Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings. Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. 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. 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 armour that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soil-less ground.Ĭities are built only where the topography offers shelter. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilisation alike.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |