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WAY OF KINGS, THE by Brandon Sanderson - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOKSee all titles by Brandon Sanderson.
Widely acclaimed for his work completing Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time
saga, Brandon Sanderson now begins a grand cycle of his own, one every
bit as ambitious and immersive.
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.
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