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WARNING: Late Arrival Spoilers abound for The Way of Kings (2010).Words of Radiance is the second book in Brandon Sanderson's Epic Fantasy series The Stormlight Archive, taking place on the world of Roshar, characterized by its Hostile Weather and Giant Enemy Crabs. Just as The Way of Kings (2010) focused on Kaladin, Words of Radiance centers around Shallan Davar, former Impoverished Patrician and current scholar of Roshar's ancient history, which is becoming more relevant to the realm with each passing day.At the end of The Way of Kings (2010), Shallan and Jasnah concluded the parshmen used as manual labor across Roshar are the Voidbringers, ancient monsters who routinely attack civilization until driven back by the Knights Radiant, who betrayed humanity and vanished thousands of years ago. They set out to the Shattered Plains to meet with Jasnah's family, who lead the continuing war against the parshmen's violent cousins, the Parshendi. However, a twist of fate leaves Shallan alone with nothing but her notes and her new, poorly understood Surgebinding powers, weeks away from her destination.Dalinar Kholin, Highprince of War, has abandoned his position on the front lines of battle for an even more dangerous one in politics. Confronted with cryptic visions predicting a coming Desolation, Dalinar attempts to unite the Alethi Highprinces to combine their strength and decisively crush the Parshendi. Unfortunately, he is seen either as a fool or insane by most of his peers, and announcing his intention to refound the Knights Radiant has only made his job more difficult.After rescuing Dalinar's forces when they were betrayed by Highprince Sadeas, Kaladin and his bridgemen are employed as the personal bodyguards of the royal family, putting them in an awkward political position and heaping more responsibility on Kaladin than he deems himself fit to bear. Even though he has sworn to protect their king, Kaladin continues to grapple with his hatred of lighteyes, made worse when some of his personal demons resurface on the Shattered Plains.Meanwhile, Szeth-son-son-Vallano, the Assassin in White, the Shardbearer who killed Gavilar Kholin and plunged Alethkar into war with the Parshendi, has been given new orders by Taravangian: assassinate Highprince Dalinar. | |
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And Then John Was a Zombie | |
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And Then John Was a Zombie: Downplayed Trope. Kaladin spends all of the first book and about 90% of this one absolutely loathing all lighteyes. Then he swears the Third Oath and becomes one himself. | |
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Madness Mantra | |
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Madness Mantra: When a Herald of the Almighty ends up caught in one of these, you really know you're screwed. It would probably help if his dialect wasn't out of date. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Kaladin is completely horrified when he thinks he killed Sylphrena. So much that it causes a Heroic BSoD. | |
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You Can't Thwart Stage One | |
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You Can't Thwart Stage One: Despite the protagonists doing everything in their power to stop it, the Parshendi succeed at summoning the Everstorm. | |
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Little Miss Badass | |
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Little Miss Badass: Shallan in her youngest flashback. Cute adorable little girl, can't be more than ten, and a Shardbearer. Lift can also be considered one. | |
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Master Swordsman | |
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Master Swordsman: Adolin. At one point, he's dueling three Shardbearers at once, and winning. Four, however, is a bit more than he can handle. | |
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Genius Breeding Act | |
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Genius Breeding Act: At one point, Taravangian decreed that his subjects could only have children after passing an intelligence test, and that the least intelligent should commit suicide for the good of society. That was when his handlers decided to stop allowing him freedom to alter policy on his brilliant days. | |
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Gone Horribly Right | |
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Gone Horribly Right: Kaladin's transformation into a full Knight Radiant is this to Taravangian's agent in the Shattered Plains. He was supposed to isolate Kaladin from Dalinar, not foreseeing that said separation would give Kaladin his chance at redemption. The transformation of the Parshendi into stormform might count as this, from the point of view of their leader, Eshonai. Too bad that the first character to receive the form's Mind Rape is her... (although it's implied that her sister and the scholar Parshendi actually took on the stormform before her, in secret). | |
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Poor Communication Kills | |
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Poor Communication Kills: A good part of the middle section of Kaladin's character arc wouldn't have happened had Dalinar told him that he was setting Amaram up for a Secret Test of Character as a way of verifying Kaladin's claims. | |
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Asskicking Leads to Leadership | |
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Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Carried over from the end of the first book. Dalinar got fed up with Elhokar's pussy-footing around, kicked his ass, and told him to appoint Dalinar as Highprince of War—that is, the highest-ranking Highprince on military matters. | |
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Fictional Document: Words of Radiance is an in-universe philosophical book about the Orders of the Knights Radiant, their legacy and the ethics of reign and governance. | |
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Power at a Price | |
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Power at a Price: The Parshendi have slowly learned which forms they can take without being influenced by their hateful old gods, with the more powerful forms carrying greater risk of interference. Stormform is a newly rediscovered form, and they're unsure if taking it will be safe. it isn't. | |
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Back-to-Back Badasses | |
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Back-to-Back Badasses: Kaladin and Adolin while fighting four Shardbearers in the arena. This noticeably marks the point where the prince's attitude towards Kaladin changes from "disdain" to "respect", not least because Kaladin jumped in the arena as the the only man out of six neither wearing shardplate nor bearing a shardblade and won. | |
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Obstructive Bureaucrat | |
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Obstructive Bureaucrat: This seems to be the nation of Azir's "hat", with everything there running on having the correct paperwork and them electing their ruler based on who can write the best essay. However, the trope is reconstructed a tad when one notices that when most of the other nations are having insurrections and riots, the very concept of such is dismissed - by Azish officials, no less - as "too much paperwork." The "obstructions" inherent in the Azish bureaucracy are what give it its stability, where less complicated kingdoms have all but collapsed. | |
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Voluntary Shapeshifting | |
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Voluntary Shapeshifting: Parshendi can assume any of several different forms by binding an appropriate spren to themselves. | |
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With Great Power Comes Great Insanity | |
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With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Stormform, and the other Parshendi "forms of power", open their wearers up to possession by Odium. | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy: Sadeas. His death at Adolin's hands wasn't caused by him picking up the Idiot Ball, so much as it was him genuinely believing that everyone else in Alethkar was still playing the same political game he was, even after the discovery of Urithiru and return of the Voidbringers. | |
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Heroic Vow | |
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Heroic Vow: Lots. The Second Ideal of the Edgedancers: I will remember those who have been forgotten. The Third Ideal of the Windrunners: I will protect those I hate, so long as it is just. The Second Ideal of the Bondsmiths: I will unite instead of divide, I will bring men together. | |
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We ARE Struggling Together | |
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We ARE Struggling Together: Not only are the Highprinces still fighting each other, but you've got half a dozen conspiracies trying to fight the coming Desolation in their own way. Amaram's group thinks that by bringing back the Voidbringers, the Heralds will come as well, and fix everything wrong with the world. The group serving the Diagram are following a plan Taravangian wrote in his most brilliant moment, detailing how to put him slowly in control of the whole world, manipulating spren and people alike. The Ghostbloods have their own goal that closely parallels Jasnah's research (because she was one of them, for a time), but are willing to kill anyone who stands in their way. Eshonai, the Parshendi Shardbearer, ordered the death of the Alethi king to keep the gods of her people from returning and turning them into Voidbringers, and are now fighting a losing war against the Alethi; too bad her sister is some sort of Voidbringer mole, and causes exactly what Eshonai was trying to prevent. And then of course we have Dalinar, trying to honorably unite everyone under one banner to fight the coming storm. It's implied that some or all of these conspiracies (specifically the Ghostbloods and the Diagram, and possibly Amaram's group) are actually all splinter factions of the same group, since both Amaram and Taravangian take their cues from Gavilar, and the Ghostbloods Shallan speak to make a passing reference to the latter and seem to know exactly what he is up to. The Knights Radiant weren't as unified as they were assumed to be. Hints have already shown up in the new generation; Syl, as an honorspren, strongly dislikes any sort of lie or falsehood, while that's exactly what gives Cryptics like Pattern sustenance. The fact that Nale, founder and patron Herald of the Skybreakers, is Walking the Earth killing every Surgebinder he can find is further evidence. | |
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Companion Cube | |
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Companion Cube: Adolin's Shardblade. He talks to it. He's half justified in doing so. | |
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Slave Brand | |
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For some reason, Kaladin's Slave Brand will not heal. Stormlight can heal a limb crippled from a Shardblade, broken bones, flawed eyes, missing limbs... but it won't heal his scars. Given his own personal baggage, however, this might be psychosomatic. | |
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Offing the Offspring | |
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Offing the Offspring: The reason Shallan is a Self-Made Orphan — she killed her father when he tried to kill her brother, and her mother when she tried to kill Shallan. | |
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Walking the Earth | |
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The Knights Radiant weren't as unified as they were assumed to be. Hints have already shown up in the new generation; Syl, as an honorspren, strongly dislikes any sort of lie or falsehood, while that's exactly what gives Cryptics like Pattern sustenance. The fact that Nale, founder and patron Herald of the Skybreakers, is Walking the Earth killing every Surgebinder he can find is further evidence. | |
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Psycho for Hire | |
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Psycho for Hire: Szeth, the Assassin in White, is one. Though he didn't start as a psycho... | |
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Hidden Depths | |
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Hidden Depths: Adolar, Roion, and Sebarial are the three highprinces who accompany Dalinar on his trek to end the war. Roion is the coward, Sebarial the scheming merchant, and Adolar is the right hand man of Sadeas, the clear villain. But each of these three are present for their own reasons, for good reasons, and they all prove to be heroes. | |
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Shapeshifter Mode Lock | |
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Shapeshifter Mode Lock: The history of the Parshendi notes that after renouncing the Voidbringers, the Listeners were relegated to only dull form and mate form, slowly recovering knowledge of the other forms over times. By the end of the book, we see a total of six forms among the free Parshendi. It's implied that the parshmen play this trope even straighter and are listeners entirely trapped in dullform. Some data contradicts this, however. The Parshendi spy Shen, later known by his true name of Rlain, says that a Parshendi in dullform is very similar to a parshman, implying that they are not the same. Parshendi also need to take mateform in order to reproduce, but humanity seems unaware of Parsh being able to shapeshift, implying that this is not how parshmen reproduce. | |
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Giant Enemy Crab | |
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Giant Enemy Crab: The chasmfiend Shallan and Kaladin battle during their chasm trek. | |
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Artifact of Death | |
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And since we know that the next book will feature Szeth prominently, his mission to bring "justice" to Shinovar - with Nightblood, of all things, in tow — promises to provide a major plot thread for Skybreaker. | |
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Symbolic Wings | |
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Symbolic Wings occur out-of-universe, since the image doesn't exist in Alethi culture. Kaladin's ascension to a full Knight Radiant is coupled with frost behind him forming into the shape of wings briefly. In-universe, the 'wings' are most likely the glyphs that make up the oath he just swore. | |
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Mad Scientist | |
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Mad Scientist: Tavarangian on his smart days. Since his empathy and compassion seem to be inversely proportionate to his intelligence, he becomes something of a psychopath when he gets more than a step or two above his average intellect. | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism | |
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Tyn is perfectly reasonable in believing that Shallan is just using the identity of a conveniently housebound, never-seen noblewoman as her cover and still needs a dose of reality as to doing what needs to be done. Unfortunately for her, she's wrong on the first count. | |
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Artifact of Doom | |
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Artifact of Doom: The Shardblades represent the broken oaths of the old Knights Radiant, as well as centuries of blood and murder as people scrambled to win and steal them. When Kaladin touches one, he hears it screaming, though only he and the wielder can hear it. They're actually spren, killed by the broken oaths, given some semblance of life by bonding to a living being. Being touched by a Radiant who still holds his oath gives them life and memory of their pain for a moment. Nightblood is back. | |
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Skewed Priorities | |
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Elhokar is so incensed by Kaladin accusing Amaram of murder that he orders him arrested immediately, allowing Sadeas to get away before Adolin can corner him. In his conversation with Dalinar later, Elhokar is more angry that a darkeyes accused someone so above his station than losing the opportunity to kill Sadeas. | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: The Parshendi learn how to summon lightning from their hands. It proceeds to act exactly like normal lightning, making it basically impossible to aim. Sadeas remarks to Adolin that he fully intends to poison Dalinar's final victory and undermine the newly refounded Knights Radiant. He and Adolin are alone with no one nearby to witness his admission. So no one is around to witness Adolin stab Sadeas through the eye and dispose of his Shardblade. | |
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Manipulative Bastard | |
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Manipulative Bastard: Shallan is a heroic version of this. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Kaladin regains his relationship with Syl, swears the Third Ideal, defeats Szeth, and becomes a true Radiant with Bridge Four backing him the whole way as true allies, but loses Moash to the Diagram's manipulations. Shallan successfully finds Urithiru, ingratiates herself with Adolin and his family and completes Jasnah's work for her, but is confronted with the horrible memory of the day her mother was killed and has her identity revealed to the Ghostbloods. Her relationship with Pattern becomes similarly strained after an entire book spent glowing closer together, as he reveals that Shallan killed her mother by using him as a Shardblade. Dalinar saves most of his army, fixes his relationship with the highprinces by becoming their savior, bonds with the Stormfather and finds his goal of uniting the Knights Radiant well underway, but is ultimately unable to stop the Everstorm from being generated and has one of his most trusted allies in Amaram exposed as a dishonorable murderer. Unbeknownst to him, Adolin also murders Sadeas when it becomes clear that the latter will not stop with his harmful machinations even on the eve of the world's destruction, which sets up the greater political issues Dalinar will face in Oathbringer. Szeth is killed in battle against Kaladin and revived by one of the Heralds, who claim that because Szeth has paid for his actions with his life, he has been reborn. Szeth partially sheds the guilt of his crimes and ultimately resolves to redeem himself by becoming a Skybreaker, though he has a long road ahead of him. Lastly, the Parshendi survive the war against the Alethi, but at a deep cost- they become the Voidbringers, who will decimate Roshar with the Everstorm and become the unwilling Legions of Hell for Odium's army. | |
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Spoiler Cover: The cover shows Kaladin about to face Szeth, with an Everstorm brewing behind them. While readers of the previous book The Way of Kings (2010) probably expected something like this to happen, there are moments within this book that play with the possibility of this outcome. Then again, it is possible for a first-time reader to mistake it for a highstorm. | |
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Power-Up Food | |
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Power-Up Food: Lift can turn food into Awesomeness. Nobody's really sure how she does it, except that she got the ability through the Old Magic. | |
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Talking Weapon | |
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Talking Weapon: All living Shards, such as Syl and Pattern. | |
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Humans Through Alien Eyes | |
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Humans Through Alien Eyes: According to Sylphrena, humans and other humanoid species are the weird ones, since when they die, something else becomes of them and makes it impossible for them to be what they once were. | |
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In-Universe, the red eyes of the Voidbringers are seen as a very bad sign. | |
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The Stinger | |
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The Stinger: The last chapter is narrated by Hoid, the King's Wit, as he waits for someone on a random plain. Then Jasnah teleports in. | |
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Broken Ace | |
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Broken Ace: At the beginning of the book, Kaladin is clearly still psychologically damaged from his ordeals. Most notable is his refusal to reveal his new status as a Surgebinder, for fear that Dalinar or one of the other lighteyes will steal it from him. He even admits that he has no clue how such a thing could be done, but is still too afraid to risk it. Becomes far more literal when he "breaks" Syl by accident, though he gets much better after she's revived. For most of the book, Shallan is also one, having suffered the loss of her mentor in addition to her repressed memories of killing her mother in self-defense. Like Kaladin, she gets better. Syl claims that all the Radiants fell under this trope, and the back cover epigraph confirms that only a broken soul can have Surgebindings inserted into it, similarly to how Allomancers only gain their powers after "snapping" from traumatic experiences. | |
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Hidden Villain | |
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Hidden Villain: Taravangian is one for the main characters. In a classic case of Dramatic Irony, the reader knows, but no one else does. | |
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Combat Pragmatist | |
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Combat Pragmatist: Normally, Adolin is a bit of a showman in a duel, preferring the broad, majestic strikes of Windstance. When he's ordered to disarm the other Shardbearers by dueling them, however, he utilizes the powerful Ironstance to brutal effect, and abandons his Blade for straight punches and kicks when the opportunity presents itself. | |
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Laughing Mad | |
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Laughing Mad: More like Grinning Mad. Dalinar calls Szeth's combination of horrified, haunted eyes and gleeful grin to be the most evil thing he's ever seen. | |
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Shock and Awe | |
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Shock and Awe: Parshendi in stormform can summon lightning. | |
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Your Normal Is Our Taboo | |
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Your Normal Is Our Taboo: As in the previous book, with Alethi gender roles in particular. Shallan is extremely shocked when Tyn talks about other countries where she'd have to uncover her safehand to fit in, and at first glance assumes the masked Iyatil is a man rather than a woman, despite her figure being visible, purely because both her hands are uncovered. | |
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Improvised Weapon | |
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Improvised Weapon: Kaladin is fighting several Shardbearers while he has neither Plate nor Blade, so he bullies one who can no longer fight into handing over his helmet, then places it onto his wrist to form a makeshift gauntlet. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: Like in the first book, Syl gets one: Another one in chapter 88 reveals just what Szeth's new weapon is. | |
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Wham Shot | |
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Wham Shot: Despite being text only, the book still manages one at the climax. There's another after the climax. | |
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Body Horror | |
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Body Horror: Using a Soulcaster fabrial does weird things to a body, slowly transmuting flesh to stone. No wonder the Soulcasters prefer to do their work at night. This might have also had something to do with Shallan's father's rising insanity. | |
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Brought Down to Badass | |
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Brought Down to Badass: After Kaladin kills Syl, he still manages to take down a chasmfiend with some help. | |
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Nobody Poops | |
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Nobody Poops: Averted. Pattern asks Shallan why humans hide what happens when they go to the toilet, and concludes that what they produce in there must be valuable; he is then perplexed as to why they leave the 'valuable' things they have made behind. Shallan asks Adolin what happens when he has to go to the bathroom while wearing Shardplate and finds out that he has crapped in it three times. | |
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Corrupt Church | |
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Corrupt Church: The Vorin church in Kholinar are a bunch of yes-men serving the queen, as seen in one of the interlude chapters. It may very well be going through a violent reformation by the end of the book. | |
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Badass Family | |
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Badass Family: The Kholins. As of the end of this book, the family includes three Radiants (four if you count Shallan, who isn't part of the family yet but may be soon), the King of Alethkar, one of its Highprinces, and the world's most skilled Shardbearer. | |
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Fantastic Racism | |
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Fantastic Racism: Played with in that we have Fantastic Classism: For as much as Shallan says she doesn't care about dark vs light eyes, she's terribly classist to Kaladin in their first insult-filled argument, saying something along the lines of "At least I know who my parents are" - the implication there being that, since Kaladin is darkeyed, he obviously doesn't have a loving family. Kind of ironic given her own familial situation. Elhokar is so incensed by Kaladin accusing Amaram of murder that he orders him arrested immediately, allowing Sadeas to get away before Adolin can corner him. In his conversation with Dalinar later, Elhokar is more angry that a darkeyes accused someone so above his station than losing the opportunity to kill Sadeas. Kaladin also spends most of the book having a very classist (though somewhat understandable) attitude towards all lighteyes. Played somewhat for laughs when Adolin mentions in his internal monologue that he personally treats all men equally, even the darkeyes who are obviously of lower rank. | |
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Hero of Another Story | |
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Hero of Another Story: Several. Hoid is a hero to the Cosmere as a whole (if not the Big Good), but his goals on Roshar only rarely intersect with everyone else. The interludes introduce a number of new characters who are running around on their own adventures, a few of whom are in the process of becoming Surgebinders. And of course, at the end of the book Jasnah comes back, having escaped the ambush on the Wind's Pleasure by teleporting into Shadesmar. Lift, a character in one of the interludes, gets an entire novella dedicated to her called Edgedancer. | |
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Snark-to-Snark Combat | |
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Snark-to-Snark Combat: The second time Kaladin meets Shallan. And he actually manages to hold his own against her! | |
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Almighty Mom | |
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Almighty Mom: Nobody is above a Herdazian mother in her own home. Even Elkohar, king of Alethkar, is cowed under her orders. | |
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Bare-Handed Blade Block | |
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Barehanded Blade Block: Dalinar manages to do this with a Shardblade. Played with, to an extent, as swordmaster Zahel specifically tells Kaladin it a last-ditch move that more often than not gets the person attempting it killed. Even then, it's only possible because people tend not to swing an Absurdly Sharp Blade as hard as they would a normal sword. Kaladin does it anyway after he runs out of Stormlight during the duel. | |
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Omniscient Morality License | |
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Omniscient Morality License: Taravangian believes he has this, since he's following the Diagram, a plan for saving the world he wrote back when he had superhuman intelligence. | |
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy | |
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: "Beloved" is pushing it at this point, but once Kaladin develops feelings for Shallan he concludes that she would be much happier with Adolin than with him. | |
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Sequel Hook | |
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Sequel Hook: Dozens, if not hundreds, but the most immediate would be the fact that, at the end of the book, Kaladin is preparing to leave for home, planning to fly there to warn them of the Everstorm and the parshmen turning into Voidbringers. And since we know that the next book will feature Szeth prominently, his mission to bring "justice" to Shinovar - with Nightblood, of all things, in tow — promises to provide a major plot thread for Skybreaker. | |
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Perfectly Arranged Marriage | |
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And when they finally do meet, both of them fall head over heels for each other. Sanderson seems to like this trope a lot. Justified in that Shallan has a Dark and Troubled Past with a fear of being locked away and a dislike of the idea of a fawning noblewoman, and Adolin is a Book Dumb soldier who has somehow managed to offend every single unmarried woman in the warcamp, largely by not treating them like objects of worship (but also by being a little forgetful of minor things like names). Adolin falls for Shallan's different attitude and refusal to stay away from dirty places or hard tasks, and Shallan loves the fact that Adolin is a literal Knight in Shining Armor who doesn't treat her like a fragile toy to be kept safe from danger. | |
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Bavarian Fire Drill | |
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Bavarian Fire Drill: Discussed. Jasnah tells Shallan that authority comes more from bearing than anything else; the crew of the ship they are traveling on would treat her the same if she was merely a random beggar off the streets who acted like the sister of a king. Shallan takes her advice and earns grudging respect from the captain. Later, when Shallan is forced to accompany caravans to the Shattered Plains, she deploys this trope near-constantly to fool everyone she meets into believing she has more authority than she actually does. | |
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Instant Runes | |
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Instant Runes: Kaladin speaking the Third Ideal of the Windrunners creates the sigil of the Order in Stormlight after his transformation. He gets this again when he pulls a Three-Point Landing on the Assassin in White. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Heroic Sacrifice: Kaladin attempts one, to prevent Elkohar from dying at Moash's hands. | |
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The Extremist Was Right | |
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The Extremist Was Right: Discussed. Hoid tells Dalimar that while he, Dalinar, is indeed a tyrant, a benevolent tyrant is what Roshar needs right now. Dalinar is not convinced. | |
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Manly Tears | |
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Manly Tears: When Shallan tells Dalinar she's a Knight Radiant, that his purpose isn't to refound the order but to gather them, she shows him her ability to craft illusions of light, and he has tears in his eyes at the beauty of her creation and the gift she's given him. | |
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Room Full of Crazy | |
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Room Full of Crazy: King Taravangian's Diagram is said to be like this, with him having written on every available surface in the room, including as much of the ceiling as he could reach. He even invented a language in the process, making it even more difficult if not for him writing a key on his bedpost. | |
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Morph Weapon | |
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Morph Weapon: Sylphrena (and apparently any other living Shardblade) can become whatever weapon her Radiant likes. Thus she often becomes a spear, since Kaladin trained with spear instead of sword. Throughout the battle with Szeth, she transforms into a shield, knife, full Shardblade, hammer, and axe-headed halberd as well. Mixes with Voluntary Shapeshifting, as she anticipates what Kaladin wants and shifts into that without him "ordering" her to. | |
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Magic A Is Magic A | |
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Magic A Is Magic A: We get more details on the magic systems in this book. However, Syl claims that the laws of physics are like this, and less structured than Kaladin believes. She describes them less as laws and more as "agreements between friends." | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Also Szeth, who willingly lets Kaladin send him into the Highstorm, where he's last seen being slammed into the rocks by the wind, is then revived by one of the fallen Heralds... and then given the sword Nightblood from Sanderson's Warbreaker book. | |
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Exposition Already Covered: Having survived an apparently successful assassination attempt, Jasnah reappears at the end, desperate to deliver an apocalyptic Internal Reveal to her king. Instead, she meets the Inexplicably Awesome Hoid, who nonchalantly tells her that everything's already come out in the interim. She's equal parts furious, relieved, and just plain perplexed. | |
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God Is Dead | |
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God Is Dead: Following the Wham Line that ended the last book, the extremely devout Dalinar is struggling to retain his religion following the reveal that his god is dead. He decides that while the entity his religion is based on might be dead, clearly a truly omnipotent deity wouldn't be able to die, so he must not have been God. Navani also tries to use this to convince Dalinar to ignore some of the bans on their relationship. Amaram, upon hearing this, insists that Dalinar was just interpreting it too literally—clearly the Almighty meant that he is dead in the hearts of men. Nope, he's actually dead, but Amaram is honest in his interpretation, and is trying to bring back the Voidbringers so that the Heralds will return and fix the world. | |
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Self-Made Orphan | |
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Self-Made Orphan: We find out that Shallan is one at the very end of the book, which subverts the implied story of most of the book. | |
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The Ending Changes Everything | |
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The Ending Changes Everything: The last Shallan flashback puts the rest of them in a completely new perspective. In a more minor example, the revelation that Shen / Rlain was not an ordinary parshman but a Parshendi spy in dullform may lead the reader to reassess some of their assumptions about parshmen, given that he was the main example we have seen in detail up to now. | |
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Arranged Marriage | |
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Arranged Marriage: Jasnah begins the process of arranging one between Adolin and Shallan. She's initially worried that Shallan will be upset she was not consulted about this, but Shallan is actually surprisingly amenable. She always expected to have her husband chosen by her father, and the one time she chose a suitor, he turned out to be an assassin. The fact that Adolin is a prince certainly doesn't hurt. For his own part, Adolin finds the idea of having someone else pick a wife for him kind of relaxing, given that his own efforts have led to him offending every single eligible woman in camp. And when they finally do meet, both of them fall head over heels for each other. Sanderson seems to like this trope a lot. Justified in that Shallan has a Dark and Troubled Past with a fear of being locked away and a dislike of the idea of a fawning noblewoman, and Adolin is a Book Dumb soldier who has somehow managed to offend every single unmarried woman in the warcamp, largely by not treating them like objects of worship (but also by being a little forgetful of minor things like names). Adolin falls for Shallan's different attitude and refusal to stay away from dirty places or hard tasks, and Shallan loves the fact that Adolin is a literal Knight in Shining Armor who doesn't treat her like a fragile toy to be kept safe from danger. | |
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Entertainingly Wrong | |
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Entertainingly Wrong: Tyn is perfectly reasonable in believing that Shallan is just using the identity of a conveniently housebound, never-seen noblewoman as her cover and still needs a dose of reality as to doing what needs to be done. Unfortunately for her, she's wrong on the first count. The book's pretty much full of this. Characters are constantly making assumptions about each other, their abilities, their religions, and more, that seem reasonable but are based on incomplete or incorrect information. Among the most amusing incidents comes when Shallan and Kaladin are falling into the chasms together. They both use their abilities to protect them, but being unaware of each other's abilities, they both assume they're responsible for the other's survival. | |
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Badass Boast | |
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Badass Boast: Kaladin gets two. Dalinar is imploring any Shardbearers in the watching crowd to come to Adolin's defense in a four-on-one duel where the judge has been paid off to look the other way but none are coming forth, until: And a pretty epic one near the end: "The wind is mine. The sky is mine. They have been mine since childhood. You are the trespasser here. Not me." | |
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Badass Army | |
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Badass Army: Bridge Four (and the rest of the bridgemen) are now guards in Dalinar's employ, under Kaladin's command. They also insist on being referred to as Bridge Four, rather than by the name of Dalinar's previous (now deceased) honor guard. | |
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Back from the Dead | |
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The meeting between Nin and Szeth, who is Back from the Dead and ends up given a new weapon: Nightblood, somehow transported from Nalthis to Roshar. | |
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Mind Rape | |
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The transformation of the Parshendi into stormform might count as this, from the point of view of their leader, Eshonai. Too bad that the first character to receive the form's Mind Rape is her... (although it's implied that her sister and the scholar Parshendi actually took on the stormform before her, in secret). | |
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No One Could Survive That! | |
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No One Could Survive That!: Lampshaded late in the book, when a side character worries about Shallan walking too close to an unguarded ledge. Shallan reminds him that, due to being a Radiant, she would likely survive without a scratch. | |
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Adaptive Armor | |
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Adaptive Armor: Shardplate automatically shapes itself to the wearer. Kaladin exploits this during Adolin's four-on-one duel by bullying a Shardbearer who has yielded into giving him his helmet, which Kaladin then places on his fist. The Shardplate helmet then instantly tightens (as if Kaladin's wrist were a very thin neck) to become an improvised gauntlet, meaning he can now block the rest of the combatants Shardblades. | |
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Wham Episode | |
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Wham Episode: Chapter 7: Jasnah is seemingly killed, and the Wind's Pleasure attacked and subsequently Soulcast into water. The author's customary "Sanderson Avalanche" begins with chapter 84 and doesn't let up until the end of the book: The true nature of Shardblades is revealed. The nature of the Everstorm. The nature of the Stormfather. The climactic duel between Kaladin and Szeth. Shallan's discovery of the way to Urithiru. The meeting between Nin and Szeth, who is Back from the Dead and ends up given a new weapon: Nightblood, somehow transported from Nalthis to Roshar. The revelation of what Amaram's really been up to. The death of Highprince Sadeas. Dalinar's ascension to Radiant-hood, with the Stormfather himself as his spren. The revelation that Renarin is a Radiant, too. And Lopen and some of the other men of Bridge Four are probably gaining some powers through their connection with Kaladin and becoming his squires. Whether they are becoming or will become full Radiants is uncertain. The conversation between Wit and Jasnah at the end. | |
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Rule of Symbolism | |
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Rule of Symbolism: In-Universe, the red eyes of the Voidbringers are seen as a very bad sign. Symbolic Wings occur out-of-universe, since the image doesn't exist in Alethi culture. Kaladin's ascension to a full Knight Radiant is coupled with frost behind him forming into the shape of wings briefly. In-universe, the 'wings' are most likely the glyphs that make up the oath he just swore. | |
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Secret Chaser | |
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Secret Chaser: Adolin figures out early on that something is off about Kaladin, he just can't pin down what, and Kaladin is too good at hiding the evidence. He's quite relieved when Kaladin finally reveals he's a Radiant. | |
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From a Single Cell | |
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From a Single Cell: A Surgebinder who holds enough Stormlight can survive falling off a mountain, getting stabbed through the heart, or just about anything else. | |
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Master of Illusion | |
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Master of Illusion: One facet of Shallan's Lightweaver powers, through the Surge of Illumination. | |
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A Day in the Limelight | |
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A Day in the Limelight: Much like how The Way of Kings focused on Kaladin primarily, this book focuses primarily on Shallan. Also, the Parshendi Shardbearer Dalinar fought at the end of book 1, Eshonai, gets a interlude viewpoint. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: Uncountable examples. Shallan: Shallan needs ten heartbeats to summon her Shardblade—before wondering if that's true. Because as a true, living Blade, Pattern can transform whenever he likes. When Shallan first gives Kaladin her Blade, he notes that he's never seen one glow before, but dismisses it as he's never seen a Shardblade in the dark before, either, and assumes it's just a feature he never noticed. The truth is that only true, living Shardblades glow. When Kaladin is using Shallan's Blade to fight the chasmfiend, she has to stay close to her illusions, even though she previously figured out how to make them move farther away from her. Because to do that, she infuses Pattern with Stormlight—and Kaladin is busy using Pattern. When Shallan is trying to hack a hole in the rock, she has trouble because her Blade is too long, and it immediately shrinks into a more knife-sized shape. Again, it's a living spren, so he followed her mental commands. The fact that Shallan's brain stops working whenever someone brings up her mother's death obscures quite a few details, but there are still hints. Pattern specifically mentions that they've been together for years, ever since Shallan was a child, and that's why she's learning Lightweaving so quickly. She's actually one of the first Surgebinders of this generation, and came into her full power in her teens. Her mother tried to kill her for it, fearing the return of the Voidbringers, and Shallan summoned Pattern as a Blade and killed her. Renarin: He stops wearing his glasses because he's trying to look like a soldier. Actually, the Stormlight healed his eyes. The timing of his epileptic fits is important. It's whenever he summons his Shardblade—because he can hear it screaming, as a true Radiant. The warning on the walls is noted to be something that only one of Dalinar's family members could have done. Dalinar assumes he did it himself, but it was actually Renarin. Jasnah: Her experience in the prologue, with her involuntary travel to Shadesmar (and subsequent near death) hints at the nature of her Elsecaller abilities, and the fact that during the attack on the Wind's Pleasure, she's skilled enough to teleport there while under attack to escape. During the ambush, Shallan sees Jasnah's corpse thrown to the deck, but when she comes out a few minutes later, it's gone. She assumes the raiders did something with it, but the truth is Jasnah escaped to Shadesmar once no one was looking. Taravangian's Diagram predicts that there's a high chance of Jasnah faking her death. Though her doing so wasn't as simple as the Diagram implied, it was essentially what happened. On the Wind's Pleasure, Shallan notices a single fearspren around Jasnah. Jasnah brushes it off, claiming she's afraid of the coming Desolation. The truth is, she knew assassins were coming for her soon, and was afraid her plan to survive wouldn't work. Dalinar: First and most obviously, the fact that the visions only come in highstorms hints that the Stormfather is the one sending them. It's hard to tell, but in Taln's interlude, he's one of the ones who witnesses the Herald brought to camp. He says he has a plan for the Blade, and gives the loyal soldier who brought the Herald instructions. Later, said loyal soldier is apparently bribed by Amaram—actually, he's following Dalinar's orders to pretend to be corrupt. He spends a week sick, with no one but Navani to watch over him. He was binding the Shardblade collected from Taln as part of a ploy to catch Amaram in a lie. He no longer feels the Thrill. The Thrill is caused by what Taravangian calls "an ancient, evil spren," and surgebinders are immune to it. After binding Taln's Blade, he finds something wrong with it. He assumes he just isn't used to it, while readers assumed it was because it was an Honorblade. It's neither; someone swapped out the Honorblade with a normal one before it arrived in the warcamps, and Dalinar's nascent bond with the Stormfather is causing him disquiet when he holds a dead spren, just like every other Surgebinder. Szeth: Szeth spends some time meditating in an abandoned city high in the mountains, which he describes as the only sacred place in the world. Shallan finds a quote from a Shin scholar mentioning that Urithiru was the only link the Shin had to the rest of the world, "with its stones unhallowed." Szeth's city is indeed Urithiru, seat of the Knights Radiant. In The Way of Kings, Szeth mentions that his eyes turning light blue is unique to his particular Blade. This is because it is the Windrunner Honorblade, not a normal Shardblade. Adolin: After Kaladin is put in prison for challenging Amaram, Adolin disappears. Shallan mentions Adolin deciding to do something very stupid, and later we see them conversing via spanreed, with Adolin complaining that he's bored and would like Shallan to visit. When Kaladin is released, we find out Adolin shut himself in prison and refused to leave until Kaladin did. His constant threats to Sadeas, as well as the fact that he can barely keep himself from killing the man, are obvious foreshadowing for the fact that he eventually can't control himself, and kills Sadeas. Syl tells Kaladin that the difference between protecting people by killing and murder is in intent, implying that this will lead Adolin down a darker path. In book 1, Kaladin mentions that his father, the most honorable man he ever met, would heal anyone, even people he hated. The Third Ideal of the Windrunners is "I will protect even those that I hate, if it is right." At one point, Kaladin sees Lopen holding his hand in front of him in a fist, but dismisses it as Lopen just being weird as usual. He actually has a sphere and is trying to breathe in Stormlight, as he's been doing every day since he found out what Kaladin could do. In The Way of Kings, during Dalinar's vision of the Recreance, he almost feels like he can hear "distant screaming" when standing among the abandoned Shardblades. The Blades were the Knights' bonded spren, so he was hearing hundreds of spren screaming in pain and horror. A longer-term one, but over the course of the book there are a number of scenes where Kaladin obsesses over keeping his men safe and protected, and others remind him that he cannot save everyone and he has to let people make their own choices and live their own lives. This will be the crux of Kaladin's character arc in Rhythm of War. | |
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Quit Your Whining | |
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Quit Your Whining: Shallan tells Renarin to "deal with [his] issues" when he's angsting over not being able to help Adolin and Dalinar fight the Parshendi. | |
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Divine Right of Kings | |
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Divine Right of Kings: Discussed twice: As Dalinar is taking more and more power from his nephew King Elhokar, he muses to Hoid that he should just step back and let Elhokar rule. When pressed, Dalinar admits that even if there is some divine right of kings (which he doubts because the Almighty is dead), it doesn't apply to them, because Dalinar's brother claimed the throne through violence and conquest, not by appealing to some inherited right of their family. Elhokar, on the other hand, is greatly annoyed because his ardents keep telling him that as a 1st-dahn lighteyes, he was chosen by the Almighty to rule, but Elhokar is well aware that he is a terrible king. | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
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My God, What Have I Done?: Kaladin is completely horrified when he thinks he killed Sylphrena. So much that it causes a Heroic BSoD. Kaladin again when he realizes that Elhokar is to Dalinar what Tien was to him. He immediately rushes off to save Elhokar. Shallan's catatonia in her flashbacks is due not just to her mother's murder but the fact that she herself did it. | |
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Not Quite Flight | |
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Not Quite Flight: Kaladin's use of his Gravity Master powers starts out this way, but as he practices, he eventually becomes capable of true flight and then some. | |
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Nice to the Waiter | |
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Nice to the Waiter: Before the Parshendi assassinated her father, Jasnah was paying assassins to spy on people, including her own family. While said assassins were mildly annoyed they weren't killing anyone, the fact that she showed them more respect than most nobles (and paid well) meant that they were actually surprisingly fond of her. Amaram is pleasant to his darkeyed house staff, to the point of even remembering the name of a random serving girl and knowing her plans for the evening. | |
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Infinity +1 Sword | |
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Infinity +1 Sword: Each of the Honorblades serve as this, and are more clearly stated. The one ascribed to each of the Heralds gives the powers of their Order of the Knights Radiant. For example, Jezereh's Honorblade, held by Szeth, gives the powers of a Windrunner. | |
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Healing Factor | |
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Healing Factor: The fact that Kaladin is constantly holding tiny amounts of Stormlight gives him a low-level one (which can be enhanced by consciously using more). This makes tattooing him difficult, since if he takes in any Stormlight before it heals naturally, the ink gets pushed out. | |
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Cool Sword | |
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Cool Sword: Syl and Pattern in Shard form, though Syl also becomes a Cool Spear and Cool Shield. At the end of the book, Szeth gets Nightblood. | |
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Not Hyperbole | |
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Not Hyperbole: Adolin actually has offended literally every single eligible female on the Shattered Plains. This is shown when, upon meeting with a woman who is teaching Kaladin to ride a horse, she immediately starts throwing rocks at him. | |
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And I Must Scream | |
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And I Must Scream: Eshonai (and by implication the rest of her people) when she changes to stormform. Every time she attunes to the Rhythm of Peace, the Voidbringer she has become can hear her true self screaming. She solves this problem simply by not singing to Peace, but her true self slowly becomes stronger over the course of the book, and she starts hearing the screaming at all times. Shardblades, apparently. When Kaladin touches one, it gains a voice, if only for a moment, and accuses its wielder of killing it. All Shardblades are spren, killed by the broken oaths. | |
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To Be Lawful or Good | |
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To Be Lawful or Good: Syl implies that, faced with this decision, highspren will always pick Lawful, and Honorspren will always pick Good. | |
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Red Eyes, Take Warning | |
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Red Eyes, Take Warning: This is considered the most obvious sign of the Parshendi turning into full-on Voidbringers. | |
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No-Sell | |
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No-Sell: Shardplate proves to be immune to Voidbringer lightning attacks. It was designed to fight these things, after all. | |
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Dissimile | |
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Dissimile: Shallan's attempts to describe Pattern often fall flat. | |
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Bond Creatures | |
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Bond Creatures/Familiar: More information is given regarding spren. Sylphrena for Kaladin, as in the first book. Shallan gains a spren early in the second book, a shifting mass of sentient lines she names Pattern. We also see Jasnah's spren, a little fellow named Ivory. Renarin mentions his by name (Glys) in an off-hand comment, but we never see it. Even Dalinar gets in on the act and gets one: the Stormfather himself. | |
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Wound That Will Not Heal | |
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Wound That Will Not Heal: Inverted when Kaladin discovers that his Radiant Healing Factor also allows him to heal damage inflicted by an Honourblade. For some reason, Kaladin's Slave Brand will not heal. Stormlight can heal a limb crippled from a Shardblade, broken bones, flawed eyes, missing limbs... but it won't heal his scars. Given his own personal baggage, however, this might be psychosomatic. | |
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Armor-Piercing Response | |
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Armor-Piercing Response: Shallan confidently tore into Kaladin's rude treatment of her for being a lighteyes by pointing out the sheer immaturity of assuming she'd be horrible just for being highborn even though she's done nothing to him. Then Kaladin reminds her of how she brow-beat him into giving her his boots the very first time they met, shutting her up. | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: When Adolin ends up in a four-on-one duel, he tries to surrender within the first couple minutes, but Sadeas bribed the highjudge to ignore any such attempts so that he can be "punished." This gives Kaladin time to jump down and help Adolin fight, turning a Curb-Stomp Battle into a narrow victory. If they had just let him surrender, the Kholin family would have lost all their Shards, and Dalinar's plan would have completely failed. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
| Words of Radiance / int_ad1db87c | comment |
Oh, Crap!: The main characters, every time the Assassin in White shows up. Also, Szeth himself, when Kaladin shows up as a full-blown Knight Radiant. Sadeas has an entire scene that is basically him freaking out in private over how close he had been to being forced to immediately duel Adolin, narrowly avoiding such a fate through sheer luck, having realized that Dalinar had almost outmanouvered him and almost forced Sadeas into a situation where Adolin would have had the opportunity to kill him without reprocussions legally and without the young man's honor being stained, in a duel where Sadeas had no chance of winning. To cap it off, it had been a gambit that Sadeas himself had used previously during the previous king's reign to take out another Highprince, and because Sadeas had bribed the judge to not allow Adolin to surrender, Dalinar's faction still ended up winning multiple Shardblades and Plate sets, meaning Sadeas' faction still lost out significantly even if Sadeas himself slipped away. | |
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Pyrrhic Victory | |
| Words of Radiance / int_ad9fbc1e | comment |
Pyrrhic Victory: The Alethi army beats the Parshendi (now truly Voidbringers) and the Knights Radiant return, all of them main characters so far. The Alethi army wasn't fast enough in the battle to stop the Parshendi's stormsong, though. They summoned the Everstorm, which will turn all Parshendi and parshmen around the world into Voidbringers. In addition, the Everstorm is blowing in the opposite direction from regular highstorms, so it will devastate hundreds if not thousands of buildings around the world (which were built on the assumption that the direction highstorms came from would be consistent). | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Shallan, especially when she gets around Kaladin. Also Kaladin when he's around lighteyes. And Wit/Hoid practically always. | |
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Luxury Prison Suite | |
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Luxury Prison Suite: Adolin is perfectly willing to be imprisoned for weeks alongside Kaladin to show how he considers him a brother in arms. But hes not going to be a barbarian about it. | |
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Abusive Parents | |
| Words of Radiance / int_b11ac9f5 | comment |
Abusive Parents: As a Shallan-centric book, we get more detail on her father. To be specific: Shallan's mother attempted to kill her due to her Surgebinder powers; Shallan killed her mother with her Shardblade on instinct, after which her father willingly took the blame... which led to him becoming a rage-filled, abusive, broken man who eventually had to be killed by Shallan (by strangling with a necklace that had been his gift to her) in order to stop him from beating one of her brothers to death. | |
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Retcon | |
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Retcon: The final battle was edited so that Szeth lets himself fall to his death, rather than Kaladin stabbing him. While Sanderson mentioned that he regretted this change as it removed a demonstration of even a Shardblade deathblow being healed, it was a better culmination of the respective character arcs. | |
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Klingon Promotion | |
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Klingon Promotion: The Ghostbloods discourage this. | |
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Alien Geometries | |
| Words of Radiance / int_b3bdf232 | comment |
Alien Geometries: Pattern's form is described this way. One fan, commenting on the teaser chapter in which Pattern is described, said he sounds like "a fractal Chalkling." | |
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Misery Poker | |
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Misery Poker: Kaladin and Shallan have both suffered in different ways, and Kaladin in particular initially thinks Shallan must be pampered and spoiled since she's never had to deal with the kind of problems he, as an oppressed darkeyes and later a beaten-down slave, has - while the reader knows that he at least enjoyed a happy childhood with a loving family before things went wrong for him, in contrast to Shallan's lifelong parental abuse. Meanwhile, Shallan shows herself to not be entirely innocent of Kaladin's prejudices, as she absent-mindedly tries to pay a street vendor with what she considers a very small sum of money, that is in fact more than the entire day's earnings for the vendor. In a happy resolution for this trope, though, once they get to know each other they both seem to realise that the other has a point and develop some mutual respect. | |
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Convulsive Seizures | |
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Convulsive Seizures: Discussed by Kaladin and Renarin. Renarin says he has epilepsy, but instead of falling to the ground as some people imagine, he tends to start twitching and become weak along one side of his body. | |
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Tron Lines | |
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Tron Lines: Living Shards are described as having faint glowing lines on them, the color of which seems to correspond to the spren type (Syl is blue, and Pattern is blood-red). This is all but stated to be why the Shards of the Knights Radiant in one of Dalinar's visions lost their glow upon being abandoned by their holders: they abandoned their Words, killing the spren. | |
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Came Back Wrong | |
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Came Back Wrong: Shardblades, or at least the dead ones. The reason why they are screaming is that they are stuck at the moment when they were "killed" to keep themselves solid. They have to be revived every time they are summoned, which is why they need ten heartbeats to form. | |
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Fiery Redhead | |
| Words of Radiance / int_bb0c0a4d | comment |
Fiery Redhead: Shallan, especially when she's in full Snark-to-Snark Combat with Kaladin. | |
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Cast from Calories | |
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Cast from Calories: Unlike most Surgebinders who must get Stormlight from an external source, Lift can generate her own from the food she eats. While this ability is pretty convenient, it also means that she cannot use her magic unless she has the calories to do so. Consequently, she is always hungry. | |
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Blunt "Yes" | |
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Blunt "Yes": Kaladin's answer when Elhokar asks if he's a bad king. Wit gives the same when Dalinar asks if he's a tyrant, though he contextualizes that being a tyrant under the present circumstances is necessary. | |
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Equippable Ally | |
| Words of Radiance / int_c06102d7 | comment |
Equippable Ally/Living Weapon: When a Radiant reaches a certain level of bond strength (swearing the Third Oath for Kaladin, unknown for Shallan or Jasnah), their spren can transform into Shards. In fact, all "modern" Shards are the bodies of the dead spren bonded by the Old Radiants. | |
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I Have No Son! | |
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I Have No Son!: Shallan's father has four sons, until he decides that he only has three because the oldest did something unforgivable. | |
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Never Be Hurt Again | |
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Never Be Hurt Again: As mentioned above, Kaladin is paralyzingly afraid that if he lets any lighteyes know about his new Surgebinding powers, they will somehow take them away. After Dalinar (supposedly) doesn't believe him about Amaram, he admits to Syl that he will never trust a lighteyes again. Thankfully, he's able to develop enough to realize the folly of this. | |
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Charles Atlas Superpower | |
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Charles Atlas Superpower: While tending to a wounded Dalinar: | |
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Unexpected Character | |
| Words of Radiance / int_cfd5cbd3 | comment |
Unexpected Character: While having humans travel from Shardworld to Shardworld is a known event, having a Type-4 Awakened Entity like Nightblood do so is quite another thing. | |
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Please Spare Him, My Liege! | |
| Words of Radiance / int_d1fc4a16 | comment |
Please Spare Him, My Liege!: Downplayed. Dalinar tells Elhokar to imprison Kaladin instead of having him executed, unless he wants Dalinar as an enemy. | |
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Refuge in Audacity | |
| Words of Radiance / int_d45c0b86 | comment |
Refuge in Audacity: Realizing that he needs to be a Radiant in order to lead them, and must bond a spren to do so, Dalinar swears the oaths to the one spren he can can contact at short notice: the freaking Stormfather. | |
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Mirror Boss | |
| Words of Radiance / int_d47d9b71 | comment |
The climactic duel between Kaladin and Szeth. | |
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The Chessmaster | |
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The Chessmaster: The book has several, but the king of the trope is Taravangian, who's manipulating (and slaughtering) entire kingdoms based upon a plan he made when his curse/wish rendered him superhumanly intelligent - and amoral. | |
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Driven to Madness | |
| Words of Radiance / int_d6b5863 | comment |
Driven to Madness: Szeth, the Assassin in White, by the end. The realization that his servitude—and the resulting slaughters he created—were completely avoidable sends him screaming over the edge. | |
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Symbolic Weapon Discarding | |
| Words of Radiance / int_d99add77 | comment |
Symbolic Weapon Discarding: On the Day of Recreance, the Knights Radiant dissolved by stabbing their Shardblades into the ground as a group and abandoning them. The act of oathbreaking actually killed the spirits who form their blades and grant their powers. | |
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ApologizesALot | |
| Words of Radiance / int_d9ab8fb8 | comment |
Apologizes a Lot: Shallan, as befitting her meek nature. | |
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Red Herring | |
| Words of Radiance / int_dbca2c99 | comment |
Red Herring: During Dalinar's visions, numbers start appearing on the wall, a countdown toward a day when something terrible happens. Dalinar assumes he did it himself, and doesn't worry about it too much (the cause of it, that is—he worries plenty about the warning itself). It was actually Renarin, too scared to admit openly that he had bonded with a spren and was receiving visions of the future. Shallan's Shardblade. It's implied that she got it from her father after she killed him, or perhaps somehow got a hold of it beforehand and killed him with it. Neither is true; the Blade is Pattern, her spren, and is one of the only living Blades left. She killed her mother with him when she was a child, but strangled her father with her necklace after poisoning him. | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure | |
| Words of Radiance / int_dca70c44 | comment |
Reasonable Authority Figure: Despite being extremely legalistic and procedure-bound, the Azir bureaucrats are quite reasonably flabbergasted when Nale produces a warrant for the execution of a 13 year old girl simply for stealing food. | |
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Ship Tease | |
| Words of Radiance / int_dcb9c541 | comment |
Ship Tease: Despite the Adolin/Shallan ship gaining the most steam, the particular section of the book where they trudge through the chasms is one big one for Kaladin/Shallan. They work out more than a few issues while there, bare their respective backstories to one another, all with tons of Belligerent Sexual Tension. | |
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Tattooed Crook | |
| Words of Radiance / int_dde43ab | comment |
Tattooed Crook: Zigzagged. Slaves have a brand on their foreheads. When the bridgemen are freed, the scars are tattooed over with glyphs declaring them free men. | |
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Worst Aid | |
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Worst Aid: Referenced by Kaladin in his narration. | |
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Didn't See That Coming | |
| Words of Radiance / int_dfa40c1b | comment |
Didn't See That Coming: The first we hear of Parshendi spies among the parshmen slaves is in Navani's journal (which was written after the book), where she notes they really should have expected it. | |
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Literal-Minded | |
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Literal-Minded: Jasnah says that Cryptics should be called "liespren," but they don't like the term. Pattern, Shallan's Cryptic, considers anything spoken that's not literal truth (exaggeration, euphemisms and figures of speech, humor, sarcasm, etc) to be "a lie," and is fascinated by how many different kinds of lies humans have come up with. | |
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Turbulent Priest | |
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Turbulent Priest: In an interlude set in the city of Kholinar, a young ardent named Pai is shown how Elhokar's wife and her sycophants are wastefully living it up with the Highprinces away at war and common folk going hungry. Pai defaces a public forum with a written condemnation of them all. In short order, Pai is executed, and the city riots. | |
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Morality Pet | |
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Morality Pet: Kaladin realizing that Elhokar is this to Dalinar leads him to foil Moash's assassination attempt, which in turn leads Kaladin to the next of his oaths. | |
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Determinator | |
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Determinator: Kaladin, to levels above his performance in The Way of Kings. Specifically, he manages to stay standing against two men in Shardplate while deprived of his Surgebinder powers and suffering from massive internal injuries. The reason? It's the right thing to do. | |
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The Mole | |
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The Mole: Shallan uses her illusion powers to infiltrate the Ghostbloods. | |
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Victor Gains Loser's Powers | |
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Victor Gains Loser's Powers: Deliberately Invoked when Dalinar needs a way to defang the unruly highprinces. He plans to relax his ban on Adolin's duels. When Adolin starts challenging the other highprinces to duels for Shards, they'll get the message. | |
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Laser-Guided Amnesia | |
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Laser-Guided Amnesia: For most of the book, Shallan's brain shuts down every time she starts thinking about how she killed her parents. It's implied that she's using a non-magical form of Lightweaving on herself. | |
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Big Damn Heroes | |
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Kaladin again when he realizes that Elhokar is to Dalinar what Tien was to him. He immediately rushes off to save Elhokar. | |
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Dangerous Deserter | |
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Dangerous Deserter: The war on the Shattered Plains is a constant bloody struggle of weekly battles, and a lot of soldiers have decided to abandon their oaths in the face of such constant bloodshed and misery. They roam the wilderness outside of the warcamps, preying on the constant stream of travelers from Alethkar itself to the Shattered Plains. Shallan ends up caught between two such groups, and when one group attacks a caravan she convinces the second group to help them by appealing to their better nature as soldiers, using a bit of Lightweaving to make her seem more powerful and worthy of listening to. | |
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Broken Masquerade | |
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Broken Masquerade: By the end of the book, not only are Dalinar's visions common knowledge to the Alethi, but Shallan, Jasnah, Kaladin, and Renarin are revealed to be Radiants. | |
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Democracy Is Bad | |
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Democracy Is Bad: Contextually. No one in the book can even conceive of a true democracy, but the spirit of the trope still comes up when Dalinar repeatedly forces the highprinces and the king to do as he says, instead of negotiating more peacefully. Then again, there's truly neither the cultural context nor the sheer time to do it properly. | |
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Don't Explain the Joke | |
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Don't Explain the Joke: When Pattern does this, Shallan tells him that nothing is less funny than trying to explain humor. | |
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I Call It "Vera" | |
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I Call It "Vera": Adolin refuses to name his Shardblade, believing that it already has a name given to it by its Radiant, and he shouldn't give it a new one. Considering that the Blades are dead spren, he's more right than he realizes. Sylphrena, Pattern, and Ivory, when they become Shards. | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist: Taravangian, in his interlude, is genuinely horrified by the destruction he's wrought across multiple kingdoms. He's also absolutely convinced of the necessity of it towards saving the world. Amaram, likewise, thinks that he is helping to save the world and that he had to become a Shardbearer to that end. Both men, it must be said, have rather haughty ideas of their own importance in the grand scheme of things, bordering or crossing over into arrogant messianic delusions. | |
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Save the Jerk | |
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Save the Jerk: Kaladin saves King Elkohar from assassins, even though Elkohar is a classist, ineffectual ruler who's caused him a lot of misery. The honorable act restores Kaladin's Oathbound Power as a Knight Radiant and enables him to swear its Third Ideal: | |
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Pose of Silence | |
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Pose of Silence: Syl reveals the trickiness of doing magic—casters ought to be consistent lest they break their brains—while bending toward Kaladin as if it were a closely-guarded secret. | |
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