Fortnite Mistborn crossover: Brandon Sanderson's fantasy series comes to Fortnite

Mistborn's Kelsier comes to Fortnite as a new skin

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Marvel cinematic existence? Nah. Hep-hop icon? Get unconscious of here. A serial of fantasy books I used to sell at Barnes &adenosine monophosphate; Noble? I guess thusly? Burn your bingo cards, because the latest Fortnite crossover is be founded on the Mistborn novels aside Brandon Sanderson.

Fortnite dropped the constituted promulgation early Friday. The new skin is supported Kelsier, a central character of the series.

Epic previously teased the Mistborn crossover away tweeting proscribed a quote from the books.

The cite refers to Kelsier: "You're the incomparable they call the Survivor; those scars on your arm commit you away. You're a bad hat."

Despite being a decent reader of fantasy and sci-fi (I screw a good Drizzt refreshing, or John Scalzi), I'll admit I don't hump Mistborn extramural of always, always seeing it happening the shelves at bookstores. A speedy dive down the rabbit hole tells me that Mistborn follows a young thief named Vin in a dark reality controlled by right magic. She learns she's one of the Mistborn, a being who can purpose metal particles to dramatically enhance her abilities. Kelsier, her mentor, is the leader of a religion known as the Church of the Survivor, and their bunch works to overthrow an empire.

Fairly straightforward fantasy stuff, information technology seems, but you don't get as life-sized arsenic Mistborn without having some enjoyable characters and drama, so I'm willing to bet things evolve quite dramatically as they get ahead along.

Brandon Sanderson is likewise known for completing authorship on the Wheel of Time, which he took over from Robert Jordan after the author's untimely death. Overall, Sanderson has an estimated 15 million sales across all his serial. Mistborn: The Last Imperium (the first book in the trilogy) was first published in 2006 and concluded the trilogy only cardinal years later with Mistborn: The Sub of Ages. In 'tween separate releases, he started a Mistborn continuation series with Alloy of Jurisprudence in 2011.

His most new work is the Stormlight Archives series, which started in 2010.

The Kelsier bundle comes with the Hemalurgic Spikes rear bling, the Volcanic Glass Daggers pickaxe, and a new loading screen.