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'''Dalinar's visions''' were short episodes [[Dalinar]] experienced during [[highstorm]]s. ▼
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▲'''Dalinar's visions''' were short [[visions|episodes]] [[Dalinar]], and previously [[Gavilar]],{{wob ref|3316}}{{book ref|sa2|i|14}} experienced during [[highstorm]]s.
== Highstorms and visions ==
After he began listening to readings from [[The Way of Kings (in-world)|''The Way of Kings'']] Dalinar began experiencing strange episodes during each highstorm. As each stormwall hit, Dalinar suddenly felt as though he had been transported to another place. The people he interacted with did not see him, but someone else in his place. The visions felt real to him, as he could feel pain. The visions often depicted places he had never been to, nor heard of, or were places he knew that were referred to by ancient names. He also saw the fabled [[Knights Radiant]] alive and in action. He surmised that the visions were from previous [[Desolation]]s during the [[Shadowdays]].{{book ref|sa1|19}} Dalinar could not summon his [[Shardblade]] in a vision.
After he began listen to readings from [[Way of Kings|The Way of Kings]] Dalinar experienced strange episodes during each highstorm. He felt the visions as real.{{ref|b|sa1|c|19}} During these visions Dalinar had to be tied to the chair because he raved and thrashed about.{{ref|b|sa1|c|18}} Watching him was unnerving and [[Renarin]] told him that he spoke gibberish during the visions.{{ref|b|sa1|c|52}} Though Dalinar thought that the visions might have been sent from the [[Almighty]] he wavered and felt uncertain about them. Talking to the [[ardent]]s didn't bring any solution. Dalinar had to make a decision and he did so when he decided to abdicate his position as Highprince in favor of [[Adolin]].{{ref|b|sa1|28}} In an argument about this topic Renarin suggested they try to prove whether the visions were fabrications or bore any real references, and they decided to ask Navani to write the visions down.{{ref|b|sa1|c|52}} This lead to the discovery by Navani that Dalinar didn't speak gibberish during his visions, but he spoke the Dawnchant. They considered that it was proven that the visions were real as the Dawnchant is a real, ancient but extinct language on Roshar, which Dalinar would have had no prior knowledge of to fabricate it.{{ref|b|sa1|c|60}} As a side effect Navani was sure that this could help to translate an old book called [[Analectics]].▼
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==The visions predicate==▼
All these visions shared the challenge given by an unknown voice. ▼
This decision led to the discovery by Navani that Dalinar did not speak gibberish during his visions. During the first vision she witnessed, he spoke the [[Dawnchant]]. They considered this proof that the visions were real. The Dawnchant was a real extinct language on [[Roshar]], but there were no known translation keys for modern scholars to study it. Since Dalinar would have had no prior knowledge of the Dawnchant they came to the conclusion that his mind could not be fabricating the visions.{{book ref|sa1|60}} As a side effect, Navani was sure that this discovery would help to translate an old book called [[Analectics]].
{{quote|You must unite them, the strange, booming words had told him. You must prepare. Build of your people a fortress of strength and peace, a wall to resist the winds. Cease squabbling and unite. The Everstorm comes.|Dalinar's memory from one of the visions{{ref|b|sa1|c|12}}}}▼
=== The Stormfather's Role ===
From the visions and this shared statement Dalinar drew the conclusion that he had to unite [[Alethkar]]'s [[highprince]]s because only then would mankind have a chance to withstand the coming events. ▼
After settling in [[Urithiru]], the [[Stormfather]] revealed that Dalinar is able to control and choose who experiences the visions. Dalinar was able to bring other people into the visions with him, and he used this ability to make initial contact with rulers to help build the alliance between the nations.{{book ref|sa3|28}} Each time he entered a vision it would play out a little differently. Once, Odium came to him in a vision. After this, they deemed the visions too dangerous to use and only went in another time to bring in Venli and try to make a pact with the Voidbringers. [[Odium]] interrupted this meeting, however.
The Stormfather imagined a place for Dalinar to discuss plans with him. The sky is deep black and the ground endless white stone. Items and even people made of smoke rise from the floor and slowly dissipate. This place represents how the Stormfather imagines cognitive ideas dying when no longer in use by cognitive beings.{{book ref|sa3|34}}
==Mentioned and recorded visions== ▼
▲== The visions predicate ==
; Starfalls▼
During this vision Dalinar found himself as the embodiment of a man, [[Heb]], who lived with his wife and daughter presumably during the advent of a [[Desolation]]. Heb and his daughter were attacked by [[Midnight Essence]]s but managed to reach Heb's house, unharmed. Two other of these beasts followed and after Heb (Dalinar) fought them off, he took his wife and daughter and fled out of the house, only to run into other Midnight Essences. When he and his family thought they were lost, two Knights Radiant came. One immediately began to fight the beasts while the second used "Regrowth" for healing on Heb and his family. Feeling good again Heb joined the fight and the three of them fought off the Midnight Essences. The Knight Radiant, [[Harkaylain]], asked Heb about his strange stances and invited him to come to [[Urithiru]], where the Knights Radiant are centered, because everybody who could fight was needed.{{ref|b|sa1|c|19}}▼
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|Dalinar's memory from one of the visions{{book ref|sa1|12}}
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▲From the visions
; A Highway to the Sun▼
Dalinar was a soldier at [[Feverstone Keep]] and there witnessed when the Orders of the Windrunners and the Stonewards abandoned their [[Shardplate]]s and [[Shardblade]]s and left the people. Though Dalinar tried to get an answer from the leaving former Knights Radiant, he got none. The voice told him that "this event will go down in history" and Dalinar assumed he saw the [[Day of Recreance]].{{ref|b|sa1|c|52}}▼
; That Which We Cannot Have▼
In this vision Dalinar was shown the aftermath of a Desolation. His embodiment was Karm, who was the advisor of a king, probably [[Nohadon]] himself. This king wavered over what to do with the [[Surgebinding|Surgebinders]] and how they could be forced to act more honorable. Though this king was younger than Dalinar imagined Nohadon and he refused the idea of writing a book as absurd, Dalinar was sure that he was right about him. Eventually this man decided to unite the people for a better standing against future Desolations.{{ref|b|sa1|c|60}}▼
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|This is important. Do not let strife consume you. Be strong. Act with honor, and honor will aid you.
|The Almighty at the end of the Starfalls vision{{book ref|sa3|34}}
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▲During this vision Dalinar found himself
This was Dalinar's twelfth vision.{{book ref|sa1|19}}
; In the Top Room▼
This is the last vision recorded in [[The Way of Kings]]. Dalinar found himself in a place that he recognized as the place of his very first vision. A man stood beside him, showing him what might happen and telling him that [[Cultivation]] was better in seeing the future than he. Then, finally, Dalinar realized that this voice, this man, never heard him and so never answered his questions. ▼
He revisits this vision when meeting with Queen [[Fen Rnamdi]], and he instructs the [[Stormfather]] to let Fen experience it as he did so that they can discuss it after.{{book ref|sa3|34}}{{expand}}
▲Dalinar was in the role of a soldier named [[Leef]], at a fortress called [[Feverstone Keep]].
Dalinar revisits the keep when meeting [[Yanagawn]] and showing [[Navani]] and [[Jasnah]] the vision.{{book ref|sa3|56}} After the conversation with Gawx, Dalinar is returned to the vision to first meet [[Odium]]'s golden avatar, and then [[Lift]] appears.{{book ref|sa3|57}}{{expand}}
==Notes==▼
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▲In this vision Dalinar was shown the aftermath of a Desolation. His
Dalinar was going to revisit this vision when the Stormfather tells him he can share the visions with anyone.{{book ref|sa3|28}} He intentionally revisits to meet with [[Venli]] until the vision is destroyed by [[Odium]].{{book ref|sa3|109}}{{expand}}
▲This is the
=== Taker of Secrets ===
{{for|Sja-anat|the [[Unmade]] known as "Taker of Secrets"}}
After the Battle of the Tower, Dalinar had a vision in which he saw himself as a soldier, marching with several other soldiers through a shallow body of water that he believed to be the [[Purelake]]. They were heading towards a massive fortress, which was not known to exist in the Purelake in modern times, and looking for a spren acting unusual. They mention that [[Sja-anat]] made spren act odd. Dalinar saw a spren with red eyes, followed shortly by another, larger spren which animated a massive piece of stone, which ripped itself free of the lakebed to attack them. The soldiers mentioned that the beast was a [[Thunderclast]].{{book ref|sa2|4}}{{expand}}
=== Broken People ===
Dalinar first had this vision back when he thought the visions were simple nightmares. After sending Queen [[Fen Rnamdi|Fen]] into the starfalls vision, Dalinar returns to this vision. He fights a ragged group of enemy soldiers and after the battle ends he meets a [[Stoneward]] and sees him use the Surge of [[Cohesion]] before pulling [[Navani]] and [[Jasnah]] into the vision, and the Stormfather confirms that it is a vision of the [[Last Desolation]].{{book ref|sa3|38}} Later, on her request, Dalinar sends Queen Fen into this vision alone before she decided whether to visit Urithiru.{{book ref|sa3|50}} {{expand}}
▲== Notes ==
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