What Stormlight Archive lore do I need for Dawnshard?
I've read "The Way of Kings" and I really didn't enjoy it. Before I discovered that I didn't like it, I bought Dawnshard while it was on sale. I'm too cheap to not read a book I've bought so I am planning on reading it.
What lore or spoilers should I know to catch me up from tWoK to DS?
If you don't already know, Dawnshard is an interlude novella that takes place between book 3 and 4 in the series. It expands on some world history that was only touched on and mostly adds a lot of context for things for the next books. My partner read the first interlude novella, Edgedancer, without reading any of the other books and didn't have any issues. If you've read the entirety of The Way of Kings you'll probably have enough environmental and worldbuilding context to kind of figure out what's going on at least.