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Wangst is explicitly sadness that isn't justified. Kaladin has a lot to be despairing over, especially since he clearly has symptoms of clinical depression.
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* {{Wangst}}: Kaladin is a walking tower of this who seems to hit the DespairEventHorizon every third page he's on. Even he calls himself out on it several times, and Syl doing it inspires him to finally start trusting in the future.
** Though you can't really blame him given... [[TraumaCongaLine well... everything]]. It's pretty clear that he had clinical depression long before everyone he cared about started dying (long periods of complete apathy and similar) and there are shades of Seasonal Affective Disorder as well.
-->He recognized what was happening to him, this melancholy, this sense of despair. It had taken him often when he'd been younger, most frequently during the weeks of the Weeping, when the sky was hidden by clouds.
** Though you can't really blame him given... [[TraumaCongaLine well... everything]]. It's pretty clear that he had clinical depression long before everyone he cared about started dying (long periods of complete apathy and similar) and there are shades of Seasonal Affective Disorder as well.
-->He recognized what was happening to him, this melancholy, this sense of despair. It had taken him often when he'd been younger, most frequently during the weeks of the Weeping, when the sky was hidden by clouds.
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* GeniusBonus: The number 10 is used as a NumerologicalMotif throughout ''[[Literature/TheStormlightArchive The Way Of Kings]]'', and the concept of symmetry shows up repeatedly as having religious, cultural and magical significance. The book is 1001 pages long. The best part is, that was not, in fact, originally intended. It wasn't until they were finishing up the book that it became clear that it might be possible and Sanderson modified it to fit, considering the opportunity too delicious to miss.
* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Sadeas crosses it when he seizes a chance to get Dalinar killed by the Parshendi. It fails (narrowly), but a ton of Dalinar's men are slaughtered in the process.]]
* {{Wangst}}: Kaladin is a walking tower of this who seems to hit the DespairEventHorizon every third page he's on. Even he calls himself out on it several times, and Syl doing it inspires him to finally start trusting in the future.
** Though you can't really blame him given... [[TraumaCongaLine well... everything]]. It's pretty clear that he had clinical depression long before everyone he cared about started dying (long periods of complete apathy and similar) and there are shades of Seasonal Affective Disorder as well.
-->He recognized what was happening to him, this melancholy, this sense of despair. It had taken him often when he'd been younger, most frequently during the weeks of the Weeping, when the sky was hidden by clouds.
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* GeniusBonus: The number 10 is used as a NumerologicalMotif throughout ''[[Literature/TheStormlightArchive The Way Of Kings]]'', and the concept of symmetry shows up repeatedly as having religious, cultural and magical significance. The book is 1001 pages long. The best part is, that was not, in fact, originally intended. It wasn't until they were finishing up the book that it became clear that it might be possible and Sanderson modified it to fit, considering the opportunity too delicious to miss.
* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Sadeas crosses it when he seizes a chance to get Dalinar killed by the Parshendi. It fails (narrowly), but a ton of Dalinar's men are slaughtered in the process.]]
* {{Wangst}}: Kaladin is a walking tower of this who seems to hit the DespairEventHorizon every third page he's on. Even he calls himself out on it several times, and Syl doing it inspires him to finally start trusting in the future.
** Though you can't really blame him given... [[TraumaCongaLine well... everything]]. It's pretty clear that he had clinical depression long before everyone he cared about started dying (long periods of complete apathy and similar) and there are shades of Seasonal Affective Disorder as well.
-->He recognized what was happening to him, this melancholy, this sense of despair. It had taken him often when he'd been younger, most frequently during the weeks of the Weeping, when the sky was hidden by clouds.
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