant who has ruled for a thousand years. She is then taken into a group of thieves led by Kelsier. Camon is a criminal gang leader, who uses Vin for her Allomantic abilities.

She lived with Reen for a while, while he taught her how to survive on the the streets. Vin is a street urchin, who was saved by her brother Reen from her mother, who killed her baby sister at the same time she pierced Vin's ear, and gave her an earring. Publisher: Orion Publishing Co ISBN: 9780575089914 Number of pages: 672 Weight: 465 g Dimensions: 132 x 200 x 42 mm You may also be interested in.For a chapter by chapter summary, see /Summary. She will have to learn to trust, if Kel is to help her master powers of which she never dreamed. Vin has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets, and gotten it. Like him, she's a half-Skaa orphan, but she's lived a much harsher life. But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel's plan looks like a long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life. Kelsier recruited the underworld's elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. Only he's not just planning the greatest heist in history, he's plotting the overthrow of a divine despot. A brilliant thief and natural leader, Kelsier will turn his talents to the ultimate caper: one with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark. Hope is long lost, until a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa in the depths of the most hellish prison and discovered he has the powers of a Mistborn. For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed.įor a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear while the Lord Ruler reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, a divinely invincible leader.

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