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1 | Rank | Chapter | Quick Summary | Character Focus | Whim (How much do I like it?) | Intrigue (Reveals? Worldbuilding?) | Tangent (Process of Lore lookup) | Total |
2 | 1 | Prelude to the Stormlight Archive | All but one of the Heralds survived the latest Desolation. They all decide to abandon the Oathpact, leaving the other Herald to torture. | Kalak | 6.1 | 8.7 | 5.7 | 66.50% |
3 | 2 | Prologue: To Kill | Szeth, at the behest of the Parshendi, infiltrates the celebration of a peace treaty between the Alethi and Parshendi. He assassinates the Monarch, Gavilar Kholin. | Szeth | 7.5 | 9.4 | 6 | 76.00% |
4 | 3 | Chapter 1: Stormblessed | Cenn is brought into Kaladin's crew as they charge into battle. The crew loses noone, but as they face a brightlord, a shardbearer appears. Cenn passes out from blood loss. | Kaladin | 9.2 | 8.5 | 8.4 | 88.25% |
5 | 4 | Chapter 2: Honor is Dead | Months later, we find Kaladin as a branded slave. He attempts to help a sick slave, but said slave is killed by the slave driver. Kaladin thinks about taking revenge. He meets Syl, a seemingly intelligent Windspren. | Kaladin | 10 | 9.5 | 9.1 | 96.50% |
6 | 5 | Chapter 3: The City of Bells | Shallan arrives in Kharbranth, where her potential new scholarly teacher, Jasnah, is supposed to be. After touring the city for a little bit, she arrives at the Palaneum just in time to meet Jasnah for the first time. | Shallan | 8.1 | 7.7 | 9.4 | 83.25% |
7 | 6 | Chapter 4: The Shattered Plains | As Kaladin and the others are brought through the Unclaimed Hills, they get lost. Kaladin rips up the map when feigning help. After waiting through a Highstorm, they arive at the Shattered Plains. | Kaladin | 8.8 | 7.7 | 7.9 | 83.00% |
8 | 7 | Chapter 5: Heretic | During their first meeting, Jasnah asks about Shallan's schooling. After Jasnah uses soulcasting to turn a boulder into smoke, freeing Taravangian's granddaughter, she informs Shallan she will not be her ward. We learn Shallan intends to steal Jasnah's Soulcaster. | Shallan | 9.1 | 9.1 | 8.6 | 89.75% |
9 | 8 | Chapter 6: Bridge Four | Kaladin is sold into highprince Sadeas' bridgeman crew slave camp. He is immediately sent to carry a bridge across the Shattered Plains for hours into combat. The slave driver of Bridge Four puts Kaladin in the front, where the most danger is. Kaladin survives, but is already dead exhausted. | Kaladin | 9.3 | 9.5 | 7 | 87.75% |
10 | 9 | Chapter 7: Anything Reasonable | Shallan attempts to convince Jasnah to reconsider her wardship by drawing and writing an argument. As she does this, she meets an ardent, Kabsal, who is attempting to meet Jasnah to convert her. Kabsal leaves as Shallan writes her argument, then Jasnah finds Shallan, upset. | Shallan | 8 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 80.00% |
11 | 10 | Chapter 8: Nearer the Flame | Jasnah chastises Shallan on her determination, but comes around after reading the argument. She tells Shallan to come back for a wardship after learning more. Shallan is almost scammed buying books, but is helped by Yalb. As she crams, Jasnha comes back, looks in her bag, then accepts her wardship. | Shallan | 9.4 | 8.4 | 8.8 | 90.00% |
12 | 11 | Chapter 9: Damnation | It's been weeks since Kaladin became a bridgemen. Only one other person in the original Bridge crew has survived. He sees a young boy that reminds him of his brother, but he dies in the next run, causing Kaladin to crumble. | Kaladin | 9.2 | 7 | 8 | 83.50% |
13 | 12 | Chapter 10: Stories of Surgeons | In a flashback, Kaladin helps his father, Lirin, in a hand surgery. They debate over the merits of soldiers and surgeons, though Kaladin doesn't really understand. After Lirin quizzes him on medical knowledge, he says he plans to send Kaladin to Kharbranth to train as a surgeon, that he shouldn't become a soldier. | Kaladin | 8.6 | 6.9 | 8.7 | 82.00% |
14 | 13 | Chapter 11: Droplets | After failing to save anyone, Kaladin goes to commit suicide at the Honor Chasm. Syl stops him and convinces him to try just one more time, that if the bridgemen are going to die anyways, his efforts won't hurt. Renewed, Kaladin threatens Gaz to make him in charge of the bridgemen. He learns all the names of Bridge Four. | Kaladin | 9.9 | 9.2 | 8.3 | 93.25% |
15 | 14 | Interlude I-1: Ishikk | We see Ishikk, a fisherman in the Purelake, as he meets with three mysterious gentleman as an information broker. He isn't able to share any new information about Hoid, they person they are trying to look for. | Ishikk | 7.9 | 9.8 | 9 | 86.50% |
16 | 15 | Interlude I-2: Nan Balat | We see Balat Davar, Shallan's brother, as he reflects on the work Shallan is doing for their family. He has some resentment towards Shallan for not getting the brunt of their father's treatment. Wikim, their brother, find him with a big problem they need to get to. | Balat | 7.2 | 6.6 | 5 | 65.00% |
17 | 16 | Interlude I-3: The Glory of Ignorance | Szeth is serving a man named Took who uses him to gain admiration and free drinks. He shows of Szeth's total obedience to the one with his Oathstone. As they leave, Took is killed by a group of thugs, and one of them claims his Oathstone. | Szeth | 8 | 8 | 7.7 | 79.25% |
18 | 17 | Chapter 12: Unity | Adolin is worried about his father, Dalinar's, "fits" during the highstorms. Dalinar wishes the Highprinces were united in Alethkar, rather than fighting an endless war. He joins the king, Elhokar, in a race before a Chasmfiend hunt goes terribly wrong, a Chasmfiend appearing before planned. | Adolin, Dalinar | 6.4 | 7.3 | 8 | 70.25% |
19 | 18 | Chapter 13: Ten Heartbeats | As Dalinar, Adolin, Elhokar, and another Highprince named Sadeas attempt to defeat the Chasmfiend, Elhokar is thrown from his saddle by a broken strap. Dalinar saves Elhokar by catching a claw, Adolin cuts its legs. Elhokar finally finishes off the creature and grabs its Gemheart. | Dalinar, Adolin | 7.1 | 8 | 7 | 73.00% |
20 | 19 | Chapter 14: Payday | Kaladin attempts to assert himself as the leader of Bridge Four, but it doesn't exactly work. He bribes Gaz to not bother questioning his leadership, and he spends the rest of his time training alone. | Kaladin | 8.7 | 6.5 | 7 | 77.25% |
21 | 20 | Chapter 15: The Decoy | Adolin and Dalinar investigate the possible cutting of Elhokar's saddle. Later, Dalinar and Sadeas both question each other's allegiance to Elhokar, sparking further rivalry. | Adolin, Dalinar | 7.7 | 8.2 | 8 | 79.00% |
22 | 21 | Chapter 16: Cocoons | The farmer kids in Kaladin's village are jealous of and resents Kaladin for being a surgeon rather than a farmer. One boy, Jost, challenges him to a fight. Kaladin accepts but loses badly. He thinks about becoming a soldier, as he enjoyed the feeling of holding a quarterstaff. | Kaladin | 8 | 7.9 | 8.4 | 80.75% |
23 | 22 | Chapter 17: A Bloody Red Sunset | Kaladin buys overpriced medicinal supplies. During a bridge run, he takes over at the front; the most dangerous job. He survives, and decides to heal and bring back the wounded and dying on his bridge back to camp. | Kaladin | 9.4 | 6.4 | 7 | 80.50% |
24 | 23 | Chapter 18: Highprince of War | Adolin works on the saddle investigation and speaks to an ardent about Dalinar's visions. Dalinar tries to convince Elhokar to withdraw before backing down, then requests becoming the Highprince of War. He and Renarin seek shelter from a highstorm as Dalinar goes into a vision. | Adolin, Dalinar | 8.1 | 7 | 7.7 | 77.25% |
25 | 24 | Chapter 19: Starfalls | Dalinar, in a vision, defends himself and a wife and daugter from the Midnight Essence. He later meets two Knights Radiants before getting another speech from The Almighty, telling him to "Unite them." | Dalinar | 8.2 | 8.9 | 9.5 | 87.00% |
26 | 25 | Chapter 20: Scarlet | A young Kaladin tries to perform surgery on a girl who was injured nearby, but while he does the best he can, she dies from bloodloss. His father, Lirin, later recounts a lesson that Kaladin will need to "Learn when to care and when to let go." | Kaladin | 9.1 | 6 | 6.7 | 77.25% |
27 | 26 | Chapter 21: Why Men Lie | After caring for his men's wounds and getting in some training, Kaladin is told by Gaz that the wounded won't get pay or food as long as they can't run. He tries to convince the others of Bridge Four to share food, but only Rock obliges, as he thinks he owes Kaladin. Kaladin gathers Rock and Teft for a job. | Kaladin | 7.8 | 6.7 | 8 | 75.75% |
28 | 27 | Chapter 22: Eyes, Hands, or Spheres | Adolin and Dalinar talk about the leather strap, and then join the King's Feast. Wit tells Dalinar that a rumor about him wanting to retreat has spread. Navani, Elhokar's mother and Galivar's widow, joins the feast, and Dalinar tries to hide his attention. Elhokar announces he appointed Sadeas as Highprince of Information. | Dalinar | 7.3 | 8.1 | 7 | 74.25% |
29 | 28 | Chapter 23: Many Uses | During rock duty, Kaladin, Rock, and Teft search for knobweed, an antiseptic for the wounded. Later, when they are extracting the sap, they get to talking, revealing a bit of backstory, though both Teft and Kaladin remain cryptic about theirs. | Kaladin | 8.8 | 7.9 | 8.4 | 84.75% |
30 | 29 | Chapter 24: The Gallery of Maps | Dalinar fails to convince another Highprince to join him on a joint assault during a gemheart run. Afterwards, Adolin tells Dalinar that he thinks Sadeas plans to frame Dalinar for the saddle cut. Dalinar quotes his vision to trust Sadeas, and Adolin snaps at him that the visions are just his imagination. | Adolin, Dalinar | 8.2 | 6.8 | 6.6 | 74.50% |
31 | 30 | Chapter 25: The Butcher | Kaladin overhears villagers in his hometown speaking ill of his father, and learns that they wanted to marry him to Laral, a childhood friend and lighteyes. Later, the town meets a new citylord, Roshone, who blames Lirin for not saving the previous citylord. | Kaladin | 8 | 7.2 | 7 | 75.50% |
32 | 31 | Chapter 26: Stillness | Dalinar is worried about his visions, gives permission to his second in command to try using bridgemen, and Sadeas interviews Dalinar's soldiers. Later, Dalinar and Adolin fight the Parshendi, but Dalinar starts to feel repulsed at the fighting. He sees a Parshendi shardbearer and wonders why they didn't fight in the battle. | Dalinar | 7.9 | 8.3 | 7.6 | 79.25% |
33 | 32 | Chapter 27: Chasm Duty | Kaladin sells the knobweed sap then finds out his bridgecrew were assigned to chasm duty. They begin looting corpses in the chasm, all while most of the bridgemen taunt and jeer at Kaladin. He demonstrates a spear kata, impressing everyone. They later eat stew together, strengthening their bonds. | Kaladin | 9.7 | 8.9 | 6 | 85.75% |
34 | 33 | Chapter 28: Decision | Dalinar has Adolin take over interrogation about what Sadeas asked the soldiers. They learn all the highprinces refused to work with Dalinar. Dalinar, frustrated, helps build a latrine with his workers. He is found by Navani and talks with Jasnah over spanreed about the parshendi. | Adolin, Dalinar | 7.7 | 9.2 | 6 | 76.50% |
35 | 34 | Interlude I-4: Rysn | Rysn learns from her mentor about how to be a successful merchant. Currently, she is learning how Shinovar trading works. Her mentor, Vstim, has her keep grass as a pet until she doesn't find it weird anymore | Rysn | 8.3 | 8.8 | 6 | 78.50% |
36 | 35 | Interlude I-5 Axies the Collector | Axies wakes up in an alleyway from a night of finding and studying intoxicationspren. He watches Cusicesh, a giant spren, appear. He is hauled to jail because of indecent exposure. | Axies | 9 | 9.2 | 9.1 | 90.75% |
37 | 36 | Interlude I-6: A Work of Art | Szeth's new master Makkek send him off to assassinate Gavashaw, another gang leader. He ends up finding both Gavashaw and Makkek's heads by someone else who has his oathstone, his new master. He is given a list of high-ranking nobles to assassinate. | Szeth | 7.8 | 8.1 | 8 | 79.25% |
38 | 37 | Chapter 29: Errorgance | After Shallan talks to her brothers about the best way to steal Jasnah's soulcaster, she is sent to study Alethi monarchs. During the study session, Taravangian comes in to ask after Jasnah and to request a portrait from Shallan. | Shallan | 7.2 | 8 | 9.9 | 80.75% |
39 | 38 | Chapter 30: Darkness Unseen | While Kaladin and his crew exercise, Gaz is told to kill off Kaladin conspicuously. The bridge crew practice a new side carry, a secret way to use the bridge as a shield. Kaladin tells Gaz it's just a way to exercise different muscles, but Gaz suggests that they should use it on a run, thinking the move will kill Kaladin. | Kaladin, Gaz | 7.9 | 7.2 | 6 | 72.50% |
40 | 39 | Chapter 31: Beneath the Skin | The people of Hearthstone have stopped paying Kaladin's family after surgeries. During Kaladin's studies, a group of villagers attempts to demand the spheres that Lirin stole. When he confronts them, daring them to rob and attack him, they sheepishly slink away. | Kaladin | 9.3 | 7.7 | 6 | 80.75% |
41 | 40 | Chapter 32: Side Carry | Lopen joins the bridge crew. Kaladin has him and Dabbid carry water. When they are sent on a run, Kaladin has them try out the side carry. While they remain alive, it causes the entire run to fall into chaos, leading Sadeas' forces to retreat. Kaladin surrenders himself and is beaten, his dun spheres scattered. | Kaladin | 9.7 | 8.8 | 6 | 85.50% |
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