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SUMMARY OF BOOK ONE

Mistborn: The Final Empire introduced the land of the Final Empire, ruled over by a powerful immortal known as the Lord Ruler A thousand years before, the Lord Ruler took the power at the Well of Ascension and supposedly defeated a powerful force or creature known only as the Deepness

The Lord Ruler conquered the knoorld and founded the Final E out all reions, and languages that used to exist in his land In their place he set up his own system Certain peoples were dubbed "skaa," a word thatakin to "slave" or "peasant" Other peoples were dubbed nobility, and most of these were descendants of those people who had supported the Lord Ruler during his years of conquest The Lord Ruler had supposedly given theain powerful assassins and warriors who had minds that could think, as opposed to the brutish koloss, and had used the his empire

Skaa and nobility were forbidden to interbreed, and the nobility were so the thousand years of the Lord Ruler's reign,the skaa, but none were successful

Finally, a half-breed Mistborn known as Kelsier decided to challenge the Lord Ruler Once the entleman thieves in the Final E schemes Those eventually ended with his capture, however, and he had been sent to the Lord Ruler's death camp at the Pits of Hathsin, the secret source of atium

It was said that nobody ever escaped the Pits of Hathsin alive--but Kelsier did just that He gained his powers as a Mistborn during that ti the title the Survivor of Hathsin At this point, he turned fro plan yet: the overthrow of the Final Empire

He recruited a teas, to help hi this tiirl naht her into the crew to train her, theoretically to have soacy

Kelsier's crely gathered an underground aran to fear that Kelsier was setting hiht to ious figure to them Meanwhile, Vin--who had been raised on the streets by a cruel brother--was growing to trust people for the first tian to believe in Kelsier and his purpose

During the process of working on their plan, Vin was used as a spy a the nobility, and was trained to infiltrate their balls and parties playing the part of "Valette Renoux," a young noblewo the first of these balls, she , idealistic nobleman He eventually showed her that not all noble of their poor reputation, and the two became enamored of each other, despite Kelsier's best efforts

The crew also discovered a journal, apparently written by the Lord Ruler hi the days before the Ascension This book painted a different picture of the tyrant; it depicted ahis best to protect the people against the Deepness, despite the fact that he didn't really understand it

In the end, it was revealed that Kelsier's plan had been much more broad than simple use of the army to overthrow the e troops so that he would have an excuse to spread rumors about himself He also used it to train his crew in the arts of leadership and persuasion The true extent of his plan was revealed when he sacrificed his life in a very visible way,them to rise up and overthrow the Lord Ruler

One of Kelsier's crew the part of "Lord Renoux," Valette's uncle--turned out to be a kandra named OreSeur OreSeur took on Kelsier's for ru the skaa After this, he beca over her after Kelsier's death

Vin was the one who in fact killed the Lord Ruler She discovered that he wasn't actually a god, or even immortal--he had si use of both Allomancy and Feruchebook--but, instead, was that reat power Still, he washi them in place of metals She still doesn't knohy or how this happened With that power--and with the knowledge of his true nature--she was able to defeat and kill him

The Final Empire was thrown into chaos Elend Venture took control of Luthadel, the capital, and put Kelsier's crew in priovernmental positions

One year has passed