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Prologue · reading

The Purelake: a vast warm shallows where people wade among rock and fish

place

Purelake

the Purelake

Knee- to waist-deep, warm as blood, crowded with strange fish. Purelakers live in it, sit in it, and fish by listening to the water.
A lake you walk across, fishing for wonders.
Role
Ishikk's home, and a place three foreigners came to ask after a man.
First introduced
Book 2 — End of Words of Radiance
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Book 2 — End of Words of Radiance
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The Purelake
Purelaker fishing life
Purelakers

Look

A sheet of clear warm water over rock. People wade for miles. Villages are more camp than city. Fish glimmer like made flesh.

Where

North-central Roshar, inland, with Marabethia on its seaward isthmus.

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