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Oathbringer continues the tradition of filling The Storain have a fantastic cover illustration by Michael Whelan, whose attention to detail has given us an incredibly accurate rendition of Jasnah Kholin I love that she gets a place to shine on the cover of this book, and I continue to feel honored and grateful that Michael takes tiallery work to paint the world of Roshar
It takes a variety of artists to recreate the styles found in the ephemera of another world, so this time around we’ve worked with even more artists than before Dan dos Santos and Howard Lyon are responsible for the paintings of the Heralds on the front and back endpapers I wanted these to have a style evoking classical paintings of the Renaissance and the later Romantic era, and both Dan and Howard exceeded expectations These pieces are not only great art for a book, they are great art period, deserving of a place in any gallery
I should note that Dan and Howard also contributed their talents to the interior art, for which I’h to be cover art, and Howard’s linework for so I hope to see more of in future volumes
Ben McSweeney joins us again, providing nine pieces of art from Shallan’s sketchbook Between a cross-continentfa top-notch illustrations He is a great artist and a quality hu
Also lending their talents to this volue illustrations are Miranda Meeks and Kelley Harris Both have done fantastic work for us in the past, and I think you’ll love their contributions this time around
In addition, a variety of wonderful people helped behind the scenes as consultants or facilitated other aspects of the art in this book: The David Ruie and Michelle at Two Tone Press, Emily Dunlay, David and Doris Stewart, Shari Lyon, Payden McRoberts, and Greg Davidson
My writing group for Oathbringer (and they often read submissions each week at 5–8x the normal size) included Karen Ahlstrom, Peter Ahlstrom, Emily Sanderson, Eric James Stone, Darci Stone, Ben Olsen, Kaylynn ZoBell, Kathleen Dorsey Sanderson, Alan “Leyten froe Four” Skarstedt, and Ben “Don’t put e Four” Olsen
Special thanks go to Chris “Jon” King for feedback on so Teft, Will Hoyuics, and Mi’chelle Walker for so specific mental health issues
Beta readers included (take a deep breath) Aaron Biggs, Aaron Ford, Adae, Aubree Pham, Bao Pham, Becca Horn Reppert, Bob Kluttz, Brandon Cole, Darci Cole, Brian T Hill, Chris “Jon” King, Chris Kluwe, Cory Aitchison, David Behrens, Deana Covel Whitney, Eric Lake, Gary Singer, Ian McNatt, Jessica Ashcraft, Joel Phillips, Jory Phillips, Josh Walker, Mi’chelle Walker, Kalyani Poluri, Rahul Pantula, Kellyn Neu, Marnie Peterson, Matt Wiens, Megan Kanne, Nathan “Natae Vest, Paul Christopher, Randy MacKay, Ravi Persaud, Richard Fife, Ross Newberry, Ryan “Drehy” Dreher Scott, Sarah “Saphy” Hansen, Sarah Fletcher, Shivam Bhatt, Steve Godecke, Ted Herman, Trae Cooper, and William Juan
Our beta reader coler and Kellyn Neumann
Our gaain, plus: Benjamin R Black, Chris “Gunner” McGrath, Christi Jacobsen, Corbett Rubert, Richard Rubert, Dr Daniel Stange, David Han-Ting Chow, Donald Mustard III, Eric Warrington, Jared Gerlach, Jareth Greeff, Jesse Y Horne, Joshua Coan, Lindsey Andrus, Lingting Xu, Loggins Merrill, Marci Stringham, Matt Hatch, Scott Escujuri, Stephen Stinnett, and Tyson Thorpe
As you can see, a book like this is a huge undertaking Without the efforts of thesea far, far inferior book