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the time has come and the ancient Oaths

are once again being

spoken Choose Wisely which order you

wish to swear

to Words of Radiance I've asked myself

many times s why is this generally

people's favorite book in The Stormlight

Archive so far I think it has to do with

the question why in the first book of a

series like in life often times you end

up on a path the story your family the

uh the author might shove you onto that

path you might not have Choice like in

the way of Kings a lot of the characters

didn't have a ton of choice kaledin

specifically and how he ended up this

book asked the question why are you

doing this do you really want to be on

this path now that you have volition now

that the crisis is over do you want to

stay on this path or not you get to make

that choice I had uh similar experience

and I made the opposite choice of uh

some people I was on the path to be a

scientist actually if you're not

familiar with this I was a biochemistry

major my freshman year at College I felt

like I'd been shoved onto that path not

wrongly I was skilled at those sorts of

things but after that first year I asked

myself is this the path that I want to

be on I had that moment where I got to

make a decision and I turned and walked

a different direction I walked down the

path of being a novelist instead uh

turned completely from everything I had

been studying and started over I think

those moments are really important

moments in our lives the moments where

we get to decide for ourselves and

change our momentum this book is about

characters having that momentum and

making decisions about whether they're

going to stay on that path whether

they're going to find a different path

um and what that means for them I think

books that ask important questions are

books that often resonate with readers

and and I would say that is at the core

of why people love Words of Radiance so

much I hope you've enjoyed our campaign

talking about the different orders of

nights radiant and I hope you've been

watching the videos that we've released

written by Dan in World which talk about

what each of the different orders means

and a little more depth for some of the

orders so far if you haven't taken your

quiz yet Now's the Time because it's

going to matter because we're going to

ask you to pick an order when you sign

up for this this was my idea originally

I wanted to be able to self- select I

wanted to have this quiz so that I could

figure out for myself well and truly

which order I'd belong to and I thought

that people would really enjoy as they

sign up being able to get personalized

swag uh identified with their specific

order this campaign is set up similarly

to our way of K's campaign but please

read carefully one thing to keep in mind

is that we found that we didn't need

quite as many stretch goals as we put

last time and so we took a lot of those

things that we did as stretch goals last

time and we just added them into the

campaign assuming and knowing that you

would just want to get them again this

book was originally going to be called

something different when I outlined the

first five books of The Stormlight

Archive I gave each book a title a

working title I haven't kept most of

them but it was a a bit of guidance for

me this book had a different title it

was going to reference a concept I'd

come up up with uh called The Book of

endless Pages this idea that for a

scientist um for someone exploring the

world you can never fill the book that

describes the experience of being human

you can never fill the book with

everything there is to know so the book

must have endless Pages because as long

as we are still exploring as long as

we're still asking questions as long as

we're still seeking answers then we live

and science lives and we fill those

pages with answers that ask more

questions and I love that concept I

loved both that Concept in a religious

sense that we are seeking truth in a

scientific sense that we are seeking

answers and a life sense that we are

always asking what the next day will

bring that the book of endless Pages can

never be filled but that is a feature of

the book of endless pages and I thought

that was an awesome title title until I

said it to my

editor and he laughed and I said oh

that's that is not the response you want

now sometimes when you get very into a

book one of the things that happens is

you uh you start to think of the book as

an object and you start to lose all

context and sense of what the world

might think of it when I had named this

book of endless Pages he said you're

really going to name a book that is

going to be over a th000 pages long the

book of endless pages every reviewer

will laugh at you we cannot name it that

fortunately I had a backup I'd been

working on this idea of Words of

Radiance as the in world book and it

actually ended up matching better had a

little bit of Crisis but eventually

arrived at the right title thank you to

everyone who has backed before and to

everyone who's coming for the first time

my company Dragon steel this is how we

make the bulk of our income this is how

we we survive is these campaigns and so

you directly support all of us here um

all 50 of us who work to make these

books for you I think you are going to

love what you

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