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{{anchor|Chapter 2}}
 
=== Chapter 2: Honor is Dead= ==
{{/icon|Kaladin}}
{{epigraph|Ten orders. We were loved, once. Why have you forsaken us, Almighty! Shard of my soul, where have you gone?}}
{{anchor|Chapter 3}}
 
=== Chapter 3: City of Bells= ==
{{/icon|Shallan}}
{{epigraph|A man stood on a cliffside and watched his homeland fall into dust. The waters surged beneath, so far beneath. And he heard a child crying. They were his own tears.}}
{{anchor|Chapter 4}}
 
=== Chapter 4: The Shattered Plains= ==
{{/icon|Kaladin}}
{{epigraph|I'm dying, aren't I? Healer, why do you take my blood? Who is that beside you, with his head of lines? I can see a distant sun, dark and cold, shining in a black sky.}}
{{anchor|Chapter 5}}
 
=== Chapter 5: Heretic= ==
{{/icon|Shallan}}
{{epigraph|I have seen the end, and have heard it named. The Night of Sorrows, the True Desolation. The Everstorm.}}
{{anchor|Chapter 6}}
 
=== Chapter 6: Bridge Four= ==
{{/icon|Kaladin}}
{{epigraph|I'm cold. Mother, I'm cold. Mother? Why can I still hear the rain? Will it stop?}}
{{anchor|Chapter 7}}
 
=== Chapter 7: Anything Reasonable= ==
{{/icon|Shallan}}
{{epigraph|They are aflame. They burn. They bring the darkness when they come, and so all you can see is that their skin is aflame. Burn, burn, burn...}}
{{anchor|Chapter 8}}
 
=== Chapter 8: Nearer the Flame= ==
{{/icon|Shallan}}
{{epigraph|Victory! We stand atop the mount! We scatter them before us! Their homes become our dens, their lands are now our farms! And they shall burn, as we once did, in a place that is hollow and forlorn.}}
{{anchor|Chapter 9}}
 
=== Chapter 9: Damnation= ==
{{/icon|Kaladin}}
{{epigraph|Ten people, with Shardblades alight, standing before a wall of black and white and red.}}
{{anchor|Chapter 10}}
 
=== Chapter 10: Stories of Surgeons= ==
{{/icon|Kaladin}}
;Nine Years Earlier
{{anchor|Chapter 11}}
 
=== Chapter 11: Droplets= ==
{{/icon|Kaladin}}
{{epigraph|Three of sixteen ruled, but now the Broken One reigns.}}
Kaladin then goes inside the barracks and begins asking the other bridgemen's names, noticing for the first time how pathetic they all are.
 
== Interludes ==
 
{{Anchor|Interlude 1}}
{{Anchor|Interlude I-1}}
=== Interlude I-1: Ishikk= ==
{{/icon|shield}}
;[[Ishikk]]
{{Anchor|Interlude I-2}}
 
=== Interlude I-2: Nan Balat= ==
{{/icon|shield}}
;[[Balat Davar]]
{{Anchor|Interlude I-3}}
 
=== Interlude I-3: The Glory of Ignorance= ==
{{/icon|Szeth}}
 
As the night passes on and it becomes apparent that the townsfolk are no longer really listening to Took's stories, Took and Szeth leave. However, on the way out of town, Took is killed by a group of thugs, who consider selling Szeth to the slavers. Then one of them picks up Szeth's [[Oathstone]], and he informs them of his obligation to serve them as long as they hold it. When asked for clarification, Szeth tells him that he must obey any order except to kill himself, and thinks to himself that he can't be asked to give up his Shardblade either, but the man need not know that. The man muses for a moment on the possibilities he has with such a servant.
 
== Part Two: The Illuminating Storms ==
{{/icon|Kholin|Kaladin|Kholin}}
 
 
;Dalinar Kholin
Meanwhile, Dalinar, riding up by Elhokar and Sadeas, tells Elhokar that if they had a proper vantage point, they could observe the progress of the soldiers crossing the chasms. Elhokar charges off to a nearby rock formation, betting Dalinar five broams that he can beat him there. Dalinar races after him, at first thinking only of Elhokar's safety, but eventually getting into the thrill of the contest. Just as Dalinar is about to win, he remembers the strange voice in his dreams, who he presumes to be the [[Almighty]], telling him to “unite"unite them.”" He hesitates, and Elhokar beats him to the top. When he sees how thrilled Elhokar is to have beaten him, Dalinar is glad to have waited. They watch the soldiers cross for a few minutes, then begin to return to the others. Adolin watches their return, all the while giving orders for his men to circle around to various plateaus, securing the area.
 
;Adolin
Dalinar takes the woman, [[Taffa]], and the girl, [[Seeli]], to try to escape the creatures by moving along the course of a river. He deflects all of the woman's questions about why he doesn't remember them or their surroundings at all by saying that he hit his head in the fight. Before they can arrive at the river, however, the group is attacked by more of the strange creatures. Just as Dalinar is about to be killed, two Knights Radiant appear and help him to kill the creatures. They tell him that the creatures aren't [[Voidbringer]]s, but rather [[Midnight Essence]]. They invite Dalinar to [[Urithiru]] to train as a Radiant, then leave to help others.
 
Taffa begins to speak to Dalinar, but it isn't her voice. Dalinar recognizes her voice as the same voice he's heard in his previous visions, the one he suspects belongs to The Almighty. The voice tells him to “Unite"Unite them,”" and offers cryptic advice, telling Dalinar that it can't be of much help. Dalinar asks the voice if he should continue to trust Sadeas, and is told yes.
 
Dalinar continues to question the voice, but before he can receive answers, he wakes up back in the barrack on the shattered plains, surrounded by soldiers who have been holding him down, keeping him from acting out his visions. He tells them that his mind is clear and they can release him, then takes Renarin and leaves.
;Dalinar
 
Dalinar goes with his sons to the king’sking's feast. Adolin reports that according to the leatherworkers he consulted, the strap was cut, though it could’vecould've been an accident. They discuss the king’sking's paranoia and Dalinar refuses to talk about his episode in the highstorm, saying that perhaps it was good for the men in the barracks to witness it, as the rumors about his condition were perhaps worse than the truth.
 
Dalinar chafes at the sloppy fashionableness of the other nobles and the fact that their drunkenness is in violation of the Alethi War Codes. The king’sking's Wit sits on a stool at the entrance to the island and insults everyone as they go to the feast. He warns Dalinar that the rumor has spread of his suggestion to the king that they retreat and abandon the Vengeance Pact. Lady [[Navani]], Gavilar’sGavilar's widow, unexpectedly shows up to the feast, having just arrived to the Shattered Plains. Dalinar tries to hide his attraction to her with the utmost propriety, addressing her as a sister.
 
King Elhokar then announces that in light of the recent attempt on his life with the cut girth strap, he is appointing Sadeas to Highprince of Information to investigate. This is to snub Dalinar, who he believes is not giving the investigation serious attention. Dalinar realizes that this is Sadeas’sSadeas's way of outmaneuvering his Highprince of War idea.
 
{{Anchor|Chapter 23|}}
Bridge Four is on rock duty, finding stones to soulcast into food. Kaladin has Rock and Teft searching for knobweed to extract the antiseptic sap from. Rock, who can inexplicably see Syl, finds knobweed quickly guided by her. Kaladin ties bundles of the reed to the bottom of the cart to conceal them. Syl comes to him excitedly, telling him that she led Rock to a pile of dung as a joke. He makes small talk with the bridgecrew, trying to soften their attitude towards him, with little success. Kaladin realizes that even though he has saved lives in Bridge 4, no one will follow his leadership unless he finds a way to make their lives worth living.
 
Later, Kaladin, Rock, and Teft sneak into the wagonyard to retrieve the knobweed. Relieved that it’sit's still there and not too dried out, they head to the where Syl found chipped, discarded liquor bottles to use for the knobweed sap. They then head to the Honor Chasm to squeeze the sap into the bottles.
 
While working, they talk. Teft asks Kaladin why he tries to lead the bridgecrew. Kaladin says that the responsibilities of the bridgeleader are his to decide. Kaladin asks Rock how he came to be a bridgeman. Rock tells him that his leader, or nuatoma, dueled Highprince Sadeas to try to win shardplate. When he lost, Rock, his cousin and servant, was bound to Sadeas. He was a cook, until he snuck chull dung into Sadeas’sSadeas's food, which caused his fall to bridgeman status. Teft asks Kaladin for his story explaining why he is a bridgeman. Kaladin says that he killed a man, though it wasn’twasn't murder and he was thanked by someone important. He cryptically says that he is a bridgeman because a lighteyes did not take it well when he turned down a gift.
 
{{Anchor|Chapter 24}}
 
;Dalinar
Dalinar stands in the king’sking's [[Gallery of Maps]], waiting for Highprince [[Roion]] to come and meet him. Dalinar’sDalinar's ultimate goal is to follow his visions by uniting the highprinces, and he thinks he can start by working with another prince on a joint plateau assault. Since Roion has won the fewest gemhearts of all the princes, Dalinar tries to convince him that working together would be more effective. Roion is suspicious of this because he is afraid Dalinar will take any gemhearts and shards for himself. Dalinar compromises, saying that they will split gemhearts and that the first set of plate can go to Roion. Roion rebuffs this offer, instead insinuating that Dalinar is growing weak and deluded by his lapses from sanity during highstorms. Roion says he’llhe'll think about a joint assault and leaves.
 
;Adolin
A few minutes later, as Dalinar is thinking about how to discover what Gavilar’sGavilar's last words really meant, Adolin meets Dalinar. He asks him how the meeting went and when Dalinar tells him that it went poorly, Adolin tells him that Sadeas is asking for permission to enter their warcamp to investigate the threat to the king. Adolin is worried that he may create false evidence framing Dalinar, but Dalinar tells Adolin to allow him to because his vision said to trust Sadeas. At this, Adolin becomes irate, telling Dalinar that to stake the future of their house on hallucinations is folly. Adolin shouts at Dalinar that his visions are just figments of his imagination. Dalinar tells Adolin to leave.
 
{{anchor|Chapter 25}}
She also wants to know when he first saw Shardblades in their possession. He replies that he only saw them after Gavilar's death. She then has her new ward (Shallan) draw what is referred to in a book as a Voidbringer, although she doesn't believe it to be one. Dalinar and Adolin identify it as a chasmfiend. Dalinar urges Jasnah to come back to the Shattered Plains as soon as possible. The conversation ends, and he finds himself alone with Navani. He reveals that he is going to abdicate. She believes that to be a big mistake.
 
== Interludes ==
{{Anchor|Interlude 4}}
{{Anchor|Interlude I-4}}
 
=== Interlude I-4: Rysn= ==
[[File:Ten Spears.svg|165px|center]]
 
{{Anchor|Interlude I-5}}
 
=== Interlude I-5: Axies the Collector= ==
[[File:Ten Spears.svg|165px|center]]
 
{{Anchor|Interlude I-6}}
 
=== Interlude I-6: A Work of Art= ==
[[File:Szeth's Chapters.svg|125px|center]]
 
Szeth sits in a gambling den as his owner, [[Makkek]], parades about with a woman on each arm. He has grown fat and rich since coming into possession of Szeth. He gives a signal to Szeth, and he heads out on his latest assassination assignment: [[Gavashaw]], a new arrival in town who had hoped to challenge Makkek with his own gambling den. He sneaks into his house and hears nothing in his room, so he sends in a decoy -- a wooden knob "dressed" in a robe (curtain) -- by lashing it to the far wall. The decoy isn't attacked, so he slinks into the room, finding Gavashaw's severed head. A new master is there, who produces Makkek's head and Szeth's oathstone. He is given a list of high ranking noble men to assassinate.
 
== Part Three: Dying ==
{{/icon|Kaladin|Shallan}}
 
{{anchor|Chapter 29}}
=== Chapter 29: Errorgance= ==
{{/icon|Shallan}}
{{epigraph|The ones of ash and fire, who killed like a swarm, relentless before the Heralds}}
 
;Shallan
Shallan is talking to her brothers and Balat Davar's betrothed, [[Eylita Tavinar]] over spanreed, in her quarters, discussing how to get to Jasnah's Soulcaster. She considers how difficult it will be for her not to fall in love with the freedom and the studying, when Balat informs her, after having sent his brothers out, that [[Luesh]] has died. He also tells her that some “friends”"friends" of their fathers came by some weeks later “suggesting”"suggesting" Balat should return the Soulcaster. Balat believes that they are the owners of the Soulcaster and are very dangerous. Balat has Eylita draw a picture of a symbol found on a pendant worn by Luesh, he also mentions that one of the “friends”"friends" had the same pattern tattooed on his thumb. The conversation ends, and Shallan burns the transcript in the sitting room's fireplace before heading back to her studies.
 
Five hours later as she is studying the Alethi monarchy. She tells Jasnah that she thinks the authors are “errorgant”"errorgant". Jasnah informs her that this is the “Assuredness"Assuredness Movement”Movement" in which the authors overstated their cases. Shallan wonders why she is researching events as recent as the murder of King Gavilar, to which Jasnah replies that she thought to ease Shallan into true scholarship this way. The discussion moves on to Shallan's habit of saying the first passable clever thing that comes into her mind and the incompetence of her former tutors and their punishments. Jasnah believes Wit would find her amusing. They move on and talk about what Shallan has learned about Gavilar's murder, and later about youth and scholarship. Shallan wonders what it is that Jasnah is working on.
 
Two hours later Taravangian comes to their balcony joining them at lunch. After Jasnah breaks the silence with a question about his granddaughter, he asks about Jasnah's Soulcaster, but Jasnah evades the question. He then asks Shallan if she could do a drawing of him, which he intends as a gift for his granddaughter. While Shallan is drawing, Taravangian and Jasnah discuss the Almighty, Jasnah's lack of faith, and the concept of right and wrong. When inspecting her finished picture Shallan realizes that she has drawn some creatures with symbols as heads ([[Cryptic]]'s). She hurriedly crumples the page and claims to have made a mistake. She offers to do a new one for the King by the end of the day. After the King has left, Jasnah and Shallan have a talk about him, during which Jasnah claims not to be closed to the possibility that she might join a [[Devotary]] at some point. The two continue the discussion about faith for a short while before Jasnah tells Shallan to get on with her sketch for the King.
{{anchor|Chapter 30}}
 
=== Chapter 30: Darkness Unseen= ==
{{/icon|Kaladin}}
{{epigraph|They were suddenly dangerous. Like a calm day that became a tempest}}
 
;Kaladin
Kaladin and Bridge Four are practicing setting the bridge down from a raised position and Kaladin is wondering what it would take for them to practice on a real chasm. He is surprised how good they are considering they have only been training for two weeks. As he sends his team for a break he considers that the last two weeks were in part lucky since they had only two runs and on one they were late. On the other one they “only”"only" lost two men, [[Amark]] and [[Koolf]], and only had two wounded, [[Narm]] and [[Peet]], but he worries that they only have twenty-five members who can carry since five are wounded in all. Syl joins him telling him that she saw Gaz and Lamaril talking and didn't like the look of them, though she didn't hear what was being said. Considering his men's protection, Kaladin is studying a half finished bridge thinking about using it as a shield. He tells Teft, Rock, [[Skar]] and [[Moash]] about using a “side"side carry.”" It's very awkward to carry that way, so they ask him why they should try it. He doesn't reveal his shield idea but instead tells them it's so they can use different muscles. Before leaving, Moash wants to know why Kaladin made him a squad leader. After getting Kaladin tells him it's because he's strong-willed, he tells Kaladin that he doesn't trust or like him but is obeying because he's curious what will happen.
 
;Gaz
Gaz is stunned as he sees Bridge Four do the “side"side carry.”" He waves Kaladin over and demands an explanation. Kaladin gives him the excuse about utilizing different muscles. Gaz realizes that this might get Kaladin killed on an actual assault and suggests that they should try it on an run.
 
{{anchor|Chapter 31}}
 
=== Chapter 31: Beneath the Skin= ==
{{/icon|Kaladin}}
;Six years ago
{{anchor|Chapter 32}}
 
=== Chapter 32: Side Carry= ==
{{/icon|Kaladin}}
 
{{anchor|Chapter 33}}
 
=== Chapter 33: Cymatics= ==
[[File:Shallan's Chapters.svg|115px|center]]
{{epigraph| They changed, even as we fought them. Like shadows they were, that can transform as the flame dances. Never underestimate them because of what you first see.}}
'''Shallan'''
 
Shallan is thinking about how she sometimes gets distracted by the enormity of the Palanaeum. Along with a [[Parshmen|Parshman]] servant, she is on her way to get a copy of [[Dialogues]], though she now has an hour each day to do her own research. She has decided on natural science. She thinks about how she could fill gaps in her understanding and has to remind herself that her true goal is to steal Jasnah's Soulcaster. Hiding in one of the library rooms, she goes though some of the sketches she has of Jasnah soulcasting and hopes that with it she will be able to create the mineral deposits to save her family. Comparing her expectation of Jasnah the heretic and the real one, Shallan worries that she might not be able to actually do it. She speculates about talking to Jasnah about the use of a Soulcaster but is startled by a light and decides to get back to her task. She realizes that she's in the room where she can find [[Shadows Remembered]]. She was surprised to find that it contained children’schildren's stories.
 
When Shallan returns to the alcove, she finds that Jasnah has not yet returned, but to her surprise Kabsal is present. Apparently he wants to show something to Jasnah, but has some bread and [[simberry jam]] to share with Shallan. After a discussion about the meaning of the jam and Shallan's personality, they move on to Shallan's appearance and what she thinks of herself. They also discuss Jasnah's heresy. Shallan considers Kabsal in a romantic light for a short time before dismissing it. Kabsal tries to get Shallan to switch Devotary's even though it is apparently frowned upon to recruit. Kabsal intended to show Jasnah proof of the [[Almighty]], which Shallan is curious to see. He gets out a book where he shows her four patterns of the cities [[Kholinar]], [[Vedenar]], [[Thaylen City]] and [[Akinah]]. Using a metal plate with sand and a bow he recreates the patterns in the sand through the resonance telling her that this is called Cymatics. Telling her of more examples he considers proof he guides the conversation to saving her soul. When Jasnah appears she is not surprised to see Kabsal but not pleased either. She reveals that she knows about Cymatics but doesn't seem impressed by it. After Kabsal is gone, Jasnah warns Shallan that Kabsal is only interested in Shallan to get to Jasnah and her soulcaster.
{{anchor|Chapter 34}}
 
=== Chapter 34: Stormwall= ==
{{/icon|Kaladin}}
{{epigraph|I walked from Abamabar to Urithiru.}}
{{anchor|Chapter 35}}
 
=== Chapter 35: A Light By Which to See= ==
[[File:Kaladin's Chapters.svg|165px|center]]
{{epigraph|Though many wished Urithiru to be built in Alethela, it was obvious that it could not be. And so it was that we asked for it to be placed westward, in the place nearest to Honor.}}
{{anchor|Chapter 36}}
 
=== Chapter 36: The Lesson= ==
{{/icon|Shallan}}
{{epigraph|Taking the Dawnshard, known to bind any creature voidish or mortal, he crawled up the steps crafted for Heralds, ten strides tall apiece, toward the grand temple above.}}
{{anchor|Chapter 37}}
 
=== Chapter 37: Sides= ==
{{/icon|Kaladin}}
;Five and a half years ago
{{anchor|Chapter 38}}
 
=== Chapter 38: Envisager= ==
{{/icon|Kaladin}}
{{epigraph|Born from the darkness, they bear its taint still, marked upon their bodies much as the fire marks their souls.}}
{{anchor|Chapter 39}}
 
=== Chapter 39: Burned Into Her= ==
{{/icon|Shallan}}
{{epigraph|Within a heartbeat, Alezarv was there, crossing a distance that would have taken more than four months to travel by foot.}}
 
;Shallan
Shallan is sitting in her room restlessly drawing the deaths of the four robbers from three nights ago, even though she didn't deliberately take the memories. As she draws, she thinks about different concepts of logic and philosophy, considering Jasnah's actions and reasons in the context of the different schools. She also worries about her own actions in stealing the Soulcaster in the same way. Her mind wanders for a while and she looks at what she's been drawing. She's shocked to see a completely different scene being sketched -- one of a richly-dressed man lying in a pool of blood. Panicked, she hurries from the room and runs into a servant who informs her that one of her spanreeds is flashing and hands it over to her. Going into the main room, she is glad to find her brother Balat talking to her. She tells him that she has managed to steal the Soulcaster but hasn't left yet so as not to draw suspicion onto herself. Balat informs her that the “friends”"friends" of their father visited again. Shallan frets even more about the theft and when a chambermaid comes to their quarters, she starts worrying about the Soulcaster's safety. She decides to put it into her safe-pouch and leaves the room with a basket full of bread and [[Bluebar|Bluebar jam]] left by Kabsal.
 
Two hours later sitting in the palace gardens, Shallan has calmed down and is drawing some snails and plants. She notes the symbiotic relationship between a snail she is drawing and the [[shalebark]] it is on, writing it down next to her drawing. After making sure she is alone, she gets the Soulcaster out to try to puzzle out how to use it since Luesh can no longer show them how. She has no luck and tries to think of other ways to get it to work or save her family.
{{anchor|Chapter 40}}
 
=== Chapter 40: Eyes of Red and Blue= ==
{{/icon|Kaladin}}
{{epigraph|Death upon the lips. Sound upon the air. Char upon the skin.}}
{{anchor|Chapter 41}}
 
=== Chapter 41: Of Alds and Milp= ==
{{/icon|Kaladin}}
;Five and a half years ago
{{anchor|Chapter 42}}
 
=== Chapter 42: Beggars and Barmaids= ==
{{/icon|Shallan}}
{{epigraph|Like a highstorm, regular in their coming, yet always unexpected.}}
 
;Shallan
Shallan tells Jasnah that she thinks she was technically right to kill the footpads, but she acted immorally and unethically. Jasnah is satisfied that Shallan has learned a good deal from the lesson and dismisses her for the rest of the day. It's been two weeks since the Soulcaster was stolen, and Shallan is puzzled that Jasnah hasn't seemed to react at all. Back in her chambers, she attempts to use the Soulcaster while humming for half an hour. She wonders if Jashnah might have duped her with a fake. She takes a break and starts sketching, and she suddenly hears a voice asking “What"What are you?”" A maid cracks open the door, and Shallan convinces herself that she must have interpreted the random sounds of cleaning nearby as words. She scolds the maid for going into Jasnah's room, then sends her off to tell Jasnah so she can enter herself. She hurries in hoping to find notes on soulcasting. She instead finds a notebook focused on [[Natanatan]], the [[Unclaimed Hills]], and the Shattered Plains. The two others contain notes on Urithiru and the Voidbringers. Shallan wonders why a nonbeliever like Jasnah would concern herself with what she herself considers fables. A knock on the door reveals Kabsal, who having heard that she has free time, brought some bread and jam for a picnic.
 
Kabsal explains the stories behind the [[Truthberry|Truthberry jam]]. Shallan laments that she isn't much of a scholar since she prefers the outdoors. Kabsal starts flirting, and although Shallan thinks that it wouldn't work out for them, she encourages him. He implies that he might leave the ardentia for her. Shallan steers the conversation to Jasnah. He reveals that his initial plan was to get Shallan to help him steal her soulcaster, but his superiors disapproved. They were afraid that Elhokar might star a war with Kharbranth. Shallan probes for some hints on how to use it. He says you only have to tap a gem and touch the object you wish to change, but Jasnah doesn't do that. Kabsal leaves and Shallan returns inside, finding a note from Captain Tozbek informing her that he will arrive in one week. She wants to study as much as possible before leaving, so she goes back to Jasnah to read.
{{anchor|Chapter 43}}
 
=== Chapter 43: The Wretch= ==
{{/icon|Kaladin}}
{{epigraph|They lived out in the wilds, always awaiting the Desolation—or sometimes, a foolish child who took no head of the night's darkness.}}
{{anchor|Chapter 44}}
 
=== Chapter 44: The Weeping= ==
{{/icon|Kaladin}}
;Five years ago
{{anchor|Chapter 45}}
 
=== Chapter 45: Shadesmar= ==
{{/icon|Shallan}}
{{epigraph|Yelig-nar, called Blightwind, was one that could speak like a man, though often his voice was accompanied by the wails of those he consumed.}}
{{anchor|Chapter 46}}
 
=== Chapter 46: Child of Tanavast= ==
{{/icon|Kaladin}}
{{epigraph|Though I was due for dinner in Veden City that night, I insisted upon visiting Kholinar to speak with Tivbet. The tariffs through Urithiru were growing quite unreasonable. By then, the so-called Radiants had already begun to show their true nature.}}
{{anchor|Chapter 47}}
 
=== Chapter 47: Stormblessings= ==
{{/icon|Kaladin}}
;One year ago
{{anchor|Chapter 48}}
 
=== Chapter 48: Strawberry= ==
{{/icon|Shallan}}
{{epigraph|They take away the light, wherever they lurk. Skin that is burned.}}
 
;Shallan
Shallan is sketching while in a hospital and on suicide watch. She is growing accustomed to the creatures with the symbolheads who have been lurking in her drawings. She has her safepouch buttoned in her hospital robe. She notes how similar her current situation is to her time back home on her father's estate, having every need seen to but being unable to leave. The suicide attempt will make for an easy excuse to go home, so she can use the trip home to learn how to use the Soulcaster. She finishes her picture of the place she went to when she soulcast and figures that the Symbolheads must have something to do with Soulcasting. King Taravangian comes to visit and agrees to let Shallan have visitors. Jasnah enters and tries to apologize but doesn't do very well because of little practice. Jasnah then gifts Shallan with the “Book"Book of Endless Pages”Pages" and explains the metaphor behind it. Kabsal enters with a basket of bread and strawberry jam. Jasnah seems curious about the jam and smells it, but does not eat any. She does eat bread with the others. Kabsal insists that Shallan try some of the jam, but to Shallan it smells awful, like it's gone bad. Even so, Kabsal scoops out a big glob and shoves it into his mouth, claiming it tastes good. He suddenly gets up and starts running from the room, but he collapses to the floor. Shallan rushes to his side, but she also starts feeling dizzy. Jasnah shouts that Shallan has been poisoned and that she needs a garnet. Thinking that Jasnah can't save her with the broken Soulcaster, Shallan upends her safepouch revealing the stolen one. She feels a flash of heat through her insides before all goes black.
 
{{anchor|Chapter 49}}
 
=== Chapter 49: To Care= ==
{{/icon|Kaladin}}
{{epigraph|Radiant / of birthplace / the announcer comes / to come announce / the birthplace of Radiants.}}
{{anchor|Chapter 50}}
 
=== Chapter 50: Backbreaker Powder= ==
{{/icon|Shallan}}
{{epigraph|Flame and char. Skin so terrible. Eyes like pits of blackness.}}
{{anchor|Chapter 51}}
 
=== Chapter 51: Sas Nahn= ==
{{/icon|Kaladin}}
;One year ago
Kaladin is waiting in one of Amaram's waiting rooms. Only four of his twenty-six men survived -- he had actually begun to believe those who called him lucky. Numbly he thinks how he can now be considered among those who have killed a Shardbearer like [[Lanacin]] the Surefooted, or [[Evod Markmaker]], but he just doesn't care. Refusing the Shards was probably the most stupid thing anyone has ever done, but the thought of taking them revolts him. Amaram enters the room along with a [[Stormwarden]]. They are discussing who the Shardbearer was and what were his motives. The rest of the squad enters along with some lighteyed officers. Amaram asks Kaladin why he charged the Shardbearer and why he rejected the Shards. Kaladin doesn't want to reveal his disdain of lighteyes, and becoming one of them, so it he replies that he doesn't know why. Amaram makes a signal, then his soldiers slaughter the four spearmen while Kaladin is held back by guards, shrieking in anger and agony at seeing his men murdered. Amaram looks guilty, but he justifies his actions by saying that he is trained in the sword and that Kaladin would demand the Shards back in a few days anyway. Since Kaladin saved his life, he will spare his. He will promulgate the story that he (Amaram) killed the Shardbearer and that Kaladin fled the scene, the rest of the squad killed by the Shardbearer. The Stormwarden brands Kaladin a slave.
 
== Interludes ==
{{Anchor|Interlude 7}}
{{Anchor|Interlude I-7}}
 
=== Interlude I-7: Baxil= ==
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{{Anchor|Interlude I-8}}
 
=== Interlude I-8: Geranid= ==
[[File:Ten Spears.svg|165px|center]]
 
{{Anchor|Interlude I-9}}
 
=== Interlude I-9: Death Wears White= ==
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Szeth kills two guards and crashes through a door, entering the king's banquet, and starts to kill. King [[Hanavanar]] of Jah Keved yells for help. Szeth slaughters many of people trying to flee and makes his way over to the king. Two Shardbearers come out from hiding and another squad wearing half-shards enter the room to attack. Szeth drops his sword and uses his [[Order of Windrunners|Windrunner]] abilities to fling the attackers about the room. He infuses a stone multiple times and lashes it toward one of the Shardbearers, crushing him to death. He kills the rest of the honor guard easily and slams himself down on the king, pinning him to the floor. He puts his Shardblade through his face.
 
== Part Four: Storm's Illumination ==
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{{anchor|Chapter 52}}
 
=== Chapter 52: A Highway to the Sun= ==
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{{epigraph|I'm standing over the body of a brother. I'm weeping. Is that his blood or mine? What have we done?}}
{{Anchor|Chapter 53}}
 
=== Chapter 53: Dunny= ==
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{{epigraph|He must pick it up, the fallen title! The tower, the crown, and the spear!}}
{{anchor|Chapter 54}}
 
=== Chapter 54: Gibletish= ==
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{{epigraph|The burdens of nine become mine. Why must I carry the madness of them all? Oh, Almighty, release me.}}
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=== Chapter 55: An Emerald Broam= ==
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{{epigraph|A woman sits and scratches out her own eyes. Daughter of kings and winds, the vandal.}}
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=== Chapter 56: That Storming Book= ==
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{{epigraph|Light grows so distant. The storm never stops. I am broken, and all around me have died. I weep for the end of all things. He has won. Oh, he has beaten us.}}
{{anchor|Chapter 57}}
 
=== Chapter 57: Wandersail= ==
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{{epigraph|I hold the suckling child in my hands, a knife at his throat, and know that all who live wish me to let the blade slip. Spill its blood upon the ground, over my hands, and with it gain us further breath to draw.}}
{{anchor|Chapter 58}}
 
=== Chapter 58: The Journey= ==
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{{epigraph|Re-Sephir, the Midnight Mother, giving birth to abominations with her essence so dark, so terrible, so consuming. She is here! She watches me die!}}
{{anchor|Chapter 59}}
 
=== Chapter 59: An Honor= ==
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{{epigraph|Above the final void I hang, friends behind, friends before. The feast I must drink clings to their faces, and the words I must speak spark in my mind. The old oaths will be spoken anew.}}
{{anchor|Chapter 60}}
 
=== Chapter 60: That Which We Cannot Have= ==
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{{epigraph|The death is my life, the strength becomes my weakness, the journey has ended.}}
{{anchor|Chapter 61}}
 
=== Chapter 61: Right for Wrong= ==
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{{epigraph|In the storm I awaken, falling, spinning, grieving.}}
{{anchor|Chapter 62}}
 
=== Chapter 62: Three Glyphs= ==
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{{epigraph|The darkness becomes a palace. Let it rule! Let it rule!}}
 
;Kaladin
Kaladin and Bridge Four are on another bridgerun. He’sHe's nervous because this time he wants to try distracting the Parshendi archers with his self-made Parshendi armor and shield. On the way to the battlefield a soldier who doesn’tdoesn't want to wait for the army’sarmy's water crews tries to force his way to Bridge Four’sFour's water skin. Because Kaladin’sKaladin's armor is hidden with the water Bridge Four persuades the soldier to back down. On the final approach Kaladin manages to draw the full attention of the Parshendi archers by wearing Parshendi armor and shield. He uses Stormlight to improve his speed, heal his wounds, and draw arrows to his shield. Sadeas rides up and is forced to promote Matal becuase "his" idea of distracting the Parshendi worked. Kaladin himself suffers from shock after using so much Stormlight. As always, the members of Bridge Four look for wounded from other bridge crews and care for them. Suddenly Lopen calls out, as he spots a group of Parshendi archers coming back to the chasm and aiming at Bridge Four. While the men try to escape out of range they are surprised to see Dalinar dashing into the Parshendi force and striking them down. When done, Dalinar raises his blade in a salute at Bridge Four.
 
{{anchor|Chapter 63}}
 
=== Chapter 63: Fear= ==
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{{epigraph|I wish to sleep. I know now why you do what you do, and I hate you for it. I will not speak of the truths I see.}}
{{anchor|Chapter 64}}
 
=== Chapter 64: A Man of Extremes= ==
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{{epigraph|They come from the pit, two dead men, a heart in their hands, and I know that I have seen true glory.}}
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=== Chapter 65: The Tower= ==
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{{epigraph|I see them. They are the rocks. They are the vengeful spirits. Eyes of red.}}
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=== Chapter 66: Codes= ==
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{{epigraph|That chanting, that singing, those rasping voices.}}
{{anchor|Chapter 67}}
 
=== Chapter 67: Words= ==
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{{epigraph|Let me no longer hurt! Let me no longer weep! Dai-gonarthis! The Black Fisher holds my sorrow and consumes it!}}
Kaladin explodes with energy and light. The bridgemen watch in wonder as Kaladin furiously fights.
 
=== Chapter 68: Eshonai= ==
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{{epigraph|They named it the Final Desolation, but they lied. Our gods lied. Oh, how they lied. The Everstorm comes. I hear its whispers, see its stormwall, know its heart.}}
{{anchor|Chapter 69}}
 
=== Chapter 69: Justice= ==
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{{epigraph|All is withdrawn for me. I stand against the one who saved my life. I protect the one who killed my promises. I raise my hand. The storm responds.}}
Dalinar finds Elhokar in the sitting room of the palace wearing his Shardplate. Dalinar initiates a quick brawl in which he easily subdues Elhokar by breaking the breastplate of his Shardplate. Dalinar then demands to know if Elhokar himself cut the girth on his own saddle. Reluctantly, Elhokar admits to cutting the girth. An exasperated Dalinar then explains the consequences of this -- including Sadeas's betrayal. Additionally, Dalinar demonstrates how easily he could kill Elhokar, stating that he could have done it a hundred times over and that he is not Elhokar's enemy. Releasing his nephew, he tells Elhokar that tomorrow he will appoint Dalinar as Highprince of War. Determined to finally see the war won and Alethkar united, he decides to stop trying to be Nohadon the peacemaker and return to being the Blackthorn the warlord. Elhokar is reluctant, fearing rebellion from the various highprinces, but Dalinar turns to leave, confident that he will make the appointment and content knowing the challenges that are before him. Just before exiting, he also informs Elhokar about the courtship between himself and Navani.
 
== Part Five: The Silence Above ==
 
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=== Chapter 70: A Sea of Glass= ==
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{{anchor|Chapter 71}}
 
=== Chapter 71: Recorded In Blood= ==
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{{anchor|Chapter 72}}
 
=== Chapter 72: Veristitalian= ==
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{{anchor|Chapter 73}}
 
=== Chapter 73: Trust= ==
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{{anchor|Chapter 74}}
 
=== Chapter 74: Ghostblood= ==
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{{anchor|Chapter 75}}
 
=== Chapter 75: In the Top Room= ==
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{{anchor|Epilogue}}
 
== Epilogue: Of Most Worth ==
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Wit has a conversation with some guardsmen in Kholinar. He asks them "What is the talent that men value most?" One of the guardsmen suggests art, to which Wit replies in the negative. At this point, [[Taln]] stumbles into the main courtyard, bearing a prophecy about the Everstorm, before collapsing on the ground, his Honorblade beside him. Hoid finishes by saying it is timeliness that men value most, and that Taln has arrived 'too late'.
 
== Endnote ==
The Endnote is about thoughts from [[Joshor]], Head of His Majesty's [[Silent Gatherer]]s, on a [[ketek]] told by a dying Herdazian who barely spoke the Alethi language, and unlikely had the education that he had heard of such a ketek before. They decided to leave this death quote to [[Taravangian]] to solve the puzzle that it tells.
 
== Ars Arcanum ==
See [[Ars Arcanum#The_Stormlight_Archive]].
 
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