Mistborn Trilogy TPB Boxed Set: Mistborn, The Well of Ascension, The Hero of Ages (The Mistborn Saga)

Once a hero rose to save the world He failed For a thousand years since the world has been a wasteland of ash and mist ruled by the immortal emperor known as the Lord Ruler Every revolt has failed miserably Somehow hope survives Hope that dares to dream of ending the empire and defeating the Lord Ruler A new kind of uprising is being planned one that depends on the cunning of a brilliant criminal mastermind and the determination of an unlikely heroine a teenage street urchin named Vin Once a hero rose to save the world and failed This time can a young heroine succeed Mistborn For a thousand years the ash has fallen and no flowers have bloomed For a thousand years the Skaa have slaved in misery and lived in fear For a thousand years the Lord Ruler has reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror Until Kelsier a brilliant half-Skaa thief and natural leader finds in himself the powers of a Mistborn and turns his talents to the ultimate caper with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark The Well of Ascension The impossible task has been accomplished The Lord Ruler has been vanquished But with Kelsier dead too the awesome task of building a new world has been left to former street urchin and Kelsiers protégé Vin who is now the most powerful Mistborn in the land Vin is now worshipped as a hero in her own right but she is haunted by a strange vaporous entity hidden in the mists The Hero of Ages Having escaped death only by becoming a Mistborn himself Emperor Elend Venture now hopes to find clues left behind by the Lord Ruler that will allow him to save the world