
He traded a valuable apprenticeship with medical professions in exchange for a spear that he could use to help protect his little brother. The plains are a ruined landscape where nothing grows. There is currently a battle being fought on the Shattered Plains. There are 10 of them, and they have untold value so much that people would trade entire kingdoms to get access to them. The swords and armor still contain the power to change these men into warriors that are pretty much impossible to defeat. However, their mystical weapons and their suits of armor remain. It has been several hundred years ever since the Knights Radiant fell. Cities can only be constructed in areas where the land shape offers the appropriate shelter. Even the trees and the grass do what they can to try and retract into the ground. When the bad weather sweeps through, all of the animals rush to hide. They shape the entire ecology of the region as well as the way that the civilization there lives. This hard terrain is the rooted base of the world, which is a good thing because the powerful tempests that sweep through are very common. This is a place made of storms that rage and stone on the ground.

This story is set in the world of Roshar. This debut story in the saga kicks off this fantasy epic that will have readers turning the pages to find out what happens next!
Stormlight archive books series#
The Way of Kings is the first novel in the Stormlight Archive series by Brandon Sanderson. His writing of Dark One is being adapted for television. The Stormlight Archive series kicked off in 2010 with the release of the debut novel in the series, titled The Way of Kings. He currently teaches creative writing at the nearby Brigham Young University. He lives with his wife and children in Utah. He also won the 2013 Hugo Award for best novella when it comes to his novella, The Emperor’s Soul. He did eventually win the award for his novel The Way of Kings in 2011. Sanderson is the only author that made the short list six times in a total of four years for the David Gemmell Legend Award. Two young adult novels came out in 2013, The Rithmatist and Steelheart. Tow more novellas were released in 2012, Legion and The Emperor’s Soul. This went along with their iOS video game series, Infinity Blade. He has also written an ebook best selling novella called Infinity Blade Awakening for Epic Games. The series has been a best seller and it began with the novel Steelheart. His novel Calamity was the finale of the Reckoners trilogy. It includes the Mistborn series as well as Stormlight Archive. This short fiction collection is set in the Cosmere universe.

He has written several novellas as well as a short fiction collection called Arcanum Unbounded.

He first became a published author with the release of Elantris in 2005. This did change when his 8th grade teacher handed him a book that he finally did enjoy– Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly. By the time that he was in middle school, he rarely read and didn’t open a book if he could avoid it. He enjoyed reading as a child but never really enjoyed reading most of the books that were given or recommended to him. Sanderson was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1975. He has appeared on the New York Times list of bestsellers multiple times. He is also the author of several other series of fiction, including the Elantris series, the Mistborn series, the Alcatraz vs. Born in 1975, he is well known for his work on the Stormlight Archive series of fiction. Brandon Sanderson is an American author of fiction.
