High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Mistborn series is four high fantasy novels written by Brandon Sanderson and published by Tor Fantasy between 2006 and 2008. The series consists of the original trilogy of Mistborn: The Final Empire, Mistborn: The Well of Ascension, and Mistborn: The Hero of Ages as well as a stand-alone short novel titled Mistborn: The Alloy of Law was released on 8 November 2011. The fourth book takes place about 300 years after the original trilogy.