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** In the epigraphs of Part 2, [[Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy Harmony]] warns Wit notices that Wit [[spoiler: seems more afraid of Rayse than Odium, and that this could cause problems, since the Shard of Odium is WAY more dangerous than its wielder, Vessel. Sure enough, Taravangian kills Rayse and says that a very becomes even more dangerous Shard would be both very intelligent and than before]].
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** In the epigraphs of Part 2, [[Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy Harmony]] warns Wit that [[spoiler: the Shard of Odium is more dangerous than its wielder, and says that a very dangerous Shard would be both very intelligent and
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler: In the epilogue, Wit encounters Odium and noticeshe’s getting smarter, that Odium is acting differently, hinting that Taravangian’s taken over, at which point Odium alters his memory to remove this revelation]].
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* HonorBeforeReason: HonorBeforeReason:
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** The Sons of Honor think that all Knights Radiant are like this, which makes it ridiculously easy for Shallan to infiltrate them. They screen their recruits by making them swear to obey them and disavow Dalinar, not knowing that Lightweavers can lie.
** The Heavenly Ones, the Fused who mirror the Windrunners, will accept one-on-one duels without any guile or underhanded tactics. Kaladin lets his Windrunners follow suit because it is more advantageous for
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* KilledOffForReal: Anti-Voidlight can be used to permanently kill Fused, beyond all possibility of reincarnation.
** Conversely, [[spoiler: anti-Stormlight can be used to utterly annihilate truespren, not even leaving a deadeye.]]
** Conversely, [[spoiler: anti-Stormlight can be used to utterly annihilate truespren, not even leaving a deadeye.]]
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**reincarnation. Conversely, [[spoiler: anti-Stormlight can be used to utterly annihilate truespren, not even leaving a deadeye.]]]]
** [[spoiler:Kalak]] explains how Jezerien was killed in the last book. The knife was supposed to imprison him in the gem, the same way spren can be trapped, but it killed him instead because he's a Cognitive Shadow kept anchored to the world of the living with a bond, and trapping him in the gem severed said bond. Without the bond, he faded into the Beyond.
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** Venli soon realizes that even among the sane Fused, many of them have all but forgotten their original goals. Instead of survival or even driving the humans off Roshar, they just want to win because that's their sole purpose. [[spoiler: Zahel's discussion with Kaladin indicates that the Fused, much like other immortal entities like Returned, are essentially [[OurGhostsAreDifferent Invested concepts in the "shape" of the person they once were]], and as time passes they become less and less the person they are mimicking and more like a spren: obsessed with the concept they embody.]]
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* PlanetOfSteves: All Cryptics are named Pattern and have no problems figuring out who is talking to whom. Their real names are mathematical equations and thus can't be used easily by humans. The Lightweavers have to talk them into adopting other names so non-Cryptics can tell them apart. Wit's Cryptic is called Design, [[spoiler:and Shallan posthumously names her first Cryptic Testament]].
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* DamselInDistress / DamselOutOfDistress: Navani is captured by the Fused after they [[spoiler: conquer Urithiru, but ultimately escapes on her own after she bonds with the Sibling.]]
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The Honorspren judge forces Mayalaran to be brought into [[spoiler: Adolin's]] trial to be used against him. But [[spoiler: Mayalaran genuinely loves Adolin so, thanks to what he'd been doing to help her regain her faculties, she's able to force herself to speak on his behalf, revealing that the Radiant Spren agreed to the Recreance.]]
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* PoorCommunicationKills: As revealed in this book, [[spoiler: the Lost Radiants' spren were in on the Recreance, and freely allowed their bonds to be broken. However, it would appear that they never explained to their fellows what they were doing and why (even among the species like inkspren where not all spren were bonded), and as a result the spren have believed the Radiants to be traitors for generations.]]
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* KickTheDog: Moash tells Navani that her son cowardly begged for his life before Moash killed him even though Ehlokar hadn't even noticed Moash who snuck up and stabbed him from behind. Not to mention[[spoiler: ''killing Teft'']], even Moash regrets that one after his ability to feel emotion is restored.
* KilledOffForReal: Anti-Voidlight can be used to permanently kill Fused, beyond all possibility of reincarnation.
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** Lirin thinks that since Radiants can heal with magic, surgeons like himself are obsolete, until Kaladin points out that Radiants can't do anything about wounds found too late, or disease.
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** Early on in the Shadesmar arc, [[spoiler: the party encounters what appears to be a fresh deadeye, a Cryptic killed only a few years ago. Turns out that this was Shallan's original Cryptic, whom she killed after it assisted her in killing her mother.]]
* KilledOffForReal: Anti-Voidlight can be used to permanently kill Fused, beyond all possibility of reincarnation.
** Conversely, [[spoiler: anti-Stormlight can be used to utterly annihilate truespren, not even leaving a deadeye.]]
** Conversely, [[spoiler: anti-Stormlight can be used to utterly annihilate truespren, not even leaving a deadeye.]]
* MeaningfulName: Turns out that [[spoiler: Veil has one. She's more than just Shallan's stealth-and-infiltration persona: she's the keeper of Shallan's worst memories, the ''veil'' drawn over her past.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Multiple cases by Navani in the Tower arc:
** [[spoiler: She talks the Sibling into revealing the location of one of the nodes that Raboniel could use to corrupt it so that it can be defended... which also reveals the location to Raboniel (who had hidden voidspren spying on her).]]
** [[spoiler: She discovers how to invert Voidlight into "anti-Voidlight" in an attempt to make a weapon against the Fused... only to realize too late that Raboniel can use the same technique to make anti-Stormlight weapons that can kill Radiant spren.]]
** [[spoiler: She talks the Sibling into revealing the location of one of the nodes that Raboniel could use to corrupt it so that it can be defended... which also reveals the location to Raboniel (who had hidden voidspren spying on her).]]
** [[spoiler: She discovers how to invert Voidlight into "anti-Voidlight" in an attempt to make a weapon against the Fused... only to realize too late that Raboniel can use the same technique to make anti-Stormlight weapons that can kill Radiant spren.]]
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*** [[spoiler:Anti-light can also be created by finding the tone that cancels out the respective tone of the light. Interestingly, to humnans, humans, the tones are the same, though Listeners can detect it. The combination of a light and its opposite can be explosive - and also can kill a spren or other cognitive splinter attuned to that light.]]
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** The first airship is little more than a large floating platform that travels at about five knots. But to a mostly medieval society, everything about it is invaluable.
** The first airship is little more than a large floating platform that travels at about five knots. But to a mostly medieval society, everything about it is invaluable.
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* BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats: The Sons of Honor have been reduced to this. Shallan infiltrates their ranks, and mentally laughs at their robes.
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** Veil is the one who insists that Shallan face her past and recover her memories. [[spoiler:Veil isn't just a disguise, and she's older than the drawing of Tyn. She's the keeper of those bad memories, and she's only holding on to them for Shallan to face them later]].
** Veil is the one who insists that Shallan face her past and recover her memories. [[spoiler:Veil isn't just a disguise, and she's older than the drawing of Tyn. She's the keeper of those bad memories, and she's only holding on to them for Shallan to face them later]].
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* PlanetOfSteves: All Cryptics are named Pattern and have no problems figuring out who is talking to whom. Their real names are mathematical equations and thus can't be used easily by humans. The Lightweavers have to talk them into adopting other names so non-Cryptics can tell them apart.
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* WrongContextMagic: Zahel challenges Kaladin to prove his sword skill by just ''trying'' to land a sword blow on him, in the middle of a laundry yard, then spends the whole fight using sheets and cloth in strange ways to confound Kal's swordsmanship. Kaladin can tell that Zahel isn't Surgebinding, but he strongly suspects there's something weird going on that he doesn't know about. The reader, though, should immediately realize that he's using [[{{Literature/Warbreaker}} Awakening.]]
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** During experimentation with the various lights, Navani discovers [[spoiler:a literal example of this trope, as she finds a way to cancel out the vibrations of a given Light through sound, and is able to generate anti-light by mixing this process with light trapped in a vacuum. Like antimatter, this anti-Light cancels out existing investiture, and is capable of actually killing otherwise immortal beings like Fused and Spren.]]
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** [[spoiler:The Servant is still alive, and in fact is Urithiru, or at least the orginal structure and most of the components. They are also the child of both Honor and Cultivation together, and are powered on a combination of their respective Investitures.]]
** [[spoiler:Stormlight, Lifelight - the equivalent attuned to Cultivation - and Voidlight - aspected to Odium - can all be manipulated by sound. It is also possible to fuse these by finding resonance between them - Urithiru is powered by the combination of Storm- and Lifelight, and Navani and the Lady of Wishes are able to combine Storm- and Voidlight into a fusion called Warlight.]]
*** [[spoiler:Anti-light can also be created by finding the tone that cancels out the respective tone of the light. Interestingly, to humnans, the tones are the same, though Listeners can detect it. The combination of a light and its opposite can be explosive - and also can kill a spren or other cognitive splinter attuned to that light.]]
** [[spoiler:Metal and color, keys in other systems of investiture, affect stormlight as well, sometimes in predictable ways - iron can be used in fabrials to create attracters, and it's theorized that another metal - likely steel - can be used for repelling fabrials. Color also affects stormlight in certain ways.]]
** [[spoiler:Stormlight, Lifelight - the equivalent attuned to Cultivation - and Voidlight - aspected to Odium - can all be manipulated by sound. It is also possible to fuse these by finding resonance between them - Urithiru is powered by the combination of Storm- and Lifelight, and Navani and the Lady of Wishes are able to combine Storm- and Voidlight into a fusion called Warlight.]]
*** [[spoiler:Anti-light can also be created by finding the tone that cancels out the respective tone of the light. Interestingly, to humnans, the tones are the same, though Listeners can detect it. The combination of a light and its opposite can be explosive - and also can kill a spren or other cognitive splinter attuned to that light.]]
** [[spoiler:Metal and color, keys in other systems of investiture, affect stormlight as well, sometimes in predictable ways - iron can be used in fabrials to create attracters, and it's theorized that another metal - likely steel - can be used for repelling fabrials. Color also affects stormlight in certain ways.]]
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* OnlyMostlyDead: Death for spren is always weird, so Navani isn't sure exactly how "dead" the Sibling in Urithiru is. The few spren who know about it say it is "slumbering," but she notes they treat that with an air of finality.
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* OnlyMostlyDead: Death for spren is always weird, so Navani isn't sure exactly how "dead" the Sibling in Urithiru is. The few spren who know about it say it is "slumbering," but she notes they treat that with an air of finality.offinality.
* PlanetOfSteves: All Cryptics are named Pattern and have no problems figuring out who is talking to whom. The Lightweavers have to talk them into adopting other names so non-Cryptics can tell them apart.
* PlanetOfSteves: All Cryptics are named Pattern and have no problems figuring out who is talking to whom. The Lightweavers have to talk them into adopting other names so non-Cryptics can tell them apart.
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* TheReveal: As with every Stormlight book, many secrets of Roshar and the Cosmere are revealed.
** [[spoiler:Restares, the reclusive leader of the Sons of Honor, is actually the Herald Kalak.]]
** [[spoiler:Thaidakar, the still unseen leader of the Ghostbloods, is from another world and is suffering from a similar problem as the Heralds.]]
** [[spoiler:Pattern is the second Cryptic Shallan bonded. The first she killed as a child when she forsook her oaths.]]
** [[spoiler:The Radiant spren agreed to the Recreance and accepted the consequences.]]
** [[spoiler:Cultivation gave Taravangian his boon and his curse so he would be able to replace Rayse as Odium's shardvessel.]]
** [[spoiler:Restares, the reclusive leader of the Sons of Honor, is actually the Herald Kalak.]]
** [[spoiler:Thaidakar, the still unseen leader of the Ghostbloods, is from another world and is suffering from a similar problem as the Heralds.]]
** [[spoiler:Pattern is the second Cryptic Shallan bonded. The first she killed as a child when she forsook her oaths.]]
** [[spoiler:The Radiant spren agreed to the Recreance and accepted the consequences.]]
** [[spoiler:Cultivation gave Taravangian his boon and his curse so he would be able to replace Rayse as Odium's shardvessel.]]
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* BedlamHouse: People with mental disorders are cared for by a specialized devotary of ardents. And while the ardents are not evil and the patients are at least fed and kept clean, they are isolated in barely-furnished dark cells with no therapy at all. Ones with suicidal tendencies do not even get a blanket, as they might try to hang themselves.
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* BedlamHouse: People with mental disorders are cared for by a specialized devotary of ardents. And while the ardents are not evil and the patients are at least fed and kept clean, they are isolated in barely-furnished dark cells with [[ThereAreNoTherapists no therapy therapy]] at all. Ones with suicidal tendencies do not even get a blanket, as they might try to hang themselves.
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* BedlamHouse: People with mental disorders are cared for by a specialized devotary of ardents. And while the ardents are not evil and the patients are at least fed and kept clean, they are isolated in barely-furnished dark cells with no therapy at all. Ones with suicidal tendencies do not even get a blanket, as they might try to hang themselves.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Kaladin and Shallan are both getting worse, in different ways.
** Kaladin's depression is bad enough that unless he has Stormlight, he is almost completely useless. Moash almost manages to convince him to kill himself, and later he has trouble coming up with a good argument against the idea.
** Shallan has settled into three personalities--Shallan, Veil, and Radiant--but the balance is delicate. There is a fourth "personality," Formless, which the Three refuse to acknowledge and is made up of everything that is not part of the others.
** Kaladin's depression is bad enough that unless he has Stormlight, he is almost completely useless. Moash almost manages to convince him to kill himself, and later he has trouble coming up with a good argument against the idea.
** Shallan has settled into three personalities--Shallan, Veil, and Radiant--but the balance is delicate. There is a fourth "personality," Formless, which the Three refuse to acknowledge and is made up of everything that is not part of the others.
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler: In the epilogue, Wit encounters Odium and notices he’s getting smarter, at which point Odium alters his memory to remove this revelation]].
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* PutOnTheBus: Rock, one of the members of the original Bridge Four, leaves for Horneater Peaks with his wife.
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* WarRefugees: The war in Herdaz against the singers and Fused has been dragging for a year and as a result, many civilian flee to Alethkar--which has been conquered by the singers and is therefore much ''safer''.
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'''''WARNING: {{Late Arrival Spoiler}}s abound for previous books in Literature/TheStormlightArchive.'''''
''Rhythm of War'' is the fourth 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 individual characters, ''Rhythm of War'' centers around Venli, Envoy of the Fused, as well as a secret spy and member of the Order of Willshapers.
At the end of ''Literature/{{Oathbringer}}'', the Knights Radiant were forced to largely abandon Alethkar, even though they had saved Thaylenah. Meanwhile, Odium made a deal with King Taravangian, who will act as a spy in Urithiru.
The world is in dire straits. Alethkar has fallen, conquered by the Voidbringers. Herdaz has now followed, and refugees pour across the border. There is word of a plague in the west, and the new singers are flexing their muscles, trampling all over the humans who once ruled them. But even they are not free, as the Fused still rule over all with an iron fist.
But Venli, last of the listeners, the traitor who destroyed her people and brought about the Final Desolation, has sworn the Oaths. For the first time in history, a parsh is a Knight Radiant--and she still sits in the enemy camp, teaching the new singers things the Fused would rather they not know.
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!!This book provides examples of:
* AmbiguousDisorder: Kaladin and Shallan are both getting worse, in different ways.
** Kaladin's depression is bad enough that unless he has Stormlight, he is almost completely useless. Moash almost manages to convince him to kill himself, and later he has trouble coming up with a good argument against the idea.
** Shallan has settled into three personalities--Shallan, Veil, and Radiant--but the balance is delicate. There is a fourth "personality," Formless, which the Three refuse to acknowledge and is made up of everything that is not part of the others.
* AntiMagic: The Fused use a Voidlight device to turn off all Radiant powers in a small radius, including Shardblades. Likewise, Urithiru apparently has a similar effect on Voidlight powers, which is why it's been such an impregnable fortress throughout the Desolations. More powerful entities (fourth-Ideal Radiants and the Unmade) are strong enough to push through the interference.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: When Dalinar orders Kaladin to step down because of his trauma, Kaladin is incensed, and says Dalinar is supposed to be different from other lighteyes. Dalinar quietly asks "Why am I different?" Kaladin immediately deflates as he realizes the answer: Dalinar cares about his men, and he is not doing this to be cruel.
* BeneathTheMask: Gavilar was cruel and dangerous with Navani when they were alone, and talked about how everyone around him, including his adoring children and nephews, were irrelevant to his glorious legacy. Navani tries to convince herself that she just brings out the worst in him (like how he brings out her weakness), but it's not clear if she's correct.
* BoringButPractical: The first airship is little more than a large floating platform that travels at about five knots. But to a mostly medieval society, everything about it is invaluable.
-->'''Navani:''' Five knots. Not particularly fast, compared to your best ships.\\
'''Kmakl:''' Pardon, Brightness. But this is essentially a giant barge--and for that five knots is impressive, even ignoring the fact that it is ''flying''. This ship is faster than an army marching at double time--yet it brings your troops in fresh ''and'' provides its own mobile high ground for archery support.
* BroughtDownToBadass: The Fused negate Kaladin's powers. All this really does is distract them so that he can kill them normally.
-->The Fused laughed and spoke in Alethi. "Radiants! You rely too much on your powers. Without them, what are you? A peasant child with no ''real'' training in the art of warfare or--"\\
Kaladin slammed himself against the soldier to his right.
* BuxomIsBetter: Veil spots one of Adolin's old girlfriends, Dakhnah, and wonders if they should set Kaladin up with her. There are two big reasons why.
-->'''Veil:''' Those aren't real, are they? She pads, right?\\
'''Adolin:''' ''[shakes head]''\\
'''Veil:''' Seriously? Stormfather. To get mine that big I'd have to eat six chulls. How do they feel?\\
'''Adolin:''' You're making assumptions.\\
'''Veil:''' Come on.\\
'''Adolin:''' This is not a topic for gentlemen to discuss.
* CoolAirship: Navani has finally made working airships... except "airship" is a bit generous. It's basically a large floating platform with some stuff bolted on the top. It's still impressive to people who have never seen flying vehicles before. It notably does not use the Surge of Gravitation that Windrunners use, but the sympathetic movement of spanreeds. That makes it rather more complicated and expensive than Gravitation. The first one is named ''Fourth Bridge''.
* DisappointedByTheMotive: Shallan is not impressed when Mraize tell her his true motive: Power. She's slightly more interested when she finds out that he means literal power, finding a way to export Stormlight from Roshar when it's normally bound to the system, but still.
* DomesticAbuse: Gavilar was never physically abusive to Navani, but he was emotionally abusive every time they were alone together. At one point he invited a famous artifabrian, a man who Navani would love to speak to, and made sure that she'd be too busy to have a chance.
* EnemyMine: Herdaz, like most countries, suffered greatly from Alethi wars and the Blackthorn in particular. In the face of the Fused, they adapt.
-->'''The Mink:''' Alethi bloodlust has cost me many loved ones over the years, but I'd be a fool not to admit the value in pointing it--like the proverbial sword's blade--at ''someone else''.
* EnergyEconomy: Mraize implies that the wider Cosmere trades mostly in Investiture, which is why Stormlight is so valuable. Or rather, it would be, if not for the fact that it is bound to the Greater Roshar system. His goal is to find a way around this restriction for profit.
* EthicalSlut: Veil implies she's rather loose, and in particular is more openly bisexual than Shallan. Of course, since she's SharingABody with Shallan, who is married to Adolin, she's probably not ''actually'' sleeping around.
* FamedInStory: Played with. All of the ancient Fused are immortals who have harried humanity for millennia, spoken of in songs and legends with countless titles. They are therefore rather annoyed that, due to the four thousand year gap between Desolations this time, no one remembers those old stories.
* HonorBeforeReason: The Heavenly Ones, the Fused who mirror the Windrunners, will accept one-on-one duels without any guile or underhanded tactics. Kaladin lets his Windrunners follow suit because it is more advantageous for them.
* InformationWantsToBeFree: Navani curses the modern artifabrians and ancient Radiants for keeping secrets when they could instead spread the knowledge to help people. The artifabrians are using trade secrets for profit, but the ancient Radiants had more noble motives... which still meant all their secrets were lost when they died.
* LivingBattery: Dalinar has learned how to open a perpendicularity at will, infusing anyone nearby (or just a single person) with a massive amount of Stormlight. It's a huge advantage, and the reason he is still a FrontLineGeneral.
* MotiveDecay: Venli soon realizes that even among the sane Fused, many of them have all but forgotten their original goals. Instead of survival or even driving the humans off Roshar, they just want to win because that's their sole purpose.
* OnlyMostlyDead: Death for spren is always weird, so Navani isn't sure exactly how "dead" the Sibling in Urithiru is. The few spren who know about it say it is "slumbering," but she notes they treat that with an air of finality.
* RevengeBeforeReason: "The Pursuer" is a Fused who will hunt and kill any human who kills him with absolute, single-minded focus. This has apparently caused major problems in the past, but the Nine continue to accommodate his quirks.
* TheSkyIsAnOcean: Discussed; Navani wonders if they should use nautical terms on their airships, instead of literal ones like "right front."
* SplitPersonality: Shallan's personalities have stabilized to three, able to switch between them as necessary. It's still not very healthy, but it's better than she was in ''Oathbringer''.
* SuicidalPacifism: Lirin sticks to his pacifism even in the face of literal demons. He dismisses the resistance efforts as little more than drawing out the inevitable. Though, in fairness, he still helps some resistance fighters sneak through Hearthstone.
* UpperClassTwit: Aesudan dismisses a genius artifabrian as a bore who keeps talking about gems, constantly makes minor breaches of propriety, and is completely ignorant of what her family members want. It's no wonder that Jasnah was considering assassinating her to keep her from embarrassing the family further.
* VaguenessIsComing: Someone sneaks a spanreed to Navani and warns her that she needs to stop trapping spren in gemstones or something bad will happen.
* WretchedHive: The warcamps have gotten bad since basically everyone reputable moved to Urithiru, and then Ialai Sadeas moved back and started using the corruption as cover to actively plot treason.
* WrittenByTheWinners: Navani threatened this before Gavilar died. Gavilar cares about his legacy, and she's the one who will write it. He dismisses her as irrelevant--his glory will outshine any attempt for her to sully it.
* WrongContextMagic: Zahel challenges Kaladin to prove his sword skill by just ''trying'' to land a sword blow on him, in the middle of a laundry yard, then spends the whole fight using sheets and cloth in strange ways to confound Kal's swordsmanship. Kaladin can tell that Zahel isn't Surgebinding, but he strongly suspects there's something weird going on that he doesn't know about. The reader, though, should immediately realize that he's using [[{{Literature/Warbreaker}} Awakening.]]
'''''WARNING: {{Late Arrival Spoiler}}s abound for previous books in Literature/TheStormlightArchive.'''''
''Rhythm of War'' is the fourth 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 individual characters, ''Rhythm of War'' centers around Venli, Envoy of the Fused, as well as a secret spy and member of the Order of Willshapers.
At the end of ''Literature/{{Oathbringer}}'', the Knights Radiant were forced to largely abandon Alethkar, even though they had saved Thaylenah. Meanwhile, Odium made a deal with King Taravangian, who will act as a spy in Urithiru.
The world is in dire straits. Alethkar has fallen, conquered by the Voidbringers. Herdaz has now followed, and refugees pour across the border. There is word of a plague in the west, and the new singers are flexing their muscles, trampling all over the humans who once ruled them. But even they are not free, as the Fused still rule over all with an iron fist.
But Venli, last of the listeners, the traitor who destroyed her people and brought about the Final Desolation, has sworn the Oaths. For the first time in history, a parsh is a Knight Radiant--and she still sits in the enemy camp, teaching the new singers things the Fused would rather they not know.
----
!!This book provides examples of:
* AmbiguousDisorder: Kaladin and Shallan are both getting worse, in different ways.
** Kaladin's depression is bad enough that unless he has Stormlight, he is almost completely useless. Moash almost manages to convince him to kill himself, and later he has trouble coming up with a good argument against the idea.
** Shallan has settled into three personalities--Shallan, Veil, and Radiant--but the balance is delicate. There is a fourth "personality," Formless, which the Three refuse to acknowledge and is made up of everything that is not part of the others.
* AntiMagic: The Fused use a Voidlight device to turn off all Radiant powers in a small radius, including Shardblades. Likewise, Urithiru apparently has a similar effect on Voidlight powers, which is why it's been such an impregnable fortress throughout the Desolations. More powerful entities (fourth-Ideal Radiants and the Unmade) are strong enough to push through the interference.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: When Dalinar orders Kaladin to step down because of his trauma, Kaladin is incensed, and says Dalinar is supposed to be different from other lighteyes. Dalinar quietly asks "Why am I different?" Kaladin immediately deflates as he realizes the answer: Dalinar cares about his men, and he is not doing this to be cruel.
* BeneathTheMask: Gavilar was cruel and dangerous with Navani when they were alone, and talked about how everyone around him, including his adoring children and nephews, were irrelevant to his glorious legacy. Navani tries to convince herself that she just brings out the worst in him (like how he brings out her weakness), but it's not clear if she's correct.
* BoringButPractical: The first airship is little more than a large floating platform that travels at about five knots. But to a mostly medieval society, everything about it is invaluable.
-->'''Navani:''' Five knots. Not particularly fast, compared to your best ships.\\
'''Kmakl:''' Pardon, Brightness. But this is essentially a giant barge--and for that five knots is impressive, even ignoring the fact that it is ''flying''. This ship is faster than an army marching at double time--yet it brings your troops in fresh ''and'' provides its own mobile high ground for archery support.
* BroughtDownToBadass: The Fused negate Kaladin's powers. All this really does is distract them so that he can kill them normally.
-->The Fused laughed and spoke in Alethi. "Radiants! You rely too much on your powers. Without them, what are you? A peasant child with no ''real'' training in the art of warfare or--"\\
Kaladin slammed himself against the soldier to his right.
* BuxomIsBetter: Veil spots one of Adolin's old girlfriends, Dakhnah, and wonders if they should set Kaladin up with her. There are two big reasons why.
-->'''Veil:''' Those aren't real, are they? She pads, right?\\
'''Adolin:''' ''[shakes head]''\\
'''Veil:''' Seriously? Stormfather. To get mine that big I'd have to eat six chulls. How do they feel?\\
'''Adolin:''' You're making assumptions.\\
'''Veil:''' Come on.\\
'''Adolin:''' This is not a topic for gentlemen to discuss.
* CoolAirship: Navani has finally made working airships... except "airship" is a bit generous. It's basically a large floating platform with some stuff bolted on the top. It's still impressive to people who have never seen flying vehicles before. It notably does not use the Surge of Gravitation that Windrunners use, but the sympathetic movement of spanreeds. That makes it rather more complicated and expensive than Gravitation. The first one is named ''Fourth Bridge''.
* DisappointedByTheMotive: Shallan is not impressed when Mraize tell her his true motive: Power. She's slightly more interested when she finds out that he means literal power, finding a way to export Stormlight from Roshar when it's normally bound to the system, but still.
* DomesticAbuse: Gavilar was never physically abusive to Navani, but he was emotionally abusive every time they were alone together. At one point he invited a famous artifabrian, a man who Navani would love to speak to, and made sure that she'd be too busy to have a chance.
* EnemyMine: Herdaz, like most countries, suffered greatly from Alethi wars and the Blackthorn in particular. In the face of the Fused, they adapt.
-->'''The Mink:''' Alethi bloodlust has cost me many loved ones over the years, but I'd be a fool not to admit the value in pointing it--like the proverbial sword's blade--at ''someone else''.
* EnergyEconomy: Mraize implies that the wider Cosmere trades mostly in Investiture, which is why Stormlight is so valuable. Or rather, it would be, if not for the fact that it is bound to the Greater Roshar system. His goal is to find a way around this restriction for profit.
* EthicalSlut: Veil implies she's rather loose, and in particular is more openly bisexual than Shallan. Of course, since she's SharingABody with Shallan, who is married to Adolin, she's probably not ''actually'' sleeping around.
* FamedInStory: Played with. All of the ancient Fused are immortals who have harried humanity for millennia, spoken of in songs and legends with countless titles. They are therefore rather annoyed that, due to the four thousand year gap between Desolations this time, no one remembers those old stories.
* HonorBeforeReason: The Heavenly Ones, the Fused who mirror the Windrunners, will accept one-on-one duels without any guile or underhanded tactics. Kaladin lets his Windrunners follow suit because it is more advantageous for them.
* InformationWantsToBeFree: Navani curses the modern artifabrians and ancient Radiants for keeping secrets when they could instead spread the knowledge to help people. The artifabrians are using trade secrets for profit, but the ancient Radiants had more noble motives... which still meant all their secrets were lost when they died.
* LivingBattery: Dalinar has learned how to open a perpendicularity at will, infusing anyone nearby (or just a single person) with a massive amount of Stormlight. It's a huge advantage, and the reason he is still a FrontLineGeneral.
* MotiveDecay: Venli soon realizes that even among the sane Fused, many of them have all but forgotten their original goals. Instead of survival or even driving the humans off Roshar, they just want to win because that's their sole purpose.
* OnlyMostlyDead: Death for spren is always weird, so Navani isn't sure exactly how "dead" the Sibling in Urithiru is. The few spren who know about it say it is "slumbering," but she notes they treat that with an air of finality.
* RevengeBeforeReason: "The Pursuer" is a Fused who will hunt and kill any human who kills him with absolute, single-minded focus. This has apparently caused major problems in the past, but the Nine continue to accommodate his quirks.
* TheSkyIsAnOcean: Discussed; Navani wonders if they should use nautical terms on their airships, instead of literal ones like "right front."
* SplitPersonality: Shallan's personalities have stabilized to three, able to switch between them as necessary. It's still not very healthy, but it's better than she was in ''Oathbringer''.
* SuicidalPacifism: Lirin sticks to his pacifism even in the face of literal demons. He dismisses the resistance efforts as little more than drawing out the inevitable. Though, in fairness, he still helps some resistance fighters sneak through Hearthstone.
* UpperClassTwit: Aesudan dismisses a genius artifabrian as a bore who keeps talking about gems, constantly makes minor breaches of propriety, and is completely ignorant of what her family members want. It's no wonder that Jasnah was considering assassinating her to keep her from embarrassing the family further.
* VaguenessIsComing: Someone sneaks a spanreed to Navani and warns her that she needs to stop trapping spren in gemstones or something bad will happen.
* WretchedHive: The warcamps have gotten bad since basically everyone reputable moved to Urithiru, and then Ialai Sadeas moved back and started using the corruption as cover to actively plot treason.
* WrittenByTheWinners: Navani threatened this before Gavilar died. Gavilar cares about his legacy, and she's the one who will write it. He dismisses her as irrelevant--his glory will outshine any attempt for her to sully it.
* WrongContextMagic: Zahel challenges Kaladin to prove his sword skill by just ''trying'' to land a sword blow on him, in the middle of a laundry yard, then spends the whole fight using sheets and cloth in strange ways to confound Kal's swordsmanship. Kaladin can tell that Zahel isn't Surgebinding, but he strongly suspects there's something weird going on that he doesn't know about. The reader, though, should immediately realize that he's using [[{{Literature/Warbreaker}} Awakening.]]
