It is the year 822 after the death of the prophet Amalgast. His Kingdom of God is failing, beset by enemies within and without that seek to turn its people to mere slaves to greed and inquity. But across the country, the winds of change are coming. In a remote corner of a remote mission, an exiled revolutionary sect performs a prison break.
This is their story.
The Survivor of Hathsin faces down The Lord Ruler in the Fountain Square, and in a twist of fate, emerges victorious. Now, Premier Minister Kelsier leads the New Republic in its revolution- for better or for worse.
The world has remained much the same for the last thousand years or more. Men are born, grow up, live, and die. Kingdoms rise and fall. Cities change hands, and the pyres of the dead stain the sky black. Any real progress is hard-fought and slow, a grinding effort against the world's eternal war against itself. You're going to change all that, hopefully. Because you have something very special...
It doesn't look like much. It showed you the future, you think. You saw glimpses of buildings...