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Shallan encounters [[Tyn]]'s caravan and joins with them to defend against bandits, also winning the support of a group of deserters that had been chasing them. Tyn figures that Shallan couldn't possibly be who she says she is, so she takes her on as an apprentice con artist. When she finds out via spanreed that she really is Shallan, she tries to kill her, but Shallan summons her [[Shardblade]] in time, killing her first.
[[Adolin]] fights a couple of duels as part of his father's plan to bring the Highprinces together as [[Renarin]] starts training with his plate with [[Zahel]]. [[Sadeas]] continues to work against Dalinar, consolidating power and going out on gemstone raids when it's not his turn.
[[Szeth]] returns to kill Dalinar, but Kalidar manages to fight him off. He tells Szeth that his is a [[Windrunner]] just like him. He flees in confusion and anger.
With the countdown clock almost to zero, Dalinar prepares to make his assault against the Parshendi. Shallan insists on going, having mapped out a good deal of the Plains while lost in them. Dalinar also agrees to leave the slave Parshmen behind. Kaladin is forced to stay behind with a grievous wound to the leg.
'''Part Five: Winds Alight
Dalinar leads a large army to the center of the Shattered Plains, guided by Shallan, to try to end the war once and for all. Kaladin broods over his loss of Syl and his injuries. He has an epiphany and goes to protect the incompetent king from assassination. He is confronted by Moash and is about to die from his wounds until he says the words:
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| I will protect even those I hate so long as it is right.
| Kaladin
}}
Syl returns and becomes his shardblade. He fights off Moash and Graves.
The Alethi army encounters the Parshendi, who have taken on a strange new form. A portion of them fight while a portion of them sing a strange, foreboding song. The humans win, but not in time to stop the [[Everstorm]] from coming at the same exact time as a Highstorm. Szeth arrives to finish the job on Dalinar, but Kaladin intervenes and draws him away, killing him with his shardblade -- a sure death. Shallan finds the portal and activates it using her shardblade. They are transported to Urithiru.
Dalinar, Shallan, Kaladin, and Renarin gather in Urithiru and declare themselves as Knights Radiant.
== From the Cover Flap ==
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