Difference between revisions of "Summary:The Way of Kings"

Dalinar has decided not to abdicate to Adolin. The two wait for the coming highstorm in Dalinar's chambers with Renarin and [[Navani]]. Navani has a new fabrial, an early model of a [[painrial]], which she shows the three by using it on an ache in Adolin's hand. Despite all the discoveries the engineers have made with fabrials, they are no closer to making new Shardblades and Shardplate. Dalinar beginsspeculates tothat saythey thewere Bladesprovided and Plate may have been given toby the ancientsHeralds via the Heraldsthemselves, butthen the highstorm hits, and he enters another vision.

He talks with a man with a regal bearing, who Dalinar later realizes must be a younger Nohadon, writer of ''The Way of Kings''. A Desolation has just ended, and 90% of the people Nohadon ruled are dead. Some of those still alive try to cast blame on the Surgebinder [[Alakavish]], who began a war just before the Desolation started. Nohadon contemplates giving up his throne, if he cannot actually do any good with his leadership. Dalinar, who Nohadon believes is his advisor [[Karm]], tells him to write a book about his philosophy on leadership and how people should live. Nohadon scoffs at thisthe idea and says that action and the sword are what is needed. He would like peace, but "to be human is to want that which we cannot have." He walks off. Just before the end of the vision, Dalinar repeats Nohadon's statement.

Just before the end of the vision, Dalinar repeats Nohadon's statement. He comes back to the present time and believes he did little about discovering any facts about proving his visions true or false. Navani cuts him off, asking him to repeat the last thing he said. She then tells him she believes he has been speaking in the Dawnchant, a dead language, and the phrase he just gave her may be the key needed to translate the language. She tells Dalinar and his sons that this is the proof they were looking for and that the visions are real.