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"I will protect even those I hate" - finished

This took WAY too long, wow. Most of it was fiddling with the king on the ground, and chickening out with the colouring stage. Funnily, once I did the Shardplate last night, it tied everything together when I'd thought it'd pull everything apart.

Explanation for those who haven't read the books and are NOT worried about spoilers (because here come tons):

The books are essentially about a near-apocalyptic event that sees a resurgence of the Knights Radiant, an ancient order of fighters against evil. Each Knight Radiant was bonded to a spren (the spirit-like creatures that inhabit the world of Stormlight Archive). Kaladin on his path to become a Windrunner, one of the orders of the Knights Radiant, and has been bonded to Syl, his honourspren, for some time. He has spoken two of the Ideals of the Windrunners - the first being "Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination", the second being, "I will protect those who cannot protect themselves". The man in Plate on the left is Moash, one of the people who went to hell and out again with Kaladin in the bridge crews, and whom Kaladin considers his best friend. Moash has conspired to kill the king, and Kaladin has reluctantly agreed to not stand in the way, as King Elhokar is weak and won't be able to save the kingdom - or humanity - in the face of the apocalypse. This piece depicts the moment when Kaladin realises that he has nearly broken his oaths, thereby almost killing his spren, Syl, and cutting off the connection to his Radiant powers. As he faces the would-be assassins, powerless and wounded and completely unable to make a stand against two armoured killers but still determined to go down fighting, Syl returns to him, against the orders of higher powers, and yells to him to speak the Words of his next Ideal. As he does - "I will protect even those I hate" - she turns into a Shardblade in his hands, his powers reawakened.

"I will protect even those I hate" - finished

Comments

Very. I've had a few moments where I had goosebumps right down to my ankles. One of them a description, just the description, of two women singing.

Jenny Dolfen

I was surprised how much life I'm currently having left though I should have none at ALL. I haven't lost myself in reading for so long, and it's amazing how many five-minute instalments a day has that you can spend reading, but you'd never start the audiobook for that.

Jenny Dolfen

You’re making me really want to read these books, though I’m not sure I’ll have a life left if I get drawn into another great fantasy world 😂

Elizabeth A Perico

Powerful stuff.

Steven Tryon


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