The Stormlight Archives - The Way Of Kings opening scene animatic (edited & dubbed) 

"White not to blend in. White to give notice. For if you were going to assassinate a man, he was entitled to see you coming."

He wore white on the day he did the Cosmere a favour.

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Jared Porras, painter of the truthleas of Shinovar wore white on the day he was to animate a king.

I bet it was hoid's mssive

I bet it was a Herald ( forgot his name )

@@saki1333I believe it was confirmed to be a Herald, Dalinar was loudly drunk at the high-table and the Herald appeared at some point in each prologue.

​@@saki1333 Jezrien was the other drunk out in the hall asking if you've seen him.

No. That was Jezrien, King of the Heralds and patron of the Windrunners. As a Herald, he went crazy along with the others, and throughout the books, he was shown in scenes near art or sculptures of the Heralds, and he would yell at random people "Have you seen me? Do you see me?" while drunk. The "do you see me" is referring to all the paintings and sculptures of himself, being the Herald King and all. He's constantly drunk and acting crazy like this, often laughing at grand art of him and the Heralds (likely due to his shame over what they did), but when confronted by Vyre, he displays momentary awareness and cognition to the situation, himself, and what's going on. Also, during Gavilar's feast, Nale and Kelek refer to him being there, and they also reference another Herald being there due to "seeing her handiwork" (likely Shalash, since she was known for defacing and destroying any art of the Heralds showing herself, also due to shame). But yea, the drunk guy under the giant statue in this animation is without question Jezrien, since he quotes EXACTLY what he says in the books, is under art of likely a herald like the books, and was a drunk at Gavilar's feast. There is literally a scene exactly like this, where Szeth walks by him as he yells if anyone sees him, before Szeth attacked Gavilar. Dalinar was passed out, not yelling, and at the Royal Table. Not in some random hallway.

Unless this is a different missive from Wit, the epigraph in question was to Sazed, on Scadrial, not Frost. Am I missing something, or did you mix something up? I know therr are a ton of epigraphs, so maybe you're thinking of a different one? The way this one began, is exactly how he began his letter to Sazed/ Harmony.

*MAJOR SPOILER FOR BOOK 5* *NO KIDDING SPOILER* *REALLY, SPOILER FROM THE PROLOGUE OF BOOK 5* *IS BETTER IF YOU WATCH THE PROLOGUE IN BRANDON SANDERSON RU-vid* In the prologue, we see that Gavilar said that because he was saying random phrases to the supposed "Stormfather" trying to become a herald (yes, that´s right) and the "Stormfather" told him to stop saying random shit and won´t trust anyone from the Kholin family again. In the end, Gavilar never was even close to figuring it out the words and was an awful person.

I agree. I don’t think it could be done in live action.

"Tell... tell my brother... he must find the most important words a man can say..."

*Szeth-son-son-vallano, Truthless of Shinovar

As much as I appreciate it, I did not create the animatic. It was created by Meghowes, I just added the voice and effects.

Isn’t he sitting under a statue of himself to boot?

Such fun details to have

@@bonelessbooks9263 So you DID see him

That whole prologue sequence is PACKED with absolutely bonkers foreshadowing. Nail is there too, which I caught on a re-read and had my mind blown by it.

Actually, I'm pretty sure the honor blade szeth had was described as short and thin.

@@mvaalh Yeah, much more than the others but it is supposed to be the size of a regular sword, as opposed to a 6ft long sword the rest have, the one in the animatic looks unwieldly small.

@@WilliamGerot good point

@@WilliamGerot I think they can get as long as 10ft

Jezrien's Honorblade, which is what Szeth uses, is described as about 5 feet long, thin (compared to other Honorblades), with a slight curve. It should look like a slightly larger version of Elrond's sword in Lord of the Rings, with maybe a slightly more pronounced curve at the end, and a long handle with a subtle crossguard. The other Honorblades and shardblades are described as around 6 feet long, and SOME of them are wider, though they can be regular width for a sword, too. I noticed a lot of the concept art in the books made them seem a little bigger and thicker than they are described in the words of the books themselves, and I believe that is an artistic intent to make the reader aware that they ARE, indeed, big, but if you were to adapt from the book to visual medium exactly by the words Sanderson wrote, they wouldn't be as big or wide as they are in the inner artwork. I noticed the COVER (and back cover) art on the books tends to very closely imitate the written descriptions. For example, look at the cover of Way of Kings. You see Elhokar in his golden shardplate, pointing his shardblade out in front (Is the name of that blade Sunraiser, I think?), and the proportions of both the armor and blade in that image are precisely what they are described as in the text. It also looks more realistic, and thus would be more believable to do in animation or live action, than if they based it off the inner, "concept" art. Another back-cover image shows Szeth (I believe back of Words of Radiance), and you see that the Honorblade isn't as much bigger than a regular sword than some people think. Jezrien's Honorblade is smaller than most shards, but compared to normal weapons, it's like a big Elven longsword or almost falchion. I enjoyed this animation, but the honorblade and shardblade were not good. I just addressed Szeth's honorblade, but for Gavilar, his blade is detailed out in text and shown in concept art as the one that was straight, wide, and with the lower third looking like tongues of flames reaching up towards the blade. The one animates in this video is clearly Adolin's. Easy mistake to make, even for those that read multiple times, but if you check the books, you'll see I am correct about this. Still, thank you SO much for your work animating this scene! I'm sure it took a lot of effort, and overall I enjoyed it!

Me too, only read The Final Empire

@@galaxydeathskrill5607 READ IT!!! Stormlight is so great!! That’s where all the stuff from the rest of the Cosmere starts coming together. You won’t regret it

@@bonelessbooks9263 oh I know, I'm just saving it for the best time hehe

@@galaxydeathskrill5607 Best time is now, I think book 5 comes out in December, so get ready

This is so well done!! matches the ebb and flow of the music really well!!

For real

BRO AND THE MUSIC HITS AT THE RIGHT SPOTS

AND SYLPH AT THE END

in fact, Honor blades are more like actual swords, the fancy looking and gigant ones are the shard-blades, 'couse Spoiler: they are Spren

In the book, gemstones glow after storms and certain people can harness this stormlight to do a variety of "Magics" Normal people just use the gems for illumination because they don't know there are magical folk who can weaponize it. Szeth, the assassin in white, can use the light he consumes to heal himself and control gravity.

If I remember correctly, Szeth was ordered to cause destruction and mayhem. His actions, along with the Parshendi leaders' surrender, provided a distraction for the rest of the Parshendi to escape Kholinar. And yes, since Szeth's sentencing as Truthless was wrong, he was never bound to murder. We see that when he speaks with Nale at the end of Words of Radiance, that it was only his own code of honor that kept him obeying the holder of his Oathstone.

The fact that I associate that song very strongly with Majoras Mask makes this animatic funnier