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Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat
1991 Revivals Logo
Music
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyrics
Tim Rice
Basis
The story of Joseph in Genesis
Premiere
1970
Productions
1968 Colet Court
1971 Young Vic company
1973 West End
1978 West End
1982 Broadway
1991 West End revival
1993 Broadway revival
2003 West End revival
2005 US Tour
2007 US Tour
2007 West End revival
2010 UK tour
2014 US Tour
2014 UK Tour
2015 North American tour
2016 UK tour
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is a musical with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The story is based on the "coat of many colors" story of Joseph from the Bible's Book of Genesis. This was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice musical to be performed publicly (the first, The Likes of Us, written in 1965, was not performed until 2005).
The show has little spoken dialogue; it is almost entirely sung-through. Its family-friendly story, familiar themes and catchy music have resulted in numerous stagings. According to the owner of the copyright, the Really Useful Group, by 2008 more than 20,000 schools and amateur theatre groups had staged productions.[1]
Joseph was first presented as a 20-minute "pop cantata" at Colet Court School in London in 1968, and was published by Novello and released by Decca Records in 1969. After the success of the next Lloyd Webber and Rice piece, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph received stage productions beginning in 1970 and expanded recordings in 1971 and 1972. While still undergoing various modifications and expansions, the musical was produced in the West End in 1973, and in its full format was recorded in 1974. The musical was mounted on Broadway in 1982. Several major revivals, national tours, and a 1999 straight-to-video film, starring Donny Osmond, followed.
Contents
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1 Production
1.1 Development and early performances, publication, and recordings
1.2 Early stage performances
1.2.1 First American productions
1.2.2 Young Vic production and move to West End
1.2.3 1975–1979
1.3 Professional US productions, 1976–1984
1.4 1990s
1.5 2000s
1.6 2010s
2 Synopsis
2.1 Act I
2.2 Act II
3 Characters
4 Musical numbers
5 Awards and nominations
5.1 Original Broadway production
5.2 1991 London revival
5.3 2003 London revival
6 Film adaptation
7 References
8 External links
Production[edit]
Development and early performances, publication, and recordings[edit]
The 17-year-old budding musical-theatre composer Andrew Lloyd Webber was introduced to the 20-year-old aspiring pop-song writer Tim Rice in 1965, and they created their first musical, The Likes of Us.[2] They produced a demo tape of that work in 1966,[3] but the project failed to gain a backer.[2]
In the summer of 1967 Alan Doggett, a family friend of the Lloyd Webbers who had assisted on The Likes of Us and who was the music teacher at the Colet Court school in London, commissioned Lloyd Webber and Rice to write a piece for the school's choir.[3][4][2] Doggett requested a "pop cantata" along the lines of Herbert Chappell's The Daniel Jazz (1963) and Michael Hurd's Jonah-Man Jazz (1966), both of which had been published by Novello and were based on the Old Testament.[3] The request for the new piece came with a 100-guinea advance from Novello.[3] This resulted in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, a retelling of the biblical story of Joseph, in which Lloyd Webber and Rice humorously pastiched a number of pop-music styles.
The piece was first presented as a 20-minute pop cantata at Colet Court School in London on 1 March 1968.[2] Lloyd Webber's composer father William arranged for a second performance at his church, Westminster Central Hall, with a revised and expanded format; the boys of Colet Court and members of the band Mixed Bag sang at this performance in May 1968.[5] One of the children's parents in that audience was the Sunday Times music critic; he reviewed the piece in the newspaper, calling it a new pop oratorio and praising its innovation and exuberance.[2][6] By its third performance, at St Paul's Cathedral in November 1968, the musical had been expanded to 35 minutes.[5]
Novello published the lyrics and sheet music at the beginning of 1969, as the third of their Old Testament pop cantatas.[3] Decca Records, which had already recorded the musical in the summer of 1968, released the recording in 1969, credited to the Joseph Consortium, after the Novello publication.[3][7][8][9] David Daltrey, front man of British psychedelic band Tales of Justine, played the role of Joseph and lead guitar, and Tim Rice was Pharaoh. Other vocalists included members of the Mixed Bag group, such as Terry Saunders and Malcolm Parry, and the choir of Colet Court School.[7][8][9] Daltrey, although not part of the Mixed Bag, was managed by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber at the time, and EMI colleague Martin Wilcox suggested to Rice that they use the Mixed Bag as a backing group on the album.[citation needed]
A recording of the musical with 19 tracks was issued in the US on Scepter Records in 1971. It was a reissue of the 1969 Decca UK album, capitalising on the success of 1970's Jesus Christ Superstar in the US. It featured Daltrey as Joseph, Rice as Pharaoh, William S. Lloyd Webber on the Hammond organ, Alan Doggett conducting, and the Colet Court choir as the chorus.[10][11]
Early stage performances[edit]
First American productions[edit]
Lloyd Webber and Rice used the popularity of their subsequent musical, the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, to promote Joseph, which was advertised in America as a "follow-up" to Superstar.[12] The rock opera's title song "Superstar" had been an international hit single released in late 1969, and "I Don't Know How To Love Him", another hit from Jesus Christ Superstar, was released 1 May 1970. The first American production of Joseph was in May 1970, at Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception in Douglaston, New York. Following this, other colleges and schools sought to produce the piece.[13]
Young Vic production and move to West End[edit]
In late August and September 1972, Joseph was presented at the Edinburgh International Festival by the Young Vic Theatre Company, directed by Frank Dunlop. It starred Gary Bond in the title role, Peter Reeves as the narrator, and Gordon Waller as Pharaoh; Alan Doggett was the music director. In October the production played at London's Young Vic Theatre, and in November at the Roundhouse. The production was part of a double bill called Bible One: Two Looks at the Book of Genesis. Part I was Dunlop's reworking of the first six of the medieval Wakefield Mystery Plays, with music by Alan Doggett. Part II was Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.[12] The Young Vic production was recorded for an LP released on the RSO label in 1972. This production was also broadcast in the UK by Granada Television in 1972.[14]
In February 1973, theatre producer Michael White and impresario Robert Stigwood mounted the Young Vic production at the Albery Theatre in the West End, where it ran for 243 performances.[15] The mystery plays that had preceded the original Young Vic productions were dropped, and instead the musical was preceded by a piece called Jacob's Journey, with music and lyrics by Lloyd Webber and Rice and a book by television comedy writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. Jacob's Journey, which contained a great deal of spoken dialogue, was eventually phased out in favour of a sung-through score that became part of Joseph. The first production of the show in its modern, final form was at the Haymarket Theatre in Leicester, which presented the musical several times from 1974 through 1978.[12][16]
A recording of the full musical was released on the MCA label in 1974, again featuring Bond, Reeves and Waller. This is the earliest recording of Joseph to eventually be issued on CD.[citation needed] Waller also appeared on another recording in 1979, featuring Rice as the Narrator and Paul Jones as Joseph, on the Music For Pleasure label.[citation needed]
1975–1979[edit]
In 1975 Miranda Enterprises in association with Leicester Theatre Company presented Joseph at the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch. It was directed by Paul Tomlinson and choreographed by David Thornton. This production starred Patrick Ryecart as Joseph and David Sadgrove as Pharaoh.[citation needed]
Ken Hill directed a large-scale production of Joseph at the Westminster Theatre, London, which ran from November 1978 to February 1979, and again from November 1979 to February 1980. This production starred Paul Jones as Joseph, John Golder as the Narrator, and Leonard Whiting as Pharaoh. A recording of this production with additional narration spoken by children was broadcast on BBC radio, produced by Richard Wilcox.[citation needed]
Professional US productions, 1976–1984[edit]
The musical ran at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York in 1976 and in 1977 as "holiday fare". In the 1976 production, which opened on 30 December, direction was by John Dunlop, with a cast that featured Cleavon Little as the Narrator and David-James Carroll as Joseph.[17] In the 1977 production, running in December through 1 January 1978, staging was by Graciela Daniele, with Carroll as Joseph, Alan Weeks as the Narrator and William Parry as Pharaoh/Elvis.[18]
Joseph received an Off-Broadway production at the Entermedia Theatre, running from 18 November 1981 through 24 January 1982. Directed by Tony Tanner, the cast starred Bill Hutton as Joseph, Laurie Beechman as the Narrator, and Tom Carder as Pharaoh.[19][20]
The production transferred to Broadway at the Royale Theatre on 27 January 1982 and ran through 4 September 1983, with 747 performances.[21] This production was recorded on the Chrysalis label, and is the first to feature the Prologue (dubbed on the Chrysalis release "You are what you feel"). The producers were Gail Berman and Susan Rose, who were the youngest producers on Broadway.[22] The show received several Tony Award nominations including Best Musical and Best Original Score. Allen Fawcett replaced Hutton as Joseph in June 1982.[23] David Cassidy took over the role of Joseph in March 1983 and also performed in the touring cast in 1983–1984.[24]
1990s[edit]
With Jason Donovan in the lead, the expanded show was restaged in 1991 at the London Palladium with Steven Pimlott as director, winning the 1992 Laurence Olivier Award for set design. The cast album of this production was the #1 UK album for two weeks in September 1991, and the single "Any Dream Will Do" from it was also the #1 UK single for two weeks in June–July 1991. When Donovan left, former children's TV presenter Phillip Schofield portrayed Joseph.[citation needed]
The musical opened in Toronto at the Elgin Theatre in July 1992, with Donny Osmond as Joseph and Janet Metz as the Narrator.[25] Afterwards, Osmond toured North America in the role.[citation needed] A major Australian production, based on the 1991 UK version, opened on 31 December 1992 at the State Theatre in Melbourne. It featured Indecent Obsession lead singer David Dixon as Joseph and Tina Arena as the Narrator. The musical then played seasons in Brisbane and Sydney through 1993.[26][27]
The show was revived in the United States in 1993, playing in Los Angeles at the Pantages Theatre for 18 weeks,[28] and in San Francisco at the Golden Gate Theatre for an 8-week run,[28] before moving to Broadway, where it played for 231 performances at the Minskoff Theatre from 10 November 1993 to 29 May 1994.[29] Directed by Steven Pimlott and choreographed by Anthony Van Laast, the cast featured Michael Damian (Joseph), Kelli Rabke (Narrator), Clifford David (Jacob), and Robert Torti (Pharaoh).[30][31]
2000s[edit]
A production starring Stephen Gately, "with cartoon cut-out sets and props and naff panto choreography", previewed in Oxford in December 2002, before moving to Liverpool over Christmas 2002. This production reached the West End at the New London Theatre in March 2003.[32]
A US national tour began in September 2005 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, starring starred Patrick Cassidy.[33]
A 2007 revival of the London Palladium production at the Adelphi Theatre starred a Joseph cast with the winner of BBC One's Any Dream Will Do, presided over by Lloyd Webber. This was second reality talent show to search for a West End star, capitalising on the success of the 2006 BBC–Lloyd Webber series, How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?. Viewers voted to for Lee Mead as Joseph. Mead had given up his ensemble role in The Phantom of the Opera, where he also understudied Raoul. The new Joseph production, which began on 6 July 2007, used Steven Pimlott's (who had died since staging the Palladium production) original direction, with Preeya Kalidas as the Narrator.[34]
Tickets for the show's originally-planned six-month run sold out in three weeks, and the producers had extended the show's run – and Mead's contract – until 7 June 2008. Before opening night, the producers had received £10 million in advance ticket sales. In his review for Variety, David Benedict wrote, "Mead delivers. ... For as long as Mead chooses to continue in it, Joseph is, commercially speaking, the safest of bets."[citation needed] Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group donated all receipts from two special performances to the BBC's Children in Need charity appeal. Additionally, the money normally given to the cast for first-night gifts in July 2007 went instead to Children in Need. In January 2009 Mead left the show and was replaced by Gareth Gates. The production closed in May 2009.[citation needed]
2010s[edit]
The long-running UK touring production was re-cast in 2010 with Keith Jack taking on Joseph in July 2010 opposite Jennifer Potts as narrator.[35] In May 2013 Ian "H" Watkins replaced Jack, reprising the role he had played in London and on tour. The 2014–15 leg of the tour saw X Factor contestant Lloyd Daniels take on the title role opposite Eastender's Matt Lapinskas as Pharaoh. Danielle Hope played Narrator in 2014. Amelia Lily, another X factor alumna, later played the Narrator.[citation needed]
A new North American touring production began on 4 March 2014 in Cleveland, Ohio starring Diana DeGarmo as the Narrator and Ace Young as Joseph.[36]
The 2016 UK touring production starred Joe McElderry as Joseph and Lucy Kay as the Narrator.[37] The tour began in January 2016 and is scheduled to run through June 2017.[38]
Synopsis[edit]
Act I[edit]
The story is based on the Biblical story of Joseph, found in the Book of Genesis. It is set in a frame in which a narrator is telling a story (sometimes to children, encouraging them to dream). She then tells the story of Joseph, another dreamer ("Prologue," "Any Dream Will Do"). In the beginning of the main story Jacob and his 12 sons are introduced ("Jacob and Sons"). Joseph's brothers are jealous of him for his coat of many colours, a symbol of their father's preference for him ("Joseph's Coat"). It is clear from Joseph's dreams that he is destined to rule over them ("Joseph's Dreams"). To get rid of him and prevent the dreams from coming true, they attempt fratricide, but then they sell Joseph as a slave to some passing Ishmaelites ("Poor, Poor Joseph"), who take him to Egypt.
Back home, his brothers, led by Reuben (Levi in the original Broadway production) and accompanied by their wives, break the news to Jacob that Joseph has been killed. They show his tattered coat smeared with his blood – really goat blood – as proof that what they say is true ("One More Angel in Heaven"). After the bereft Jacob leaves, the brothers and their wives happily celebrate the loss of Joseph.
In Egypt, Joseph is the slave of Egyptian millionaire Potiphar. He rises through the ranks of slaves and servants until he is running Potiphar's house. When Mrs. Potiphar makes advances, Joseph spurns her. She removes his shirt, feels his chest and back, squeezes his rear and blows him kisses. Potiphar overhears, barges in, sees the two together – and jumps to conclusions ("Potiphar"). Outraged, he throws Joseph in jail. Depressed, Joseph laments the situation ("Close Every Door") – but his spirits rise when he helps two prisoners put in his cell. Both are former servants of the Pharaoh and both have had bizarre dreams. Joseph interprets them. One cellmate, the Baker, will be executed, but the other, the Butler, will be returned to service. Upon hearing this, the rest of the prisoners surround Joseph and encourage him to go after his dreams ("Go, Go, Go Joseph").
Act II[edit]
The Narrator tells of impending changes in Joseph's fortunes ("A Pharaoh Story") because the Pharaoh is having dreams that no one can interpret. Now freed, the Butler tells Pharaoh (acted in the style of Elvis Presley) of Joseph and his dream-interpretation skills ("Poor, Poor Pharaoh"). Pharaoh orders Joseph to be brought in and the king tells him his dream involving seven fat cows, seven skinny cows, seven healthy ears of corn, and seven dead ears of corn ("Song of the King").
Joseph interprets the dream as seven plentiful years of crops followed by seven years of famine ("Pharaoh's Dreams Explained"). An astonished Pharaoh puts Joseph in charge of carrying out the preparations needed to endure the impending famine, and Joseph becomes the most powerful man in Egypt, second only to Pharaoh himself ("Stone the Crows"). (In the 2007 London revival, Pharaoh has a new song, "King of my Heart").
Back home, the famine has caught up with Joseph's brothers, who, led by Simeon, express regret at selling him and deceiving their father ("Those Canaan Days"). They hear that Egypt still has food and decide to go there to beg for mercy and to be fed ("The Brothers Come to Egypt"), not realising that they will be dealing with Joseph ("Grovel, Grovel"). Joseph gives them sacks of food, but plants a golden cup in the sack of his youngest brother, Benjamin. When the brothers try to leave, Joseph stops them, asking about the "stolen cup". Each brother empties his sack, and it is revealed that Benjamin has the cup. Joseph then accuses Benjamin of robbery ("Who's the Thief?"). The other brothers, led by Judah, (Naphtali in the original Broadway Production) beg for mercy for Benjamin, imploring that Joseph take them prisoner and set Benjamin free ("Benjamin Calypso").
Seeing their selflessness and penitence, Joseph reveals himself ("Joseph All the Time") and sends for his father. The two are reunited ("Jacob in Egypt") for a happy conclusion and Joseph dons his coloured coat once more ("Finale: Any Dream Will Do (Reprise)/Give Me My Coloured Coat").
In some productions, the finale is followed by a rock/disco medley of most of the musical's major numbers ("Joseph Megamix").
Characters[edit]
Narrator: A woman (in original productions, a man), not of the time or place of the action. The Narrator tells the story through word and song, guiding the audience gently through the story of Joseph and his brothers, usually gives meaning to the story with her/his words.
Jacob: The father of twelve sons, his favourite being Joseph. At times he may appear unfair and shallow, but he is, more importantly, the prophet who recognises the future and the calling of Joseph, thus saving the House of Israel. Usually doubles as Potiphar.
Joseph: Eleventh son of Jacob. Obviously his father’s favourite, Joseph early on shows a talent for interpreting dreams and telling the future. This gets him into trouble with his brothers when he predicts his future will include ruling over the other eleven. However, it saves his life when in Egypt he correctly interprets Pharaoh’s dreams. In the end he has risen to a great position of power, but he still forgives his brothers and brings his family to Egypt to partake of the bounty he has accumulated there.
Ishmaelites: Men of the desert, they buy Joseph as a slave, take him to Egypt, and sell him to Potiphar.
Potiphar: A powerful and rich Egyptian, Potiphar purchases Joseph and puts him to work in his household, where he soon realises that Joseph is honest, hard-working, and a great addition to his pool of help. When he grows suspicious of Mrs. Potiphar and Joseph, however, he grows angry and has Joseph thrown into prison. Usually played by the actor playing Jacob.
Mrs. Potiphar: Beautiful and scheming, Mrs. Potiphar tries to seduce Joseph, but is unsuccessful. However, she does manage to rip off much of his clothing just as her husband comes into the room, thus condemning him to prison. Also plays one of the wives.
Baker: One of Pharaoh servants, the Baker is in prison with Joseph who correctly interprets his dreams and predicts that he will be put to death. Played by one of the brothers.
Butler: Another of Pharaoh servants, the Butler is also in prison with Joseph who also correctly interprets his dreams, this time that he will be released and taken back into Pharaoh's household. It is the Butler who tells Pharaoh about Joseph and his uncanny ability with dreams. Played by one of the brothers.
Pharaoh: The most powerful man in Egypt, Pharaoh is considered a god on earth. When Joseph interprets his dreams, he promotes him to one of the highest positions in his government. In most productions, Pharaoh is portrayed as an Elvis Presley-style figure. Sometimes played by one of the brothers.
Joseph's Eleven Brothers: Although acting usually as a group, they each have their own different personalities, talents, and flaws. As a group they sell Joseph into slavery, but as individuals they deal with the following years and how they can make amends. They sing and dance their way through many situations and places. The brothers also double as Egyptians and servants of Potiphar.
Reuben: Eldest son of Jacob. Takes the lead on "One More Angel in Heaven"
Simeon: Second son of Jacob. Takes the lead on "Those Canaan Days"
Levi: Third son of Jacob.
Judah: Fourth son of Jacob. Takes the lead on "Benjamin Calypso".
Dan: Fifth son of Jacob.
Naphtali: Sixth son of Jacob.
Gad: Seventh son of Jacob.
Asher: Eighth son of Jacob.
Issachar: Ninth son of Jacob.
Zebulun: Tenth son of Jacob.
Benjamin: Twelfth son of Jacob. Joseph accuses him of stealing the golden cup.
The Wives: The wives of Jacob. The actresses playing the wives also double as Egyptians and servants of Potiphar.
Adult chorus
Children's chorus
Musical numbers[edit]
Act I[39]
Prologue – Narrator
Any Dream Will Do – Joseph, Children
Jacob and Sons – Narrator, Brothers, Ensemble
Joseph's Coat – Jacob, Narrator, Joseph, Brothers, Wives, Ensemble
Joseph's Dreams – Narrator, Brothers, Joseph
Poor, Poor Joseph – Narrator, Joseph, Brothers
One More Angel in Heaven – Reuben, Reuben's Wife, Brothers, Wives, Jacob
Potiphar – Narrator, Potiphar, Mrs. Potiphar, Joseph, Ensemble
Close Every Door – Joseph and Company
Go, Go, Go Joseph – Narrator, Joseph, Butler, Baker, Ensemble
Act II
Pharaoh's Story – Narrator, Ensemble
Poor, Poor Pharaoh (reprise of Poor, Poor Joseph) – Narrator, Butler, Pharaoh, Women
Song of the King – Pharaoh, Ensemble
Pharaoh's Dream Explained – Joseph, Ensemble
Stone the Crows – Narrator, Pharaoh, Joseph, Female Ensemble
King of My Heart – Pharaoh
Those Canaan Days – Simeon, Jacob, Brothers
The Brothers Come To Egypt/Grovel, Grovel – Narrator, Brothers, Joseph, Female Ensemble
Who's the Thief? – Narrator, Joseph, Ensemble
Benjamin Calypso – Judah, Brothers, Ensemble
Joseph All the Time – Narrator, Joseph, Brothers, Ensemble
Jacob in Egypt – Ensemble
Any Dream Will Do (Reprise) – Joseph, Narrator, Ensemble
Joseph Megamix – Full Company
Lloyd-Webber used a variety of musical styles, including parodies of French ballads ("Those Canaan Days"), Elvis-inspired rock and roll ("Song of the King"), western music ("One More Angel In Heaven"), 1920s Charleston ("Potiphar"), Calypso ("Benjamin Calypso"), jazz ("Joseph's Dreams"), and 1950s rock ("Go, Go, Go Joseph").[citation needed]
"Prologue" was first included in the 1982 Broadway production; the use of "Any Dream Will Do" at the start of the show (and the renaming of the closing version as per the above list) dates from the 1991 revival. The UK touring production circa 1983-1987 (produced by Bill Kenwright), included an additional song "I Don't Think I'm Wanted Back At Home", which was originally part of Jacob's Journey.[40] Sung by the title character, the brothers jokingly push Joseph out of the family home, throwing a suitcase, then a cane and top hat at him, leaving Joseph to tap-dance through the number.[citation needed] The tune has been recycled into numbers in By Jeeves and The Likes of Us.[citation needed]
Awards and nominations[edit]
Original Broadway production[edit]
Year
Award
Category
Nominee
Result
1982 Tony Award Best Musical Nominated
Best Book of a Musical Tim Rice Nominated
Best Original Score Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice Nominated
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical Bill Hutton Nominated
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical Laurie Beechman Nominated
Best Choreography Tony Tanner Nominated
Drama Desk Award Outstanding Musical Nominated
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical Laurie Beechman Nominated
Outstanding Director of a Musical Tony Tanner Nominated
1991 London revival[edit]
Year
Award
Category
Nominee
Result
1992 Laurence Olivier Award Best Musical Revival Nominated
Best Actor in a Musical Jason Donovan Nominated
Best Actress in a Musical Linzi Hateley Nominated
Best Director of a Musical Steven Pimlott Nominated
Best Theatre Choreographer Anthony Van Laast Nominated
Best Set Designer Mark Thompson Won
2003 London revival[edit]
Year
Award
Category
Nominee
Result
2004 Laurence Olivier Award Best Musical Revival Nominated
Film adaptation[edit]
In 1999, a straight-to-video film of the same title starring Donny Osmond was released, directed by David Mallet. Osmond had toured North America in the role after opening the Toronto revival in 1992. In the film, Maria Friedman appears as the Narrator, Richard Attenborough as Jacob, Ian McNeice as Potiphar, Joan Collins as Mrs. Potiphar and Robert Torti as Pharaoh.[41]
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Pinky ring
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Professional poker player "California" Abe's pinky ring, made of platinum and diamonds, which he wears when playing cards.
Prince Leopold, son of Queen Victoria, showing his left hand pinky rings worn in a typical stacked fashion, circa 1878.
A pinky ring is a ring worn on the little finger of either hand, which is also called the "fifth finger".
Contents
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1 Professional rings
2 Indications of affiliation or conveying messages
3 Fashion
4 Signet and wedding rings
5 Use in the British Royal Family
6 References
Professional rings[edit]
A variety of pinky rings are awarded to graduating engineering students in North America, generally intended to serve as a reminder of the significance and impact of their chosen profession. In Canada, these include the Iron Ring, made of either crudely worked iron or stainless steel and worn on the dominant hand, presented to engineering students during the Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer,[1] and the silver, but otherwise similar Earth Ring, associated with the geologists and geophysicists of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta.[2] In the United States, the Engineer's Ring, awarded by the Order of the Engineer, is similar to the Canadian Iron Ring.[3]
Human ecology and home economics graduates also receive a pinky ring symbolizing their profession. The Human Ecology Ring was first instigated by a group of young graduates at Macdonald College, Quebec, in 1968.[4]
Indications of affiliation or conveying messages[edit]
At times, pinky rings have been worn with the intent to convey a message or indicate affiliation. Ben Bowen wore one for a day to show jackpots he was a boss player. During the Victorian era, both single men and women uninterested in pursuing marriage could wear a ring on the little finger of their left hand.[5] Especially in the United States, pinky rings also developed an association with criminal activity.[6] Grifters were thought to wear such rings, sometimes to provide their associates with a source of funding for their funeral expenses in case of their death,[7] as were made men in the American Mafia.[8] Movies such as Little Caesar and The Godfather contributed to the association of this style of jewellery with organized crime.[9]
Fashion[edit]
The more modern use of the pinky ring has weakened its traditional historic symbolism.[10][11] In the early 20th century, these rings were popular in Parisian fashion,[12] especially among the youth.[13] In the United States, such rings have become a "fundamental of American style", in some way due to its symbolic past.[14]
Signet and wedding rings[edit]
FDR as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1913. Note, since he is recently married, he has his wedding band stacked beneath his father's Roosevelt Family signet ring. He would wear this stacked British-style configuration to the end of his life.
Pliny the Elder noted, according to the 1938 Loeb Classical Library translation by Harris Rackham, "Some people put all their rings on their little finger only, while others wear only one ring even on that finger, and use it to seal up their signet ring, which is kept stored away as a rarity not deserving the insult of common use, and is brought out from its cabinet as from a sanctuary; thus even wearing a single ring on the little finger may advertise the possession of a costlier piece of apparatus put away in store."[15]
Many British men wear a signet ring on the little finger of the left hand, which is considered to be the correct place for it.[16]
In common with many American families, in homage to the British tradition, President Franklin D. Roosevelt wore a signet ring handed down to him by his father James, and which was inherited by FDR's son James Roosevelt. All three generations wore the signet on top of their wedding bands, on their left pinkies.[17] FDR's pinky signet was noted and admired by Sir Winston Churchill (who wore his own gold signet on a different finger).[18]
Wedding bands (always a gift from wife to husband) were usually worn by Western men in the Victorian age on the left hand pinky finger,[19] although few British men wore wedding rings until World War II.[16] Because of masculine limitations, men were encouraged to wear a second ring if they desired, but it was to be worn on top of the wedding band so as to keep both rings confined to one finger.[20] It appears the custom for men to wear their two rings on the left pinky was purely British and German; in America, men either followed the British tradition or wore no ring at all until much later.[21]
Use in the British Royal Family[edit]
The use of the left-hand pinky finger as the wedding ring and royal signet or initial ring of the British Royal Family is an ironclad tradition dating back to the sons of Queen Victoria, who favored pinky rings in imitation of their mother as well as following German custom. [22] Queen Victoria's son Prince Leopold wore many rings on his left pinky, as did all of the sons of King George V. King Edward VII did not assign any special significance to his left pinky as later generations did, and his son George V wore no rings at all.[23] The best example of such a ring was the one worn by King George VI. [24][25] Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, consort to Queen Elizabeth II, wore his father's signet ring until sometime in the 1970s, when he ceased to wear any signet. [26] Prince Charles wears the official signet of the Prince of Wales, which ring is nearly 175 years old and was last worn by the former King Edward VIII (styled as the Duke of Windsor following his abdication) when he was still Prince of Wales. Prince Charles, as well as the other men in the family, wear their signets on top of their wedding bands.[27][28]
References[edit]
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Jump up ^ Erdmer P, Krebes ES. "The Earth Science Ring: Made in Alberta". Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
Jump up ^ Humphreys KK. (1999). What Every Engineer Should Know about Ethics. CRC Press. pp. 68–69. ISBN 978-0824782085.
Jump up ^ "What is the Human Ecology Ring?". Manitoba Association of Home Economists (MAHE).
Jump up ^ Choron S, Choron H (2012). Planet Wedding: A Nuptialpedia. Mariner Books. p. 74. ISBN 978-0618746583.
Jump up ^ Dalzell T., ed. (2008). The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English. Routledge. p. 752. ISBN 978-0415371827.
Jump up ^ Robbins T. (2008). The Modern Con Man: How to Get Something for Nothing. Bloomsbury. p. 64. ISBN 978-1596914537.
Jump up ^ Carlo P. (2009). Gaspipe: Confessions of a Mafia Boss. William Morrow. p. 7. ISBN 978-0061429859.
Jump up ^ Siomopoulos A. (2012). Hollywood Melodrama and the New Deal: Public Daydreams. Routledge. p. 15. ISBN 978-0415882934.
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Jump up ^ Goodwin JP. (1989). More Man Than You'll Ever Be!: Gay Folklore and Acculturation in Middle America. Indiana University Press. p. 26. ISBN 978-0253204974.
Jump up ^ Archer IM. (1919). "Some Paris Suggestions in Jewelry Novelties for the Coming Winter". The Jewelers' Circular. 79 (8): 67.
Jump up ^ Archer IM. (1920). "The New Jewelry Styles Seen in Paris". The Jewelers' Circular. 81 (6): 67.
Jump up ^ Rosenzweig I. (2000). "Ba-Da-Bing! Thumbs Up for the Pinkie Ring". The New York Times. Retrieved October 15, 2012.
Jump up ^ Harris Rackham (1938). "Pliny The Elder, Natural History". Loeb Classical Library.
^ Jump up to: a b Wheeler, Brian (8 January 2014). "Why do British prime ministers never wear wedding rings?". BBC News.
Jump up ^ MacGregor Burns, James (1956). Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox. The Easton Press. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
Jump up ^ Meacham, John (2003). Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship. Random House. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
Jump up ^ Jones, Sir William (1890). Finger Ring Lore.
Jump up ^ McCarthy, James Remington (1945). Rings Throughout the Ages.
Jump up ^ Kunz, George Frederick (1911). Rings for the Finger.
Jump up ^ Longford, Elizabeth (1973). Victoria R.I. Harper & Row. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
Jump up ^ Bradford, Sarah (1989). The Reluctant King: The Life & Reign of George VI, 1895 – 1952. St. Martin's Press. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
Jump up ^ Marshall, Dorothy (1972). Life and Times of Victoria. Praeger Publishers. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
Jump up ^ Middlemas, Keith (1974). Life and Times of George VI. Weidenfeld & Nicholson. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
Jump up ^ Longford, Elizabeth (1973). Victoria R.I. Harper & Row. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
Jump up ^ Jay, Antony (1992). Elizabeth R. McClelland & Stewart Inc. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
Jump up ^ Dimbley, Jonathan (1994). The Prince of Wales. Little, Brown and Co. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
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Mistborn series
First edition cover of the first book in the series, Mistborn: The Final Empire
Original Trilogy (Era One)
The Final Empire
The Well of Ascension
The Hero of Ages
Wax & Wayne series (Era Two)
The Alloy of Law
Shadows of Self
The Bands of Mourning
The Lost Metal (working title)
Novellas
Secret History
Author
Brandon Sanderson
Illustrator
Isaac Stewart
Cover artist
Jon Foster
Chris McGrath
Miranda Meeks
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre
High fantasy
Publisher
Tor Books
Published
July 2006–present
Media type
Print (hardcover, paperback and leatherbound), audiobook, e-book
Mistborn is a series of epic fantasy novels written by American author Brandon Sanderson and published by Tor Books. The first series, published between 2006 and 2008, consists of The Final Empire, The Well of Ascension, and The Hero of Ages.
To prepare readers for the second trilogy, Sanderson wrote a transitional sequel, The Alloy of Law, which then turned into the first installment in the four-book Wax and Wayne series, set 300 years later.[1][2] The Wax and Wayne book titles are: The Alloy of Law,[1][3][4][5] released on November 8, 2011; Shadows of Self, released on October 6, 2015; The Bands of Mourning, published on January 26, 2016; and The Lost Metal, currently in production. Sanderson also published a companion story to the original trilogy, titled Mistborn: Secret History, on January 26, 2016.
There are two other planned trilogies, but they have no projected completion dates.[2]
Contents
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1 Books in the series
2 Setting
3 Magic
4 In other media
4.1 Role-playing game
4.2 Film
4.3 Video game
4.4 Board game
5 Reception
6 Sequels
7 References
8 External links
Books in the series[edit]
#
Title
Pages
Chapters
Words
Publication date
Series
1 Mistborn: The Final Empire 541 38 208,253[6] July 17, 2006 Original Trilogy
2 Mistborn: The Well of Ascension 590 59 245,672[7] August 21, 2007 Original Trilogy
3 Mistborn: The Hero of Ages 572 82 235,114[8] October 14, 2008 Original Trilogy
4 Mistborn: The Alloy of Law 336 20 97,000[9] November 8, 2011 Wax and Wayne series
5 Mistborn: Shadows of Self 384 26 112,000[9] October 6, 2015[10] Wax and Wayne series
6 Mistborn: The Bands of Mourning 448 31 127,000[9] January 26, 2016 Wax and Wayne series
7 Mistborn: Secret History 151 25 50,000 January 26, 2016 Companion story to Original Trilogy
8 Mistborn: The Lost Metal Fall 2019[11] Wax and Wayne series
Totals:
3,022 281 1,078,000
Setting[edit]
The series primarily takes place in a region called the Final Empire on a world called Scadrial. One thousand years before the story begins, the ruler of the Final Empire, the Lord Ruler, gained access to a divine power at what is called the "Well of Ascension", where he is rumored to have defeated the unknown danger called the "Deepness".[12] With this power, he remade the world and everything in it into its state at the beginning of the first book. In the Final Empire, a Dominance is a territory within the Lord Ruler's empire.
Luthadel is the capital of the Central Dominance and the entire Final Empire. Luthadel is the heart of the Lord Ruler's power, as well as the site of his palace, Kredik Shaw. Before the Lord Ruler remade the world, Luthadel was a mountainous region known as Terris. To hide the true location of Old Terris and the Well of Ascension, the Lord Ruler moved the mountains elsewhere and named that region "Terris" instead. Terris is the ancestral home of the Terris people. It is a mountainous region located north of the Northern Dominance. The Terris Dominance is the only Dominance to retain its original name. It was historically, the home of the Well of Ascension. Urteau is a key crossroads city in the Northern Dominance. It was the traditional seat of House Venture, although the family is based mainly in the capital. Later it came under the control of a Skaa dominated government led by a man calling himself 'the Citizen'. Urteau is also famous for its canals that mysteriously ran dry. It plays a key role in the third novel. Fadrex City is an important crossroads city in the Western Dominance. Although all cities outside of Luthadel are forbidden from having walls, Fadrex City has a natural rock formation that makes it very defensible. Lord Cett made this city his base after the fall of the Lord Ruler for this very reason.
The nobility are the descendants of the early supporters of the Lord Ruler. The Lord Ruler gave them the gift of Allomancy because of their support, through a substance that exists only in the Well of Ascension. The Allomantic power has been passed down through the generations, but their Allomantic gifts have grown weaker over the years. "Mistings" have only one of the many Allomantic powers, while "Mistborns" have all the powers. At first there were few Mistings, but now Mistings far outnumber Mistborn. Allomancy is the main reason the interbreeding of nobles and skaa was made illegal by the Lord Ruler. The Lord Ruler had more control over the Nobles, so he didn't want the skaa to have Allomancy. Skaa are the descendants of the people who did not support the Lord Ruler when he first came to power. During the reign of the Lord Ruler, they were oppressed slaves treated brutally, with the law stating that they belong to the Lord Ruler but are loaned to the nobility for work. There were multiple skaa rebellions over the centuries, but they never came close to succeeding. All skaa Allomancers have some noble blood.
Before the Ascension of the Lord Ruler, weapons technology had progressed to the invention of gunpowder. At the beginning of his reign, the Lord Ruler deliberately suppressed knowledge of gunpowder and most other advances. This was done to prevent technology undermining his military strength and being used against him in rebellions. This left archers as the only long-range military option, and it left skaa rebellions at a disadvantage because archers require considerable training. The only major advance since the Lord Ruler's reign started, is the invention of canned food.
Kandra are highly intelligent life forms without distinct shape, physically resembling Mistwraiths in their natural form, however, they are shapeshifters. The prime function of the kandra are as spies, because of their notable ability to imitate any being. They can consume dead creatures, memorizing and replicating the physical traits perfectly. The First Generation of kandra were converted by the Lord Ruler, from pre-Ascension Terris Worldbringers, the sect of spiritual leaders and Feruchemists, resulting in the kandra calling him "Father".[13][14] Worldbringers mainly used their Feruchemical abilities creating copperminds to store knowledge as religious philosophers and scholars.
Mistwraiths are concentrated mistforms and mindless scavengers with the ability to add the bones of creatures they consume to their own forms. They are part of the reason why Skaa fear the mists. However, mistwraiths are relatively harmless. Named the Unbirthed by Kandra, the Mistwraiths can become Kandra. Koloss are of Ruin, and are violent creatures that kill with superhuman strength. They grow to a maximum height of about 13 feet, at which point their hearts cannot support their bulk and they die. They only have two emotional states: boredom and rage.
The three Metallic Arts symbolize the three Realms of Existence: the Cognitive Realm, the Physical Realm and the Spiritual Realm. Allomancy is of Preservation. In the case of Allomancy, net power is gained. It is provided by an external source, Preservation's own energy. Hemalurgy is of Ruin. It destroys. By taking abilities from one person and giving them to another—in reduced amounts—power is actually lost. In line with Ruin's own appointed purpose—breaking down the universe into smaller and smaller pieces—Hemalurgy gives great gifts, but at a high cost. Feruchemy is the power of Balance. Of the three powers of the metallic arts, only Feruchemy was known to men before the conflict between Preservation and Ruin came to a head. In Feruchemy, power is stored up, then later drawn upon. There is no loss of energy—just a change in the time and rate of its use.[15] Terrismen or Terriswomen with Feruchemical abilities are called Keepers. Not all Terris were Feruchemists, only very few. Each Keeper has a specific field of knowledge on which they focus, but all Keepers carry all of the previous Keeper's knowledge.
The term "Twinborn" was not introduced until the fourth book. A Twinborn is a person with one Allomantic power and one Feruchemical power. There is no relation between the Allomantic and Feruchemical metals of a Twinborn and most of them have different ones. A Twinborn having the same Allomantic and Feruchemical affinities significantly enhances both, even if the abilities themselves are unrelated.[16] It also allows Compounding, where an allomancer burns a metalmind which provides significantly more feruchemical effect than the charge of the metalmind.[17]
Preservation and Ruin are the two opposing gods of the Mistborn world, Scadrial. They are described as Shards of Adonalsium[citation needed]; fragments of the power of creation. Preservation and Ruin agree to a pact between gods, with an initial stalemate between them, each aware that only together could they create and achieve their separate goals while knowing they would never gain complete final satisfaction. Preservation could not keep things perfect and unchanging and Ruin could not destroy completely. Ruin is of destruction, without malice, but intent on reducing everything to the molecular level. Imprisoned by Preservation in an attempt to prevent Ruin from destroying the world, Ruin's consciousness was trapped by the Well of Ascension and kept mostly impotent. Ruin's remaining strength enables it with small powers to alter writing and Feruchemical Memories, but not writing inscribed in metal or normal memories. It was Preservation that wanted to create life on Scadrial, but needed Ruin's help to do so. In exchange for Ruin's help, Preservation promised that Ruin would be allowed to destroy everything one day. However, after they had succeeded in creating the world, Preservation reneged on its bargain and sacrificed a significant portion of its power to create the Well of Ascension as a prison for Ruin to prevent the destruction of the world.
The Steel Ministry is the name of the religion that the Lord Ruler established for everyone else to worship him. The Lord Ruler allowed the Nobles to control most aspects of the empire, such as the production of resources, but he used the Steel Ministry to control the Nobles. The Steel Ministry had two groups of people who used to control different aspects of society; Steel Inquisitors and Obligators. Inquisitors are creatures of Ruin; their powers gained through Hemalurgy. An Inquisitor is created when several Hemalurgic spikes are pounded through a Feruchemist or an Allomancer into the body of a human, usually an allomancer or an existing Inquisitor. The obligators were drawn from the ranks of nobles, usually Allomancers and are trained in the arts of bureaucracy and the teachings of the Steel Ministry. They are marked by tattoos which decorate their face and body; the more tattooed an obligator is, the higher his rank. They served as witnesses for every possible legal contract (e.g., business deals and marriages), which meant that they were privy to all happenings among the nobles. Most obligators are mistings with the power of allomancy called a "seeker", meaning that they can burn a metal to see if there are other allomancers nearby. This gave the Lord Ruler great control over the nobility, as any contract not witnessed by one of his obligators, did not officially take place.
The Church of the Survivor worships Kelsier, who served as its first martyr. Vin, the Heir to The Survivor and Kelsier's 'disciple', was also worshiped. Kelsier created the Church as the means of spreading Hope for freedom and equality in the Skaa, so they would finally rebel. There are a number of other religions in the series, which are studied for historical and philosophical purposes only. Sazed is a Terris Keeper whose specialty is in pre-Ascension religions. Sazed mentions that the Keepers recorded at least five hundred and sixty-two different belief systems, including sects and branches of the same religions in their metalminds. However, none are currently practiced, as the Lord Ruler suppressed them over the years.
Magic[edit]
Main article: Magic in the Mistborn series
In the Mistborn universe, magic is depicted as a supernatural force harnessed by three distinct disciplines: Allomancy, Feruchemy, and Hemalurgy. All three magic systems are based on metals, which are used by the magician to grant them specific abilities. Their power originates in the Shards, Preservation and Ruin; the two god-like deities that are present in the Mistborn world.
In other media[edit]
Role-playing game[edit]
In early 2009, Brandon Sanderson announced he was working with Crafty Games to release a role-playing game based on the series. While the release date was originally placed as "sometime in 2009", it shifted multiple times[18][19] before being released in December 2011 in PDF, softcover, and hardcover editions.[20]
Film[edit]
In 2010, Brandon Sanderson optioned the rights to the Mistborn books to Paloppa Pictures LLC.[21] In Q1 of 2014 Paloppa Pictures' option ran out.[22] In October 2016, the rights to the entire Cosmere universe, including the Mistborn series, were licensed by DMG Entertainment.[23] In January 27, 2017, Deadline.com reported that DMG signed F. Scott Frazier as the screenwriter for the adaptation of Mistborn: The Final Empire.[24]
Video game[edit]
In March 2012, a video game prequel called Mistborn: Birthright was announced slated for a fall 2013 release. The game had been delayed until 2015[25] to take advantage of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One and then delayed again to Fall 2016.[26][27][28] Sanderson said in a November 2016 Q&A that Mistborn: Birthright is "dead".[29] Developed by Little Orbit, Brandon Sanderson had written the story of the game.[30] On July 24, 2017, an official cancellation of the game was posted by the CEO of Little Orbit, Matthew Scott, on Facebook.[31]
Board game[edit]
In 2016, a kickstarter campaign raised funds for a board game centered on the Mistborn series called Mistborn: House War.[32] Developed by Crafty Games and designed by Kevin Wilson,[33] House War is the first board game set in the Mistborn world and takes players on an adventure to play the role of leaders of the great noble Houses, struggling to weather the cataclysmic events of the first novel of the series. The game started shipping to backers in late August 2017.[34]
Reception[edit]
Forbes magazine praises all of the books in the Mistborn series saying, "The narrative is crafted with such bloody precision, it’s nearly impossible to put the books down." [35]
Sequels[edit]
The original trilogy is the first in what Sanderson calls a "trilogy of trilogies." The original second trilogy was to be set in an urban setting, featuring modern technology, and the third trilogy was to be a science fiction series, set in the far future.[2] Mistborn: The Alloy of Law was set to be a transitional book between the original trilogy and the second trilogy.[36] However, it turned into a fourth series, this time of four books. Sanderson's announcement on August 1, 2012 to write a sequel to Mistborn: The Alloy of Law, titled Mistborn: Shadows of Self,[25] published October 6, 2015, meant Mistborn: The Alloy of Law would not stay a stand-alone novel. However, the series will not take the place of the originally-planned second Mistborn trilogy,[37] but will instead become a spinoff series, with a third book published as Mistborn: The Bands of Mourning and the fourth book under the working title of Mistborn: The Lost Metal.[38]
There is no scheduled release date for the contemporary trilogy or the science fiction trilogy.[2]
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b "Tweets November 12–19". Brandonsanderson.com. 2010-11-19. Retrieved 2010-11-24.
^ Jump up to: a b c d Sanderson, Brandon (December 18, 2015). "State of the Sanderson 2015". Retrieved January 20, 2016. The original pitch was for three trilogies. The Wax and Wayne books expanded this to four series. (You can imagine Wax and Wayne as series 1.5, if you want.) This means there will still be a contemporary trilogy, and a science fiction trilogy, in the future.
Jump up ^ "Mistborn: The Alloy of Law Cover & Details Emerge!". Tor.com. Retrieved 2011-03-18.
Jump up ^ "Brandon Sanderson continuing Mistborn with The Alloy of Law". SFScope. December 3, 2010. Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved December 4, 2010.
Jump up ^ "Tweets November 5–11 part 2". Brandonsanderson.com. 2010-11-11. Archived from the original on 2010-11-23. Retrieved 2010-11-24.
Jump up ^ "The Final Empire Text Stats". Amazon.com. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
Jump up ^ "The Well of Ascension Book Details". AR BookFinder. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
Jump up ^ "The Hero of Ages Book Details". AR BookFinder. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
^ Jump up to: a b c Ahlstrom, Peter (September 22, 2015). "Alloy of Law is 97k. Shadows of Self is 112k. The Bands of Mourning is 127k". Retrieved June 15, 2016.
Jump up ^ "Mistborn Fans Will Get TWO New Novels Next Year!". Tor.com. Macmillan Publishers Ltd. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
Jump up ^ Sanderson, Brandon (August 31, 2017). "Oathbringer's Final Step". Facebook.com. Retrieved August 31, 2017.
Jump up ^ "Well of Ascension - The Coppermind - 17th Shard". coppermind.net.
Jump up ^ "Lord Ruler - The Coppermind - 17th Shard". The Coppermind. 2013-08-02. Retrieved 2013-09-30.
Jump up ^ "Worldbringers - The Coppermind - 17th Shard". The Coppermind. 2012-12-15. Retrieved 2013-09-30.
Jump up ^ "Metallic Arts - The Coppermind - 17th Shard". The Coppermind. 2013-09-17. Retrieved 2013-09-30.
Jump up ^ in The Alloy of Law, Miles "Hundredlives" Dagouter is able to heal much faster than a normal bloodmaker due to being a pure-gold Twinborn
Jump up ^ Compounding is why the Lord Ruler tried to destroy Terris people: he tried to avoid mixing allomantic powers and feruchemical ones (aside from himself being both Mistborn and Feruchemist)
Jump up ^ "Mistborn RPG Release?". Crafty Games. Retrieved 2009-12-04.
Jump up ^ "Mistborn Adventure Game". Crafty Games. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
Jump up ^ "Mistborn Adventure Game". Crafty Games. Archived from the original on 2012-04-16. Retrieved 2011-12-15.
Jump up ^ Brandon Sanderson (January 11, 2010). "Press Release: Mistborn Movie Option". Retrieved January 15, 2010.
Jump up ^ Brandon Sanderson (February 21, 2014). "Mistborn Film Rights". Retrieved July 25, 2014.
Jump up ^ Lang, Brent (2016-10-27). "DMG Nabs Rights to Brandon Sanderson's 'Cosmere' Book Universe in Massive Deal (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 2016-10-31.
Jump up ^ Tartaglione, Nancy (January 27, 2016). "DMG Entertainment Taps F Scott Frazier To Adapt 'Mistborn: The Final Empire'". Deadline.com. Retrieved April 30, 2017.
^ Jump up to: a b Sanderson, Brandon (July 25, 2013). "State of the Sanderson". Retrieved January 20, 2016.
Jump up ^ Brandon Sanderson during the Birmingham "A Memory of Light" book signing, February 22, 2013
Jump up ^ "Mistborn: Birthright Facebook page". Retrieved January 24, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Mistborn: Birthright moved to next gen systems". June 28, 2013.
Jump up ^ Librería Gigamesh (5 November 2016). "Eurocon 2016 - Sala Teatre - Interview with Brandon Sanderson (ENG)" – via YouTube.
Jump up ^ "Mistborn the videogame coming to the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC in 2013". Archived from the original on March 29, 2012. Retrieved March 27, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Hello everyone. This is Matthew Scott, the CEO for Little Orbit, and I think we're overdue for a final update on Mistborn: Birthright". Facebook. Matthew Scott. July 24, 2017. Retrieved July 25, 2017.
Jump up ^ "Mistborn: House War on BackerKit". BackerKit.
Jump up ^ "The Battle Of Houses Begins In Mistborn: House War - Bleeding Cool News And Rumors". 16 June 2016.
Jump up ^ "Update 59: [US Backers] Board Game Final Pick-Up Complete · Mistborn: House War". Kickstarter.
Jump up ^ "'Mistborn' Review: A Fantasy Masterpiece". Forbes. 2013-09-16. Retrieved 2013-09-30.
Jump up ^ "Another Long and Rambling Post on Future Books". BrandonSanderson.com. Archived from the original on 2010-10-17. Retrieved 2010-10-13.
Jump up ^ "Today I got up, and I did not have a Wheel of Time book to work on". BrandonSanderson.com. 2012-08-01.
Jump up ^ Sanderson, Brandon (December 18, 2014). "State of the Sanderson 2014". Retrieved January 20, 2016.
External links[edit]
Mistborn series listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Mistborn at the Internet Book List
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