The Stormlight Archive

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.

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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 At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance, Book Two of the Stormlight Archive, continues the immersive fantasy epic that The Way of Kings began.

Expected by his enemies to die the miserable death of a military slave, Kaladin survived to be given command of the royal bodyguards, a controversial first for a low-status "darkeyes." Now he must protect the king and Dalinar from every common peril as well as the distinctly uncommon threat of the Assassin, all while secretly struggling to master remarkable new powers that are somehow linked to his honorspren, Syl.

The Assassin, Szeth, is active again, murdering rulers all over the world of Roshar, using his baffling powers to thwart every bodyguard and elude all pursuers. Among his prime targets is Highprince Dalinar, widely considered the power behind the Alethi throne. His leading role in the war would seem reason enough, but the Assassin's master has much deeper motives.

Brilliant but troubled Shallan strives along a parallel path. Despite being broken in ways she refuses to acknowledge, she bears a terrible burden: to somehow prevent the return of the legendary Voidbringers and the civilization-ending Desolation that will follow. The secrets she needs can be found at the Shattered Plains, but just arriving there proves more difficult than she could have imagined.

Meanwhile, at the heart of the Shattered Plains, the Parshendi are making an epochal decision. Hard pressed by years of Alethi attacks, their numbers ever shrinking, they are convinced by their war leader, Eshonai, to risk everything on a desperate gamble with the very supernatural forces they once fled. The possible consequences for Parshendi and humans alike, indeed, for Roshar itself, are as dangerous as they are incalculable.

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

The #1 New York Times bestselling sequel to Words of Radiance, from epic fantasy author Brandon Sanderson at the top of his game.

In Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as their thirst for vengeance.

Dalinar Kholin’s Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified.

Nestled in the mountains high above the storms, in the tower city of Urithiru, Shallan Davar investigates the wonders of the ancient stronghold of the Knights Radiant and unearths dark secrets lurking in its depths. And Dalinar realizes that his holy mission to unite his homeland of Alethkar was too narrow in scope. Unless all the nations of Roshar can put aside Dalinar’s blood-soaked past and stand together—and unless Dalinar himself can confront that past—even the restoration of the Knights Radiant will not prevent the end of civilization.

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

An instant #1 New York Times Bestseller and a USA Today and Indie Bestseller!

The Stormlight Archive saga continues in Rhythm of War, the eagerly awaited sequel to Brandon Sanderson's #1 New York Times bestselling Oathbringer, from an epic fantasy writer at the top of his game.

After forming a coalition of human resistance against the enemy invasion, Dalinar Kholin and his Knights Radiant have spent a year fighting a protracted, brutal war. Neither side has gained an advantage, and the threat of a betrayal by Dalinar’s crafty ally Taravangian looms over every strategic move.

Now, as new technological discoveries by Navani Kholin’s scholars begin to change the face of the war, the enemy prepares a bold and dangerous operation. The arms race that follows will challenge the very core of the Radiant ideals, and potentially reveal the secrets of the ancient tower that was once the heart of their strength.

At the same time that Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with his changing role within the Knights Radiant, his Windrunners face their own problem: As more and more deadly enemy Fused awaken to wage war, no more honorspren are willing to bond with humans to increase the number of Radiants. Adolin and Shallan must lead the coalition’s envoy to the honorspren stronghold of Lasting Integrity and either convince the spren to join the cause against the evil god Odium, or personally face the storm of failure.

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