Voidlight Archive?

[The Grand Jesk]

Spoiler

I just want to point out that everyone is call the next 5 book on roshar the voidlight Archive which would make since but voidlight is odiums and stormlight is honors and now that its not odium or honor but retrubution, voidlight and stormlight no longer exist its now warlight proven by nivain in WaT, so did brandon confirm that it is the voidlight archive and if so will retraubution be split in the books and go back to odium and honor or are we just forgeting about warlight.

WaT spoilers

[NerdSandwich she/her]

That's a good point.

[First of the Tide He/him]

Kaymyth

Wind and Truth ends with "The Postlude to the Stormlight Archive". What prelude does Stormlight 6 begin with?

Brandon Sanderson

I'm calling it The Voidlight Archive, but I know it's not--it's technically like Warlight or something like that, but in my head all along, it's been The Stormlight Archive and The Voidlight Archive. That's not a title that will be on Book 6. Book 6 will not be "Book 1 of The Voidlight Archive". But internally, I've always viewed them as The Stormlight Archive and The Voidlight Archive.

Kaymyth, Paleo

Interesting.

Brandon Sanderson

Yeah, Peter hates this. Peter's like, "This is just confusing, Brandon. Why--what are you doing?" But I'm like, "I got a prelude to Stormlight, I got a postlude, and then we get one prelude to The Voidlight Archive and a postlude to The Voidlight Archive. It works!" And he's like, "But it will be book 6 of The Stormlight Archive!" Like yeah, that's the series name, y'know. So, we'll see if they let me get away with it, meaning kind of editors, beta readers, when they see that, they're just like, "this is too weird, Brandon". But that's what I named the two five-book arcs in my head. 'Cause we don't have Stormlight anymore, so...

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Edited December 9, 2025 by First of the Tide

[NerdSandwich she/her]

Thanks, that's helpful.