The world is ending.

By unknowingly releasing the ancient force of destruction known as Ruin, Vin has brought Scadrial to the brink of extinction. Blackened skies choke the sun under suffocating layers of ash, violent quakes rend the earth, and the mists kill in broad daylight.

As Emperor Elend Venture leads a desperate, fractured realm across barren wastes, he hunts for the underground storage…