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This book will be more focused on [[Shallan Davar]] and we will find her Flashbacks this time.<ref>[http://twitter.com/#!/17thshard/status/133797140957896704 Tweet about The Book of Endless Pages]</ref> There are [[Parshendi]] viewpoints.{{ref|17s|2389|post|41988|Parshendi viewpoints in book 2}}
== From the Cover Flap ==
Six years ago, the Assassin in White, a hireling of the inscrutable [[Parshendi]], assassinated the [[Gavilar|Alethi king]] on the very night a treaty between men and Parshendi was being celebrated. So began the Vengeance Pact among the highprinces of [[Alethkar]] and the [[War of Reckoning]] against the Parshendi.
Now the Assassin is active again, murdering rulers all over the world, using his baffling powers to thwart every bodyguard and elude all pursuers. Among his prime targets is Highprince Dalinar, widely considered the power behind the Alethi throne. His leading role in the war would seem reason enough, but the Assassin’s master has much deeper motives.
Expected by his enemies to die the miserable death of a military slave, Kaladin survived to be given command of the royal bodyguards, a controversial first for a low-status darkeyes. Now he must protect the king and Dalinar from every common peril as well as the distinctly uncommon threat of the Assassin, all while secretly struggling to master remarkable new powers that are somehow linked to his [[honorspren]], [[Syl]].
Brilliant but troubled Shallan strives along a parallel path. Despite being broken in ways she refuses to acknowledge, she bears a terrible burden: to somehow prevent the return of the legendary [[Voidbringers]] and their civilization-ending Desolation. The secrets she needs can be found at the Shattered Plains, but even arriving there proves more difficult than she imagined.
Meanwhile, at the heart of the [[Shattered Plains]], the Parshendi are making an epochal decision. Hard pressed by years of Alethi attacks, their numbers ever shrinking, they are convinced by their war leader, Eshonai, to risk everything on an desperate gamble with the very supernatural forces they once fled. The consequences for Parshendi and humans alike—indeed, for [[Roshar]] itself—are as dangerous as they are incalculable.
==Trivia==
The working title for the book was '''''The Book of Endless Pages''''' but [[Brandon]] didn't think it suitable due to the irony.{{ref|?|689|16|Why the name change?}}
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