(Update: Mistborn: Birthright was canceled on August 1st, 2017) Mistborn: Birthright, is an upcoming action-RPG video game by Little Orbit, based on the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson. The game will serve as a prequel to the Mistborn trilogy, with the story and dialogue written by Brandon Sanderson.The game takes place hundreds of years before the events of the Mistborn trilogy, during the early years of the Final Empire. The player will play as the arrogant young nobleman Fendin "Fiddle" Fathvell, a mistborn. He must quickly master his newfound Allomantic abilities before forces at work can destroy his entire family.