Illuminating Silence

[Ewery1]

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Above silence, the illuminating storms—dying storms—illuminate the silence above.

I think this is going to come to pass in this book.

”Illuminate the silence above” to me reads as Dalinar’s grapple with the true nature of Honor and the God Beyond. I think many of us feel that Dalinar will not be making it out of this book (perhaps as Odium’s tool this moment could still happen) but to me this reads as a moment of reckoning. At Dalinar’s darkest moment, a moment of silence and loss, he will look up at Odium & Honor’s storms - for some reason dying/ending, and think that there is no great being that could have allowed what has come to pass to happen.

This is pretty unformed/conjecture based - but this seems like the book in which a moment such as this is most likely to occur.

Edited December 4, 2024 by Ewery1

[Wit Beyond Measure]

Yeah, I think there is a good chance. All of Renarin's vision pains in Chapter 30 seem to be the same moment, in my opinion, and a moment where the storms are coming, where Dalinar stands on a platform looking over the void below, the never-ending pit, and Mishram screaming to break it all.

I have been obsessing over these panes, but I love that kind of foreshadowing!

[RefusesToElaborate]

I thought this Ketek was meant to be read, not as individual lines adding up, but as a whole.

"Dying storms illuminate the silence above" in WAT is getting.... weird.