Shallan leads Renarin and scholars into a long-sealed circular chamber whose murals and tenfold divisions identify it as the Oathgate. Pattern warns that an Everstorm and an unexpected highstorm will collide here. Testing a ten-pointed metal disk, Shallan has Renarin slot his Shardblade into a shifting keyway, confirming Radiants as the operators. With no immediate activation, she dispatches runners to bring Dalinar’s armies to this plateau, resolving to solve the mechanism as the storms near.

On the battlefield, Adolin duels Eshonai through lashing winds and red-lit rain. He baits her Thrill-driven aggression, sacrifices cracked sections of Plate, and feints weakness to draw her near the edge. He slams into her and knocks her into a chasm, but nearly falls himself before bridgemen Skar and Drehy haul him back. Regrouping amid growing chaos and the swelling red storm, Adolin turns—and comes face-to-face with the Assassin in White.

Elsewhere, Moash and Graves move to kill the unconscious King Elhokar while Kaladin lies broken. Confronted with his duty, Kaladin chooses principle over hatred, interposing himself despite shattered ribs and failing strength. As Graves urges Moash to strike, Syl demands the Words; Kaladin swears to protect even those he hates so long as it is right. The Stormfather accepts, Syl returns as a Shardblade, and Stormlight floods Kaladin, banishing his pain. He declares, “The Knights Radiant have returned,” stopping his foes cold.

Moash flees and Graves collapses into frantic confession, admitting the Diagram sought to separate Kaladin from Dalinar and misjudged the result. Lamps gutter, winds scream, and frost glyphs form as Syl’s power surges. Though Elhokar lives, Syl warns something remains wrong. Kaladin looks east in alarm, sensing greater danger even as the storms and the assassin threaten the collapsing battlefield.