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! class=title | Song & Part
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!13{{anchor|chapterChapter 13}}
|"Warform is worn for battle and reign, / Claimed by the gods, given to kill. / Unknown, unseen, but vital to gain. / It comes to those with the will."
|Song of Listing, 15th stanza
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!14{{anchor|chapterChapter 14}}
|"Mateform meek, for love to share, / Given to life, it brings us joy. / To find this form, one must care. / True empathy one must employ."
|Song of Listing, 5th stanza
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!15{{anchor|chapterChapter 15}}
|"Workform worn for strength and care. / Whispering spren breathe at your ear. / Seek first this form, its mysteries to bear. / Found here is freedom from fear."
|Song of Listing, 19th stanza
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!16{{anchor|chapterChapter 16}}
|"Nimbleform has a delicate touch. / Gave the gods this form to many, / Tho’ once defied, by the gods they were crushed. / This form craves precision and plenty."
|Song of Listing, 27th stanza
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!17{{anchor|chapterChapter 17}}
|"Dullform dread, with the mind most lost. / The lowest, and one not bright. / To find this form, one need banish cost. / It finds you and brings you to blight."
|Song of Listing, final stanza
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!18{{anchor|chapterChapter 19}}
|"Scholarform shown for patience and thought. / Beware its ambitions innate. / Though study and diligence bring the reward, / Loss of innocence may be one’s fate."
|Song of Listing, 69th stanza
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!20{{anchor|chapterChapter 20}}
|"Artform applied for beauty and hue. / One yearns for the songs it creates. / Most misunderstood by the artist it’s true, / Come the spren to foundation’s fates."
|Song of Listing, 90th stanza
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!21{{anchor|chapterChapter 21}}
|"Mediationform made for peace, it’s said. / Form of teaching and consolation. / When used by the gods, it became instead / Form of lies and desolation."
|Song of Listing, 33rd stanza
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!22{{anchor|chapterChapter 22}}
|"Stormform is said to cause / A tempest of winds and showers, / Beware its powers, beware its powers. / Though its coming brings the gods their night, / It obliges a bloodred spren. / Beware its end, beware its end."
|Song of Winds, 4th stanza
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!23{{anchor|chapterChapter 23}}
|"Nightform predicting what will be, / The form of shadows, mind to foresee. / As the gods did leave, the nightform whispered. / A new storm will come, someday to break. / A new storm a new world to make. / A new storm a new path to take, the nightform listens."
|Song of Secrets, 17th stanza
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!24{{anchor|chapterChapter 24}}
|"Decayform destroys the souls of dreams. / A form of gods to avoid, it seems. / Seek not its touch, nor beckon its screams, deny it. / Watch where you walk, your toes to tread. / O’er hill or rocky riverbed / Hold dear to fears that fill your head, defy it."
|Song of Secrets, 27th stanza
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!25{{anchor|chapterChapter 25}}
|"Smokeform for hiding and slipping between men. / A form of power, like human Surges. / Bring it ’round again. / Though crafted of gods, / It was by Unmade hand. / Leaves its force to be but one of foe or friend."
|Song of Histories, 127th stanza
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!26{{anchor|chapterChapter 26}}
|"They blame our people / For the loss of that land. / The city that once covered it / Did range the eastern strand. / The power made known in the tomes of our clan / Our gods were not who shattered these plains."
|Song of Wars, 55th stanza
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!28{{anchor|chapterChapter 28}}
|"The betrayal of spren has brought us here. / They gave their Surges to human heirs, / But not to those who know them most dear, before us. / ’Tis no surprise we turned away / Unto the gods we spent our days / And to become their molding clay, they changed us."
|Song of Secrets, 40th stanza
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!29{{anchor|chapterChapter 29}}
|"Artform for colors beyond our ken; / For its grand songs we yearn. / We must attract creationspren; / These songs suffice ’til we learn."
|Song of Revision, 279th stanza
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!30{{anchor|chapterChapter 30}}
|"’Tis said it was warm in the land far away / When Voidbringers entered our songs. / We brought them home to stay / And then those homes became their own, / It happened gradually. / And years ahead ’twil still be said ’tis how it has to be."
|Song of Histories, 12th stanza
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!31{{anchor|chapterChapter 31}}
|"Smokeform for hiding and slipping ’tween men. / A form of power—like Surges of spren. / Do we dare to wear this form again? It spies. / Crafted of gods, this form we fear. / By Unmade touch its curse to bear, / Formed from shadow—and death is near. It lies."
|Song of Secrets, 51st stanza
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!32{{anchor|chapterChapter 32}}
|"The spren betrayed us, it’s often felt. / Our minds are too close to their realm / That gives us our forms, but more is then / Demanded by the smartest spren, / We can’t provide what the humans lend, / Though broth are we, their meat is men."
|Song of Spren, 9th stanza
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!33{{anchor|chapterChapter 33}}
|"But it is not impossible to blend / Their Surges to ours in the end. / It has been promised and it can come. / Or do we understand the sum? / We questioned not if they can have us then, / But if we dare to have them again."
|Song of Spren, 10th stanza
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!34{{anchor|chapterChapter 34}}
|"Our gods were born splinters of a soul, / Of one who seeks to take control, / Destroys all lands that he beholds, with spite. / They are his spren, his gift, his price. / But the nightforms speak of future life, / A challenged champion. A strife even he must requite."
|Song of Secrets, final stanza
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!43{{anchor|Chapter 43}}
|"And thus were the disturbances in the [[Revv]] toparchy quieted, when, upon their ceasing to prosecute their civil dissensions, [[Nalan|Nalan’Elin]] betook himself to finally accept the [[Skybreakers]] who had named him their master, when initially he had spurned their advances and, in his own interests, refused to countenance that which he deemed a pursuit of vanity and annoyance; this was the last of the Heralds to admit to such patronage."
| data-sort-value="05,17" | chapter 5, page 17
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! class=title | The Second Letter
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!59{{anchor|chapterChapter 59}}
|I’ll address this letter to my "old friend," as I have no idea what name you're using currently.
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!60{{anchor|chapterChapter 60}}
|Have you given up on the gemstone, now that it is dead? And do you no longer hide behind the name of your old master? I am told that in your current incarnation you’ve taken a name that references what you presume to be one of your virtues.
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!62{{anchor|chapterChapter 61}}
|This is, I suspect, a little like a skunk naming itself for its stench.
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!63{{anchor|chapterChapter 62}}
|Now, look what you've made me say. You've always been able to bring out the most extreme in me, old friend. And I do still name you a friend, for all that you weary me.
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!64{{anchor|chapterChapter 64}}
|Yes, I'm disappointed. Perpetually, as you put it.
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!66{{anchor|chapterChapter 66}}
|Is not the destruction we have wrought enough? The worlds you now tread bear the touch and design of [[Adonalsium]]. Our interference so far has brought nothing but pain.
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!67{{anchor|chapterChapter 67}}
|My path has been chosen very deliberately. Yes, I agree with everything you have said about [[Rayse]], including the severe danger he presents.
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!68{{anchor|chapterChapter 68}}
|However, it seems to me that all things have been set up for a purpose, and if we—as infants—stumble through the workshop, we risk exacerbating, not preventing, a problem.
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!69{{anchor|chapterChapter 69}}
|Rayse is captive. He cannot leave the system he now inhabits. His destructive potential is, therefore, inhibited.
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!70{{anchor|chapterChapter 70}}
|Whether this was [[Tanavast]]'s design or not, millennia have passed without Rayse taking the life of another of the sixteen. While I mourn for the great suffering Rayse has caused, I do not believe we could hope for a better outcome than this.
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!71{{anchor|chapterChapter 71}}
|He bears the weight of God's own divine hatred, separated from the virtues that gave it context. He is what we made him to be, old friend. And that is what he, unfortunately, wished to become.
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!72{{anchor|chapterChapter 72}}
|I suspect that he is more a force than an individual now, despite your insistence to the contrary. That force is contained, and an equilibrium reached.
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!74{{anchor|chapterChapter 74}}
|You, however, have never been a force for equilibrium. You tow chaos behind you like a corpse dragged by one leg through the snow. Please, hearken to my plea. Leave that place and join me in my oath of nonintervention.
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!75{{anchor|chapterChapter 75}}
|The cosmere itself may depend upon our restraint.
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== The Diagram ==
In Part Five of ''[[Words of Radiance]]'' the epigraphs are all excerpts from the [[Diagram (literature)|Diagram]], a guide to engineering the survival of humanity through the [[True Desolation|Final Desolation]] created by [[Taravangian]] on a day of super-human intelligence.
 
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!77{{anchor|Chapter 77}}
|"One danger in deploying such a potent weapon will be the potential encouragement of those exploring the Nahel bond. Care must be taken to avoid placing these subjects in situations of powerful stress unless you accept the consequences of their potential Investiture."
|FoorboardFloorboard 27: Paragraph 6
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!78{{anchor|Chapter 78}}