History Literature / TheAlloyOfLaw

%%* {{Badass}}: Wax, Wayne, and Miles.

* BadassLongcoat: Half [[BadassCape mist-cloak]], half duster, all {{Badass}}.

* RejectedApology: Wayne has been trying for years to make up for [[spoiler: accidentally killing a man during a robbery]]. Despite his [[spoiler:: supporting his family financially for years]] the have made it clear they do not forgive him.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Fittingly, the high value of Aluminum. In the series it's a precious commodity, while in the modern world it's little more then [[WorthlessYellowRocks worthless shiny foil]]. However, Aluminum was actually highly valued in the past, before it was known how to manufacture it.

* ImprobableAimingSkills: Wax manages quite a few impressive shots in the book. The most obvious being when he manages to [[spoiler: shoot through a time bubble's distortion field]], which is generally assumed to be impossible.

* HealingFactor: possessed by Wax and Miles, though Miles is [[understatement a bit stronger]];

* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Both Miles and Wax take a beating that would have killed most folks. Miles in particular will not even try to avoid taking damage because of how much he trust his healing factor.

%%* AGodAmI: Miles

* AntiMagic: Aluminum acts as anti-magic to allomancy, resisting it's effects. This leads to Aluminum being highly valued resource worth stealing.
* TheAtoner: Wayne, for his criminal past and [[spoiler: for accidentally shooting and killing a man. He now supports the man's family financially to make up for their lose]].

* MagicAIsMagicA: as with the original mistborn the magic is very clearly defined. Each Allomancy or feruchemanci effect is very clearly defined and functions the same always. What metals can be burned by individuals is clearly defined. The only unique variation to this [[spoiler: Miles ability to burn gold to heal due to his possessing both gold Allomancy and gold feruchemanci which compound off of each other]] is treated as a simple unique affect of two abilities feeding off of each other, [[NewRulesAsThePlotDemands and was always part of the world, if not mentioned before]].
* MageKiller: Any Vanishers armed with aluminum bullets effectively becomes one of these. Luckily the bullets are ToAwsomeToUse so the Vanishers don't always load them.

* XanatosGambit: Turns out that Mr. Suit was running a masterful one throughout the whole book. [[spoiler: Miles' robberies of valuable aluminum were intended to sabotage House Tekiel's security and insurance businesses. Unable to pay the steep penalties for all the robberies, the House crashes, letting Suit buy them out cheaply using House Ladrian's embezzled funds. If Miles succeeds, Suit controls both his gang and the security business. If Miles is captured and a majority of the stolen property returned, the security and insurance companies are returned to full power under Suit's control, putting him in even better position. This doens't even include the side-project of acquiring many woman of magical heritage, which is also successful and only Wax seems to be paying attention to it, presuming his missing sister is included.]]

%%* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Wax's uncle.]]

%%* XanatosGambit: Turns out that Mr. Suit was running a masterful one throughout the whole book.

* AbnormalAmmo: The Vanishers have allonimum bullets, designed to be used against an Allomancer, since the bullets would not be affected by allomancy. Later Wax get a few special bullets of his own, each bullet designed to work against a specific type of Allomancer by behaving differently then a normal bullet when the Allomancer uses their allomancy on it.

* HealingFactor: possessed by Wax and Miles, though Miles is [[Understatement a bit stronger]];

* NoSell: Alumminum bullets are a threat to Allomancers due to their ability to NoSell allomancers attempt to defend against them, flying straight at the target without being redirected somewhere safer by the allomancer.

* WorthlessYellowRocks: InvertedTrope Aluminum is an expensive and rare commodity worth complex robbery schemes to pull off in the series, in real life it's a worthless shiny foil. Though, see Alluminum Christmas Tree.

* MagicAIsMagicA: as with the original mistborn the magic is very clearly defined. Each Allomancy or feruchemanci effect is very clearly defined and functions the same always. What metals can be burned by individuals is clearly defined. The only unique variation to this [[spoiler: Miles ability to burn gold to heal due to his posessing both gold Allomancy and gold feruchemanci which compound off of each other]] is treated as a simple unique affect of two abilities feeding off of each other, [[NewRulesAsThePlotDemands and was always part of the world, if not mentioned before]].

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Fittingly, the high value of Aluminum is an AluminumChristmisTree. In the series it's a precious commodity, while in the modern world it's little more then [WorthlessYellowRocks worthless shiny foil]]. However, Aluminum was actually highly valued in the past, before it was known how to manufacture it.

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: the Roughs are an equivalent of 19th century Wild West: small towns inhabited by people who've had enough of city life (and laws of civilized societies), lawkeepers wearing dusters and hats who hunt bandits for bounties, and savage koloss as a fantasy equivalent of Native American tribes.

* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Illustrator Ben {McSweeney} [[WordOfGod says]] he drew Allomancer Jak (in the broadsheet illustration) to resemble a cross between Teddy Roosevelt and Wild Bill Hickock.

* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Illustrator Ben McSweeney [[WordOfGod says]] he drew Allomancer Jak (in the broadsheet illustration) to resemble a cross between Teddy Roosevelt and Wild Bill Hickock.

* FantasyComicBookCasting: In the broadsheet illustration, Allomancer Jak was drawn to resemble a cross between Teddy Roosevelt and Wild Bill Hickock, [[WordOfGod according to the artist.]]

''The Alloy of Law'' was published in 2011. The sequel, ''Literature/ShadowsOfSelf'', is set to be released in October of 2015.

* {{Steampunk}}: The technology used in this period of Scadrial's history features this aesthetic 'very' strongly.

!!This series provides examples of the following tropes: