


- #Stormlight archive archive#
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- #Stormlight archive plus#
- #Stormlight archive series#
#Stormlight archive archive#
The Stormlight Archive features several different races, although most are often portrayed as different ethnicities of humans. Numerous Makabaki countries, with Azir being most prominent.Kharbranth and Natani cities in the Frostlands.In the Era of Solitude, following the departure of the Heralds and the demise of the Orders of Knights Radiant, those kingdoms split into smaller ones, some of more important being: Nations and regions ĭuring the Heraldic Epochs, Roshar was ruled by a coalition of ten nations known as the Silver Kingdoms. Flora and fauna have evolved to cope with this condition. Highstorms come frequently and, though they do not appear to follow a simple pattern, stormwardens are able to accurately predict their schedule through complex mathematics. Most plants that grow in Shinovar, which resemble real-world plant life, cannot grow in other parts of Roshar. The lands in Shinovar, farthest west on the main continent of Roshar, are mostly protected from the highstorms by the high peaks of the Misted Mountains. The world is periodically assaulted by highstorms, storms characterized by a very violent storm front traveling from east to west (beginning at the Origin), followed by weaker rains.

Roshar is the second planet from its sun and has three moons, each of which waxes and wanes separately from the others.
#Stormlight archive series#
It is also the name of the supercontinent on which the main events of the series take place. Roshar is the native name for the planet on which The Stormlight Archive is set. The second novella, Dawnshard, featuring the characters Rysn and Lopen, was published in November 2020 and takes place in the one-year gap between Oathbringer and Rhythm of War. A standalone edition of Edgedancer was published on October 17, 2017. The first novella, titled Edgedancer and featuring the character Lift, is set between Words of Radiance and Oathbringer and was originally published in Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection in 2016. Īs of 2020, two novellas have been published. The biggest timeskip in the series will occur between the fifth and sixth book. Sanderson describes the planned story arc of the second set of five books as a "sequel" to the first set, with some appearances of characters from the first set. Ten books are planned in the series, broken down into two sets of five books each. Rhythm of War was published on November 17, 2020.
#Stormlight archive plus#
In a Facebook post, the author revealed that the final word count is "roughly 460.000" words, around the length of Oathbringer, and the book consists of 112 chapters, plus differently numbered interludes, a prologue, and an epilogue. The cover was revealed six months later, on August 17. The title, Rhythm of War, was announced on the Tor website on February 10, 2020. The first draft of the fourth book was completed in December 2019. The second book was initially titled Highprince of War (referring to Highprince Dalinar), but Sanderson decided to focus the second book on Shallan, tentatively titling it The Book of Endless Pages and eventually settling on Words of Radiance with Highprince Dalinar's book as the third novel, titled Oathbringer. However, after completing the first draft of A Memory of Light, Sanderson revealed the book would be pushed back to a 2014 release, almost four years after the first book. In October 2010, Brandon Sanderson revealed that his tentative plan was to release the second book in the series in 2012, approximately two years after the release of the first book, due to writing the final book of The Wheel of Time, followed by the third book about a year later. 7 on The New York Times Best Seller list. In its first week of release, The Way of Kings was No. įrom June to August 2010, Tor Books published sample chapters from The Way of Kings on its official website, along with an introduction by Sanderson. The original version of the book is available on the author's official website. Six chapters of this early version were included in the anthology Altered Perceptions (2014).

The book was substantially rewritten between then and its 2010 publication. The first draft of the manuscript was among over a dozen books written before his debut publication Elantris (2005). Sanderson referred to the prospective series as The Oathshards Series in 2004. Sanderson completed the first draft of The Way of Kings in 2003, though the original manuscript differed significantly from the published text.
