The Stormlight Archive/YMMV

"Dalinar: I've been outmaneuvered. Brilliantly."
 * Genius Bonus: The number 10 is used as a Numerological Motif throughout The Way Of Kings, and the concept of symmetry shows up repeatedly as having religious, cultural and magical significance. The book is 1001 pages long.
 * Magnificent Bastard: High Prince Sadeas . So bastardly, yet so magnificent!
 * Dalinar even lampshades Sadeas as a Magnificent Bastard prior to the actual betrayal, because he thinks Sadeas has betrayed him..

"He recognized what was happening to him, this melancholy, this sense of despair. It had taken him often when he'd been younger, most frequently during the weeks of the Weeping, when the sky was hidden by clouds."
 * Nightmare Fuel:
 * The things in.
 * Jasnah's disturbingly casual attitude when she even if they did probably deserve it.
 * Wangst: Kaladin is a walking tower of this who seems to hit the Despair Event Horizon every third page he's on. Even he calls himself out on it several times, and Syl doing it inspires him to finally start trusting in the future.
 * Though you can't really blame him given...well...everything. There are shades of Seasonal Affective Disorder in Kaladin, as well.
 * Though you can't really blame him given...well...everything. There are shades of Seasonal Affective Disorder in Kaladin, as well.


 * The Woobie: Several characters have this at times, particularily Kaladin and Dalinar.