97. Riino
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Kaladin scouts a lighthouse in Shadesmar and meets Riino, a Shin oracle. During a highstorm, Kaladin touches Riino’s glowing orb and visions warn that Dalinar faces ruin and point toward Thaylen City. Meanwhile, Sja-anat’s corrupted spren warns that Odium will hunt the group. They secure supplies and passage on a spren-towed ship to Celebrant, setting their route toward an escape via Oathgate.
Summary
Kaladin recalls a failed slave escape in which Nalma dies in a trap, leaving him spared to carry a warning. The memory underscores his helplessness and resolve to protect.
In Shadesmar, Kaladin scouts a lighthouse and confronts anticipationspren before meeting Riino, a Shin lighthouse keeper and oracle. As a highstorm ripples across the Cognitive sky, Kaladin touches Riino’s luminous sphere and is swept into a vision: Dalinar kneels amid nine looming shadows and red eyes; an enemy champion approaches. A city image flashes—later recognized as Thaylen City—before Kaladin collapses, shaken. Riino is startled that Kaladin, a Surgebinder, could truly witness something.
Meanwhile, Shallan, Adolin, Azure, Syl, and Pattern wait under a mushroom-like rock. Shallan wrestles with Veil’s fracture; Syl and Pattern banter about their natures. A corrupted gloryspren delivers Sja-anat’s warning: Odium suspects their survival, misidentifies Shallan as an Elsecaller, and will send hunters. The messenger flees before questions can be asked.
Reunited inside, they trade Stormlight for supplies, eat canned fish, and negotiate passage. Azure doubts fortune-telling and suggests heading west to the Horneater Peaks perpendicularity, but Riino’s reports imply trouble there. Adolin somberly recalls Rathalas while discussing the route. Kaladin sketches the city from his vision; Shallan identifies Thaylen City, suggesting the Oathgate might return them. Kaladin fixes on protecting Dalinar. A spren-towed ship arrives to carry them to Celebrant, where they hope to arrange onward travel.
Who Appears
- Kaladin Stormblessed
Scouts the lighthouse, touches Riino’s orb during a highstorm, sees Dalinar imperiled and a vision of Thaylen City, resolves to protect.
- Riino
Shin lighthouse keeper and oracle; shows a glowing sphere; arranges supplies and passage; surprised by Kaladin’s genuine vision.
- Shallan Davar
Struggles with Veil’s fracture; receives Sja‑anat’s warning; identifies Kaladin’s sketched city as Thaylen City; negotiates supplies and passage.
- Adolin Kholin
Supports Shallan, helps trade; recalls Rathalas and his mother’s death; plans route via Celebrant toward possible Oathgate return.
- Azure
Skeptical of fortune-telling; suggests the Horneater Peaks perpendicularity; comments on supplies; agrees to ship toward Celebrant.
- Sja-anat
Unmade who sends a corrupted spren to warn that Odium will hunt them; implies Shallan is believed to be an Elsecaller.
- Sylphrena
Stays outside the lighthouse, chats with Pattern, tries to grab the corrupted spren, wary of Odium’s influence.
- Pattern
Advises Shallan; explains Celebrant; unsettles Riino; banters with Syl about their nature.
- Nalma
Older slave from Kaladin’s past; dies in a trap during an escape, fueling his guilt and resolve.