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Featured Article: The Way of Kings

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The Way of Kings

The Way of Kings is the first volume of The Stormlight Archive, an epic fantasy series by Brandon Sanderson.

It has three main characters and several minor characters, many of whom are explored through Interludes.

The Way of Kings also has a series of Epigraphs, which give hints of foreshadowing and information about the Cosmere.

Summary

The Way of Kings follows the stories of Kaladin, Dalinar Kholin, and Shallan Davar. There are also several minor characters who receive viewpoints; Szeth, Adolin Kholin, Wit, and Navani Kholin in the main text, and several others in the Interludes.

Kaladin

Kaladin is the focus character of the novel. At the beginning of his story, he is a squadleader in Amaram's army. His storyline then cuts to his time as a slave. As a slave in Sadeas's army, he is placed in Bridge Four, and made to run headlong into enemy fire with the rest of his bridgecrew to give the army a way to cross the chasms. After a period of despair, Kaladin works to improve the life of his bridgecrew... (see more!)

Coppermind News

Email Validation Required to Edit

We've been hit with some pretty serious spambot action for a long while that the CAPTCHAs haven't seemed to block. For this reason, we are now requiring you to validate your email address before being able to edit pages. This also goes into effect for all current wiki accounts. If you are trying to edit now, you'll get an error and say that you need to validate your email. You'll be directed to your profile and supply an email. Soon, a validation email will appear, so just click the link in your box and you are good.

Unfortunately, this has the effect of requiring you to register a wiki account so your account can be validated at all. I apologize for the annoyance--I know I liked for guests to edit, with the security of a CAPTCHA, but we need to do email validation to stem the flow of spambots.

If we come up with a method to reduce bots another way that is less annoying, we'll do it. However, we thought our other options were even more annoying. We're very sorry for the inconvenience. We'll keep you updated of any changes. -- Chaos2651 05:47, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

CAPTCHAs

So, embarrassing fact: you've all had to deal with CAPTCHAs. For months. Registered users were not supposed to have to do that. Well, I've fixed the problem, and it's a funny (and stupid) story involving an extra "s" that shouldn't be there.

I am really, really sorry you've had to trudge through that because I am a moron. -- Chaos2651 06:10, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

Book Title Conventions

Let's talk a moment about the titles of books for a moment. For those you who care about content and not categorization (psh, content), this news post is not for you.

Joe has persuaded me that the titling conventions for books have been a little silly. Before, they always had the prefix (book) to them. Now, this works great for Elantris because Elantris can refer to the city or the book itself. It makes less sense for the Way of Kings, however.

So now all titles that are unique, like The Alloy of Law are simply titled The Alloy of Law, rather than The Alloy of Law (book). So Way of Kings, Warbreaker, and all of those are the obvious titles. Any links that go to, say, The Way of Kings (book) should redirect, but hopefully I weeded out anything that linked to the old title.

The Mistborn series is a little more complicated. The first Mistborn novel, for one thing, can be referred to as MB1, Mistborn, The Final Empire, or Mistborn: The Final Empire. It's annoying. In any case, here's the deal on the Mistborn novels. The Well of Ascension and the Hero of Ages articles are simply titled that. There's some confusion, because Brandon liked to refer to those as Mistborn: The Well of Ascension, but those weren't actually the titles written on the book (the hardbacks of those were The Well of Ascension: Book Two of Mistborn, and we're just going to exclude the subheading here). Hence, the Well of Ascension, the Hero of Ages, and the Alloy of Law are all the obvious titles, without the (book) suffix. Note that Well of Ascension and Hero of Ages actually refer to in-world things. For your wiki links, if you want to refer to the books, include the "the."

Mistborn 1 is the most complicated. Amazon is schizophrenic, naming it the nonsensical Mistborn : Final Empire Series (Book #1) (Mistborn, Book 1). Usually, people just refer to it as Mistborn, but for the wiki, that has a lot of meanings. Therefore, I have decided to make Mistborn 1's article be Mistborn: The Final Empire. (I hope that there is never such mass confusion over the title of a book in any other time in Brandon's career.) You can refer to it as The Final Empire and it will redirect to the correct page.

So, hooray, all the unnecessary (book) suffixes are gone. However, for series, we will probably use the convention Mistborn (series), Warbreaker (series), etc. when the series doesn't have a spiffy title like the Stormlight Archive. If you want to link to the Mistborn series, you can always use Mistborn series, which will redirect to the right article. The parentheses are there because that's consistent with wiki formatting.

Clear as mud, right? Feel free to discuss it on the Coppermind forums or a talk page.

-- Chaos2651 21:35, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

A News Post!

What's this? Actual edits to the wiki? I know, I'm surprised too. As you can see, the wiki is now centered on the page. I'm hoping to get this ugly blue out of here soon, too. So at this point, there are small cosmetic changes to the wiki (like the enhanced sidebar).

-- Chaos2651 04:37, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

To Do

There are many tasks left to do on the wiki including:

• Writing wanted pages
• Finding or fixing stubs
• Categorizing Uncategorized pages
• Adding photos to pages