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The Way of Kings

By
Brandon Sanderson
Tor Books
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

The Reckoners
Steelheart
Firefight
Calamity
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