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;Plot Summary
Dalinar enters the vision fighting with a spear among poorly equipped men. He charges forward but the untrained men fail to support him; his arm is cut off. Dalinar merely wraps it and continues fighting, thinking that it's "cheating" to heal with Stormlight. A Voidbringer joins the enemy. A Radiant (Stoneward) appears and creates handholds down the cliff so they can escape. The Stormfather says Dalinar may also learn this ability. Dalinar realizes that humans were fighting with the Voidbringers. The Stormfather then brings in Jasnah and Navani into the vision at Dalinar's request. They see a Radiant using a device to stimulate Regrowth and Navani rushes off to watch. Jasnah marvels that the civilization is more primitive than that of a previous vision. Jasnah worries about how Dalinar will react to being accused as a heretic. She tells him not to let others define who he is. They decide to split up and see as much of the vision as possible. Navani returns, dictating her observations to Teshav who is in the same room outside the vision. She hasn't figured out how the healing fabrial works. They run up a hill to see thousands of bodies, and other terrible signs of the Desolation. Dalinar is startled to find the boulder at the top of the hill was actually a slain creature made of stone. They continue on past the corpses to a place with nine Honorblades rammed into stone. They recognize the one that killed Gavilar, the Honorblade that Szeth carried. The Stormfather explains that the Parshmen were actually the souls of the dead being fused and humans could never defeat them if they kept reincarnating. So Honor did the same with 5 men and 5 women. After each Desolation they would return to Damnation and be tortured. The pact would keep the Voidbringers at bay until a Herald, under torture, broke their oath. When 9 of them survived they figured the only Herald to never break, Talenelat, was left and that would be good enough. He lasted 4,500 years of torture until now. The Stormfather refuses to tell Dalinar about the Recreance for fear he would break his oath, as all men did.
Dalinar is practicing to fight in a vision. He has to adapt fighting alonside undisciplined men and has his arm cut off. His spren is surprised he refuses to heal it with stormlight. Most of the men are slaughered and Radiants (Stoneward) come down before a Voidbringer corners Dalinar. They change the stone in the mountain for them to escape. The Stormfather says Dalinar may also learn this ability.
 
The Stormfather then brings in Jasnah and Navani to the vision at Dalinar's request. They see a Radiant using a device to stimulate Regrowth and Navani rushes off to watch. Jasnah worries about the effect this is having on Dalinar and of being accused a hertic because of these visions. Jasnah tells him not to let others define who he is. They decide to split up and see as much of the vision as possible (as there are limited storms to do this). Dalinar and Navani run up a hill to see thousands of bodies, The Desolation. Dalinar is startled to find the boulder at the top of the hill was actually a slain creature made of stone.
 
Dalinar and Navani continue on past the corpses to a place with 9 Shardblades rammed into stone. Including Szeth's Honorblade. The Stormfather then tells them of the oaths. The Parshmen were actually the souls of the dead being fused and humans could never defeat them if they kept reincarnating. So Honor did the same with 5 men and 5 women. After each Desolation they would return to Damnation and be tortured. The pact would keep the Voidbringers at bay until a Herald, under torture, broke their oath. When 9 of them survived they figured the only Herald to never break, Talenelat, was left and that would be good enough. He lasted 4,500 years of torture until now. The Stormfather refuses to tell Dalinar about the Recreance for fear he would break his oath, as all men did.
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