{"id":1283,"date":"2009-10-08T22:37:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T04:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2015-05-29T21:40:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T03:40:17","slug":"the-final-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=1283","title":{"rendered":"The Final Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/51E-7V-PDyL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5070\" src=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/51E-7V-PDyL-185x300.jpg\" alt=\"51E+7V-PDyL\" width=\"185\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/51E-7V-PDyL-185x300.jpg 185w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/51E-7V-PDyL.jpg 309w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><\/a>At long, long last, I have found copies of some of Brandon Sanderson\u2019s Mistborn trilogy. Sanderson, you may already be aware, is about to publish the first of the concluding volumes to Robert Jordan\u2019s Wheel of Time series. Naturally, therefore, I\u2019m interested in seeing how his previous writing style goes. And awesomely, I can report that\u00a0<a title=\"My review of Elantris\" href=\"http:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=1179\" target=\"_blank\">Elantris<\/a> was not a one-hit wonder.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson, at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Final-Empire-Mistborn-Book\/dp\/0765350386\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Final Empire<\/a> tells the story of an indentured people that have been held down for a thousand years partially by the ruling noble class but mostly by the Lord Emperor, an immortal god-ascended man who once saved the world from a vague being known only as the Deepness, and by that man\u2019s Inquisitors. It doesn\u2019t help the enslaved skaa that the nobles are not only propped up by the regime, but that some of them also have magic powers derived from burning ingested metals and related alloys, such that they can see better or have more strength than normal people, or even influence emotions. Skaa women with whom the nobles dally are immediately killed to prevent the talents from entering that population, though of course it\u2019s not a perfect system\u2026<\/p>\n<p>And then, there are those who have not the power to burn one metal, but the power to burn them all. These Mistborn are virtually unstoppable, except in combat with each other, or with the Lord Ruler\u2019s Inquisitors. A skaa Mistborn would be the most dangerous creature the Final Empire has ever encountered. And though I bet you can guess what happens next, the story has twists and turns galore to keep you guessing at every moment. And after a full-blown stand-alone conclusion, there are still two more books worth of supposed awesome ahead of me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At long, long last, I have found copies of some of Brandon Sanderson\u2019s Mistborn trilogy. Sanderson, you may already be aware, is about to publish the first of the concluding volumes to Robert Jordan\u2019s Wheel of Time series. Naturally, therefore, I\u2019m interested in seeing how his previous writing style goes. And awesomely, I can report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1281,106,1288],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-cosmere","tag-fantasy","tag-mistborn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5072,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions\/5072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}