We’re thrilled to show off the cover for Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn book, The Bands of Mourning, coming in January 2016, right after Shadows of Self, the second book in the Wax and Wayne series.
We’ve already showed off the great Chris McGrath cover for Shadows of Self, now take a look at the next installment in the series!
More about the book:
With The Alloy of Law and Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson surprised readers with a New York Times bestselling spinoff of his Mistborn books, set after the action of the trilogy, in a period corresponding to late 19th-century America.
Now, with The Bands of Mourning, Sanderson continues the story. The Bands of Mourning are the mythical metalminds owned by the Lord Ruler, said to grant anyone who wears them the powers that the Lord Ruler had at his command. Hardly anyone thinks they really exist. But now a kandra researcher has returned to Elendel with images that seem to depict the Bands, as well as writings in a language that no one can read. Waxillium Ladrian is recruited to travel south to the city of New Seran to investigate, and along the way he discovers hints that point to the true goals of his uncle Edwarn and the shadowy organization known as The Set.
You can pre-order Brandon Sanderson’s The Bands of Mourning here.
Behold the cover!
Once again, who is that woman?
I can’t think of anyone, at least from the first book, who looks like that.
I’m sensing that it is sterris.
I’m more curious about the description of the bands of mourning, I didn’t think feruchemy worked like that.
@av willis 3
*Word of Brandon Spoilers*
Feruchemy usually doesn’t, but Hemalurgy does…
-Also Feruchemy can probably theoretically work like that too, but I doubt that’s what’s happening in this case.
Re: @av willis
I think the key word is “said” there. In this universe, they’re “mythical” and they’re “said” to “grant powers.” That doesn’t mean they actually will, just that the legend says they will.
Oh, this book! Perfect cover, awesome story. Wow! (And there’s a fourth Wax & Wayne to come?? WOW!)
Also – av willis @3 – I suspect this would be a true RAFO… If it works that way, we’ll find out shortly, won’t we? (Well, or not-so-shortly, since it doesn’t come out until next January.)
@@@@@Wetlandernw
Did you somehow parley being a beta on WoR into beta-ing Shadows of Self and Bands of Mourning?!?!?
Yes. Yes she did. By giving awesome comments, as you would expect.
Hey, I’ll beta-read anything they’ll give me! :D School projects dragged me away for a bit, but now I’m back at it. YIPPEEE!
And I’m telling you, it’s awesome “all over the where.”
“But now a kandra researcher has returned to Elendel with images that seem to depict the Bands, as well as writings in a language that no one can read”
Maybe this is the kandra worldhopper people keep talking about! :-o
(http://www.theoryland.com/intvsresults.php?kwt=%27worldhoppers%27)
@av willis – Given the name “shadows of self” in the first of the new books and aluminum’s ability to store identity, I’m guessing that somehow, some way, someone (stanis perhaps?) is going to be able to use this fact to make the bands work. Or else someone in the Set and Wax is simply going to be preventing them. I’m surprised not to have heard more commentary here or in 17S regarding the link between storing identity and the title for “Shadows of Self”…
@@@@@PeterAhlstrom
Well, consider me quite jealous. :-) Seems like the beta group is quite the A-team from what Wetlander has posted about in the past.
@12. I was thinking of something else when I saw the title of Shadows of Self. I immediately thought of gold and electrum.
Gold gives an allomancer the oppurtunity to see what they had been like, had their lives gone differently, so in essence, they would briefly become see a ‘Shadow’ of themself.
Or, electrum, aka poor man’s atium, gives the allomancer the oppurtunity to see what they are going to do in a few seconds. In other words, you see a ‘shadow’ of your future self.
You may well be right, however. I’m just guessing here.
My apologies,
I just read this on the coppermind about Shadows of Self:
“Brandon has explained that the title “Shadows of Self” refers to the multiple roles a person occupies over the course of their life, as well as to the inclusion of a kandra character.”
Turns out we were both wrong! It has nothing to do with allomancy of Feruchemy at all. The only magical aspect is whatever it is that makes the kandra able to do it’s thing (It’s not Hemalurgy, as mistwraiths can absorb bones as well, they’re just not sentient).
@12 & 15 – From The Hero of Ages, ch. 75, speaking of what might be left of Preservation’s mind or power:
I believe that’s where the title originated, though he’s clearly expanding on it here and perhaps taking it in other directions. (My 11-year-old daughter spotted that the other day. I felt stupid.)
What a boring generic cover.
SMALL SHADOWS OF SELF SPOILER AHEAD
There probably isn’t anybody who will read this, but the books description confused me. In Shadows of Self when Wax is going through the small originators museum place on his way to the Kandra homeland doesn’t he mention seeing the Bands of Mourning? The book description makes it sound like they are lost, but in the book they are part of the museum place….?
StormBrother @18 – The museum contains “other relics such as a replica of both Harmony’s Bands and the Bands of Mourning.” So, not the real thing. For all we know, it may not even look like the original, but it at least purports to be a replica.
Ahhh, I missed the word “replica”. Thanks!