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Shadows of Self
Book 2 of 4 in Mistborn: Wax and Wayne · by Brandon Sanderson
Spoilers for book 1 of Mistborn: Wax and Wayne.
This page assumes you have read The Alloy of Law. The opening below goes no further than chapters 1 and 2 of Shadows of Self.How it opens and who you meet earlySpoils book 1. Nothing past chapters 1 and 2 of Shadows of Self.ShowHide
How it opens
In Elendel, Winsting, the governor's brother, holds an auction where crime lords and nobles bid for his vote in the Senate. A gunfight breaks out among the guests, and soon afterward someone slits Winsting's throat in his saferoom. Waxillium Ladrian goes over the wedding guest list with Steris, then leaves to chase a bank robber called Marksman with Wayne and Marasi. Near the slums he glimpses a face he takes for Bloody Tan, a man he once shot in the forehead.
Who you meet early
- Waxillium LadrianWaxillium Ladrian is engaged to Steris, and their wedding is being planned. He still chases criminals, using an appointment book he stole from his uncle that ties some of them to the Set.
- SterisSteris is engaged to Waxillium and plans their wedding with great care, even listing his old enemies in case one disrupts it.
- WayneWayne still works beside Wax and rushes in to tell him the Marksman has made his move.
- Marasi ColmsMarasi is now a constable, an aide to the constable-general of the octant, after leaving a career as a solicitor. She is Steris's half sister.
Where it sits
Shadows of Self is book 2 of 4. Read The Alloy of Law first.
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