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 ¿ Dawnshard (novella) ¿ Rhythm of War
The Mistborn Saga The Original Trilogy ¿ Mistborn ¿ The Well of Ascension ¿ The Hero of
Ages Wax and Wayne ¿ The Alloy of Law ¿ Shadows of Self ¿ The Bands of Mourning ¿ The
Lost Metal Other Cosmere novels ¿ Elantris ¿ Warbreaker ¿ Tress of the Emerald Sea ¿
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter ¿ The Sunlit Man Collection ¿ Arcanum Unbounded: The
Cosmere Collection 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 ¿ Bastille vs. the Evil Librarians (with Janci Patterson) Other novels ¿ The
Rithmatist ¿ Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds ¿ The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for
Surviving Medieval England Other books by Brandon Sanderson The Reckoners ¿ Steelheart
¿ Firefight ¿ Calamity Skyward ¿ Skyward ¿ Starsight ¿ Cytonic ¿ Skyward Flight (with
Janci Patterson) ¿ Defiant
