Summary:Shadows of Self

This page contains a chapter by chapter summary of Shadows of Self We hope this summary will make it easier to find specific areas of the book, as well as providing a quick plot refresher for anyone who doesn't want to take the time to reread the entire book.

Prologue

Wax gets off his horse and enters a saloon. He asks the barkeep about 'Granite Joe', the outlaw he has been tracking. The barkeep tells him that if he'll pay, he might know someone who knows Granite Joe. Once Wax says he will pay, the barkeep leads him to a small room near the stairs, telling him to wait. While waiting, a woman breaks in carefully through the window, but is surprised to see someone else in the room. After a standoff, they work out they are both after the same quarry, and resolve to work together and split the reward. When Wax tells her that he asked the barkeep about Joe, she's incredulous, telling him everyone in the saloon belongs to Joe. They realize it is a trap, but when they try and escape back through the window, they are stopped by a sharpshooter. They decide to make for the next floor and escape through a window on the other side of the building. They make it <unfinished>

Ars Arcanum

The arcanum displays a detailed chart of the metals (Metals Quick Reference Chart), a List of Metals with properties explained and a short essay, On The Three Metallic Arts. The last compares Allomancy with Investitures from Sel, as well as a mention that the Cosmere is greatly interested in Hemalurgy. The first parts are the same as The Alloy of Law arcanum. A further section discussing the twinborn combinations of powers is additional to this.