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The Stormlight Archive #5
Wind and Truth
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Expected 6 Dec 24The long-awaited explosive climax to the first arc of the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive―the iconic epic fantasy masterpiece that has sold more than 10 million copies, from acclaimed bestselling author Brandon Sanderson.
Dalinar Kholin challenged the evil god Odium to a contest of champions with the future of Roshar on the line. The Knights Radiant have only ten days to prepare―and the sudden ascension of the crafty and ruthless Taravangian to take Odium’s place has thrown everything into disarray.
Desperate fighting continues simultaneously worldwide―Adolin in Azimir, Sigzil and Venli at the Shattered Plains, and Jasnah at Thaylen City. The former assassin, Szeth, must cleanse his homeland of Shinovar from the dark influence of the Unmade. He is accompanied by Kaladin, who faces a new battle helping Szeth fight his own demons . . . and who must do the same for the insane Herald of the Almighty, Ishar.
At the same time, Shallan, Renarin, and Rlain work to unravel the mystery behind the Unmade Ba-Ado-Mishram and her involvement in the enslavement of the singer race and in the ancient Knights Radiants killing their spren. And Dalinar and Navani seek an edge against Odium’s champion that can be found only in the Spiritual Realm, where memory and possibility combine in chaos. The fate of the entire Cosmere hangs in the balance.
Dalinar Kholin challenged the evil god Odium to a contest of champions with the future of Roshar on the line. The Knights Radiant have only ten days to prepare―and the sudden ascension of the crafty and ruthless Taravangian to take Odium’s place has thrown everything into disarray.
Desperate fighting continues simultaneously worldwide―Adolin in Azimir, Sigzil and Venli at the Shattered Plains, and Jasnah at Thaylen City. The former assassin, Szeth, must cleanse his homeland of Shinovar from the dark influence of the Unmade. He is accompanied by Kaladin, who faces a new battle helping Szeth fight his own demons . . . and who must do the same for the insane Herald of the Almighty, Ishar.
At the same time, Shallan, Renarin, and Rlain work to unravel the mystery behind the Unmade Ba-Ado-Mishram and her involvement in the enslavement of the singer race and in the ancient Knights Radiants killing their spren. And Dalinar and Navani seek an edge against Odium’s champion that can be found only in the Spiritual Realm, where memory and possibility combine in chaos. The fate of the entire Cosmere hangs in the balance.
1344 pages, Hardcover
Expected publication December 6, 2024
About the author
Brandon Sanderson
386 books246k followersI’m Brandon Sanderson, and I write stories of the fantastic: fantasy, science fiction, and thrillers.
Defiant, the fourth and final volume of the series that started with Skyward in 2018, comes out in November 2023, capping an already book-filled year that will see the releases of all four Secret Projects: Tress of the Emerald Sea, The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter, and Secret Project Four (with its official title reveal coming October 2023). These four books were all initially offered to backers of the #1 Kickstarter campaign of all time.
November 2022 saw the release of The Lost Metal, the seventh volume in the Mistborn saga, and the final volume of the Mistborn Era Two featuring Wax & Wayne. The third era of Mistborn is slated to be written after the first arc of the Stormlight Archive wraps up.
In November 2020 we saw the release of Rhythm of War—the fourth massive book in the New York Times #1 bestselling Stormlight Archive series that began with The Way of Kings—and Dawnshard (book 3.5), a novella set in the same world that bridges the gaps between the main releases. This series is my love letter to the epic fantasy genre, and it’s the type of story I always dreamed epic fantasy could be. The fifth volume, Wind and Truth, is set for release in fall 2024.
Most readers have noticed that my adult fantasy novels are in a connected universe called the Cosmere. This includes The Stormlight Archive, both Mistborn series, Elantris, Warbreaker, and various novellas available on Amazon, including The Emperor’s Soul, which won a Hugo Award in 2013. In November 2016 all of the existing Cosmere short fiction was released in one volume called Arcanum Unbounded. If you’ve read all of my adult fantasy novels and want to see some behind-the-scenes information, that collection is a must-read.
I also have three YA series: The Rithmatist (currently at one book), The Reckoners (a trilogy beginning with Steelheart), and Skyward. For young readers I also have my humorous series Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians, which had its final book, Bastille vs. the Evil Librarians, come out in 2022. Many of my adult readers enjoy all of those books as well, and many of my YA readers enjoy my adult books, usually starting with Mistborn.
Additionally, I have a few other novellas that are more on the thriller/sci-fi side. These include the Legion series, as well as Perfect State and Snapshot. There’s a lot of material to go around!
Good starting places are Mistborn (a.k.a. The Final Empire), Skyward, Steelheart,The Emperor’s Soul, and Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians. If you’re already a fan of big fat fantasies, you can jump right into The Way of Kings.
I was also honored to be able to complete the final three volumes of The Wheel of Time, beginning with The Gathering Storm, using Robert Jordan’s notes.
Sample chapters from all of my books are available at brandonsanderson.com—and check out the rest of my site for chapter-by-chapter annotations, deleted scenes, and more.
Defiant, the fourth and final volume of the series that started with Skyward in 2018, comes out in November 2023, capping an already book-filled year that will see the releases of all four Secret Projects: Tress of the Emerald Sea, The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter, and Secret Project Four (with its official title reveal coming October 2023). These four books were all initially offered to backers of the #1 Kickstarter campaign of all time.
November 2022 saw the release of The Lost Metal, the seventh volume in the Mistborn saga, and the final volume of the Mistborn Era Two featuring Wax & Wayne. The third era of Mistborn is slated to be written after the first arc of the Stormlight Archive wraps up.
In November 2020 we saw the release of Rhythm of War—the fourth massive book in the New York Times #1 bestselling Stormlight Archive series that began with The Way of Kings—and Dawnshard (book 3.5), a novella set in the same world that bridges the gaps between the main releases. This series is my love letter to the epic fantasy genre, and it’s the type of story I always dreamed epic fantasy could be. The fifth volume, Wind and Truth, is set for release in fall 2024.
Most readers have noticed that my adult fantasy novels are in a connected universe called the Cosmere. This includes The Stormlight Archive, both Mistborn series, Elantris, Warbreaker, and various novellas available on Amazon, including The Emperor’s Soul, which won a Hugo Award in 2013. In November 2016 all of the existing Cosmere short fiction was released in one volume called Arcanum Unbounded. If you’ve read all of my adult fantasy novels and want to see some behind-the-scenes information, that collection is a must-read.
I also have three YA series: The Rithmatist (currently at one book), The Reckoners (a trilogy beginning with Steelheart), and Skyward. For young readers I also have my humorous series Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians, which had its final book, Bastille vs. the Evil Librarians, come out in 2022. Many of my adult readers enjoy all of those books as well, and many of my YA readers enjoy my adult books, usually starting with Mistborn.
Additionally, I have a few other novellas that are more on the thriller/sci-fi side. These include the Legion series, as well as Perfect State and Snapshot. There’s a lot of material to go around!
Good starting places are Mistborn (a.k.a. The Final Empire), Skyward, Steelheart,The Emperor’s Soul, and Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians. If you’re already a fan of big fat fantasies, you can jump right into The Way of Kings.
I was also honored to be able to complete the final three volumes of The Wheel of Time, beginning with The Gathering Storm, using Robert Jordan’s notes.
Sample chapters from all of my books are available at brandonsanderson.com—and check out the rest of my site for chapter-by-chapter annotations, deleted scenes, and more.
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October 19, 2024Respectfully Brandon give Kaladin a happy ending🔪 (Pls im begging atp🥺🙏🏻)
-Im also not at all ready for Dec 7 😔✋🏻
-Im also not at all ready for Dec 7 😔✋🏻
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November 12, 2020 Which one will come out first?
1. Stormlight Archive 5
2. Winds of Winter
3. Doors of Stone
My money's on BrandoSando.
1. Stormlight Archive 5
2. Winds of Winter
3. Doors of Stone
My money's on BrandoSando.
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July 16, 2024On July 29, the first two chapters of SA5 will be released on Tor‘s website and each successive Monday there will be two more! Find the link here:
https://reactormag.com/read-brandon-s...
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Update if you’re looking for more excerpts to tide you over till December, Brandon is reading from Shallan’s PoV here:
https://www.youtube.com/live/com-hv7y... (around the 51 min mark)
I forgot that there are also Kaladin sections which have been out since 2022, which you can read here:
https://wob.coppermind.net/events/503... (Chapter 1)
https://wob.coppermind.net/events/508... (Chapter 1 continued and Chapter 2)
I also found this excellent list of “readings from upcoming stories” on the 17th Shard:
https://wob.coppermind.net/help/readings
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So it’s only Wind and Truth now. So no more ketek, huh. Do we like the title? Anyway, I wish I could forward time to December 6, 2024!
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Another new excerpt is out! So if you're craving Stormlight, here is Brandon doing a reading of a non-spoilery but still amazing interlude (Dyel) during the Defiant release event (around the 1:04 mark):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sqAT...
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Excerpt alert (Jasnah):
https://wob.coppermind.net/events/517...
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April 17, 2023: We have a title! Knights of Wind and Truth. Anyone else think half of it sounds like a Sarah J. Maas book? (No complaint, just an observation.)
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More excerpts (Szeth flashbacks):
https://wob.coppermind.net/events/504...
https://wob.coppermind.net/events/508...
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March 30, 2022: WHOA!! The prologue is out and it blew my mind! 🤯 Listen to Sanderson reading it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7IAX...
Or read it here:
https://www.brandonsanderson.com/prol...
https://reactormag.com/read-brandon-s...
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Update if you’re looking for more excerpts to tide you over till December, Brandon is reading from Shallan’s PoV here:
https://www.youtube.com/live/com-hv7y... (around the 51 min mark)
I forgot that there are also Kaladin sections which have been out since 2022, which you can read here:
https://wob.coppermind.net/events/503... (Chapter 1)
https://wob.coppermind.net/events/508... (Chapter 1 continued and Chapter 2)
I also found this excellent list of “readings from upcoming stories” on the 17th Shard:
https://wob.coppermind.net/help/readings
————————-
So it’s only Wind and Truth now. So no more ketek, huh. Do we like the title? Anyway, I wish I could forward time to December 6, 2024!
—————————
Another new excerpt is out! So if you're craving Stormlight, here is Brandon doing a reading of a non-spoilery but still amazing interlude (Dyel) during the Defiant release event (around the 1:04 mark):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sqAT...
—————————-
Excerpt alert (Jasnah):
https://wob.coppermind.net/events/517...
—————————-
April 17, 2023: We have a title! Knights of Wind and Truth. Anyone else think half of it sounds like a Sarah J. Maas book? (No complaint, just an observation.)
—————————-
More excerpts (Szeth flashbacks):
https://wob.coppermind.net/events/504...
https://wob.coppermind.net/events/508...
—————————-
March 30, 2022: WHOA!! The prologue is out and it blew my mind! 🤯 Listen to Sanderson reading it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7IAX...
Or read it here:
https://www.brandonsanderson.com/prol...
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May 17, 2021I need this book like I need air
September 7, 2021
All over this 'chat':: *Anticipationspren* *Impatientspren* *Angerspren* *Excitementspren*
April 2, 2024
I am on the Brandon Sanderson beta team and just finished book five of the Stormlight Archive, Wind and Truth.
I literally don’t know what to say.
I literally don’t know what to say.
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June 20, 2024gollancz (uk artist) cover reveal and I'm SCREAMING I cannot wait to have this beauty in my hands
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September 20, 2017Who cares about Eshonai? We need Highprince of war first! Make it happen, Sanderson, before my memory gets as bad as Dalinar's himself.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
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August 29, 2024cover reveal IT'S SO GOOOOD!!!!!!!
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August 29, 2024adding this because my irl friend told me “we have some catching up to do” after sending me an instagram post of the cover released
i’m being too optimistic here telling her we have time since this releases in december
HA. HA.
i’m being too optimistic here telling her we have time since this releases in december
HA. HA.
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May 20, 2015HUBBY'S BOOK?????? DO NEED....DO WANT!!! GIVE IT TO ME, SANDERSON!!!!!
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November 26, 2020The wait begins.
January 9, 2024
Um. Wow.
Just…wow. Talk to me in eleven months. I’m gonna need the company.
Just…wow. Talk to me in eleven months. I’m gonna need the company.
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August 5, 20241.) The Way of Kings ★★★★★
2.) Words of Radiance ★★★★★
2.5) Edgedancer ★★★★
3.) Oathbringer ★★★★★
3.5) Dawnshard ★★★★
4.) Rhythm of War ★★★★★
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2.) Words of Radiance ★★★★★
2.5) Edgedancer ★★★★
3.) Oathbringer ★★★★★
3.5) Dawnshard ★★★★
4.) Rhythm of War ★★★★★
♡ brandon + reactor magazine will be posting a chapter (or three) every monday at 8 am pst
blog | instagram | youtube | kofi | spotify | amazon
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November 24, 2020At least I know that 3 years from now I'm gonna have something to be excited about other than turning 30.
For now, I'll just listen to the Kaladin Soundtrack by The Black Piper and cry internally.
For now, I'll just listen to the Kaladin Soundtrack by The Black Piper and cry internally.
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December 20, 2023
edit [Dec. 20, 2023]:
DECEMBER 6TH, 2024 LETS GOOOOOOO MY LOVE ADOLIN BETTER BE ON THAT COVER🙏🙏🙏
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i just know this book will thoroughly destroy me beyond recovery.
and i swear to the stormfather if sando kills any of my loves, im coming after him. SPARE US PLEASE
DECEMBER 6TH, 2024 LETS GOOOOOOO MY LOVE ADOLIN BETTER BE ON THAT COVER🙏🙏🙏
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i just know this book will thoroughly destroy me beyond recovery.
and i swear to the stormfather if sando kills any of my loves, im coming after him. SPARE US PLEASE
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September 20, 2024This is, to date, the longest book I’ve ever written.
- Preface, Wind and Truth
- Preface, Wind and Truth
July 14, 2022
Probably the best in the series yet! Although the choice to have Kaladin to come out as an ancient descendant of the Cow Folk (more casually known as the Moo Moo Milkers) and begin the seventh month long transformation into his inner cow was criticized by some, it was the highlight of the series for me. I can’t wait for Odium to get MilkLazered (tm) by Kaladin’s black and white brethren. Of course, the cream on top was the cameo by the happy couple Yu-Gi-Oh and Dracula in the final battle between Daddy G, or (spoilers!) should I call him by his real name that he secretly revealed to Dalinar’s sentient sandwich: Gandalf the Grey. But all this pales in comparison to our heroes’s epic adventure to the secret fourth realm: The Party Paradise realm! Accessible only with an exclusive Shardvip Pass, this literal dimension of party never stops. See Adolin bring out his inner party animal! Watch Navani challenge six people to drinking contests �� in a row! Hear Dalinar’s juicy high school stories, and view Hoid get ABSOLUTELY WASTED!!! All this and more in the Party Paradise: Shard Edition!
in short this book will flabbergast you and your pets.
in short this book will flabbergast you and your pets.
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August 29, 2024COVER COVER COVER COVER COVER COVER OMGGGG
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March 19, 2022The only good thing about this book's release date is that I have time to re-read the previous four Stormlight books and Mistborn era 1, and read all of the other cosmere books for the first time, before it comes out.
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November 13, 2024Beta read complete!
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October 21, 2024I cannot WAIT FOR THIS BOOK.
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November 5, 2024ONE
MONTH
OUT
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
MONTH
OUT
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August 30, 20248/30/24: COVER REVEAL, COVER REVEAL 😍
Also I’m sorry, 1,344 pages?!?!?!? nothing has ever made me happier.
Jan 24: As much as I’d like my Roman Empire to be something cooler, if I’m completely honest with myself, it’s this book. It’s hard to even describe how much of my brain is dedicated to to theories on how the situation in this series could possibly resolve or intensify with this novel, and what the implications will be for the future of Sanderson’s work as a whole.
I cannot stop thinking about it and I am going to talk about nothing else come December.
Also I’m sorry, 1,344 pages?!?!?!? nothing has ever made me happier.
Jan 24: As much as I’d like my Roman Empire to be something cooler, if I’m completely honest with myself, it’s this book. It’s hard to even describe how much of my brain is dedicated to to theories on how the situation in this series could possibly resolve or intensify with this novel, and what the implications will be for the future of Sanderson’s work as a whole.
I cannot stop thinking about it and I am going to talk about nothing else come December.
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March 7, 2024reading this book is going to be my entire personality when it comes out
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June 20, 2024yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
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August 1, 2021attuning to the rhythm of pure, unbridled terror while anticipationspren simultaneously appear
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he's sick and twisted for ending row on a triple cliffhanger but at least the releases are consistent so there will be answers eventually
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he's sick and twisted for ending row on a triple cliffhanger but at least the releases are consistent so there will be answers eventually
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January 2, 2024 I. Am. Not. Ready for this book. Categorically.
The fact that this is the book that marks the halfway point of the series does not keep my mind at ease in the least.
I really cannot wait for it.
The fact that this is the book that marks the halfway point of the series does not keep my mind at ease in the least.
I really cannot wait for it.
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August 29, 20241344 pages!!! hahahahah
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December 24, 2022I at first didn’t like the title, but after some time I started to enjoy it :)
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