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'''Dalinar's visions''' are short episodes [[Dalinar]] experiences during [[highstorm]]s. ▼
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|related=[[Stormfather]], [[Honor]], [[Order of Bondsmiths]]
|world=Roshar
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
|books=[[The Stormlight Archive]]
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▲'''Dalinar's visions'''
== Highstorms and visions ==
After he began
At first, Dalinar suffered these visions feeling he was going mad. Dalinar eventually volunteered to be tied to a chair, because he raved and thrashed about.{{book ref|sa1|18}} Watching him was unnerving, and [[Renarin]] told him that he spoke gibberish during the visions.{{book ref|sa1|52}} Though Dalinar thought that the visions might have been sent from the [[Almighty]], he wavered and felt uncertain about them. He spoke to the [[ardent]]s, but received no solution. Feeling he was losing his mind, Dalinar decided to abdicate his position as Highprince in favor of [[Adolin]].{{book ref|sa1|28}} In an argument about this topic, Renarin suggested that they try to prove whether the visions were fabrications or contained any real references. They decided to ask [[Navani]] to document the visions.{{book ref|sa1|52}}
This decision led to the discovery by Navani that Dalinar did not speak gibberish during his visions. During the first vision she witnessed, he spoke the [[Dawnchant]]. They considered this proof that the visions were real. The Dawnchant was a real extinct language on [[Roshar]], but there were no known translation keys for modern scholars to study it. Since Dalinar would have had no prior knowledge of the Dawnchant they came to the conclusion that his mind could not be fabricating the visions.{{book ref|sa1|60}} As a side effect, Navani was sure that this discovery would help to translate an old book called [[Analectics]].
=== The Stormfather's Role ===
After settling in [[Urithiru]], the [[Stormfather]] revealed that Dalinar is able to control and choose who experiences the visions. Dalinar was able to bring other people into the visions with him, and he used this ability to make initial contact with rulers to help build the alliance between the nations.{{book ref|sa3|28}} Each time he entered a vision it would play out a little differently. Once, Odium came to him in a vision. After this, they deemed the visions too dangerous to use and only went in another time to bring in Venli and try to make a pact with the Voidbringers. [[Odium]] interrupted this meeting, however.
The Stormfather imagined a place for Dalinar to discuss plans with him. The sky is deep black and the ground endless white stone. Items and even people made of smoke rise from the floor and slowly dissipate. This place represents how the Stormfather imagines cognitive ideas dying when no longer in use by cognitive beings.{{book ref|sa3|34}}
== The visions predicate ==
All
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|Dalinar's memory from one of the visions{{book ref|sa1|12}}
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From the visions
== Mentioned and recorded visions ==
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|This is important. Do not let strife consume you. Be strong. Act with honor, and honor will aid you.
|The Almighty at the end of the Starfalls vision{{book ref|sa3|34}}
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During this vision Dalinar
This was Dalinar's twelfth vision.{{book ref|sa1|19}}
▲; Starfalls
▲During this vision Dalinar finds himself in the role of a man, [[Heb]], who lives with his wife and daughter, presumably during the advent of a [[Desolation]]. Heb and his daughter are attacked by [[Midnight Essence]]s but manage to reach Heb's house unharmed. Two more of these beasts follow, and after Heb (Dalinar) fights them off, Heb takes his wife and daughter and flees from the house, only to run into other Midnight Essences. When he and his family think all is lost, two Knights Radiant come. One immediately begins to fight the beasts while the second uses "Regrowth" to heal Heb and his family before joining her companion in fighting the Midnight Essences. Feeling good again after the healing, Heb joins the fight and the three of them fight off the Midnight Essences. The male Knight Radiant, [[Harkaylain]], asks Heb about his strange fighting stances and invites him to come to [[Urithiru]], where the Knights Radiant are centered: because everybody who could fight is needed.{{book ref|sa1|19}}
He revisits this vision when meeting with Queen [[Fen Rnamdi]], and he instructs the [[Stormfather]] to let Fen experience it as he did so that they can discuss it after.{{book ref|sa3|34}}{{expand}}
Dalinar
Dalinar revisits the keep when meeting [[Yanagawn]] and showing [[Navani]] and [[Jasnah]] the vision.{{book ref|sa3|56}} After the conversation with Gawx, Dalinar is returned to the vision to first meet [[Odium]]'s golden avatar, and then [[Lift]] appears.{{book ref|sa3|57}}{{expand}}
; That Which We Cannot Have▼
In this vision Dalinar is shown the aftermath of a Desolation. His role is as a man named Karm, an advisor to a king, probably [[Nohadon]] himself. This king wavers over what to do with the [[Surgebinding|Surgebinders]], and how they could be made to act more honorably. Though this king is younger than Dalinar had imagined Nohadon to be, and refused the idea of writing a book as absurd, Dalinar is sure that he was right about him being Nohadon. Eventually this man decides to unite the people so that they can stand better against future Desolations.{{book ref|sa1|60}}▼
; In the Top Room▼
▲In this vision Dalinar
This is the last vision recorded in [[The Way of Kings]]. Dalinar finds himself in a place that he recognizes as the place of his very first vision. A man stands beside him, showing him what might happen in the future—though the man admits that [[Cultivation]] is better in seeing the future than he. Then, finally, Dalinar realizes that this voice, this man, has never actually heard him, explaining why he never answered Dalinar's questions. ▼
Dalinar was going to revisit this vision when the Stormfather tells him he can share the visions with anyone.{{book ref|sa3|28}} He intentionally revisits to meet with [[Venli]] until the vision is destroyed by [[Odium]].{{book ref|sa3|109}}{{expand}}
In [[Words of Radiance]], Dalinar has a vision in which he sees himself as a soldier, marching with several other soldiers through a shallow body of water that he believes to be the [[Purelake]]. They're heading towards a massive fortress, which is not known to exist in the Purelake in modern times, when an evil spren animates a massive piece of stone, which rips itself free of the lakebed to attack them: a [[Thunderclast]].▼
▲This is the
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=== Broken People ===
Dalinar first had this vision back when he thought the visions were simple nightmares. After sending Queen [[Fen Rnamdi|Fen]] into the starfalls vision, Dalinar returns to this vision. He fights a ragged group of enemy soldiers and after the battle ends he meets a [[Stoneward]] and sees him use the Surge of [[Cohesion]] before pulling [[Navani]] and [[Jasnah]] into the vision, and the Stormfather confirms that it is a vision of the [[Last Desolation]].{{book ref|sa3|38}} Later, on her request, Dalinar sends Queen Fen into this vision alone before she decided whether to visit Urithiru.{{book ref|sa3|50}} {{expand}}
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