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The Way Of Kings Essay

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The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson, published August 31, 2010, is an epic fantasy novel that takes place in a world created by the author called Roshar. Six years after Gavilar Kholin, the king of the province of Alethkar, is murdered the majority of Alethkar’s armies travels to a location called the shattered plains to avenge their king by killing off the Parshendi, a marble skinned race that grows thick armor on their skin. One of the main characters, Dalinar Kholin, is a highprince of Alethkar and is the late king’s brother. The six year long siege has proven ineffective due to the childishness of the high princes of Alethkar. Dalinar is trying to change that even with his reputation of being the madman of Alethkar that follows the . The story is mainly about the Alethi and their obsession of avenging their king. The characters are all separated at the beginning but their storylines slowly converge. Dalinar has been …show more content…

Answers and explanations are given throughout the book providing mind-blowing parts that are so great you can’t put the book down. It starts with the characters very far apart. They all converge very slowly even though some of them don’t ever meet in person in the book. The armies of Alethkar are all in their routine of working around camp and occasionally going on a plateau run, when an army runs out onto the plains to harvest the heart of a chasmfiend( an enormous crab-like beast that pupates on the plateaus of the shattered plains). Dalinar is trying to follow his visions of uniting alethkar while investigating an “assassination attempt” on his nephew the king, on top of that he has to recover from terrible betrayals and losses. Kaladin is working to protect his friends while trying to explain his odd power. Shallan is trying to win the favor of Jasnah so she can steal her soulcaster, a magical transforming device, until she discovers a terrible

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