Wind and Truth - Trailer Concept

[Hoid Slayer He/Him]

So

I was looking at @Doc12's old trailer concepts for Mistborn and the Stormlight Archive, and I realized that this is actually something I've envisioned a lot. Especially for Wind and Truth.

The trailer script here is decently long, so it would probably be the final trailer before the release, not that it really matters in this case. This took me way longer to make than I thought it would. Finding quotes for the voiceovers was especially grueling. So, yeah. Here it is.

Not every scene in this trailer concept is actually in the book; but we can assume they took place, at some point or another.

Words in red describe the sound playing; normal words describe what's on the screen.

Voiceover sound generally corresponds to the scene below it.

Music is intended to be an epic, highly edited version of Half Light by BANNERS.

Needless to say, spoilers for Wind and Truth ahead:

...

(black screen)

Silence.

Then thunder.

(Shot pans around Dalinar as he stands atop Urithiru, holding the Way of Kings in one hand. He overlooks the landscape as the Everstorm rages below the tower.)

Music begins.

(Smooth transition to a mirroring shot of Shallan, standing atop Lasting Integrity overlooking Shadesmar with the same camera angle. Pattern and Testament stand nearby.)

First musical beat.

(Remaining members of Bridge Four party (muted sound), while Kaladin watches on wistfully from the doorway. Syl, life size, puts her hand on his shoulder.)

Nohadon's voice: The question... is not whether you will love,

(Black and white shot, Endgame trailer-style, of Kaladin playing in the fields with Tien as kid)

Hurt,

(Black and white young Shallan stands, holding a Shardblade, in a pool of red blood)

Dream,

(Young Shallan entertains her brothers, before looking back towards a doorway across which in another room, her father screams at his lover and hits her)

And die.

(Black and white older Kaladin holds Tien's body in his arms, weeping to the world, in a field of corpses)

Silence.

Fade to black.

Music crescendos.

(Series of flashes of quick shots: Kaladin carries a bridge in Sadeas's army. Kaladin stands above the Honor Chasm. Kaladin is strung up on the roof of the barracks, ravaged by the Highstorm, left to die)

Music stops.

Fade to black.

Heavy breathing.

Footsteps clatter.

Music explodes.

(Kaladin, Radiant, leaps across the chasm to the Tower, absorbing Stormlight from the parshendi. He lands, and a blast of Stormlight sends everything pushed back. From here on, the scenes are still black-and white, except the characters and Stormlight are in color)

It is what you will love,

(Shallan, also exempt from the black-and-white, draws on the boat approaching Kharbranth)

Why you will hurt,

(Kaladin stands between Moash and the conspirators, wielding Syl as a spear, protecting Elhokar)

When you will dream,

(Shallan stands in front of a mirror on her wedding day. Behind her, Veil and Radiant walk up and place their hands on her shoulders)

and how you will die.

(Kaladin falls through the sky, until suddenly exploding in a burst of radiance. Armor forms around him, and he catches Lirin.)

This is your choice.

(Kaladin lifts Lirin back up to safety, and joins the battle in Urithiru)

Voiceover change to Dalinar: What is the most important step a man can take?

(Black and white scene of younger Dalinar standing above the burning Rift, blade outstretched, eyes alight with flaming fury)

The next one. Always the next one.

(In the present, (no longer black-and-white) Dalinar plays with Gav, but as soon as the kid is distracted, he gazes into the distance, expression sorrowful)

Child Szeth's voice: But... how do you know what to do?

(Young Szeth dances around the family rock)

The right choices. How do you know what they are?

(Young Szeth weeps in the rain, holding up blood soaked hands and kneeling before Molli's corpse)

(Older, but still young, Szeth defeats a pirate in hand-to-hand combat, then, chest heaving, looks down at his bloodied hands before glancing at the camera with a murderous gaze)

Lirin: Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.

(A grinning Adolin greets Azish generals in the dome, shaking hands, Colot at his side)

If nobody starts, then others cannot follow.

(A wave of Regals crashes against the Azish line of defense at the dome, and Adolin, glowing in brilliant shardplate, stands against them)

Hoid: It will get worse again. Then better.

(Dalinar and Navani trot along Shin foothills, with a pack of ancient Singers. Dalinar stops, and pauses to overlook the expansive landscape)

This is life. And I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine.

(Dalinar and Navani fight as Knights Radiant in a desolation. They pause to overlook a valley, where Fused and Radiant forces crash into each other.)

But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say.

(Kaladin lands alongside Szeth to look over the plains of Shinovar (essentially the first concept art piece Brandon released))

Kaladin and Hoid, together: You WILL be warm again.

(Kaladin dances with Syl, who morphs in his hand from spear to woman. They laugh, together)

Gavinor: Everyone dies. So many people. Killing.

(Abidi the monarch stands in the Azish dome, Fused forces surging to battle around him. He looks at the camera, demonic grin on his face)

And dying.

(Aerial shot of Vyre's body, strewn on a snowy mountaintop, eyes burned out, being found by Fused)

And killing.

(El wipes a bloody knife)

And dying.

(Close-up of Mraize's face as he sits on his chair in the Ghostbloods headquarters, sipping a drink carefully)

So many being killed...

(Back view of Ishar walking up an outcropping in the foothills of Shinovar as the sun rises before him, lines of Connection leaking from his fingertips)

Adolin: People break. And sometimes...

(Shallan, Renarin, and Rlain look through a Spiritual Realm barrier at the smoky form of Ba Ado Mishram. Shallan outstretches her hand towards the barrier)

The strong ones break harder than the weak ones. Because they're the ones you pile everything on top of.

(The floor beneath Shallan gives way, and she falls through a Spiritual Realm vortex of memories)

(Young Renarin is held against the wall by a squad of bullies)

Hoid: Would that any of us could protect ourselves from the costs that heroism often requires.

(Abidi stalks, grinning with blade in hand, towards Shallan who is scrambling on the floor of an ornate room)

But again, if there were no cost, no sacrifice...

(Jasnah kneels in a Thaylen temple, face obscured. Fen walks up behind her)

Would it be heroism at all?

(Aerial view of Sigzil lashing himself across a battlefield in the Shattered Plains, strewn with corpses and wreckage, rain pouring. Sigzil catches himself, then looks up at the camera)

Fade to black.

Music dims.

Adolin: The four of us. Drinks, once this is done. Promise me.

(Adolin huddles with Kaladin, Shallan, and Syl in Azimir.)

Shallan: Promise.

(Everyone turns to Kaladin, who looks down. Finally, he looks up.)

Kaladin: Drinks. Jokes. Laughter. At the end. I PROMISE.

Music strengthens back up.

Hoid: Everything you've done - everything you've been - has prepared you for what's next.

(Venli pushes open the entrance of a cave and steps out into the Listener camp. massive chasmfiends lounge in the sun)

Fade to black

Music dims.

We're heading straight into the most difficult moment in our lives.

(Quick shot of Dalinar Kholin climbing the steps up to Urithiru, face stern, Way of Kings in hand, with a shadow looming over him (essentially the second piece of concept art Brandon released) before a quick fade back to darkness)

Remember.

Music explodes in rapid bursts (no longer a set song)

Black screen w/caption: Urithiru

(Quick shot of Renarin, Shallan and Rlain on the fields outside Urithiru, looking ominously into the distance)

Hope is wonderful.

Black screen w/caption: Shinovar

(Spinning camera around Szeth and Kaladin brandishing weapons back to back, but without clear view of who they're fighting)

Keep it.

Black screen w/caption: Azimir

(Quick shot of Adolin rushing across Fused forces in the dome in full plate, leaping over bodies and soldiers to get to Neziham)

Treasure it.

Black screen w/caption: The Shattered Plains

(Quick shot of Listeners riding Chasmfiends into battle on Narak Prime)

And if hope doesn't mean anything to you when you lose...

Black screen w/caption: Thaylenah

(Quick shot of Jasnah summoning Ivory while watching ships prepare for war in the harbor)

Black screen w/caption, in different, crackly font: The Spiritual Realm

(Quick shot of Dalinar and Navani rushing through human pilgrims during their arrival in Roshar)

Then it wasn't ever a virtue in the first place.

Fade to black. 

Music stops.

Azish general screaming hauntingly: HOOOOOOOOOLD!!

Silence.

Taravangian's voice, taunting: Dalinar, Dalinar, Dalinar...

(Close up of Taravangian's eyes flashing open, revealing infinite depths of gold and red)

Fade to black.

Hoid: This... it frightens me.

[Kansas Stormcursed he/him]

That's a trailer I'd watch on repeat

[KaladinsSenseOfHumourSpren He/Him]

This is... epic!

[CoderDrag0n8 He/Him]

1 hour ago, Hoid Slayer said:

So

I was looking at @Doc12's old trailer concepts for Mistborn and the Stormlight Archive, and I realized that this is actually something I've envisioned a lot. Especially for Wind and Truth.

The trailer script here is decently long, so it would probably be the final trailer before the release, not that it really matters in this case. This took me way longer to make than I thought it would. Finding quotes for the voiceovers was especially grueling. So, yeah. Here it is.

Not every scene in this trailer concept is actually in the book; but we can assume they took place, at some point or another.

Words in red describe the sound playing; normal words describe what's on the screen.

Voiceover sound generally corresponds to the scene below it.

Music is intended to be an epic, highly edited version of Half Light by BANNERS.

Needless to say, spoilers for Wind and Truth ahead:

...

(black screen)

Silence.

Then thunder.

(Shot pans around Dalinar as he stands atop Urithiru, holding the Way of Kings in one hand. He overlooks the landscape as the Everstorm rages below the tower.)

Music begins.

(Smooth transition to a mirroring shot of Shallan, standing atop Lasting Integrity overlooking Shadesmar with the same camera angle. Pattern and Testament stand nearby.)

First musical beat.

(Remaining members of Bridge Four party (muted sound), while Kaladin watches on wistfully from the doorway. Syl, life size, puts her hand on his shoulder.)

Nohadon's voice: The question... is not whether you will love,

(Black and white shot, Endgame trailer-style, of Kaladin playing in the fields with Tien as kid)

Hurt,

(Black and white young Shallan stands, holding a Shardblade, in a pool of red blood)

Dream,

(Young Shallan entertains her brothers, before looking back towards a doorway across which in another room, her father screams at his lover and hits her)

And die.

(Black and white older Kaladin holds Tien's body in his arms, weeping to the world, in a field of corpses)

Silence.

Fade to black.

Music crescendos.

(Series of flashes of quick shots: Kaladin carries a bridge in Sadeas's army. Kaladin stands above the Honor Chasm. Kaladin is strung up on the roof of the barracks, ravaged by the Highstorm, left to die)

Music stops.

Fade to black.

Heavy breathing.

Footsteps clatter.

Music explodes.

(Kaladin, Radiant, leaps across the chasm to the Tower, absorbing Stormlight from the parshendi. He lands, and a blast of Stormlight sends everything pushed back. From here on, the scenes are still black-and white, except the characters and Stormlight are in color)

It is what you will love,

(Shallan, also exempt from the black-and-white, draws on the boat approaching Kharbranth)

Why you will hurt,

(Kaladin stands between Moash and the conspirators, wielding Syl as a spear, protecting Elhokar)

When you will dream,

(Shallan stands in front of a mirror on her wedding day. Behind her, Veil and Radiant walk up and place their hands on her shoulders)

and how you will die.

(Kaladin falls through the sky, until suddenly exploding in a burst of radiance. Armor forms around him, and he catches Lirin.)

This is your choice.

(Kaladin lifts Lirin back up to safety, and joins the battle in Urithiru)

Voiceover change to Dalinar: What is the most important step a man can take?

(Black and white scene of younger Dalinar standing above the burning Rift, blade outstretched, eyes alight with flaming fury)

The next one. Always the next one.

(In the present, (no longer black-and-white) Dalinar plays with Gav, but as soon as the kid is distracted, he gazes into the distance, expression sorrowful)

Child Szeth's voice: But... how do you know what to do?

(Young Szeth dances around the family rock)

The right choices. How do you know what they are?

(Young Szeth weeps in the rain, holding up blood soaked hands and kneeling before Molli's corpse)

(Older, but still young, Szeth defeats a pirate in hand-to-hand combat, then, chest heaving, looks down at his bloodied hands before glancing at the camera with a murderous gaze)

Lirin: Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.

(A grinning Adolin greets Azish generals in the dome, shaking hands, Colot at his side)

If nobody starts, then others cannot follow.

(A wave of Regals crashes against the Azish line of defense at the dome, and Adolin, glowing in brilliant shardplate, stands against them)

Hoid: It will get worse again. Then better.

(Dalinar and Navani trot along Shin foothills, with a pack of ancient Singers. Dalinar stops, and pauses to overlook the expansive landscape)

This is life. And I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine.

(Dalinar and Navani fight as Knights Radiant in a desolation. They pause to overlook a valley, where Fused and Radiant forces crash into each other.)

But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say.

(Kaladin lands alongside Szeth to look over the plains of Shinovar (essentially the first concept art piece Brandon released))

Kaladin and Hoid, together: You WILL be warm again.

(Kaladin dances with Syl, who morphs in his hand from spear to woman. They laugh, together)

Gavinor: Everyone dies. So many people. Killing.

(Abidi the monarch stands in the Azish dome, Fused forces surging to battle around him. He looks at the camera, demonic grin on his face)

And dying.

(Aerial shot of Vyre's body, strewn on a snowy mountaintop, eyes burned out, being found by Fused)

And killing.

(El wipes a bloody knife)

And dying.

(Close-up of Mraize's face as he sits on his chair in the Ghostbloods headquarters, sipping a drink carefully)

So many being killed...

(Back view of Ishar walking up an outcropping in the foothills of Shinovar as the sun rises before him, lines of Connection leaking from his fingertips)

Adolin: People break. And sometimes...

(Shallan, Renarin, and Rlain look through a Spiritual Realm barrier at the smoky form of Ba Ado Mishram. Shallan outstretches her hand towards the barrier)

The strong ones break harder than the weak ones. Because they're the ones you pile everything on top of.

(The floor beneath Shallan gives way, and she falls through a Spiritual Realm vortex of memories)

(Young Renarin is held against the wall by a squad of bullies)

Hoid: Would that any of us could protect ourselves from the costs that heroism often requires.

(Abidi stalks, grinning with blade in hand, towards Shallan who is scrambling on the floor of an ornate room)

But again, if there were no cost, no sacrifice...

(Jasnah kneels in a Thaylen temple, face obscured. Fen walks up behind her)

Would it be heroism at all?

(Aerial view of Sigzil lashing himself across a battlefield in the Shattered Plains, strewn with corpses and wreckage, rain pouring. Sigzil catches himself, then looks up at the camera)

Fade to black.

Music dims.

Adolin: The four of us. Drinks, once this is done. Promise me.

(Adolin huddles with Kaladin, Shallan, and Syl in Azimir.)

Shallan: Promise.

(Everyone turns to Kaladin, who looks down. Finally, he looks up.)

Kaladin: Drinks. Jokes. Laughter. At the end. I PROMISE.

Music strengthens back up.

Hoid: Everything you've done - everything you've been - has prepared you for what's next.

(Venli pushes open the entrance of a cave and steps out into the Listener camp. massive chasmfiends lounge in the sun)

Fade to black

Music dims.

We're heading straight into the most difficult moment in our lives.

(Quick shot of Dalinar Kholin climbing the steps up to Urithiru, face stern, Way of Kings in hand, with a shadow looming over him (essentially the second piece of concept art Brandon released) before a quick fade back to darkness)

Remember.

Music explodes in rapid bursts (no longer a set song)

Black screen w/caption: Urithiru

(Quick shot of Renarin, Shallan and Rlain on the fields outside Urithiru, looking ominously into the distance)

Hope is wonderful.

Black screen w/caption: Shinovar

(Spinning camera around Szeth and Kaladin brandishing weapons back to back, but without clear view of who they're fighting)

Keep it.

Black screen w/caption: Azimir

(Quick shot of Adolin rushing across Fused forces in the dome in full plate, leaping over bodies and soldiers to get to Neziham)

Treasure it.

Black screen w/caption: The Shattered Plains

(Quick shot of Listeners riding Chasmfiends into battle on Narak Prime)

And if hope doesn't mean anything to you when you lose...

Black screen w/caption: Thaylenah

(Quick shot of Jasnah summoning Ivory while watching ships prepare for war in the harbor)

Black screen w/caption, in different, crackly font: The Spiritual Realm

(Quick shot of Dalinar and Navani rushing through human pilgrims during their arrival in Roshar)

Then it wasn't ever a virtue in the first place.

Fade to black. 

Music stops.

Azish general screaming hauntingly: HOOOOOOOOOLD!!

Silence.

Taravangian's voice, taunting: Dalinar, Dalinar, Dalinar...

(Close up of Taravangian's eyes flashing open, revealing infinite depths of gold and red)

Fade to black.

Hoid: This... it frightens me.

Oh my god so many chills

[Honors Spectral Image She/her]

Someone who can message Brandon needs to send him this

10 minutes ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

Oh my god so many chills

Right literally I was shivering

[CoderDrag0n8 He/Him]

6 minutes ago, Honors ghost said:

Someone who can message Brandon needs to send him this

Right literally I was shivering

I felt so many goodbumps as I was like "YEAH THATS THE QUOTE"

"OH MY GOD THEY DID SAY THAT"

"I LOVED THE THAT QUOTE!"

"OH MY GOD CHILLS"

[Kansas Stormcursed he/him]

Just now, CoderDrag0n8 said:

I felt so many goodbumps as I was like "YEAH THATS THE QUOTE"

"OH MY GOD THEY DID SAY THAT"

"I LOVED THE THAT QUOTE!"

"OH MY GOD CHILLS"

Just picturing it was insane. Like I could see it all playing out

[CoderDrag0n8 He/Him]

Just now, Kansas Stormcursed said:

Just picturing it was insane. Like I could see it all playing out

This is PURE fire

[Hoid Slayer He/Him]

31 minutes ago, Kansas Stormcursed said:

That's a trailer I'd watch on repeat

26 minutes ago, KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren said:

This is... epic!

22 minutes ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

Oh my god so many chills

Thank you all so much!

12 minutes ago, Honors ghost said:

Someone who can message Brandon needs to send him this

Right literally I was shivering

WOW

THANK YOU

That is honestly the highest compliment I could get

Honestly, I had a lot of fun putting this together. I started by just making a list of all the scenes I wanted to include, and then finding the voiceovers was the really hard part. I got most of them either by remembering monologues I liked from Wind and Truth and then searching for them with keywords in a PDF, or scrolling through reddit posts about people's favorite quotes . Some of them I just stumbled upon accidentally, like Gav talking about killing and dying, but then I realized it fit so well. I also really liked how when I was organizing it, I realized some of the voiceovers could meld really well together - like child Szeth asking about how to make the right choices and Lirin's monologue.

Again, thank you for all the praise

[Kansas Stormcursed he/him]

Seriously though, does anyone know how to suggest this to Brandon?

[CoderDrag0n8 He/Him]

10 minutes ago, Hoid Slayer said:

Thank you all so much!

WOW

THANK YOU

That is honestly the highest compliment I could get

Honestly, I had a lot of fun putting this together. I started by just making a list of all the scenes I wanted to include, and then finding the voiceovers was the really hard part. I got most of them either by remembering monologues I liked from Wind and Truth and then searching for them with keywords in a PDF, or scrolling through reddit posts about people's favorite quotes . Some of them I just stumbled upon accidentally, like Gav talking about killing and dying, but then I realized it fit so well. I also really liked how when I was organizing it, I realized some of the voiceovers could meld really well together - like child Szeth asking about how to make the right choices and Lirin's monologue.

Again, thank you for all the praise

Yeah we need to get this to brandon

[SpartanBrigade He/Him]

5 hours ago, Hoid Slayer said:

So

I was looking at @Doc12's old trailer concepts for Mistborn and the Stormlight Archive, and I realized that this is actually something I've envisioned a lot. Especially for Wind and Truth.

The trailer script here is decently long, so it would probably be the final trailer before the release, not that it really matters in this case. This took me way longer to make than I thought it would. Finding quotes for the voiceovers was especially grueling. So, yeah. Here it is.

Not every scene in this trailer concept is actually in the book; but we can assume they took place, at some point or another.

Words in red describe the sound playing; normal words describe what's on the screen.

Voiceover sound generally corresponds to the scene below it.

Music is intended to be an epic, highly edited version of Half Light by BANNERS.

Needless to say, spoilers for Wind and Truth ahead:

...

(black screen)

Silence.

Then thunder.

(Shot pans around Dalinar as he stands atop Urithiru, holding the Way of Kings in one hand. He overlooks the landscape as the Everstorm rages below the tower.)

Music begins.

(Smooth transition to a mirroring shot of Shallan, standing atop Lasting Integrity overlooking Shadesmar with the same camera angle. Pattern and Testament stand nearby.)

First musical beat.

(Remaining members of Bridge Four party (muted sound), while Kaladin watches on wistfully from the doorway. Syl, life size, puts her hand on his shoulder.)

Nohadon's voice: The question... is not whether you will love,

(Black and white shot, Endgame trailer-style, of Kaladin playing in the fields with Tien as kid)

Hurt,

(Black and white young Shallan stands, holding a Shardblade, in a pool of red blood)

Dream,

(Young Shallan entertains her brothers, before looking back towards a doorway across which in another room, her father screams at his lover and hits her)

And die.

(Black and white older Kaladin holds Tien's body in his arms, weeping to the world, in a field of corpses)

Silence.

Fade to black.

Music crescendos.

(Series of flashes of quick shots: Kaladin carries a bridge in Sadeas's army. Kaladin stands above the Honor Chasm. Kaladin is strung up on the roof of the barracks, ravaged by the Highstorm, left to die)

Music stops.

Fade to black.

Heavy breathing.

Footsteps clatter.

Music explodes.

(Kaladin, Radiant, leaps across the chasm to the Tower, absorbing Stormlight from the parshendi. He lands, and a blast of Stormlight sends everything pushed back. From here on, the scenes are still black-and white, except the characters and Stormlight are in color)

It is what you will love,

(Shallan, also exempt from the black-and-white, draws on the boat approaching Kharbranth)

Why you will hurt,

(Kaladin stands between Moash and the conspirators, wielding Syl as a spear, protecting Elhokar)

When you will dream,

(Shallan stands in front of a mirror on her wedding day. Behind her, Veil and Radiant walk up and place their hands on her shoulders)

and how you will die.

(Kaladin falls through the sky, until suddenly exploding in a burst of radiance. Armor forms around him, and he catches Lirin.)

This is your choice.

(Kaladin lifts Lirin back up to safety, and joins the battle in Urithiru)

Voiceover change to Dalinar: What is the most important step a man can take?

(Black and white scene of younger Dalinar standing above the burning Rift, blade outstretched, eyes alight with flaming fury)

The next one. Always the next one.

(In the present, (no longer black-and-white) Dalinar plays with Gav, but as soon as the kid is distracted, he gazes into the distance, expression sorrowful)

Child Szeth's voice: But... how do you know what to do?

(Young Szeth dances around the family rock)

The right choices. How do you know what they are?

(Young Szeth weeps in the rain, holding up blood soaked hands and kneeling before Molli's corpse)

(Older, but still young, Szeth defeats a pirate in hand-to-hand combat, then, chest heaving, looks down at his bloodied hands before glancing at the camera with a murderous gaze)

Lirin: Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.

(A grinning Adolin greets Azish generals in the dome, shaking hands, Colot at his side)

If nobody starts, then others cannot follow.

(A wave of Regals crashes against the Azish line of defense at the dome, and Adolin, glowing in brilliant shardplate, stands against them)

Hoid: It will get worse again. Then better.

(Dalinar and Navani trot along Shin foothills, with a pack of ancient Singers. Dalinar stops, and pauses to overlook the expansive landscape)

This is life. And I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine.

(Dalinar and Navani fight as Knights Radiant in a desolation. They pause to overlook a valley, where Fused and Radiant forces crash into each other.)

But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say.

(Kaladin lands alongside Szeth to look over the plains of Shinovar (essentially the first concept art piece Brandon released))

Kaladin and Hoid, together: You WILL be warm again.

(Kaladin dances with Syl, who morphs in his hand from spear to woman. They laugh, together)

Gavinor: Everyone dies. So many people. Killing.

(Abidi the monarch stands in the Azish dome, Fused forces surging to battle around him. He looks at the camera, demonic grin on his face)

And dying.

(Aerial shot of Vyre's body, strewn on a snowy mountaintop, eyes burned out, being found by Fused)

And killing.

(El wipes a bloody knife)

And dying.

(Close-up of Mraize's face as he sits on his chair in the Ghostbloods headquarters, sipping a drink carefully)

So many being killed...

(Back view of Ishar walking up an outcropping in the foothills of Shinovar as the sun rises before him, lines of Connection leaking from his fingertips)

Adolin: People break. And sometimes...

(Shallan, Renarin, and Rlain look through a Spiritual Realm barrier at the smoky form of Ba Ado Mishram. Shallan outstretches her hand towards the barrier)

The strong ones break harder than the weak ones. Because they're the ones you pile everything on top of.

(The floor beneath Shallan gives way, and she falls through a Spiritual Realm vortex of memories)

(Young Renarin is held against the wall by a squad of bullies)

Hoid: Would that any of us could protect ourselves from the costs that heroism often requires.

(Abidi stalks, grinning with blade in hand, towards Shallan who is scrambling on the floor of an ornate room)

But again, if there were no cost, no sacrifice...

(Jasnah kneels in a Thaylen temple, face obscured. Fen walks up behind her)

Would it be heroism at all?

(Aerial view of Sigzil lashing himself across a battlefield in the Shattered Plains, strewn with corpses and wreckage, rain pouring. Sigzil catches himself, then looks up at the camera)

Fade to black.

Music dims.

Adolin: The four of us. Drinks, once this is done. Promise me.

(Adolin huddles with Kaladin, Shallan, and Syl in Azimir.)

Shallan: Promise.

(Everyone turns to Kaladin, who looks down. Finally, he looks up.)

Kaladin: Drinks. Jokes. Laughter. At the end. I PROMISE.

Music strengthens back up.

Hoid: Everything you've done - everything you've been - has prepared you for what's next.

(Venli pushes open the entrance of a cave and steps out into the Listener camp. massive chasmfiends lounge in the sun)

Fade to black

Music dims.

We're heading straight into the most difficult moment in our lives.

(Quick shot of Dalinar Kholin climbing the steps up to Urithiru, face stern, Way of Kings in hand, with a shadow looming over him (essentially the second piece of concept art Brandon released) before a quick fade back to darkness)

Remember.

Music explodes in rapid bursts (no longer a set song)

Black screen w/caption: Urithiru

(Quick shot of Renarin, Shallan and Rlain on the fields outside Urithiru, looking ominously into the distance)

Hope is wonderful.

Black screen w/caption: Shinovar

(Spinning camera around Szeth and Kaladin brandishing weapons back to back, but without clear view of who they're fighting)

Keep it.

Black screen w/caption: Azimir

(Quick shot of Adolin rushing across Fused forces in the dome in full plate, leaping over bodies and soldiers to get to Neziham)

Treasure it.

Black screen w/caption: The Shattered Plains

(Quick shot of Listeners riding Chasmfiends into battle on Narak Prime)

And if hope doesn't mean anything to you when you lose...

Black screen w/caption: Thaylenah

(Quick shot of Jasnah summoning Ivory while watching ships prepare for war in the harbor)

Black screen w/caption, in different, crackly font: The Spiritual Realm

(Quick shot of Dalinar and Navani rushing through human pilgrims during their arrival in Roshar)

Then it wasn't ever a virtue in the first place.

Fade to black. 

Music stops.

Azish general screaming hauntingly: HOOOOOOOOOLD!!

Silence.

Taravangian's voice, taunting: Dalinar, Dalinar, Dalinar...

(Close up of Taravangian's eyes flashing open, revealing infinite depths of gold and red)

Fade to black.

Hoid: This... it frightens me.

Dude that’s so sick

[Through the Living Hopper He/Him]

14 hours ago, Hoid Slayer said:

So

I was looking at @Doc12's old trailer concepts for Mistborn and the Stormlight Archive, and I realized that this is actually something I've envisioned a lot. Especially for Wind and Truth.

The trailer script here is decently long, so it would probably be the final trailer before the release, not that it really matters in this case. This took me way longer to make than I thought it would. Finding quotes for the voiceovers was especially grueling. So, yeah. Here it is.

Not every scene in this trailer concept is actually in the book; but we can assume they took place, at some point or another.

Words in red describe the sound playing; normal words describe what's on the screen.

Voiceover sound generally corresponds to the scene below it.

Music is intended to be an epic, highly edited version of Half Light by BANNERS.

Needless to say, spoilers for Wind and Truth ahead:

...

(black screen)

Silence.

Then thunder.

(Shot pans around Dalinar as he stands atop Urithiru, holding the Way of Kings in one hand. He overlooks the landscape as the Everstorm rages below the tower.)

Music begins.

(Smooth transition to a mirroring shot of Shallan, standing atop Lasting Integrity overlooking Shadesmar with the same camera angle. Pattern and Testament stand nearby.)

First musical beat.

(Remaining members of Bridge Four party (muted sound), while Kaladin watches on wistfully from the doorway. Syl, life size, puts her hand on his shoulder.)

Nohadon's voice: The question... is not whether you will love,

(Black and white shot, Endgame trailer-style, of Kaladin playing in the fields with Tien as kid)

Hurt,

(Black and white young Shallan stands, holding a Shardblade, in a pool of red blood)

Dream,

(Young Shallan entertains her brothers, before looking back towards a doorway across which in another room, her father screams at his lover and hits her)

And die.

(Black and white older Kaladin holds Tien's body in his arms, weeping to the world, in a field of corpses)

Silence.

Fade to black.

Music crescendos.

(Series of flashes of quick shots: Kaladin carries a bridge in Sadeas's army. Kaladin stands above the Honor Chasm. Kaladin is strung up on the roof of the barracks, ravaged by the Highstorm, left to die)

Music stops.

Fade to black.

Heavy breathing.

Footsteps clatter.

Music explodes.

(Kaladin, Radiant, leaps across the chasm to the Tower, absorbing Stormlight from the parshendi. He lands, and a blast of Stormlight sends everything pushed back. From here on, the scenes are still black-and white, except the characters and Stormlight are in color)

It is what you will love,

(Shallan, also exempt from the black-and-white, draws on the boat approaching Kharbranth)

Why you will hurt,

(Kaladin stands between Moash and the conspirators, wielding Syl as a spear, protecting Elhokar)

When you will dream,

(Shallan stands in front of a mirror on her wedding day. Behind her, Veil and Radiant walk up and place their hands on her shoulders)

and how you will die.

(Kaladin falls through the sky, until suddenly exploding in a burst of radiance. Armor forms around him, and he catches Lirin.)

This is your choice.

(Kaladin lifts Lirin back up to safety, and joins the battle in Urithiru)

Voiceover change to Dalinar: What is the most important step a man can take?

(Black and white scene of younger Dalinar standing above the burning Rift, blade outstretched, eyes alight with flaming fury)

The next one. Always the next one.

(In the present, (no longer black-and-white) Dalinar plays with Gav, but as soon as the kid is distracted, he gazes into the distance, expression sorrowful)

Child Szeth's voice: But... how do you know what to do?

(Young Szeth dances around the family rock)

The right choices. How do you know what they are?

(Young Szeth weeps in the rain, holding up blood soaked hands and kneeling before Molli's corpse)

(Older, but still young, Szeth defeats a pirate in hand-to-hand combat, then, chest heaving, looks down at his bloodied hands before glancing at the camera with a murderous gaze)

Lirin: Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.

(A grinning Adolin greets Azish generals in the dome, shaking hands, Colot at his side)

If nobody starts, then others cannot follow.

(A wave of Regals crashes against the Azish line of defense at the dome, and Adolin, glowing in brilliant shardplate, stands against them)

Hoid: It will get worse again. Then better.

(Dalinar and Navani trot along Shin foothills, with a pack of ancient Singers. Dalinar stops, and pauses to overlook the expansive landscape)

This is life. And I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine.

(Dalinar and Navani fight as Knights Radiant in a desolation. They pause to overlook a valley, where Fused and Radiant forces crash into each other.)

But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say.

(Kaladin lands alongside Szeth to look over the plains of Shinovar (essentially the first concept art piece Brandon released))

Kaladin and Hoid, together: You WILL be warm again.

(Kaladin dances with Syl, who morphs in his hand from spear to woman. They laugh, together)

Gavinor: Everyone dies. So many people. Killing.

(Abidi the monarch stands in the Azish dome, Fused forces surging to battle around him. He looks at the camera, demonic grin on his face)

And dying.

(Aerial shot of Vyre's body, strewn on a snowy mountaintop, eyes burned out, being found by Fused)

And killing.

(El wipes a bloody knife)

And dying.

(Close-up of Mraize's face as he sits on his chair in the Ghostbloods headquarters, sipping a drink carefully)

So many being killed...

(Back view of Ishar walking up an outcropping in the foothills of Shinovar as the sun rises before him, lines of Connection leaking from his fingertips)

Adolin: People break. And sometimes...

(Shallan, Renarin, and Rlain look through a Spiritual Realm barrier at the smoky form of Ba Ado Mishram. Shallan outstretches her hand towards the barrier)

The strong ones break harder than the weak ones. Because they're the ones you pile everything on top of.

(The floor beneath Shallan gives way, and she falls through a Spiritual Realm vortex of memories)

(Young Renarin is held against the wall by a squad of bullies)

Hoid: Would that any of us could protect ourselves from the costs that heroism often requires.

(Abidi stalks, grinning with blade in hand, towards Shallan who is scrambling on the floor of an ornate room)

But again, if there were no cost, no sacrifice...

(Jasnah kneels in a Thaylen temple, face obscured. Fen walks up behind her)

Would it be heroism at all?

(Aerial view of Sigzil lashing himself across a battlefield in the Shattered Plains, strewn with corpses and wreckage, rain pouring. Sigzil catches himself, then looks up at the camera)

Fade to black.

Music dims.

Adolin: The four of us. Drinks, once this is done. Promise me.

(Adolin huddles with Kaladin, Shallan, and Syl in Azimir.)

Shallan: Promise.

(Everyone turns to Kaladin, who looks down. Finally, he looks up.)

Kaladin: Drinks. Jokes. Laughter. At the end. I PROMISE.

Music strengthens back up.

Hoid: Everything you've done - everything you've been - has prepared you for what's next.

(Venli pushes open the entrance of a cave and steps out into the Listener camp. massive chasmfiends lounge in the sun)

Fade to black

Music dims.

We're heading straight into the most difficult moment in our lives.

(Quick shot of Dalinar Kholin climbing the steps up to Urithiru, face stern, Way of Kings in hand, with a shadow looming over him (essentially the second piece of concept art Brandon released) before a quick fade back to darkness)

Remember.

Music explodes in rapid bursts (no longer a set song)

Black screen w/caption: Urithiru

(Quick shot of Renarin, Shallan and Rlain on the fields outside Urithiru, looking ominously into the distance)

Hope is wonderful.

Black screen w/caption: Shinovar

(Spinning camera around Szeth and Kaladin brandishing weapons back to back, but without clear view of who they're fighting)

Keep it.

Black screen w/caption: Azimir

(Quick shot of Adolin rushing across Fused forces in the dome in full plate, leaping over bodies and soldiers to get to Neziham)

Treasure it.

Black screen w/caption: The Shattered Plains

(Quick shot of Listeners riding Chasmfiends into battle on Narak Prime)

And if hope doesn't mean anything to you when you lose...

Black screen w/caption: Thaylenah

(Quick shot of Jasnah summoning Ivory while watching ships prepare for war in the harbor)

Black screen w/caption, in different, crackly font: The Spiritual Realm

(Quick shot of Dalinar and Navani rushing through human pilgrims during their arrival in Roshar)

Then it wasn't ever a virtue in the first place.

Fade to black. 

Music stops.

Azish general screaming hauntingly: HOOOOOOOOOLD!!

Silence.

Taravangian's voice, taunting: Dalinar, Dalinar, Dalinar...

(Close up of Taravangian's eyes flashing open, revealing infinite depths of gold and red)

Fade to black.

Hoid: This... it frightens me.

I love it! However, would you mind a few critiques? 

[Hoid Slayer He/Him]

44 minutes ago, ThatOneWorldhopper said:

I love it! However, would you mind a few critiques? 

Thanks!

Criticism is welcome

[Through the Living Hopper He/Him]

3 hours ago, Hoid Slayer said:

Thanks!

Criticism is welcome

1. This may be a bit of bias, but I feel like the "Taln fought back" scene needs to be in there somewhere. Ash's voiceover: "You could have had the city…" and just a brief flash of Taln hulking, then a loud crack.

2. Not really a big deal, but I don't love the captions of the locations, I feel like it detracts from the cinematic nature of the script.

3. I think somewhere, maybe after "the next one," there should be some sort of: "Ten days. Ten days to fight. Ten days to win.

"Ten days to lose it all.

"The journey always comes before. But every journey has a destination."

Then toward the end: "This is the destination for all of us." Or something like that. I can't remember the quote. Again, that just amps up the tension, I think.

4. There has to be a brief flash of the Unoathed.

 

Edited August 6, 2025 by ThatOneWorldhopper

[CoderDrag0n8 He/Him]

31 minutes ago, ThatOneWorldhopper said:

1. This may be a bit of bias, but I feel like the "Taln fought back" scene needs to be in there somewhere. Ash's voiceover: "You could have had the city…" and just a brief flash of Taln hulking, then a loud crack.

2. Not really a big deal, but I don't love the captions of the locations, I feel like it detracts from the cinematic nature of the script.

3. I think somewhere, maybe after "the next one," there should be some sort of: "Ten days. Ten days to fight. Ten days to win.

"Ten days to lose it all.

"The journey always comes before. But every journey has a destination."

Then toward the end: "This is the destination for all of us." Or something like that. I can't remember the quote. Again, that just amps up the tension, I think.

4. There has to be a brief flash of the Unoathed.

 

Oooooh Yeah Unoathed are fire

[Hoid Slayer He/Him]

31 minutes ago, ThatOneWorldhopper said:

1. This may be a bit of bias, but I feel like the "Taln fought back" scene needs to be in there somewhere. Ash's voiceover: "You could have had the city…" and just a brief flash of Taln hulking, then a loud crack.

I hadn't thought about that, but yeah, that is one of the scenes that could be in the trailer. Honestly, however, I personally wasn't super hyped by that scene. It felt kinda weird, especially since it was such a side note, although I know a lot of people don't share my opinion here.

33 minutes ago, ThatOneWorldhopper said:

2. Not really a big deal, but I don't love the captions of the locations, I feel like it detracts from the cinematic nature of the script.

I get what you're saying here. Honestly, they might fit better in like a short teaser, but since I was trying to fit all the different ideas I came up with into a single trailer, it came out kinda disjointed.

3 minutes ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

3. I think somewhere, maybe after "the next one," there should be some sort of: "Ten days. Ten days to fight. Ten days to win.

I did actually think of putting something like that, specifically, having a caption of like "Ten Days", "One Contest", right before the flashes of the different locations, but then I forgot about it when I was actually putting it together .

35 minutes ago, ThatOneWorldhopper said:

4. There has to be a brief flash of the Unoathed.

The reason I didn't place this was cause I tried not to include anything too spoilery in the trailer when possible; I debated whether or not I should even include the chasmfiends charging into battle on Narak Prime for this exact reason. So. while the Unoathed are super cool, I feel like something as simple as Adolin's voice screaming "Unoathed! Arm up!" would spoil some things (pretty much that he survives all the major scenes were the audience is legitimately terrified for him).

Similarly, really the only shots I included of day 10 were Dalinar walking up to the contest (we knew that would happen) and Kaladin and Szeth fighting an unseen foe back to back, which is pretty ambiguous.

[Through the Living Hopper He/Him]

3 hours ago, Hoid Slayer said:

The reason I didn't place this was cause I tried not to include anything too spoilery in the trailer when possible; I debated whether or not I should even include the chasmfiends charging into battle on Narak Prime for this exact reason. So. while the Unoathed are super cool, I feel like something as simple as Adolin's voice screaming "Unoathed! Arm up!" would spoil some things (pretty much that he survives all the major scenes were the audience is legitimately terrified for him).

Maybe if he had his helm on… yeah, I guess you're right. To me, the Unoathed is one of the scenes that would translate best to a movie, especially since there's not a ton of internal monologing.

3 hours ago, Hoid Slayer said:

I hadn't thought about that, but yeah, that is one of the scenes that could be in the trailer. Honestly, however, I personally wasn't super hyped by that scene. It felt kinda weird, especially since it was such a side note, although I know a lot of people don't share my opinion here.

You did not just say that. 

[Kansas Stormcursed he/him]

44 minutes ago, ThatOneWorldhopper said:

Maybe if he had his helm on… yeah, I guess you're right. To me, the Unoathed is one of the scenes that would translate best to a movie, especially since there's not a ton of internal monologing.

You did not just say that. 

I mean...that was probably one of the scenes I was most exited about while reading, but it was kind of a side note

[Hoid Slayer He/Him]

2 hours ago, ThatOneWorldhopper said:

You did not just say that. 

Oh, I did 

A scene I loved that I feel is underrated was Dalinar facing the Blackthorn in the Spiritual Realm. Jus him catching the barrel and throwing it back, and then the eyes of the Blackthorn shining through the flames...

[Little_Dagger she/her]

The trailer is amazing!!!!! I was reading with bated breath, all the images flashing before my eyes as if I were truly watching it! Thank you for putting it together! It's perfect!

[Through The Living Ash he/him]

On 8/5/2025 at 8:41 PM, Hoid Slayer said:

So

I was looking at @Doc12's old trailer concepts for Mistborn and the Stormlight Archive, and I realized that this is actually something I've envisioned a lot. Especially for Wind and Truth.

The trailer script here is decently long, so it would probably be the final trailer before the release, not that it really matters in this case. This took me way longer to make than I thought it would. Finding quotes for the voiceovers was especially grueling. So, yeah. Here it is.

Not every scene in this trailer concept is actually in the book; but we can assume they took place, at some point or another.

Words in red describe the sound playing; normal words describe what's on the screen.

Voiceover sound generally corresponds to the scene below it.

Music is intended to be an epic, highly edited version of Half Light by BANNERS.

Needless to say, spoilers for Wind and Truth ahead:

...

(black screen)

Silence.

Then thunder.

(Shot pans around Dalinar as he stands atop Urithiru, holding the Way of Kings in one hand. He overlooks the landscape as the Everstorm rages below the tower.)

Music begins.

(Smooth transition to a mirroring shot of Shallan, standing atop Lasting Integrity overlooking Shadesmar with the same camera angle. Pattern and Testament stand nearby.)

First musical beat.

(Remaining members of Bridge Four party (muted sound), while Kaladin watches on wistfully from the doorway. Syl, life size, puts her hand on his shoulder.)

Nohadon's voice: The question... is not whether you will love,

(Black and white shot, Endgame trailer-style, of Kaladin playing in the fields with Tien as kid)

Hurt,

(Black and white young Shallan stands, holding a Shardblade, in a pool of red blood)

Dream,

(Young Shallan entertains her brothers, before looking back towards a doorway across which in another room, her father screams at his lover and hits her)

And die.

(Black and white older Kaladin holds Tien's body in his arms, weeping to the world, in a field of corpses)

Silence.

Fade to black.

Music crescendos.

(Series of flashes of quick shots: Kaladin carries a bridge in Sadeas's army. Kaladin stands above the Honor Chasm. Kaladin is strung up on the roof of the barracks, ravaged by the Highstorm, left to die)

Music stops.

Fade to black.

Heavy breathing.

Footsteps clatter.

Music explodes.

(Kaladin, Radiant, leaps across the chasm to the Tower, absorbing Stormlight from the parshendi. He lands, and a blast of Stormlight sends everything pushed back. From here on, the scenes are still black-and white, except the characters and Stormlight are in color)

It is what you will love,

(Shallan, also exempt from the black-and-white, draws on the boat approaching Kharbranth)

Why you will hurt,

(Kaladin stands between Moash and the conspirators, wielding Syl as a spear, protecting Elhokar)

When you will dream,

(Shallan stands in front of a mirror on her wedding day. Behind her, Veil and Radiant walk up and place their hands on her shoulders)

and how you will die.

(Kaladin falls through the sky, until suddenly exploding in a burst of radiance. Armor forms around him, and he catches Lirin.)

This is your choice.

(Kaladin lifts Lirin back up to safety, and joins the battle in Urithiru)

Voiceover change to Dalinar: What is the most important step a man can take?

(Black and white scene of younger Dalinar standing above the burning Rift, blade outstretched, eyes alight with flaming fury)

The next one. Always the next one.

(In the present, (no longer black-and-white) Dalinar plays with Gav, but as soon as the kid is distracted, he gazes into the distance, expression sorrowful)

Child Szeth's voice: But... how do you know what to do?

(Young Szeth dances around the family rock)

The right choices. How do you know what they are?

(Young Szeth weeps in the rain, holding up blood soaked hands and kneeling before Molli's corpse)

(Older, but still young, Szeth defeats a pirate in hand-to-hand combat, then, chest heaving, looks down at his bloodied hands before glancing at the camera with a murderous gaze)

Lirin: Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.

(A grinning Adolin greets Azish generals in the dome, shaking hands, Colot at his side)

If nobody starts, then others cannot follow.

(A wave of Regals crashes against the Azish line of defense at the dome, and Adolin, glowing in brilliant shardplate, stands against them)

Hoid: It will get worse again. Then better.

(Dalinar and Navani trot along Shin foothills, with a pack of ancient Singers. Dalinar stops, and pauses to overlook the expansive landscape)

This is life. And I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine.

(Dalinar and Navani fight as Knights Radiant in a desolation. They pause to overlook a valley, where Fused and Radiant forces crash into each other.)

But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say.

(Kaladin lands alongside Szeth to look over the plains of Shinovar (essentially the first concept art piece Brandon released))

Kaladin and Hoid, together: You WILL be warm again.

(Kaladin dances with Syl, who morphs in his hand from spear to woman. They laugh, together)

Gavinor: Everyone dies. So many people. Killing.

(Abidi the monarch stands in the Azish dome, Fused forces surging to battle around him. He looks at the camera, demonic grin on his face)

And dying.

(Aerial shot of Vyre's body, strewn on a snowy mountaintop, eyes burned out, being found by Fused)

And killing.

(El wipes a bloody knife)

And dying.

(Close-up of Mraize's face as he sits on his chair in the Ghostbloods headquarters, sipping a drink carefully)

So many being killed...

(Back view of Ishar walking up an outcropping in the foothills of Shinovar as the sun rises before him, lines of Connection leaking from his fingertips)

Adolin: People break. And sometimes...

(Shallan, Renarin, and Rlain look through a Spiritual Realm barrier at the smoky form of Ba Ado Mishram. Shallan outstretches her hand towards the barrier)

The strong ones break harder than the weak ones. Because they're the ones you pile everything on top of.

(The floor beneath Shallan gives way, and she falls through a Spiritual Realm vortex of memories)

(Young Renarin is held against the wall by a squad of bullies)

Hoid: Would that any of us could protect ourselves from the costs that heroism often requires.

(Abidi stalks, grinning with blade in hand, towards Shallan who is scrambling on the floor of an ornate room)

But again, if there were no cost, no sacrifice...

(Jasnah kneels in a Thaylen temple, face obscured. Fen walks up behind her)

Would it be heroism at all?

(Aerial view of Sigzil lashing himself across a battlefield in the Shattered Plains, strewn with corpses and wreckage, rain pouring. Sigzil catches himself, then looks up at the camera)

Fade to black.

Music dims.

Adolin: The four of us. Drinks, once this is done. Promise me.

(Adolin huddles with Kaladin, Shallan, and Syl in Azimir.)

Shallan: Promise.

(Everyone turns to Kaladin, who looks down. Finally, he looks up.)

Kaladin: Drinks. Jokes. Laughter. At the end. I PROMISE.

Music strengthens back up.

Hoid: Everything you've done - everything you've been - has prepared you for what's next.

(Venli pushes open the entrance of a cave and steps out into the Listener camp. massive chasmfiends lounge in the sun)

Fade to black

Music dims.

We're heading straight into the most difficult moment in our lives.

(Quick shot of Dalinar Kholin climbing the steps up to Urithiru, face stern, Way of Kings in hand, with a shadow looming over him (essentially the second piece of concept art Brandon released) before a quick fade back to darkness)

Remember.

Music explodes in rapid bursts (no longer a set song)

Black screen w/caption: Urithiru

(Quick shot of Renarin, Shallan and Rlain on the fields outside Urithiru, looking ominously into the distance)

Hope is wonderful.

Black screen w/caption: Shinovar

(Spinning camera around Szeth and Kaladin brandishing weapons back to back, but without clear view of who they're fighting)

Keep it.

Black screen w/caption: Azimir

(Quick shot of Adolin rushing across Fused forces in the dome in full plate, leaping over bodies and soldiers to get to Neziham)

Treasure it.

Black screen w/caption: The Shattered Plains

(Quick shot of Listeners riding Chasmfiends into battle on Narak Prime)

And if hope doesn't mean anything to you when you lose...

Black screen w/caption: Thaylenah

(Quick shot of Jasnah summoning Ivory while watching ships prepare for war in the harbor)

Black screen w/caption, in different, crackly font: The Spiritual Realm

(Quick shot of Dalinar and Navani rushing through human pilgrims during their arrival in Roshar)

Then it wasn't ever a virtue in the first place.

Fade to black. 

Music stops.

Azish general screaming hauntingly: HOOOOOOOOOLD!!

Silence.

Taravangian's voice, taunting: Dalinar, Dalinar, Dalinar...

(Close up of Taravangian's eyes flashing open, revealing infinite depths of gold and red)

Fade to black.

Hoid: This... it frightens me.

I LOVE THIS

Incredible work! You're really good at this!

[Hoid Slayer He/Him]

23 hours ago, Ashkaloda said:

I LOVE THIS

Incredible work! You're really good at this!

Thank you!

I really appreciate it

[Shatter He/Him]

On 8/5/2025 at 8:41 PM, Hoid Slayer said:

So

I was looking at @Doc12's old trailer concepts for Mistborn and the Stormlight Archive, and I realized that this is actually something I've envisioned a lot. Especially for Wind and Truth.

The trailer script here is decently long, so it would probably be the final trailer before the release, not that it really matters in this case. This took me way longer to make than I thought it would. Finding quotes for the voiceovers was especially grueling. So, yeah. Here it is.

Not every scene in this trailer concept is actually in the book; but we can assume they took place, at some point or another.

Words in red describe the sound playing; normal words describe what's on the screen.

Voiceover sound generally corresponds to the scene below it.

Music is intended to be an epic, highly edited version of Half Light by BANNERS.

Needless to say, spoilers for Wind and Truth ahead:

...

(black screen)

Silence.

Then thunder.

(Shot pans around Dalinar as he stands atop Urithiru, holding the Way of Kings in one hand. He overlooks the landscape as the Everstorm rages below the tower.)

Music begins.

(Smooth transition to a mirroring shot of Shallan, standing atop Lasting Integrity overlooking Shadesmar with the same camera angle. Pattern and Testament stand nearby.)

First musical beat.

(Remaining members of Bridge Four party (muted sound), while Kaladin watches on wistfully from the doorway. Syl, life size, puts her hand on his shoulder.)

Nohadon's voice: The question... is not whether you will love,

(Black and white shot, Endgame trailer-style, of Kaladin playing in the fields with Tien as kid)

Hurt,

(Black and white young Shallan stands, holding a Shardblade, in a pool of red blood)

Dream,

(Young Shallan entertains her brothers, before looking back towards a doorway across which in another room, her father screams at his lover and hits her)

And die.

(Black and white older Kaladin holds Tien's body in his arms, weeping to the world, in a field of corpses)

Silence.

Fade to black.

Music crescendos.

(Series of flashes of quick shots: Kaladin carries a bridge in Sadeas's army. Kaladin stands above the Honor Chasm. Kaladin is strung up on the roof of the barracks, ravaged by the Highstorm, left to die)

Music stops.

Fade to black.

Heavy breathing.

Footsteps clatter.

Music explodes.

(Kaladin, Radiant, leaps across the chasm to the Tower, absorbing Stormlight from the parshendi. He lands, and a blast of Stormlight sends everything pushed back. From here on, the scenes are still black-and white, except the characters and Stormlight are in color)

It is what you will love,

(Shallan, also exempt from the black-and-white, draws on the boat approaching Kharbranth)

Why you will hurt,

(Kaladin stands between Moash and the conspirators, wielding Syl as a spear, protecting Elhokar)

When you will dream,

(Shallan stands in front of a mirror on her wedding day. Behind her, Veil and Radiant walk up and place their hands on her shoulders)

and how you will die.

(Kaladin falls through the sky, until suddenly exploding in a burst of radiance. Armor forms around him, and he catches Lirin.)

This is your choice.

(Kaladin lifts Lirin back up to safety, and joins the battle in Urithiru)

Voiceover change to Dalinar: What is the most important step a man can take?

(Black and white scene of younger Dalinar standing above the burning Rift, blade outstretched, eyes alight with flaming fury)

The next one. Always the next one.

(In the present, (no longer black-and-white) Dalinar plays with Gav, but as soon as the kid is distracted, he gazes into the distance, expression sorrowful)

Child Szeth's voice: But... how do you know what to do?

(Young Szeth dances around the family rock)

The right choices. How do you know what they are?

(Young Szeth weeps in the rain, holding up blood soaked hands and kneeling before Molli's corpse)

(Older, but still young, Szeth defeats a pirate in hand-to-hand combat, then, chest heaving, looks down at his bloodied hands before glancing at the camera with a murderous gaze)

Lirin: Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.

(A grinning Adolin greets Azish generals in the dome, shaking hands, Colot at his side)

If nobody starts, then others cannot follow.

(A wave of Regals crashes against the Azish line of defense at the dome, and Adolin, glowing in brilliant shardplate, stands against them)

Hoid: It will get worse again. Then better.

(Dalinar and Navani trot along Shin foothills, with a pack of ancient Singers. Dalinar stops, and pauses to overlook the expansive landscape)

This is life. And I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine.

(Dalinar and Navani fight as Knights Radiant in a desolation. They pause to overlook a valley, where Fused and Radiant forces crash into each other.)

But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say.

(Kaladin lands alongside Szeth to look over the plains of Shinovar (essentially the first concept art piece Brandon released))

Kaladin and Hoid, together: You WILL be warm again.

(Kaladin dances with Syl, who morphs in his hand from spear to woman. They laugh, together)

Gavinor: Everyone dies. So many people. Killing.

(Abidi the monarch stands in the Azish dome, Fused forces surging to battle around him. He looks at the camera, demonic grin on his face)

And dying.

(Aerial shot of Vyre's body, strewn on a snowy mountaintop, eyes burned out, being found by Fused)

And killing.

(El wipes a bloody knife)

And dying.

(Close-up of Mraize's face as he sits on his chair in the Ghostbloods headquarters, sipping a drink carefully)

So many being killed...

(Back view of Ishar walking up an outcropping in the foothills of Shinovar as the sun rises before him, lines of Connection leaking from his fingertips)

Adolin: People break. And sometimes...

(Shallan, Renarin, and Rlain look through a Spiritual Realm barrier at the smoky form of Ba Ado Mishram. Shallan outstretches her hand towards the barrier)

The strong ones break harder than the weak ones. Because they're the ones you pile everything on top of.

(The floor beneath Shallan gives way, and she falls through a Spiritual Realm vortex of memories)

(Young Renarin is held against the wall by a squad of bullies)

Hoid: Would that any of us could protect ourselves from the costs that heroism often requires.

(Abidi stalks, grinning with blade in hand, towards Shallan who is scrambling on the floor of an ornate room)

But again, if there were no cost, no sacrifice...

(Jasnah kneels in a Thaylen temple, face obscured. Fen walks up behind her)

Would it be heroism at all?

(Aerial view of Sigzil lashing himself across a battlefield in the Shattered Plains, strewn with corpses and wreckage, rain pouring. Sigzil catches himself, then looks up at the camera)

Fade to black.

Music dims.

Adolin: The four of us. Drinks, once this is done. Promise me.

(Adolin huddles with Kaladin, Shallan, and Syl in Azimir.)

Shallan: Promise.

(Everyone turns to Kaladin, who looks down. Finally, he looks up.)

Kaladin: Drinks. Jokes. Laughter. At the end. I PROMISE.

Music strengthens back up.

Hoid: Everything you've done - everything you've been - has prepared you for what's next.

(Venli pushes open the entrance of a cave and steps out into the Listener camp. massive chasmfiends lounge in the sun)

Fade to black

Music dims.

We're heading straight into the most difficult moment in our lives.

(Quick shot of Dalinar Kholin climbing the steps up to Urithiru, face stern, Way of Kings in hand, with a shadow looming over him (essentially the second piece of concept art Brandon released) before a quick fade back to darkness)

Remember.

Music explodes in rapid bursts (no longer a set song)

Black screen w/caption: Urithiru

(Quick shot of Renarin, Shallan and Rlain on the fields outside Urithiru, looking ominously into the distance)

Hope is wonderful.

Black screen w/caption: Shinovar

(Spinning camera around Szeth and Kaladin brandishing weapons back to back, but without clear view of who they're fighting)

Keep it.

Black screen w/caption: Azimir

(Quick shot of Adolin rushing across Fused forces in the dome in full plate, leaping over bodies and soldiers to get to Neziham)

Treasure it.

Black screen w/caption: The Shattered Plains

(Quick shot of Listeners riding Chasmfiends into battle on Narak Prime)

And if hope doesn't mean anything to you when you lose...

Black screen w/caption: Thaylenah

(Quick shot of Jasnah summoning Ivory while watching ships prepare for war in the harbor)

Black screen w/caption, in different, crackly font: The Spiritual Realm

(Quick shot of Dalinar and Navani rushing through human pilgrims during their arrival in Roshar)

Then it wasn't ever a virtue in the first place.

Fade to black. 

Music stops.

Azish general screaming hauntingly: HOOOOOOOOOLD!!

Silence.

Taravangian's voice, taunting: Dalinar, Dalinar, Dalinar...

(Close up of Taravangian's eyes flashing open, revealing infinite depths of gold and red)

Fade to black.

Hoid: This... it frightens me.

Yes. Lemme send this to my English teacher. I want to see what he says.

[Hoid Slayer He/Him]

14 minutes ago, Shatter said:

Yes. Lemme send this to my English teacher. I want to see what he says.

Idk what your English teacher has to do with this, but thanks?