Editing Summary:Words of Radiance/Chapter 13

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==Epigraph==

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It comes to those with the will.

|From the listener Song of Listing, 15th stanza}}

==Plot summary==

:''Tanatakah 1173''

Shallan travels towards the [[Shattered Plains]] on one of Tvlakv's wagons. She sits next to Bluth, one of the stoic mercenaries hired by Tvlakv, who drives the wagon. She distracts herself by studying their surroundings - the flora of the southern [[Frostlands]] is completely unfamiliar to her.

When they stop at midday for a meal, Shallan asks Tvlakv to set up one of the empty slave wagons as a carriage for her. Wooden sides, typically used as protection for the slaves during [[highstorm|highstorms]], are hooked onto the sides of the cage to provide her some privacy. She also gets the cage's key from Tvlakv, though he seems hesitant to give it to her.

She crawls across the newly enclosed wagon - her feet are injured and standing on them is painful enough to make [[Spren#Painspren|painspren]] appear - and opens the lid to Jasnah's trunk. Pattern, who had been instructed to stay hidden, waits inside. Shallan tells him that the notes need to reach the Shattered Plains, and that she intends to finish Jasnah's work of finding [[Urithiru]] and convincing the [[Alethi]] that the return of the [[Voidbringers]] is imminent. Pattern confirms that the threat from the Voidbringers is real and that they are the reason he was sent to her. As she continues to go through the contents of the trunk, Shallan finds a sketch she had done of Jasnah and is overcome with grief over her mentor's death, as well as the loss of the rest of her sketches. She also laments the loss of the broken [[Soulcasting#Soulcasting_by_the_use_of_a_fabrial|soulcaster]], which is at the bottom of the ocean, and speculates that the attackers could have been from the same group as [[Kabsal]] and [[Lin Davar|her father]] ([[Ghostbloods|The Ghostbloods]]).

==Characters==

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*[[Jasnah Kholin]]

*[[Kabsal]]

*[[Lin Davar]]

==Setting==

Tvlakv's caravan.

==Notable==

*The title of the chapter references the sketch Shallan finds of Jasnah, which she had completed and dubbed "the day's masterpiece" in Chapter 7 of ''The Way of Kings''.{{book ref|sa1|7}}

==Chapter Header==

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;Pattern icon

The Pattern icon is used in Shallan's chapters in the later parts of Words of Radiance.

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[[Shalash]] is the patron Herald of the [[Order of Lightweavers|Lightweavers]], and Shallan speaks with and learns about [[Pattern]], her [[Cryptic]], in this chapter. Cryptics are the spren of Lightweavers.

==See Also==

*[http://www.tor.com/2014/09/04/words-of-radiance-reread-chapter-13/ Tor.com Re-read]

== Notes ==