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{{book
|cover=Mistborn 2.jpg
|released=August 21, 2007{{bws ref|its-out-amphigory|Release announcement|date=2007-08-21}}
|series=[[Mistborn trilogy]]
|prequel=Mistborn: The Final Empire|sequel=The Hero of Ages
|setting=[[Scadrial]], [[Cosmere]]
|publisher=Tor Books
|ISBN=978-0-7653-1688-2
|annotations=
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'''The Well of Ascension''' is the second volume of the [[Mistborn trilogy]] by [[Brandon Sanderson]]. It is preceded by [[The Final Empire]] and followed by [[The Hero of Ages]]. The book follows the remaining members of [[Kelsier|Kelsier's]] crew as they try to bring stability to [[Luthadel]] and the rest of the [[Final Empire]] in the chaos following the death of [[The Lord Ruler]]. Faced with armies laying seige to the city outside the walls, political factions and unrest among the newly-freed skaa within, and a new, sinister change in behaviour from the mists themselves, [[Vin]], and the rest of the crew, along with the newly crowned King [[Elend Venture]], must find a way to protect the fledgling empire they have created.
Within the city, Elend's new Assembly is quickly getting out of hand as political factions among the nobility, merchants, and working skaa members each vie for their own solutions to the problems of the armies, in most cases, a call for surrender to Straff or Cett and a wish for things to go back to the way they were before the [[Collapse]]. Elend's lack of training in leadership allows the Assembly members to dismiss him, and his preoccupation with other issues forces his attention away from keeping them in line. Under the tutelage of a [[Terris|Terriswoman]] [[Keeper]] named [[Tindwyl]], Elend starts to become the king his people need. However, not quite quickly enough, for the Assembly deposes him and chooses [[Ferson Penrod]] as king instead.
Meanwhile, Vin struggles with trying to protect Elend from the growing threats against him and his kingdom, while facing personal issues of doubt and insecurity over who she is. The contract of [[OreSeur]] has passed to her with Kelsier's death, and while she dislikes the [[kandra]] greatly and has him wear the body of a wolfhound instead of a human, they grudgingly learn to work together. In her nights out in the mists, she begins encountering someone whom she names "The Watcher." She later learns that he is [[Zane]], Elend's half-brother by one of Straff's mistresses and a mistborn of great skill.
Outside of Luthadel, [[Sazed]] travels the land, trying to teach the skaa the knowledge he has carried for a time such as this, though he is disheartened by their apathy for it. [[Marsh]] finds him and the two travel to the [[Conventical of Seran]], an abandoned Inquisitor stronghold. There, Sazed finds a large metal plaque written in ancient Terris and takes a rubbing of it to study. Concerned with the importance of this work, Sazed decides to return to Luthadel to work on the project, though on the way Marsh mysteriously disappears one night, and he begins encountering skaa who tell of the mists coming in the daytime and killing people.
; [[Vin]] : She struggles with her love of Elend whilst she protects him from enemy Allomancers, fighting with [[Zane]] until finally choosing to believe she is the [[Hero of Ages]], she finds the [[Well of Ascension]] and lets the powers contained there dissipate, releasing [[Ruin]].
; [[Elend]] : He attempts to rule his new kingdom fairly, by the constitution he created. He is eventually deposed.
; [[Sazed]] : Spends his time deciphering Kwaan's inscription, to later discover that Ruin was altering it. Falls in love with [[Tindwyl]].
;[[TenSoon]]: A kandra of the Third Generation, contracted to [[Zane]] and ordered to impersonate [[OreSeur]] so he could spy on Vin.
; [[Tindwyl]] : Also a Keeper. Her specialty of study is leadership. She comes to Luthadel at Sazed's request to train Elend to be a king. After Elend is deposed, she devotes her time to deciphering Kwaan's inscription with Sazed.
; [[Zane]] : A Mistborn sent from one of the other armies. Later it is revealed that Straff Venture sent him, and that he is actually Straff's son.
; [[Straff Venture]] : Elend's father, king of the northern dominance and leader of the first army to arrive at Luthadel.
; [[Ashweather Cett]] : King of the western dominance and leader of the second army to arrive at Luthadel.
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