Difference between revisions of "Edgedancer (novella)"

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|series=[[The Stormlight Archive]]

|released=November 22, 2016

|setting=[[Roshar]], [[Cosmere]]

|page-count=272

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'''''Edgedancer''''' is a novella featuring [[Lift]] originally published in ''[[Arcanum Unbounded]]''. In the chronology, it largely takes place between [[Words of Radiance]] and [[Oathbringer]].

 

''Three years ago, [[Lift]] asked a goddess to stop her from growing older–a wish she believed was granted. Now, in ''Edgedancer'', the barely teenage nascent [[Knight Radiant]] finds that time stands still for no one. Although the [[Yanagawn|young Azish emperor]] granted her safe haven from an executioner she knows only as [[Nale|Darkness]], court life is suffocating the free-spirited Lift, who can’t help heading to [[Yeddaw]] when she hears the relentless Darkness is there hunting people like her with budding powers. The downtrodden in Yeddaw have no champion, and Lift knows she must seize this awesome responsibility.''{{url ref|url=https://www.brandonsanderson.com/the-stormlight-archive-series/#EDGEDANCER|text=Brandon's website|site=brandonsanderson.com}}

 

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Lift travels with her spren [[Wyndle]] to [[Yeddaw]] in [[Tashikk]] from [[Azimir]] where her friend [[Gawx]] had recently been crowned emperor. Upon arriving at the city, she makes sure to display her [[Order of Edgedancers|Edgedancer]] powers to the guards so that she can find [[Nale|Darkness]]. She hopes to find and protect another [[Knights Radiant|Radiant]] that she knows he's hunting in the city. She also has the goal of eating all ten varieties of pancakes that they make during the [[Weeping]].

 

== Postscript ==

 

The fact that Lift still thinks she is ten years old, even though she has lived for thirteen years, is more than just a joke.

{{for|/Covers|a cover gallery of Edgedancer}}

 

{{for|/Statistical analysis|a full statistical analysis}}

''Edgedancer'' consists of nineteen chapters from the PoV of Lift and one from the PoV of [[Hauka]], reaching a total 40,660 word count. The standalone version also includes Lift's interlude from ''Words of Radiance''.

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