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 even arriving there proves more difficult than she 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 their civilization-ending Desolation. 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.īrilliant but troubled Shallan strives along a parallel path. His leading role in the war would seem reason enough, but the Assassin’s master has much deeper motives.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. Among his prime targets is Highprince Dalinar, widely considered the power behind the Alethi throne. Now the Assassin is active again, murdering rulers all over the world, using his baffling powers to thwart every bodyguard and elude all pursuers. So began the Vengeance Pact among the highprinces of Alethkar and the War of Reckoning against the Parshendi. Six years ago, the Assassin in White, a hireling of the inscrutable Parshendi, assassinated the Alethi king on the very night a treaty between men and Parshendi was being celebrated. It is past time for them to awaken, for the Everstorm looms.Īnd the Assassin has arrived. The Explorer, straddling the fates of two peoples, forced to choose between slow death and a terrible betrayal of all she believes. The Bondsmith, born in blood and death, striving to rebuild what was destroyed. The Lightweaver, slowly being consumed by her past, searching for the lie that she must become. The Windrunner, lost in a shattered land, balanced upon the boundary between vengeance and honor. They can brace a broken soul but they can also widen its fissures.
Surgebindings, the powers of creation themselves. A broken soul has cracks into which something else can be fit.
The ancient oaths have at last been spoken the spren return.
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