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It belonged to her brother Helaran.
the winds knew you.
squires,
This creature in Tukar, however, is different. I’m not convinced he is human. If he is, he’s certainly not of the local species. . . .”
I think there’s only one of those around these parts, and she and I never did get along.”
ability for bonded spren to manifest in our world rather than their own grew stronger through the course of the oaths given.
Screaming.
No, I didn’t kill you!”
‘She has visited the Old Magic,’ they said. ‘Our mother has blessed her,’
‘Our mother has blessed her,’
Edgedancer
“Somehow, you are partly in the Cognitive Realm,” Wyndle said, coiling beside her and raising a twisting mesh of vines that could make a face. “It is the only answer I can find to why you can touch spren. And you can metabolize food directly into Stormlight.”
Huh, Lift thought, someone scratched a face off of that one. Who’d ruin a painting like that, and such a fine one, the Heralds all in a row?
The creature sucked the awesomeness from Lift. She actually saw it go, a glistening whiteness that streamed from her to the little animal. It opened its mouth, drinking it in.
I will remember those who have been forgotten.
The only place in the East where the stones were not cursed, where walking on them was allowed. This place was holy.
Years ago, Szeth had been banished for raising the alarm.
tiny spren. It danced around her head, shedding rings of light from its cometlike form.
windspren approached on a breeze. They stopped when they grew near, then zipped away in the opposite direction.
“I’m no highspren. Laws don’t matter; what’s right matters.”
“Perfect pitch,” Wit said, “makes this all so much easier than it once was. . . .”
Dalinar, who had come down with a sickness.
he had withdrawn for a few days to recuperate.
waving away some strange spren like taut wires crossing before him,
I was . . . away at the time.
Gavilar, we have done it. We have finally done it.”
The worlds you now tread bear the touch and design of Adonalsium.
an implication that when Gavilar had died, she had not been broken up about it.
Rayse is captive. He cannot leave the system he now inhabits. His destructive potential is, therefore, inhibited.
millennia have passed without Rayse taking the life of another of the sixteen.
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.
if they could find a way to return the Voidbringers, then the Knights Radiant would return
That force is contained,
He swore he saw an enormous figure walking up there, a glowing inhuman form, followed by another, alien and sleek. Striding the storm. Leg after leg, until the glow passed.
Some kind of strange spren zipped past their enclosure, red and violet and reminiscent of lightning.
CHILD OF H
CHILD OF TANAVAST. Y
The rest, thousands of us, were killed when the event happened. You call it the Recreance.”
a large ceremonial keyhole set into the wall
“Moelach moves,
Perhaps this will help pinpoint Nergaoul.”
Szeth had been banished from Shinovar, made Truthless for something relating to a claim that the Voidbringers had returned.
“Jasnah’s ward?” Adrotagia said. They had been startled when that one arrived on the Shattered Plains. Already they hypothesized that the girl had been trained. If not by Jasnah, then by the girl’s brother, before his death.
Favored of the winds.
“So the night will reign, for the choice of honor is life
Just as the Diagram instructed, Taravangian was king of Jah Keved. He had taken the first major step toward unifying the world, as Gavilar had insisted would need to happen if they were to survive. That was, at least, what the visions had proclaimed. Visions Gavilar had confided in him six years ago, the night of the Alethi king’s death. Gavilar had seen visions of the Almighty, who was also now dead, and of a coming storm. Unite them.
Diagram instructed, Taravangian was king of Jah Keved. He had taken the first major step toward unifying the world, as Gavilar had insisted would need to happen if they were to survive. That was, at least, what the visions had proclaimed. Visions Gavilar had confided in him six years ago, the night of the Alethi king’s death. Gavilar had seen visions of the Almighty, who was also now dead, and of a coming storm.
Something seemed off to him about that man and his explanation of the epilepsy.
it feels . . . wrong somehow to hold one.
each order had different Ideals, or standards, to determine advancement. Some were specific, others left to the interpretation of the spren.
