Role in the war would seem reason enough, but the Assassin's master has much deeper motives.ĭespite his enemies expecting him to die the miserable death of a military slave, Kaladin survived and has been given command of the royal bodyguards, a controversial first for a low-status darkeyes. Among his prime targets is Highprince Dalinar, widely considered the power behind the Alethi throne.
Now the Assassin is active again, murdering rulers all over the world, using his baffling powers to thwart every bodyguard and elude all pursuers. So began the Vengeance Pact among the high princes of Alethkar and the War of Reckoning against the Parshendi. Six years ago, the Assassin in White, a hireling of the inscrutable Parshendi, assassinated the Alethi king on the very night a treaty between men and Parshendi was being celebrated. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan's motives are less than pure.
Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.Īnd across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar's niece, Jasnah. Like his brother, the late king, he is drawn to an ancient text called The Way of Kings. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable.īrightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those armies. Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. One such war is about to swallow up a soldier, a brightlord and a young woman scholar. Wars were fought for them, and won by them. 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. Cities are built only where the land offers shelter. Animals hide in shells and trees pull in branches. Its terrifying and frequent tempests have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Grab the first three novels in The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson at a great price! Each thousand-page novel is published in paperback in two parts.
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