The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
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He pulled out a small crystalline sphere tied to a chain.
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Though it was completely dark, it seemed to glow somehow. With a light that was black.
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A long, silvery sword in her hand, sharp enough to cut stones as if they were water.
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“Three of sixteen ruled, but now the Broken One reigns.”
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white hair, clever tongue, and arrowlike face—
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Hoid,
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the element is quite safe. I have found a good home for it.
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He holds the most frightening and terrible of all of the Shards.
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reptile,
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Regrowth
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Ten Deaths,
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Midnight Essence,
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look at the aftermath of his brief visit to Sel
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Aona and Skai are both dead, and that which they held has been Splintered. Presumably to prevent anyone from rising up to challenge Rayse.
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my grudge against Rayse and Bavadin.
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I am being chased. Your friends of the Seventeenth Shard, I suspect. I believe they’re still lost, following a false trail I left for them.
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Rysn realized she couldn’t see any spren. Not a one.
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he cast a shadow the wrong way. Toward light,
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Axies felt drained, as if something had been leeched from him.
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three diamond shapes in a curious pattern.
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Dawnshards
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theory of the three realms.”
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Oathgates
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Starspren.
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Stonewards.
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Unmade
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Ten heartbeats, to bring forth the fruit of her sin, the proceeds of her most horrific act.
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ODIUM REIGNS.
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I doubt he could act as a spy.”
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“He watches!” the boy hissed. “The black piper in the night.
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“He must pick it up, the fallen title! The tower, the crown, and the spear!”
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“Adonalsium.”
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the Tukari are led by that god-priest of theirs, Tezim.
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“Eight of the ten sapphires used to infuse his Plate were cracked following the battle.”
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Shen pushing forward in an uncharacteristic display of passion.
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I weep for the end of all things. He has won. Oh, he has beaten us.”
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“I hold the suckling child in my hands, a knife at his throat, and know that all who live wish me to let the blade slip. Spill its blood upon the ground, over my hands, and with it gain us further breath to draw.”
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Windrunners.
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I’ve come to your land to chase an old acquaintance, but I end up spending most of my time hiding from him instead.”
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They watch me. Always. Waiting. I see their faces in mirrors. Symbols, twisted, inhuman …”
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command the sunlight.
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“In the storm I awaken, falling, spinning, grieving.”
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stormwardens whisper that the highstorms are growing more powerful.”