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.
Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible
power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped
ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in
branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built
only where the topography offers shelter.
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. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were
fought for them, and won by them.
One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains.
There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to
protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. 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.
Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. 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.
Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train
under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar's niece, Jasnah.
Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan's motives are less than
pure. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at
secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war.
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.
Speak again the ancient oaths:
Life before death.
Strength before weakness.
Journey before Destination.
and return to men the Shards they once bore.
The Knights Radiant must stand again.
Other Tor books by Brandon Sanderson
The Cosmere
**
The Stormlight Archive**
The Way of Kings
Words of Radiance
Edgedancer (Novella)
Oathbringer
The Mistborn trilogy
Mistborn: The Final Empire
The Well of Ascension
The Hero of Ages
Mistborn: The Wax and Wayne series
Alloy of Law
Shadows of Self
Bands of Mourning
Collection
Arcanum Unbounded
Other Cosmere novels
Elantris
Warbreaker
The Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians series
Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians
The Scrivener's Bones
The Knights of Crystallia
The Shattered Lens
The Dark Talent
**The Rithmatist series
**The Rithmatist
Other books by Brandon Sanderson
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The Reckoners**
Steelheart
Firefight
Calamity
