Stormlight Archive/glossary
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This is a list of all topics mentioned or seen in The Stormlight Archive.
A
- Alezarv
- presumably a Knight RadiantCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - Askarki
“The Emuli are a certain tribe of the Askarki people, and they're ethnically Makabaki - dark-skinned, like myself. Their kingdom borders my own, and I visited there many times in my youth.”
—SigzilCite error: Invalid<ref>
tag; refs with no name must have content- Attractors
- type of fabrial
B
- Battah
- Vorin name of the Herald Battar
- Behardan
- maybe NohadonCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - blackrock
- a form of stone?Cite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - Breakneck
- A Vorin game using stonesCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - brushpen
- a writing implement used by Vorin women
C
- causal betrothal
- a relaxed? betrothal in Vorin cultures
- chouta
- Herdazian foodCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - citylord
- a lighteyes in charge of a city (mayor)
- clearchip & clearmark
- currency
- crem
-
- crembrick
- bricks made from crem
- cremstone
- stone made from crem
- cremwater
- water with crem in it
D
- darkborn
- those with dark eyes
- death rattles
- caused by Moelach?
- decayform
- a Parshendi form
- dreamstorm
- horse suggested to KaladinCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - drynets
- a sailors curse wordCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - duelmaster
- the official at a duel?
- dullform
- a Parshendi form
- dunnard
- insult relating to dun spheres?Cite error: Invalid
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E
- Eighty's War
- between Emul and Tukar, started six years agoCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - Enthir
- "a square, stringed instrument"Cite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content; Wit owned one
F
- femalen
- Parshendi mate-pairs
- firemark
- Firestorm
- Gavilar's bladeCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - flamestance
- Flangria
- A type of soulcast meatCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - forms
G
- gancho
- gerontarch
- "A Selay gerontarch?" Szeth had to kill one. Cite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - gloombringer
- gon
- gravitationspren & gravityspren
- gtet
- Thaylen swordCite error: Invalid
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H
- Hapron Street
- the street imagined by the beggar in KasitorCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - hatredspren
- spren of OdiumCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - havah
- Vorin dressCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - heterochromatic
- highjudge
- highspren
- A type of sentient spren attracted to those who follow the law.
- hogshide
- material used in boots
- honu
- a type of lavis grain liquorCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - Herdies
- That's what Lopen calls the slaves, bridgemen and such peopleCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - holetental
- "Is of the holetental. For him only," Rock told the others about Kaladin's skillsCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - Honored Dead
- a posthumous accoladeCite error: Invalid
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I
- Parap-shenesh-idi
- glyphs used to spell Parshendi in the Stormwarden's scriptCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - ironstance
- Cite error: Invalid
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J
K
- kabers
- cardgame Yalb played with some guards in KharbranthCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - kadasix
- presumably Emuli gods, "If the Prime Kadasix may provide, Baxil thought"Cite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - Kammar
- An ancient fighting stance designed to defeat enemies without harming themCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - King's Boon
- a prize at a particularly epic duel?
- King's Testers
- scholars who test Taravangian for intelligenceCite error: Invalid
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L
- Laial
- a glyph used by SebarialCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - lait
- an outcropping of stone which protects an area from the brunt of a highstorm
- lakefish
- any fish from the PurelakeCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - Last Legion
- A historical army of the ParshendiCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - lastclap
- catching a shardblade between handsCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - lavis
- a cereal crop
- lavis polyp
- ledgerworm
- liespren
- Lifebrother
- mentioned by Taravangian, a vorin god Cite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - Lightday
- The end of the Weepings? Cite error: Invalid
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M
- Maakian
- Follower of a religion Cite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - Mabrow
- Mabrow Pigherder, a citizen of Hearthstone Cite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - malen
- Parshendi genderCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - mancha
- herdazian greetingCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have contentCite error: Invalid<ref>
tag; refs with no name must have content - Mari's Two Lovers
- A song sung by members of Bridge FourCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - mateform
- Mederia
- Rosharan scholar which Shallan disapproves ofCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - mediationform
- michim
- a guessing gameCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - middlefest
- celebration in the middle of the WeepingCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - midpeace
- moonheight
- moonset
N
- nanha
- Lopen's mother
- (Elhokar calls Lopen's mother 'nanha' but I don't think it's her name (even she's Herdazian and not Alethi): see http://coppermind.net/wiki/Alethi and there: Nanha. ** Meg (talk) 20:16, 15 April 2014 (UTC) **)
- Nar street
- Cite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - nightform
- nimbleform
P
- Pailiah
- The Vorin name of the Herald Paliah someCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content, Pali Cite error: Invalid<ref>
tag; refs with no name must have content - parap
- glyph
- polestone
- The ten gemstones that are used in Surgebinding and Soulcasting
- prestorm
- pricity
- Prime Aqasix
- title of Azir rulerCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - Proving Day
- A historic event relating to the HeraldsCite error: Invalid
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Q
- quq
- trailing syllable in Tigzikk's nameCite error: Invalid
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R
- researchpair
- reverser
- Fabrial
- Rhythms
- Parshendi thing
- riddens
- Right of Challenge
- Right of Travel
- Right to Learn
- a mandate by the Heralds so that darkeyes can learn trades
- Ring
- group that sent WyndleCite error: Invalid
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S
- Sakisa
- one of Balat Davar's axehoundsCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - Santhid spren
- sebes
- first glyph of SebarialCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - shadowdays
- shalashian
- shamanate
- shamespren
- shardhammer
- shash
- shellheads
- shenesh
- middle glyph of ParshendiCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - Sja-anat
- Cite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - skullbearer
- skullplate
- Sons of Honor
- Group Cite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - Spray
- Horse which Kaladin learnt to rideCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - stonewalker
- shin curse on non-shin
- stormblessings
- stormcoat
- stormform
- stormlands
- stormleavings
- stormpause
- stormshield
- stormshutter
- stormspren
- stormtop
- stormwagon
- stormwall
- Stormwarden
- People who predict the weather
- stormwarden script
- featured on some art
- stormward
- stormwater
- symbolhead
- Salas
- the smallest and dimmest moon of Roshar, violet in color Cite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - shadowdays
- time "years before the Last Desolation" Cite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content, "The Desolations had happened during the near-mythical shadowdays" Cite error: Invalid<ref>
tag; refs with no name must have content, "So far as Dalinar understood, they had few pieces of art or writing dating from the shadowdays, The Way of Kings being one of the oldest, and the only complete text. And even it had survived only in translation; they had no copies in the original tongue." Cite error: Invalid<ref>
tag; refs with no name must have content, Derethil was a king during the shadowdays Cite error: Invalid<ref>
tag; refs with no name must have content - Shardblade
- A sword which cuts through stone and souls.
- Shardplate
- Armour used by Shardbearers
- Slickrock
- Cite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content9 - Smokestance
- A sword fighting styleCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - Stonewalker
- A Shin curse on those that walk on stone.Cite error: Invalid
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T
- Takama
- A traditional, skirt-like garment.Cite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content Aladar wears one.Cite error: Invalid<ref>
tag; refs with no name must have content Amaram's guards also wear them.Cite error: Invalid<ref>
tag; refs with no name must have content - Talat
- Possibly a reference to Talenel? Part of the curse "Talat's hand" used by Shallan.Cite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - tana
- part of the Unkalaki term "tana'kai"? "is like a king, but more"Cite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - tet
- A Veden honorific denoting "second son"
- toparchy
- Turi
- nickname for SebarialCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - tyvnk
- A Thaylen word meaning "sullen", the name given by Rysn to her pot of grassCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - takama
- skirtlike garment Cite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - Ten Deaths
- something mentioned byCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - tenner
- nickname for tenth dahnCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - trailman
- "Trailman's flute" Cite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - Truthless
- A curse placed on Shin
- Tyvnk
- means sullen, Rysn's grassCite error: Invalid
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U
V
- Vargo
- nickname for TaravangianCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - vathahese
- grunts relating to Zen-daughter-Vath
- vesture
- vinestance
- a stance with defensive footingCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - virture
- vizier
- a minister of Azir, wikipedia: Vizier
- vizierate
- the ruling class of Azir
- voidspren
W
- wastescum skirmishes
- a conflict in the north of Alethkar?Cite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - Windstance
- A sword fighting style preferred by DalinarCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - warcamp
- warform
- warleader
- warpair
- weevilwax
- substance used to seal thingsCite error: Invalid
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tag; refs with no name must have content - windblades
- geographic feature of Kholinar
- winehouse
- lighteyes wine bar
- workform