Adolin is confused by his father’s change of heart.Īfter Szeth killed Gavilar, he was passed around because he is bound to an oathstone and is forced to do the bidding of whoever holds it. Dalinar tries to convince his son Adolin that the War of Reckoning needs to end because something bigger is coming. The message to “unite them” came from him for anyone in the best position to unite the nations of Roshar against the Everstorm. In a vision, Dalinar sees a man called Honor, the Almighty who was long ago slain by Odium. Dalinar gives his Shardplate to his son Renarin. He lets most go but offers Kaladin and Bridge Four the command of his personal guards. After this, Dalinar trades his shardblade “Oathbringer” for all of Sadeas’s bridgmen. On a bridge run in the shattered plains, Sadeas betrays Dalinar and leaves him and his men to die. Kaladin lands in some trouble and is left outside during a Highstorm-something which should have killed him-but he lives. Throughout, Kaladin gains respect from the other bridgmen, and together they gather weapons and money and train to fight. They prepare to travel to the Shattered Plains to meet with Dalinar. Jasnah believes that the Parshmen are Voidbringers in waiting. By the end of the book, they have joined forces, and Jasnah teaches Shallan what she knows about the Knights Radiant and the Voidbringers. They can both Soulcast without a Soulcaster. She tries to steal Jasnah’s soulcaster but discovers that it is a fake. Shallan intends to save her family home by fixing or trading her broken Soulcaster. He reunites with a former friend, Sadeas, and begins making runs with him onto the Shattered Plains to fight the Parshendi and gather gemhearts.ĭalinar’s niece, Jasnah, takes on a ward named Shallan. Dalinar believes he is tasked with uniting the high princes. Kaladin often converses with a spren named Syl, who seems to follow him around.ĭuring Highstorms, Dalinar has visions in which he sees the Knights Radiant through the eyes of those around them. He joins Bridge Four and eventually becomes their leader. Kaladin, trained in medicine, is enslaved as a bridgeman for Sadeas’s army. Before his death, the king told his brother, Dalinar, to use an ancient book called The Way of Kings. This act brings on the War of Reckoning between the Alethi and the Parshendi. Szeth is a Surgebinder and has a Shardblade. He did not want to kill the man but was forced to. Szeth is a Shin, and his masters are the Parshendi. Szeth, the Assassin in White, kills King Gavilar Kholin of Alethkar. Thousands of years pass without another Desolation. The nine use this to their advantage and break the Oathpact abandoning Talen, the one who died, to torment. Usually, they die and then are reborn to fight again. He finds that this time, nine of the ten have survived. He arrives at a meeting place where he and the other Heralds (leaders of the Knights Radiant) gather after battles. Kalak picks his way across a field in the aftermath of the Desolation, a battle he has repeatedly fought and died in for centuries. It is the kind of novel that will make you read the entire series, which is just so amazing.If you are looking for more in-depth details and definitions please visit this recap at Off-Planet Books. It received a huge readership both in paperback and audio versions. The Stormlight Archive novel series started with a bang with The Way of King’s novel. There were suits of armor and swords which converted the common man into a kind of an almost invincible warrior. However, their Shardplate and Shardblades remain. It has been almost a century since the fall of the 10 different consecrated orders which were known as the Knights Radiant. Cities were then planned to be constructed only at those places which would offer shelter. The grass on its part retracted right within the soilless ground. Animals started to protect themselves in the shells while the trees pulled in the branches. It was so severe that it shaped up the civilization and ecology alike. There was some uncanny tempest of intense power which swept all across the rocky terrain. Roshar is known as the world of storms and stone. They were amazing with the understanding of the characters and produced distinct and expressive voices for all of them. The narration of The Way of Kings is done by Kate Reading and Michael Kramer. Another amazing novel from Sanderson is Evershore. If you are looking for some more exciting novels from the subject author then his The Lost Metal novel will make a very good choice. When it comes to epic fantasy novels then Brandon Sanderson is a great name to be trusted. It is a science fiction and fantasy novel which is written by Brandon Sanderson. The Way of Kings is the first installment in the Stormlight Archive novel series.
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