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{{epigraph|Sometimes, I worry that I’m not the hero everyone thinks I am.<br><br>
The philosophers assure me that this is the time, that the signs have been met.
What would they think if they knew that their champion
When they see me, do they see a liar?}}
;Characters: Lord Tresting, [[Straff Venture|Lord Venture]]
;Summary
Lord Tresting entertains an obligator sent by Lord Venture, hoping to gain
;Other Notes
== Chapter 1 ==
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{{epigraph|I consider myself to be a man of principle.
Perhaps another person, reading of my life, would name me a religious tyrant.
I guess it all comes down to one fact: In the end,
;Characters: [[Vin]], [[Ulef]], [[Camon]], [[Theron]], Prelan [[Laird]]
Vin introduced, summoned to Camon by Ulef.
Camon pretends to be Lord Jedue, head of a house desperately looking for new contracts; this is a cover, an attempt to scam the [[Steel Ministry]] out of money.
Vin [[Brass|Soothes]] the obligator Prelan Laird so he
;Notes
== Chapter 2 ==
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{{epigraph|If men read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden.
They hint, however, that I will have the power to destroy it as well.}}
Kelsier meets up with Dockson, they talk about their upcoming meeting.
Camon, as Lord Jedue, takes Vin to scam the [[Steel Ministry|Ministry]]; Kelsier and Dockson sit in the waiting room with Camon and Vin; Vin [[Brass|Soothes]] the High Prelan, and he gives Camon three thousand boxings.
Kelsier and Dockson see the High Prelan and a [[Steel Inquisitor]] tail Camon, Vin, and the rest of
Dockson plans to distract the [[obligator]], while Kelsier plans to distract the [[Bendal|Inquisitor]].
== Chapter 3 ==
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{{epigraph|We arrived in [[Terris]] earlier this week, and, I have to say, I find the countryside beautiful.
The people here are mostly herdsmen
;Characters: [[Camon]], [[Vin]], [[Ulef]], [[Kelsier]], [[Dockson]], [[Milev]]
Vin's nervousness about the meeting with the [[obligator]] causes her to want to leave Camon's lair.
She tells Ulef, whom she wants to bring along, but he tells Camon while she retrieves her personal effects (including the [[hemalurgy|hemalurgic]] earring her mother gave her).
Kelsier saves Vin, promotes
Millev's crew leaves for a while so Kelsier can test Vin for being a [[Allomancy#Mistborn|Mistborn]].
== Chapter 4 ==
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{{epigraph|Apparently, the next stage of my quest will take us up into the highlands of [[Terris]].
Our normal attendants will not do for such a trip. We should probably hire some Terris packmen to carry our gear.}}
;Characters: [[Ulef]], Disten (a head pointman in <del>
;Summary
Kelsier and Dockson had left for a while, letting the crew return for a bit.
;Notes
== Chapter 5 ==
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{{epigraph|I
The [[Deepness]] must be destroyed, and apparently
;Characters
;Summary
Small talk after the meeting; [[Hammond]], [[Breeze]], [[Yeden]] have left.
;Notes
First mention of [[OreSeur]] by name.
== Chapter 6 ==
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{{epigraph|I never wanted this, true.
On this fact, however, I don’t have to take the word of the philosophers.
;Characters
;Summary
Vin wakes up in a room in
;Notes
[[Skaa rebellion]] caves named: [[Arguois caverns]]; Kelsier estimates they could hold ten thousand people.
[[Fellise]], location of Lord [[Renoux]]
Renoux mentioned as a western lord, from the [[Farmost Dominance]].
Spook named by
== Chapter 7 ==
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{{epigraph|[[Rashek]] is a tall man
Yet, it amazes me that anyone would give heed to a man that speaks such hatred.
;Characters
;Summary
Marsh and Kelsier talk and argue about old times, not talking about the details of the job.
;Notes
== Chapter 8 ==
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{{epigraph|"[[Hero of Ages|He]] shall defend [[Terris|their]] ways, yet shall violate them. He will be their savior; yet they shall call him heretic. His name shall be Discord, yet they shall love him for it.
;Characters
;Summary
Vin and Kelsier go over the [[Luthadel]] walls, walking out into the night wilderness. Vin notices something following them, and Kelsier shows her that it was a [[mistwraith]]. Kelsier takes her to the main road where they meed up with Sazed, waiting for them with a carriage.
;Notes
;Characters
[[Vin]], [[Kelsier]], [[Sazed]], Cosahn (a [[skaa]] servant/hair stylist at [[Renoux]]
;Summary
Vin and Kelsier spar in a training match, playing cat & mouse.
;Notes
This chapter begins in late autumn; a comment by Kelsier confirms that the Prologue was only a few months earlier.
== Chapter 10 ==
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{{epigraph|It amazes me how many nations have united behind our purpose.
Still, this general unity is glorious, even humbling, to contemplate.
;Characters
[[Vin]], [[Breeze]], Rudd (a [[Skaa rebellion|sympathetic]] [[skaa]] guard), Cobble (one of
;Summary
Vin has returned to [[Luthadel]] to learn about other metals from the [[misting]]s in the [[Kelsier's crew|crew]], starting with Breeze.
;Notes
Possible additional unnamed character
== Chapter 11 ==
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{{epigraph|It seems [[Rashek]] represents a growing faction in [[Terris]] culture.
They will have to be watched carefully, these Terrismen.
;Characters
;Summary
Some of the crew go to investigate the destroyed lair.
;Notes
== Chapter 12 ==
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{{epigraph|What would it be like if every nation
It is too much, I suppose, to even hope for.
;Characters
;Summary
Vin heads off to a ball at [[Keep Venture]], Sazed driving the carriage.
;Notes
==Chapter 13==
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{{epigraph|I know that I
Nevertheless, I continue my trek, going where the scribbled [[Terris Prophecies|auguries]] proclaim that I will meet my destiny
;Characters
;Summary
Sazed had questioned Vin on her interaction with [[Elend]], and
;Notes
House Erikeller mentioned as a major supplier of armaments.
== Chapter 14 ==
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{{epigraph|Sometimes I wonder if
Perhaps it is due to the pressure of knowing that I must somehow bear the burden of an entire world.
Either way, I sometimes see [[Ruin|shadows]] following me.
;Characters
;Summary
Kelsier leads Vin into [[Kredik Shaw]], and they fight their way towards the hut that the [[Lord Ruler]] visits for three hours every three days.
;Notes
A room that Vin stumbled into during her escape from Kredik Shaw contained a golden altar and
== Chapter 15 ==
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{{epigraph|I
;Characters
;Summary
The crew argues about
;Notes
First mention of a [[metalmind]], as Sazed admits to using an entire one up to make the trip from [[Renoux]]
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== Chapter 16 ==
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{{epigraph|Many think that my journey started in [[Khlennium]], that great city of wonder.
I think it would do men well to remember that this task was not begun by emperors, priests, prophets, or generals.
It began in a small, unimportant town whose name would mean nothing to you.
It began with me.}}
;Summary
Vin awakes after two weeks of resting, and Spook tells her how Kelsier had given him his new nickname in the interim. While talking with Dox, Vin realizes that
;Notes
Sazed admits to knowing 172 languages, most of which are no longer spoken after
== Chapter 17 ==
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{{epigraph|Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if
Perhaps someone else would have come to carry this terrible burden.
;Characters
[[Renoux]], [[Vin]], Tawnson (a [[skaa]] house-servant of
;Summary
Vin internally laments a four-week recovery full of boredom.
;Notes
== Chapter 18 ==
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{{epigraph|You could say that circumstances forced me to leave my home behind
I am slowly coming to understand that anonymity, like so many other things, has already been lost to me forever.}}
;Characters
[[Vin]], [[Sazed]], [[Elend]], Stase Blanches (
;Summary
Vin attends the party at Keep Elariel.
;Notes
== Chapter 19 ==
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{{epigraph|[[Kwaan]] and I met by happenstance
I have met may other [[Terris]] philosophers since that day.
Not so Kwaan. In a way, he is as unlikely a prophet as I am a hero.
That he should be the one who finally discovered the great [[Hero of Ages|Hero]] of Terris prophecy is a matter that would cause me to laugh, had events turned out just a little differently.}}
;Summary
Kelsier sows more chaos to build the House War by leaving the obviously-murdered body of one Charrs Entrone in the garden of [[House Tekiel]].
== Chapter 20 ==
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{{epigraph|It
This [[Ruin|dark thing]] that follows me, this thing that only I can see
Or mist, perhaps.}}
;Summary
Vin returns from [[Luthadel]] to see weapons being crated up in front of
==Chapter 21==
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{{epigraph|"The [[Hero of Ages]] shall not be a man, but a force.
;Characters
;Summary
Kelsier reads a translation of the [[Mistborn:_The_Final_Empire/Epigraphs|journal]] as he travels by canal boat.
== Chapter 22 ==
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{{epigraph|At first, there were those who didn't think the Deepness was a serious danger, at least not to them.
▲ This is the thing I fight. This is the monster I must defeat. I fear that I have taken too long. Already, so much destruction has occured that I fear for mankind's survival.
Is this truly the end of the world, as many of the philosophers predict?}}
;Summary
Vin reads from her copy of the [[Mistborn:_The_Final_Empire/Epigraphs|journal]] when Spook arrives.
Vin gets to talk to Dockson, and asks him about his former life as a plantation skaa. Dockson tell her his story, how a woman he loved was taken by Lord Devinshae and killed the next morning.
▲Vin gets to talk to Dockson, and asks him about his former life as a plantation skaa. Dockson tell her his story, how a woman he loved was taken by Lord Devinshae and killed the next morning. Dockson tells Vin all noblemen are like that, but Vin finds that hard to believe after talking to the noblemen at the balls. Vin is left wondering if Elend has ever taken and murdered a skaa woman.
== Chapter 23 ==
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{{epigraph|I sleep but a few hours each night.
And, above it all, I hear the thumping sounds from above, the pulsings from the mountains. Drawing me closer with each beat.}}
;Characters
;Summary
Vin is conversing with other members of the nobility, and is pleased to find out Kelsier's attempts at causing tension among the Houses is working.
== Chapter 24 ==
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{{epigraph|In the end, I must trust in myself.
If I ever lose this, then I will know that I've passed beyond hope of redemption.}}
;Characters
;Summary
Kelsier and Vin both arrive at Club's shop, where many of the other crew members are. Kelsier discusses the status of the mission, and Vin realizes how much she loves her new life, without hiding in the shadows.
== Chapter 25 ==
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= Epilogue =
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{{epigraph|Oddly, on occasion, I sense a peacefulness within. You would think that after all I have seen
But then, there is the peace.<br />
I feel it sometimes, as I do now, staring out over the frozen cliffs and glass mountains in the still of the morning, watching a sunrise that is so majestic that I know that none shall ever be its match.<br />
If there are prophecies, if there is a Hero of Ages, then my mind whispers that there must be something directing my path. Something is watching; something cares. There peaceful whispers tell me a truth I wish very much to believe.<br />
If I fail, another shall come to finish my work.}}
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