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Vasher kills Vahr with an Awakened scarf to save him from more torture, grabs his sword, and flees.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-prologue|Prologue]]
*[[bws: annotation-Warbreaker-Prologue|Prologue Annotation: Part 1]]
*[[bws: annotation-Warbreaker-Prologue-Part-2|Prologue Annotation: Part 2]]
Since the treaty does not specify which princess, at the last moment Dedelin sends Siri instead of Vivenna, who has been trained since birth for life with the God King.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-one|Chapter 1]]
*[[bws: annotation-Warbreaker-Chapter-One|Chapter 1 Annotation: Part 1]]
*[[bws: annotation-Warbreaker-Chapter-One-Part-2|Chapter 1 Annotation: Part 2]]
Vivenna begins to get an idea to help Siri.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-two|Chapter 2]]
*[[bws: annotation-Warbreaker-Chapter-Two|Chapter 2 Annotation: Part 1]]
*[[bws: annotation-Warbreaker-Chapter-Two-Part-2|Chapter 2 Annotation: Part 2]]
Then he judges the poetic and artistic offerings to him, when he is informed of the arrival of the God King's new wife.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-three|Chapter 3]]
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*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-three/|Chapter 3 Annotation: Part 2]]
Siri is told that there will be no wedding cermony, and is brought to the God King's dark, pyramidal castle.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-four|Chapter 4]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-four/|Chapter 4 Annotation: Part 1]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-four-part-2/|Chapter 4 Annotation: Part 2]]
He discusses her possible effects on Court politics with Llarimar, and insists that he have more wine, although as a god he is immune to drunkenness.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-five|Chapter 5]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-five/|Chapter 5 Annotation: Part 1]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-five-part-2/|Chapter 5 Annotation: Part 2]]
Bluefingers leads her to the God King's sleeping chamber, where she enters with utmost trepidation.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-six|Chapter 6]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-six/|Chapter 6 Annotation]]
 
They discuss politics, with Blushweaver in favor of the war and curious as to Lightsong's opinion of the new queen.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-seven|Chapter 7]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-seven/|Chapter 7 Annotation]]
 
Siri sets off to explore the palace.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-eight|Chapter 8]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-eight/|Chapter 8 Annotation]]
 
Instead of the Idrian spy, [[Lemex]], that she had planned to meet with, two mercenaries, [[Denth]] and [[Tonk Fah]] arrive and after a bit of joking, announce that they are there to kill her.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-nine|Chapter 9]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-nine/|Chapter 9 Annotation]]
 
Lemex gives his Breath to her, and she is amazed at the new life and color awareness it gives her.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-ten|Chapter 10]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-ten/|Chapter 10 Annotation]]
 
She crawls into bed, relieved and unpunished.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-eleven|Chapter 11]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-eleven/|Chapter 11 Annotation]]
 
She does not know why she is still unpunished for being rude to the God King, but recognizes that she needs to stop being afraid and start directing her life again.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-twelve|Chapter 12]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-twelve/|Chapter 12 Annotation]]
 
Getting into the festivities, Siri decides to try on many gowns and enjoy the ostentatious ornamentation in her hair.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-thirteen|Chapter 13]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-thirteen/|Chapter 13 Annotation]]
 
Suddenly, everyone bows and her white serving bowl throws out prisms of color, marking his arrival behind her.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-fourteen|Chapter 14]]
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*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-fourteen-part-2/|Chapter 14 Annotation: Part 2]]
She panics, and turns to leave, but Parlin stops her, telling her that she might want to stay because the gods' priests are debating going to war with Idris.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-fifteen|Chapter 15]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-fifteen/|Chapter 15 Annotation: Part 1]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-fifteen-part-2/|Chapter 15 Annotation: Part 2]]
Lightsong approaches Siri, thinking because of Blushweaver’s reasoning, that she is a dangerous element that the Idrians cleverly introduced to the Court. Siri is awkward speaking to a god, disconcerted by his levity, and Lightsong gradually realizes that her naivete is not an act. He feels sorry for her, knowing that she has been thrown into the thick of Court politics, and tells her to not let other people get to her and leaves.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-sixteen|Chapter 16]]
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Vivenna returns to Lemex’s house, which the mercenaries have ransacked thoroughly. Denth and Tonk Fah show her Lemex’s secret stash of five thousand gold marks and his personal papers, many of which are communications with King Dedelin. Through the letters, Vivenna learns that her father gave Lemex enough money to buy breath to enter the Court, and that Dedelin felt that war with Hallandren was inevitable and that not sending Vivenna was purely a matter of favoritism. Feeling betrayed, but even more determined to rescue Siri seeing that her father thought of her as good as dead, Vivenna resolves to hire the mercenaries, proved trustworthy because they did not run off with Lemex’s fortune when they had the chance. She believes she must continue Lemex’s work in undermining the Hallandrens’ ability to wage war.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-seventeen|Chapter 17]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-seventeen/|Chapter 17 Annotation]]
 
Lightsong refuses to get out of bed. Llarimar comes in, dismissing the servants so he can have a candid discussion with Lightsong. Lightsong tells him that he fears to take any kind of political action, fearing that Blushweaver’s push for war is a path of destruction, based on his nightmares. He is afraid that in her haste for war, Blushweaver will crush the young queen. Llarimar tells him that his inaction would equate to action, and then lets slip that he knew Lightsong before he Returned. This tidbit invigorates Lightsong, who begins asking questions about his past life to no avail. Llarimar is then successful at making him get out of bed.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-eighteen|Chapter 18]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-eighteen/|Chapter 18 Annotation]]
 
[[Clod]], the group’s Lifeless, enters with Jewels. Vivenna is disgusted by the Lifeless abomination, but Denth justifies him by saying that all necessary means must be used to save Idris and that if she doesn’t allow Clod, then she will have to find a new group of mercenaries. Jewels informs her partners that Vasher is in the city. Vivenna figures out they are talking about the unkempt man with the mysterious sword that watched her in the Court of Gods and tell them. This makes them very worried, as they say that Vasher wants to kill her in addition to his grudge against them and must know who she is by now.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-nineteen|Chapter 19]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-nineteen/|Chapter 19 Annotation]]
 
Siri again awaits outside the God King’s chamber door. Bluefingers says that he is worried, because creating a child with the God King would be the worst possible thing Siri could do. He hints at different factions in the palace, and that she is in grave danger. Confused, but knowing full well that she is in no danger of becoming pregnant, Siri enters the God King’s chamber. As she drifts off to sleep after her moaning routine to fool the listening priests, Siri is startled by the God King, Susebron, looming over her. She shrieks but apologizes to a startled Susebron. He tentatively shows her a children’s storybook and wants her to read to him. She is confused, but after he opens his mouth, she realizes that his tongue has been cut out so he can’t use any of his Breath and that this makes him a mere figurehead. She begins to use the book to teach him to read.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-twenty|Chapter 20]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-twenty/|Chapter 20 Annotation]]
 
Vasher climbs from the God King’s palace, using his Awakened clothes to enhance his strength, into the Court. He pretends to be insane and seeking the blessing of the goddess [[Mercystar]]. He uses his Awakened clothing to strangle and knock out the guards and sneaks into her palace. He stumbles into a group of servants, and uses rope to subdue them. He then Awakens a Lifeless squirrel, commanding it to make a ruckus in the palace. He uses the distraction to find the trapdoor entrance to the tunnels leading from the palace and climbs in.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-twenty-one|Chapter 21]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-twenty-one/|Chapter 21 Annotation]]
 
Vivenna eats in a restaurant with Denth, Tonk Fah, and their contact, [[Fob]]. They convince Fob, a landowner, to harvest his crop early by proving to him that Vivenna is an Idrian princess with her royal color-changing hair. They leave to meet with Grable, a crime lord who attempts to kidnap her. Denth kills two of Grable’s guards almost inhumanly fast and they leave. In an alleyway, a random Idrian, Thame, approaches Vivenna, asking her if she has come to help the oppressed Idrians in Hallandren. She tells him yes, but the mercenaries whisk him away because they think he is a plant from Grable. Later, they meet in a safe location, and they determine after some knuckle-cracking and tough talk on the mercenaries’ part, some kind words on Vivenna’s part, and some investigations on Jewels’ part that he is what he says he is. This gives Vivenna the idea of meeting with the common Idrians in the city. The mercenaries say it is dangerous, but she insists.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-twenty-two|Chapter 22]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-twenty-two/|Chapter 22 Annotation: Part 1]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-twenty-two-part-2/|Chapter 22 Annotation: Part 2]]
Mercystar, in a state of flaky distraughtness, is comforted by Blushweaver, who is trying to worm Mercystar’s Lifeless army commands out of her. When Lightsong hears that a servant was killed in addition to those knocked unconscious in the break-in, he becomes intensely curious about solving the mystery. He abandons Blushweaver to go interrogate the servants. He notes a patch of grey wall and determines that if the intruder was not an Idrian as Mercystar said. Although according to oath, they cannot lie to a god, Lightsong senses that the servants are lying about the details they are giving him, which makes him even more curious about the case.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-twenty-three|Chapter 23]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-twenty-three/|Chapter 23 Annotation]]
 
Siri walks into the palace library to get a history book to enlighten herself on the God King’s succession history. The scribes tell her that she may not take any books out of the room, foiling her plan. Later that night, Siri and the Susebron talk, communicating through writing . Siri teaches him of sarcasm, and he uses it jokingly. Susebron asks of an heir, and Siri realizes he knows nothing of the process of making one. They then discuss whether or not the God King continues living after an heir is produced, because the histories are all unknown to Siri or jumbled, and she is worried about Bluefingers’ cryptic warnings.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-twenty-four|Chapter 24]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-twenty-four/|Chapter 24 Annotation]]
 
Vivenna walks through the streets of T’Tellir. She tries to spot the mercenaries in the crowd, and sees their first distraction, a building on fire. Then Clod, the mercenaries’ Lifeless, clubs high priest Nanrovah’s horse to halt his carriage, making the second distraction: his gold coins spilling onto the street. Vivenna and Jewels return to the house, waiting for the mercenaries. Jewels is irritable, and Vivenna tries to comfort her for being a Drab. Jewels responds vehemently that she believes that giving her Breath to the God King was the right thing to do. Denth and Tonk Fah return, and tell her that their theft of most of T’Tellir’s salt to sabotage the war succeeded. Vivenna asks Denth about his beliefs and origins, causing Denth to dodge her questions and then storm away.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-twenty-five|Chapter 25]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-twenty-five/|Chapter 25 Annotation]]
 
Lightsong awakes a full hour earlier than usual, chipper and ready to go and investigate. He refuses to stop and record his dreams, but instead goes to look at the art offerings. One abstract, red painting makes Lightsong see a battle scene with a sea of fighting Lifeless and people with a woman holding up a terrible, dark sword. He tells Llarimar, who is worried by his prophetic vision in the painting. Lightsong tells Llarimar his dream of a storming sea and a red panther. They arrive at Mercystar’s palace, finding her out visiting Allmother. Through questioning all witnesses separately, Lightsong determines that there were two intruders, one that took care not to kill, and one that swiftly killed the only witness of his passing. Lightsong sees a trapdoor, and guesses that both intruders left through there. He has a priest fetch the Lifeless squirrel used as a distraction during the break-in, and tells his priests to break its Command. His feelings of curiosity about the crime worry him, so he questions Llarimar about his past life, who does not tell him anything.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-twenty-six|Chapter 26]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-twenty-six/|Chapter 26 Annotation]]
 
Being blocked from reading books, and with Bluefingers avoiding her, Siri returns to the arena to seek out Lightsong to try and get information on what happened to the previous God Kings. Lightsong offers to answer her questions if she answers his own, which she agrees to. Lightsong's priest, Llarimar, helps to answer her questions and she discovers that the previous 2 God King's died shortly after producing a male heir. Llarimar suggests she tries a professional storyteller. To get around the priests trying to block her from getting information, Siri asks Lightsong to summon a storyteller, which he agrees to do. Having fulfilled his part of the bargain, Lightsong then asks Siri about law enforcement, as he tries to discover what he was before he Returned. After getting answers to his questions, Lightsong offers warning and advice to Siri away from their servants, telling her that she needs to come across as average when she plays politics, and to not rely on Lightsong.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-twenty-seven|Chapter 27]]
*[[bws: annotation-Warbreaker-Chapter-Twenty-Seven/|Chapter 27 Annotation]]
 
Chapter 28 Summary
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-twenty-eight|Chapter 28]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-twenty-eight/|Chapter 28 Annotation]]
 
Chapter 29 Summary
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-twenty-nine|Chapter 29]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-twenty-nine/|Chapter 29 Annotation]]
 
== Chapter 30 ==
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-thirty|Chapter 30]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-thirty/|Chapter 30 Annotation]]
 
== Chapter 31 ==
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-thirty-one|Chapter 31]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-thirty-one/|Chapter 31 Annotation]]
 
Siri wakes up, and plans her next move while going about her morning ritual. She decides to send a message with one of the Pahn Kahl servants to Bluefingers, telling him she has vital information, which she wishes to trade. She then goes to meet Lightsong. The discussion briefly touches on the reasons for why people Return, and Siri theories that Lightsong could have been a diplomat or a salesman of some sort. Lightsong has a surprise for Siri - an elderly storyteller with a long white beard whom Lightsong introduces as [[Hoid]]. Siri asks the storyteller about the days before the division between Idris and Hallandren. Hoid proceeds to tell her about the about the First Returned, then moving on to the background of the Manywar, telling how it had been about BioCromatic Breath in addition to the Tears of Edgli, which was more commonly believed as the reason for the war. One of the Five Scholars discovered a means by which a Lifeless could be created from a single Breath. Further still, Kalad (one of the Scholars) was said to have created a more powerful type of Lifeless, which came to be known as Kalad's Phantoms. Hoid tells her that it's unclear as to why the royal family separated from Kalad, but that they had blood of the First Returned - being descended from the First Returned. The story ends with the revelation that each God King fathered a stillborn son who then returned and took his place. {Unfinished}
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-thirty-two|Chapter 32]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-thirty-two/|Chapter 32 Annotation]]
 
== Chapter 33 ==
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-thirty-three|Chapter 33]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-thirty-three/|Chapter 33 Annotation]]
 
== Chapter 34 ==
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-thirty-four|Chapter 34]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-thirty-four/|Chapter 34 Annotation]]
 
== Chapter 35 ==
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-thirty-five|Chapter 35]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-thirty-five/|Chapter 35 Annotation]]
 
== Chapter 36 ==
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-thirty-six|Chapter 36]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-thirty-six/|Chapter 36 Annotation]]
 
After fleeing from Denth and his companions Vivenna wanders through the Idrian Slums. She thinks about their betrayal and Parlin's death for which she feels guilty. Occasionally a thief forces her to give up her fine dress and leggings. Only wearing her shirt and with white hair she rubs herself mud and dirt to not stand out in the slums. She takes a dirty shawl from a pile of cloth on the street to wrap around her. But with her Breath she is visible to everyone with the [[Heightening|First Heightening]]. Thinking about this problem she tries to give her Breath to the shawl. As this works she is a [[drab]] now and has to care for her shawl containing all of her Breath.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-thirty-seven|Chapter 37]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-thirty-seven/|Chapter 37 Annotation]]
 
== Chapter 38 ==
 
Lightsong throws pebbles into urns; counting the colourscolors of priests that enter the Court.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-thirty-eight|Chapter 38]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-thirty-eight/|Chapter 38 Annotation]]
 
Vivenna lives as a drab.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-thirty-nine|Chapter 39]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-thirty-nine/|Chapter 39 Annotation]]
 
Siri and Treledees talk about bedroom stuff. He coerces her into propagating Pahn Kahl servants through her staff.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-forty|Chapter 40]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-forty/|Chapter 40 Annotation]]
 
Vivenna is chased by thugs, then rescued by [[Vasher]] and [[Nightblood]].
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-forty-one|Chapter 41]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-forty-one/|Chapter 41 Annotation]]
 
Lightsong extorts his way into [[Allmother]]'s palace with a squirrel. They exchanged [[Lifeless]] commands.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-forty-two|Chapter 42]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-forty-two/|Chapter 42 Annotation]]
 
Vivenna and Vashar talk about Denth's plan and the upcoming war between Hallandren and Idris. Vashar makes Vivenna see how she was used to encourage the priests to start a war against her homeland of Idris.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-forty-three|Chapter 43]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-forty-three/|Chapter 43 Annotation]]
 
Siri and Susebron realize how similar their circumstances are, and get to know each other better.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-forty-four|Chapter 44]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-forty-four/|Chapter 44 Annotation]]
 
Lightsong has nightmares of apocalypse.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-forty-five|Chapter 45]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-forty-five/|Chapter 45 Annotation]]
 
Vasher teaches Vivenna about [[Awakening]].
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-forty-six|Chapter 46]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-forty-six/|Chapter 46 Annotation]]
 
Lightsong takes control of Allmother's Lifeless by giving them new command phrases.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-forty-seven|Chapter 47]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-forty-seven/|Chapter 47 Annotation]]
 
Siri and Susebron discuss how to protect themselves from the priesthood and how to avoid war between Hallandren and Idris.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-forty-eight|Chapter 48]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-forty-eight/|Chapter 48 Annotation]]
 
Vasher and Vivenna unravel one of Denth's plots by rescuing Nanrovah's daughter from thugs who were holding her captive since her kidnapping in Chapter 25.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-forty-nine|Chapter 49]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-forty-nine/|Chapter 49 Annotation]]
 
Siri and Susebron intend to appeal to Lightsong for assistance against the priests while the Returned court is in session, but the priests are one step ahead of them, holding them in seclusion, while spreading rumors that Siri is pregnant. A vote to seek the Will of the Pantheon is held, with a near unanimous consensus to invade Idris, though Lightsong abstained from voting.
 
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-fifty-eight/|Chapter 50 Annotation]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-fifty|Chapter 50 Annotation]]
 
== Chapter 51 ==
Vasher sneaks into the Court of the Gods, contemplating killing Lightsong. He reflects on the creation of Nighblood, requiring the Ninth Heightening and a thousand Breaths, awakened with the command "Destroy Evil". He sneaks into the God King's palace, searching for the God King's chambers. He interrogates a maid servant, who points him in the direction. There he finds the room guarded by a large group of mercenaries, who he engages by throwing Nightblood at them, but is engaged from behind. He takes out a fair number of them before he's subdued and Denth appears, ordering Vasher's Awakened clothing to be taken from him, and Nightblood thrown out somewhere far away.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-fifty-one|Chapter 51]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-fifty-one/|Chapter 51 Annotation]]
 
Lightsong sneaks into Mercystar's palace with Llarimar. They get spotted by two guards once they are inside, but get to the trapdoor to the tunnels beneath the palaces. Llarimar realizes the tunnels are accessible from the Lifeless barracks, before following a tunnel that is visually newer than the others. They stop when they hear some voices, overhearing Denth talking to another person about capturing Vasher. They then hear Blushweaver scream. Lightsong runs in to help, seeing that she has been captured by servant's of the God King. Lightsong knocks one of the guards over with his shoulder and picks up the man's sword. Lightsong then finds out he is a useless swordman, and is subdued quickly, though not before getting stabbed in the thigh by one of the guards.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-fifty-two|Chapter 52]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-fifty-two/|Chapter 52 Annotation]]
 
Lightsworn, Blushweaver, and Llarimar have each been caged separately. Blushweaver is crying. She reveals she's been working with the God King's priesthood the whole time, that she had been tasked with getting the Command phrases. Lightsong decides to try and break out of his cell, asking Llarimar what is used to pick a lock. At this point Llarimar reveals Lightsong had been a scribe, an accountant for a local moneylender. Llarimar describes him as having always having been a fool, with Llarimar always ending up in trouble with him. The God King's priests ask Lightsong for his Command phrases, which he refuses to give. He gives them up after Blushweaver is killed, and Llarimar is threatened.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-fifty-three|Chapter 53]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-fifty-three/|Chapter 53 Annotation]]
 
Lightsong mourns Blushweaver, asking what the point of godhood is. Llarimar interrupts him when Lightsong describes himself as a coward. He goes on to tell Lightsong about who he had been before he Returned. He had been a scribe, and Llarimar's brother. Llarimar had been a priest back then too, but then Lightsong had died saving the girl in Lightsong's visions. She had been Llarimar's daughter, Lightsong's favorite niece. When Lightsong had returned, it had restored Llarimar's waning faith in the Iridescent Tones, and this was the reason why Llarimar viewed Lightsong as god.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-fifty-four|Chapter 54]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-fifty-four/|Chapter 54 Annotation]]
 
 
Siri tries to get information out of Bluefingers as he leads them captive through the hallways. Susebron tries to break them free by punching one of the lifeless, but the pair are quickly subdued. Bluefinger's orders the attack on Idris when he is notified that they had received Lightsong's Command phrase. Bluefingers tells Siri about how he plans to enrage both Idris and Hallandren to commit to war. Siri realizes that Bluefinger's plans to kill her.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-fifty-five|Chapter 55]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-fifty-five/|Chapter 55 Annotation]]
 
Vasher uses his rope belt with the Breath he recieved from Vivenna to catch the wall, slowing his fall, before re-purposing it to support his legs as he approaches the ground. He picks up a sword and engages the men seeking to kill him, awaking the clothes of two of the fallen soldiers to help him fight. When fifty Lifeless come around the corner, Vasher hears Nightblood. He withdrew the breath from the two awakened allies he'd made, making a run for Nightblood, who is just in side. He pulls the sword entirely free of its sheath, using it to slay all 50 Lifeless in a matter of minutes, though at the cost of the over half the Breath he had. Vasher then uses Nightblood to cut through walls and ceilings as he rushed back to the room he'd fallen from. Reaching it, he tossed Nightblood aside, barely having Breath enough to reach the First Heightening. A dueling blade gets dropped in front of him. Denth challenges Vasher to a duel.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-fifty-six|Chapter 56]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-fifty-six/|Chapter 56 Annotation]]
 
Siri begins to get tied to the altar for Bluefingers prepares to kill her. She demands that he give her the decency to die standing up, which he agrees to do. As he places his blade against her chest, she tries to dissuade him to no avail. As he draws back to deliver the blow, the building begins to shake, before the floor and then the rest of the black stones turned white, before the entire room bursts with color. As Bluefingers tries to ram his knife into Siri's chest, Susebron appears, causing him to stop, before awakened cloth pulls him away from Siri. Siri's bonds are removed and she grabs Susebron as he lifts her into his arms.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-fifty-seven|Chapter 57]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-fifty-seven/|Chapter 57 Annotation]]
 
Vivenna, Siri, and Susebron wait as Vasher is given a garment to change into to ensure he couldn't awaken anything. Vasher talks with the Susebron, telling him that he's the reason why the God King's tongue was cut out. He alters his appearence, now appearing as a Returned. Susebron realizes who Vasher is, and drops to his knee. Vasher gives Susebron the command phrase to Kalad's Phantoms - the D'Denir statues in the city which contained awakened human bones.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-chapter-fifty-eight|Chapter 58]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-chapter-fifty-eight/|Chapter 58 Annotation]]
 
A thousand stone soldiers chase leave the city to chase the Lifeless armies. Vivenna and Vasher discuss what happens next. Vasher plans to leave, and Vivenna decides to go with him. She asks Vasher who he is - Kalad or Peacegiver. Vasher says that he was both - he started the war and ended it. He names the Five Scholars - himself, Denth, Shashara, Arsteel, and Yesteel. He's heard that Yesteel, Arsteel's brother, has resurfaced and made a more potent form of ichor-alcohol, and so Vasher plans to do something about it. Vivenna asks him what his real name is, listing the various names he's been given: Peacegiver, Kalad, Vasher, and Talaxin. Vasher tells her he doesn't remember his name from before he Returned, but he was given a name after he Returned - Warbreaker the Peaceful.
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-epilogue|Epilogue]]
*[[bws: annotation-warbreaker-epilogue/|Epilogue Annotation]]
 
== Ars Arcanum ==
 
*[[bws: warbreaker-ars-arcanum|Ars Arcanum]]
 
== Notes ==
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