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

As he walks towards the staging field Dalinar is thinking about if he should abdicate due to the fact that he might be mad. He tells [[Niter]] to send for his war hammer, than orders some workers out of the new latrine pit. As he continues their work with [[Shardplate|plate]], [[Shardblade|blade]] and Hammer, he starts thinking about why the ancients didn't make anything for normal people. Musing how he is losing his thirst for battle, how the book, the Codes and the Visions have changed him and how the others are regarding him and by extension his sons. As he closes to the end of his work he also closes to a decision but is interrupted by [[Navani]] and after a short banter she informs him that he has forgotten their appointment. After he apologizes she also lets him know that one of his [[Spanreed]]s, the one likedlinked to her daughter [[Jasnah]], is flashing. While accompanying him she remarks how he has become the man all the others are pretending to be. After telling him why she choose [[Gavilar]] all those years ago and telling him why she likes him, he tells her that nothing could happen as he would not dishonor his brother like that. Dalinar is surprised to find Adolin , along with his clerks and their attendants, also already in his sitting chamber. Adolin introduces his new interest Danlan Morakotha. Telling Dalinar he has offered her a position as one of his clerks. Dalinar then asks her to accept his massage from Jasnah. After indicating that not all ears around can be trusted, Jasnah and he have a short exchange about their family, before Jasnah wants him to repeat his first encounter with the Parshendi, seven years ago. She also wants to know when he first saw Shardblades in their possession, to which he replies that he only saw them after Gavilar's death. She then has her new ward ([[Shallan]] Davar) draw what is reffered to in a book as a [[Voidbringer]] although she doesn't belief it to be one. Dalinar and Adolin identify it as a [[Chasmfiend]]. Dalinar asks Jasnah to come back to the Shattered Plains as soon as possible, since he has made up his mind to abdicate in favor of Adolin, though he does not voice this. He is surprised to find himself alone with Navani. In a short conversation he reveals to her that he intents to abdicate. Which she tell him she believes to be a mistake.