Difference between revisions of "Oathbringer"

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Dalinar Kholin's Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: the enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshman to the horror of their millenia-long enslavement by humans. While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threathreat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified.

Nestled in the mountains high above the storms, in the tower city of Urithiru, Shallan Davar investigates the wonders of the ancient stronghold of the Knights Radiant and unearths dark secrets lurking in its depths. And Dalinar realizes that his holy mission to unite his homeland of Alethkar is too narrow in scropescope. Unless all the nations of Roshar can put aside Dalinar's blood-soaked past and stand together-and unless Dalinar himself can confront that past-even the restoration of the Knights Radiant will not prevent the end of civilization.

The original tentative title, when Szeth was still the focus character, was "Stones Unhallowed". Like all planned titles for ''The Stormlight Archive'' this would have been the title of an in-world book, likely in dealing with Urithiru which [[Ali|Ali-daughter-Hasweth]] mentions was at times the Shin's only connection to the outside world due to its "stones unhallowed".{{book ref|sa2|47}} "Skybreakers" was also mentioned by Brandon as a working title, as Brandon felt "Stones Unhallowed" would possibly be too similar to Patrick Rothfuss' "Doors of Stone" if they were released in close proximity.{{wob ref |7960}}

''Oathbringer'' consists of one prologue, 122 chapters, fourteen interludes, and one epilogue, reaching a total 458454,045440 word count (icludingincluding chapter text, epigraphs, and part/chapter titles). There are twenty-nine different unique point-of-view characters in a total of 273 POVs.

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