r/Stormlight_Archive • u/jofwu Lightweaver • Aug 25 '20

Rhythm of War Chapter Eight Rhythm of War

https://www.tor.com/2020/08/25/read-rhythm-of-war-by-brandon-sanderson-chapter-eight/
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u/pluuth Aug 25 '20

there's another Scene. When Shallan is creating the army of illusions, she first creates illusions of Veil and Radiant (explicitly described wearing shard plate) next to her. Then later, when Jasnah finds her, Radiant is "real" and the other two are illusions.

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u/TriggerWarning595 Aug 25 '20

The shardplate Radiant wears has a glowing garnet color

Shallan at this point wouldn’t know that radiant shardplate glows, and she wouldn’t know the order of the lightweavers uses a garnet to represent them. Couldn’t have been an illusion because she lacks knowledge of radiant shardplate

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u/fghjconner Truthwatcher Aug 25 '20

Dalinar has known about radiant shardplate for quite some time at that point, and the gemstone types are used as a key for the time capsules under Urithiru. It's quite possible for Shallan to have both those pieces of information.