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This is a list of all topics mentioned or seen in The Stormlight Archive.
There is also lists for people and places.
A
- Alezarv
- presumably a Knight Radiant[1]
- 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.”
- Attractors
- type of fabrial
B
- Battah
- Vorin name of the Herald Battar
- Behardan
- maybe Nohadon[3]
- Bajerden
- maybe Nohadon [4]
- blackrock
- a form of stone?[5]
- Breakneck
- A Vorin game using stones[6][7]
C
- causal
- a purported, planned betrothal in Vorin cultures, not yet a binding promise of marriage
- chouta
- Herdazian food[8]
- 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
- Cymatics
- the study of visible waveforms caused by sound/vibrations[9][10] (wikipedia)
D
- darkborn
- those with dark eyes
- death rattle
- s caused by Moelach?
- decayform
- a Parshendi form
- dreamstorm
- horse suggested to Kaladin[11]
- drynets
- a sailors curse word[12]
- duelmaster
- the official at a duel?
- dullform
- a Parshendi form
- dunnard
- insult relating to dun spheres?[3][13]
E
- Eighty's War
- between Emul and Tukar, started six years ago[14]
- Enthir
- "a square, stringed instrument"[15]; Wit owned one
F
- femalen
- Parshendi gender
- firemark
- currency
- Firestorm
- Gavilar's blade[16]
- flamestance
- :
- Flangria
- A type of soulcast meat[17]
- forms
G
- gancho
- gerontarch
- "A Selay gerontarch?" Szeth had to kill one. [7]
- gloombringer
- glories within
- a Shin curse [7][18]
- gon
- gravitationspren
- & gravityspren
- greenvine
- A pejorative for raw recruits.[19]
- gtet
- Thaylen sword[20]
H
- Hapron Street
- the street imagined by the beggar in Kasitor[21]
- hatredspren
- spren of Odium[22]
- havah
- Vorin dress[23][24]
- heterochromatic
- should probably be an external redirect
- highjudge
- A lighteyed woman? who acts as kind of a referee and moderator at official duels. Only her word counts in the arena.[25] She begins and ends a duel.[4]
- highspren
- A type of sentient spren attracted to those who follow the law.
- hogshide
- material used in boots. probably unnecassery
- honu
- a type of lavis grain liquor[26]
- Herdies
- That's what Lopen calls the slaves, bridgemen and such people[27]
- holetental
- "Is of the holetental. For him only," Rock told the others about Kaladin's skills[28]
- Honored Dead
- a posthumous accolade[29]
I
- Parap-shenesh-idi
- glyphs used to spell Parshendi in the Stormwarden's script[30]
- ironstance
- [31]
J
- jasnagynistic
- Jeksonofnone
- A bird in a menagerie Shallan visits[32]
- jesel
- day
- jesesach
- date
- jesesan
- date
- jeseses
- date
- Jezerezeh
- Vorin name for Jezrien
K
- kabers
- cardgame Yalb played with some guards in Kharbranth[33]
- kadasix
- presumably Emuli gods, "If the Prime Kadasix may provide, Baxil thought"[34]
- Kammar
- An ancient fighting stance designed to defeat enemies without harming them[35]
- King's Boon
- a prize at a particularly epic duel [36] [37]
- King's Testers
- scholars who test Taravangian for intelligence[14]
- kukori
- Presumably a Shin word (meaning yet unknown). Szeth used it once. He said, "You speak like a kukori."[7]
L
- Laial
- a glyph used by Sebarial[38]
- lait
- an outcropping of stone which protects an area from the brunt of a highstorm
- lakefish
- any fish from the Purelake[19]
- Last Legion
- A historical army of the Parshendi[39]
- lastclap
- catching a shardblade between hands[40]
- lavis
- a cereal crop
- lavis polyp?
- ledgerworm
- liespren
- Lifebrother
- mentioned by Taravangian, a vorin god [41]
- Lightday
- The end of the Weepings? [42]
M
- Maakian
- Follower of a religion [43]
- Mabrow
- Mabrow Pigherder, a citizen of Hearthstone [44]
- malen
- Parshendi gender[45]
- mancha
- herdazian greeting[19][17]
- Mari's Two Lovers
- A song sung by members of Bridge Four[46]
- mateform
- Mederia
- Rosharan scholar which Shallan disapproves of[47]
- mediationform
- michim
- a guessing game[10]
- middlefest
- celebration in the middle of the Weeping[32]
- Middlefest Fair
- Celebration in the middle of the Weeping[32]
- midpeace
- moonheight
moonset- irrelevant=real word
N
- nanha
- A polite title used in front of the name of a married darkeyed woman, like "Mrs." in English. In this case, the word should be capitalized. It appeared several times in Kaladin's flashback chapter "The Butcher".[6] Elhokar also used "nanha" to call Lopen's mother.[48]
P
- Pailiah
- The Herald[31], also called Pali [14]
- parap
- glyph
- polestone
- The ten gemstones that are used in Surgebinding and Soulcasting
- prestorm
- Prime Aqasix
- title of Azir ruler[50]
- Proving Day
- A historic event relating to the Heralds[51]
Q
; quq: trailing syllable in Tigzikk's name[52]
R
- Rener's miracle
- a highstorm put out a fire[53]
- researchpair
- reverser
- Fabrial
- Listener#Rhythms
- Rhythms
- riddens
- Right of Challenge
- [37]
- Right of Travel
- The right of Alethi citizens of the second nanh and higher to freely travel and move throughout the kingdom
- Right to Learn
- a mandate by the Heralds so that darkeyes can learn trades
- Ring
- Group that sent Wyndle.[50] Presumably the ruling body of more than one type of spren aligned to Cultivation.
S
- Sakisa
- one of Balat Davar's axehounds[54]
- Santhid spren
- sebes
- first glyph of Sebarial[38]
- shadowdays
- shalashian
- shamanate
- the collective Stone Shamans[18]
- shamespren
- shardhammer
- shash (glyph)
- {{{2}}}
- shellheads
- shenesh
- middle glyph of Parshendi[30]
- Sja-anat
- [55]
- skullbearer
- skullplate
- Sons of Honor
- Group [56]
- sparkflicker
- A practical Herdazian ornament without real martial application.[57][49] It's like the steel part of flint-and-steel. Herdazians use sparkflickers to start fires with their own stone fingernails. Lopen's saying "flick my sparks" comes from sparkflickers.[58][59]
- Spray
- Horse which taught Kaladin how to ride[11]
- stormblessings
- stormcoat
- stormform
- stormlands
- stormleavings
- stormpause
- stormshield
- stormshutter
- stormspren
- stormtop
- stormwagon
- stormwall
- maybe redirect to highstorm
- Stormwarden
- People who predict the weather
- stormwarden script
- featured on some art
- stormward
- eastward
- symbolhead
- redirect to cryptic or add it to the phrases
- Salas
- the smallest and dimmest moon of Roshar, violet in color [60]
- shadowdays
- time "years before the Last Desolation" [61], "The Desolations had happened during the near-mythical shadowdays" [62], "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." [63], Derethil was a king during the shadowdays [64]
- Shardblade
- A sword which cuts through stone and souls.
- Shardplate
- Armour used by Shardbearers
- Slickrock
- [65]9
- Smokestance
- A sword fighting style[62]
- Stonewalker
- A Shin curse on those that walk on stone.[66]
T
- Takama
- A traditional, skirt-like garment.[6] [67][68] Aladar wears one.[69] Amaram's guards also wear them.[30]
- Talat
- A reference to Talenel. People use short forms for the curses. "Talat" is the short form of "Talenel" or "Talenelat". Part of the curse "Talat's hand" used by Shallan.[70]
- tana
- part of the Unkalaki term "tana'kai"? "is like a king, but more"[17][32][71]
- Tet
- A Veden honorific denoting "second son"
- Turi
- nickname for Sebarial[38]
- Tyvnk
- A Thaylen word meaning "sullen", the name given by Rysn to her pot of grass[20]
- Ten Deaths
- something mentioned by[62]
- tenner
- nickname for tenth dahn[72]
- trailman
- "Trailman's flute" [64]
- Truthless
- A curse placed on Shin
U
- ulatu
- a garment worn by Lin Davar[73][54]
- Princess Unulukuak’kina’autu’atai
- Alias used by Shallan[74]
V
- Vargo
- nickname for Taravangian[14]
- Vathahese
- Vathah's grunts, Shallan learned "to interpret those, which was essential to speaking Vathahese."[54]
- vesture?
- vinestance
- a stance with defensive footing[37]
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?[75]
- Windstance
- A sword fighting style preferred by Dalinar[62]
- warcamp
- warform
- warleader
- warpair
- weevilwax
- substance used to seal things[76][3][56]
- windblades
- geographic feature of Kholinar [77]
- winehouse
- lighteyes wine bar
- workform
Y
- Yaezir
- The name given to the Herald Jezrien in Azir[50]
- Ysperist
- followers of a religion.[43]
- yu-nerig
- [78]
Notes
- ↑ The Way of Kings chapter 39 epigraph#
- ↑ The Way of Kings chapter 55#
- ↑ a b c Words of Radiance chapter 47#
- ↑ a b The Way of Kings chapter 58#
- ↑ Words of Radiance chapter 39#
- ↑ a b c The Way of Kings chapter 25#
- ↑ a b c d The Way of Kings interlude I-6#
- ↑ Words of Radiance chapter 18#
- ↑ The Way of Kings chapter 33#
- ↑ a b Words of Radiance chapter 71#
- ↑ a b Words of Radiance chapter 25#
- ↑ Words of Radiance chapter 31#
- ↑ Words of Radiance chapter 53#
- ↑ a b c d Words of Radiance interlude I-14#
- ↑ The Way of Kings epilogue#
- ↑ Words of Radiance chapter art#
- ↑ a b c Words of Radiance chapter 46#
- ↑ a b Words of Radiance interlude I-10#
- ↑ a b c Words of Radiance chapter 12#
- ↑ a b Words of Radiance interlude I-3#
- ↑ The Way of Kings interlude I-5#
- ↑ Words of Radiance chapter 24#
- ↑ Words of Radiance chapter 1#
- ↑ Words of Radiance chapter 37#
- ↑ Words of Radiance chapter 56#
- ↑ Words of Radiance chapter 81#
- ↑ The Way of Kings chapter 59#
- ↑ The Way of Kings chapter 73#
- ↑ Words of Radiance interlude I-2#
- ↑ a b c Words of Radiance chapter 52#
- ↑ a b Words of Radiance chapter 14#
- ↑ a b c d Words of Radiance chapter 45#
- ↑ The Way of Kings chapter 8#
- ↑ The Way of Kings interlude I-7#
- ↑ The Way of Kings interlude I-1#
- ↑ Words of Radiance chapter 55#
- ↑ a b c Words of Radiance chapter 57#
- ↑ a b c Words of Radiance chapter 40#
- ↑ Words of Radiance interlude I-4#
- ↑ Words of Radiance chapter 44#
- ↑ The Way of Kings chapter 71#
- ↑ The Way of Kings chapter 44#
- ↑ a b The Way of Kings chapter 48#
- ↑ The Way of Kings chapter 37#
- ↑ Words of Radiance interlude I-1#
- ↑ The Way of Kings chapter 27#
- ↑ The Way of Kings chapter 29#
- ↑ Words of Radiance chapter 87#
- ↑ a b Words of Radiance chapter 43#
- ↑ a b c Words of Radiance interlude I-9#
- ↑ The Way of Kings chapter 5#
- ↑ The Way of Kings interlude I-9#
- ↑ Words of Radiance interlude I-12#
- ↑ a b c Words of Radiance chapter 48#
- ↑ Words of Radiance chapter 4#
- ↑ a b Words of Radiance chapter 88#
- ↑ The Way of Kings chapter 26#
- ↑ The Way of Kings chapter 49#
- ↑ Words of Radiance chapter 41#
- ↑ The Way of Kings chapter 2#
- ↑ The Way of Kings chapter 3#
- ↑ a b c d The Way of Kings chapter 19#
- ↑ The Way of Kings chapter 28#
- ↑ a b The Way of Kings chapter 57#
- ↑ The Way of Kings chapter 1#
- ↑ The Way of Kings prologue#
- ↑ The Way of Kings chapter 54#
- ↑ Words of Radiance chapter 38#
- ↑ Words of Radiance chapter 8#
- ↑ Words of Radiance chapter 54#
- ↑ Words of Radiance chapter 61#
- ↑ Words of Radiance chapter 2#
- ↑ Words of Radiance chapter 19#
- ↑ Words of Radiance chapter 28#
- ↑ The Way of Kings chapter 6#
- ↑ Words of Radiance prologue#
- ↑ The Way of Kings chapter 60#
- ↑ Words of Radiance chapter 49#