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This page contains a chapter by chapter summary of '''''[[The Way of Kings]].''''' We hope this summary will make it easier to find specific areas of the book, as well as providing a quick plot refresher for anyone who doesn't want to take the time to reread the entire book. Similar summaries will be completed about future books in the Stormlight Archive.

 

{{anchor|Prelude}}

[[Kalak]], one of the Ten [[Herald]]s of [[the Almighty]], is walking a torn landscape after one of the [[Desolation]]s. He is on his way to meet with any of the Heralds who have survived the battle. He contemplates simply walking away in order to avoid the torture the Heralds are forced to endure between Desolations.

 

The Heralds abandon mankind, leaving them in the care of the [[Knights Radiant]]. They tell the men who fought with them that they have won the last battle against [[Voidbringer]]s, and leave Talenel and mankind to their respective fates.

 

{{anchor|Prologue}}

{{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.}}

The prologue begins 4500 years later with [[Szeth]], a [[Truthless]] [[Shin]] assassin, waiting quietly in a large room, watching the [[Alethi]] celebrate the signing of a peace treaty with the [[Parshendi]]. He leaves the room, noting that his Parshendi masters will soon withdraw. Szeth wears white under the orders of the Parshendi to follow their traditions so that King [[Gavilar]] could see him coming.

 

 

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

Five Years Later