Roshar Reader

Prologue · reading

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Roshar Reader

Kathryn's chapter-aware companion for Edgedancer. It already remembers the end of Words of Radiance. Seeing Kaladin or Shallan in your notes does not mean they have walked onto this chapter.

Dotted words are Roshar terms — tap for a plain-English meaning. Press and hold any other word, then tap Define.

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Leftover notes from the end of Words of Radiance. They are not a promise that those people appear in this chapter.

Adolin Kholin
Earlier book

Adolin Kholin

Heir to the ; · Alethi

The prince who killed a and has not said so.

Dalinar Kholin in Kholin blue
Earlier book

Dalinar Kholin

() · Alethi

The man who bonded .

The man called Darkness
Earlier book

Darkness

Nin, of Justice

The man in black and silver who hunts people like Ym.

King Elhokar
Earlier book

Elhokar Kholin

King of Alethkar · Alethi

The king Kaladin chose to protect anyway.

Eshonai, Parshendi warleader
Earlier book

Eshonai

· Parshendi

named Eshonai.

King Gavilar
Earlier book

Gavilar Kholin

King of Alethkar (deceased as of the night of the treaty) · Alethi

The king the killed.

Jasnah Kholin
Earlier book

Jasnah Kholin

Shallan's guardian and tutor · Alethi

The heretic princess who walked back from the other world.

Jezrien
Earlier book

Jezrien

Herald of Kings; chief of

The -king who decides they are done.

Kabsal
Earlier book

Kabsal

Assassin posing as an (deceased) · Herdazian

The assassin in ardent's robes.

Kaladin, branded Alethi bridgeman
Earlier book

Kaladin

Freed captain in Dalinar Kholin's camp · Alethi

The who charged a to save a .

20 more still in your notes from Words of Radiance. Open all people

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Camps, cities, and countries you already live in — plus any this book has opened.

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The continent of Roshar from the endpaper map, storm-scoured and irregular

Roshar

The map of the story.

Storms from the east. Stone instead of soil.

Alethkar: eastern Vorin kingdom of princedoms and storm-carved cities

Alethkar

Homeland of the Alethi war effort. · Alethi

The kingdom that just lost its king.

Kholinar, wind-worn capital of Alethkar, palaces and stormwall against an open sky

Kholinar

Site of Gavilar's assassination. · Alethi

The palace where a king died in white.

Hearthstone: wedge-roofed darkeyed town tucked behind a breakwall hill

Hearthstone

Kaladin's home. The flashback town. · Alethi

The town that lost Tien.

Sadeas warcamp: palisades, lumberyard, and bridge sheds on the western Shattered Plains

Sadeas warcamp

Kaladin's prison. The machine that spends to win plateaus. · Alethi

The . . Gaz's eyepatch.

Kholin warcamp: ordered blue tents and a fortress-palace on a circular plateau

Kholin warcamp

Command heart of the war effort. Dalinar's and Adolin's home on the Plains. · Alethi

Blue banners, the king's plateau, Dalinar's codes.