Mistborn #04 The Alloy of Law

experimentation by the Terris community, and aren’t spoken of to outsiders.
    It should be noted that the inbreeding of the Feruchemists with the general population has diluted the power in some ways. It is now common for people to be born with access to only one of the sixteen Feruchemical abilities. It is hypothesized that if one could make metalminds out of alloys with the God Metals, other abilities could be discovered.
    Hemalurgy is widely unknown in the modern world of Scadrial. Its secrets were kept close by those who survived their world’s rebirth, and the only known practitioners of it now are the kandra, who (for the most part) serve Harmony.
    Hemalurgy is an end-negative art. Some power is lost in the practice of it. Though many through history have maligned it as an “evil” art, none of the Investitures are actually evil. At its core, Hemalurgy deals with removing abilities—or attributes—from one person and bestowing them on another. It is primarily concerned with things of the Spiritual realm, and is of the greatest interest to me. If one of these three arts is of great interest to the Cosmere, it is this one. I think there are great possibilities for its use.

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    THE STORMLIGHT ARCHIVE
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    Warbreaker

    THE MISTBORN TRILOGY
    Mistborn
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    The Hero of Ages

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THE ALLOY OF LAW: A MISTBORN NOVEL

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sanderson, Brandon.
The alloy of law : a Mistborn novel / Brandon Sanderson. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
“A Tom Doherty Associates book.”
ISBN 978-0-7653-3042-0 (hardback)
I. Title.
PS3619.A533A79 2011
813'.6—dc22
2011021578

First Edition: November 2011

eISBN 978-1-4299-9489-7