The age before the Heralds abandoned us and the Knights Radiant turned against us. I long for the days before the Last Desolation. I want to explain the book.īut, for now, I think it’s best to just show you instead. I want to talk about the art in the book (it’s ambitious, unlike anything I’ve seen tried in an epic fantasy novel before.) I want to talk about the scope of the series, the distinctive world which is so much larger and more real than anything I’ve worked on before. I want to tell you more, but I don’t have the space here. They’ll get their own books later in the series. The Way Of Kings is his story, though he shares the space with several others. My goal: to prove to myself, and to him, that the “good” decision was not actually the best one. The fork that cast him into some of the worst imaginable circumstances, ground him against the stones of a world where there is no soil or sand on the ground. So I started over from scratch and had him take the other fork, the more difficult fork. I wrote the entire book that way before realizing I’d done it wrong. The book started its life many years ago being about a young man who made a good decision. But a great book for me isn’t about a magic, it’s about the people that the magic affects. On one hand, this delights me, as I do put a lot of effort into the magic in my books. The author who creates interesting types of magic for every book he writes. I’ve begun to build a reputation as the “magic system” guy. And so this time, I’m going to try to talk about what The Way Of Kings is. How much the project has come to mean to me over the decades.) But such things describe the book but don’t actually tell you anything. How I’ve written hundreds of thousands of words worth of worldbuilding for it. (How I started work on it over fifteen years ago. I often end up talking about its creation. Kings has stymied me each time I’ve tried to describe it. A boy who finds that librarians secretly rule the world. A man cast down by a terrible, magical disease and forced to rebuild a society among those similarly afflicted. The gang of thieves who want to rob an immortal emperor. Each one was built around one or two central premises. Before, I’ve found it easy to explain my novels. I’ve been asked to introduce The Way Of Kings to you. The copyright for the painting and the glyphs are held by and used with permission by Dragonsteel Entertainment, LLC.This post originally appeared on Tor.com. The original oil painting was done for the Stormlight Archive written by Brandon Sanderson. Ships flat (these prints are on very heavy paper and do not roll well so I will ship them all flat) I recommend hanging the prints so that direct sunlight does not hit them and under UV glass if possible to best preserve colors. The prints are coated with a velvet finish that both protects the print and gives it a rich luster and feel. The border contains the glyphs that are on Kaladin’s forehead and were designed by Isaac Stewart and used with permission granted by Dragonsteel Entertainment, the copyright holder The slightly raised surface really captures and reflects light. Enhanced Edition with varnish texture and embossed iridescent foil border - See the video at the bottom of this product page to preview what the foil border and varnish texture looks likeġ7” x 24” (paper size) enahnced edition digital print with foil purple border.
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