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==Prelude to the Stormlight Archive==
:The Prelude opens just after one of the [[Desolations]] (huge battles between humanity and the [[Voidbringers]]). [[Kalak]], one of the Ten [[Heralds of the Almighty]], is walking the desolated battlefield. The landscape is torn and ruined, apparently due to [[Surgebinders]] fighting and [[thunderclasts]] ripping themselves free from the ground. Kalak expresses relief that he didn't die in the battle (He's apparently died before), and also reveals that after each Desolation, the Heralds are supposed to return to an unspecified location where they are tortured until the next desolation. He contemplates just walking away instead.
 
:Kalak goes to meet the other nine Heralds in the location they had chosen before the battle. Instead of the other nine, however, he finds only one waiting for him. That Herald, [[Jezrien]], explains to Kalak that one of the Heralds ([[Talenel]]) was killed, and was sent back automatically to their place of torture. The rest of them decided that rather than face the torture again, they would simply go their separate ways. ▼
 
▲:Kalak goes to meet the other nine Heralds in the location they had chosen before the battle. Instead of the other nine, however, he finds only one waiting for him. That Herald, [[Jezrien]], explains to Kalak that one of the Heralds ([[Talenel]]) was killed, and was sent back automatically to their place of torture. The rest of them decided that rather than face the torture again, they would simply go their separate ways.
:Jezrien alludes to the [[Oathpact]], apparently an agreement among the Heralds and possibly with some other entity, and says it is time for the Oathpact to end. Talenel, who was killed, will still be bound to the Oathpact. The other Heralds, by abandoning Talenel and walking away, apparently remove themselves from the Oathpact.▼
 
 
: The Heralds leave, abandoning mankind to the care of the Knights Radiant and Talenel. They plan to tell the men they fought with that they had finally beaten the Voidbringers for good. The Heralds go their separate ways. Kalak looks back at the ring formed by the Heralds' abandoned swords, and thinks about Talenel and his fate. He silently pleads for forgiveness, but leaves anyway.▼
▲:Jezrien alludes to the [[Oathpact]], apparently an agreement among the Heralds and possibly with some other entity, and says it is time for the Oathpact to end. Talenel, who was killed, will still be bound to the Oathpact. The other Heralds, by abandoning Talenel and walking away, apparently remove themselves from the Oathpact.
 
 
▲: The Heralds leave, abandoning mankind to the care of the Knights Radiant and Talenel. They plan to tell the men they fought with that they had finally beaten the Voidbringers for good. The Heralds go their separate ways. Kalak looks back at the ring formed by the Heralds' abandoned swords, and thinks about Talenel and his fate. He silently pleads for forgiveness, but leaves anyway.
 
==Prologue: To Kill==
==Part One: Above Silence==
==Interludes==
==Part Two: The Illuminating Storms==
==Interludes==
==Part Three: Dying==
==Interludes==
==Part Four: Storm's Illumination==
==Part Five: The Silence Above==
==Epilogue: Of Most Worth==
==Endnote==
==Ars Arcanum==
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