The Lost Metal

Key Takeaways

Kyle, in 2023 in Books: After having spent a LOT of time in The Stormlight Archive this year, it was nice to come back to the Mistborn world.

One of the elements of world building, to my untrained mind, is the ability to jump around in time and still feel anchored in the world you’ve created. Whether you’re jumping 10, 50, or 1,000 years into the future, you still feel the knowing pangs of familiarity when reading a story.

Connections

Books:

• Shadow of Self — establishes the Mistborn Era 2 (Wax and Wayne) sequence context: The Alloy of Law → Shadow of Self → The Bands of Mourning → The Lost Metal. The Lost Metal is the final book of Era 2, set three centuries after Era 1.
• The Hero of Ages · The Well of Ascension — Era 1 predecessors; the Cosmere threads running through Era 1 (Ruin, Preservation, the mists) resolve and evolve into Era 2’s setting.