Warbreaker

21 hrs. 10 min.

Language Russian

Author Brandon Sanderson

Narrator Stepan Druzhinin

Description

With a debut novel, “City of Gods,” enthusiastically received by the audience, and then consolidating his success with the successful trilogy “Born in the Mist,” Brandon Sanderson once again proves that he is one of the recognized masters of what Tolkien called “secondary creation”—building whole worlds with their own meticulously developed myths and magic.

Warbreaker is the story of two sisters who happened to be born princesses, of a God-King who must marry one of them, of a small god who doesn’t like his job, and of an immortal trying to fix the mistakes he made hundreds of years ago.

In their world, the dead who died a glorious death return to become gods in the pantheon of the capital city of Hallandren; in it, forces known as biochromatic magic operate, and they come from an essence called “lifeforce,” which can be obtained in one unit at a time from a person.

With the use of “lifeforce,” and by linking it to the colors of surrounding objects, any miracles and villainies become possible. And both kinds will be encountered in abundance on the path of Vivienna and Siri—princesses of Idris, Suzborn the God-King, Hymn of Dawn—the weary god of bravery—and the mysterious Vasher.