What a finish! I’m so glad I did the full re-read of the entire series, because there is so much going on in this series. These books are incredibly long, so it’s hard to be short about them and cover all of my thoughts and feelings.
Szeth’s backstory was great. It felt a little sidequest-y, but I wasn’t mad. I liked learning more about Szeth, and following along with him on his journey.
Kaladin’s story was also a sidequest (right there along with Szeth), but the payoff at the end (with the Heralds) was well worth it.
Shallan’s story with the Ghostbloods was a journey. She’s a badass. The cliffhanger she ended on is something I’m going to think a lot about until the next one releases.
Dalinar giving us an entire history lesson was something I wanted, and I wasn’t disappointed. His ending in this novel was also phenomenal. Just such a great character.
Navani didn’t do much for me in this one. Neither did Gavinor.
Adolin’s storyline was one I was always anxiously awaiting to get back to. Big fan of him in this book.
Rlain and Renarin’s finish was wild, and the backstory on that one was great.
Venli and Leshwi both had a very satisfying ending.
Sigzil is awesome.
Fuck Moash.
And now the wait begins for the next one in the series. Horneater is apparently coming out sometime in 2026, and the second arc of The Stormlight Archive is likely in 2031 (it feels weird to type that).
On a slightly sentimental note, this was the last book I finished on my Kindle Oasis, before retiring it for my new Boox Go 7.
This was also my first book using the new app I created, the Blurbos Highlight Formatter.
Highlights
Wind and Truth
by Sanderson Brandon
Gavilar nodded. “I swear to serve Honor and Roshar as its Herald. Better than these did.” These words are not accepted, the Stormfather said. You will never find them at random, Gavilar.
— Page 5 | Location 91-93 | 2025-03-17 9:29 PM
Thaidakar was made entirely of softly glowing white-blue light. He was younger than Gavilar had imagined—in his middle years, not the wizened elder he’d seemed. He had a large spike, also blue, through one eye. The point jutted out the back of his skull. Was he some kind of spren?
— Page 10 | Location 195-198 | 2025-03-17 9:36 PM
More importantly, he thought, the Heralds will return from the land of the dead to lead us again. Letting me usurp the position of one of them.
— Page 12 | Location 246-248 | 2025-03-17 9:40 PM
Nale. Oh, storms. Gavilar knew—but tried to ignore—that Restares pretended to be a Herald to impress the others. The little man didn’t know Gavilar had become familiar with the Stormfather, who had told him the truth: that the Heralds had all long since died and gone to Braize.
— Page 13 | Location 275-278 | 2025-03-17 9:43 PM
“Yes,” Gavilar said. “That is correct. Restares, I have more good news. We can move Voidlight from the storm to the Physical Realm. We can even carry it between here and Damnation, as you wanted.”
— Page 13 | Location 284-286 | 2025-03-17 9:43 PM
The Stormfather could lie? “Restares,” Gavilar whispered. “Is he … actually a Herald?” Yes.
— Page 20 | Location 433-436 | 2025-03-17 9:53 PM
And when the champions met atop Urithiru in ten days—nine, since the first day was underway—Kaladin wouldn’t participate.
— Page 25 | Location 515-516 | 2025-03-18 8:55 PM
He’d stopped revering people he didn’t know the day Amaram branded him. God or king. If they wanted his respect, they could earn it.
— Page 36 | Location 761-763 | 2025-03-19 9:36 PM
“Some of us learned you could capture spren in gemstones,” he explained. “And Mishram—for all her power—is a spren. The Radiants prepared a flawless heliodor the color of sunlight, and they trapped her inside, then hid her prison. Not in the Physical Realm, and not in Shadesmar.” He bit his lip, then forced out another part. “In the Spiritual Realm. Melishi hid it there.”
— Page 42 | Location 881-884 | 2025-03-19 9:44 PM
“It is because…” Maya said, “… humans have no Honor. The god, I mean. I heard … I heard that Mishram had been captured. I heard that … that Radiants would destroy the world. That was why I decided. Decided I was done.” She shook her head. “I don’t know it all. I’d like to. Considering what breaking … breaking the bond did to me.” That day—the day Mishram had been captured—something deeper had happened. An event connecting humankind, Honor, spren, and the bonds.
— Page 43 | Location 909-914 | 2025-03-19 9:46 PM
“Take it from a guy who is all too capable with a lie: nothing is easier to sell someone than the story they want to hear.
— Page 50 | Location 1066-1067 | 2025-03-20 5:21 PM
“You know what first drew me to you, Kaladin?” Wit asked. “You did one of the most difficult things a man can do: you gave yourself a second chance.” “I took that second chance … maybe a third,” Kaladin admitted. “But now what? Who am I without the spear?” “Won’t it be exciting to find out?” Wit said.
— Page 52 | Location 1114-1117 | 2025-03-20 5:25 PM
“I’m never alone,” the man said in his lightly accented voice. “Even without spren or sword, I’d have the voices.” He looked straight at Kaladin with all the emotion of a corpse. Storms.
— Page 61 | Location 1330-1331 | 2025-03-20 9:22 PM
We need to change, Kaladin. To do things differently. I think we start by not throwing people away when we worry they’re defective.”
— Page 64 | Location 1388-1390 | 2025-03-20 9:26 PM
Dalinar held out the sheet to Kaladin. “I will not force this upon you, Kaladin. But I will ask, because I must. Will you be our heir?” It was like a cold bucket of rainwater thrown over him. He couldn’t respond. Being an officer was difficult, being a lighteyes worse, but being royalty?
— Page 66 | Location 1448-1450 | 2025-03-21 9:32 PM
“Reality,” Shallan hissed, “is what I decide it to be.”
— Page 85 | Location 1862-1862 | 2025-03-21 9:57 PM
Syl leaned forward conspiratorially across the counter. “I could never figure out why these humans were so shy about the spot between their legs! Strange to my uncultured spren mind. Then I figured it out! Must be something pretty ugly down there, for everyone to be so afraid to show it! The ugliest thing I know of is a chull head. So when I made this body, I put one there.” The woman stared at Syl, and seemed to be trying very hard not to look. “… Chull head,” the woman finally said. “Chull head,” Syl replied. “Down … there.” “Down there.” Syl held the woman’s eyes with an unblinking stare, before adding, “I feed it grass sometimes.”
— Page 88 | Location 1915-1922 | 2025-03-22 9:54 PM
For years, Shallan had hated herself. Now she merely feared herself. That was progress.
— Page 95 | Location 2044-2045 | 2025-03-23 10:08 PM
“I’m not a Windrunner. Yet they celebrate me.” “Not a Windrunner,” Kaladin said. “But still Bridge Four. Still and always, Rlain.”
— Page 101 | Location 2164-2165 | 2025-03-24 9:16 PM
Then, one at a time, arms rose to tap wrists. The Bridge Four salute. Solemnly, without cheers. Kaladin returned it. And storms, seeing them, he couldn’t keep those tears back anymore.
— Page 102 | Location 2200-2201 | 2025-03-24 9:18 PM
He’d always be Bridge Four. But he was not their leader.
— Page 105 | Location 2254-2254 | 2025-03-24 9:22 PM
Shallan gasped, suddenly constricted by the tight armor, and a part of her mind panicked, misinterpreting this as some kind of attack. Faintly, she heard the pieces speaking. Shallan! Shallan! Shallan! Gleeful, excited voices. So, one of those truths she’d spoken in there had done the trick. She had obtained the Fourth Ideal, likely when she’d confronted Veil—or when she’d spoken the Words earlier, to accompany those revelations.
— Page 110 | Location 2361-2365 | 2025-03-24 9:30 PM
“Reality warps around you, Kaladin. It always has. Promise me. If there’s a promise, then we can make it happen.” He met her eyes, then nodded. “Drinks. Jokes. Laughter. At the end. I promise.”
— Page 114 | Location 2457-2459 | 2025-03-24 9:49 PM
“I know their anger, Cultivation. Do not lecture me. Oh, I taste it. Every moment. And I also know there will not be a way to soothe that agony, not until…” She held his eyes. He saw in them the depths of eternity, as he was sure she saw in his—for these forms they wore were but cloaks across a vast essence that was itself infinite. “Not until what?” she demanded. “Not until there is but one god,” Odium whispered.
— Page 126 | Location 2641-2646 | 2025-03-25 10:06 PM
Wit would do what he thought was best for a person, not what they wanted.
— Page 132 | Location 2694-2695 | 2025-03-26 9:46 PM
“I’m missing,” Wit said, “three minutes and twenty-seven seconds.”
— Page 135 | Location 2750-2751 | 2025-03-26 9:51 PM
This group—the Unseen Court—was hers, and she wasn’t going to let it grow unwieldy. Kaladin barely knew the names of half the Windrunners these days.
— Page 152 | Location 3117-3118 | 2025-03-28 10:12 PM
“Tanavast—the Vessel that once held Honor—is dead, but the power remains. Somewhere. It’s a conundrum that few scholars even know to ponder upon. None know what became of Honor’s power. Have you any guesses?”
— Page 156 | Location 3224-3226 | 2025-03-28 10:18 PM
“Wait. What are you saying? That … someone could…?” “Honor’s power needs a host,” she said.
— Page 156 | Location 3232-3233 | 2025-03-28 10:19 PM
Kholinar fell when I was sent to save it. Not a day passes that I haven’t thought about that.”
— Page 162 | Location 3334-3335 | 2025-03-29 10:20 PM
My friends, we are facing an enemy we do not know and cannot anticipate. And whoever it is, they’re a genius—one who has devised a ploy to conquer all of Roshar in ten days.”
— Page 170 | Location 3531-3532 | 2025-03-30 9:45 PM
Bridge Four was the only place I ever felt like a person rather than an accident, he thought. But without Kaladin, Rock, Teft, Moash … was it really Bridge Four anymore?
— Page 196 | Location 4100-4102 | 2025-04-04 9:56 PM
“Everything exists in three realms,” Wit said. “Physical, where we live now. Shadesmar, the Cognitive Realm, where minds project their impressions. Finally, the Spiritual Realm. The realm of our souls, our links to our past and to other people.
— Page 200 | Location 4214-4217 | 2025-04-05 9:58 PM
“If we are to fight a god, would it not be best to have one on our side?” Wait, Jasnah thought. What is he saying? “I have yet to know a person,” Wit said, “who took up one of those Shards and didn’t regret it, my friend.”
— Page 201 | Location 4230-4233 | 2025-04-05 9:59 PM
They were talking about Dalinar Ascending to the Shard of Honor. Storms.
— Page 201 | Location 4235-4236 | 2025-04-05 9:59 PM
Nevertheless, do not assume I will endure you trying to ‘save’ me, Kaladin Stormblessed. Not all beneath
— Page 210 | Location 4431-4432 | 2025-04-06 10:06 PM
“Are there places worse than the one being threatened with utter domination by a dark, destructive god?” “You’d be surprised,” Wit said. “A few have political fundraisers.”
— Page 216 | Location 4567-4569 | 2025-04-07 10:03 PM
Thank you. For listening and changing. I had forgotten that people are capable of that.
— Page 228 | Location 4835-4835 | 2025-04-10 9:35 PM
Free time was the greatest blessing in the world.
— Page 233 | Location 4935-4935 | 2025-04-10 9:41 PM
The wisdom of the past is excellent at teaching us to deal with the world as it has existed. And only as it has existed.
— Page 241 | Location 5103-5104 | 2025-04-12 10:14 PM
I’ve discovered terrifying truths, and I’ve shared them with the world. That our god died millennia ago, that humankind stole this world from those who owned
— Page 242 | Location 5125-5126 | 2025-04-12 10:15 PM
I’ve discovered terrifying truths, and I’ve shared them with the world. That our god died millennia ago, that humankind stole this world from those who owned it.
— Page 242 | Location 5125-5127 | 2025-04-12 10:15 PM
“You said our spren could guide us,” Mraize said, stepping closer to the mirror. “You said they understood that realm.” Our spren? Our spren? Shallan backed up a pace, pressing against the cold stone wall. Mraize and Iyatil had spren? They were Radiant?
— Page 248 | Location 5255-5258 | 2025-04-13 10:37 PM
But let me teach a truth here that is often misunderstood: sometimes, it is not weakness, but strength, to stand up and walk away.
— Page 255 | Location 5396-5398 | 2025-04-15 9:52 PM
Pattern followed at her summons, a brilliant, silvery sword. And Testament? She would not ask Testament to kill again. Shallan reached her left arm to the side, and Testament appeared as a powerful shield, affixed to her arm, light as a cloth glyphward.
— Page 255 | Location 5405-5407 | 2025-04-15 9:53 PM
“This world,” she said, “it’s fulla stuff that people think you ain’t supposed to do, but which is actually okay. It’s also full of stuff you really, really shouldn’t do. Nobody tells you which is which, so you gotta find the difference.”
— Page 266 | Location 5634-5636 | 2025-04-16 9:31 PM
“Look again. It’s red, and has a beak and feathers. And it says stuff. Like a person.” “You’ve described it many times, Lift.” “It was hurt an’ scared. They took it when I was inna cage. You gotta find it, so I can help
— Page 267 | Location 5646-5648 | 2025-04-16 9:32 PM
“Look again. It’s red, and has a beak and feathers. And it says stuff. Like a person.” “You’ve described it many times, Lift.” “It was hurt an’ scared. They took it when I was inna cage. You gotta find it, so I can help it.”
— Page 267 | Location 5646-5648 | 2025-04-16 9:32 PM
The secret was that secret handshakes were stupid, but sometimes you used them anyway. Mostly for making scared friends feel like they belonged.
— Page 268 | Location 5669-5670 | 2025-04-16 9:34 PM
As I fear not the child with a weapon he cannot lift, I will never fear the mind of a man who does not think.
— Page 271 | Location 5742-5744 | 2025-04-16 9:38 PM
“Um…” Renarin said. “What if … you know … he…?” “Prefers women?” Renarin nodded. “Then move on,” Drehy said.
— Page 274 | Location 5806-5808 | 2025-04-17 9:50 PM
“Everyone’s got to figure it out for themselves,” Drehy said. “I’ll tell you this though, Rlain said a few things at stew one night about being in mateform and being hugely embarrassed … I think it’s going to turn out all right, Renarin. If you’re willing to try.”
— Page 274 | Location 5815-5817 | 2025-04-17 9:50 PM
“Why pay attention if it could all be lies?” “Because truth is just the lie that happened,” Renarin said. Rlain attuned Skepticism. “That … doesn’t make sense.”
— Page 276 | Location 5868-5870 | 2025-04-17 9:54 PM
Humans had come to Roshar long ago—and brought Odium with them. He had been their god, who had accepted the loyalty of the ancient singers after Honor betrayed them. Rlain hadn’t put together the deeper truth: that even Honor and Cultivation had come to Roshar and found the singers.
— Page 278 | Location 5902-5904 | 2025-04-17 9:56 PM
Mishram. Yes, Rlain did know that name. She had ruled the singers long ago—a spren who had wanted to perpetuate the fighting after the Fused left. The one who had been determined to exterminate humankind, escalating the war. She was the reason Rlain’s people had abandoned their forms and left. She was the queen of the gods they had forsaken. And he suspected he’d just seen her face in the vision.
— Page 281 | Location 5970-5974 | 2025-04-17 10:00 PM
It was magnetic, taking not only her breath and attention, but her soul and mind, which longed to just once create something so beautiful. It was the pinnacle of all artistry. This was the height to which creations could rise. This was what you could … could … Do you need me to take control? Radiant asked. Please! Shallan said, tears in her eyes.
— Page 283 | Location 6004-6007 | 2025-04-18 10:09 PM
She thought that was why they wore red glyphwards on their arms—something about a pact relating to Moash and vengeance.
— Page 284 | Location 6017-6018 | 2025-04-18 10:10 PM
May you have the courage someday to walk away. And the wisdom to recognize that day when it arrives.
— Page 301 | Location 6381-6383 | 2025-04-23 9:09 PM
El held up the gemstone, where a Herald’s soul had been trapped. It flashed as anti-Light met Light, and Jezrien was at long last destroyed. Not much of an explosion; barely enough to crack the gemstone. There hadn’t been much of Jezrien left. Now even that was gone. Forever. “Goodbye, old friend,” El whispered to no rhythm.
— Page 318 | Location 6713-6716 | 2025-04-24 9:45 PM
“And what are your thoughts on the Nine?” “I think of them little, and when I do, I think little of them. Master.” “Then they report to you, El. Help me claim this world.” “If I do, can I rule human lands for you?” “If that is your wish, I will grant it.” Excellent. El bowed. “I will not fail, lest I be destroyed.”
— Page 321 | Location 6776-6781 | 2025-04-24 9:49 PM
Don’t just fight. Fight for something—something worthy of your heart.
— Page 334 | Location 7019-7019 | 2025-04-25 9:58 PM
The power of Division could set the sky itself aflame. His spren had commanded that he use it solely when instructed. The Skybreakers feared Division. It was related to the fate of the human homeworld, which had been burned.
— Page 336 | Location 7048-7050 | 2025-04-26 10:50 PM
“Changes are coming,” she said, her eyes narrowed. “I can feel them, even if I don’t know what they mean. The soul of the world is … contorting. It’s why the Wind speaks again.”
— Page 341 | Location 7176-7177 | 2025-04-26 10:58 PM
“Those who subtract are allowed to walk on stone, because their lives are blasphemy. They kill.”
— Page 372 | Location 7855-7856 | 2025-04-29 9:54 PM
“Best we can figure out, Roshar is the work of the ancient god who became Cultivation and Honor. Odium too, though that’s embarrassing to admit. It means we’re relatives, you see.”
— Page 373 | Location 7864-7866 | 2025-04-29 9:54 PM
“I haven’t decided what that cleansing will entail,” Szeth said. “Perhaps it is my people who must be destroyed.” “You’re kidding,” Syl said, walking hurriedly on his other side, still full sized. “I have not decided,” Szeth repeated calmly. “My quest is about this decision.” Good, his spren whispered. Good. You see, and you grow. “Insanity,” Kaladin said.
— Page 375 | Location 7911-7915 | 2025-04-29 9:57 PM
“Good,” Pattern said. “Excellent, even! Let’s go murder some folks!”
— Page 430 | Location 8981-8981 | 2025-05-07 9:46 PM
One might imagine that salvation would arrive to thunderous joy, but in his experience it was often rewarded with exhaustion. Those who needed help most rarely had much left to offer their rescuers.
— Page 439 | Location 9180-9181 | 2025-05-08 9:54 PM
The portal started small, a pinprick in the sky, then was spread wide by the efforts of a man who stood on the other side. At least she thought he was the source, because he stood with arms stretched wide, a look of concentration on his face as if forcibly pushing the portal open. “Ishar,” Dalinar said.
— Page 442 | Location 9221-9223 | 2025-05-09 10:12 PM
In the background, their world burned. The very sky seemed to be on fire, and the people were covered in ash and soot.
— Page 442 | Location 9226-9227 | 2025-05-09 10:13 PM
Adolin thought he felt reluctance from the armor as it was carried away. Was that real?
— Page 452 | Location 9423-9423 | 2025-05-10 10:17 PM
He was … sad. “The dogs will die,” he said softly. “The … what?” Dalinar said, frowning. “Those smaller beasts that come with the refugees?” the Stormfather said. “The friendly ones? They’re called dogs.” He fell silent a moment. “Tanavast always said he missed hounds. Too small a breeding population made it through. They will be gone in three hundred years.”
— Page 470 | Location 9782-9785 | 2025-05-12 9:39 PM
“What are you afraid of?” Dalinar asked. “Stormfather? What lies have you been telling me!” Only the ones, the Stormfather said in his mind, that you deserve. Then he was gone.
— Page 472 | Location 9839-9841 | 2025-05-12 9:43 PM
It’s less like a doorway you step through, and more like something you step into—which then carries you a distance.
— Page 474 | Location 9881-9882 | 2025-05-13 9:33 PM
“Are you worth it?” She rested her hands on Taln’s arm. “Do you know the price that was paid on a distant world for your peace, by a man who never wanted this? A man who would have been content with his horses? Are you worth it?” “I don’t know,” Adolin said, honest. “Time will tell.”
— Page 479 | Location 9987-9990 | 2025-05-13 9:41 PM
“Wearing Plate,” Adolin said, “isn’t so much about learning how to do damage. That part is easy. Learning not to break everything? Well that takes practice. Once you can learn to direct your force, you truly become dangerous.”
— Page 489 | Location 10207-10210 | 2025-05-14 9:40 PM
In that—at the edge of the world and the advent of the end of all things—Kaladin Stormblessed allowed himself to be happy. For what felt like the first time since Tien’s death.
— Page 497 | Location 10388-10389 | 2025-05-15 9:42 PM
“A spoon?” Szeth shouted. “The best you could find was a spoon?” “You’re inventive!” the spren called back. “I figured you could find something to do with it!” Yes, Szeth did find something to do with the spoon. He threw it at the spren, hitting him square in the forehead.
— Page 507 | Location 10605-10607 | 2025-05-16 10:28 PM
It was easy to pretend superiority when you left your opponent unable to resist in any meaningful way.
— Page 510 | Location 10657-10658 | 2025-05-17 10:16 PM
“You get used to being alone,” Rlain said. “Sometimes a little too used to it, you know?” “I do,” Renarin said. “Trust me.”
— Page 517 | Location 10824-10825 | 2025-05-18 10:27 PM
“Ideas are more contagious than any disease,” she said.
— Page 521 | Location 10916-10917 | 2025-05-19 9:33 PM
He saw. Not as he had. Outlines of light, the people specifically, and … gemstones, infused. Living things. No color, but … spren.
— Page 527 | Location 10996-10997 | 2025-05-19 9:38 PM
“Look at his response. It’s functioning. He can see Investiture.” “What have you done to me?” Moash whispered. “You,” Odium said, “have become a very specific kind of weapon. Are you ready to serve again? To forge a better world?” This was … not what he’d been expecting.
— Page 527 | Location 10998-11001 | 2025-05-19 9:38 PM
The stones didn’t think about tomorrow. Let the wind worry about that. The stones could enjoy the past.
— Page 534 | Location 11069-11070 | 2025-05-20 9:50 PM
Some people whispered of supernatural skill on his part, that he was too capable for a boy of fourteen. That angered him. It made luck out of sweat. He hated it when they pretended he was something special. He wasn’t. That was the point.
— Page 554 | Location 11481-11484 | 2025-05-23 8:57 PM
“Is it right?” Szeth asked. “I say that it is. Do you believe me?” What else could he say? He was glad that for once, someone seemed willing to be firm. So he nodded. And was sent to learn how to kill.
— Page 562 | Location 11670-11673 | 2025-05-24 8:49 PM
“We’re not food to them,” Thude said. “We never were—we were rivals. Venli, they still can’t grasp that we were harvesting them, as gemstones are meaningless to them—they think it was a turf war. Apparently, they find ways to live with one another in situations like that.”
— Page 567 | Location 11765-11767 | 2025-05-25 9:11 PM
“But what … what if there’s more?” Why had a kingdom ever been built in this desolate place, where the storms were so devastating? What had broken the Plains? What had she felt from the chasmfiend as it transformed? Finally, why did Odium want this place so badly?
— Page 570 | Location 11839-11841 | 2025-05-25 9:16 PM
An Oathstone. Szeth had heard of the practice—the final chance for an otherwise condemned soldier. These were allowed to take an oath on a sacred stone, then do service. They were rare enough he’d never met one.
— Page 578 | Location 11999-12000 | 2025-05-25 9:26 PM
He was quiet, not wanting to talk when everyone else was so full of words. He still sparred relentlessly, and made no excuses for his resulting skill. These men loved him for
— Page 579 | Location 12030-12032 | 2025-05-26 9:13 PM
He was quiet, not wanting to talk when everyone else was so full of words. He still sparred relentlessly, and made no excuses for his resulting skill. These men loved him for it.
— Page 579 | Location 12030-12032 | 2025-05-26 9:13 PM
Fear. Szeth never seemed to feel that emotion as acutely as others did. There was always too much going on, too much to worry about, to be afraid.
— Page 580 | Location 12054-12055 | 2025-05-26 9:15 PM
The lantern nearest him went out. A moment later, Szeth’s strength returned. He pressed his hand to the wound, and found it sealed. This once, the Voice said, I restore you. Not many men have a chance to live a second time. You did not earn this. I gave it to you. Remember that.
— Page 581 | Location 12076-12078 | 2025-05-26 9:17 PM
Because Adolin Kholin was bad at a whole terrible host of things. But he refused to let people be one of those.
— Page 585 | Location 12163-12164 | 2025-05-26 9:23 PM
Stone went haywire, vibrating at insane speed. She saw people sink into it. She saw destruction. Terror. A landscape broken by the hand of Honor himself. Why had he destroyed this city? Had it been because they’d dared use Surges? When the ground settled—continuing to glow with Light—the little map showed the Shattered Plains she knew.
— Page 593 | Location 12343-12345 | 2025-05-27 9:31 PM
Outside strong—strong as Shardplate. Inside constantly worried.
— Page 596 | Location 12393-12393 | 2025-05-27 9:35 PM
Because victory here meant domination for centuries—and a loss meant the enforced cessation of hostilities. That was liberating. Because there would be only one more battle. It was also terrifying. Because there would be no holding back for a future fight.
— Page 598 | Location 12442-12444 | 2025-05-28 9:35 PM
“It’s all wrapped up in one knot,” Rlain said, nodding. “The fall of your god. The imprisonment of one of ours. The Radiants walking away from their vows, and the singers ending up in slaveform. Renarin … there are so many secrets here.”
— Page 609 | Location 12654-12657 | 2025-05-29 8:51 PM
He wore half a Bridge Four uniform, half a singer robe, accentuating his carapace. All split right down the middle.
— Page 611 | Location 12706-12707 | 2025-05-29 8:54 PM
It didn’t flinch as Sigzil’s Shardspear hit it straight in the chest, sank in about half an inch, then stopped. Storms, it was true. He hadn’t entirely believed. Their skin wraps must somehow use Voidlight to push back the spear.
— Page 621 | Location 12900-12902 | 2025-05-29 9:07 PM
“Rayse would destroy you now,” Tanavast said. “He doesn’t care for the people he plays with; he never has. He has found the singers, and he’s been granting them immortality so they can kill you.” Tanavast’s eyes flashed golden. “You will not defeat him. Not alone.”
— Page 631 | Location 13119-13121 | 2025-05-31 10:03 PM
“Your suggestions to me,” Szeth added, “about my thoughts. They are … helping. Thank you.”
— Page 636 | Location 13226-13227 | 2025-06-01 2:09 PM
“Do understand,” Kaladin said, “it … it’s not an easy fix. You have to practice it day after day, even when your mind doesn’t want to. Especially when it feels like it’s too hard. Learning to resist your own mind is difficult, Szeth.” “Yes, I see,” Szeth said. “I will consider.”
— Page 636 | Location 13229-13232 | 2025-06-01 2:09 PM
I’m at last capable of the strength required to kill myself.” Kaladin stopped in place, rain tapping at the oiled hood of his cloak. “You what?” “The law demands that I, for my crimes, be punished,” Szeth said, continuing to walk. “I have killed many; I should face justice. I will complete the pilgrimage, cleanse my homeland, then find peace in destruction at my own hand. Now that I know I’m not Truthless, I can deliver judgment to myself.”
— Page 637 | Location 13249-13253 | 2025-06-01 2:10 PM
This is the realm of the gods, she thought. Where Odium resides. He knows precisely where her prison is. He could have led someone here to free her. Why hasn’t he? “Odium wants her imprisoned,” she whispered. Mraize nodded. “He’s afraid of her, isn’t he?” “Yes,” Mraize said, smiling.
— Page 643 | Location 13377-13381 | 2025-06-01 2:19 PM
Ten people, in a circle, hands outstretched. Dalinar’s heart trembled as, one at a time, Honor pulled something from within his chest—and held it out. A glowing splinter of Light that formed a Shardblade when it touched a Herald’s waiting hand.
— Page 648 | Location 13492-13494 | 2025-06-01 9:46 PM
Strange, how he could remember each place he’d ever slept for any length of time. Was that normal?
— Page 652 | Location 13570-13570 | 2025-06-01 9:51 PM
Szeth wasn’t Kaladin. Szeth was Tien. Szeth wasn’t the young man who had gone to war, determined to save and protect. He was the child who had been ripped from his peaceful life, then transformed into a killer against his will. A scared little boy who just yearned to go home.
— Page 653 | Location 13590-13593 | 2025-06-01 9:52 PM
The Shattered Plains were moving on from the time when human and listener clashed atop them every few days.
— Page 662 | Location 13786-13787 | 2025-06-03 10:01 PM
“Today, you become someone new, Szeth,” Pozen said. “Neither one who adds nor one who subtracts—but someone holy, someone greater. You come alone, as every child is born alone.”
— Page 671 | Location 13966-13967 | 2025-06-05 10:10 PM
There were two on this planet who, even as a divinity, he respected almost as equals. Jasnah Kholin and Dalinar Kholin. If they opposed him, then … he questioned.
— Page 678 | Location 14063-14065 | 2025-06-05 10:16 PM
A simple, reasonable precept: if someone you deeply respected disagreed with you, perhaps it was worth reconsidering.
— Page 678 | Location 14065-14066 | 2025-06-05 10:17 PM
Shouldn’t it be easy to tell what is good and evil? “We all pretend that it is,” Szeth said. “But if it were, then we would not disagree so much.”
— Page 691 | Location 14293-14294 | 2025-06-08 10:19 PM
What if he had ships—the navy from Vedenar, and stolen ships from Thaylen City itself—and people to dress up in costumes … but no actual troops?
— Page 704 | Location 14556-14557 | 2025-06-09 10:24 PM
Nale is infuriating. He doesn’t actually follow the law—he changes his perceptions, motivations, and even morals at the drop of a sphere.
— Page 709 | Location 14657-14658 | 2025-06-09 10:30 PM
“Storms,” Leyten said. “Sig, you really sound like a leader.” Did he? He … did. “Blame Kaladin,” he said, managing a wan smile despite the day’s gloom. “And what he made of all of us.”
— Page 727 | Location 15053-15055 | 2025-06-12 10:06 PM
“I hate you,” Elid called after him. “I hate you, Szeth!” “I’m sorry,” he whispered, “for not knowing a better way.”
— Page 735 | Location 15222-15224 | 2025-06-13 10:20 PM
“The reinforcements,” he guessed. “They aren’t going to arrive in time.”
— Page 749 | Location 15541-15541 | 2025-06-13 10:41 PM
“What happened?” he demanded. “Betrayal,” she said. “Emul and Tashikk have turned on us.”
— Page 749 | Location 15544-15545 | 2025-06-13 10:41 PM
“The planet. It draws souls to it naturally. Honor fashioned it into a prison, but a prison needs a lock.” “And … we are that lock?” Dalinar asked. “Our oath is that lock. Because Odium first Connected to us when he gave us powers on Ashyn, Honor could use that bond against him. That, along with the promise we made, becomes the force that holds the Fused.”
— Page 753 | Location 15621-15624 | 2025-06-14 10:53 PM
“I showed him I wasn’t a threat!” Dalinar said. By beating him near senseless, the Stormfather said. I should never have picked you, Dalinar. You are born of war, and trail blood like a shadow. The sole thing you know how to do is break. If you are told no, you just punch harder—because life has taught you that’s how to get what you want. But sometimes, deny it though you may, the world doesn’t need what you want.
— Page 761 | Location 15798-15801 | 2025-06-15 9:58 PM
“What are you?” Dalinar asked, narrowing his eyes at the shimmer. “What are you really?” What I’ve always been, the Stormfather said. Perhaps if you hadn’t treated me like you did Elhokar and every other person in your life, we’d have made it further, Dalinar. I suppose the fault is mine. I knew what you were. This is the end. You will die in this realm—a worse death than your brother, and a worse one than you deserve. Goodbye.
— Page 761 | Location 15803-15806 | 2025-06-15 9:58 PM
Cultivation was moving against him. Odium was shocked, for he had genuinely not thought her capable.
— Page 772 | Location 15983-15984 | 2025-06-16 9:49 PM
Then Odium, God of Passions, destroyed Kharbranth entirely—the one city he’d bargained all his mortal life to protect.
— Page 774 | Location 16034-16035 | 2025-06-16 9:52 PM
Sigzil was, at long last, the man he’d always wanted to be.
— Page 780 | Location 16120-16121 | 2025-06-16 9:56 PM
“Free…” Leshwi said. “It has been a long, long time…” She glanced upward. “But can I ever be free if I cannot soar?”
— Page 783 | Location 16172-16173 | 2025-06-17 10:26 PM
Like all Cryptics, Testament had come seeking the most wonderful lies. The contradictions that made humans able to function. Stories. Specifically, the one she’d told herself: the performance that she was happy and strong and not terrified. A lie that made it possible to shine when all the world was dark.
— Page 787 | Location 16275-16277 | 2025-06-18 9:23 PM
Adolin Kholin had been protecting the weak since he could walk.
— Page 789 | Location 16316-16316 | 2025-06-18 9:27 PM
Moash didn’t so much as flinch, though he did turn and glance at Sigzil. And the man’s eyes were entirely crystalline. Two diamonds, glowing with Voidlight, had replaced his eyes—and indeed, they seemed to have lanced through his skull, because pieces of them jutted from the back and sides of his head. As if they’d grown in among his brains, crusting them like a fungus. It looked almost as if he had a crown of crystals.
— Page 808 | Location 16743-16747 | 2025-06-21 10:19 PM
Moash lightly floated away from Sigzil, easily staying out of his reach, and landed near Leyten. There, he plunged the anti-Stormlight knife straight into Leyten’s chest. “NO!” Sigzil screamed. Moash stood, and glanced toward shouts from nearby—an entire force, fetched by the squires, running this way. He tapped his wrists together in the Bridge Four salute, then took to the sky—streaking away in the darkness.
— Page 809 | Location 16766-16770 | 2025-06-21 10:21 PM
“I die!” Leyten shouted, spasming. “The Scholar with a Spear! I die by the hands of a friend! My spren screams in death, and I know that I have failed to lead! I am no captain! I am nothing! Vyre strikes me, and my eyes burn!”
— Page 810 | Location 16778-16780 | 2025-06-21 10:22 PM
A colossal stone fist smashed down on Neziham, crushing him against the ground. Plate exploded and popped in a sequence of spraying molten bits, and the thunderclast’s knuckles slammed into the street. Neziham’s Shardblade clanged free, rolling across the street, and didn’t vanish.
— Page 821 | Location 17006-17008 | 2025-06-23 10:07 PM
Because Talenel’Elin, unarmed and without his Blade, was still the most terrifying warrior on the planet. A crash broke the silence, windows cracking, air rushing to fill the hole Taln left when he moved. And for the first time in over four thousand years, the Bearer of Agonies fought back.
— Page 829 | Location 17160-17162 | 2025-06-24 9:41 PM
Taln, the Herald, knelt here with his head back, speared with a dozen lances, which propped up his corpse—his hand still holding the crushed skull of a dead Fused. In death, he was covered in blood, his face tipped toward the sky and his mouth open as if in a shout. Leaning against him from behind, nestled among the bodies as if looking for a place to rest, was Ash, a bloodied and chipped sword in her lap. She was smiling.
— Page 841 | Location 17407-17410 | 2025-06-26 9:49 PM
“This time,” she whispered, “I won’t let him go alone.” She closed her eyes and fell still.
— Page 841 | Location 17411-17412 | 2025-06-26 9:49 PM
“We’re all Voidbringers. Every time we pick up a spear or a Blade and slaughter someone over this cursed land, we become Voidbringers. Singer or human, it’s the same. That’s the Void, Melishi.”
— Page 844 | Location 17500-17502 | 2025-06-26 9:56 PM
With this came peace. For despite it all—everything he’d been through, the state he’d ended up in, the trauma he’d endured—a part of him had still assumed that he would become the champion Dalinar required. He’d believed, deep down, that he would return to Urithiru with the secrets of the Heralds—maybe even with Ishar—and save the day. Fight Odium’s champion. Win.
— Page 847 | Location 17551-17554 | 2025-06-26 10:00 PM
“Your names are numbers?” Kaladin asked, frowning. “Like … Cryptics?” “What?” both she and the highspren said. “It’s nothing like that,” the highspren replied. “Theirs are formulas. Ours are numbers.” “That was honestly kind of racist,” Syl whispered to Kaladin.
— Page 852 | Location 17677-17680 | 2025-06-28 10:20 PM
“Wind,” Syl said, “why does Nale hate the song Kaladin plays?” He hates it because he remembers it, the Wind explained. Cephandrius—you call him Wit—taught you that song, Kaladin, because it is one of our rhythms. It is the song the Heralds heard, that Nale heard, that brought them here to safety.
— Page 854 | Location 17726-17728 | 2025-06-28 10:23 PM
Melishi raised the gemstone to the unsuspecting spren, and … Hesitated. Mishram cocked her head. Dalinar’s breath caught. “DO IT, MELISHI,” Honor’s voice said, vibrating through the small hollow of stone. Melishi did.
— Page 862 | Location 17913-17916 | 2025-06-29 10:11 PM
“Blood of my fathers,” Dalinar said. “You’re not dead, are you? You never were. It was an act?” “No,” the being said, and its voice was familiar. “It’s me. I was created in his image.” “Stormfather,” Dalinar said. “You were here; you did see all of this. You’ve known the truth all along—it was lies when you said you didn’t remember. Why?” “You, Dalinar,” the Stormfather said, sounding exhausted, “have seen far too much. I hope you are satisfied. I … I must stop hiding you from Odium. You are his. And this is … this is his domain now.”
— Page 864 | Location 17958-17963 | 2025-06-29 10:13 PM
“You, Dalinar”—a booming voice, like thunder—“have seen far too much. I hope you are satisfied. I … I must stop hiding you from Odium. You are his. And this is … this is his domain now.”
— Page 866 | Location 17995-17997 | 2025-06-30 9:16 PM
“Incredible power,” he said, “demands incredible training, otherwise it can manifest as clumsiness.”
— Page 878 | Location 18217-18218 | 2025-07-01 9:25 PM
“You need,” he said softly, “a teacher.” “You need,” she replied, “some pants.”
— Page 878 | Location 18220-18221 | 2025-07-01 9:25 PM
Yelig-nar, who could be born for a short time to wreak terrible devastation before consuming his host, had been dropped right into the middle of Narak Three. Sigzil and the others had brought him down, leaving the hulking form slumped among a pile of corpses.
— Page 883 | Location 18266-18268 | 2025-07-01 9:28 PM
“There will be peace, Gav,” Dalinar promised. “That’s what I’m working for—what you and I are fighting for.” “Will there?” Gav whispered, his head against Dalinar’s chest. “I don’t see it, Grampa. When I open my eyes, I see us fighting forever, and ever, and ever … And I have to be a soldier. I have to be strong and fight … like you.”
— Page 888 | Location 18380-18383 | 2025-07-02 9:45 PM
The Words weren’t easy, and they hurt, but they were right. At the same time though … Well, he’d seen too much to blindly trust that the people in charge were there for a reason.
— Page 891 | Location 18438-18439 | 2025-07-02 9:49 PM
good traditions would be valuable because of what they offered, not because they merely existed.
— Page 891 | Location 18441-18442 | 2025-07-02 9:50 PM
“Why am I here, Elid?” “The Oathpact is broken,” she said, her face distorting. “He’s summoning me, to try to stop me, but I know. The circle is shattered. The Heralds degrade. They need someone new. They need … you, Szeth. This pilgrimage, it’s an audition. Jezrien is dead. And you are to take his—” She went stiff, then completely vanished.
— Page 904 | Location 18706-18709 | 2025-07-03 9:36 PM
“We need to defeat the humans,” the Fused said, pointing. “And you have brought me something extremely interesting. Captive greatshells who somehow follow you.”
— Page 916 | Location 18980-18982 | 2025-07-04 9:54 PM
First, this Voice had stolen the grasslands from him, then it had stolen his innocence, then finally it had ascended him to master of wind and Truth.
— Page 920 | Location 19043-19045 | 2025-07-06 9:18 PM
Mother. The Herald. Dead. This day. This terrible day. The day the world had ended. And Shallan was to blame.
— Page 925 | Location 19151-19153 | 2025-07-06 9:24 PM
Are we … just going to ignore … that you’re the daughter of a Herald? Pattern said. Shallan, Heralds are like spren—they don’t die permanently, not even by Shardblades. She’s still alive somewhere.
— Page 926 | Location 19180-19182 | 2025-07-06 9:25 PM
The room … was filled with spren. Nailed to the walls.
— Page 929 | Location 19234-19235 | 2025-07-06 9:29 PM
All his life … from childhood and that first awful day when he’d killed … he’d been listening not to a god or a spren. But to one of the Unmade.
— Page 930 | Location 19253-19255 | 2025-07-06 9:30 PM
Szeth had been too afraid to make the right decision as a child. He’d always worried that if he faced such a choice again, again he’d prove too weak. But that day, Szeth was stronger than he’d ever been. For as the shadow called to him, Szeth turned and fled.
— Page 930 | Location 19260-19262 | 2025-07-06 9:30 PM
A PLANET WHICH HAD ITS OWN PEOPLE, ITS OWN TONES, ITS OWN WAY OF EXISTING. ALASWHA, IT WAS CALLED.
— Page 1001 | Location 19391-19392 | 2025-07-15 10:20 PM
A highspren could end their bond at any point, with no repercussions to either of them. No deadeyed highspren existed, or would exist. If Szeth walked away from his oaths, his spren would not be hurt.
— Page 937 | Location 19417-19419 | 2025-07-07 9:39 PM
It would require taking a piece of Honor, forging from it a new sword. Saying the most important Words a person can say, and joining the Heralds.”
— Page 938 | Location 19443-19444 | 2025-07-07 9:44 PM
ASH AND DEATH. ALL HAD BECOME ASH AND DEATH.
— Page 1014 | Location 19667-19668 | 2025-07-18 11:05 PM
THE FIRST PLANET BURNED. RAYSE APPEARED BEFORE ME, TALL AS A MOUNTAIN, HANDS CLASPED BEHIND HIS BACK. “THAT DID NOT … GO AS PLANNED,” THE DECEITFUL ONE SAID, SURVEYING CITIES FULL OF THE BURNED, ARMIES THAT WERE NOW NOTHING MORE THAN CHARRED BONES.
— Page 1014 | Location 19672-19674 | 2025-07-18 11:06 PM
Her mother stood at the back of the room, among the servants. The Herald had died, and returned. Shallan had killed her and sent her to Braize, where she had broken and come back to Roshar. Initiating the Return, unleashing the Voidbringers, and starting all of this.
— Page 951 | Location 19713-19716 | 2025-07-08 9:40 PM
“Szeth,” Kaladin said, not daring to take his eyes off Nale, “do you want my help?” “Yes, please,” Szeth whispered. “Nin, this is my champion. I cannot fight you. I choose not to. But he defeated me. He can defeat you.”
— Page 1021 | Location 19846-19848 | 2025-07-19 10:39 PM
“Listen. Remember. The question is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what you will love, why you will hurt, when you will dream, and how you will die. This is your choice. You cannot pick the destination, only the path.”
— Page 963 | Location 19955-19957 | 2025-07-09 10:48 PM
But we are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us.
— Page 963 | Location 19960-19960 | 2025-07-09 10:48 PM
War seemed constant these days, but life went on.
— Page 970 | Location 20037-20037 | 2025-07-10 10:00 PM
“I would kill a thousand youthful soldiers if my cause were just and the law on my side.”
— Page 1030 | Location 20037-20038 | 2025-07-20 10:43 PM
“Good,” Nale said. “Yes, you’d likely have won by now if you were facing most foes. You quite nearly killed me, Stormblessed. Be proud of that. I would have you die with such pride.”
— Page 1031 | Location 20053-20055 | 2025-07-21 10:11 PM
“That song … it’s the song you played. Those notes … those are the notes that led us to Roshar all those millennia ago…”
— Page 1035 | Location 20119-20120 | 2025-07-21 10:15 PM
“Honor is … is dead,” Nale whispered. “Jezrien is … is gone. Ishar is … as good … as good as dead too…”
— Page 1038 | Location 20186-20187 | 2025-07-21 10:19 PM
“Derethil learned a lesson that day—one I’ve learned, and you must learn. Even if an emperor makes the laws, when we uphold them, the laws become ours. The responsibility ours. And every action those people took … that blood was on their hands.” Nale wept openly.
— Page 1038 | Location 20187-20189 | 2025-07-21 10:19 PM
Even those I hate, Kaladin thought. “Yes, we can help, Nale. We will help.”
— Page 1039 | Location 20197-20197 | 2025-07-21 10:20 PM
“IN HOW MANY EVENTUALITIES, KOR,” RAYSE SAID, “DOES THIS LAND SURVIVE A FULL CLASH BETWEEN US? DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REGION WHERE I KILLED AMBITION? HAVE YOU SEEN?”
— Page 1051 | Location 20466-20470 | 2025-07-22 10:11 PM
“WITH THESE RESTRICTIONS, NO MORTAL WOULD EVER BE POWERFUL ENOUGH TO DESTROY THE PLANET.” UNLESS … NO. THAT WAS RIDICULOUS TO CONSIDER.
— Page 1052 | Location 20505-20508 | 2025-07-22 10:13 PM
THEY WERE AFRAID OF ODIUM—BUT HE WAS BOUND ON ROSHAR. A DANGEROUS ANIMAL, NOW CAGED. THEY FEARED THAT ANY INTERVENTION WOULD LEAD TO HIS ESCAPE, AND WERE WILLING TO SACRIFICE ROSHAR TO KEEP HIM CONTAINED.
— Page 1062 | Location 20778-20782 | 2025-07-24 10:35 PM
AND THUS WE HAD AN AGREEMENT. THEY SWORE TO ME, AND I GAVE THEM THE LARGEST PORTION OF MYSELF THAT I WOULD EVER GRANT. GIVING BIRTH TO HERALDS.
— Page 1063 | Location 20808-20811 | 2025-07-24 10:37 PM
“You are not good for this planet. Your history, temperament, and morality all prove it. It will require sacrifices to stand against you, but we will do so, united. Regardless of the cost.”
— Page 1068 | Location 20911-20913 | 2025-07-25 10:37 PM
“I’ll take the deal, Taravangian,” Fen said. “Assuming we can reach points I agree with.”
— Page 1071 | Location 20977-20978 | 2025-07-25 10:41 PM
At the end Fen—wisely—made her deal. In so doing, Thaylenah joined the enemy without a single sword being raised.
— Page 1072 | Location 20986-20987 | 2025-07-25 10:42 PM
“There are two options,” Szeth whispered. “Either I was right to attack you all, or I was wrong. If I am right, then I need to kill all of you here. Even you, Father.” Tears stained Szeth’s eyes as he gazed upward.
— Page 1075 | Location 21038-21040 | 2025-07-26 10:39 PM
And so, Sigzil did the only thing he could think of to save Vienta. “I renounce my oaths!” he shouted.
— Page 1082 | Location 21181-21182 | 2025-07-28 10:10 PM
“You storming idiot,” Lopen said, his expression dark but his grin wide as he leveled his spear. “It’s not the number of hands that makes a man, but the number of cousins.”
— Page 1083 | Location 21196-21197 | 2025-07-28 10:11 PM
The next few hours would determine the fate of Azir for centuries to come. But here, two of the most powerful men in the world could do nothing but sit and wait.
— Page 1086 | Location 21263-21264 | 2025-07-28 10:16 PM
“I have more news from Urithiru,” May said. “The Shattered Plains are officially lost. All our forces have retreated.” Adolin groaned softly.
— Page 1087 | Location 21280-21281 | 2025-07-28 10:17 PM
“Did you know,” he whispered, “there is a world out there with an ocean in the sky? Another where people fly upon kites, as if every man were a Windrunner. Yet another where the gods can make any object stand up and walk? I will see them each someday, little knife. And claim a trophy to remember them by.”
— Page 1092 | Location 21389-21391 | 2025-07-28 10:25 PM
“When next we meet,” he said, turning and sitting back down, “be ready to fight. Try to hold me back from that which I’ve chased for my entire life. The dreams of a little boy, who once climbed atop a dead carcass to pretend.”
— Page 1092 | Location 21395-21397 | 2025-07-28 10:25 PM
“Ishar waits at the final monastery?” Kaladin said, stirring the stew. Nale nodded. “Where spren gather. Where Szeth will be initiated as a Herald, a real one, to lead us. Somehow I knew that we needed you, Szeth, although I was broken. Does that mean there’s hope for me, even now?”
— Page 1094 | Location 21444-21447 | 2025-07-29 10:03 PM
RAYSE AND I HAD BEEN IN AN ARMS RACE. FIRST HIS FUSED, THEN MY HERALDS, THEN HIS UNMADE, THEN MY RADIANTS—WHICH WERE NOT MY CONSCIOUS CREATION, BUT FORMED BY PIECES OF ME WORKING INDEPENDENTLY.
— Page 1096 | Location 21464-21467 | 2025-07-29 10:04 PM
Yet it was relentless. A repetitive chorus that proclaimed she was dangerous to anyone who got close to her. She would outgrow them, then murder them. Just as she’d done to her parents.
— Page 1104 | Location 21697-21698 | 2025-07-31 10:25 PM
I cannot hold it back, most days. I rage, I scream. I will kill you, if I can. I fear it. What will you do, when you find me? “I don’t know yet,” he said, and started walking away. “Maybe I’ll just listen.”
— Page 1108 | Location 21786-21789 | 2025-07-31 10:32 PM
“We change the now, Glys,” Renarin said. “The future always begins with the now.”
— Page 1111 | Location 21839-21839 | 2025-08-01 10:16 PM
Rlain pulled up sharply as Renarin appeared in front of him. Then he stepped forward. “Renarin?” “Yes,” Renarin said. Then he took a deep breath, reached for Rlain, and kissed him.
— Page 1112 | Location 21874-21876 | 2025-08-02 10:26 PM
This was the future he wanted. It wasn’t the one that others might have chosen, and wasn’t one that many would have chosen for him.
— Page 1113 | Location 21879-21880 | 2025-08-02 10:26 PM
WOULD THEY REALLY DO THIS? TURN THEIR BACKS ON THEIR OATHS? I, HONOR, REVILED IT. BUT I DID NOT SPEAK, DID NOT FORBID. I LET THEM CHOOSE, AND I WITHDREW, BECOMING THE STORM AND BLOWING ACROSS THE LANDSCAPE,
— Page 1116 | Location 21984-21988 | 2025-08-02 10:30 PM
WOULD THEY REALLY DO THIS? TURN THEIR BACKS ON THEIR OATHS? I, HONOR, REVILED IT. BUT I DID NOT SPEAK, DID NOT FORBID. I LET THEM CHOOSE, AND I WITHDREW, BECOMING THE STORM AND BLOWING ACROSS THE LANDSCAPE, FLEEING FROM THE HURT I HAD CREATED.
— Page 1116 | Location 21984-21988 | 2025-08-02 10:31 PM
HAVING NO GOD IS FAR PREFERABLE TO HAVING A HEARTLESS ONE.
— Page 1117 | Location 22033-22034 | 2025-08-02 10:32 PM
“WAR NEVER UNITES,” I SNAPPED. “MEN MIGHT ALIGN BRIEFLY OUT OF TERROR, BUT NOTHING MORE.”
— Page 1120 | Location 22059-22061 | 2025-08-02 10:34 PM
And he realized part of why he hated his father—because in Dalinar’s book, Oathbringer, he offered something better. A different God than the Almighty, a God that he described only as a sense of warmth. A God he claimed made things right eventually. How dare Dalinar Kholin—who had butchered all his life—be the one to offer such an uplifting message? How dare the Blackthorn, soaked in blood, claim the high ground?
— Page 1124 | Location 22223-22227 | 2025-08-03 10:13 PM
Stupid bridgeboy. Where did he get off, being so inspiring? A moment of brightness. Then back to Damnation.
— Page 1125 | Location 22242-22243 | 2025-08-03 10:14 PM
“I will need someone to rule this planet,” he said softly, “as my attention shifts toward the greater cosmere. When you are ready, come to me.”
— Page 1128 | Location 22312-22313 | 2025-08-03 10:20 PM
“What is the greater good, Jasnah? Dying in obscurity, or becoming immortal and working for centuries to influence me to treat people better?”
— Page 1128 | Location 22319-22320 | 2025-08-03 10:21 PM
BUT STILL I DID NOT WANT TO DIE. PROTECT ME, I BEGGED. A PIECE OF YOU. THE POWER TOOK A PORTION OF MY SOUL, INCLUDING MY MEMORIES, AND FLED. ODIUM DESTROYED THE REST WITH GLEE. KILLING, AT LONG LAST, HIS RIVAL.
— Page 1131 | Location 22442-22446 | 2025-08-03 10:26 PM
I WAS NOW MORE SPREN THAN MAN. I DID NOT CARE AS MUCH AS TANAVAST HAD—FOR WHY SHOULD A STORM CARE? IT COULD ONLY BLOW. BUT SECRETLY I CARRIED A GREATER TRUTH, AND IT KEPT ME FROM BEING LIKE ANY OTHER SPREN. I, IN ONE FORM, HAD BEEN THERE. I KNEW THE BURDEN OF TERRIBLE LOSS. FOR I, THE STORMFATHER, REMEMBERED.
— Page 1132 | Location 22450-22456 | 2025-08-03 10:28 PM
LAST OF ALL, A BETRAYAL OF ALL THAT I STOOD FOR. THE BREAKING OF RADIANTS, AND OF HONOR ITSELF, THROUGH THE IMPRISONMENT OF A SPREN WHO WAS SEEKING PEACE.
— Page 1132 | Location 22459-22461 | 2025-08-03 10:27 PM
Adolin curled up, and thought to hide among the dead. It was dark. They might not think to send someone to check the fallen. It happened. Lying there would be smart. He didn’t feel smart. He suddenly felt angry. Because nothing seemed to have a point.
— Page 1137 | Location 22569-22571 | 2025-08-04 9:25 PM
The city had fallen. And with it the empire. Azir was no more.
— Page 1140 | Location 22634-22635 | 2025-08-04 9:29 PM
“A mallet would be incredibly painful,” the judiciary said. “But a better story,” Dieno said. “Come on. I’m a legend. You can’t have a legend dying by a mere beheading, can you? Singers. You talk about passion and song. Well, we need a better song today if Dieno the Mink is going to die.”
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You couldn’t stay ahead of the wind forever.
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“When this began for you,” Szeth said as they rolled through a puddle with a bounce and a splash, “was it in a throne room? On a battlefield? Did you begin your journey soaring in the sky?” “No,” Kaladin said. “It started in a little town, far from anywhere important.” “My journey started among the sheep.” “Yes,” Kaladin said, nodding. “Yeah,” Syl added. Then after a pause, “My journey did start in a throne room, admittedly.”
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“Like I’ve been saying,” Syl said, “we don’t need Heralds anymore. Even if you lock the enemy away on Braize, they can get here via the Everstorm. The whole system is broken.”
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“We were so much more than locks upon Fused souls. We were leaders once. Teachers. What if we’d stayed on Roshar … and taught? Not to betray Taln, but to build up science, society? What if…” He shook his head. “I think the world could very well still use Heralds, Ancient Daughter. Just … not the ones it has…”
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“If only,” the young emperor said, a hint of awe in his voice, “we had someone to lead us who had experience sneaking into the palace.” Storms. Adolin blinked, then forced himself to stand on foot and peg. Yanagawn’s origin … was as a thief who had infiltrated the Azish palace with Lift so long ago.
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“Dalinar, I only pretend to know everything.” “Doesn’t that just lead to disappointing people?” “I find I can often confuse them instead.” Wit stood and walked past.
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“The cosmere is a strange place, isn’t it?” “You have no idea.”
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Every idea might have been thought, but each is new again when you think them.
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I think, Adolin said to Maya, that I really felt, deep down, that I had to step up and take my father’s place. I felt, for some reason, that since he had proven to be flawed, I had to take his place and be perfect instead. I’ve been running from that for a long time, because I knew I couldn’t be.
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I think, today, he thought back, the important fact is that I don’t need to be better than him. He can just be a person. And I … I can just be one too.
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“How close are you?” Szeth said, still regarding Kaladin. “I have barely let myself think about the final Words,” Kaladin admitted. “The last set nearly broke me.” “Then it will have to be me,” Szeth said,
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The time approaches, the Wind whispered to him. The hour when spren may need a champion. I wish that it were not so. “And what does it mean?” Kaladin whispered. “What will be required of me?” Everything. I’m sorry …
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“They say,” Abidi growled, “you are this era’s greatest living swordsman.” “No,” Adolin said. “But I was trained by him.” He thrust his hand to the side to summon Maya. Nothing happened.
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Szeth recognized each of them. Moss. Pozen. Elid. The “dead” Honorbearers, turned into Fused by Ishu. There were six of them, and they helped themselves to the Honorblades in the bed of the wagon.
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A figure stepped through, wearing a Kholin uniform, carrying a familiar Shardblade. Oathbringer, the Blade Dalinar had thought secure in his rooms. It was carried by a man who was shockingly, alarmingly familiar. Prominent nose. Lean build. Dark expression. Elhokar.
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However, last night, he’d been a common spearman. Adolin realized right then that the world hadn’t changed that much. The darkeyes had always felt small in this world of Shardbearers. Adolin’s place had changed.
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Ishar turned, ponderous as a shifting mountain, and regarded Kaladin. “Yes. We called our world Alaswha. There was a time when I loved it very much. We are literally the last pieces of our lost homeland here.”
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“I’m wise to Midius’s tricks, child,” Ishar said. “He was there when we destroyed our previous world. Did your Wit tell you that? That he was involved, perhaps even responsible? He told us about the Shards, and it was his talk that led us to first contact Odium.”
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This was Gavinor. But … Gavinor was just a child. Taravangian stepped up beside him, speaking conversationally. “Twenty years in the Spiritual Realm, Dalinar, passed as an hour in this realm. That’s where Gavinor lived after you abandoned him.”
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His worth did not come from whether he helped. Only in whether he tried.
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Why had he always cared so much that his father be perfect? Why be so worried, then so furious, when Dalinar proved flawed? Because Evi had believed in Dalinar. Against all evidence, she’d loved him. And Adolin, her little boy, desperately wanted her to be right.
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There were many things Adolin could never become. But this one was possible: He could be the man Evi envisioned. A man who cared. A man who fought for a purpose.
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“I’ll lead them. They don’t need a swordsman. They’ve got plenty. They need a leader.”
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“I am my own agent,” Szeth shouted. “I make my own choices. I. Am. THE LAW!” Light erupted around him.
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Shallan plunged the dagger into Iyatil’s eye. A killing strike—which immediately required Stormlight to heal, lest she die. Iyatil breathed it in by instinct. Shallan felt a shock as the anti-Stormlight met Stormlight. A flaming flash followed, and Iyatil screamed … … then fell limp.
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“They are those who have been forgotten,” Maya whispered. “Blades and Plate who are no longer thought of. Dropped into the sea, lost, buried in stone, discarded by time.” “They … eventually fade back into Shadesmar,” Adolin said, remembering what she’d told him. “To wander forever,” she said.
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“Unoathed! Arm up!”
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“That was,” Ishu said, each word clipped, “among the most idiotic things I have ever seen a mortal do. Abandoning your oaths just after the Fifth Ideal? You could have been immortal.” “I can barely struggle through the life I have been given,” Szeth said. “I wish no more of it than that.”
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For now, he turned to join the eight others … Nine others? Wait. He did the math, and realized he’d … Never mind.
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Life before death, she replied. Or maybe life after death this time? I never really understood that motto anyway. Let’s kick some Fused ass.
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“I have a choice too. I make it now. The choice to no longer let myself be abused.” She rammed the knife in deeper.
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Venli reached into the pocket of her cloak, to an oiled and protected pouch. From within she took a roll of papers signed by Jasnah, the human queen. A treaty. After seven long years at war, the Alethi and listeners had finally made peace.
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You could never be smart enough. Jasnah had learned that. Nor could you just keep fighting forever. Kaladin had learned that.
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“Stormfather,” he said. “I know the Words!”
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“Impossible,” Ishar said. “What are you?” “I’m just an old spear who wouldn’t break, Ishar.”
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them. “I will protect myself, so that I may continue to protect others.”
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“I will protect myself, so that I may continue to protect others.”
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Then he spoke to Honor the most important Words he might ever say. Words that only worked if he could say them truly. “I understand you.”
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These Words, the Wind whispered to Kaladin, are accepted.
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“You sure?” Renarin asked. “Yes. You?” “Yes,” Renarin said to Determination. Together they slammed the gemstone down against the ground, where it shattered completely, and a dark storm escaped
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“You sure?” Renarin asked. “Yes. You?” “Yes,” Renarin said to Determination. Together they slammed the gemstone down against the ground, where it shattered completely, and a dark storm escaped it.
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Honor was born again in Dalinar Kholin.
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Her lunge brought them face-to-face, and Szeth kissed her on the forehead. Then he swept Nightblood through her, bringing peace to his sister and sending her Blade clattering to the ground, digging a gouge out of the stones.
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Storms. This bread really was good.
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Blood of my fathers, Dalinar thought, realizing. Kaladin will preserve a piece … That’s what we need …
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Yes, the remnant of Tanavast said. I am willing. This is my ultimate choice and sacrifice, Dalinar. I choose. Do it now. Dalinar opened his eyes, beacons of blazing power, and spoke four fateful words. “I renounce my oaths.”
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“I renounce my oaths,” Dalinar said. “I break our contract. I break the oaths and contracts that Honor has made with Odium—all of them. I will not make any of the choices presented to me. I release you. I break my oaths.”
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You have won because you are smarter than I am. But you have not proven anything other than that.”
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The power accepted Taravangian at Dalinar’s urging. Though interestingly, a few small pieces of it split off and fled. Dalinar had not expected that.
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To Navani, he sent love. To Adolin, he sent apologies. To Renarin, he sent pride. To the others, he sent courage.
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“To think,” Kaladin said softly, “that you have lived millennia and you haven’t learned a simple truth.” He pulled a deep blue cloak from the pack, the tower and the crown emblazoned on the back. “Nobility has nothing to do with blood, Ishar. But it has everything to do with heart.”
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Kaladin. Herald. “I,” Kaladin whispered, walking through that version, “accept this journey.”
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“Kaladin,” Syl said. “Your eyes.” “What about them?” “Dark brown,” she whispered, her hand raised to touch his face. “Like they used to be.”
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Yes. Dalinar Kholin had died. But the Blackthorn would live.
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“Jasnah, I wish to adopt your system,” Renarin said. “Can we institute a representative government for Urithiru, as you have for the Alethi exiles here?”
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Wit woke in a bed somewhere far from Roshar. A place with soil, budding skyscrapers, and firearms.
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Radiants could still summon Blades and Plate too, but Adolin’s Unoathed could do it without Surges or oaths. They were something new.
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Roshar was now a world without Stormlight.
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Yanagawn considered each of the Unoathed to be of a rank permitted to speak with him—and in fact gloried in the opportunity.
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She was … she was trapped in Shadesmar. Months of travel and hoping desperately. Now it finally sank in. She might never escape this realm. She might never see Adolin again. Her hands went to her stomach, cradling it. Oh … oh storms.
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“Wait,” Sigzil said, frowning. “You’re Szeth’s spren?” “I was,” the spren said, then hung his head. “He rejected me.”
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Shallan took that in. “So if I leave to get help from other planets…” The face shook, then re-formed. “Yes, if you left and traveled to another world, decades might pass for you. I don’t recommend it, unless there is nobody you care about—because when you return, you will be much older than they are.”
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Kharbranth was dead, but in the moment that Cultivation had looked away, Taravangian had summoned his power and taken the people. The city had indeed been destroyed, but he’d saved the occupants. In utter secret. In the Spiritual Realm, he’d created for them a clone of Kharbranth. He walked its streets, knowing them to be fake, while no one living here did.
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there were things even Taravangian—in a moment of pain and passion—had refused to sacrifice. He embraced his grandchildren, weeping, and the power simmered. Hating Dalinar Kholin. For having been right.
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After all that time he’d spent trying to manipulate Dalinar, the old Blackthorn had gone and manipulated Hoid—and every single Shard.
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