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| + | En Roshar, un mundo de piedra y tormentas, unas extrañas tempestades de increíble potencia barren el rocoso territorio de tal manera que han dado forma a una nueva civilización escondida. Han pasado siglos desde la caída de las diez órdenes consagradas conocidas como los Caballeros Radiantes, pero sus espadas y armaduras aún permanecen; espadas místicas y corazas que transforman a hombres corrientes en guerreros invencibles. |
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| − | Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter. |
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| + | Tan solo en las Llanuras Quebradas asola una guerra sin sentido. Allí, Kaladin -quien cambió su aprendizaje como médico por un arma para proteger a su hermano pequeño- ha sido sometido a la esclavitud. En una guerra donde diez ejércitos luchan por separado contra un solo enemigo, él combate para salvar a sus hombres y para sondear a los líderes que los consideran prescindibles. |
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| − | It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars are fought for them, and won by them. |
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| + | El brillante Dalinar Kholin lidera uno de esos otros ejércitos. Como su hermano, el último rey, se siente fascinado por un antiguo texto llamado ''El camino de los reyes''. Preocupado por las poderosas visiones de tiempos pasados y de los Caballeros Radiantes, ha empezado a dudar de su propia cordura. |
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| − | One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable. |
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| + | Mientras tanto, al otro lado del océano, su erudita y hereje sobrina, Jasnah Kholin, forma a su discípula, la joven Shallan, quien investigará los secretos de los Caballeros Radiantes y la verdadera causa del la guerra. Pero sus motivos son oscuros. Mientras prepara un robo audaz, su investigación destapa los secretos de los Caballeros Radiantes y la verdadera causa de la guerra. |
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| − | Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called ''The Way of Kings''. Troubled by overpowering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity. |
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| − | Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under the eminent scholar and notorious heretic Jasnah Kholin, Dalinar's niece. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan's motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war. |
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 por Michael Whelan
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| Localización | Roshar, Cosmere | ||||
| Fecha original | 31 de agosto de 2010 | ||||
| Fecha española | julio de 2015 | ||||
| Editorial | Tor Books | ||||
| Editorial en español | NOVA | ||||
| ISBN | 978-0-7653-2635-5 | ||||
| ISBN español | 978-84-666-5766-2 | ||||
| Número de Páginas | 1,008 (inglés), 1998 (español) | ||||
| Número de Palabras | 384,265 | ||||
El camino de los reyes es una novela de fantasía épica de Brandon Sanderson. Es el primer volumen de una serie planificada de diez volúmenes llamada El archivo de las tormentas.[1] Michael Whelan creó la portada de la edición estadounidense.[2] La portada de la edición internacional fue creada por Sam Green.[3]
Tiene tres personajes principales y varios secundarios, muchos de los cuales se exploran a través de Interludios.
El camino de los reyes también tiene una serie de epígrafes, que dan pistas premonitorias e información sobre el Cosmere.
Sinopsis
I long for the days before the Last Desolation. Before the Heralds abandoned us and the Knights Radiant turned against us. When there was still magic in the world and honor in the hearts of men.
In the end, not war but victory proved the greater test. Did our foes see that the harder they fought, the fiercer our resistance? Fire and hammer forge a sword; time and neglect rust it away. So we won the world, yet lost it.
Now there are four whom we watch: the surgeon, forced to forsake healing and fight in the most brutal war of our time; the assassin, who weeps as he kills; the liar, who wears her scholar's mantle over a theif's heart; and the prince, whose eyes open to the ancient past as his thirst for battle wanes.
One of them may redeem us. One of them will destroy us.
Solapa de la portada
En Roshar, un mundo de piedra y tormentas, unas extrañas tempestades de increíble potencia barren el rocoso territorio de tal manera que han dado forma a una nueva civilización escondida. Han pasado siglos desde la caída de las diez órdenes consagradas conocidas como los Caballeros Radiantes, pero sus espadas y armaduras aún permanecen; espadas místicas y corazas que transforman a hombres corrientes en guerreros invencibles.
Tan solo en las Llanuras Quebradas asola una guerra sin sentido. Allí, Kaladin -quien cambió su aprendizaje como médico por un arma para proteger a su hermano pequeño- ha sido sometido a la esclavitud. En una guerra donde diez ejércitos luchan por separado contra un solo enemigo, él combate para salvar a sus hombres y para sondear a los líderes que los consideran prescindibles.
El brillante Dalinar Kholin lidera uno de esos otros ejércitos. Como su hermano, el último rey, se siente fascinado por un antiguo texto llamado El camino de los reyes. Preocupado por las poderosas visiones de tiempos pasados y de los Caballeros Radiantes, ha empezado a dudar de su propia cordura.
Mientras tanto, al otro lado del océano, su erudita y hereje sobrina, Jasnah Kholin, forma a su discípula, la joven Shallan, quien investigará los secretos de los Caballeros Radiantes y la verdadera causa del la guerra. Pero sus motivos son oscuros. Mientras prepara un robo audaz, su investigación destapa los secretos de los Caballeros Radiantes y la verdadera causa de la guerra.
Summary
The book is set on Roshar and 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. He is sold to Sadeas's warcamp, where 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 as well as drawing enemy arrows away from troops. After a period of despair, Kaladin works to improve the life of his bridgecrew. He trains them so that the bridge runs won't tire them out so much, saves the lives of injured bridgemen, and slowly gets them to start caring again, and to see themselves as soldiers. Kaladin also plans to find a way to escape from Sadeas's army.
Kaladin faces the internal struggles of his inability to save those around him and his distrust of any lighteyes.
As the focus character of The Way of Kings, Kaladin's past is viewed through the use of flashbacks. The flashbacks show his childhood and his surgeon apprenticeship under his father, as well as how he joins the army and why he became a slave.
Dalinar
Dalinar Kholin's story centers around the politics of the Alethi nobility.
Following his brother Gavilar's assassination, Dalinar took his last words to heart, and began following the Alethi Codes of War and the teachings of The Way of Kings, a book written by Nohadon. He is plagued by visions of the past during every highstorm, and has a strong sense that the war on the Shattered Plains is not what the king needs to be focused on, but rather uniting the Alethi highprinces completely. Following the betrayal by Torol Sadeas, he finally drops politics and embraces the Blackthorn, realizing that he must force the highprinces to unite and finish the war quickly, so they may focus on the Desolation to come.
Shallan
Shallan Davar becomes the ward of the rather infamous scholar Jasnah, in the hopes of stealing her Soulcaster. Her story is a mostly internal conflict between continuing her wardship, which she loves, and stealing the fabrial to help her family. As her conflict progresses, Shallan begins to draw mysterious spren when she's not paying attention, and she believes she is going mad. Things come to a head when her love interest Kabsal is caught trying to poison Jasnah, and Shallan's theft is revealed. She confronts Jasnah, who can also see the spren and can Soulcast without the use of a fabrial, and she reveals that she is researching the Voidbringers.
Szeth
Szeth's story is told through the Interludes. A Truthless of Shinovar, he is first introduced when he famously assassinates King Gavilar of Alethkar. Known as the Assassin in White, he goes through several masters before getting orders to assassinate several high-ranking people by a mysterious master. Hating himself, he murders the people on his list until he gets to King Taravangian, who turns out to be the man holding his oathstone.
Setting
Magic System
Roshar has several magic systems. Most of these are used by the Knights Radiant orders, with some of these powers including Soulcasting and Surgebinding. Independent of the Radiant orders is the Old Magic.
The Ten Essences have not been elaborated on much in the book, though they have something to do with Soulcasting.
Cover Gallery
Interior Art
See Also
- The Way of Kings/Epigraphs
- The Way of Kings/Headings
- The Way of Kings/Covers
- The Way of Kings/Interior art
Statistical Analysis
The Way of Kings consists of one prelude, one prologue, seventy-five chapters, ten of which are reserved for flashbacks of the focus character of the book, nine interludes and one epilogue, reaching a total 384,265 word count. There are seventeen different unique point-of-view characters in a total of 123 POVs, although twelve of these characters occupy a much shorter portion of the book than the other five.
| Word Count | 384,265 | |
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| Page Count | 1,008 | Tor hardback |
| Chapter Count | 87 | Including prelude, prologue, 9 interludes, and epilogue. |
| PoV Characters | 17 | |
| PoV Count | 123 |
Notas
- ↑ Announcement post
— Tor.com - 2010-06-10# - ↑ Portada de Michael Whelan
— Tor.com - 2010-03-01# - ↑ Página oficial del autor
— Brandon's website - N/A#