Now, as new technical breakthroughs made by Navani Kholin’s researchers begin to alter the course of the battle, the adversary is planning a daring and hazardous operation. Neither side has gained an edge, and the possibility of a betrayal by Dalinar’s cunning friend Taravangian hangs over every strategic decision. The Way of Kings is the first movement of the Stormlight Archive, a daring masterwork in the making, and is the culmination of nearly 10 years of planning, writing, and world-building.ĭalinar Kholin and his Knights Radiant have spent a year fighting a lengthy, terrible battle after forging a coalition of human resistance against the enemy invasion. Her study for Jasnah hints to Knights Radiant secrets and the actual reason of the conflict as she plots a daring heist. Shallan’s motivations are less than pure, despite her genuine enthusiasm for learning. He has began to doubt his own sanity, plagued by overpowering images of ancient times and the Knights Radiant.Īcross the ocean, an untried young lady called Shallan wants to train under Dalinar’s niece, Jasnah, an accomplished scholar and notorious heretic. He, like his late brother, is enthralled with an old treatise known as The Way of Kings. One of the armies is led by Brightlord Dalinar Kholin. He fights to rescue his troops and understand the leaders who deem them expendable in a battle that makes no sense, where 10 armies fight independently against a single opponent. Kaladin has been forced to slavery after trading his medical apprenticeship for a spear to defend his younger brother. On the Shattered Plains, a devastated region, one such battle is raging.
They were the ones who fought and won wars. Kingdoms are exchanged for Shardblades by men. The ten sacred orders known as the Knights Radiant have been extinguished for millennia, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: supernatural swords and sets of armour that turn ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Only where the geography provides shelter are cities constructed. Unusual tempests of enormous force rage across the rocky landscape so regularly that they’ve altered both ecology and society.Īnimals hide in shells, trees retract their branches, and grass retracts into the bare earth. The world of Roshar is one of stone and storms. Even the restoration of the Knights Radiant will not avert the death of civilization unless all of Roshar’s countries can set aside Dalinar’s blood-soaked history and stand together, and unless Dalinar himself can confront that past. Shallan Davar examines the wonders of the ancient stronghold of the Knights Radiant and unearths terrible mysteries hidden in its depths in the tower city of Urithiru, nestled in the mountains far above the storms.ĭalinar also recognizes that his sacred purpose of uniting his nation of Alethkar was too limited. Kaladin Stormblessed must come to terms with the notion that the parshmen’s newly sparked rage may be entirely justified while on a desperate journey to alert his family of the threat.
With the return of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as enormous as their hunger for revenge, mankind faces a new Desolation in Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive fantasy epic, Oathbringer.ĭalinar Kholin’s Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi unleashed the destructive Everstorm, which is now sweeping the planet in ruin, awakening the previously tranquil and submissive parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long captivity by humans.