Chull
Common draft and pack beast
The giant crabs that pull everything on Roshar.
Roshar 101
World
Society, stormlight, creatures, and gear — only as far as this chapter has explained them.
Chasmfiend
Hunted by Shardbearers when a chrysalis is spotted
The monster Dalinar and Adolin brought down on the hunt.
Greatshell
Largest native animals; some hunted for
The giant-crab family — are the local kind.
Ryshadium
Chosen mount of a few Shardbearers · Alethi
Dalinar's huge — the one that chose him.
Thunderclast
war-beast; enemy of
The stone giants lying dead after the .
Spheres
Currency, lighting, and a store of
Glowing glass coins that are also the lights in the room.
Gemheart
The prize of every
The huge gem they cut out of the .
Shardblade
The most coveted weapon in the world
Syl, in Kaladin's hand, as a Blade.
Shardplate
The other half of being a Shardbearer
The glowing armor kings wear into rooms they should not need armor for.
Soulcaster
A cover, at least in Jasnah's case
The fake that hid a woman who did not need one.
Fabrial
Practical magic of the modern kingdoms
Navani's glowing machines — put to work.
Spanreed
Long-distance writing; the closest thing Roshar has to a letter that talks back
Two pens that are the same pen.
Oathstone
The leash of a Truthless · Shin
The rock that makes the say yes.
Black sphere
Gavilar's last secret
The that leaks night instead of light.
Siege bridge
The reason exists
The thing carries so soldiers do not have to.
Spear
Kaladin's true weapon
The thing Kaladin is when he is not allowed to be a surgeon.
Blackbane
Kaladin's hidden exit
The poison Kaladin carried when he had given up.
The Way of Kings
Dalinar's conscience, in bound form
The storming book Dalinar will not put down.
Shallan's sketchbook
Shallan's memory, tools, and cover
The red-haired girl's book of everyone she has looked at.
Slave brands
The legal and social mark of a slave
The scars that made a squadleader into property.
Shash brand
Warning-mark on a slave too likely to fight
The brand that says this slave will try something.
Honorblade
Herald's personal weapon; a pillar of
The swords stuck in the stone and walked away from.
Bridge Four
Freed guard in the · Alethi
The bridgemen who came back for a .
Sadeas princedom
The army that cut off · Alethi
The red camp that owns .
Kholin princedom
One highprincedom among ten — that also happens to hold the throne · Alethi
Blue banners, old Codes, Dalinar's camp.
Alethi highprinces
The ten rulers who actually command Alethi armies · Alethi
Ten highprinces, ten , one war nobody is winning together.
Cobalt Guard
guard · Alethi
The blue-coated elite around the Blackthorn.
Ardentia
clerical order; keepers of and doctrine · Alethi
The grey-robed scholars who own the and the libraries.
Knights Radiant
A standard someone has picked up again, whether or not they meant to
The words Kaladin spoke while saving a .
Ghostbloods
Hidden order with a taste for assassination and scholarship
The three-diamond society that sent an assassin in a robe.
Envisagers
Disbanded (or destroyed) cult; Teft's childhood
The cult that taught Teft might come back.
Parshendi
The other army in the War of Reckoning · Parshendi
The singing army on the other side of the chasm.
Amaram's army
The force that buried Kaladin's squad · Alethi
The army whose commander stole a darkeyes' Shards.
Veristitalians
Scholarly order; Jasnah's method given a proper noun
The historians Jasnah belongs to — truth before tradition.
Lighteyes and darkeyes
The caste line that structures Alethi armies, towns, and law.
Light eyes = lighteyes. Dark eyes = darkeyes.
Dahn and nahn
The numbered ranks inside the eye-color caste.
Dahn = . Nahn = darkeyes. First beats tenth.
Highprince
De facto kings of their princedoms; the king's authority over them is thin.
Ten . Ten . One weak king.
Brightlord
The everyday title that marks who gives orders.
Brightlord = man. Brightness = lighteyed woman.
Ardents and the Ardentia
Priests, scholars, and scribes of kingdoms.
: priests who may read, copy, and argue doctrine.
Safehand
Modesty mark of womanhood.
Left hand covered. Right hand free.
Women's script
The script of wards, scholars, and wives who handle a house's reading.
Women write. Men, except and , do not.
Glyphs
The accepted writing of men: shapes to recognize, not literature.
Glyphs for men. for books.
Slavery
How Sadeas staffs the most lethal job on the Plains.
are slaves put in front of arrows.
Bridge crews
Human shields and mobile crossings. Not soldiers. Not expected to live.
first. Bodies fill the gaps.
Warcamps
Permanent siege towns. The war has lasted years and grown roots.
Ten camps, ten , one war nobody is winning.
Vorinism
The religion that sets caste, literacy, and the afterlife for Alethkar, Jah Keved, and Kharbranth.
Vorin: Almighty, Heralds, covered , women write, men fight.
The Almighty
A dying god, by its own account, warning Dalinar to unite the people.
The Almighty in the visions says he is already dead. Odium comes.
The Heralds
saints and patrons of the divine attributes.
: ten Heralds in heaven. Prelude: nine deserters and one left behind.
Desolations
The past the Almighty's visions keep forcing on Dalinar.
The visions say another Desolation is coming.
Voidbringers
Jasnah's working identification for the coming Desolation's army.
Jasnah: Voidbringers = the parsh. A thesis, not yet public proof.
The Oathpact
The Heralds' ancient oath. Abandoned in all but Taln.
Oathpact: nine walk away. One remains bound.
Old Magic and the Nightwatcher
The source of Dalinar's missing memories of his wife.
Dalinar went. His wife's name comes out as Shshshsh.
Stormlight
Something Kaladin can take into his body.
Kaladin inhales . The light goes into him.
Spren
Possible source of power, if were not entirely wrong.
Bind a spren, Teft says, and you get a . Maybe.
Windspren
A cover. Syl's kind is something else.
Syl: not a windspren.
Honorspren
The that makes Kaladin's oaths into power.
Honorspren: spirit of oaths. Syl names herself at the Tower.
Highstorm
Clock, executioner, and battery for the world.
Highstorm: hide or die. left out come back glowing.
The Weeping
The off-season in a climate built around storms.
Weeping: rain for weeks, no , no fresh .
Surgebinding
The thing Teft is trying to put a name and a discipline on.
Surgebinding: the Radiants' name for what Kaladin is starting to do.
Lashings
The practical kit of Szeth's -work.
Basic: you fall another way. Reverse: things fall toward you. Full: things stick.
Knights Radiant
Not extinct.
The Words are spoken. A stands up in a bridgeman's vest.
Soulcasting
An innate talent, at least for some, not only a machine.
Shallan does it from inside . The goblet becomes blood.
Fabrials
The respectable, engineered cousin of old magic.
: trap a , get a machine.
Ten heartbeats
The difference between a Blade in hand and a dead man still reaching.
If it comes at once, it is not one of the dead Blades.
The Codes
Dalinar's public eccentricity. The other treat them as a museum piece.
: Dalinar's rulebook. Everyone else drinks.
The Thrill
The feeling Alethi war is built on. Dalinar's loss of it is one reason they call him old.
The Thrill: joy of the fight. Dalinar's is going quiet.
Highprince of War
The lever he uses once Sadeas is exposed.
Granted, in the wreckage of the Tower.
Gemhearts
The prize. Armies die for the time it takes to cut one out.
: the chasmfiend's fortune, sitting in its chest.
Chasmfiend hunts
The daily shape of the war on the Plains.
Hunt the chrysalis, not the capital. That is the war.
Assassin in white
The blade hanging over Dalinar.
The same man comes for Dalinar.
The Recreance
The historical wound calls betrayal. The vision is the thing itself, without a sermon.
Recreance: they set their Shards down and walked away.
Urithiru
The place in the vision want Dalinar to come to. He never gets there.
Urithiru: the Radiants' city. Lost, or never real.
Child of Tanavast
A name for that does not use. A claim that Kaladin belongs to that being.
Child of Tanavast = child of . Syl's words, not a title Kaladin asked for.
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