I am making my way through the Stormlight Archive (again) and this round I got a curious detail: on multiple occasions, the Reshi are said to have attacked the Alethi on multiple occasions.

Let’s dive into each of the blurbs, assess how well they set up the reader for The Way of Kings, then compare the two versions to see what’s different.

A quick video on the Life and Travels of Jastes Lekal. As I progress through my 2025 Cosmere Reread I have been paying special attention to the side characters that drive the story in a significant way.

Teft is one of the most important Windrunners of this age in Roshar, and one of the best characters in the entire Cosmere. This video will examine the effect Teft had on the world of Roshar, and explore his contributions to the Stormlight Archive.

If you read my article about the many names of Hoid from a week back, you saw that I had been working on the mystery of Nohadon in Wind and Truth. During one of his visions within the spiritual realm, Dalinar ends up encountering a very lucid version of Nohadon.

Based on my research through all of the published books, dozens of WoBs in the Arcanum, several Coppermind pages, and a scattering of other sources, I’ve assembled the locations and context for each of Hoid’s aliases.

Now that Wind and Truth is out and behind us, those well Invested in the Cosmere may find themselves ready to dive into the backlog of books they’ve been holding off on while waiting for the conclusion of the first era of the Stormlight Archive. 

Once we stood against all that was dark. Adolin, we stand again. We. Stand. Again.

We have at last come to the journey’s end on ranking the interludes in the Stormlight Archive, at least for this era.

Two of Sanderson’s 2023 secret project books, Tress of the Emerald Sea and Yumi and the Nightmare Painter, share an interesting trait: the narrator occasionally breaks the fourth wall and speaks to an unnamed audience.

While we’ll have to wait until 2031 to get the next mainline book, the next in story from the Stormlight Archive that we’ll get is 2026’s Horneater.

Of all of the books I've ranked thus far, this has been the most surprising by far. At this stage in the Stormlight Archive, we've moved fairly far from the original goal of the interlude chapters, and our rankings will reflect that.

I will come out and say it now, there are going to be some controversial opinions in this one. In Oathbringer, we see a major change of the role of interludes in a way that makes reviewing them under the light of their original purpose incredibly challenging. 

We are back to ranking interludes, this time with the Words of Radiance.

Only those well invested in the Cosmere will know that the Way of Kings is also an in-fiction book written by Nohadon, an ancient Rosharan king.

Can the mystery of the Iriali be revealed by a single detail planted within the worlds in which they inhabit?