Words of Radiance (book)

Words of Radiance is the book Jasnah presents to Shallan in order that she learn more about the different Orders of the Knights Radiant.
This is Jasnah's own copy, later lost in the shipwreck of the Wind's Pleasure.
Once she reaches the reaches the warcamps on the Shattered Plains, Shallan enlists the assistance of Vathah and Gaz in locating a replacement copy of the volume. Unfortunately, that copy has to be ordered in from Kholinar. The volume does not arrive until Gaz presents her with a worn, found copy just as the combined armies of Alethkar are about to make the final excursion across the Plains for Stormseat (recently inhabited by and known to the Parshendi as Narak).
Shallan finds the distraction of the book extremely welcome as the armies move across the Plains. To her, the book is both wonderful and frustrating.
Later, Shallan tells Adolin that the volume indicates that a lot of Lightweavers were artists.
==History==
The book has a chapter for each of the Orders of Knights Radiant, inclusive of descriptions of their traditions, abilities and attitudes. The author admitted that a lot of it was hearsay as it was written two hundred years after the Recreance, by which time facts, lore and superstition had mixed freely. It was written in an old dialect of Alethi, using the protoscript, a precursor to the women's script of the modern day.
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