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topographyA vast riven plain of rock, split and cut by sheer chasms twenty or thirty feet wide that disappear into darkness — like a platter broken and reassembled with small gaps between fragments.SA:WoK:Ch 4
rim-warcampsThe ten craterlike formations along the western rim of the Shattered Plains are the settled warcamps of the Alethi highprinces — Kaladin arrives inside Sadeas's.SA:WoK:Ch 6
siege-strategyDalinar's original siege plan: pin the Parshendi against the impassable eastern spires and starve them out. He had not anticipated the gemhearts — the chrysalises turned the war into a competitive sport between the highprinces.SA:WoK:Ch 15
plateau-tradePlateaus close to the Alethi side are bought and sold between highprinces. By agreement, a highprince cannot cross a plateau maintained by another without permission — which determines who has the best paths to the contested centre and who carries the watch-post and bridge-maintenance cost.SA:WoK:Ch 23

Thread The Way of Kings

SA:WoK:Ch 1introIntroduced as “The Shattered Plains”
SA:WoK:Ch 4facttopography: A vast riven plain of rock, split and cut by sheer chasms twenty or thirty feet wide that disappear into darkness — like a platter broken and reassembled with small gaps between fragments.
SA:WoK:Ch 6factrim-warcamps: The ten craterlike formations along the western rim of the Shattered Plains are the settled warcamps of the Alethi highprinces — Kaladin arrives inside Sadeas's.
SA:WoK:Ch 15factsiege-strategy: Dalinar's original siege plan: pin the Parshendi against the impassable eastern spires and starve them out. He had not anticipated the gemhearts — the chrysalises turned the war into a competitive sport between the highprinces.
SA:WoK:Ch 23factplateau-trade: Plateaus close to the Alethi side are bought and sold between highprinces. By agreement, a highprince cannot cross a plateau maintained by another without permission — which determines who has the best paths to the contested centre and who carries the watch-post and bridge-maintenance cost.

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