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The moronicity of the portable bridges defies belief.
The warriors scramble to arrive first, before the enemy but, more importantly, before the other commanders.
A horn sounds in the distance announcing that a shrimp has been found. The entire strategy works like this: the entire army is sitting idly, wearing fashionable scarves and drinking wine. I kid you not, this is the primary purpose of the war: not beating the enemy but killing the shrimps while they're pupating (to turn into what, an enormous blowfly?) before the enemy slays it. Then there is a war in the Shattered Plains: for six years the warriors, instead of fighting, go looking for overgrown shrimps to steal the enormous emeralds that grow inside of them. When the hero screws up, his senior officers are killed immediately but he's instead given a chance to survive, and, not very surprisingly, he does. Slaves are paid a living wage so that there is a way for the hero to earn money because it's needed by the story. His mates are all killed, but he survives because, oh, he's sooo special. He is then spared his life out of sheer plot armour, and the reader is left wondering why he hasn't been killed for constant rebellion. Then we are introduced with the hero, who, of course, rejects the greatest conceivable honour in the world out of pure spite. The opening is painfully bad: an all powerful assassin kills a king and his guard by having superpowers taken straight out of videogames. I can stomach the childish depiction of characters but I cannot bring myself to accept the utter idiocy of the setting. I'm always looking for fantasy books and I knew this was very popular so, after a few years I've decided to try it. On a world scoured down to the rock by terrifying hurricanes, a young spearman is forced into the army of a Shardbearer, led to war against an enemy he doesn't understand and doesn't really want to fight. Kings strive to win more Shardblades, each secretly wishing to be the one who will finally unite all of mankind under a single throne. The entire world is at war with itself - and has been for centuries since the Radiants turned against mankind. Today the only remnants of those supposed battles are the Shardblades, the possession of which makes a man nearly invincible on the battlefield. Led by 10 angelic Heralds and 10 orders of knights known as Radiants, mankind finally won (or so the legends say). The Almighty gave men powerful suits of armor and mystical weapons, the Shardblades. Men took root on Roshar, the world of storms, but the Voidbringers followed. But then the Voidbringers assaulted and captured heaven, casting out God and men.
According to mythology, mankind used to live in 'The Tranquiline Halls': heaven.
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