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** [[spoiler:And Lift is out of food.]]
* DarkSecret: The secret that broke the old Knights Radiant is brought up again. The Stormfather knows it, but refuses to share it. [[spoiler:The truth is that humans were the first Voidbringers; they arrived on Roshar as refugees to coexist beside the parshmen, but they grew greedy and tried to take everything for themselves. At first, whenever the Knights discovered this, Honor was able to calm them down and convince them to keep fighting. But by the time of the Recreance, he was dying and half-mad, so talking to him only made things worse]].
* DarkSecret: The secret that broke the old Knights Radiant is brought up again. The Stormfather knows it, but refuses to share it. [[spoiler:The truth is that humans were the first Voidbringers; they arrived on Roshar as refugees to coexist beside the parshmen, but they grew greedy and tried to take everything for themselves. At first, whenever the Knights discovered this, Honor was able to calm them down and convince them to keep fighting. But by the time of the Recreance, he was dying and half-mad, so talking to him only made things worse]].
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** [[spoiler:And [[spoiler:[[MurderArsonAndJaywalking And Lift is out of food.food]].]]
* DarkSecret: The secret that broke the old Knights Radiant is brought up again. The Stormfather knows it, but refuses to share it. [[spoiler:The truth is that humans were the first Voidbringers; they arrived on Roshar as refugees after their homeworld (IMplied to be Yolen) was destroyed and rendered uninhabitable by Surgebinding to coexist beside the parshmen, but they grew greedy and tried to take everything for themselves. At first, whenever the Knights discovered this, Honor was able to calm them down and convince them to keep fighting. But by the time of the Recreance, he was dying and half-mad, so talking to him only made things worse]].
* DarkSecret: The secret that broke the old Knights Radiant is brought up again. The Stormfather knows it, but refuses to share it. [[spoiler:The truth is that humans were the first Voidbringers; they arrived on Roshar as refugees after their homeworld (IMplied to be Yolen) was destroyed and rendered uninhabitable by Surgebinding to coexist beside the parshmen, but they grew greedy and tried to take everything for themselves. At first, whenever the Knights discovered this, Honor was able to calm them down and convince them to keep fighting. But by the time of the Recreance, he was dying and half-mad, so talking to him only made things worse]].
** The story Shallan told Pattern about the girl who lived in a village surrounded by a wall. [[spoiler:This turns to be based on how the ancient human settlers of Roshar were orginally confinded to the area that would become Shinovar]]. Later, Wit continues the story from where Shallan leaves off. [[spoiler: When the girl left, she discovered Stormlight, causing the start of Highstorms and essentially beginning the war against the Voidbringers.]]
* HumansAretheRealMonsters/[spoiler:HumansAreCthulhu]]: Implied to have been the reason for the Recreance. [[The original Voidbringers were the ''humans'', who are not native to Roshar and came as refugees before they eventually tried to conquer it. Lampshaded when the Stormfather asks if Dalinar actually thought humans could have actually naturally evolved on Roshar, given how obviously ''different'' they were from most of the wildlife.]]
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* TheReveal:[[spoiler:Dalinar did not get a boon from the Nightwatcher. He got one from ''Cultivation''.]]
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* TheReveal:[[spoiler:Dalinar TheReveal: A lot, as usual.
** [[spoiler:Dalinar did not get a boon from the Nightwatcher. He got one from ''Cultivation''.]]
** The term 'Voidbringer' [[originally applied to ''humans'', who came to Roshar as refugees and eventually tried to conquer it.]]
** [[spoiler:'''''Odium''''' was the original god of the humans who came to Roshar.]]
** [[spoiler:Dalinar did not get a boon from the Nightwatcher. He got one from ''Cultivation''.]]
** The term 'Voidbringer' [[originally applied to ''humans'', who came to Roshar as refugees and eventually tried to conquer it.]]
** [[spoiler:'''''Odium''''' was the original god of the humans who came to Roshar.]]
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* HostileWeather: The Everstorm is a new one, the Voidbringer storm to counter Honor's highstorm. Not only does it blow from west to east (devastating towns and cities designed for the opposite direction), it doesn't carry Stormlight for Radiants to use. Dalinar notes that it seems to be more intelligent than the highstorms; while it's a bit weaker, it seems to focus its destruction on undefended small towns, and alters it's properties for maximum damage. On the plus side, it's more regular than a highstorm, appearing every nine days. [[spoiler:The fact it appears in Thaylen only 5 days into it's cycle near the climax to ''deliberately'' coincide with a Voidbringer attack on the city and that it's previous passes through it seemed to be more deliberately damaging to the city than all other areas it passed though at the same cycle shows it is actively malicious and under deliberate control.]]
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* HostileWeather: The Everstorm is a new one, the Voidbringer storm to counter Honor's highstorm. Not only does it blow from west to east (devastating towns and cities designed for the opposite direction), it doesn't carry Stormlight for Radiants to use. Dalinar notes that it seems to be more intelligent than the highstorms; while it's a bit weaker, it seems to focus its destruction on undefended small towns, and alters it's properties for maximum damage. On the plus side, it's more regular than a highstorm, appearing every nine days. [[spoiler:The fact it [[spoiler:It appears in Thaylen City only 5 five days into it's its cycle near the climax to ''deliberately'' coincide with a Voidbringer attack on the city city, and that it's its previous passes through it seemed to be more deliberately damaging to the city than all other areas it passed though at the same cycle shows it is actively malicious and under deliberate control.]]areas]].
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* AppropriatedAppelation: the designation 'Voidbringers' [[spoiler:originally applied to ''humanity'' who came to Roshar as space-refugees and eventually tried to conquer the world from the singers.]]
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* AppropriatedAppelation: the The designation 'Voidbringers' [[spoiler:originally applied to ''humanity'' who came to Roshar as space-refugees and eventually tried to conquer the world from the singers.]]
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* CombatByChampion: The idea of defeating Odium's champion is brought up again. The Stormfather explains that the reason Odium would agree to such a binding duel is because fighting directly could actually harm him, while using a champion and losing costs him only time. Time is nothing to a Shard, but it's everything to mortals. Dalinar is a little embarrassed to realize that he was assuming ''he'd'' be the one to duel the champion, when it would be more logical to let a younger Radiant such as Kaladin do it.
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* CombatByChampion: CombatByChampion:
** The idea of defeating Odium's champion is brought up again. The Stormfather explains that the reason Odium would agree to such a binding duel is because fighting directly could actually harm him, while using a champion and losing costs him only time. Time is nothing to a Shard, but it's everything to mortals. Dalinar is a little embarrassed to realize that he was assuming ''he'd'' be the one to duel the champion, when it would be more logical to let a younger Radiant such as Kaladin do it.
** The idea of defeating Odium's champion is brought up again. The Stormfather explains that the reason Odium would agree to such a binding duel is because fighting directly could actually harm him, while using a champion and losing costs him only time. Time is nothing to a Shard, but it's everything to mortals. Dalinar is a little embarrassed to realize that he was assuming ''he'd'' be the one to duel the champion, when it would be more logical to let a younger Radiant such as Kaladin do it.
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* NegatedMomentOfAwesome: PlayedForDrama. [[spoiler:Kaladin fails to swear the Fourth Ideal while in Shadesmar, and he realizes that he won't be able to save Dalinar. Then Dalinar swears his own Ideal, giving him the power to create a Perpendicularity and bring Kaladin and the others home]].
-->'''Syl:''' [[spoiler:Maybe you don't have to save anyone, Kaladin. Maybe it's time for someone to save ''you'']].
-->'''Syl:''' [[spoiler:Maybe you don't have to save anyone, Kaladin. Maybe it's time for someone to save ''you'']].
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* NotSoDifferent: The Parshmen act like the humans of the country they're in after having their Identity and Connection restored, likely because of the way Connection and Identity work in the Cosmere. [[spoiler:Many times, the quickest way to get a parshamn that's being abusive to stop is to say that 'they're acting just like ''them''' (the humans).]]
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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferent:
** The Parshmen act like the humans of the country they're in after having their Identity and Connection restored, likely because of the way Connection and Identity work in the Cosmere. [[spoiler:Many times, the quickest way to get a parshamn that's being abusive to stop is to say that 'they're acting just like ''them''' (the humans).]]
** The Parshmen act like the humans of the country they're in after having their Identity and Connection restored, likely because of the way Connection and Identity work in the Cosmere. [[spoiler:Many times, the quickest way to get a parshamn that's being abusive to stop is to say that 'they're acting just like ''them''' (the humans).]]
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* NoPeriodsPeriod: Played
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* NoPeriodsPeriod: Played
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* NoPeriodsPeriod: Played with; Shallan briefly lets Adolin think she's on her period because she doesn't want to tell him about her night drinking in the markets. He figures it out, though, and they have a brief discussion on how men assume any strange behavior is the result of periods, and women let them. Adolin once again demonstrates he's smarter than he looks when he says he once noticed that one of his girlfriends was having "woman troubles" four times a month. Shallan also notes that her Stormlight HealingFactor doesn't help with cramps.
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** Kaladin in particular identified with a group he met.
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* SplitPersonality: Shallan creates a new one in order to be the type of woman who can learn swordplay from Adolin. She calls her "Brightness Radiant," and she's formal, in control, and unashamed. Shallan modeled her after Jasnah--which is why she accidentally gave her a larger bust. And then she begins to consider "Shallan" just another alternate personality, proving once again that her brain is ''not'' working right.
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* SplitPersonality: Shallan creates a new one in order to be the type of woman who can learn swordplay from Adolin. She calls her "Brightness Radiant," and she's formal, in control, and unashamed. Shallan modeled her after Jasnah--which is why she accidentally gave her a larger bust. And then she begins to consider "Shallan" just another alternate personality, proving once again that her brain is ''not'' working right. [[spoiler:In the final battle, we see things from Shallan's perspective... except Shallan is just an illusion at the moment, and Radiant is the real one]].
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* GodEmperor: Tezim is the "god-priest" of the Tukari people, and has been waging a war to reclaim the holy city of Sesemalex Dar for years. When Dalinar contacts him, he sends back a message proclaiming himself "Herald of Heralds" and demanding they give up Urithiru, which he claims belongs solely to him.
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* GodEmperor: Tezim is the "god-priest" of the Tukari people, and has been waging a war to reclaim the holy city of Sesemalex Dar for years. When Dalinar contacts him, he sends back a message proclaiming himself "Herald of Heralds" and demanding they give up Urithiru, which he claims belongs solely to him. [[spoiler:Given it turns out he ''is'' a Herald, he actually has a point. He's still crazy though.]]
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* IfIWantedYouDead: still Dalinar's most effective approach diplomacy. RealityEnsues when it ends up backfiring. [[spoiler:Because of his use of this trope, his allies, while in, still think he means to conquer rather than unite in defense.]]
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* NotSoDifferent: The Parshmen act like the humans of the country they're in after having their Identity and Connection restored, likely because of the way Connection and Identity work in the Cosmere. [[spoiler:Many times, the quickest way to get a parshamn that's being abusive to stop is to say that 'they're acting just like ''them''' (the humans).]]
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* DarkestHour: [[spoiler:Hoooo boy, lets see:]]
** [[spoiler:Shallan, Adolin and Kaladin are stuck in Shadesmar, fighting a number of Fused to try to get back to the Physical Realm. Adolin gets wounded in the gut and Kaladin runs out of stormlight while failing to say the Fourth Ideal.]]
** [[spoiler:Odium used Nergaoul to turn the entire Alethi army at Thaylenah City unto the city, with the Thrill turned UpToEleven. Amaram has joined up with Odium.]]
** [[spoiler:Jasnah is convinced Renarin betrayed them to Odium and is about to kill him. Renarin knows this as he saw a foretelling on this.]]
** [[spoiler:Someone steals the Windrunner Honorblade, killing and wounding Bridge Fourt people in the process. And then Odiums forces from Kholinar attack Urithriu through the Oathgate.]]
** [[spoiler:Nale and the Skybreakers decide that the 'Law' supports the Voidbringers and make a group wide FaceHeelTurn.]]
** [[spoiler:Odium is giving a BreakingSpeech to Dalinar, convincing him to become ''his'' Champion.]]
** [[spoiler:And Lift is out of food.]]
** [[spoiler:Shallan, Adolin and Kaladin are stuck in Shadesmar, fighting a number of Fused to try to get back to the Physical Realm. Adolin gets wounded in the gut and Kaladin runs out of stormlight while failing to say the Fourth Ideal.]]
** [[spoiler:Odium used Nergaoul to turn the entire Alethi army at Thaylenah City unto the city, with the Thrill turned UpToEleven. Amaram has joined up with Odium.]]
** [[spoiler:Jasnah is convinced Renarin betrayed them to Odium and is about to kill him. Renarin knows this as he saw a foretelling on this.]]
** [[spoiler:Someone steals the Windrunner Honorblade, killing and wounding Bridge Fourt people in the process. And then Odiums forces from Kholinar attack Urithriu through the Oathgate.]]
** [[spoiler:Nale and the Skybreakers decide that the 'Law' supports the Voidbringers and make a group wide FaceHeelTurn.]]
** [[spoiler:Odium is giving a BreakingSpeech to Dalinar, convincing him to become ''his'' Champion.]]
** [[spoiler:And Lift is out of food.]]
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* FusionDance: The Fused are the spirits of ancient dead parshmen turned into spren after death by Odium, fusing with living parshmen during the Everstorms.
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* FusionDance: The Fused are the spirits of ancient dead parshmen turned into spren after death by Odium, fusing with living parshmen during the Everstorms. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted as the original parshmen personality]] [[DeathOfPersonality does not survive this]], [[DemonicPossession making this another trope altogether.]]]]
* TheReveal:[[spoiler:Dalinar did not get a boon from the Nightwatcher. He got one from ''Cultivation''.]]
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* SuperEmpowering: Windrunners (and probably other Orders, given the Ghostblood's letter mentioning Nale having had squires) can have "squires" who share in their powers without having a spren themselves. They retain these powers at a very long range, but not an infinite one; Lopen was able to use Stormlight in the previous book while he was in the warcamps and Kaladin on the Shattered Plains, but Bridge Four loses their powers when they are in Urithiru and Kaladin flies to Hearthstone.
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* SuperEmpowering: Windrunners (and probably other Orders, given the Ghostblood's letter mentioning Nale having had squires) can have "squires" who share in their powers without having a spren themselves. They retain these powers at a very long range, but not an infinite one; Lopen was able to use Stormlight in the previous book while he was in the warcamps and Kaladin on the Shattered Plains, but Bridge Four loses their powers when they are in Urithiru and Kaladin flies to Hearthstone. [[spoiler:Vathath becomes Shallan's first squire.]]
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**[[spoiler:Odium agrees with Dalinar's assumption. Just not with him fighting for the side Dalinar thought he would. Thankfully Dalinar [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu disagrees with this idea vehemently]].]]
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* AppropriatedAppelation: the designation 'Voidbringers' [[originally applied to ''humanity'' who came to Roshar as space-refugees and eventually tried to conquer the world from the singers.]]
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* AppropriatedAppelation: the designation 'Voidbringers' [[originally [[spoiler:originally applied to ''humanity'' who came to Roshar as space-refugees and eventually tried to conquer the world from the singers.]]
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* AppropriatedAppelation: the designation 'Voidbringers' [[originally applied to ''humanity'' who came to Roshar as space-refugees and eventually tried to conquer the world from the singers.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: As with any Sanderson work, so much that literally the last 15% of the book is all of them coming home to roost.
** The Dawnchant. [[spoiler:Chanting is done in rhythm, foreshadowing that it was originally part of the language of the parshmen.]]
** Meta-wise and in-universe, the explicit mention there's only one Perpendicularity in Roshar despite there being 2 Shards, and that it belongs to Cultivation. [[spoiler:Honor's Perpendicularity is part of the climax, and has many imlicaitons both in and out of universe.]]
** Zahel's literally colorful metaphors and the sword kata he taught Adolin and Kaladin. [[spoiler: It not only immediately singles out a new characters as not only a worldhopper, but also hints heavily that Vivenna isn't dead as has been hinted.]]
** The Dawnchant. [[spoiler:Chanting is done in rhythm, foreshadowing that it was originally part of the language of the parshmen.]]
** Meta-wise and in-universe, the explicit mention there's only one Perpendicularity in Roshar despite there being 2 Shards, and that it belongs to Cultivation. [[spoiler:Honor's Perpendicularity is part of the climax, and has many imlicaitons both in and out of universe.]]
** Zahel's literally colorful metaphors and the sword kata he taught Adolin and Kaladin. [[spoiler: It not only immediately singles out a new characters as not only a worldhopper, but also hints heavily that Vivenna isn't dead as has been hinted.]]
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* HostileWeather: The Everstorm is a new one, the Voidbringer storm to counter Honor's highstorm. Not only does it blow from west to east (devastating towns and cities designed for the opposite direction), it doesn't carry Stormlight for Radiants to use. Dalinar notes that it seems to be more intelligent than the highstorms; while it's a bit weaker, it seems to focus its destruction on undefended small towns. On the plus side, it's more regular than a highstorm, appearaing every nine days.
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* HostileWeather: The Everstorm is a new one, the Voidbringer storm to counter Honor's highstorm. Not only does it blow from west to east (devastating towns and cities designed for the opposite direction), it doesn't carry Stormlight for Radiants to use. Dalinar notes that it seems to be more intelligent than the highstorms; while it's a bit weaker, it seems to focus its destruction on undefended small towns. towns, and alters it's properties for maximum damage. On the plus side, it's more regular than a highstorm, appearaing appearing every nine days.days. [[spoiler:The fact it appears in Thaylen only 5 days into it's cycle near the climax to ''deliberately'' coincide with a Voidbringer attack on the city and that it's previous passes through it seemed to be more deliberately damaging to the city than all other areas it passed though at the same cycle shows it is actively malicious and under deliberate control.]]
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* CopycatKiller: A lighteyed man is found dead, murdered in the exact same way as Sadeas. Everyone of course assumes it was the same killer, except for Adolin, who is ''very'' disturbed to find that someone has copied him. Shallan soon finds that someone has been copying other murders as well, also using impossibly specific details.
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* CopycatKiller: A lighteyed man is found dead, murdered in the exact same way as Sadeas. Everyone of course assumes it was the same killer, except for Adolin, who is ''very'' disturbed to find that someone has copied him. Shallan soon finds that someone has been copying other murders as well, also using impossibly specific details. [spoiler:It turns out to be Re-Shephir, one of the Unmade, whose intense curiosity about humans and CreativeSterily meant that she couldn't understand humans nor make any creations of humans without imitating them.]]
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* CycleOfRevenge: Once the freed Parshmen have joined together in strength, they immediately capture every human they come across. Kaladin isn't able to convince them to avoid revenge entirely, but he begs them to at least be better masters than the lighteyes were to them.
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* CycleOfRevenge: Once the freed Parshmen have joined together in strength, they immediately capture every human they come across. Kaladin isn't able to convince them to avoid revenge entirely, but he begs them to at least be better masters than the lighteyes were to them. [[spoiler: It turns out that this only really applies to the Alethi Parshmen; the Theylen parshmen simply steal all their ships and sail away, while the Azish Parshmen are completely peaceful and just simply ''sue'' the government for backpay.]]
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* BavarianFireDrill: Of a sort. When Kaladin returns to his hometown, he immediately takes charge from the soldiers there by way of how he dresses their horrible discipline down. This is despite them being ordered ''against'' him.
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** The Unmade Ba-Ado-Mishram gave the Parshmen their forms and powers, and her binding, apparently more violent than was expected, was what turned them into slaves.
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* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler: The Fused are the spirits of ancient parshmen transformed into spren by Odium, growing more insane each time they take over the body of another]].
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* HostileWeather: The Everstorm is a new one, the Voidbringer storm to counter Honor's highstorm. Not only does it blow from west to east (devastating towns and cities designed for the opposite direction), it doesn't carry Stormlight for Radiants to use. Dalinar notes that it seems to be more intelligent than the highstorms; while it's a bit weaker, it seems to focus its destruction on undefended small towns. On the plus side, it's more regular than a highstorm, appearaing every nine days.
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* ArcNumber: Nine. There are nine Heralds that betrayed the Oathpact, leaving behind their blades, nine Unmade, represented in Odium's champion having nine shadows, the Everstorm occurs every nine days...
* FusionDance: The Fused are the spirits of ancient dead parshmen turned into spren after death by Odium, fusing with living parshmen during the Everstorms.
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* SuperEmpowering: Windrunners (and possibly other Orders) can have "squires" who share in their powers without having a spren themselves. They retain these powers at a very long range, but not an infinite one; Lopen was able to use Stormlight in the previous book while he was in the warcamps and Kaladin on the Shattered Plains, but Bridge Four loses their powers when they are in Urithiru and Kaladin flies to Hearthstone.
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* SuperEmpowering: Windrunners (and possibly probably other Orders) Orders, given the Ghostblood's letter mentioning Nale having had squires) can have "squires" who share in their powers without having a spren themselves. They retain these powers at a very long range, but not an infinite one; Lopen was able to use Stormlight in the previous book while he was in the warcamps and Kaladin on the Shattered Plains, but Bridge Four loses their powers when they are in Urithiru and Kaladin flies to Hearthstone.
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** On the other hand, the Fused are ''entirely'' unredeemable and desire nothing but killing every living human on Roshar.
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** On the other hand, the Fused are ''entirely'' unredeemable and desire nothing but killing every living human on Roshar. Roshar--and they aren't particularly concerned about helping the parshmen, either. [[spoiler:The fact that they are the souls of ancient parshmen, growing more insane every time they are resurrected, is certainly part of it]].
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** All the humans have difficulty treating the parshmen as people even when they're not being violent, because they've spent so long treating the parshmen as just things.
** This seems to have bled into the honorspren more than a little; Syl has difficulty giving Kaladin good answers on the morality of dealing with the parshmen.
** The Fused see the normal parshmen as nothing but servants or slaves, just like how human lighteyes look down on the darkeyes. Forms of power are considered better, but not ''that'' much better. [[spoiler:If a Fused dies, they will take the body of a living parshman during the next Everstorm, killing the parshman in the process]].
** All the humans have difficulty treating the parshmen as people even when they're not being violent, because they've spent so long treating the parshmen as just things.
** This seems to have bled into the honorspren more than a little; Syl has difficulty giving Kaladin good answers on the morality of dealing with the parshmen.
** The Fused see the normal parshmen as nothing but servants or slaves, just like how human lighteyes look down on the darkeyes. Forms of power are considered better, but not ''that'' much better. [[spoiler:If a Fused dies, they will take the body of a living parshman during the next Everstorm, killing the parshman in the process]].
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Played with.
** Subverted with the transformed parshmen. Everyone assumed that each and every one of them would become possessed by a Voidspren when exposed to the Everstorm, but instead most of them were simply healed of their broken Connection and Identity and given a random form.
** On the other hand, the Fused are ''entirely'' unredeemable and desire nothing but killing every living human on Roshar.
** Subverted with the transformed parshmen. Everyone assumed that each and every one of them would become possessed by a Voidspren when exposed to the Everstorm, but instead most of them were simply healed of their broken Connection and Identity and given a random form.
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* DamagedSoul: Apparently the Parshmen had their very souls damaged by whatever reduced them to slaveform, and the Everstorm merely undid the damage to their Connection and Identity.
* ImmortalsFearDeath: This is why Odium agrees to the contest of champions thing at all, as the Stormfather explains when Dalinar questions it. To fight directly might coax out forces that can hurt him, and as previous experiences can apparently attest, those kinds of scars don't fade. Thus, if provoked the right way, he will assign a champion to fight in his stead, since that way he only loses time, which he has plenty of.
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'''''WARNING: {{Late Arrival Spoiler}}s abound for previous books in Literature/TheStormlightArchive.'''''
''Oathbringer'' is the third book in Creator/BrandonSanderson's EpicFantasy series ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'', taking place on the world of Roshar, characterized by its HostileWeather and {{Giant Enemy Crab}}s. Just as previous books focused on Kaladin and Shallan, ''Oathbringer'' centers around Dalinar Kholin, Highprince of War for Alethkar, as well as leader of the reborn Knights Radiant and a member of the Order of Bondsmiths.
At the end of ''Literature/WordsOfRadiance'', the Parshendi became Voidbringers and summoned the Everstorm, an evil highstorm that blows the wrong way. Kaladin and Shallan revealed their Surgebinding abilities and opened the way the Urithiru, fabled city of the Radiants. Once there, Dalinar bound the Stormfather himself as his spren, and Renarin revealed himself to be a Truthwatcher. Realizing that the Parshmen in his home village would soon become Voidbringers, Kaladin flew off to warn his family, while everyone else remained behind to explore the city.
Despite traveling hundreds of miles in half a day, Kaladin runs out of Stormlight before he reaches home, and has to walk the rest of the way, resulting in the Everstorm arriving before him. Just as he is giving up hope of anyone having survived, some soldiers in the manor spot him and pull him inside.
Meanwhile, Jasnah (having survived the attack on the ''Wind's Pleasure'' by teleporting to Shadesmar) has returned to the Physical Realm to find Hoid, the King's Wit, waiting for her. He cheerily tells her that Shallan did her job for her, before they begin the long walk back to civilization together.
And Szeth-son-Neturo, formerly the Assassin in White, has been inducted into the Skybreaker Order by Nalan'Elin, Herald of Justice himself. Nale tells him that he should never have been made Truthless, but praises him for holding to his ideals regardless. Now, it is time to return to punish the Shin for their crimes. To that end, the Herald has a new sword for him, a black Shardblade with a metal sheathe.
"Hello. Would you like to destroy some evil today?"
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!!This book provides examples of:
* TwentyFourHourArmor: After a few embarrassing early mistakes with his Shardplate, a young Dalinar resolves to wear it day and night, even while sleeping, until he feels more comfortable with it on than off.
* AlasPoorVillain: Dalinar is devastated when Sadeas is found dead, as not only were they old friends, but Sadeas would have been an invaluable ally in the coming war. Note that none of his allies agree with him, and they all feel that he would have just continued undermining Dalinar at every opportunity. In fact, Sadeas boasted about doing just that, which is why Adolin killed him.
-->'''Palona:''' Well! I guess that's one problem solved!\\
''[everyone stares]''\\
'''Palona:''' What? Don't tell me you weren't all thinking it.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Subverted with the transformed parshmen. Everyone assumed that each and every one of them would become possessed by a Voidspren when exposed to the Everstorm, but instead most of them were simply healed of their broken Connection and Identity and given a random form.
* AncestralWeapon: Oathbringer is one of the oldest Shardblades in Alethkar, once belonging to the Sunmaker himself. At some point or another, it fell out of Kholin hands, but Dalinar won it from Highprince Tanalan during the unification.
* AndThisIsFor: Two seconds after Kaladin sees Roshone again, he punches him in the face.
-->'''Kaladin:''' That was for my friend Moash.
* AppealToForce: One of the ardents' arguments for Vorinism is that the Heralds had supernatural powers that they used to lead humanity. Dalinar promptly demonstrates his supernatural powers and points out that things are a little more complicated than the ardents always assumed.
* AppealToTradition: One of the causes for friction between Dalinar and the ardents is that he wants answers about the nature of the world and religion, while the ardents are insistent that religion is right because it is right and because it has been done this way for centuries. Dalinar tells a story about how he was taught to tie his takama (a shirt for sword duels) three times instead of two, and how his master refused to allow him to do it any other way, because that's how ''his'' master taught him. Dalinar found his master's master, and he said the same thing. Dalinar found that man's master, who was very short, and he just said that he tied it three times to keep himself from tripping over the end.
-->'''Dalinar:''' I love tradition. I've ''fought'' for tradition. I make my men follow the codes. I uphold Vorin virtues. But merely being tradition does not make something worthy, Kadash. We can't just assume that because something is ''old'' it is ''right''.
* AssassinOutclassin: In the flashbacks, Dalinar does this constantly. He personally runs down a sniper sent to kill him, and later brutally kills a disguised server out for his brother... and then uses the assassin's knife to eat his dinner.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Kaladin manages to order around Roshone's soldiers before he even summons his Shardblade by dint of being the only real soldier around. Then when they finally start complaining, he does summon his Shardblade, which legally makes him the most important person in the village.
* BizarreAlienSenses:
** Syl is surprised to discover that she can sense when a highstorm is coming, even when it's still days off. When Kaladin was in the warcamps, she didn't need to exercise this ability since there were always lists of when the next few storms would be.
** Shallan and Renarin can both feel Re-Shephir somewhere deep in the tower, long before they actually find her. Due to her connection to Lightweaving and the fact that Dalinar couldn't sense her, it's possible that their power over the Surge of Illumination granted them this ability.
* BloodKnight: When Dalinar was younger, he was a bloodthirsty engine of death even when the Thrill wasn't upon him. He cuts down enemy soldiers without even knowing why, then orders his soldiers to take the civilians as hostages so he can draw out the enemy soldiers and get a better fight.
* BoobsOfSteel: Unintentional version. Shallan creates a new personality, "Brightness Radiant," with Lightweaving to help her become the sort of person who can learn swordplay. Since she based this personality on Jasnah, she has a noticeably larger bust than Shallan normally does.
* BoringButPractical: For a given definition of "boring." Given the choice between a Shardblade and Shardplate, most men choose the Blade. Dalinar prefers the Plate, as it provides benefits besides just killing power.
* CombatByChampion: The idea of defeating Odium's champion is brought up again. The Stormfather explains that the reason Odium would agree to such a binding duel is because fighting directly could actually harm him, while using a champion and losing costs him only time. Time is nothing to a Shard, but it's everything to mortals. Dalinar is a little embarrassed to realize that he was assuming ''he'd'' be the one to duel the champion, when it would be more logical to let a younger Radiant such as Kaladin do it.
* CopycatKiller: A lighteyed man is found dead, murdered in the exact same way as Sadeas. Everyone of course assumes it was the same killer, except for Adolin, who is ''very'' disturbed to find that someone has copied him. Shallan soon finds that someone has been copying other murders as well, also using impossibly specific details.
* CosmicPlaything: Kaladin just cannot catch a break. He flies literally across the entirety of Alethkar in half a day, only to run out of Stormlight somewhere in Aladar's princedom, some ninety miles from home. It takes him three days to walk a distance that he could have flown in a heartbeat, and he arrives after Hearthstone has already been devastated by the Everstorm and the Parshendi turned Voidbringers. He even manages to attract some gloomspren, which are rare.
* {{Cuddlebug}}: Evi, Dalinar's wife, was much more touchy-feely than he was comfortable with. She insisted on near-constant hugs, which his men snickered at.
* CycleOfRevenge: Once the freed Parshmen have joined together in strength, they immediately capture every human they come across. Kaladin isn't able to convince them to avoid revenge entirely, but he begs them to at least be better masters than the lighteyes were to them.
* DeathGlare: When Kaladin reaches Hearthstone, Roshone's lighteyed captain tries to hustle him around like a slave. Kaladin gives him a look that sends the man back a step, and then walks off to find his parents.
-->'''Syl:''' Wow. That is ''quite'' the glare you gave.\\
'''Kaladin:''' Old sergeant's trick.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: The prologue shows that Gavilar received the same visions as Dalinar, which were at least partly behind his desire to unite the kingdom. He somehow failed to understand that the point was to unite the people in order to survive the Desolation--instead, he decided to start the Desolation to unite them. What's worse, he didn't seem to think there was anything particularly strange about this, and happily told his plan to Eshonai.
* EasyLogistics: Discussed by Gavilar. Conventional siege tactics are ineffective against large Alethi cities, since starving out the enemy is unlikely to happen if they have access to Soulcasters.
* EldritchAbomination: The Unmade, enormously powerful Voidspren created by Odium to cause chaos wherever they could. They create country-wide effects merely by being awake, have strange and impossible powers, and only barely understand humanity at all. If it's possible to kill them, no one has ever done it before, but they have been sealed away before.
* ExactWords: When the Alethi finally get a hold of Azir, the Azir claim that their Oathgate doesn't work, and even send an affidavit to prove it. Navani is amused to note that the affidavit basically just says that the Oathgate isn't ''turned on'', not that it's broken.
* FalseMemories: Shallan is briefly worried that on the night she killed her father, she killed her brothers too and then used Lightweaving to fake all their following interactions to herself. She didn't, but the fact that she seriously considers the possibility does not speak well of her mental state.
* FamousAncestor: The Kholins are descended from the Sunmaker, the last man to unite Alethkar. They don't use this fact to justify their conquest, however. Gavilar seems to intentionally avoid comparisons since the Sunmaker eventually overreached and fell trying to expand his empire. Unfortunately, this lack of legitimacy came back to bite them by the War of Reckoning, since none of the Highprinces saw the need to follow someone who hadn't personally beaten them into line.
* FictionalDocument: Yet again, the title refers to an in-universe book, this one written by Jasnah Kholin after her journey to Shadesmar in ''Words''.
* TheGrandHunt: Syl mentions she had an aunt who used to hunt gloomspren. Kaladin assumes she means they made a game of trying to spot them, but she explains it was more like hunting greatshells.
* GodEmperor: Tezim is the "god-priest" of the Tukari people, and has been waging a war to reclaim the holy city of Sesemalex Dar for years. When Dalinar contacts him, he sends back a message proclaiming himself "Herald of Heralds" and demanding they give up Urithiru, which he claims belongs solely to him.
* TheHeretic: The ardents really, ''really'' aren't happy with Dalinar's visions. They can live with the ones about the Knights Radiant in their glory days, but then there's the part about the Almighty being dead. Dalinar tries to point out that if the Almighty is dead then obviously he was never really God and there must be something beyond him, but that really doesn't help. And then Dalinar marries Navani in a ceremony officiated by the Stormfather, which is either kinda silly or horrific blasphemy.
* HeroicVow: In the flashbacks, Dalinar nearly murders his brother for his throne and his wife while in the grips of the Thrill. While Gavilar didn't notice what almost happened, Dalinar is deeply ashamed that he swears to never covet the throne for himself.
* HeroWorship: Kaladin is happily surprised when he lands in a town and is greeted with cheers instead of shock and suspicion. Many of the villages he visited had spanreeds, so they sent word ahead. Furthermore, Elhokar insists on referring to Kaladin as "the hero," and requests that the two of them liberate Kholinar together.
-->'''Elhokar:''' He needs to go with me, so if I screw up and fail, someone will be there to save the city anyway.
* HisNameIs: One of the parables from ''The Way of Kings'' involved a dying man telling people that three men had worked together to kill him, but dying before he could say which of the four suspects was innocent. Taravangian says that it probably didn't happen, since it's too neat and precise for real life.
* HostileWeather: The Everstorm is a new one, the Voidbringer storm to counter Honor's highstorm. Not only does it blow from west to east (devastating towns and cities designed for the opposite direction), it doesn't carry Stormlight for Radiants to use. Dalinar notes that it seems to be more intelligent than the highstorms; while it's a bit weaker, it seems to focus its destruction on undefended small towns.
* IAmNotLeftHanded: Shallan has convinced Dalinar to tell people that she is an Elsecaller instead of a Lightweaver so that they won't know about her illusions.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Amaram is ''still'' insisting that everything he has ever done was for the greater good, despite the fact that he has been proven wrong on nearly everything. Yes, he was right that the Desolation was returning, but none of the horrible things he did helped them fight it in the slightest.
* InternalReveal:
** Dalinar finally explains to Nevani the fact that he can't remember his wife at all.
** When Shallan mentions to Adolin her theory about Amaram killing her brother, he explains that Kaladin saved Amaram by killing a Shardbearer, meaning he's actually the one who did it.
* IRejectYourReality: The ardents are hostile to Dalinar's visions due to them claiming that the Almighty is dead. Dalinar provides a theological loophole--if Honor is dead, clearly he was never "Almighty" and there must be some more powerful entity beyond him which is what everyone is ''actually'' worshiping--but the ardents consider that even worse.
* IronLady: Laral has turned into this while Kaladin was gone. The soldiers are willing to ignore Kaladin punching Roshone, but won't give him horses and maps without Laral's permission.
* LivingWeapon: The living Shardblades, of course, but Kaladin realizes that since everything has a spren, technically all of his previous weapons have been alive. And roughly half were female, which disturbs him a bit.
* MerchantPrince: Sebariel has always been more interested in profit than war, and at the beginning of the book Dalinar officially names him Highprince of Commerce.
* MissingTime: Shallan begins finding disturbing sketches of hers that she doesn't remember drawing.
* MomentKiller: When Shallan is alone with Adolin, she recruits Pattern to be their chaperone and keep anything "inappropriate" from happening. While he's initially confused and Shallan thinks that he'd be a terrible chaperone, he figures it out soon enough.
-->'''Pattern:''' Oh! You were talking about ''mating!'' I'm to make sure you don't accidentally mate, as mating is forbidden by human society until you have first performed appropriate rituals! Yes, yes. Mmmm. Dictates of custom require following certain patterns before you copulate. I've been studying this!\\
'''Shallan:''' Oh, Stormfather.\\
'''Pattern:''' Very well, you two. No mating. ''NO MATING.''
* MundaneUtility: The Stormfather eventually mentions that he can give the highstorm visions to anyone during a highstorm, or anyone who is near Dalinar due to their bond. Dalinar then realizes that he can use this ability to talk "in person" with the other rulers of the world, giving him a much better chance to convince them of his good intentions than struggling to communicate through spanreed.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: House Sadeas is named after the Sunmaker, Sadees. All ten of the Alethi princedoms were founded by the Sunmaker's sons, so Sadeas is a distant descendant.
* NeverLiveItDown: InUniverse. Syl is understandably still a little miffed about Kaladin killing her in ''Words of Radiance'', and insists he apologize every time the subject comes up. Which she does often.
* NotBloodSiblings: Variant. As Dalinar's brother's widow, Navani is supposed to be treated as his sister. It's not against the law for them to wed, but it is very strongly against tradition, and the ardents refused to officiate the wedding.
* NoPeriodsPeriod: Played with; Shallan briefly lets Adolin think she's on her period because she doesn't want to tell him about her night drinking in the markets. He figures it out, though, and they have a brief discussion on how men assume any strange behavior is the result of periods, and women let them. Adolin once again demonstrates he's smarter than he looks when he says he once noticed that one of his girlfriends was having "woman troubles" four times a month. Shallan also notes that her Stormlight HealingFactor doesn't help with cramps.
-->'''Shallan:''' Yeah. Mother Cultivation can be hateful. I'm an all-powerful, Shardblade-wielding pseudo-immortal, but nature still sends a friendly reminder every now and then to tell me I should be getting around to having children.\\
'''Pattern:''' [[BrickJoke No mating]].
* ObfuscatingStupidity: When Kaladin is "[[PlayAlongPrisoner captured]]" by the parshmen, Syl takes to acting like a normal windspren again. Kaladin is terrified that he broke the bond again without noticing, but she explains that at least some of the parshmen and ''definitely'' their Voidspren can see her, so she's pretending to just be a windspren.
* OneManArmy: In his youth, Dalinar was the most dangerous man on any battlefield even before he got his Shards. Sadeas and Gavilar quickly became accustomed to turning around and finding that Dalinar had accomplished half their objectives by himself.
-->'''Sadeas:''' We need to get you some Shards, my friend.\\
'''Dalinar:''' To protect me?\\
'''Sadeas:''' Protect you? Storms, Dalinar, at this point I'm not certain a ''rockslide'' could kill you. No, it just makes the rest of us look bad when you accomplish what you do while practically unarmed!
* RefugeInAudacity: None of the ardents will consent to marrying Dalinar to Navani, so he decides to get a higher authority to do it: ''The Stormfather''. In Dalinar's own words, he's the closest thing to a god they have left.
* ShipperOnDeck: Syl thinks Kaladin will be happier in a relationship, so she encourages him to be with any woman who so much as smiles at him. On a more long-term basis, however, she thinks he'd be happy with Shallan. Part of it is because she really doesn't like Adolin, since he carries a dead Blade.
* SirSwearsalot: Queen Fen of Thaylenah is very foul-mouthed when she's being friendly. It's to the point that when she starts being polite, Navani realizes that something is wrong.
* SophisticatedAsHell: Syl's response when Kaladin apologizes for using her to "smash into things."
-->'''Syl:''' Firstly, I ''don't'' smash into things. I am an ''elegant'' and ''graceful'' weapon, stupid.
* SparingTheAces: In the flashbacks, an enemy assassin snipes at Dalinar from nearly four hundred yards away--an impossible distance for a bow. Once Dalinar runs the man down and captures him, he immediately recruits him, not even bothering to wait for him to surrender first.
* SplitPersonality: Shallan creates a new one in order to be the type of woman who can learn swordplay from Adolin. She calls her "Brightness Radiant," and she's formal, in control, and unashamed. Shallan modeled her after Jasnah--which is why she accidentally gave her a larger bust. And then she begins to consider "Shallan" just another alternate personality, proving once again that her brain is ''not'' working right.
* TheSpymaster: Dalinar names Aladar Highprince of Information. His first task is to discover who killed Sadeas. Dalinar is of course completely unaware that it was his own son.
* StayInTheKitchen: Due to his Alethi values, Kaladin feels a bit weird about using Syl as a weapon. He mostly gets over it once she points out that roughly half of his previous weapons have been female.
* StrawCharacter: Subverted; despite Taravangian being a half-insane genocidal murderer, he has a conversation with Dalinar on the nature of justice where he defends his position and makes several good points. Specifically, Dalinar tells him of a parable from ''The Way of Kings'' where a dying man [[HisNameIs tells people that three people worked together to kill him]], but there are four suspects. Taravangian says he would have had all four executed (once it becomes clear that they can't determine which ones are actually guilty), because the important thing is to stop the murders, and one dead innocent is a small price to pay. Dalinar doesn't agree, but he has to admit that Taravangian's logic is sound.
* SuperEmpowering: Windrunners (and possibly other Orders) can have "squires" who share in their powers without having a spren themselves. They retain these powers at a very long range, but not an infinite one; Lopen was able to use Stormlight in the previous book while he was in the warcamps and Kaladin on the Shattered Plains, but Bridge Four loses their powers when they are in Urithiru and Kaladin flies to Hearthstone.
* TheTease: Navani, sort of. She wants her flirting with Dalinar to advance, but he is firmly against it, so she turns into this.
-->'''Navani:''' Your stubborn refusal to get seduced is making me question my feminine wiles.
* ThrowTheDogABone: After almost a decade of his life getting progressively worse, of failing to protect everyone he cares about, and then returning home to see his town destroyed by the Everstorm, Kaladin finds his parents alive. And then when Roshone tries to treat him like a slave, Kaladin decks him in the face.
* UnsuspectinglySoused: Lighteyes only drink wine, so when Shallan goes to a darkeyed bar, she ends up downing four shots of some ''very'' hard liquor without considering the consequences. Thankfully, when she uses some Stormlight she's instantly sober again.
* VillainsOutShopping: When Kaladin first finds the transformed Parshmen who escaped from various towns across Alethkar, he finds them trying to play cards using half-remembered rules. This is what leads Kaladin to realize that the situation is more complicated than he had been expecting.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity:
** Dalinar is relieved beyond words when King Taravangian agrees to ally with him, completely unaware that he's the one who sent Szeth killing around the world. Taravangian also somehow managed to get a Radiant on his side, which both makes him look even better and implies that he's managed to hide his evil deeds from her, as well.
** Amaram is promoted to Highprince of the Sadeas Princedom in part due to the fact that he has the respect of the soldiers. The little detail about him being a thief and a murderer is swept under the rug, despite Dalinar's annoyance. Amaram insists that they can put him on trial ''after'' the Desolation.
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'''''WARNING: {{Late Arrival Spoiler}}s abound for previous books in Literature/TheStormlightArchive.'''''
''Oathbringer'' is the third book in Creator/BrandonSanderson's EpicFantasy series ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'', taking place on the world of Roshar, characterized by its HostileWeather and {{Giant Enemy Crab}}s. Just as previous books focused on Kaladin and Shallan, ''Oathbringer'' centers around Dalinar Kholin, Highprince of War for Alethkar, as well as leader of the reborn Knights Radiant and a member of the Order of Bondsmiths.
At the end of ''Literature/WordsOfRadiance'', the Parshendi became Voidbringers and summoned the Everstorm, an evil highstorm that blows the wrong way. Kaladin and Shallan revealed their Surgebinding abilities and opened the way the Urithiru, fabled city of the Radiants. Once there, Dalinar bound the Stormfather himself as his spren, and Renarin revealed himself to be a Truthwatcher. Realizing that the Parshmen in his home village would soon become Voidbringers, Kaladin flew off to warn his family, while everyone else remained behind to explore the city.
Despite traveling hundreds of miles in half a day, Kaladin runs out of Stormlight before he reaches home, and has to walk the rest of the way, resulting in the Everstorm arriving before him. Just as he is giving up hope of anyone having survived, some soldiers in the manor spot him and pull him inside.
Meanwhile, Jasnah (having survived the attack on the ''Wind's Pleasure'' by teleporting to Shadesmar) has returned to the Physical Realm to find Hoid, the King's Wit, waiting for her. He cheerily tells her that Shallan did her job for her, before they begin the long walk back to civilization together.
And Szeth-son-Neturo, formerly the Assassin in White, has been inducted into the Skybreaker Order by Nalan'Elin, Herald of Justice himself. Nale tells him that he should never have been made Truthless, but praises him for holding to his ideals regardless. Now, it is time to return to punish the Shin for their crimes. To that end, the Herald has a new sword for him, a black Shardblade with a metal sheathe.
"Hello. Would you like to destroy some evil today?"
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!!This book provides examples of:
* TwentyFourHourArmor: After a few embarrassing early mistakes with his Shardplate, a young Dalinar resolves to wear it day and night, even while sleeping, until he feels more comfortable with it on than off.
* AlasPoorVillain: Dalinar is devastated when Sadeas is found dead, as not only were they old friends, but Sadeas would have been an invaluable ally in the coming war. Note that none of his allies agree with him, and they all feel that he would have just continued undermining Dalinar at every opportunity. In fact, Sadeas boasted about doing just that, which is why Adolin killed him.
-->'''Palona:''' Well! I guess that's one problem solved!\\
''[everyone stares]''\\
'''Palona:''' What? Don't tell me you weren't all thinking it.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Subverted with the transformed parshmen. Everyone assumed that each and every one of them would become possessed by a Voidspren when exposed to the Everstorm, but instead most of them were simply healed of their broken Connection and Identity and given a random form.
* AncestralWeapon: Oathbringer is one of the oldest Shardblades in Alethkar, once belonging to the Sunmaker himself. At some point or another, it fell out of Kholin hands, but Dalinar won it from Highprince Tanalan during the unification.
* AndThisIsFor: Two seconds after Kaladin sees Roshone again, he punches him in the face.
-->'''Kaladin:''' That was for my friend Moash.
* AppealToForce: One of the ardents' arguments for Vorinism is that the Heralds had supernatural powers that they used to lead humanity. Dalinar promptly demonstrates his supernatural powers and points out that things are a little more complicated than the ardents always assumed.
* AppealToTradition: One of the causes for friction between Dalinar and the ardents is that he wants answers about the nature of the world and religion, while the ardents are insistent that religion is right because it is right and because it has been done this way for centuries. Dalinar tells a story about how he was taught to tie his takama (a shirt for sword duels) three times instead of two, and how his master refused to allow him to do it any other way, because that's how ''his'' master taught him. Dalinar found his master's master, and he said the same thing. Dalinar found that man's master, who was very short, and he just said that he tied it three times to keep himself from tripping over the end.
-->'''Dalinar:''' I love tradition. I've ''fought'' for tradition. I make my men follow the codes. I uphold Vorin virtues. But merely being tradition does not make something worthy, Kadash. We can't just assume that because something is ''old'' it is ''right''.
* AssassinOutclassin: In the flashbacks, Dalinar does this constantly. He personally runs down a sniper sent to kill him, and later brutally kills a disguised server out for his brother... and then uses the assassin's knife to eat his dinner.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Kaladin manages to order around Roshone's soldiers before he even summons his Shardblade by dint of being the only real soldier around. Then when they finally start complaining, he does summon his Shardblade, which legally makes him the most important person in the village.
* BizarreAlienSenses:
** Syl is surprised to discover that she can sense when a highstorm is coming, even when it's still days off. When Kaladin was in the warcamps, she didn't need to exercise this ability since there were always lists of when the next few storms would be.
** Shallan and Renarin can both feel Re-Shephir somewhere deep in the tower, long before they actually find her. Due to her connection to Lightweaving and the fact that Dalinar couldn't sense her, it's possible that their power over the Surge of Illumination granted them this ability.
* BloodKnight: When Dalinar was younger, he was a bloodthirsty engine of death even when the Thrill wasn't upon him. He cuts down enemy soldiers without even knowing why, then orders his soldiers to take the civilians as hostages so he can draw out the enemy soldiers and get a better fight.
* BoobsOfSteel: Unintentional version. Shallan creates a new personality, "Brightness Radiant," with Lightweaving to help her become the sort of person who can learn swordplay. Since she based this personality on Jasnah, she has a noticeably larger bust than Shallan normally does.
* BoringButPractical: For a given definition of "boring." Given the choice between a Shardblade and Shardplate, most men choose the Blade. Dalinar prefers the Plate, as it provides benefits besides just killing power.
* CombatByChampion: The idea of defeating Odium's champion is brought up again. The Stormfather explains that the reason Odium would agree to such a binding duel is because fighting directly could actually harm him, while using a champion and losing costs him only time. Time is nothing to a Shard, but it's everything to mortals. Dalinar is a little embarrassed to realize that he was assuming ''he'd'' be the one to duel the champion, when it would be more logical to let a younger Radiant such as Kaladin do it.
* CopycatKiller: A lighteyed man is found dead, murdered in the exact same way as Sadeas. Everyone of course assumes it was the same killer, except for Adolin, who is ''very'' disturbed to find that someone has copied him. Shallan soon finds that someone has been copying other murders as well, also using impossibly specific details.
* CosmicPlaything: Kaladin just cannot catch a break. He flies literally across the entirety of Alethkar in half a day, only to run out of Stormlight somewhere in Aladar's princedom, some ninety miles from home. It takes him three days to walk a distance that he could have flown in a heartbeat, and he arrives after Hearthstone has already been devastated by the Everstorm and the Parshendi turned Voidbringers. He even manages to attract some gloomspren, which are rare.
* {{Cuddlebug}}: Evi, Dalinar's wife, was much more touchy-feely than he was comfortable with. She insisted on near-constant hugs, which his men snickered at.
* CycleOfRevenge: Once the freed Parshmen have joined together in strength, they immediately capture every human they come across. Kaladin isn't able to convince them to avoid revenge entirely, but he begs them to at least be better masters than the lighteyes were to them.
* DeathGlare: When Kaladin reaches Hearthstone, Roshone's lighteyed captain tries to hustle him around like a slave. Kaladin gives him a look that sends the man back a step, and then walks off to find his parents.
-->'''Syl:''' Wow. That is ''quite'' the glare you gave.\\
'''Kaladin:''' Old sergeant's trick.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: The prologue shows that Gavilar received the same visions as Dalinar, which were at least partly behind his desire to unite the kingdom. He somehow failed to understand that the point was to unite the people in order to survive the Desolation--instead, he decided to start the Desolation to unite them. What's worse, he didn't seem to think there was anything particularly strange about this, and happily told his plan to Eshonai.
* EasyLogistics: Discussed by Gavilar. Conventional siege tactics are ineffective against large Alethi cities, since starving out the enemy is unlikely to happen if they have access to Soulcasters.
* EldritchAbomination: The Unmade, enormously powerful Voidspren created by Odium to cause chaos wherever they could. They create country-wide effects merely by being awake, have strange and impossible powers, and only barely understand humanity at all. If it's possible to kill them, no one has ever done it before, but they have been sealed away before.
* ExactWords: When the Alethi finally get a hold of Azir, the Azir claim that their Oathgate doesn't work, and even send an affidavit to prove it. Navani is amused to note that the affidavit basically just says that the Oathgate isn't ''turned on'', not that it's broken.
* FalseMemories: Shallan is briefly worried that on the night she killed her father, she killed her brothers too and then used Lightweaving to fake all their following interactions to herself. She didn't, but the fact that she seriously considers the possibility does not speak well of her mental state.
* FamousAncestor: The Kholins are descended from the Sunmaker, the last man to unite Alethkar. They don't use this fact to justify their conquest, however. Gavilar seems to intentionally avoid comparisons since the Sunmaker eventually overreached and fell trying to expand his empire. Unfortunately, this lack of legitimacy came back to bite them by the War of Reckoning, since none of the Highprinces saw the need to follow someone who hadn't personally beaten them into line.
* FictionalDocument: Yet again, the title refers to an in-universe book, this one written by Jasnah Kholin after her journey to Shadesmar in ''Words''.
* TheGrandHunt: Syl mentions she had an aunt who used to hunt gloomspren. Kaladin assumes she means they made a game of trying to spot them, but she explains it was more like hunting greatshells.
* GodEmperor: Tezim is the "god-priest" of the Tukari people, and has been waging a war to reclaim the holy city of Sesemalex Dar for years. When Dalinar contacts him, he sends back a message proclaiming himself "Herald of Heralds" and demanding they give up Urithiru, which he claims belongs solely to him.
* TheHeretic: The ardents really, ''really'' aren't happy with Dalinar's visions. They can live with the ones about the Knights Radiant in their glory days, but then there's the part about the Almighty being dead. Dalinar tries to point out that if the Almighty is dead then obviously he was never really God and there must be something beyond him, but that really doesn't help. And then Dalinar marries Navani in a ceremony officiated by the Stormfather, which is either kinda silly or horrific blasphemy.
* HeroicVow: In the flashbacks, Dalinar nearly murders his brother for his throne and his wife while in the grips of the Thrill. While Gavilar didn't notice what almost happened, Dalinar is deeply ashamed that he swears to never covet the throne for himself.
* HeroWorship: Kaladin is happily surprised when he lands in a town and is greeted with cheers instead of shock and suspicion. Many of the villages he visited had spanreeds, so they sent word ahead. Furthermore, Elhokar insists on referring to Kaladin as "the hero," and requests that the two of them liberate Kholinar together.
-->'''Elhokar:''' He needs to go with me, so if I screw up and fail, someone will be there to save the city anyway.
* HisNameIs: One of the parables from ''The Way of Kings'' involved a dying man telling people that three men had worked together to kill him, but dying before he could say which of the four suspects was innocent. Taravangian says that it probably didn't happen, since it's too neat and precise for real life.
* HostileWeather: The Everstorm is a new one, the Voidbringer storm to counter Honor's highstorm. Not only does it blow from west to east (devastating towns and cities designed for the opposite direction), it doesn't carry Stormlight for Radiants to use. Dalinar notes that it seems to be more intelligent than the highstorms; while it's a bit weaker, it seems to focus its destruction on undefended small towns.
* IAmNotLeftHanded: Shallan has convinced Dalinar to tell people that she is an Elsecaller instead of a Lightweaver so that they won't know about her illusions.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Amaram is ''still'' insisting that everything he has ever done was for the greater good, despite the fact that he has been proven wrong on nearly everything. Yes, he was right that the Desolation was returning, but none of the horrible things he did helped them fight it in the slightest.
* InternalReveal:
** Dalinar finally explains to Nevani the fact that he can't remember his wife at all.
** When Shallan mentions to Adolin her theory about Amaram killing her brother, he explains that Kaladin saved Amaram by killing a Shardbearer, meaning he's actually the one who did it.
* IRejectYourReality: The ardents are hostile to Dalinar's visions due to them claiming that the Almighty is dead. Dalinar provides a theological loophole--if Honor is dead, clearly he was never "Almighty" and there must be some more powerful entity beyond him which is what everyone is ''actually'' worshiping--but the ardents consider that even worse.
* IronLady: Laral has turned into this while Kaladin was gone. The soldiers are willing to ignore Kaladin punching Roshone, but won't give him horses and maps without Laral's permission.
* LivingWeapon: The living Shardblades, of course, but Kaladin realizes that since everything has a spren, technically all of his previous weapons have been alive. And roughly half were female, which disturbs him a bit.
* MerchantPrince: Sebariel has always been more interested in profit than war, and at the beginning of the book Dalinar officially names him Highprince of Commerce.
* MissingTime: Shallan begins finding disturbing sketches of hers that she doesn't remember drawing.
* MomentKiller: When Shallan is alone with Adolin, she recruits Pattern to be their chaperone and keep anything "inappropriate" from happening. While he's initially confused and Shallan thinks that he'd be a terrible chaperone, he figures it out soon enough.
-->'''Pattern:''' Oh! You were talking about ''mating!'' I'm to make sure you don't accidentally mate, as mating is forbidden by human society until you have first performed appropriate rituals! Yes, yes. Mmmm. Dictates of custom require following certain patterns before you copulate. I've been studying this!\\
'''Shallan:''' Oh, Stormfather.\\
'''Pattern:''' Very well, you two. No mating. ''NO MATING.''
* MundaneUtility: The Stormfather eventually mentions that he can give the highstorm visions to anyone during a highstorm, or anyone who is near Dalinar due to their bond. Dalinar then realizes that he can use this ability to talk "in person" with the other rulers of the world, giving him a much better chance to convince them of his good intentions than struggling to communicate through spanreed.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: House Sadeas is named after the Sunmaker, Sadees. All ten of the Alethi princedoms were founded by the Sunmaker's sons, so Sadeas is a distant descendant.
* NeverLiveItDown: InUniverse. Syl is understandably still a little miffed about Kaladin killing her in ''Words of Radiance'', and insists he apologize every time the subject comes up. Which she does often.
* NotBloodSiblings: Variant. As Dalinar's brother's widow, Navani is supposed to be treated as his sister. It's not against the law for them to wed, but it is very strongly against tradition, and the ardents refused to officiate the wedding.
* NoPeriodsPeriod: Played with; Shallan briefly lets Adolin think she's on her period because she doesn't want to tell him about her night drinking in the markets. He figures it out, though, and they have a brief discussion on how men assume any strange behavior is the result of periods, and women let them. Adolin once again demonstrates he's smarter than he looks when he says he once noticed that one of his girlfriends was having "woman troubles" four times a month. Shallan also notes that her Stormlight HealingFactor doesn't help with cramps.
-->'''Shallan:''' Yeah. Mother Cultivation can be hateful. I'm an all-powerful, Shardblade-wielding pseudo-immortal, but nature still sends a friendly reminder every now and then to tell me I should be getting around to having children.\\
'''Pattern:''' [[BrickJoke No mating]].
* ObfuscatingStupidity: When Kaladin is "[[PlayAlongPrisoner captured]]" by the parshmen, Syl takes to acting like a normal windspren again. Kaladin is terrified that he broke the bond again without noticing, but she explains that at least some of the parshmen and ''definitely'' their Voidspren can see her, so she's pretending to just be a windspren.
* OneManArmy: In his youth, Dalinar was the most dangerous man on any battlefield even before he got his Shards. Sadeas and Gavilar quickly became accustomed to turning around and finding that Dalinar had accomplished half their objectives by himself.
-->'''Sadeas:''' We need to get you some Shards, my friend.\\
'''Dalinar:''' To protect me?\\
'''Sadeas:''' Protect you? Storms, Dalinar, at this point I'm not certain a ''rockslide'' could kill you. No, it just makes the rest of us look bad when you accomplish what you do while practically unarmed!
* RefugeInAudacity: None of the ardents will consent to marrying Dalinar to Navani, so he decides to get a higher authority to do it: ''The Stormfather''. In Dalinar's own words, he's the closest thing to a god they have left.
* ShipperOnDeck: Syl thinks Kaladin will be happier in a relationship, so she encourages him to be with any woman who so much as smiles at him. On a more long-term basis, however, she thinks he'd be happy with Shallan. Part of it is because she really doesn't like Adolin, since he carries a dead Blade.
* SirSwearsalot: Queen Fen of Thaylenah is very foul-mouthed when she's being friendly. It's to the point that when she starts being polite, Navani realizes that something is wrong.
* SophisticatedAsHell: Syl's response when Kaladin apologizes for using her to "smash into things."
-->'''Syl:''' Firstly, I ''don't'' smash into things. I am an ''elegant'' and ''graceful'' weapon, stupid.
* SparingTheAces: In the flashbacks, an enemy assassin snipes at Dalinar from nearly four hundred yards away--an impossible distance for a bow. Once Dalinar runs the man down and captures him, he immediately recruits him, not even bothering to wait for him to surrender first.
* SplitPersonality: Shallan creates a new one in order to be the type of woman who can learn swordplay from Adolin. She calls her "Brightness Radiant," and she's formal, in control, and unashamed. Shallan modeled her after Jasnah--which is why she accidentally gave her a larger bust. And then she begins to consider "Shallan" just another alternate personality, proving once again that her brain is ''not'' working right.
* TheSpymaster: Dalinar names Aladar Highprince of Information. His first task is to discover who killed Sadeas. Dalinar is of course completely unaware that it was his own son.
* StayInTheKitchen: Due to his Alethi values, Kaladin feels a bit weird about using Syl as a weapon. He mostly gets over it once she points out that roughly half of his previous weapons have been female.
* StrawCharacter: Subverted; despite Taravangian being a half-insane genocidal murderer, he has a conversation with Dalinar on the nature of justice where he defends his position and makes several good points. Specifically, Dalinar tells him of a parable from ''The Way of Kings'' where a dying man [[HisNameIs tells people that three people worked together to kill him]], but there are four suspects. Taravangian says he would have had all four executed (once it becomes clear that they can't determine which ones are actually guilty), because the important thing is to stop the murders, and one dead innocent is a small price to pay. Dalinar doesn't agree, but he has to admit that Taravangian's logic is sound.
* SuperEmpowering: Windrunners (and possibly other Orders) can have "squires" who share in their powers without having a spren themselves. They retain these powers at a very long range, but not an infinite one; Lopen was able to use Stormlight in the previous book while he was in the warcamps and Kaladin on the Shattered Plains, but Bridge Four loses their powers when they are in Urithiru and Kaladin flies to Hearthstone.
* TheTease: Navani, sort of. She wants her flirting with Dalinar to advance, but he is firmly against it, so she turns into this.
-->'''Navani:''' Your stubborn refusal to get seduced is making me question my feminine wiles.
* ThrowTheDogABone: After almost a decade of his life getting progressively worse, of failing to protect everyone he cares about, and then returning home to see his town destroyed by the Everstorm, Kaladin finds his parents alive. And then when Roshone tries to treat him like a slave, Kaladin decks him in the face.
* UnsuspectinglySoused: Lighteyes only drink wine, so when Shallan goes to a darkeyed bar, she ends up downing four shots of some ''very'' hard liquor without considering the consequences. Thankfully, when she uses some Stormlight she's instantly sober again.
* VillainsOutShopping: When Kaladin first finds the transformed Parshmen who escaped from various towns across Alethkar, he finds them trying to play cards using half-remembered rules. This is what leads Kaladin to realize that the situation is more complicated than he had been expecting.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity:
** Dalinar is relieved beyond words when King Taravangian agrees to ally with him, completely unaware that he's the one who sent Szeth killing around the world. Taravangian also somehow managed to get a Radiant on his side, which both makes him look even better and implies that he's managed to hide his evil deeds from her, as well.
** Amaram is promoted to Highprince of the Sadeas Princedom in part due to the fact that he has the respect of the soldiers. The little detail about him being a thief and a murderer is swept under the rug, despite Dalinar's annoyance. Amaram insists that they can put him on trial ''after'' the Desolation.
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