Resumen:Palabras radiantes
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Prologue: To Question
Six years ago
Jasnah pleased to have extricated her self form the festivities above and about the signing of the treaty hand the assassin Liss an envelope sealed with weevil-wax. She than proceeds to tell Liss only to watch. Where as Liss mocks that assassins are really hired only to watch. After making it clear that Jasnah only wants her brother's wife watched she thinks about Liss's other name "the Weeper" and her secrets. Jasnah than proceeds to tell Liss that she will get one of her sister-in-laws attendees dismissed and that Liss need to get the job. After a short conversation about Liss's former slave, whom she sold because he was to good and creepy, Liss tells Jasnah why she likes her and Jasnah in turn tells Liss what she thinks about assassination and assassins. Jasnah reminds Liss of their first agreement, according to which Jasnah can buy any contract against her family out from Liss.
As Jasnah gets up to leave, she notices that her shadow is behaving oddly, something she noted before. Thinking of a reference in a book she wonders about being cursed. Jasnah starts to go back up to the feast, when the drums suddenly stop. Worrying about if Dalinar could have done something to offend the other party goers and thinking about how hard she worked to get this treaty. She hastens to the feast. In one of the hallways she overhears two men talking about a woman named Ash and sees an Azish man with a white birthmark or scar on his cheek and considers that she should have investigated further into them. Asking if the feast is over already and receiving a single word answer, she leaves the men behind feeling uncomfortable, under the Azish man's gaze.
Part One:
Chapter 1: Santhid
To be perfectly frank, what has happened these last two months is upon my head. The death, destruction, loss, and pain are my burden. I should have seen it coming. And I should have stopped it.
Chapter 2: Bridge Four
Our first clue was the Parshendi. Even weeks before they abandoned their pursuit of the gemhearts, their pattern of fighting changed. They lingered on the plateaus after battles, as if waiting for something.
Chapter 3: Pattern
Soldiers reported being watched from afar by an unnerving number of Parshendi scouts. Then we noticed a new pattern of their penetrating close to the camps in the night and then quickly retreating. I can only surmise that our enemies were even then preparing their stratagem to end this war.
Chapter 4: Taker of Secrets
The next clue came on the walls. I did not ignore this sign, but neither did I grasp its full implications.
Dalina is experiencing another vision. He describes how he is running through what he believes to be the Purelake along with about a dozen armed and armored men, though he notes that they are clad in ancient leather armor. At first he is unsure if they are running away from something or toward something until he notices a Fortress apparently made completely made out of Onyx. His group meets up with another one lead by a Radiant in deep red glowing Plate. Dalinar thus determines that this Vision takes place before the Requence. The Radiant informs them that Caeb thought he saw something and tells them to look around. When one of the men hears Dalinar mumbling to himself, as he describes what is happening, he tells Dalinar to look for a spren that isn't behaving the way it should. Since spren that where touched by Sja-anat are different. Dalinar repeats the word quietly hoping that Navani will record them, when he notices that the female Knight is talking apparently to nobody. As he looks around he sees a face of shadow with red eyes in the water. When he points this out to the others the Knight, after noting that this is Sja-anat's spy sends Kade to the checkpoint and tells the others to keep watching for the carrier. Dalinar chases after the spren while describing it, when it is suddenly joined by a six feet tall spren. As the second one dive into the rock Dalinar stumbles back. He gets pulled back further by one of the man as the ground starts to tremble. Dalinar watches as the spren, having somehow apparently animated the rock, starts to climb out of the rock with his new rockbody. The soldiers reconsigning it as a Thunderclast start yelling for Hammers
Chapter 5: Ideals
The sign on the wall proposed a greater danger, even, than its deadline. To foresee the future is of the Voidbringers.
Chapter 6: Terrible destruction
We had never considered that there might be Parshendi spies hiding among our slaves. This is something else I should have seen.
Shallan
Chapter 7:
Shallan
Chapter 8: Knives in the Back - Soldiers on the Field
Dalinar
Chapter 9: Walking the Grave
Kaladin
Chapter 10:Red Carpet, Once White
Flashback Shallan
6 Years ago
Shallan
Shallan believing the world is ending and it being her fault is crying. As her father tries getting her to sleep he wipes some blood from her face and starts singing a lullaby. Shallan thinks her self to be a monster that kills and thus unworthy of the love and affection her father is giving her. In the room there are several corpses one of them being a woman in white, Shallan's mother. She didn't bleed very much but the other man did. As Shallan and her father pass the his save in the wall Shallan can see the light form the “monster” coming from inside of it. After the song ends her father leaves the bedroom closing the door on the corpses.
“Sleep now dear one, crimson sky will fall behind you.
Through rock and dread, through rock and dread, may be your dead, you will sleep my loved one dear. Now comes the storm, that you'll be warm, the wind may shake your dreams. The crystals fine, will glow sublime, so sleep my loved one dear. And like a song, it wont be long, you sleep my loved one dear.
”
—The lullaby Shallan's father recites in the chapter Red Carpet, Once WhiteError en la cita: Etiqueta<ref>no válida; las referencias sin nombre deben tener contenido
Chapter 11:
Shallan
Chapter 12: Hero
Unfortunately, we fixated upon Sadeas's plotting so much that we did not take note of the changed patter of our enemies, the murderers of my husband, the true danger. I would like to know what wind brought about their sudden inexplicable transformation. —From the journal of Navani Kholin, Jesesach 1174
Sigzil finally gets the possibility to 'measure' Kaladin's abilities. Down in the chasms — while Teft and Drehy are working with twenty others to train them — Kaladin, Sigzil, Rock and Lopen are making experiments. Lopen is has to guard the location to avoid unbidden guests. They try to measure how long a rock which Kaladin infused with Stormlight and stuck it to the chasm wall stays stuck. Rock hints them at spren that pull the stone to the wall. Kaladin sees them, too, when looking close, but Sigzil doesn't.
Sigzil takes notes writing them down in glyphs. And he is confused. He says he would need a clock to orderly measure times and that he has no real references to compare. So they start testing other things, things, Kaladin can do in battle with his Stormlight. For example Infusing his spear and making it stuck on the spear of a foe or Infusing the ground causing others that step in to topple. For this experiments Lopen and Rock joined Sigzil as sparring partners. It's shown that Rock indeed knows how to fight though he still refuses to do so aside from this sparring for testing Kaladin's abilities.
Teft comes and sees the last part of the sparring. He asks Kaladin to release him from his task of training new recruits, but Kaladin refuses.
When Kaladin and his men leave the chasm he was told by another darkeyed soldier that a Brightlord just arrived at Dalinar's warcamp. But it's not only "a Brightlord". So Kaladin rushes to Dalinar's command complex to see this Brightlord with his own eyes and the soldier was right, it is Brightlord Amaram.
Chapter 13:
Kaladin
Chapter 14: Ironstance
Mateform meek, for love to share, Given to life, it brings us joy. To find this form, one must care. True empathy one must employ.
—From the Listener Song of Listing, 5th stanza
Adolin
Interludes
Interlude I-1: Narak
Interlude I-2: Rysn
Interlude I-3: Ym
Interlude I-4: Eshonai
Part Two:
Chapter 15:
Adolin
Chapter 16:
Shallan
Chapter 17:
Kaladin
Interludes
Interlude I-5: Taravangian
Taravangian awakes on a ship with stiff mussels, but noting that he doesn't feel stupid, which he considers a good sign. He notes that his ship has moored on time, when his servants arrive. Maban brings him his morning meal, but is stopped by Mrall, one of the Kings testers. He wants Taravangian to take the test first since it is an important day and he want to know what to expect. Taravangian agrees with him and Mrall lets the testers approach. The three stormwardens give the King some paper on which some math-problems are put down with in figures and glyphs. Taravangian made these him self on one of his better day's and even though he knows he is not a complete idiot, he finds that he is only average on this day. After checking the papers the stomwardens judge: “He is fit to serve,” one proclaimed. “He may not change the Diagram, but he may interact outside of supervision, may change policy, and pass judgment.” Mrall after getting Taravangian's acceptance lets Maban bring him his breakfast. Taravangian considers that even though it always takes up one hour of every day the test is the best way for a man who wakes up every morning with a different level of intelligence. He contemplate that life can be tricky especially when the world might depend of him.
Interlude I-9:Lift
Ars Arcanum
Notes