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Her shadow was pointing in the wrong direction.
“I’m worried about Ash.”
That creature carries my lord’s own Blade. We shouldn’t have let him keep it.
Azish man with the white birthmark on his cheek.
could have been Alethi—
“All things have three components: the soul, the body, and the mind. That place you saw, Shadesmar, is what we call the Cognitive Realm—
spren are elements of the Cognitive Realm that have leaked into the physical world.
They’re concepts that have gained a fragment of sentience,
“Spren are those ideas—the ideas of collective human experience—somehow come alive. Shadesmar is where that first happens, and it is their place. Though we created it, they shaped it. They live there; they rule there, within their own cities.”
I think some of them may have died,
strange spren shaped like arrows
A small figure made of inky blackness—shaped like a man in a smart, fashionable suit with a long coat—stood in her palm.
A silvery sword. A pattern of light.
Ivory—”
There is a complex sort of conflict between them and the honorspren.
“There are ten fundamental Surges—forces—by which the world works. Gravitation, pressure, transformation.
before the spren were alive, they were something. Power. Energy.
you can divide spren into two general groups. Those that respond to emotions and those that respond to forces like fire or wind pressure.”
Cultivation, the god worshipped in the West, is a female deity that is an embodiment of nature and nature spren.
Voidspren, with their unseen lord—
powerful spren, such as the Nightwatcher.”
Once Sja-anat touches a spren, it acts strange.
It won’t be able to go far without a carrier.”
I did not teach my Heralds this. It was the spren—wishing to imitate what I had given men—who made it possible.
Vex Odium, convince him that he can lose, and appoint a champion.
why does she still keep up the act of playing with winds?
“Spren like red lightning,”
“I was forbidden. I came anyway. To find you.”
The world ended, and Shallan was to blame.
Mother lay facedown, so Shallan couldn’t see the eyes. The horrible eyes.
A worker had difficulty committing violence—there was a block in the mind somewhere.
she and the others had ordered the murder of the Alethi king in a desperate gambit to stop the listener gods from returning.
Honorblade.”
our people were mostly dullform.” It was a form of low intelligence, low capacity. They used it now to spy on the humans.
when the Seventh Land is attained—and we will once again become One.”
lanky man with pale white skin verging on blue. He wore only a loincloth, and his skin was covered with hundreds upon hundreds of small, intricate tattoos.
They were supposed to have died with Aimia,
larkin,”
things that might bring the eyes of the Unmade upon us.”
The forms, unknown, were forced upon us. Forms of power, yes, but also forms of obedience. The gods commanded, and we did obey, always.
Warriors, touched by the gods, our only choice to seek dullness of mind. A crippling that brought freedom.”
The spren again betray us.”
of him. They come.”
Pailiah
Battah
He grimaced as he took it.
“You don’t like anyone who carries Shards.” “Exactly.
Long-haired, with a short but scruffy black beard, he wore loose tan clothing tied with ropes. He looked out of place in the sparring yard,
Skybreaker,
Gaz nodded, though he glanced to the side again—that same nervous tic—
