The Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson

When Wax goes home, he finds MeLaan and another kandra, VenDell, asking Marasi for help. He is still struggling with killing Lessie.

It is interrupted by a nearby water tower falling on the church, allowing Wax to put off the marriage. Six months after the death of Paalm, Wax and Steris go to their wedding. He realizes that his destiny is fighting crime, away from the Village.

Forch attacks, and Wax manages to kill him with a bullet he stole from his grandmother (left by the constable as a warning). He goes to investigate and finds him torturing a young boy. Later in his room, he spies one of the friends, Forch, outside in the rain. He learns that a constable is visiting the Village about a recent arson, so he bugs out and eavesdrops on his grandmother. Wax is a teenager living in the Village, sneaking out into the city with his sister and her friends. Waxillium Ladrian is recruited to travel south to the city of New Seran to investigate, and along the way he discovers hints that point to the true goals of his uncle Edwarn and the shadowy organization known as The Set. But now a kandra researcher has returned to Elendel with images that seem to depict the Bands, as well as writings in a language that no one can read. The Bands of Mourning are the mythical metalminds owned by the Lord Ruler, said to grant anyone who wears them the powers that the Lord Ruler had at his command. Now, with The Bands of Mourning, Sanderson continues the story. The Alcatraz vs.With The Alloy of Law and Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson surprised readers with a New York Times bestselling spinoff of his Mistborn books, set after the action of the trilogy, in a period corresponding to late 19th-century America. Along the way he discovers hints that point to the true goals of his uncle Edwarn and the shadowy organization known as The Set.

Waxillium Ladrian is recruited to travel south to the city of New Seran to investigate. A kandra researcher has returned to Elendel with images that seem to depict the Bands, as well as writings in a language that no one can read. The Bands of Mourning are the mythical metal minds owned by the Lord Ruler, said to grant anyone who wears them the powers that the Lord Ruler had at his command. Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action.

The Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson