🌜Moon Child🌛

A world of stone and storms is Roshar. Mysterious storms with great force frequently sweep across the rocky terrain, influencing both wildlife and civilization. Creatures conceal themselves in their shells, trees tuck branches away, and grass retracts into the barren earth. Only places where the topography provides protection are cities established.

The ten dedicated orders known as the Knights Radiant were destroyed centuries ago, but their mystical Shardblades and Shardplate—suits of armor that turn regular men into nearly unstoppable warriors—remain. Shardblades are traded by men for kingdoms. Wars were fought and won on their behalf.

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.

quoted from the novel.

One of those other armies is under the command of Brightlord Dalinar Kholin. He shares his fascination with an ancient literature called The Way of Kings with his late brother, the king. He has started to question his own sanity due to disturbing images of the Knights Radiant and ancient eras.

A young woman named Shallan from the other side of the ocean seeks to study under Jasnah, the niece of Dalinar, a renowned scholar and notorious heretic. Shallan truly enjoys studying, although her motivations aren’t entirely sincere. Her investigation for Jasnah hints at Knights Radiant secrets and the real reason behind the conflict as she organizes a daring theft.

The Way of Kings, the product of more than 10 years of research, writing, and world-building, is only the first chapter in the Stormlight Archive, an ambitious work-in-progress.

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

quoted from the novel.