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.

And Dalinar realizes that his holy mission to unite his homeland of Alethkar was too narrow in scope. 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. While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified. 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 parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. In Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as their thirst for vengeance. The #1 New York Times bestselling sequel to Words of Radiance, from epic fantasy author Brandon Sanderson at the top of his game. Eventually, the “powers that be” selected the approach and I was on my way.Hardcover. I was torn whether to show Rand and his companions outside or inside the cave I attempted to visualize both. Many websites and blogs devoted to the Wheel of Time books provided details of character appearances that the scene lacked.Īfter studying the covers of the earlier volumes, I elected to bring the protagonist Rand forward to dominate the front book jacket.

My compositional ideas were limited to depicting-in the best way I could-the brief episode provided. The author and publisher selected the cover scene in advance. I usually insist on reading the manuscript, but it wasn’t possible this time. I decided the last cover should retain a sense of continuation while bringing the epic to a close. I was honored to paint the cover image for the final book in the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson, but it was a daunting prospect given the massive backstory of 14 books written over a span of 20+ years.Įach volume, illustrated by the late Darrell K.

Oathbringer book cover