Way of Kings Prime Scene on Brandon's Site

With the Wheel of Time effectively finished, work on Stormlight Archive is in full gear. As you can see on the progress bar on Brandon's site, Stormlight 2 prewriting is at 75%. Sweet deal, right? In the meantime, with Alcatraz annotations finished, there aren't any Way of Kings annotations yet. But, there's something else pretty dang awesome: a scene from Way of Kings Prime.

Way of Kings Prime is the original (and unpublished) draft of The Way of Kings that Brandon wrote in 2003. By his accounts, he didn't succeed with this draft and had to rewrite it from scratch in 2010. A lot of the timeline was shifted around, and Kaladin's character (then named Merrin) was vastly different. Brandon hasn't given out Way of Kings Prime to people because it has spoilers to later Stormlight books--Prime actually has viewpoints in more places, so presumably we will see these things restructured in later Stormlight books.

This chapter is about proto-Szeth, before he was named Szeth. Check it out. Lots of names are changed, but you can feel similarities as well.

There's tons of interesting stuff here. Does this mention of Davar here have anything to do with Shallan in the actual version of Way of Kings? Can Szeth be released from his Oathstone? Or had most of this changed for the revision of Stormlight?

Well, it wouldn't be 17th Shard if we didn't analyze some potentially misleading unpublished scenes, so sound off in the comments or in our forum topic