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Six days after arriving in [[Urithiru]], [[Dalinar]] revisits the very first vision he experienced. Having become a [[Knights Radiant|Knight Radiant]] by bonding the [[Stormfather]] himself, he can enter any of the visions at will and has enough control to not need to be tied down. He is on a cliff with the Almighty, viewing the ruins of [[Kholinar]] below. He asks him to transport him down to the rubble. He sees gouges on the stones as if made from claws. He concludes that Kholinar will not fall to the [[Everstorm]], but to something worse that will come after. The Stormfather agrees. Dalinar is frustrated that the monarchs of the world will not unite with him despite the threat. A final wave of destruction closes the vision, and Dalinar insists on staying to watch. He sees a golden light and a dark figure with nine shadows. Stormfather identifies the shadows as the [[Unmade]], the spren of [[Odium]]. He comes out of the vision with [[Navani]] standing nearby. He knows he must unite the world before their enemy destroys it. Navani pledges to help despite their current situation, which is already desperate. A messenger comes and reports that [[Torol Sadeas]] had been murdered.

* [[Mara (Roshar)|Mara]] (mentioned only)

* [[Mara (Roshar)|Mara]] (mentioned only)

* [[Ton (singer)|Ton]]

Dalinar sits at a feast while [[Toh]] talks with Gavilar. He's bored by politics and wishes that instead he could go and eat with his men. Dalinar starts to eat and realizes that he doesn't have his knife with him. He wants to just dig in with his hands, but everyone is using utensils, so he leaves the dining hall in the middle of the highstorm to go find his knife. He finds the bunker where Teleb is and pounds on the door. When no one answers, he summons his Shardblade and cuts his way in. Teleb tells him that he returned his knife, so Dalinar heads back. He dodges a boulder on the way and sees some sort of monster on glowing legs. He forces his way back into the feast hall, and everyone stares at him incredulously. Toh is disturbed and excuses himself. Gavilar is actually glad because Dalinar just demonstrated that he could protect them. Navani walks in, so Dalinar orders more strong wine. She and Ialai join the king, and they discuss Toh and his wife, who is deemed to be dense, but honest. Toh is bargaining with Shardplate that he has stolen from his native land, [[Rira (country)|Rira]]. They discuss the possibility of Dalinar marrying Evi and gaining the Shardplate. A servant brings Dalinar a knife, but it's too small; Dalinar bends it cutting his steak. He spots Evi across the room and admires her blonde hair. Then he finally spots a good knife: in the hands of an assassin taking Gavilar's plates. Dalinar knocks the man down to the floor and stabs him repeatedly, killing him. Then he washes the blood off the knife with his wine and starts eating with it. He agrees to marry Evi to help forge an alliance. Gavilar is sure they'll accept after seeing Dalinar in action.

* [[Relis Ruthar|Ruthar's son]] (mentioned only)

Shallan comes to know the Unmade. It is fascinated by humans and drawn to violence. The spren begins to know Shallan and tries to bond to her in replace of Pattern. Shallan and Pattern hold tight to each other. She attacks, using Stormlight, but not sure what she is doing. Shallan realizes that the Unmade is afraid of being trapped again by a Lightweaver. She wavers because she knows the creature will find out her secrets, so she pretends to be committed. Re-Shephir flees, even more terrified. Shallan decides not to chase it, but orders guards to be posted just in case. Teft notes that that's a good idea since the pillar that Re-Shephir was surrounding is covered with thousands of huge cut gems.

* [[Beautiful Song]]

Moash is dropped off in [[Revolar]] by the Fused. He's forced into a pen with other humans, some obviously refugees of the Everstorm. He wanders about, earning hostile looks because of his threatening size. Only Bridge Four had ever accepted him as he was. Parshmen are organizing work details. They ask for "volunteers" for various jobs, but the human slaves don't eat if they don't work. Moash sees some caravaneers -- his old profession -- and asks for [[Guff]]. He finds him and asks for work. Guff realizes that Moash was trained as a soldier, so he brings him to [[Paladar]], regent of Highprince [[Vamah]]. He asks Moash if anyone is coming to save him, and Moash is stunned that the same hierarchy exists even though they are all slaves. He just stands there, unable to answer, and Paladar orders GaffGuff beaten for bringing him. Moash goes to volunteer for hard labor.

Taravangian knows he is brilliant today and impatiently works the math problems. Only one problem eludes him; he is not quite at the level as the day he created the [[Diagram (literature)|Diagram]]. He orders that his rooms be cleared of furniture and people and orders some background music. Adrotagia brings him a copy of the Diagram, and he settles down with the transcribed copy. He starts cutting it to pieces; the Diagram in this form might be misleading them, so he decides he needs to separate it back into its parts to see it in new ways. He connects different parts of the text and gains new insights. He notices a slip of paper under the door -- the measurements of the field outside his window he had ordered earlier. He opens the door and orders gum paste so he can start putting paper up on the wall. He fears that Adrotagia suspects that he pretended to be less intelligent, and he is right. She confronts him on the problem he skipped -- a ruse to allow him to make decisions. He deflects the conversation by sharing his calculations on how much food Urithiru could produce, based on the size of the field outside. They must have been able to grow food inside. She insists that he follow his own rules, and he impatiently agrees to make no more policy decisions for the day and kicks her out of the room. He tries to figure out a contingency for the failed assassination of Dalinar. He reads again the words the surgeon uttered at his birth. He had feared that since the cord was around his neck that he would have diminished capacity, which while not true, had become his reputation. After working for hours, a maid brings in food, and Adrotagia and Mrall check up on him. He has changed the Diagram such that it now directs them to support Dalinar then topple him, taking his place. They can use Malata's spren as a spy to find his weaknesses. Taravangian concludes that they cannot defeat Odium. He has been given the capacity to "save whatever they can."

Kaladin flies above the highstorm with Elhokar's team. Shallan uses Stormlight to keep warm, but the others are bundled up. Skar and Drehy are flying below the team in case anyone falls. They pass the [[Windrunner River]], so Kaladin knows they are close to Kholinar. He gives the team half lashings so they can slow down and talk. Kaladin drops down below the clouds to scout the city. He see Alethi flags but senses something wrong about the palace complex. He reports back to Elhokar that the city is intact, so he wants to go directly in. Kaladin advises caution due to the troubling feeling he and Syl have, and Adolin backs him up. They decide to sneak in instead using disguises courtesy of Shallan.

* [[Torol Sadeas]] (Mentioned Only)

* [[Torol Sadeas]] (Mentioned Only)

Kaladin sits down in the barracks and immediately feels at home. The lieutenant who brought him in, [[Noromin|Noro]], asks him for his story as he's given a bowl of stew. Kaladin gives some information but holds back on the whole story. Noro continues his recruiting effort but doesn't press too hard. Kaladin notices that everyone in the room is a lighteyes, and it finally hits home that plenty of them are just regular people. The men tell him about Azure, how heAzure rallied the troops against the Cult of Moments. HeAzure used some sort of Shardblade and the men felt like they had sprenSpren helping them. Azure enters to make histhe normal rounds for the evening, and Kaladin sees that she is very obviously a female. She greets Kaladin and encourages him to join -- they always have food. HeKaladin is still reluctant, so sheAzure takes him out to look at the wall.

Azure leads himKaladin up onto the wall. As they walk, sheAzure guesses that heKaladin wound up in Sadeas's border army rather than on the Shattered Plains, so she doesn't blame him for deserting. SheAzure says she won't press himKaladin into the guard, but that at least with them, he'll have a chance at defending the city and turning back the Voidbringers. HeKaladin leaves them and goes back to the mansion to chat with the lighteyes there, but he doesn't find out anything. HisKaladin's brands are fully visible even though his sphere is still infused. Elhokar and Adolin join himKaladin (their illusions still intact), and heKaladin reports that he may have found another Radiant.

* [[Torol Sadeas]] (Mentioned Only)

* [[Ved (Stormlight)|Ved]]

* [[Torol Sadeas]]

* [[Torol Sadeas]]

Kaladin rushes to a stormshelter for rich folk before the Everstorm hits. He meets with Shallan and Adolin to share information. Adolin shares that Elhokar is doing better than expected at convincing lighteyes to join him. Kaladin states that he thinks Captain Azure might have an honorblade. They definitely have a soulcaster and seized emerald stones in the city. Judging the state of Kaladin's issued sword, Adolin is impressed by her. Shallan has found information on the Unmade and believes there are two in theythe city: Sja-anat, the Taker of Secrets, and Ashertmarn, the Heart of Revel. The former corrupting spren and the latter leads people to indulge in excess. Shallan plans to infiltrate the palace that night. They all realize their dire situation as the city's fall is inevitable without the Oathgate open.

* [[Ved (Stormlight)|Ved]] (Mentioned Only)

* [[Ved (Stormlight)|Ved]] (Mentioned Only)

* [[Ved (Stormlight)|Ved]] (Mentioned Only)

Kaladin sees friends on both sides, fighting and killing each other. He loses the will to fight and yells at them to stop. He sinks to his knees, distraught, then remembers that he needs to get Elhokar out. HeKaladin sees himElhokar holding his son and the sketch of himElhokar that Shallan had done. HeElhokar haltingly starts to say the Words, but he is interrupted when Moash runs himElhokar through with a spear. HeMoash salutes Kaladin with the Bridge Four salute. The queen arrives surrounded by black smoke with strange crystal formations forming on her body. Drehy and Skar suddenly arrive and drive away the soldiers. Adolin pulls Kaladin away.

* [[Torol Sadeas]] (Mentioned Only)

Adolin looks around at the strange landscape and the horrific creatures in the bead ocean and thinks he is in Damnation. Kaladin draws in Stormlight and goes airborne, trying desperately to get back to those he's trying to protect, but the spren feed on Stormlight, so they all start approaching the platform. Syl begs him to stop, and Kaladin drops back down. Azure explains to Adolin where they are, so Adolin starts to summon his blade. The spren with scratched out eyes starts screeching, so he abruptly stops. They feel a rumble beneath them, and a gargantuan spren, one of the UnbornUnmade, starts to rise from the depths. They decide to try to head for land, which here in Shadesmar would be the river nearby.

* [[Ico's father|Captain Ico's father ]]

* [[Torol Sadeas]]

* [[Torol Sadeas]] (Mentioned Only)

* [[AshShalash]] (Point of view)

* [[AshShalash]]

* [[AshShalash]] (Point of view)

* [[AshShalash]] (Point of view)

* [[Torol Sadeas]] (Mentioned Only)

Kaladin continues fighting and delaying the eight Fused. Kaladin manages to kill two of the Fused, but slowly runs out of Stormlight and is incapacitated. Something behind Kaladin makes the Fused retreat, as Kaladin watches the red mist thrash and finally disappears. Amaram stumbles to his feet, drawing a Shardblade and moving toward Kaladin. As he is about to strike Kaladin, two large arrowarrows strike Amaram, one in the head, the other breaking the gem in his chest, killing him. Kaladin looks up to see Rock, glowing brightly and holding Amaram's Shardbow.

Lopen offers Kaladin Stormlight infused spheres, healing his wounds. Lopen points out a weeping Dalinar, who is holding the large Ruby that in now the prison to the Unmade [[Nergaoul]] (The Thrill), flanked by Lift. Dalinar informs Kaladin that "it's over."

* [[AshShalash]] (Point of view)

Navani runs across the broken battlefield of Thaylen City to reach Dalinar, who she embraces. Dalinar informs her of his returning memories and his confrontation with Odium, after which he kisses her. He then asks her to study the gemstone that held [[Nergaoul(the Thrill)]] and to teach him to read.

* [[Cob (Stormlight)|Cob]]