The Bands of Mourning: A Mistborn Novel: 6 (Mistborn Saga)

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Hidden in Plain Sight: Kelsier hid the Bands of Mourning in the form of a spearhead on the statue of him in front of the temple (which appears to be aluminum at first glace). Then, he armed a corridor with booby-traps galore, only for the room at the end to contain a shattered case, as if the bands had been stolen. A second decoy is in a lower room along with the bodies of the ones who constructed the temple, all to distract from the spearhead. He is a con-man, after all. Already Undone for You: Averted. The first trap in the temple stayed triggered, and the bodies of the last explorers are still there. When it turns out that the Bands were already stolen, Wax realizes that it would be almost impossible to reset most of the traps (such as the collapsing ceiling), which means that either the thief evaded every single trap, or there was no thief. Durable Deathtrap: Enough of the traps in the Temple of Doom work fine after three hundred years. The only ones that don't are the scythe traps (which were just poorly designed) and the acid trap (which froze in the uninsulated stone temple). Marasi has been working well with Constable-General Reddi the last two weeks, getting information from the soldiers about the Set. Suit has not talked. Aradel prepares for war with the outer cities.

Wayne wants a ride to a certain part of the city via gondola. So he disguises himself as a rich gentleman who hires a gondolier's services for the whole day at a suspicious rate. While on a ride to a distant part of the city, Wayne lets slip a trace of a thuggish accent, so gondolier suspects that he's being set up for a robbery and hastily drops him off at the nearest port—exactly the spot where Wayne wanted. The gondolier didn't even ask him to pay. Wax also realizes that the bracers were another decoy. Wayne weeps. Wax figures out what the real Bands are, but he dies before he can speak. Karma Houdini Warranty: Karma finally catches up with Suit in his jail cell when the mysterious power behind the Set decide he has served well, and he will be allowed to serve further in another Realm. We’ve done this with most of my books so far, and it’s been very well received. I like having a way for people who can’t reach a signing to get a signed copy. However, as my popularity has grown, doing all of these signatures has become increasingly difficult—in part because of the extravagant requests that people sometimes have for the personalizations in their books. Waxillium "Wax" Ladrian: The head of House Ladrian and a special constable and detective, Wax was once a lawman of the roughs. He is a Twinborn with the Allomantic ability to Push metals and the Feruchemical ability to increase or decrease his weight. Wax has been emotionally closed off and enraged at Harmony following the events in Shadows of Self.

Firstborn · The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England · I Hate Dragons · Heuristic Algorithm and Reasoning Response Engine · The Rithmatist Wayne is filled with hatred for the world as Wax dies. Wax was the only one who believed in him. He grabs Wax's shotgun and wills his hands to stop shaking. Wayne grinned. “Oh, is that how it works? ’Cuz in my experience, marryin’ is the one thing people seem to get worse at the more they do it. Well, that and bein’ alive.” Wax is now in another room and is wounded. Edwarn shows up and tells Wax that Telsin recruited him into the Set.

Mayfly–December Romance: Wayne and MeLaan. He's thirty-some and she's about six hundred and virtually immortal, not to mention a Gender Bender. However, they do get along fabulously. Marasi and MeLaan creep around and find some finished rooms. They speculate on where the spike could be. Marasi thinks the Set still has it somewhere because they would want to study it. She sees the limping guy from the train and suggests they follow him inside the ship. Villain Has a Point: As the book wears on, it becomes increasingly clear that the outer cities have genuine grievances against Elendel. While comparing Elendel's economic hegemony to the Final Empire's tyranny is laughable, the situation does bear quite a bit of resemblance to events that caused real-world revolutions. Of course, the Set is intentionally making things worse, inflaming the populace and squashing any possibility of a non-violent solution. Many of them are Elendel nobles, but they only used their positions to make things worse. They actually owned the governor outright for a time, but still only ramped up tensions. Some sort of being with red eyes visits Suit in his jail cell. He ominously announces that they are going to end all life on this sphere. Then he detonates a bomb. Wax stood still, looking into the carriage. The coachman cleared his throat, still standing and holding the door open for him.The "The" Title Confusion: A victim of it on This Very Wiki. There is, in fact, a definite article in the title. Wax can tell that the glass wasn't broken recently because of the dust. He warns of other traps in the room. Edwarn is angry and says it's time to end this. Wax recognizes this as a signal to the mole he figured must be with them and guesses correctly that it's his sister, Telsin. They shoot each other, but only her aluminum bullet hits. Don't Fear the Reaper: Like Preservation before him, Harmony greets the souls of everyone who dies on Scadrial before they pass Beyond. You can request a specific quote, of your choosing. This shouldn’t be longer than a short paragraph, maybe 30 or so words in length. It doesn’t have to be a quote from one of my books—it can basically be anything you wish. (I do ask that you avoid profanity or vulgarities.) He perched on the water tower, looming over the church. So he was here, finally. He felt his eye begin to twitch, and an ache rose within him.