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* [[Aesudan Kholin]]
* [[Rushur Kris]]
* [[Elhokar Kholin]]
* [[Renarin Kholin]]▼
* [[Adolin Kholin]]
▲* [[Renarin Kholin]]
* [[Dalinar Kholin]]
* [[Nale]]
▲* [[Kalak]]
* [[Gavilar Kholin]]
* [[
* [[Jasnah Kholin]]
* [[Torol Sadeas]]
* [[Rine Hatham]] (mentioned only)
* [[Sadees]] (mentioned only)
* The [[Stormfather]] (mentioned only)▼
* [[Cultivation]] (mentioned only)
}}
* [[Durnash]]
* [[Toralin Roshone]]
* [[Dieno
* [[Dor (character)|Dor]]
* [[Lezian]]
* [[Lyn]] (mentioned only)
* [[Odium]] (mentioned only)
* [[Dieno
* [[Navani Kholin]] (mentioned only)
}}
* [[Dalinar Kholin]]
* [[Ka]]
* [[Dieno
* [[Lyn]]
* [[Falilar]]
'''Shallan'''
Shallan and Adolin are in a carriage going toward the Shattered Plains' [[Oathgate]]. Shallan thinks about the truths she's suppressing, and about how people would leave her if they knew what she had done. Veil tells Adolin that Ialai was assassinated, and they discuss about whether it would have been right to kill the highprincess. Shallan shows Adolin the notebook, including a list of words containing [[Nalthis|"Nalathis"]], [[Scadrial|"Scadarial"]], and [[Taldain|"Tal Dain"]], and at the end the name [[Thaidakar]]. Shallan
*[https://wob.coppermind.net/events/437-rhythm-of-war-annotations/#e14171 Chapter 9 Annotation]
* [[Renarin Kholin]] (mentioned only)
* [[Dalinar Kholin]] (mentioned only)
* [[Dieno
* [[Odium]] (mentioned only)
* [[Ialai Sadeas]] (mentioned only)
* [[Adolin Kholin]]
* [[Shallan Davar]]
* [[Dieno
* [[Rushu]] (mentioned only)
* [[Gavilar Kholin]] (mentioned only)
;Plot Summary
Navani is visiting [[Szeth]] in his cell sixteen days after the test of the ''Fourth Bridge''. She compares the [[black sphere|sphere]] that Gavilar gave Szeth as he was dying to a sphere of Voidlight stolen from a singer. While both glow an impossible purple-on-black that Rushu describes as hyperviolet, the air warps around the sphere Szeth had provided, evoking a wrongness. Navani is befuddled as to where Gavilar could have gotten it let alone all the other spheres she saw that night. Since the test, Navani has been working on practical issues in the tower and has not heard again from the spanreed messenger. Navani turns her attention to Szeth and his strange [[
An hour later, Navani is up on Urithiru's [[Cloudwalk]]. She marvels at the design of the tower and the views, now being enjoyed by many diverse people. Navani meets up with [[Gavinor]] and his nursemaid and gives him a big hug. Gavinor has been improving since his trauma in Kholinar, but is still very solemn. He tells Navani about riding horses with Adolin and asks to have sword training with Dalinar. Navani laments that Elhokar is missing out on all of this. Leaving Gavinor with his nursemaid, she goes to the research station. The head scientist, Brother [[Benneh]], tells her about the atmospheric conditions around the tower which adapt to the storms. Navani spots Dalinar walking with Taravangian and notices the tension between them that has been there since it was discovered Taravangian was using Szeth as an assassin. Dalinar's image is also suffering since he released his memoir that detailed the atrocities he committed in the Kholin unification war. Navani moves on to talk with the engineers constructing a set of telescopes, [[Talnah]] and [[Nem]]. She asks them to inspect the strange sphere, and they note that it is a practically flawless gem that will hold Voidlight for years. The engineers also note the wrongness of the light and ask to study it further. Navani is hesitant, but agrees as long as they keep it secret. Navani heads to the meeting chamber and reviews notes she took of Rlain's observation of the strange sphere. He said it felt painful and that it has a song he has never heard. Adolin and Shallan arrive for the meeting, escorting the Mink and discussing his escapology techniques. Dalinar arrives and squabbles with Shallan over Adolin. The Mink implies that his wife and son died in a war caused by Dalinar. The Mink asks where the maps are, and Dalinar and Shallan summon the Stormlight map.
* [[Shallan Davar]]
* [[Dalinar Kholin]]
* [[Dieno
* [[Jasnah Kholin]]
* [[Hoid]]
* [[Hanavanar]] (mentioned only)
* [[Ishar]] (mentioned only)
* [[Dieno
* [[Odium]] (mentioned only)
* [[Wyndle]] (mentioned only)
Navani visits Rushu in the crystal pillar room, where Rushu informs her that she hasn't made any progress mapping the gems on the pillar to fabrial constructions. She tells Navani that the captured suppression fabrial contains a corrupted spren, and Navani directs her to try to reverse the fabrial's effects. They discuss the tower's security, and then Navani visits the other scholars in the old [[Urithiru gem archive|gem archive]] room, where [[Tomor]] and Falilar show her their personal lifting fabrial prototype. After they convince her to try it out, she takes Falilar to a deep shaft that she has outfitted with several pulley systems. Explaining how this can replace some of the demand for manpower, she tasks him with designing a fabrial that can be linked to the pulleys.
The [[coalition of monarchs]] gathers later that day, and Navani immediately runs into Taravangian. He sincerely and terrifyingly, to her mind, explains that he has always been looking out for the future of Roshar before [[Noura]] begins the meeting by having Dalinar outline his proposed attack on Emul. [[Yanagawn]] shortly adds his support, followed by Taravangian; the latter's agreement causes the Alethi to second guess their idea. When Queen [[Fen Rnamdi|Fen]] approves the mission as well, she brings up the dearth of honorspren, so Sigzil brings up the idea of sending an envoy to their capital. After discussing their options, Shallan volunteers to lead the mission along with Adolin; they decide to take Godeke, an Edgedancer, as well as a Truthwatcher
*[https://wob.coppermind.net/events/437-rhythm-of-war-annotations/#e14358 Chapter 19 Annotation]
* [[Kaladin]] (mentioned only)
* [[Lunamor]] (mentioned only)
* [[Shallan Davar]] (mentioned only)
* [[Honor]] (mentioned only)
* [[Tuaka]] (mentioned only)
▲* [[Relador]] (mentioned only)
* [[Rua]] (mentioned only)
* [[Relador]] (mentioned only)
* [[Ishar]] (mentioned only)
}}
'''Kaladin'''
Kaladin continues his work, and Syl indicates
'''Navani'''
;Plot Summary
Vyre is in Kholinar, throwing his Honorblade and trying to get it to respond to him the way he saw Adolin’s blade respond to him on a battlefield. [[Khen]], a singer, talks to Vyre and says that they're leaving because this is not what they want to do.
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* [[Dalinar Kholin]] (point of view)
* [[Sigzil]]
* [[Dieno
* [[Cord]]
* [[Szeth]]
* [[Kmakl]]
* [[Omal]]
* [[Dieno
* [[Jasnah Kholin]]
* [[Noura]]
Renarin resummons his vision and tells Dalinar that the vision shows Dalinar, in Shardplate pierced by an arrow, facing away from Odium. He tells him that he thinks it means that Odium will delay indefinitely and never agree to an actual contest of champions with Dalinar since there was nothing for him to lose by waiting. Renarin also tells Dalinar that both he and Odium only see possible outcomes and explains how their powers interfere with each other.
At [[Glys]]'s prompting, Renarin asks Dalinar what he thinks about more Radiants bonding corrupted spren. Dalinar says that he will have to think about it since he is not sure if can trust the Unmade. Glys asks Renarin who he thinks would be a good match for another spren, and Renarin
{{anchor|Chapter 55}}
Venli goes to see Rlain. The guard tells her that he is considered a human sympathizer, but she manages to convince him to let her speak with Rlain alone. Rlain recognizes her, and as they exchange their stories, Venli realizes that they have overlapping goals. She tells him that she has saved Kaladin's family, and she promises to help get him out.
Venli finds Raboniel in Dalinar's former rooms accompanied by some fused, some humans, and Mraize. Mraize is making a deal for access to the Oathgates, and he presents Lift in a cage as a gift, and reveals to her that Lift is an Edgedancer whom Cultivation made to use Lifelight instead of Stormlight. When Mraize is gone, Venli asks Raboniel if Rlain can be released into her care, as he is the only other of her kind left; Raboniel agrees. She leaves and arrives at her room, where she attempts to swear the [[Order of Willshapers#The Second Ideal|next ideal]]. Her words are rejected, which makes sense to her as she realizes that she cannot be true to the ideal, having watched a human child carted away in a cage.
{{anchor|Chapter 61}}
* [[Ivory]]
* [[Hoid]]
* [[Dieno
* [[Dalinar Kholin]] (mentioned only)
* [[Odium]] (mentioned only)
:''Seven and a half years ago''
Venli is in the palace at Kholinar for the signing of the peace treaty. Ulim is leading her to a secret place where his agents exchange messages and, in this case, where he hopes to find other Voidspren in spheres. Ulim has left Venli’s gemheart, and she is less certain about what they are doing, especially once Ulim reveals that he has lost contact with his agent, Axindweth. They recover the message she left behind--no spheres--and they learn that she had been discovered and left the planet. Ulim is upset and says that they have to come up with another plan. Her people aren't even intimidated by the humans and are instead excited. Venli tries to make her way back on her own, because Ulim left her, but is caught by a guard. He takes her to a room filled with other humans and question her. She says that she got lost, but they aren’t entirely convinced, and say they will hold her until after the treaty has been signed. Ulim returns, shocked, saying that there are Heralds in the palace--Shalash, [[Kelek]], and Nale. Just then, Nale enters, and he takes Venli into his custody. Once alone, it’s clear that Nale recognizes Ulim, and they are not friends. Nale asks Venli how many Voidspren are there, and she tells him that Ulim is the only one. Nale asks how she was able to bring him back, and Venli deflects his question in a way that implied that it was the fault of whatever the Heralds are doing. Nale, in his paranoia, concludes that Gavilar’s plan is working and that he will destroy them all. Nale decides that he has to stop bonds from happening, and tells Venli that Gavilar is planning to betray the listeners, and that she has legal grounds to break their treaty. He tells her of Szeth, that he has an
{{anchor|Chapter 78}}
{{anchor|Chapter 83}}
=== Chapter 83: The Games of Men and
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{{epigraph|I remember so few of those centuries. I am a blur. A smear on the page. A gaunt stretch of ink, made all the more insubstantial with each passing day.}}
'''Shallan'''
After the trial, Shallan climbs a tree and falls to the ground, faking a severe injury. Pattern plays along, and they convince the honorspren to take her to where their Stormlight is kept. They do so, and she steals a sphere, replacing it with a dun one and pretending that she had drained
{{anchor|Chapter 88}}
;Plot Summary
Teft thinks about when he first woke up
As Teft thinks about the grim tidings he had awoken to, Phendorana reminds him by a glance not to be down on himself. Rlain and Lift enter next, the latter of whom heals Teft; he has to be healed
After Teft spurs them to attempt to save the Radiants, they all pitch in and discuss how they might accomplish it. Kaladin suggests that they take a couple of days to consider their options, and they hope to be able to contact Navani and ask for her help. Then they start discussing less consequential things, and Teft finds himself smiling because of all of the good things there still are to enjoy. He admits to Phendorana that she had been right to tell Teft he was worth saving.
Finally, as the High Judge refuses judgement, claiming that Maya's condemnation is all that's needed to judge Adolin, Maya and Adolin share a moment of connection and Maya speaks. She reveals that the ancient spren were not betrayed by their Knights Radiant, but decided together with them to break their bonds.
Most of the gathered spren disperse, shocked by the news, but Blended approaches to speak with Adolin. She tells him that she suggested to the honorspren elders to use Maya as a witness because she wanted to verify his claim that he and Maya were friends and that the deadeye could speak. She is not convinced that the revelation means that the spren should now bond humans, worrying instead what could have convinced spren to choose death instead of letting the Radiants continue. Adolin muses that in the light of this revelation, the Radiant-spren bond will never be the same again.
{{anchor|Chapter 95}}
:''Fourteen months ago''
During the [[Battle of Narak]] Venli realizes the danger the
Panicked, Venli finds a hiding place between the buildings of Narak and later finds her way into one of them. As she hides from the storm and the battle, she admits to herself that she is not deserving of any of the recognition she got for "discovering" new forms,
{{anchor|Chapter 96}}
* [[Dalinar Kholin]] (point of view)
* [[Szeth]]
* [[Dieno
* [[Sigzil]]
* [[Stargyle]]
* [[Taravangian]] (mentioned only)
* [[Shalash]] (mentioned only)
* [[Dieno
* [[Odium]] (mentioned only)
* [[Lift]] (mentioned only)
* [[Navani Kholin]] (point of view)
* [[Adin]] (point of view)
* [[Moash]]
▲* The [[Stormfather]]
* [[Kaladin]]▼
* [[Sigzil]]
* [[Szeth-son-Neturo]]
* [[Leyten]]▼
* [[Mela]]▼
* [[Ishar]]
* [[Leshwi]]
* [[Venli]]
* [[
* The [[
▲* [[Lyn]]
▲* [[Leyten]]
* [[Nightblood]]
* The [[Sibling]]
* [[Dabbid]]
▲* [[Mela]]
* [[Vespan]]
* [[God Beyond]] (mentioned only)
* [[Shalash]] (mentioned only)
* [[Nohadon]] (mentioned only)
* [[Honor]] (mentioned only)
* [[Odium]] (mentioned only)
* [[Taravangian]] (mentioned only)
* [[Adonalsium]] (mentioned only)
* [[Talenel]] (mentioned only)
* [[Jezrien]] (mentioned only)
* [[Lezian]] (mentioned only)
* [[Raboniel]] (mentioned only)
* [[
* [[
* [[
* [[Cultivation]] (mentioned only)
* [[Jasnah Kholin]] (mentioned only)
* [[Nale]] (mentioned only)
'''Adin'''
Afraid but still hoping to impress an honorspren, Adin takes his place in the line of defenders with a spear. Despite Dabbid moving to stand in front of him, Adin still finds himself on the ground with a Regal over him moments later. Kaladin's Shardplate forms itself around Adin in time to save him from the Regal, then moves on to form around first Dabbid and then Leshwi in time to save both of them. As the enemy reforms, the Shardplate attaches to Kaladin. Kaladin instructs the Fused and Regals to flee as the Sibling activates all of
'''Dalinar'''
* [[Hoid]] (mentioned only)
* [[Honor]] (mentioned only)
* [[Dieno
* [[Taravangian]] (mentioned only)
}}
* [[Rlain]] (point of view)
* [[Kaladin]] (point of view)
* [[
* [[Venli]]
* [[Leshwi]]
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