That experience culminated here, in this incredible city of Kholinar and its magnificent palace. They’d traveled a great distance to see the human homeland, and each step had overwhelmed her further. Now, over a year later, Eshonai hummed to the Rhythm of Awe as she helped unload drums from the cart. That built an instant kinship between them. She first assumed the humans must have forgotten their forms, much as the listeners once had. They were so terrified of the storms that even when traveling they hid inside vehicles. They wore clothing more vibrant than carapace, but couldn’t grow their own armor.

Instead they were wonderful, bizarre creatures. She’d always imagined humans-as sung of in the songs-as dark, formless monsters. Then one day, she’d crested a hill and found humans. Prologue: To WeepĮshonai had always told her sister that she was certain something wonderful lay over the next hill. Unless all the nations of Roshar can put aside Dalinar’s blood-soaked past and stand together-and unless Dalinar himself can confront that past-even the restoration of the Knights Radiant will not prevent the end of civilization. And Dalinar realizes that his holy mission to unite his homeland of Alethkar was too narrow in scope. Nestled in the mountains high above the storms, in the tower city of Urithiru, Shallan Davar investigates the wonders of the ancient stronghold of the Knights Radiant and unearths dark secrets lurking in its depths. While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified. Oathbringer is out in paperback October 30.ĭalinar Kholin’s Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. In Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as their thirst for vengeance.

Oathbringer by brandon sanderson