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Kelsier is a thief, a prison escapee, and a survivor of the Pits of Hathsin, and he assembles a crew to overthrow the Lord Ruler. Kelsier presents the enterprise as the most important purpose of their lives: destabilise the noble houses, cripple the imperial economy, raise a skaa army and remove a ruler widely believed to be a god.

Every genre has its landmark novels. The books that quietly reshape everything that follows. Readers discover them decades later, only to wonder why they feel so familiar, forgetting that they're familiar because generations of writers have been borrowing from them ever since. Raymond E. Feist's Magician is one of those books.