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

 

== Prelude to the Stormlight Archive ==

 

'''[[Kalak]]'''

 

== Prologue: To Kill ==

{{epigraph|The love of men is a frigid thing, a mountain stream only three steps from the ice. We are his. Oh Stormfather...we are his. It is but a thousand days, and the Everstorm comes.}}

 

{{anchor|Chapter 1}}

=== Chapter 1: Stormblessed ===

{{epigraph|You've killed me. Bastards, you've killed me! While the sun is still hot, I die!}}

 

 

===Chapter 2: Honor is Dead===

{{epigraph|Ten orders. We were loved, once. Why have you forsaken us, Almighty! Shard of my soul, where have you gone?}}

 

 

===Chapter 3: City of Bells===

{{epigraph|A man stood on a cliffside and watched his homeland fall into dust. The waters surged beneath, so far beneath. And he heard a child crying. They were his own tears.}}

 

 

===Chapter 4: The Shattered Plains===

{{epigraph|I'm dying, aren't I? Healer, why do you take my blood? Who is that beside you, with his head of lines? I can see a distant sun, dark and cold, shining in a black sky.}}

 

 

===Chapter 5: Heretic===

{{epigraph|I have seen the end, and have heard it named. The Night of Sorrows, the True Desolation. The Everstorm.}}

 

 

===Chapter 6: Bridge Four===

{{epigraph|I'm cold. Mother, I'm cold. Mother? Why can I still hear the rain? Will it stop?}}

 

 

===Chapter 7: Anything Reasonable===

{{epigraph|They are aflame. They burn. They bring the darkness when they come, and so all you can see is that their skin is aflame. Burn, burn, burn...}}

 

 

===Chapter 8: Nearer the Flame===

{{epigraph|Victory! We stand atop the mount! We scatter them before us! Their homes become our dens, their lands are now our farms! And they shall burn, as we once did, in a place that is hollow and forlorn.}}

 

===Chapter 9: Damnation===

{{epigraph|Ten people, with Shardblades alight, standing before a wall of black and white and red.}}

 

===Chapter 10: Stories of Surgeons===

Nine Years Earlier

 

 

===Chapter 11: Droplets===

{{epigraph|Three of sixteen ruled, but now the Broken One reigns.}}

 

 

===Interlude I-1: Ishikk===

 

'''[[Ishikk]]'''

 

===Interlude I-2: Nan Balat===

 

'''[[Nan Balat]]'''

 

===Interlude I-3: The Glory of Ignorance===

 

'''Szeth'''

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=== Chapter 12: Unity ===

{{#if:Old friend, I hope this missive finds you well. Though, as you are now essentially immortal, I would guess that wellness on your part is something of a given.|{{Anchor|Epigraph 12|}}{{Epigraph|Old friend, I hope this missive finds you well. Though, as you are now essentially immortal, I would guess that wellness on your part is something of a given.|}}|}}

 

 

=== Chapter 13: Ten Heartbeats ===

{{#if:I realize that you are probably still angry. That is pleasant to know. Much as your perpetual health, I have come to rely upon your dissatisfaction with me. It is one of the cosmere's great constants, I should think.|{{Anchor|Epigraph 13|}}{{Epigraph|I realize that you are probably still angry. That is pleasant to know. Much as your perpetual health, I have come to rely upon your dissatisfaction with me. It is one of the cosmere's great constants, I should think.|}}|}}

 

=== Chapter 14: Payday ===

{{#if:Let me first assure you that the element is quite safe. I have found a good home for it. I protect its safety like I protect my own skin, you might say.|{{Anchor|Epigraph 14|}}{{Epigraph|Let me first assure you that the element is quite safe. I have found a good home for it. I protect its safety like I protect my own skin, you might say.|}}|}}

 

 

=== Chapter 15: The Decoy ===

{{#if:You do not agree with my quest. I understand that, so much as it is possible to understand someone with whom I disagree so completely.|{{Anchor|Epigraph 15|}}{{Epigraph|You do not agree with my quest. I understand that, so much as it is possible to understand someone with whom I disagree so completely.|}}|}}

 

 

=== Chapter 16: Cocoons ===

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Seven and a half years ago

 

=== Chapter 17: A Bloody Red Sunset ===

{{#if:Might I be quite frank? Before, you asked why I was so concerned. It is for the following reason:|{{Anchor|Epigraph 17|}}{{Epigraph|Might I be quite frank? Before, you asked why I was so concerned. It is for the following reason:|}}|}}

 

 

=== Chapter 18: Highprince of War ===

{{#if:Ati was once a kind and generous man, and you saw what became of him. Rayse, on the other hand, was among the most loathsome, crafty, and dangerous individuals I had ever met.|{{Anchor|Epigraph 18|}}{{Epigraph|Ati was once a kind and generous man, and you saw what became of him. Rayse, on the other hand, was among the most loathsome, crafty, and dangerous individuals I had ever met.|}}|}}

 

 

=== Chapter 19: Starfalls ===

{{#if:He holds the most frightening and terrible of all the Shards. Ponder on that for a time, you old reptile, and tell me if your insistence on nonintervention holds firm. Because I assure you, Rayse will not be similarly inhibited.|{{Anchor|Epigraph 19|}}{{Epigraph|He holds the most frightening and terrible of all the Shards. Ponder on that for a time, you old reptile, and tell me if your insistence on nonintervention holds firm. Because I assure you, Rayse will not be similarly inhibited.|}}|}}

 

 

=== Chapter 20: Scarlet ===

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Seven Years Ago:

 

=== Chapter 21: Why Men Lie ===

{{#if:One need only look at the aftermath of his brief visit to Sel to see proof of what I say.|{{Anchor|Epigraph 21|}}{{Epigraph|One need only look at the aftermath of his brief visit to Sel to see proof of what I say.|}}|}}

 

 

=== Chapter 22: Eyes, Hands, or Spheres ===

{{#if:In case you have turned a blind eye to that disaster, know that Aona and Skai are both dead, and that which they held has been Splintered. Presumably to prevent anyone from rising up to challenge Rayse.|{{Anchor|Epigraph 22|}}{{Epigraph|In case you have turned a blind eye to that disaster, know that Aona and Skai are both dead, and that which they held has been Splintered. Presumably to prevent anyone from rising up to challenge Rayse.|}}|}}

 

 

{{Anchor|Chapter 23|}}

=== Chapter 23: Many Uses ===

{{#if:You have accused me of arrogance in my quest. You have accused me of perpetuating my grudge against Rayse and Bavadin. Both accusations are true.|{{Anchor|Epigraph 23|}}{{Epigraph|You have accused me of arrogance in my quest. You have accused me of perpetuating my grudge against Rayse and Bavadin. Both accusations are true.|}}|}}

 

=== Chapter 24: The Gallery of Maps ===

{{epigraph|Neither point makes the things I have written to you untrue.}}

 

 

=== Chapter 25: The Butcher ===

Seven years ago:

 

 

=== Chapter 26: Stillness ===

{{epigraph|I am being chased. Your friends of the Seventeenth Shard, I suspect. I believe they're still lost, following a false trail I left for them. They'll be happier that way. I doubt they have any inkling what to do with me should they actually catch me.}}

 

 

=== Chapter 27: Chasm Duty ===

{{epigraph|If anything I have said makes a glimmer of sense to you, I trust that you'll call them off. Or maybe you could astound me and ask them to do something productive for once.}}

 

 

=== Chapter 28: Decision ===

{{epigraph|For I have never been dedicated to a more important purpose, and the very pillars of the sky will shake with the results of our war here. I ask again. Support me. Do not stand aside and let disaster consume more lives. I've never begged you for something before, old friend.<br />I do so now.}}

 

 

===Interlude I-4: Rysn===

 

'''[[Rysn]]'''

 

===Interlude I-5: Axies the Collector===

 

'''[[Axies the Collector]]'''

 

===Interlude I-6: A Work of Art===

 

'''[[Szeth]]'''

{{anchor|Chapter 29}}

===Chapter 29: Errorgance===

{{epigraph|The ones of ash and fire, who killed like a swarm, relentless before the Heralds}}

 

 

===Chapter 30: Darkness Unseen===

{{epigraph|They were suddenly dangerous. Like a calm day that became a tempest}}

 

 

===Chapter 31: Beneath the Skin===

Six years and seven months ago:

 

 

===Chapter 32: Side Carry===

{{epigraph|They lived high atop a place no man could reach, but all could visit. The tower city itself, crafted by the hands of no man.}}

 

 

===Chapter 33: Cymatics===

{{epigraph| They changed, even as we fought them. Like shadows they were, that can transform as the flame dances. Never underestimate them becaues of what you first see.}}

 

 

===Chapter 34: Stormwall===

{{epigraph|I walked from Abamabar to Urithiru.}}

 

 

===Chapter 35: A Light By Which to See===

{{epigraph|Though many wished Urithiru to be built in Alethela, it was obvious that it could not be. And so it was that we asked for it to be placed westward, in the place nearest to Honor.}}

 

 

===Chapter 36: The Lesson===

{{epigraph|Taking the Dawnshard, known to bind any creature voidish or mortal, he crawled up the steps crafted for Heralds, ten strides tall apiece, toward the grand temple above.}}

 

 

===Chapter 37: Sides===

Five and a half years ago:

 

 

===Chapter 38: Envisager===

{{epigraph|Born from the darkness, they bear its taint still, marked upon their bodies much as the fire marks their souls.}}

 

 

===Chapter 39: Burned Into Her===

{{epigraph|Within a heartbeat, Alezarv was there, crossing a distance that would have taken more than four months to travel by foot.}}

 

 

===Chapter 40: Eyes of Red and Blue===

{{epigraph|Death upon the lips. Sound upon the air. Char upon the skin.}}

 

 

===Chapter 41: Of Alds and Milp===

Five and a half years ago:

 

 

===Chapter 42: Beggars and Barmaids===

{{epigraph|Like a highstorm, regular in their coming, yet always unexpected.}}

 

 

===Chapter 43: The Wretch===

{{epigraph|They lived out in the wilds, always awaiting the Desolation—or sometimes, a foolish child who took no head of the night's darkness.}}

 

 

===Chapter 44: The Weeping===

Five years ago:

 

 

===Chapter 45: Shadesmar===

{{epigraph|Yelig-nar, called Blightwind, was one that could speak like a man, though often his voice was accompanied by the wails of those he consumed.}}

 

 

===Chapter 46: Child of Tanavast===

{{epigraph|Though I was due for dinner in Veden City that night, I insisted upon visiting Kholinar to speak with Tivbet. The tariffs through Urithiru were growing quite unreasonable. By then, the so-called Radiants had already begun to show their true nature.}}

 

 

===Chapter 47: Stormblessings===

 

'''[[Kaladin]]'''

 

===Chapter 48: Strawberry===

{{epigraph|They take away the light, wherever they lurk. Skin that is burned.}}

 

 

===Chapter 49: To Care===

{{epigraph|Radiant / or birthplace / the announcer comes / to come announce / the birthplace of Radiants.}}

 

 

===Chapter 50: Backbreaker Powder===

{{epigraph|Flame and char. Skin so terrible. Eyes like pits of blackness.}}

 

 

===Chapter 51: Sas Nahn===

One year ago

 

 

===Interlude I-7: Baxil===

[[Baxil]] and his cousin are trashing art.

 

 

===Interlude I-8: Geranid===

[[Geranid]] and [[Ashir]] are researching [[spren]].

 

 

===Interlude I-9: Death Wears White===

[[Szeth]] is to kill the king of Jah Keved, Hanavanar. Though it turns out that Hanavanar has a Shardblade and two other guarding men with Shardblades Szeth killed him.

 

 

===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===

{{epigraph|I hold the suckling child in my hands, a knife at his throat, and know that all who live wish me to let the blade slip. Spill its blood upon the ground, over my hands, and with it gain us further breath to draw.}}

Kaladin meets [[Hoid]] in the plains.

 

===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===

{{epigraph|The death is my life, the strength becomes my weakness, the journey has ended.}}

 

 

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

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

 

 

===Chapter 62: Three Glyphs===

{{epigraph|The darkness becomes a palace. Let it rule! Let it rule!}}

 

 

===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===

{{epigraph|All is withdrawn for me. I stand against the one who saved my life. I protect the one who killed my promises. I raise my hand. The storm responds.}}

 

 

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

 

'''Shallan'''

 

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

 

'''Szeth'''

 

===Chapter 72: Veristitalian===

 

'''Shallan'''

 

===Chapter 73: Trust===

 

'''Kaladin'''

 

===Chapter 74: Ghostblood===

 

'''Shallan'''

 

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

 

'''Dalinar'''

 

==Epilogue: Of Most Worth==

 

'''[[Wit]]'''