Mistborn 1: The Final EmpireMistbornFor a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart broken half Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler's most hellish prison. Kelsier