The Stormlight Archive Series

***The*** ***Stormlight Archive*** is an epic fantasy series by American author Brandon Sanderson. The series is currently made up of 4 novels and 2 novellas but is planned to consist of around 10 books.

## Novels & Novellas

* ***The Way of Kings***
* ***Words of Radiance***
* ***Oathbringer***
* ***Rhythm of War***
* ***Dawnshard*** (novella)
* ***Edgedancer*** (novella)

## Magic System

*The Stormlight Archive* has many magic systems. For information see The Stormlight Archive Magic Systems.

## Publication

Sanderson finished his first draft of the Way of Kings in 2003, however he relized he told the story wrong, scratched the whole thing and started over. The original book came to be known as The Way of Kings Prime and can be found on the authors website.

The First book was released in 2010, Tor Books published sample chapters from *The Way of Kings* on its official website, along with an introduction by Sanderson. In its first week of release, *The Way of Kings* was No. 7 on *The New York Times* Best Seller list. In subsequent weeks the book was No. 11, No. 20, and No. 25.

The Author announced the second book would be released in 2012, two years after the first book due to him trying to finish the final Wheel of Time book, however the book didn't end up being released until March 4, 2014. The book was originally going to be called *Highprince of War* (referring to Highprince Dalinar), then the author, deciding to instead revolve the book around Shallan, wanted to call it *Book of Endless Pages* when the Editor told him that wouldn't be a good idea for a 1000+ novel. Sanderson eventually settle on *Words of Radiance*.

The Third book was initially going to center on Szeth-Son-Son-Vallano containing several flashbacks, therefore the original working title was *Stones Unhollowed* again being named after an in-world book. Eventually Sanderson turned it around and decided that the thrid book should focus on Highprince Dalinar and decided on namng it *Oathbringer.* *Oathbringer* was released on Nov. 14, 2017.

The first draft of the fourth book was completed in December 2019. The title, *Rhythm of War*, was announced on the Tor website on February 10, 2020. The cover was revealed six months later, on August 17. The book was finished in July 2020. In a Facebook post, the author revealed that the final word count is "roughly 460.000" words, around the length of *Oathbringer*

## World

For information on the world of The Stomlight Archive see Roshar.

## Awards & Nominations

### Way of Kings

#### Won

* *Whitney Awards*: Best Novel of the Year (2010)
* *Whitney Awards:* Best Speculative Fiction (2010)
* *David Gammell Legend Award*: Best Novel (2011)

#### Nominated

* *Goodreads*: Best Fantasy Novel (2010)
* *Locus Awards*: Best Fantasy Novel (2011)

### Words of Radiance

#### Won

* *Whitney Awards:* Best Speculative Fiction (2014)
* *Audie Award*: Best Fantasy (Audiobook) (2015)
* *David Gemmell Legend Award*: Best Fantasy Novel (2015)
* *David Gemmell Legend Award*: Best Cover Art (2015)

#### Nominated

* *Goodreads Choice Awards*: Best Fantasy Novel (2014)
* *Locus Awards*: Best Fantasy Novel (2015)

### Oathbringer

#### Nominated

* *Goodreads Choice Awards*: Best Fantasy Novel (2017)
* *David Gammell Legend Award*: Best Cover (2018)
* *David Gammell Legend Award*: Best Novel (2018)
* *BookNest Fantasy Awards*: Best Traditional Publisher Award (2018)

### Rhythm of War

#### Nominated

* *Goodreads Choice Awards*: Best Fantasy Novel (2020)
* *BookNest Fantasy Awards*: Best Traditional Publisher Award (2020)

## Adaptations

### Audio Books

All four of the books were adapted into unabridged Audiobooks by Macmillan Audiothat were all released within the same year as the book. The Audio Books are narrated by Micheal Crammer and Kate Reader

*The Way of Kings* and *Words of Radiance* were adapted by *GraphicAudio* in 5 different parts. The Way of Kings was released from March to July 2016 and *Words of Radiance* was released from September 2016 to January 2017

### Film

In October 2016 DMG bought the rights to the entire Cosmere and planned on creating a film for all the *Stormlight Archive* and possibaly the *Mistborn* series. In 2020 all of the rights except the *Stormlight Archive* were reverted back to Brandon Sanderson.

### Video Games

A VR game, *The Way of Kings: Escape the Shattered Plains*, developed by Arcturus VR, was released on March 2, 2018.

### Board Games

A board game called *Call to Adventure: The Stormlight Archive* was published by Brotherwise Games in 2020. It was Designed by Chris and Johnny O'neil and the art was done by Adam J. Marin. The game is a deck building game that uses dice.