Stormlight Archive/glossary
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This is a list of all topics mentioned or seen in The Stormlight Archive.
A
B
C
- causal betrothal
- 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
D
E
F
G
H
- Hapron Street
- the street imagined by the beggar in Kasitor[17]
- hatredspren
- spren of Odium[18]
- havah
- Vorin dress[19][20]
- heterochromatic
- highjudge
- A lighteyed woman who acts as kind of a referee and moderator at official duels. Only her word counts in the arena.[21] 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
- honu
- a type of lavis grain liquor[22]
- Herdies
- That's what Lopen calls the slaves, bridgemen and such people[23]
- holetental
- "Is of the holetental. For him only," Rock told the others about Kaladin's skills[24]
- Honored Dead
- a posthumous accolade[25]
I
- Parap-shenesh-idi
- glyphs used to spell Parshendi in the Stormwarden's script[26]
- ironstance
- [27]
J
K
- kabers
- cardgame Yalb played with some guards in Kharbranth[29]
- kadasix
- presumably Emuli gods, "If the Prime Kadasix may provide, Baxil thought"[30]
- Kammar
- An ancient fighting stance designed to defeat enemies without harming them[31]
- King's Boon
- a prize at a particularly epic duel [32] [33]
- King's Testers
- scholars who test Taravangian for intelligence[12]
L
M
- Maakian
- Follower of a religion [40]
- Mabrow
- Mabrow Pigherder, a citizen of Hearthstone [41]
- malen
- Parshendi gender[42]
- mancha
- herdazian greeting[35][15]
- Mari's Two Lovers
- A song sung by members of Bridge Four[43]
- mateform
- Mederia
- Rosharan scholar which Shallan disapproves of[44]
- mediationform
- michim
- a guessing game[45]
- middlefest
- celebration in the middle of the Weeping[28]
- Middlefest Fair
- Celebration in the middle of the Weeping[28]
- 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
- [46]
- nightform
- nimbleform
P
Q
R
- researchpair
- reverser
- Fabrial
- Rhythms
- Parshendi thing
- riddens
- Right of Challenge
- [33]
- 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[47]
S
- Sakisa
- one of Balat Davar's axehounds[50]
- Santhid spren
- sebes
- first glyph of Sebarial[34]
- shadowdays
- shalashian
- shamanate
- shamespren
- shardhammer
- shash
- shellheads
- shenesh
- middle glyph of Parshendi[26]
- Sja-anat
- [51]
- skullbearer
- skullplate
- Sons of Honor
- Group [52]
- Spray
- Horse which taught Kaladin how to ride[9]
- 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
- eastward
- stormwater
- symbolhead
- Salas
- the smallest and dimmest moon of Roshar, violet in color [53]
- shadowdays
- time "years before the Last Desolation" [54], "The Desolations had happened during the near-mythical shadowdays" [55], "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." [56], Derethil was a king during the shadowdays [57]
- Shardblade
- A sword which cuts through stone and souls.
- Shardplate
- Armour used by Shardbearers
- Slickrock
- [58]9
- Smokestance
- A sword fighting style[55]
- Stonewalker
- A Shin curse on those that walk on stone.[59]
T
- Takama
- A traditional, skirt-like garment.[6] [60][61] Aladar wears one.[62] Amaram's guards also wear them.[26]
- Talat
- Possibly a reference to Talenel? Part of the curse "Talat's hand" used by Shallan.[63]
- tana
- part of the Unkalaki term "tana'kai"? "is like a king, but more"[15][28][64]
- Tet
- A Veden honorific denoting "second son"
- toparchy
- Turi
- nickname for Sebarial[34]
- tyvnk
- A Thaylen word meaning "sullen", the name given by Rysn to her pot of grass[16]
- Ten Deaths
- something mentioned by[55]
- tenner
- nickname for tenth dahn[65]
- trailman
- "Trailman's flute" [57]
- Truthless
- A curse placed on Shin
U
V
- Vargo
- nickname for Taravangian[12]
- Vathahese
- Vathah's grunts, Shallan learned "to interpret those, which was essential to speaking Vathahese."[50]
- vesture
- vinestance
- a stance with defensive footing[33]
- virture
- vizier
- a minister of Azir, wikipedia: Vizier
- vizierate
- the ruling class of Azir
- voidspren
W
Y
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 The Way of Kings chapter 25#
- ↑ a b The Way of Kings interlude I-6#
- ↑ Words of Radiance chapter 18#
- ↑ 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-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#
- ↑ a b Words of Radiance chapter 12#
- ↑ 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 71#
- ↑ 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#
- ↑ 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 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#