*Big spoilers for Mistborn and Alcatraz below*
I hadn't heard about that title. Very interesting. Particularly since the title theme thus far has been "Alcatraz Versus..."
Does this mean the Knights are corrupt? Or controlled by the as-yet-unknown Fourth Sect Of Evil Librarians? (actually the undead ones are pretty ambivalent, as evil characters go. In some very weird ways they remind me of Kandra.)
Anyway, in the Hoid Topic I ended up drawing quite a few parallels between Alcatraz and the Mistborn trilogy, and I think I might have been on to something with all the similarities in the magic systems. Like Preservation and Ruin, the "metaphysics" of Alcatraz's world involve two entities: "Identity" and "Possibility". Judging by names, neither seems to be particularly good or evil in alignment*, but there may still be some sort of critical "thing" that our hero has to do with them.
Vin, the Allomancer who could reach all four planes of the magic system in Scadrial (okay, any Mistborn could do it, but she was good at it), faced a critical choice in the middle book in the series. She essentially made a decision that determined whether Preservation or Ruin would come out ahead, even if she didn't know what she was deciding.
Perhaps Alcatraz, whose Talent somehow spans all four quadrants of the "Wheel," will be facing a similar choice in a near-future installment. As a narrator, he even hinted in "Scrivener's Bones" that he would end up causing the problem before he solved it.
As for the mysteriously awesome lens Alcatraz found in the tomb, does this not remind you of when Vin and Kelsier were trying to figure out what malatium did? Ditto duralumin (sans Kelsier). It actually makes a lot of sense for this "ultimate lens" to function as a sort of amplifier for all other lenses, come to think of it.
I don't think we'll see any Sazed-like ascensions to Godhood, though. Not only has there been zero foreshadowing of such an event in this series (while Mistborn, in retrospect, had quite a bit), it just wouldn't make a whole lot of sense anyway.
*Although "Identity" is probably concerned with keeping things identifiable -- or mathematically equal to themselves, which would make it pretty close to Preservation, though perhaps with a more neutral or even Librarian personality. Similarly, "Possibility" speaks of the positive side of change the same way "Ruin" had a somewhat negative spin on it. Maybe the Alcatraz series is going to try going in the other direction -- letting Yune be the good guy while Ashera causes problems. Ike fights for his friends. Sorry.