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|publisher=Tor Books
|released=August 31, 2010
|ISBN=978-
|page-count=1,008
|word-count=384,265
The Way of Kings also has a series of [[/Epigraphs|Epigraphs]], which give hints of foreshadowing and information about the [[cosmere]].
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''I long for the days before the [[Last Desolation]].
''And one of them will destroy us.
== Cover Flap ==
Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter.
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 armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars are fought for them, and won by them.
One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. 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.
Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called ''The Way of Kings''. Troubled by overpowering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.
Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under the eminent scholar and notorious heretic Jasnah Kholin, Dalinar's niece. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan's motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war.
== Summary ==
'''[[Szeth]]''''s story is told through the Interludes. A [[Truthless]] of [[Shinovar]], he is first introduced when he famously assassinates King Gavilar of [[Alethkar]]. Known as the Assassin in White, he goes through several masters before getting orders to assassinate several high-ranking people by a mysterious master. Hating himself, he murders the people on his list until he gets to King [[Taravangian]], who turns out to be the man holding his [[oathstone]].
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=== Magic System ===
Roshar has several magic systems. Most of these are used by the [[Knights Radiant]] orders, with some of these powers including [[Soulcast]]ing and [[Surgebinding]]. Independent of the Radiant orders is the [[Old Magic]].
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