Cerpen pertama dari antologi Obscure Sorrows. Occhiolism: (n.) the awareness of the smallness of your perspective. Semua orang merasa bahwa dirinya adalah tokoh utama. Semua orang merasa bahwa sudut pandangnya berarti. Dan semua orang tidak sadar bahwa mereka hanya setitik kecil benda yang, sangat mungkin, tidak punya arti yang jauh lebih di atas sebuah partikel yang mungkin lebih kecil daripada atom. Obscure Sorrows adalah seri cerpen yang mendalami berbagai emosi kelam yang awam, namun tidak terdalami sebelumnya. Terinspirasi oleh dictionaryofobscuresorrows [dot] com, sebuah kamus kata-kata yang menggambarkan emosi-emosi ganjil yang belum pernah dilabeli sebelumnya, disusun oleh leksikografer John Koenig.

After bursting onto the fantasy scene with his acclaimed debut novel, Elantris, and following up with his blockbuster Mistborn trilogy, Brandon Sanderson proves again that he is today’s leading master of what Tolkien called “secondary creation,” the invention of whole worlds, complete with magics and myths all their own. Warbreaker is the story of two sisters, who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, the lesser god who doesn’t like his job, and the immortal who’s still trying to undo the mistakes he made hundreds of years ago. Their world is one in which those who die in glory return as gods to live confined to a pantheon in Hallandren’s capital city and where a power known as BioChromatic magic is based on an essence known as breath that can only be collected one unit at a time from individual people. By using breath and drawing upon the color in everyday objects, all manner of miracles and mischief can be accomplished. It will take considerable quantities of each to resolve all the challenges facing Vivenna and Siri, princesses of Idris; Susebron the God King; Lightsong, reluctant god of bravery, and mysterious Vasher, the Warbreaker.