Summary:The Sunlit Man
This page contains a chapter by chapter summary of The Sunlit Man. We hope this summary will make it easier to find specific areas of the book, as well as providing a quick plot refresher for anyone who doesn't want to take the time to reread the entire book.
Chapter 1
- Characters
- Plot Summary
Nomad wakes from skipping not knowing where he is. He is questioned by people who speak a language he doesn't understand, and he doesn't have enough Investiture to have Auxiliary translate whet they are saying. He notices that the plants around him are growing extremely quickly, and that is just before dawn. People in white coats are chaining people to stakes in the ground. When one of the white-coated people tries to place manacles on him, Nomad tries to fight back, but his muscles lock up. He remembers he is beset upon by a Torment, a mysterious condition caused by him having held a Dawnshard that makes him incapable of causing harm, even in self-defense or defense of others.
A mysterious man—missing his chest, which is replaced by a glowing ember in the center of a burned-out hole— then attacks Nomad with a bat, and Nomad finds his Torment is preventing him from summoning any sort of weapon. He also notices the the brightness of the soon-to-rising sun seems much too large for a normal planet. After Nomad stops one of the attacks with his bare hands, the ember man (and others around him) are surprised. The light from the horizon begins to blaze with intense heat, and all the plants around them begin wilting. Nomad is beaten to the ground by another ember man, where his is chained to a rock.
The rising sun continues getting brighter, making the ground smoke and burn, and Nomad concludes the sunlight is Invested, making it extremely intense. Nomad and Auxiliary briefly consider trying to absorb the Investiture, but conclude the sunlight is far too intense to safely do that. After failing to manifest a weapon, he creates a small crowbar that lets him break the chain. He then hurls the chain at a hover bike that's flying away and is dragged away as the sunlight begins to burn him.
Chapter 2
- Characters
- Nomad (point of view)
- Auxiliary
- The Cinder King
- Plot Summary
Chapter 3
- Characters
- Nomad (point of view)
- Elegy
- The Cinder King
- Auxiliary
- Thomos
- Plot Summary
Chapter 4
- Characters
- Nomad (point of view)
- The Cinder King
- Auxiliary
- Thomos
- Plot Summary
Chapter 5
- Characters
- Plot Summary
Chapter 6
- Characters
- Plot Summary
Chapter 7
- Characters
- Nomad (point of view)
- Auxiliary
- Rebeke
- Elegy
- Zeal
- Thomos
- Adonalsium-Will-Remember-Our-Plight-Eventually
- Confidence
- Compassion
- Contemplation
- Divinity (mentioned only)
- Plot Summary
Chapter 8
- Characters
- Nomad (point of view)
- Jeffrey Jeffrey
- Confidence
- Compassion
- Contemplation
- Zeal
- Rebeke
- Elegy (mentioned only)
- Divinity (mentioned only)
- Thomos (mentioned only)
- The Cinder King (mentioned only)
- Auxiliary (mentioned only)
- Plot Summary
Chapter 9
- Characters
- Plot Summary
Chapter 10
- Characters
- Plot Summary
Chapter 11
- Characters
- Nomad (point of view)
- Contemplation
- Confidence
- Zeal
- Compassion
- Jeffrey Jeffrey
- Auxiliary
- Rebeke
- The Cinder King (mentioned only)
- Elegy (mentioned only)
- Haridan (mentioned only)
- Zellion (mentioned only)
- Adonalsium (mentioned only)
- Divinity (mentioned only)
- Wit (mentioned only)
- Plot Summary
Chapter 12
- Characters
- Nomad (point of view)
- Rebeke
- Auxiliary
- Contemplation (mentioned only)
- The Cinder King (mentioned only)
- Wit (mentioned only)
- Elegy (mentioned only)
- Zeal (mentioned only)
- Plot Summary
Chapter 13
- Characters
- Plot Summary
Chapter 14
- Characters
- Nomad (point of view)
- Rebeke
- Auxiliary
- Contemplation
- The Cinder King (mentioned only)
- Plot Summary
Chapter 15
- Characters
- Nomad (point of view)
- Rebeke
- Auxiliary
- Contemplation
- The Cinder King (mentioned only)
- Elegy (mentioned only)
- Adonalsium (mentioned only)
- Zellion (mentioned only)
- Wit (mentioned only)
- Plot Summary
Chapter 16
- Characters
- Nomad (point of view)
- Rebeke
- The Cinder King
- Auxiliary
- Wit (mentioned only)
- Plot Summary
Chapter 17
- Characters
- Nomad (point of view)
- Auxiliary
- Rebeke
- The Cinder King
- Contemplation
- Plot Summary
Chapter 18
- Characters
- Nomad (point of view)
- Rebeke
- Contemplation
- Auxiliary
- Confidence
- Compassion
- The Cinder King (mentioned only)
- Plot Summary
Chapter 19
- Characters
- Nomad (point of view)
- Auxiliary
- Confidence
- Compassion
- Jeffrey Jeffrey
- Zeal
- Contemplation
- Solemnity Divine
- Adonalsium (mentioned only)
- The Cinder King (mentioned only)
- Elegy (mentioned only)
- Wit (mentioned only)
- Rebeke (mentioned only)
- Plot Summary
Chapter 20
- Characters
- Nomad (point of view)
- Elegy
- Contemplation
- Auxiliary
- Wit (mentioned only)
- Rebeke (mentioned only)
- The Cinder King (mentioned only)
- Plot Summary
Chapter 21
- Characters
- Nomad (point of view)
- Elegy
- Auxiliary
- Rebeke
- Wit (mentioned only)
- Adonalsium (mentioned only)
- The Cinder King (mentioned only)
- Khrissalla (mentioned only)
- Contemplation (mentioned only)
- Plot Summary
Chapter 22
- Characters
- Nomad (point of view)
- Rebeke
- Zeal
- Adonalsium (mentioned only)
- The Cinder King (mentioned only)
- Divinity (mentioned only)
- Contemplation (mentioned only)
- Plot Summary
Chapter 23
- Characters
- Nomad (point of view)
- Compassion
- Contemplation
- Solemnity Divine
- Auxiliary
- Zeal
- Rebeke
- Confidence
- Dirge (mentioned only)
- Wit (mentioned only)
- Elegy (mentioned only)
- The Cinder King (mentioned only)
- Plot Summary
Chapter 24
- Characters
- Nomad (point of view)
- Rebeke
- Auxiliary
- Elegy
- The Stormfather (mentioned only)
- Wit (mentioned only)
- The Cinder King (mentioned only)
- Plot Summary
Chapter 25
- Characters
- Plot Summary
Chapter 26
- Characters
- Nomad (point of view)
- Auxiliary
- Solemnity Divine
- Contemplation
- Deborah-James
- Elegy (mentioned only)
- The Cinder King (mentioned only)
- Honor (mentioned only)
- Yaezir (mentioned only)
- Wit (mentioned only)
- Plot Summary
Chapter 27
- Characters
- Nomad (point of view)
- Contemplation
- Solemnity Divine
- The Cinder King (mentioned only)
- Plot Summary
Chapter 28
- Characters
- Nomad (point of view)
- Auxiliary
- Elegy (mentioned only)
- The Cinder King (mentioned only)
- Rebeke (mentioned only)
- Plot Summary
Chapter 29
- Characters
- Nomad (point of view)
- Jeffrey Jeffrey
- Auxiliary
- Elegy
- Wit (mentioned only)
- Plot Summary
Chapter 30
- Characters
- Plot Summary
Chapter 31
- Characters
- Nomad (point of view)
- Elegy
- Auxiliary
- Jeffrey Jeffrey (mentioned only)
- Plot Summary
Chapter 32
- Characters
- Nomad (point of view)
- Elegy
- Rebeke
- Auxiliary
- Solemnity Divine
- Jeffrey Jeffrey
- Zeal
- Compassion
- Confidence
- Contemplation
- The Cinder King (mentioned only)
- Kaladin (mentioned only)
- Plot Summary
Chapter 33
- Characters
- Nomad (point of view)
- Hardy
- Zeal
- Auxiliary
- Elegy
- Rebeke
- Divinity (mentioned only)
- Solemnity Divine (mentioned only)
- Wit (mentioned only)
- The Cinder King (mentioned only)
- Plot Summary
Chapter 34
- Characters
- Plot Summary
Chapter 35
- Characters
- Nomad (point of view)
- The Cinder King
- Auxiliary
- Zeal
- Elegy (mentioned only)
- Plot Summary
Chapter 36
- Characters
- Plot Summary
Chapter 37
- Characters
- Nomad (point of view)
- Auxiliary
- Zeal
- Rebeke
- The Cinder King
- Plot Summary
Chapter 38
- Characters
- Elegy (point of view)
- Nomad
- Rebeke
- Zeal
- Confidence
- Auxiliary
- The Cinder King (mentioned only)
- Plot Summary
Chapter 39
- Characters
- Zellion (point of view)
- Auxiliary
- Contemplation
- Compassion
- Confidence
- Rebeke (mentioned only)
- Elegy (mentioned only)
- Zellion (mentioned only)
- Wit (mentioned only)
- Plot Summary
Chapter 40
- Characters
- Plot Summary
Chapter 41
- Characters
- Zellion (point of view)
- Rebeke
- Zeal
- Solemnity Divine
- Confidence
- Auxiliary
- Elegy
- The Cinder King (mentioned only)
- Kaladin (mentioned only)
- Plot Summary
Chapter 42
- Characters
- Zellion (point of view)
- Elegy
- Auxiliary
- Rebeke
- The Cinder King (mentioned only)
- Zeal (mentioned only)
- Jeffrey Jeffrey (mentioned only)
- Plot Summary
Chapter 43
- Characters
- Elegy (point of view)
- Rebeke
- Auxiliary
- Zellion
- Confidence
- Zeal
- Compassion
- Contemplation
- The Cinder King (mentioned only)
- Plot Summary
Chapter 44
- Characters
- Zellion (point of view)
- Confidence
- Rebeke
- Contemplation
- Auxiliary
- The Cinder King (mentioned only)
- Plot Summary
Chapter 45
- Characters
- Plot Summary
Chapter 46
- Characters
- Elegy (point of view)
- The Cinder King
- Rebeke
- Contemplation
- Confidence
- Compassion
- Zellion
- Plot Summary
Chapter 47
- Characters
- Zellion (point of view)
- Auxiliary
- Solemnity Divine
- Contemplation
- Adonalsium (mentioned only)
- Yaezir (mentioned only)
- Rebeke (mentioned only)
- Elegy (mentioned only)
- The Cinder King (mentioned only)
- Plot Summary
Chapter 48
- Characters
- Elegy (point of view)
- The Cinder King
- Rebeke
- Faith
- Zellion
- Plot Summary
Chapter 49
- Characters
- Zellion
- The Cinder King
- Auxiliary (mentioned only)
- Plot Summary
Chapter 50
- Characters
- Elegy
- Rebeke
- The Cinder King (mentioned only)
- Zellion (mentioned only)
- Plot Summary
Chapter 51
- Characters
- Zellion (point of view)
- Elegy (point of view)
- The Cinder King
- Divinity (mentioned only)
- Plot Summary
Chapter 52
- Characters
- Zellion (point of view)
- The Cinder King
- Auxiliary (mentioned only)
- Plot Summary
Epilogue
- Characters
- Elegy (point of view)
- Truth-Is-Waiting (point of view)
- Zellion (point of view)
- Rebeke
- Admiral
- Compassion
- Contemplation
- Confidence
- Auxiliary
- Plot Summary