Difference between revisions of "Summary:The Way of Kings"

 

==Part Four: Storm's Illumination==

===Chapter 52: A Highway to the Sun===

{{epigraph|I'm standing over the body of a brother. I'm weeping. Is that his blood or mine? What have we done?}}

 

===Chapter 53: Dunny===

{{epigraph|He must pick it up, the fallen title! The tower, the crown, and the spear!}}

 

===Chapter 54: Gibletish===

{{epigraph|The burdens of nine become mine. Why must I carry the madness of them all? Oh, Almighty, release me.}}

 

===Chapter 55: An Emerald Broam===

{{epigraph|A woman sits and scratches out her own eyes. Daughter of kings and winds, the vandal.}}

 

===Chapter 56: That Storming Book===

{{epigraph|Light grows so distant. The storm never stops. I am broken, and all around me have died. I weep for the end of all things. He has won. Oh, he has beaten us.}}

 

===Chapter 57: Wandersail===

Kaladin meets [[Hoid]] in the plains.

Hoid tells him of [[Derethil]] and the ''[[Wandersail]]''.

 

===Chapter 58: The Journey===

{{epigraph|Re-Sephir, the Midnight Mother, giving birth to abominations with her essence so dark, so terrible, so consuming. She is here! She watches me die!}}

 

===Chapter 59: An Honor===

{{epigraph|Above the final void I hang, friends behind, friends before. The feast I must drink clings to their faces, and the words I must speak spark in my mind. The old oaths will be spoken anew.}}

 

===Chapter 60: That Which We Cannot Have===

 

Just before the end of the vision, Dalinar repeats Nohadon's statement. He comes back to the present time and believes he did little about discovering any facts about proving his visions true or false. Navani cuts him off, asking him to repeat the last thing he said. She then tells him she believes he has been speaking in the Dawnchant, a dead language, and the phrase he just gave her may be the key needed to translate the language. She tells Dalinar and his sons that this is the proof they were looking for and that the visions are real.

 

===Chapter 61: Right for Wrong===

{{epigraph|In the storm I awaken, falling, spinning, grieving.}}

 

===Chapter 62: Three Glyphs===

Bridge Four is embarrassed and suggest to expand this idea. Even Sadeas is surprised and promotes Matal who takes responsibility for this maneuver. While Sadeas’s forces cross the bridges and start fighting, Dalinar follow.

Kaladin himself suffers from a shock after using that much Stormlight. As always the members of Bridge Four look for wounded from other bridge crews and care for them. Suddenly Lopen calls out, as he spots a group of Parshendi archers coming back to the chasm and aiming at Bridge Four. While the men try to escape out of range they surprisingly see Dalinar dashing into the Parshendi force and striking them down. When done, Dalinar raises his blade in a salute at Bridge Four.

 

===Chapter 63: Fear===

{{epigraph|I wish to sleep. I know now why you do what you do, and I hate you for it. I will not speak of the truths I see.}}

 

===Chapter 64: A Man of Extremes===

{{epigraph|They come from the pit, two dead men, a heart in their hands, and I know that I have seen true glory.}}

 

===Chapter 65: The Tower===

{{epigraph|I see them. They are the rocks. They are the vengeful spirits. Eyes of red.}}

 

===Chapter 66: Codes===

{{epigraph|That chanting, that singing, those rasping voices.}}

 

===Chapter 67: Words===

{{epigraph|Let me no longer hurt! Let me no longer weep! Dai-gonarthis! The Black Fisher holds my sorrow and consumes it!}}

 

===Chapter 68: Eshonai===

{{epigraph|They named it the Final Desolation, but they lied. Our gods lied. Oh, how they lied. The Everstorm comes. I hear its whispers, see its stormwall, know its heart.}}

 

===Chapter 69: Justice===

 

==Part Five: The Silence Above==

===Chapter 70: A Sea of Glass===

Shallan lay in her hospital bed lementing her actions and surprisingly Kabsal death. But as she recalls events things do not completely add up. She wonders why the antidote did not work for Kabsal and why Jasnah was not poisoned since she too had eaten the poisoned bread. She finds her sketchpad and draws an imperfect drawing of Jasnah examining the strawberry jam. Remembering that she was not repulsed by the smell. Then she draws Jasnah eating the bread. In her drawing it looks like it is melting. Relizing something, she leaves the hospital and walks in the darkness to the Conclave wearing only her hospital robe. Finding Jasnah she Confronts her by telling her that she knows that Jasnah uses a fake Soulcaster. Showing her the picture Shallan had drawn of Shadesmar to a shocked Jasnah she concludes that Jasnah never had a working Soulcaster. Jasnah disregards Shallan's statements as fatigue induced delusions. To prove her statements Shallan attempts to return to Shadesmar. Holding her partially done garnet sphere she speaks with the twisted symbol headed spren. They request a truth, preferably a secret truth, to form a bond. To from the bond, Shallan admits to killing her father and she falls into the sea of beads. She begins to drown in that sea but is rescued by Jasnah who reprimands her for going to Shardesmar with only a single dim sphere.

 

Back in the alcove, Shallan ask to be part of Jasnah work in truth. To be train to use her Soulcasting ability. At first Jasnah objects but Shallan apologizes and explains that she could be someone that can share Jasnah's secrets. Jasnah relents and makes Shallan promise never to lie or steal again and gives Shallan her notes on the Voidbringers.

 

===Chapter 71: Recorded In Blood===

Szeth, working as a porter, walks the streets of Kharbranth towards the King's palace. Having assassinated the other names on the list given him by his unseen master, he was in Kharbranth to finish his work and kill King Taravangian. Using his shard blade he cuts a whole in the servants privy to access the king's portion of the palace. Szeth easily subdues Taravangian's guards and enters the kings study. Following his instructions, Szeth informs the king that he has killed the others and is there to finish the job. But the king reveals himself to be Szeth unknown master having put his name of the list to deflect suspicion should Szeth had failed. They discuss Szeth's actions. The king claims the assassinations are necessary to build a stronger Roshar for the coming years. Szeth accuses the king of using him to do his dirty work and as a response the king takes him to his secret hospital. The hospital is filled with dying people who are having their blood slowly drained. Here the King shows Szeth that his hands are not clean, having drained the blood of many. The King explains that the dying see something important as they die and here they record their words. The King believes their words may contain the key to everyone's salvation. The King then adds a name to Szeth's list that he had hoped to avoid but recent events had made necessary, Dalinar Kholin.

 

===Chapter 72: Veristitalian===

Before reading Jasnah's notes on the Voidbringers, Shallan asks Jasnah how she soulcasted her blood multiple times if she was so unskilled in organics material, Jasnah had previously soulcasted Strawberry Jam into something uneatable. Jasnah replies that blood is one of the Essences and is therefore easy to soulcast. Shallan has a great many additional questions about soulcasting but Jasnah returns the conversation back to the Voidbringers. Shallan ask how Jasnah could believe in these myths when so many trusted scholars considered the Voidbringers a fabrication. Jasnah replies that she in general seek to find natural meanings to supernatural events. Believing something caused the legends of the Voidbringers. Reading from her notes, Jasnah help Shallan see that the Humans on Roshar did not destroy or banish the Voidbringers. They instead enslaved them as the Parshmen.

 

===Chapter 73: Trust===

 

Kaladin returns to bridge four's barrack to find his men engaging in their nightly tradition of eating Rock's stew. They talk to him about his extraordinary abilities and they want him to teach to do it too. Kaladin is unsure if its teachable but agrees to try. They decide to create experiments to test his abilities and Kaladin demands an oath of silence about his abilities. He then relaxes knowing that he finally succeed in saving someone.

 

===Chapter 74: Ghostblood===

Shallan finishs reading Jasnah's notes concerning the Voidbringers and comes to the same concusion as Jasnah, that the parshmen are the Voidbringers. They discuss the frightening ramifications of this conclusion and they make plans to travel to the Shattered Plains to continue exploring King Gavilar's death and the Parshendi transformation into warriors. They also discuss the Ghostbloods, a secret organization seeking answers about the Voidbringers. Jasnah names Kabsal a member of the Ghostbloods and after seeing their secret symbol, Shallan relizes that her father was also likely a member.

 

===Chapter 75: In the Top Room===

 

The voice then ends by proclaming that he was God and that he is now dead after being killed by Odium.

 

==Epilogue: Of Most Worth==