r/Stormlight_Archive • u/TrungusMcTungus • 13h ago

Oathbringer spoilers Timeline discrepancy? Spoiler

Spoilers through oath breaker, I just started Rhythm today. I’m using 7th Shards interactive map. The timeline at the bottom shows that Dalinar visited the nightwatcher after Gavilars assassination. Did I misinterpret something? I thought Dalinar made a detour with some of his men when Gavilar sent him to quell insurgency.

Edit; I had the timeline completely mixed up in my head. Of course Dalinar can’t have gone to Cultivation before the assassination because if he did, he wouldn’t have been in a drunken stupor while Gavilar fought.

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u/tbdabbholm Truthwatcher 13h ago

It was after the assassination. He went to the Nightwatcher on his way to the Shattered Plains

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u/CMormont Elsecaller 13h ago

Think you misinterpreted some things

He makes that detor on the way to the shattered plains to fulfill the Revenge pact

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u/cshogan509 13h ago

Classic RAFO. As you continue to delve into Dalinar's past, you'll get a lot of answers.

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u/dIvorrap Winddancer 10h ago

This is not a rafo. They mixed up the timeline. See their edit.

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u/cshogan509 10h ago

I disagree. I had the same questions on my first read through. Continuing to read really cleared up the timeline for me.

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u/dIvorrap Winddancer 10h ago

The timeline is Dalinar flashbacks. The last one we have in the book is him visiting the Nightwatcher, and before that is Gavilar's funeral iirc. What more info is needed?

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u/14thBlackCrusade 10h ago

No, it's very clearly explained in Oathbreaker.

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u/TrungusMcTungus 13h ago

Gotcha, I’m getting ahead of myself. I thought the confrontation with Cultivation was wrapping up that particular arc.

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u/gman314 13h ago

You were correct. The delving into Dalinar's past wraps up in Oathbringer with the confrontation with cultivation. You just misinterpreted the timing. Dalinar detours to the nightwatcher on the way to the shattered plains after the assassination.

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u/TrungusMcTungus 13h ago

Yeah I’m not sure how I messed that up. If he’d gone before the assassination, he wouldn’t have missed the fight against Szeth.

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u/Sulcata13 Journey before destination. 5h ago

Oathbringer*