![]() ![]() Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings. 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.īrightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. 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 topography offers shelter. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. We hope you enjoyed this The Way of Kings summary with spoilers.Brandon Sanderson, Michael Kramer, Kate Readingįrom #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. There you go! That’s what happened in The Way of Kings. He is to kill them visibly using his Shardblade. This man gives Szeth a list of Roshar rulers to assassinate. He collects the mysterious words spoken by those just before they die. Taravangian of Kharbranth acquires the oathstone. 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. If you are looking for more in-depth details and definitions please visit this recap at Off-Planet Books.
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