Scadrial

Scadrial is the world, one of the planets of Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere: The Final Empire. In the era of the first trilogy it is a dimmed and weary place: the sun rises red, ash sifts endlessly from the sky, plants grow brown rather than green, and mists rise every night to blanket the land. The Final Empire of the Lord Ruler governs its known reaches, a thousand-year state built on noble privilege and skaa labor, with the city of Luthadel at its center. Scadrial's magic runs through metal: Allomancers swallow and burn metals for power, a talent concentrated in the noble bloodlines and policed by the Lord Ruler's Ministry. Beyond the empire's dominances lie wastes and frontiers that its maps barely record.