![]() ![]() Visit his website at, follow him on Twitter at and like him on Facebook at. He was also chosen by Robert Jordan's family to complete Jordan's Wheel of Time Sequence. Since then he has written, amongst others The Mistborn books and begun the internationally bestselling Stormlight Archive. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īrandon Sanderson was born in Nebraska in 1975. What happened deep in mankind's past? Why did the Radiants turn against mankind, and what happened to the magic they used to wield? On a world scoured down to the rock by terrifying hurricanes that blow through every few days is a young spearman ,forced into the army of a Shardbearer, led to war against an enemy he doesn't understand and doesn't really want to fight. Kings strive to win more Shardblades, each secretly wishing to be the one who will finally unite all of mankind under a single throne. The entire world is at war with itself - and has been for centuries since the Radiants turned against mankind. Today, the only remnants of those supposed battles are the Shardblades, the possession of which makes a man nearly invincible on the battlefield. Led by ten angelic Heralds and ten orders of knights known as Radiants, mankind finally won. To help them cope, the Almighty gave men powerful suits of armor and mystical weapons, known as Shardblades. They came against man ten thousand times. Men took root on Roshar, the world of storms. But then the Voidbringers assaulted and captured heaven, casting out God and men. According to mythology mankind used to live in The Tranquiline Halls. 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.Released in two volumes due to size of book. 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. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called "The Way of Kings." 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. 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. Widely acclaimed for his work completing Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time saga, Brandon Sanderson now begins a grand cycle of his own, one every bit as ambitious and immersive.
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