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Keeping two separate pages is silly - it's much easier to follow if they're together. Putting both letters here, making "The Second Letter" a redirect.
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The [[The Way of Kings/Epigraphs#The_Letter|epigraphs]] on the chapters of The Way of Kings Part 2 are of particular note, as they reveal some hints at the history of the [[Cosmere]] and the [[Shard]]s of [[Adonalsium]], as well as at the history and personality of their author. They set the stage for the conflict on [[Roshar]]: not only is this one world at stake, but the entire Cosmere might fall if the [[Shardholder]] of [[Odium]], [[Rayse]], gets what he wants.
The epigraphs are phrased as a letter, and are best read and understood all at once. For convenience in reading they are reproduced here.
==Full Text==
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I do so now.|The Letter}}
==The Second Letter==
The epigrams to Part 4 of [[Words of Radiance]] form a reply to this letter. Again, they are best read at once.
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I’ll address this letter to my “old friend,” as I have no idea what name you’re using currently. Have you given up on the gemstone, now that it is dead? And do you no longer hide behind the name of your old master? I am told that in your current incarnation you've taken a name that references what you presume to be one of your virtues. This is, I suspect, a little like a skunk naming itself for its stench.
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Now, look what you've made me say. You've always been able to bring out the most extreme in me, old friend. And I do still name you a friend, for all that you weary me. Yes, I’m disappointed. Perpetually, as you put it. Is not the destruction we have wrought enough? The worlds you now tread bear the touch and design of Adonalsium. Our interference so far has brought nothing but pain. My path has been chosen very deliberately. Yes, I agree with everything you have said about Rayse, including the severe danger he presents. However, it seems to me that all things have been set up for a purpose, and if we—as infants—stumble through the workshop, we risk exacerbating, not preventing, a problem.
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Rayse is captive. He cannot leave the system he now inhabits. His destructive potential is, therefore, inhibited. Whether this was Tanavast’s design or not, millennia have passed without Rayse taking the life of another of the sixteen. While I mourn for the great suffering Rayse has caused, I do not believe we could hope for a better outcome than this. He bears the weight of God’s own divine hatred, separated from the virtues that gave it context. He is what we made him to be, old friend. And that is what he, unfortunately, wished to become. I suspect that he is more a force than an individual now, despite your insistence to the contrary. That force is contained, and an equilibrium reached.
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You, however, have never been a force for equilibrium. You tow chaos behind you like a corpse dragged by one leg through the snow. Please, hearken to my plea. Leave that place and join me in my oath of nonintervention. The cosmere itself may depend upon our restraint.|The Second Letter}}
==Speculation==
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