Absurd Cutting Power: Shardblades cut through any nonliving matter like it is made of paper (except aluminum, in which case the Blade acts like a normal weapon).This series as a whole provides examples of: Knights of Wind and Truth (November 2024).Dawnshard (novella, released November 2020).Edgedancer (novella, released November 2016).Words of Radiance (released March 2014).The Way of Kings (released August 2010).The story follows several viewpoint characters, including Kaladin, a Broken Ace with Chronic Hero Syndrome who trained as a surgeon but joined the army instead Dalinar Kholin, a Highprince and war general trying to follow the old codes of chivalry Shallan Davar, a Broken Bird noblewoman who is trying to save her destitute house and Szeth, a man whose honor requires him to be an Extreme Doormat for others, who we first meet as he is sent to murder the Alethi king. In retaliation, the Alethi declare war and invade the Shattered Plains to begin a long and arduous military campaign. The amazing weapons and armor remained behind, to be claimed by whoever can manage to acquire them.Ĭenturies later, the nation of Alethkar, having just signed a peace treaty with the Parshendi people, are abruptly betrayed when the Parshendi send an assassin wearing white to kill their king. only to be apparently betrayed by the Knights Radiant, who cast aside their armaments and vanished. Championed by the mighty Knights Radiant, armed and armoured with Shardblades and Shardplate, humanity managed to hold their own and prevail against all odds. In the distant past, mankind repeatedly warred with the demonic Voidbringers. These odd pressures have shaped Roshar's indigenous wildlife and human civilizations both. The only exception to this is the annual "Weeping" four weeks of constant, dreary rain (sometimes with a highstorm in the middle, sometimes without) that marks the beginning of a new year. The series is set on the world of Roshar, which experiences Bizarre Seasons and Hostile Weather - the seasons change every few weeks, and appear in random order, while the hurricane-like "highstorms" hit every few days. It is part of The Cosmere, along with Mistborn, Elantris, and Warbreaker. The Stormlight Archive is an Epic Fantasy series of ten planned novels, written by Brandon Sanderson. The Alcatraz vs."The sun approaches the horizon. The result of over ten years of planning, writing, and world-building, The Way of Kings is but the opening movement of the Stormlight Archive, a bold masterpiece in the making.Īnd return to men the Shards they once bore. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan's motives are less than pure. Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.Īcross the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar's niece, Jasnah. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable.īrightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. Wars were fought for them, and won by them. It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, Book One of the Stormlight Archive begins an incredible new saga of epic proportion.
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