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== Prelude to the Stormlight Archive ==
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'''[[Kalak]]'''
 
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== Prologue: To Kill ==
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{{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.}}
 
Because as a [[Shin]], Szeth considers a dying wish to be sacred, he leaves a note for Dalinar written in Gavilar's blood. He takes the sphere and flees.
 
== Part One: Above Silence ==
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== Part One: Above Silence ==
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=== Chapter 1: Stormblessed ===
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{{epigraph|You've killed me. Bastards, you've killed me! While the sun is still hot, I die!}}
 
 
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===Chapter 2: Honor is Dead===
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{{epigraph|Ten orders. We were loved, once. Why have you forsaken us, Almighty! Shard of my soul, where have you gone?}}
 
 
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===Chapter 3: City of Bells===
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{{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.}}
 
 
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===Chapter 4: The Shattered Plains===
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{{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.}}
 
 
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===Chapter 5: Heretic===
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{{epigraph|I have seen the end, and have heard it named. The Night of Sorrows, the True Desolation. The Everstorm.}}
 
 
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===Chapter 6: Bridge Four===
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{{epigraph|I'm cold. Mother, I'm cold. Mother? Why can I still hear the rain? Will it stop?}}
 
 
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===Chapter 7: Anything Reasonable===
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{{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...}}
 
 
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===Chapter 8: Nearer the Flame===
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{{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.}}
 
 
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===Chapter 9: Damnation===
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{{epigraph|Ten people, with Shardblades alight, standing before a wall of black and white and red.}}
 
 
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===Chapter 10: Stories of Surgeons===
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Nine Years Earlier
 
 
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===Chapter 11: Droplets===
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{{epigraph|Three of sixteen ruled, but now the Broken One reigns.}}
 
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===Interlude I-1: Ishikk===
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'''[[Ishikk]]'''
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===Interlude I-2: Nan Balat===
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'''[[Nan Balat]]'''
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===Interlude I-3: The Glory of Ignorance===
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'''Szeth'''
As the night passes on and it becomes apparent that the townsfolk are no longer really listening to Took's stories, Took and Szeth leave. However, on the way out of town, Took is killed by a group of thugs, who consider selling Szeth to the slavers. Then one of them picks up Szeth's [[Oathstone]], and he informs them of his obligation to serve them as long as they hold it. When asked for clarification, Szeth tells him that he must obey any order except to kill himself, and thinks to himself that he can't be asked to give up his Shardblade either, but the man need not know that. The man muses for a moment on the possibilities he has with such a servant.
 
 
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==Part Two: The Illuminating Storms==
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=== Chapter 12: Unity ===
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{{#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.|}}|}}
 
 
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=== Chapter 13: Ten Heartbeats ===
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{{#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.|}}|}}
 
 
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=== Chapter 14: Payday ===
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{{#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.|}}|}}
 
 
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=== Chapter 15: The Decoy ===
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{{#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.|}}|}}
 
 
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=== Chapter 16: Cocoons ===
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Seven and a half years ago
 
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=== Chapter 17: A Bloody Red Sunset ===
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{{#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:|}}|}}
 
 
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=== Chapter 18: Highprince of War ===
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{{#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.|}}|}}
 
 
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=== Chapter 19: Starfalls ===
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{{#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.|}}|}}
 
 
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=== Chapter 20: Scarlet ===
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Seven Years Ago:
 
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=== Chapter 21: Why Men Lie ===
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{{#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.|}}|}}
 
 
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=== Chapter 22: Eyes, Hands, or Spheres ===
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{{#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.|}}|}}
 
 
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=== Chapter 24: The Gallery of Maps ===
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{{epigraph|Neither point makes the things I have written to you untrue.}}
 
 
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=== Chapter 25: The Butcher ===
 
=== Chapter 25: The Butcher ===
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Seven years ago:
 
 
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=== Chapter 26: Stillness ===
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{{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.}}
 
 
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=== Chapter 27: Chasm Duty ===
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{{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.}}
 
 
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=== Chapter 28: Decision ===
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{{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.}}
 
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===Interlude I-4: Rysn===
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'''[[Rysn]]'''
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===Interlude I-5: Axies the Collector===
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'''[[Axies the Collector]]'''
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===Interlude I-6: A Work of Art===
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'''[[Szeth]]'''
Szeth works for [[Makkek]] and then gets employed by a new master (who had Makkek beheaded). Szeth is given a list of high ranking noble men to assassinate.
 
 
==Part Three: Dying==
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==Part Three: Dying==
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===Chapter 29: Errorgance===
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===Chapter 29: Errorgance===
{{epigraph|The ones of ash and fire, who killed like a swarm, relentless before the Heralds}}
 
 
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===Chapter 30: Darkness Unseen===
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{{epigraph|They were suddenly dangerous. Like a calm day that became a tempest}}
 
 
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===Chapter 31: Beneath the Skin===
 
===Chapter 31: Beneath the Skin===
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Six years and seven months ago:
 
 
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===Chapter 32: Side Carry===
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{{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.}}
 
 
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===Chapter 33: Cymatics===
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{{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.}}
 
 
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===Chapter 34: Stormwall===
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{{epigraph|I walked from Abamabar to Urithiru.}}
 
 
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===Chapter 35: A Light By Which to See===
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{{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.}}
 
 
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===Chapter 36: The Lesson===
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{{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.}}
 
 
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===Chapter 37: Sides===
 
===Chapter 37: Sides===
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Five and a half years ago:
 
'''Kaladin'''
 
Though his mother tries to engage Kal in helping her with cooking he sneaks out and catches up with his father who has an appointment with citylord Roshone. Lirin is surprised because Kal shouldn't have known about it but lets him join. This meeting is about the spheres that Lirin got from the former citylord Wistiow. Lirin and Kal dine with Roshone but eventually Kal is sent to the kitchen to leave his father and Roshone alone. There he meets Laral and Roshone's son Rillir who tried to treat Kal like a servant but Kal refuses.
 
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===Chapter 38: Envisager===
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{{epigraph|Born from the darkness, they bear its taint still, marked upon their bodies much as the fire marks their souls.}}
 
 
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===Chapter 39: Burned Into Her===
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{{epigraph|Within a heartbeat, Alezarv was there, crossing a distance that would have taken more than four months to travel by foot.}}
 
 
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===Chapter 40: Eyes of Red and Blue===
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===Chapter 40: Eyes of Red and Blue===
{{epigraph|Death upon the lips. Sound upon the air. Char upon the skin.}}
 
 
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===Chapter 41: Of Alds and Milp===
 
===Chapter 41: Of Alds and Milp===
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Five and a half years ago:
 
 
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===Chapter 42: Beggars and Barmaids===
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{{epigraph|Like a highstorm, regular in their coming, yet always unexpected.}}
 
 
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===Chapter 43: The Wretch===
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{{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.}}
 
 
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===Chapter 44: The Weeping===
 
===Chapter 44: The Weeping===
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Five years ago:
 
 
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===Chapter 45: Shadesmar===
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{{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.}}
 
 
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===Chapter 46: Child of Tanavast===
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{{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.}}
 
 
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===Chapter 47: Stormblessings===
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'''[[Kaladin]]'''
 
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===Chapter 48: Strawberry===
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===Chapter 49: To Care===
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{{epigraph|Radiant / or birthplace / the announcer comes / to come announce / the birthplace of Radiants.}}
 
 
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===Chapter 50: Backbreaker Powder===
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{{epigraph|Flame and char. Skin so terrible. Eyes like pits of blackness.}}
 
 
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===Chapter 51: Sas Nahn===
 
===Chapter 51: Sas Nahn===
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One year ago
 
'''Kaladin'''
 
Kaladin is waiting in one of [[Amaram]]s waiting rooms, thinking about how only four of his twenty-six men survived and how he hat actually begun to believe those that called him lucky. Numbly he thinks how he can now be considered among those who have killed a Shardbearer like [[Lanacin|Lanacin the Surefooted]], or [[Evod Markmaker]], but he just doesn't care. Considering how it was probaly the most stupid thing any one has ever done, giving up the Shards, he finds that he still couldn't have taken them. He wonders why the life of Amaram is more worth that the life’s of his men, when Amaram along with a [[Stormwarden]] enters the room. They talk about why [[Thaidakar]] and the [[Ghostbloods]] would risk sending a Sharbearer and who that Shardbearer was. Behind them a group of lighteyed officers enters followed by the four surviving members of Kaladin’s squad: [[Hab]], [[Reesh]], [[Alabet]], and [[Coreb]]. Amaram questions Kaladin about why he charged the Shardbearer and why he rejected the Shards. Considering how he doesn't want to be come a lighteyes and how he would never be able not to see the faces of his men he lost to the [[Shardblade]], he doesn't know how to answer. When he states that he just wants them to go to Coreb, Amaram gives his men a nod and within a few seconds the remaining men from Kaladin's squad are killed by the lighteye in the room, while several of them hold Kaladin down, who watches them die. Cursing Amaram Kaladin has to listen to the man as he justifies his actions to him. How it were for the good of the army and his men. How he has been trained with the sword. When Kaladin tells him that he would have given him the Shards, Amaram says that he could risk Kaladin changing his mind. He tells him how he struggled with this for hours but that [[Restares]] was right and that this was the best way. Amaram than informs him that because Kaladin saved his life he will spear his and has his Stormwarden brand Kaladin a slave. While Kaladin is being branded Amaram leaves the room the guild still in his eyes.
 
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[[Baxil]] and his cousin are trashing art.
 
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===Interlude I-8: Geranid===
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[[Geranid]] and [[Ashir]] are researching [[spren]].
 
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===Interlude I-9: Death Wears White===
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[[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.
 
 
==Part Four: Storm's Illumination==
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==Part Four: Storm's Illumination==
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===Chapter 52: A Highway to the Sun===
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{{epigraph|I'm standing over the body of a brother. I'm weeping. Is that his blood or mine? What have we done?}}
 
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===Chapter 53: Dunny===
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{{epigraph|He must pick it up, the fallen title! The tower, the crown, and the spear!}}
 
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===Chapter 54: Gibletish===
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{{epigraph|The burdens of nine become mine. Why must I carry the madness of them all? Oh, Almighty, release me.}}
 
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===Chapter 55: An Emerald Broam===
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{{epigraph|A woman sits and scratches out her own eyes. Daughter of kings and winds, the vandal.}}
 
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===Chapter 56: That Storming Book===
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{{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.}}
 
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===Chapter 57: Wandersail===
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{{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.
 
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===Chapter 58: The Journey===
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{{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!}}
 
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===Chapter 59: An Honor===
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{{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.}}
 
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===Chapter 60: That Which We Cannot Have===
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{{epigraph|The death is my life, the strength becomes my weakness, the journey has ended.}}
 
 
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===Chapter 61: Right for Wrong===
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{{epigraph|In the storm I awaken, falling, spinning, grieving.}}
 
 
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===Chapter 62: Three Glyphs===
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{{epigraph|The darkness becomes a palace. Let it rule! Let it rule!}}
 
 
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===Chapter 63: Fear===
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{{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.}}
 
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===Chapter 64: A Man of Extremes===
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{{epigraph|They come from the pit, two dead men, a heart in their hands, and I know that I have seen true glory.}}
 
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===Chapter 65: The Tower===
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{{epigraph|I see them. They are the rocks. They are the vengeful spirits. Eyes of red.}}
 
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===Chapter 66: Codes===
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{{epigraph|That chanting, that singing, those rasping voices.}}
 
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===Chapter 67: Words===
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{{epigraph|Let me no longer hurt! Let me no longer weep! Dai-gonarthis! The Black Fisher holds my sorrow and consumes it!}}
 
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===Chapter 68: Eshonai===
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{{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.}}
 
 
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===Chapter 69: Justice===
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{{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.}}
 
At Sadeas' staging area Navani forces her way through the crowd after hearing rumours that Sadeas came back from battle without Dalinar. Renarin follows her. Sadeas tells Navani that the Parshendi overwhelmed Dalinar's forces, and he was forced to retreat in-order to save his own men after claiming to watch Dalinar fall to Parshendi hammers. Unwilling to believe Sadeas's account, Navani begins creates aan enormous ''Thath'' glyph across the staging area stone ground in ''burn'' ink. Upon finishing the glyph, Navani releases her prayer for Justice by lighting the whole glyph which leaves a scorch mark on the stone. Shortly after the flames die, one of Sadeas' message runner approaches with news of Dalinar's survival.
 
Dalinar rides at the head of his remaining force. Seething with anger, he contemplates his confrontation with Sadeas. He knows he most first protect Alethkar first despite his desire for revenge. As his force approach the warcamp, Dalinar dismisses his wounded to his camp and offers to send the Kaladin's bridgemen with them. But they are determined to see his promise to buy their freedom through. Unwilling to force them to depart Dalinar enters Sadeas' warcamp. He unexpectedly finds Renarin and Navani in Sadeas' warcamp. He embraces his son and later Navani. He tells Navani that he sees the world different now and is now unwilling to let 'lying men' control his life. Releasing Navani, he confronts Sadeas. Publicly they feign civility stating that Sadeas overestimated Dalinar situation on the battlefield. But standing close Dalinar privately ask Sadeas why. Sadeas responds by claiming his oath to protect Elhokar. Saying that Dalinar is going insane and becoming weak. He feels that these are ideas are infecting Elhokar. And in the end he just wanted Dalinar gone. In this admission guilt Dalinar realizes that acting honorable would not win Sadeas loyalty despite his best effort.
Dalinar finds Elhokar in the sitting room of the palace wearing his Shardplate. Dalinar initiates a quick brawl in which he easily subdues Elhokar by breaking the breast plate of his Shardplate. Dalinar then demands to know if Elhokar himself cut the girth on his own saddle. Reluctantly, Elhokar admits to cutting the girth. An exasperated Dalinar then explains the consequences of this including Sadeas' betrayal. Additionally, Dalinar demonstrates how easily he could kill Elhokar stating that he could have done it a hundred times over and that he is not Elhokar's enemy. Releasing his nephew, he tells Elhokar that tomorrow he will appoint Dalinar as Highprince of War. Determined to finally see the war won and Alethkar united, he decides to stop trying to be Nohadon the peacemaker and return to being the Blackthorn the warlord. Elhokar is reluctant fearing rebellion but Dalinar leaves confident that he will make the appointment and content knowing the challenges that are before him.
 
 
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==Part Five: The Silence Above==
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===Chapter 70: A Sea of Glass===
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'''Shallan'''
 
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.
 
 
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===Chapter 71: Recorded In Blood===
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'''Szeth'''
 
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.
 
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===Chapter 72: Veristitalian===
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'''Shallan'''
 
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.
 
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===Chapter 73: Trust===
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'''Kaladin'''
 
Kaladin waits at the Dalinar's warcamp's staging ground as requested by Dalinar himself. As he waits he wonders with Syl whether he can trust Dalinar. Syl seems to feel that Dalinar is indeed honorable. Kaladin feels conflicted about his actions that day. He wonders again whether he could truely protect by killing and whether the three lives lost from his bridge crew were worth the thousands of soldiers and lighteys that they saved.
 
 
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===Chapter 74: Ghostblood===
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'''Shallan'''
 
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.
 
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===Chapter 75: In the Top Room===
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'''Dalinar'''
 
During the next highstorm after Sadeas's betrayal, in one of Dalinar's visions, he finds himself in a white rocky landscape with smokey figures rising around him. The voice again tells Dalinar to "... unite them". Dalinar then demands to know why the voice lied to him with regards to trusting Sadeas. But instead of answering, the voice appears in human form and continues exhorting Dalinar to prepare for the Everstorm, showing him a wall of darkness approaching a ruined Kholinar. Dalinar continues to ask questions and demand answers but soon realizes that the voice can not hear him and never could.
 
 
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==Epilogue: Of Most Worth==
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'''[[Wit]]'''
 
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