Greetings! Welcome! I finished The Final Empire a few days ago, and I enjoyed it so much that I've decided to blog about books 2 and 3 when I read them.

So, without further ado...

Ash fell from.the sky...

I wonder if all the books will start with these words. The book begins with an Elend Venture PoV. He's having a conversation with Ham. Apparently it's been a year since the Aspect Emperor---I mean Lord Ruler's demise. Over the past twelve months Elend has managed to recruit 20,000 men into the new Luthadel garrison, but he's having trouble keeping them all paid because, thus far, they have been unable to find the Lord Rulers atium stash. If it's in the city at all, they should have found it by now, right?. Is it possible the Lord Ruler used it all up? What could he have possibly been doing to use up all that metal, though? I suppose it's more likely that someone else stole the stash during the confusion, or it's just been hidden really well.

Anyway, Straff Venture has returned, and he's brought friends! About 50,000 of them, all armed to the teeth. If Elend isn't able to dissuade his father from attacking the city, he can pretty much say goodbye to his brand new kingdom.

The next PoV is everyone's favorite god-slayer.

Vin's skulking about in the mists. She's taken upon herself the responsibility of protecting Elend from assassin's in the night. She now keeps her pewter and tin on almost all the time despite what Kelsier told her about relying on allomancy. I hope this doesn't somehow come back to bite her is the chull.

Vin is meeting up with the Kandra, I guess she decided to be smart and keep the it after all, despite what it did with Kelsier's body. Its name is Oreseur. How's that pronounced, anyway? I read it as Ore-see-urr... Anyhow, it seems like Vin has a stalker. She refers to him as the Watcher, and he has apparently assaulted her on many occasions.

The chapter ends when a flurry of coins are fired at Vin from the darkness. Who wants to bet it was this mysterious "Watcher" who shot them?

End of Chapter 1

That was a pretty short chapter, even for Sanderson, but this is, unfortunately, all I had the chance to read today. Hopefully I'll get the chance to read more tomorrow. I have high expectations for this book, so I'm pretty anxious to really get started.