SHALLAN AND ADOLIN*

“… a place with a black sky and a strange, small white sun that hung on the horizon … Flames hovered nearby … Like the tips of candles floating in the air and moving with the wind … An endless dark sea, except it wasn’t wet. It was made of the small beads, an entire ocean of tiny glass spheres.”

The Stormlight Archive is filled with exotic settings, but none inspires the imagination more than Shadesmar, the cognitive realm. In this figure study, Shallan gathers a handful of beads that represent objects in the physical realm.