For everyone else, there’s the understreets, levels of steel underground where the unfortunate make ends meet without trying to raise the ire of the powerful demons above. The only people really getting much in the way of affluence are the Epics and those with the skills the Epics need. Steelheart pretty much runs the area as an undefeated tyrant, helped by powerful High Epics such as Firefight, Conflux, and Nightwielder. Nightwielder controls the darkness so there’s no sun coming into the city. And in the case of Newcago, super-dark and super-metallic. It also smarted a wee bit that every single Epic got lumped into the “power corrupts” generalization, and only very late on do we see that there will always be exceptions to these kinds of things. It didn’t prevent the fact that I was still a wee bit hurt that something as iconic-sounding as Steelheart would go in the way of Superman in Injustice: Gods Among Us. Then Steelheart came along, and I was all: “WHY U EVIL SUPERMAN?”īut obviously I knew this because I read the book jacket summary. So I totally read this because Sanderson and superheroes. For years, like the Reckoners, David’s been studying, and planning – and he has something they need. He wants Steelheart – the Epic who is said to be invincible. A shadowy group of ordinary humans, they spend their lives studying Epics, finding their weaknesses, and then assassinating them.Īnd David wants in. Nobody fights the Epics…nobody but the Reckoners. And to rule man you must crush his wills. With incredible gifts came the desire to rule. The awed public started calling them Epics. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers.

I wonder if there’ll be an Epic like that in the later books…goodness now that little shmat will be OP BROKEN.

Like an Epic whose power is essentially creating black holes. Did I just really read this entire book without taking my usual copious amount of notes? Yes.

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