Was it an effect of drawing that weird place, the place Jasnah said was named Shadesmar? Shallan hesitantly moved her freehand to feel the unnatural ridges on the page. What had she done? That pattern was almost as wide as the page, a sequence of complex lines with sharp angles and repeated arrowhead shapes. On her paper, a pattern had risen, like an embossing. She had only glimpsed that place, and her sketch was not perfect. She looked down again at what she’d drawn. Every time the sea grew rough, Shallan remembered that day, that alien ocean of glass beads … A chill wind blew, and windspren zipped past on invisible air currents. Shallan exhaled and tried to relax as the ship settled. However, she might have to go below if the waves and motion got much worse. Captain Tozbek said that so far, the seas hadn’t been bad for this part of Longbrow’s Straits. Shallan was forced to grab the railing with her clothed safehand to steady herself. The deck rocked as the ship tacked, enormous sails fluttering overhead. How did one demand answers after a betrayal such as Shallan’s? Only a few days had passed since that event, and Shallan still didn’t know exactly how her relationship with Jasnah would proceed.
Jasnah knew much more of it than she would speak of to her ward, and Shallan wasn’t certain how to ask. Shallan shivered, remembering that place. And the sea beneath them … A drawing could not convey the bizarre nature of that ocean, made not of water but of small beads of translucent glass. Clouds outlined in charcoal seemed to stream toward it. That sphere wasn’t quite the sun, nor was it one of the moons.
Shallan pinched the thin charcoal pencil and drew a series of straight lines radiating from a sphere on the horizon. From the personal journal of Navani Kholin, Jeseses 1174 The death, destruction, loss, and pain are my burden. To be perfectly frank, what has happened these last two months is upon my head.
Additionally, he was chosen to complete Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time® sequence. In 2013, he won a Hugo Award for Best Novella for The Emperor's Soul, set in the world of his acclaimed first novel, Elantris. He is the author of such bestsellers as the Mistborn® trilogy and its sequels, The Alloy of Law, Shadows of Self, and The Bands of Mourning the Stormlight Archive novels The Way of Kings and Words of Radiance and other novels, including The Rithmatist and Steelheart. He lives in Utah with his wife and children and teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īrandon Sanderson grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska. The possible consequences for Parshendi and humans alike, indeed, for Roshar itself, are as dangerous as they are incalculable. 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. Meanwhile, at the heart of the Shattered Plains, the Parshendi are making an epochal decision. The secrets she needs can be found at the Shattered Plains, but just arriving there proves more difficult than she could have imagined. 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. His leading role in the war would seem reason enough, but the Assassin's master has much deeper motives.īrilliant but troubled Shallan strives along a parallel path. Among his prime targets is Highprince Dalinar, widely considered the power behind the Alethi throne. 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. 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.Įxpected 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.