Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Its terrifying and frequent tempest have shaped ecology and civilisation alike. It has been centuries since the fall of the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mustical arms and armour that transform men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and won by them. And now one such war, fought across the Shattered Plains, is about to swallow up a soldier, a brightlord and young woman scholar.