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So has anyone mapped out the paths that Kaladin takes when he rides the storm? I searched around a bit and couldn't find it. If this has already been worked out, just let me know.
 
I was listening to tWoK today and jotted down the places he visits:
 
The Way of Kings, Chapter 46

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  • Ocean of Origins
  • Eastern coast of Roshar ("Dark Continent")
    -- goes upward here
  • Shattered Plains
    -- turns NW here
  • Sea of Spears (an inland sea, broken fingers of rock jutting out of the water)
  • Alethkar, Kholinar (fin formations)
    -- turns southward here
  • Horneater Peaks (majestic mountains with villages at the tops near vents of steam and lava) -- goes down here
  • Jah Keved (Cities, open plains, villages, twisting waterways, Evidence of war with lighteyes around)
  • _ (City of long troughs in the ground, like giant clawmarks) 
  • _ (Hinterland with stone like frozen ways of water, darkskinned people)
  • "on and on, hundreds of cities"
  • Babatharnam (people with visible blue veins)
  • _ (place where the highstorm causes spouts of water to shoot from cracks in the ground)
  • _ (stalactite city under giant sheltered ridge) -- says he goes westward here, but that could refer to the general highstorm direction
  • "so vast, so many different people; less war in the 'east'"
  • Somewhere in Iri (strange triangular city, tall peaks at the corners and center, where he sees Szeth; many golden-haired people) -- 
  • "more cities, mountains, and forests passed"
  • Endless Ocean

Bolded names are places that were directly recognized by Kaladin.
 
I will include the later stormrides later, unless someone else does it first. This one, if memory serves me correctly, is the most geographically descriptive, so I think it's the most interest. 
 
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The first several places Kaladin visits paint a very interesting picture of the highstorm's path. At one point, he goes from the Shattered Plains to the Sea of Spears to Kholinar. Well, Kholinar is actually a bit east of the Sea of Spears. It's possible that he didn't go directly over Kholinar, but just saw it in the distance, but that's still an almost directly northern route. 

 

Also, since he doesn't see the Purelake on this trip (he does on a later ride), we can assume he went through the Makabaki region. (He actually says specifically that he thinks that's where he is.) That means he takes another very steep, though not as steep, northern path to go through Iri at the end. 

 

Now it's possible that the motions Kaladin describes are him moving about within the highstorm, moving north or south along its line, but I'm not convinced of that. He refers to east/west direction as well, indicating that he isn't just moving left to right, so to speak, along the stormwall. So if we can identify the path he follows in these scenes, it might tell us a bit more about the motion of highstorms.

 

I'm particularly interested in identifying the locales he describes, 8-9, 11-13, and 15 above. Trough City, Hinterland of Stone Waves, the Crackspouts, the Hanging City, and the Iri capitol (I actually don't remember who Szeth was told to kill in Iri, so I'm not sure where this is. Eila, Kasitor, and Rall Elolorim are the named Iriali cities on the map.) Any ideas for where these places are? I think that, particularly, the Trough City and the city in Iri have been described elsewhere, so we can identify them?

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