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Adolin Kholin

Known facts

girth-evidence-inconclusiveHas visited three more leatherworkers and finds the consensus thin — the strap was worn before the cut, and the cut itself might have been natural wear-and-tear rather than a knife. The only evidence for the assassination theory dissolves on closer look.SA:WoK:Ch 21
first-confronts-father-about-visionsIn the Gallery of Maps after Roion leaves, accuses Dalinar in a near-shout of weakening — of letting the visions, the book, and the Codes become a rationalization for the house's fading reputation. Says aloud what nobody else has dared: "Sometimes, the simple answers are the right ones, Father. The king's strap just wore out. And you're seeing things that aren't there."SA:WoK:Ch 24
must-not-abdicate-after-dawnchantHearing the Dawnchant proof aloud, Adolin reverses his entire argument. His father absolutely cannot abdicate now, *no matter what we discover with the visions*. Something larger than the Kholin princedom is in play; Dalinar is the only person who can hear it.SA:WoK:Ch 60
blade-won-from-tinalarAdolin won his Shardblade from a lighteyes named Tinalar in his first formal duel — a contest Tinalar arranged to embarrass Adolin's father, dismissing Adolin as a well-dressed lightweight. The Plate he wears with the won Blade was inherited from his mother's side of the family.SA:WoR:Ch 14
wins-salinor-bladeIn his first Shard-stakes bout in over a year, Adolin beats Salinor Eved in less than a minute by switching out of Windstance into Ironstance and hacking through the borrowed King's Plate piece by piece. He wins Salinor's Blade and gives it to Renarin to complete his brother's Shards.SA:WoR:Ch 14
fakes-losses-to-bait-shardbearersSadeas reads Adolin's second dueling-arena bout against Eranniv and realizes Adolin is fighting beneath his real capacity on purpose: leaking Light from carefully chosen sections of Plate, letting the bout look close, then taking the win with a "lucky" blow — bait for the Shardbearers who would not face him at full strength.SA:WoR:Ch 29
tasks-kadash-with-radiants-researchShaken by the assassin's gravity-defying powers, Adolin charges Kadash to read on the old Knights Radiant — what they could do, how they might be fought — beginning the Kholin camp's first serious inquiry into whether the Recreance really left the orders dead.SA:WoR:Ch 35
dueling-campaign-against-sadeasAdolin commits to dueling his way up the Shattered Plains camp brackets with the goal of stripping Sadeas's allies of their Shards one by one and eventually meeting Sadeas himself in the ring; he opens it by wagering all five Kholin Shards against Elit Ruthar's single set of Plate.SA:WoR:Ch 37
confides-dalinars-plan-to-shallanOver wine on the winehouse terrace Adolin tells Shallan the whole shape of his father's plan that the camps only whisper of — Dalinar's visions of a unified Alethkar before a coming storm, Sadeas's betrayal at the Tower, the bridgeman rescue, and Adolin's charge to win the highprinces' Shardblades off their owners through duel until the camps fear him. He admits the highprinces who matter will not face him, and that the one he needs is Sadeas.SA:WoR:Ch 49
impersonates-dalinar-at-parshendi-parleyWearing Renarin's Shardplate in place of his father's, on Dalinar's warhorse Gallant under Dalinar's banner, Adolin takes his father's place at the Parshendi parley with Eshonai — both keeping their faceplates down — and conveys the negotiation by spanreed through Brightness Inadara back to Dalinar in the warcamp.SA:WoR:Ch 51
wins-elit-shards-by-attritionAgainst Elit in the arena Adolin refuses the brawl the crowd has paid for. Holding Windstance exactly, he parries every attack and counter-strikes only enough to crack Elit's Plate in a dozen small places, then waits until the Stormlight bleeds out of it and the man locks up. A shove finishes him; Brightlady Istow awards the Plate to Adolin.SA:WoR:Ch 53
wagers-six-shards-against-multiple-shardbearersWhen Relis Ruthar storms the staging room to demand the Elit duel be voided, Adolin offers him a single bout in two days for six Shards — his own, his brother's, Eranniv's, and Elit's — and accepts in advance any partner Relis cares to bring with him into the ring. Brightlady Istow witnesses the arrangement.SA:WoR:Ch 53
carries-mothers-chain-into-every-duelAdolin carries a chain that belonged to his dead mother as a good-luck token into every duel he fights, slipping it into a pocket alongside his glyphward. On the morning of the bout against Relis he reaches for it and finds it missing for the first time.SA:WoR:Ch 56
wins-six-shards-against-four-shardbearersWith Kaladin's help Adolin survives the four-on-one disadvantaged duel against Relis, Elit, Abrobadar, and Jakamav — finishing Abrobadar in single combat, then dragging himself onto Jakamav's back in a locked-Plate grapple to force the man's surrender after his own Plate has gone dead under him.SA:WoR:Ch 57
invokes-right-of-challenge-against-sadeasAwarded a boon by Elhokar before the watching court, Adolin uses it to invoke the Right of Challenge against Sadeas — demanding a duel here and now in redress for the crimes Sadeas committed against his house.SA:WoR:Ch 57
locked-himself-in-cell-during-kaladins-imprisonmentWalked into the Kholin gaol on the first day of Kaladin's sentence and refused to come out; the jailers could not force a prince to leave and so let him stay locked away for the duration. When Kaladin thanks him he says only that it did not seem right, Kaladin in there alone, after Kaladin saved Renarin.SA:WoR:Ch 66
named-alethi-dueling-champion-after-six-on-oneFollowing the six-on-one duel, declared dueling champion and confirmed in possession of two new Shardblades and three sets of Shardplate — leaving the Kholin princedom holding roughly a quarter of all the Shards in Alethkar.SA:WoR:Ch 66
realises-parshendi-only-want-him-distractedCutting himself free of the Parshendi rope teams in the rain, Adolin sees the strategy: the new-form enemy does not intend to defeat him, only to keep a Shardbearer out of the line until the singers finish their song. He gathers a thousand heavy infantry to try a new angle on the singers' rock outcropping.SA:WoR:Ch 82
first-kill-without-the-thrillSlaughtering singing Parshendi in the rain from behind, Adolin waits for the Thrill to carry him through the butchery and finds only nausea — the first kills of his life done without it. He drops his Blade in disgust amid the burned-out eyes.SA:WoR:Ch 83
throws-eshonai-into-the-chasmTrading Windstance for Flamestance and presenting Eshonai an opening she takes with all the Thrill she can carry, Adolin takes the swing to his helm, lunges forward, and shoulders her over the edge of the plateau into the chasm.SA:WoR:Ch 84
saved-from-chasm-by-skar-and-drehyBlinded a moment by his exploded helm, Adolin follows Eshonai a step off the plateau and is caught at the brink by Skar and Drehy — bridgemen — clinging to the steel-link skirt of his Shardplate until other soldiers can drag him back from the void.SA:WoR:Ch 84
outclassed-by-the-assassin-in-whiteWith his Shardplate cracked open and one greave broken, Adolin is thrown bodily out of the command tent by the Assassin in White. After Roion's death he charges in Smokestance and is batted aside; his Shardblade is slapped from his hand with such force that his wrist snaps, and only Kaladin's arrival keeps the assassin's killing stroke from finishing him.SA:WoR:Ch 85
kills-sadeasA week after the storms, exploring Urithiru in chalk-mark trails, Adolin finds Sadeas alone in a hallway and listens to him calmly outline the lie he will spread — that the new Radiants are a Parshendi-coordinated show by Dalinar — before grabbing the man by the throat. They wrestle on the floor with no Blades summoned. Adolin dazes him by slamming his head against stone and drives a sidesword knife up through the eye socket into the brain. *My father thinks I'm a better man than he is. Unfortunately for you, he's wrong.* He hides the resulting Shardblade in a planter terrace below the window and pretends to one of his own scouting parties that he was with them all along.SA:WoR:Ch 89
husband-of-shallanTravels openly as Shallan's husband, his goofiness and bottomless capacity for delight under-recognised by most of court Alethkar; rides his Ryshadium Gallant into a Windrunner Lashing on the trip out of Shadesmar.SA:WaT:Ch 7
half-sword-grip-against-fusedWith a salvaged oversized greatsword and no Shardplate, Adolin fights Abidi the Monarch in a half-sword grip — one hand on the hilt, one on the unsharpened ricasso above the crossguard — deflects the Fused's sweep, steps inside it, and rams the point through a gap between Abidi's carapace plates. The wound is bad enough that the Fused's Voidlight gives out in midair and he falls back into the bead sea.SA:WaT:Ch 11
takes-command-of-azimir-defenceOver Dalinar's visible hesitation, Adolin volunteers to lead the defence of Azimir against the smaller singer invasion. Dalinar grants him up to two thousand of Alethkar's best alongside the Cobalt Guard, and Bondsmiths a temporary Connection into him so he can understand Azish for the duration of his time there.SA:WaT:Ch 20
defends-azimir-as-redemption-for-kholinarAdolin takes the Azimir command in part as redemption for Kholinar — where he transferred to safety through the Oathgate while the wounded Palace Guard (Captain Sidin among them) shouted for him to wait. Shamespren follow him as he tours the dome. He brings his mother's old counsel with him into the fight: don't just fight, fight *for* something.SA:WaT:Ch 34
publicly-defers-to-kushkam-to-preserve-imperial-guard-moraleRealising he has contradicted Commandant Supreme Kushkam in front of Yanagawn — a rookie mistake — Adolin publicly bows to the Imperial Guard commander's authority and asks the emperor to proceed as the Commandant suggests, on principle that undermining a city's lead officer destroys the troops' morale. He privately tells Noura that leaders in their positions need *more* friends, not fewer, and asks them to keep the debris ready for when the Commandant comes around.SA:WaT:Ch 37
brings-two-thousand-volunteers-to-azimir-no-shardbearersAdolin's relief force for Azimir is two thousand soldiers — three hundred former Cobalt Guardsmen back in uniform on news of his need, plus seventeen hundred volunteers including foreigners vetted for combat record by Aladar. No Shardbearers: Aladar sent Mintez with his Shards to the Shattered Plains at Dalinar's request. The Imperial Guard in Azimir kept one Shardbearer back for the capital.SA:WaT:Ch 37
promotes-may-aladar-to-archer-platoon-commandAt Azimir, Adolin gives May Aladar command of an archery platoon — twenty of Colot's best, with former Jasnah guards Beam Dorset and Talig as her second and head sergeant — on the rationale that her father has named her heir and she will need battlefield experience.SA:WaT:Ch 39
has-come-to-hate-battlefield-butcherySince Sadeas's betrayal at the Tower — and confirmed by his year at war and the capture of the Thrill — Adolin has come to hate battle. He still likes wearing Plate and showing his skill, but the butchery nauseates him, and he feels the dueling court is made a mockery of by the field. The hate does not, fortunately for his army, reduce his efficiency at it.SA:WaT:Ch 39
dismisses-maya-into-shadesmar-to-recruit-honorsprenAnticipating days of grinding attrition at Azimir, Adolin sends Maya back through the bead-ocean of Shadesmar to persuade the honorspren objectors who left Lasting Integrity to come help. He cannot summon her without restarting her journey. He is, knowingly, the second man to ever release a Blade this way — his father is the only other.SA:WaT:Ch 42
speaks-to-shardplate-as-he-speaks-to-bladeHanding his Plate off to his armor standby Reep in Azimir, Adolin feels a flash of reluctance from the armor and addresses it directly — *serve those who bear you as you have me. Protect them* — extending to the Plate the same habit of speaking to the inanimate that eventually woke Maya from the deadeye silence.SA:WaT:Ch 47
voices-his-distrust-of-oaths-aloud-for-first-timeAsked by Yanagawn why he is not Radiant, Adolin admits aloud for the first time that he does not like the oaths — that his father and the Alethi highprinces hid atrocities behind kept oaths for a generation, and that he would respect a man who broke a stupid oath, apologised, and moved on more than one who held to the chair for ten years.SA:WaT:Ch 52
still-carries-the-weight-of-killing-sadeasWalking alone across the Azimir plaza, Adolin acknowledges to himself that he stands by his murder of Sadeas in a secluded hallway and would do it again — but a better man would have found another way, and a better man would not have covered it up afterwards. The weight has not lifted.SA:WaT:Ch 54
leads-by-names-not-by-causeAcross his early subcamps at Azimir, Adolin settles his command style as a counter to Dalinar's — soldiers fight for one another, not for kingdom or ideal, so he learns and remembers every name he can. He treats *being bad with names* as a personal failure on a level with bad swordsmanship.SA:WaT:Ch 60
charges-through-enemy-bunker-to-save-nezihamRealising the enemy on his flanks is a diversion meant to take down Neziham on the far side of the dome at Azimir, Adolin commits to a snap decision and charges *through* the central Fused fortification rather than retreating around it — bashing in a bronze door, throwing his bent Shardhammer through a knot of singers, crushing skulls with metal fists, beating one direform to death and using the corpse as a swinging weapon to break the rest. The brutality saves Neziham and is what makes Abidi mark him afterwards as the *Blackthorn's son.*SA:WaT:Ch 63
kills-for-a-cause-not-for-its-own-sakeComing down from the destruction in the dome, Adolin echoes his mother to himself: *I am not simply a killer. I kill for a cause — something that matters.* The line settles in him as the difference between him and the father he has been deliberately not becoming.SA:WaT:Ch 67
first-draws-betrayalsprenReading the Tashikki prime's letter in Noura's tent at Azimir, Adolin draws a spren he has never seen in all his years: betrayalspren, like snapping strings expanding outward. The dome behind him keeps fighting; no reinforcements are coming, and the defenders must hold three more days alone.SA:WaT:Ch 76
promises-help-comes-to-kushkamWith Azimir's dome on the verge of falling and reinforcements failing, Adolin passes Maya's three-word promise — *Hold. Help. Comes.* — on to Kushkam as his own oath that the city will be held, though privately he no longer trusts that the honorspren errand he sent her on will be enough.SA:WaT:Ch 80
loses-right-leg-below-knee-in-azimirPinned beneath the toppled thunderclast in Azimir, Adolin's right leg is crushed past saving inside his shattered Plate; the young Truthwatcher Rahel holds him through the rest of his wounds but cannot reach the leg, which ends at a stump below the knee. The promise is that a more experienced Radiant at Urithiru will restore it.SA:WaT:Ch 85
fitted-with-peg-at-azimirA surgeon at the Azimir camp fits Adolin with a hogshide-cupped peg over the stump of his right leg, with Regrowth used only to form clean scars in advance of the fitting. He is told plainly that he may never fight in a shield wall again — most pegged men require crutches for life — and is officially relieved from combat duty in the contest defence.SA:WaT:Ch 95
adolin-hates-the-vorin-afterlife-and-his-fathers-better-godLying on a rest rotation under the second moon at the breach in the Azimir dome, Adolin acknowledges to himself for the first time the doctrine he has always secretly hated about Vorinism — that the dead spend eternity being run back into the line — and the reason he hates his father Dalinar for offering, in his book, a kinder God: the Blackthorn is the last man with the right to claim that high ground.SA:WaT:Ch 123
kept-in-line-by-the-memory-of-kaladins-bridge-runsAt the breach in the Azimir dome, what finally gets Adolin off the ground when he is ready to quit is the memory of Kaladin surviving worse as a bridgeman — stories he'd heard from Lopen, Rock, Sigzil and Skar on drinking nights — and the realisation that lying down would make him exactly what he had always sworn he was not at Kholinar: the man who abandoned his men on purpose.SA:WaT:Ch 123
chose-to-die-fighting-with-the-wedding-swordWhen the shield line collapses at the Azimir dome and Abidi leads the singers through wearing Adolin's own Plate, Adolin braces his peg between two cobbles, takes Shallan's wedding longsword in both hands, and chooses to die fighting — refusing to summon Maya because he does not want her to see him fall.SA:WaT:Ch 125
adolin-wants-to-find-a-way-to-love-his-father-againThe splinter of light Adolin carries out of the night of the dome is a single resolution: he wants to find a way to love his father again, wants to make peace, wants the chance. If Dalinar Kholin of all people can find forgiveness and hope, so can he.SA:WaT:Ch 126
makes-peace-with-his-fatherSlipping through occupied Azimir under May's arrows and Notum's scouting, Adolin finally lets Dalinar be a person rather than a paragon — he doubts he will ever fully forgive his father for killing his mother, but admits to Maya that he is willing to love him anyway. The relief of giving up the dream of an impossible reputation is what carries him into the palace.SA:WaT:Ch 128
incorporates-the-peg-into-his-stancePinned in the aluminum throne room, Adolin stops fighting against the peg and starts fighting with it — accounting for its slip, building it into his footwork — the lesson Zahel had drilled into him on shifting stones, in the rain, on narrow beams, against the day his footing would never again be sure. *Bless him.*SA:WaT:Ch 130
a-promise-is-not-an-oathAsked by Abidi why he keeps fighting a war that isn't his, Adolin answers that Azir was made his fight when Abidi invaded it — and that he promised to help. *Not an oath,* he says. *A promise.* For Adolin the distinction is core: he is no Radiant, but his word is still load-bearing.SA:WaT:Ch 132
shardplate-returns-mid-throw-and-rebuilds-around-his-pegHurled by Abidi toward a stone wall, Adolin whispers a prayer for help — and the gestalt of spren that *is* his Shardplate answers, flashing as embers from Abidi's body to swarm around him. The wall cracks; Adolin does not. The leg armour re-forms around his peg into a springy three-toed metal foot the spren remember from long ago, and the helm goes transparent from inside.SA:WaT:Ch 133
evi-trained-him-to-care-and-believed-in-dalinarIn the burning clarity of the perfect duel, Adolin understands at last why he has cared so much that his father be perfect: because Evi, against all evidence, had loved Dalinar — and her little boy desperately wanted her to be right. Where Dalinar made him a weapon, Evi had made him a weapon that meant something. Letting her rest, finally, lets the anger go.SA:WaT:Ch 133
chooses-to-lead-rather-than-be-the-best-swordsmanHeld in Abidi's gauntlet and certain he is about to die, Adolin remembers the day he told his father no — refused the throne, refused to be a king — because he was too frightened of living up to a reputation he doubted he deserved. He chuckles. *Yes,* he whispers. *I'll lead them. They don't need a swordsman. They've got plenty. They need a leader.* And then, eyes closed, he asks aloud for help.SA:WaT:Ch 133
returns-blade-of-memories-to-the-emperorAdolin strides out of the Azimir throne room in his recovered Plate, heels the body of Abidi hard enough to crush the gemheart and the rib cage beneath, then presents the Blade of Memories to Yanagawn with the formal address an Azish emperor is owed.SA:WaT:Ch 134
arms-the-unoathed-with-deadeye-shardsStanding in the Azimir hallway, Adolin thrusts out his hands and summons a wide ring of deadeye Blades point-first into the floor, each with a Plate helm hanging from its pommel in white mist. *Unoathed,* he shouts, *arm up.* Yanagawn is the first to obey; nine others follow, taking the field as the only known mass of Shardbearers fighting together.SA:WaT:Ch 135
learns-to-read-to-understand-his-fatherKnowing he will never have the chance to look his father in the eyes again, Adolin takes up Oathbringer — the book — and begins, haltingly, to learn to read in his own language, so he can come to understand Dalinar through the words Dalinar himself wrote.SA:WaT:Ch 147

Events

SA:WoK:Ch 12 Riding at the front of the Kholin procession in inherited blue Shardplate; given column command when Elhokar challenges Dalinar to the rock-spire race
SA:WoK:Ch 13 Rides Sureblood into the fight, slices legs, gets thrown by a claw and his breastplate cracks, then shears the leg that finally topples the beast
SA:WoK:Ch 15 Oversees the cleanup, takes the casualty report and the cut strap from Dalinar
SA:WoK:Ch 17 Brings the cut strap to Avaran and Yis with Janala in tow; hears horns calling Sadeas to a chrysalis Dalinar declines to chase
SA:WoK:Ch 21 Walks the feast basin with his father; reports the dead-end leatherwork investigation
SA:WoK:Ch 24 Confronts his father in the empty Gallery — practically shouting before catching himself
SA:WoK:Ch 28 Stands beside Dalinar in Plate through the bridge tests, the camp inspection, and the spanreed call
SA:WoK:Ch 52 Paces and argues for the first time that he NEEDS his father not to step down
SA:WoK:Ch 58 Reclines and reluctantly accepts the plan — *I have a serious loathing of being wrong*
SA:WoK:Ch 60 Reverses his argument: his father must not abdicate now
SA:WoK:Ch 61 Present in the sitting room before leaving Dalinar and Navani alone
SA:WoK:Ch 63 Receives the mobilisation order — *Let's end this war*
SA:WoK:Ch 64 Climbs up beside his father, sees the bridges going, whispers *Oh no*
SA:WoK:Ch 65 Slaps his visor on beside his father; charges with him into the closing ranks
SA:WoK:Ch 67 Alive on the staging plateau with the rescued Kholin army
SA:WoK:Ch 69 Wants Sadeas dead; quietly horrified at his father's restraint
SA:WoK:Ch 73 Skeptical; chooses trust regardless
SA:WoK:Ch 75 Kneels over Dalinar in the wreckage of the top room
SA:WaT:Ch 1 Present on the wall with Maya and Kelek while Shallan and Pattern sit with Testament.
SA:WaT:Ch 8 Lashed lightly enough to sit Gallant's saddle, throws knives, mace, then a short sword at the Heavenly One who has run his squire-target through, and is knocked from the horse into the bead ocean.
SA:WaT:Ch 9 Drehy fishes him from the beads and drops him onto the platform Radiant has knit; he climbs to his knees and asks after Gallant before the second wave of Heavenly Ones erupts and the platform collapses under him.
SA:WaT:Ch 79 Arrives at a run in the corridor, sword in hand, threatening the lead boy with a duel — as he did in the original memory.
SA:WaT:Ch 97 Enters from his own meditation room, wears a new side sword that is Kaladin's gift, and improvises the kiss before Kadash says it is time.
SA:WaT:Ch 134 Steps out of the wrecked throne room in shining Plate, crushes the gemheart of the dying Abidi underfoot, and returns the Blade of Memories to Yanagawn.
SA:WoR:Ch 8 Leads the Kholin assault force onto the contested plateau in his Plate, opening the line so the strike team can take the chrysalis.
SA:WoR:Ch 22 Reads a book of fashion sketches in a fireside chair, snaps it shut when Kaladin catches him at it, and afterwards reports thinly on his duelling progress.
SA:WoR:Ch 23 Inside the king's chambers among the gathered family.
SA:WoR:Ch 29 Duels Eranniv in his blue Plate from across the sand; deliberately fights below capacity, leaks Light from a dozen carefully chosen sections of Plate, lets the bout look close, and wins on a "lucky" final blow.
SA:WoR:Ch 32 Mocks Kaladin for drooling through his nap, and when Kaladin hauls the balcony door open into the storm, calls after him asking if he is mad.
SA:WoR:Ch 32 Summons his Shardblade for the trident charge; the assassin runs down the wall, slaps him in the chest, and Lashes him to the ceiling, where he sticks until his borrowed Light runs out and he crashes back down.
SA:WoR:Ch 33 Studies Kaladin's sleeve and arm with narrowed eyes and asks how he survived the fall; gets a half-truth he doesn't believe.
SA:WoR:Ch 38 Introduces himself to his causal betrothed, offers her wine, suggests a walk — and is sent away by his father to fetch more wine so Dalinar can interview her in private; later sits glowering behind his father as Sadeas needles them about the Tower.
SA:WoR:Ch 44 Trains in Shardplate, jousts with Shallan over her presence on the grounds, jabs at Kaladin.
SA:WoR:Ch 49 Meets Shallan on the winehouse terrace, talks her through plateau-run Shardplate logistics, confides his father's full plan, and pulls her off the railing into shelter as the highstorm arrives.
SA:WoR:Ch 55 Rides out to fetch Shallan from Sebarial's warcamp, takes her to the menagerie in the Outer Market, and discusses the Right of Challenge plan with her and Kaladin in the carriage.
SA:WoR:Ch 56 Burns a glyphward of "excellence" painted by Shallan, discovers his mother's chain missing, and walks out under cheering darkeyes — only to find four Shardbearers waiting instead of two.
SA:WoR:Ch 57 Beats Abrobadar into a single-yield, crawls onto Jakamav's back when his own Plate goes dead, holds him there until he yields, and afterwards laughs himself silly in the sand.
SA:WoR:Ch 66 Released from the adjacent cell he had locked himself in; presides over the gift of Blade and Plate and grudgingly redirects the set to Moash at Kaladin's insistence.
SA:WoR:Ch 67 Arrives onto the island with Shallan at the end of Dalinar's table speech, only just in time to hear what is happening; retires early to escort Shallan back to Sebarial's warcamp.
SA:WoR:Ch 68 On horseback in his blue Plate; teases Kaladin for walking, plans against the assassin, fishes (badly) for the secret of Kaladin's combat ability, and shears the rock-top off for Shallan with his Blade.
SA:WoR:Ch 75 Bursts into the sitting room having delivered his father's join-or-be-shamed ultimatum to the other highprinces, embraces Shallan without preamble, then backs her over Dalinar's expedition.
SA:WoR:Ch 76 Rides his Ryshadium beside Shallan in the convoy, ahead of Navani's scribes.
SA:WoR:Ch 77 Rides Sureblood beside Shallan in the first hours out of the warcamps; warns her about saddle-soreness she does not yet feel.
SA:WoR:Ch 79 Escorts Navani into the dripping command tent and stands near the prisoner ready to intervene if Rlain reaches for Dalinar.
SA:WoR:Ch 80 Tramps into the council tent in dripping Shardplate to report at least ten thousand red-eyed Parshendi massing in the plateaus around them.
SA:WoR:Ch 81 Leads the charge from Sureblood's saddle, loses the horse to red lightning, rallies the line back into formation, and feels his Shardplate hum and shed a direct strike.
SA:WoR:Ch 82 Cuts himself out of the Parshendi rope teams as Zahel taught him, sees the singers' rock as the back wall of a hollow, and gathers a thousand heavy infantry to try a way in from behind.
SA:WoR:Ch 83 Cuts a back door through the singers' rock formation with the Shardblade, slaughters the Parshendi reserves as they wake from their trance — and finds himself nauseous instead of Thrilled for the first time.
SA:WoR:Ch 84 Pulls Eshonai into the Thrill's recklessness, takes the swing to his helm, and shoulders her over the chasm's edge — then nearly follows her in, saved by Skar and Drehy.
SA:WoR:Ch 85 Crashes through tent fabric onto his back at Dalinar's feet, Shardplate leaking Light, helm and left vambrace missing, breastplate cracked, blood streaming from his nose — thrown bodily out of the tent by the Assassin in White.
SA:WoR:Ch 86 Bruised and broken-wristed, accepts that *that bridgeboy is really one of them* with an unexpected smile, then takes charge of moving the army two plateaus over to Shallan.
SA:WoR:Ch 86 Stumbles into the doorway leaning on a bridgeman, takes Shallan into his arms when she runs for gemstones, and feels her drain his sphere — looking at her with new understanding before she dashes back inside.
SA:WoR:Ch 88 Waits in the corridor with his wrist wrapped and his bruises starting to purple to show Shallan the chamber Pattern chose for her, kisses her ow-painfully, and shuts the door behind her with orders that nobody disturb the Lady Radiant.
SA:WoR:Ch 89 Lost from his scouting party in the dark halls of Urithiru, confronts Sadeas over the lie he plans to spread about the Radiants, chokes him against the wall, wrestles him to the floor, dazes him on stone, and drives a sidesword knife up through the eye socket into the brain — then hides Oathbringer in a terrace planter and walks calmly away.

Relations

relatedMayalaran — Maya, a deadeye, picks up a sword and joins Adolin's morning kata at his back during the rescue of Notum — a first deliberate, paired action between them since she became a deadeye. SA:RoW:Ch 35
relatedDalinar Kholin — Elder son; rides at the column's front and increasingly takes command in his father's name SA:WoK:Ch 12
relatedSureblood — Adolin's white Ryshadium SA:WoK:Ch 13
relatedJanala — Walking out together this week — Janala wants concessions from his father on the Codes SA:WoK:Ch 17
mentionsDalinar's Visions — Names them aloud as part of his father's rationalization SA:WoK:Ch 24
relatedDalinar Kholin — First open break — Adolin says the words he has held back for months SA:WoK:Ch 24
foreshadowsDalinar Kholin — Abdication-in-favor-of will be announced at a feast within the week SA:WoK:Ch 28
relatedGavinor Kholin — Throughout the Spiritual Realm visions, Gav hears his father — *Daddy* — telling him to be strong; Navani hears him report it after she carries him home. SA:WaT:Ch 105

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factIri · triumvirate-sides-with-the-enemy
factRira · description
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factHighmarshal Halad · description
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factFused · probe-kholinar-walls-in-flying-formation
factHighmarshal Azure · description
factWall Guard · description
factYokska · description
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factThe Unmade · distorts-emotion-spren-in-kholinar
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factKaves · description
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factHighmarshal Azure · azures-shardblade-leaves-ashen-skin
factSidin · description
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factThe spren of Adolin's Shardblade · description
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factHighmarshal Azure · azure-knows-zahel-and-stays-behind
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factHrdalm · description
summarySA:OB:Ch 121
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summarySA:RoW:Prologue
summarySA:RoW:Ch 2
summarySA:RoW:Ch 3
factFourth Bridge · description
summarySA:RoW:Ch 4
summarySA:RoW:Ch 5
summarySA:RoW:Ch 6
summarySA:RoW:Ch 7
factGavinor Kholin · description
summarySA:RoW:Ch 8
summarySA:RoW:Ch 9
factNalathis · description
summarySA:RoW:Ch 12
factMayalaran · description
factJez's Duty · description
factKryst · description
summarySA:RoW:Ch 13
factJushu Davar · description
summarySA:RoW:Ch 15
summarySA:RoW:Ch 16
summarySA:RoW:Ch 17
summarySA:RoW:Ch 19
factThe Honorspren Envoy · description
summarySA:RoW:Ch 20
summarySA:RoW:Ch 21
factZahel's Coin · description
summarySA:RoW:Ch 22
factPeakspren · description
summarySA:RoW:Ch 24
summarySA:RoW:Ch 26
summarySA:RoW:Ch 29
factMayalaran · follows-adolins-kata-step-for-step
factShadesmar Waystop Town · description
factAshspren · description
factArchinal · description
summarySA:RoW:Ch 30
factTukari Caravan · description
summarySA:RoW:Ch 32
summarySA:RoW:Ch 34
factThe Stump · real-name-arshqqam
factNotum · rides-horse-shaped-spren
summarySA:RoW:Ch 35
factMayalaran · first-action-since-becoming-deadeye
factMalli · description
factMerit · description
factGreatsword · description
summarySA:RoW:Ch 36
factNotum · exile-completed-by-his-own-people
summarySA:RoW:Ch 38
summarySA:RoW:Ch 54
summarySA:RoW:Ch 75
factDeadeye · gather-silently-outside-lasting-integrity
factVaiu · description
factAlvettaren · description
summarySA:RoW:Ch 78
factBlended · description
summarySA:RoW:Ch 82
summarySA:RoW:Ch 84
summarySA:RoW:Ch 87
factNotum · honor-is-not-dead-outcry
factLasting Integrity · honorspren-considering-joining-odium
factBlended · testified-against-adolin
summarySA:RoW:Ch 90
summarySA:RoW:Ch 93
summarySA:RoW:Ch 94
factMayalaran · spoke-the-spren-chose-the-recreance
factMayalaran · adolin-bond
factBlended · engineered-mayas-witness
summarySA:RoW:Ch 106
factTestament · description
summarySA:WoK:Ch 12
factRyshadium · description
summarySA:WoK:Ch 13
factSureblood · description
summarySA:WoK:Ch 15
factElhokar Kholin · suspects-girth-cut
factDalinar's Forgotten Wife · description
summarySA:WoK:Ch 17
factJanala · description
summarySA:WoK:Ch 18
summarySA:WoK:Ch 21
summarySA:WoK:Ch 24
factDalinar Kholin · trusts-visions-without-proof
summarySA:WoK:Ch 26
summarySA:WoK:Ch 28
factDalinar Kholin · decides-to-abdicate
factDanlan · description
factMalasha · description
summarySA:WoK:Ch 46
summarySA:WoK:Ch 52
summarySA:WoK:Ch 58
summarySA:WoK:Ch 60
factAdolin Kholin · must-not-abdicate-after-dawnchant
factNavani Kholin · proves-the-visions-are-real
summarySA:WoK:Ch 61
summarySA:WoK:Ch 63
summarySA:WoK:Ch 64
summarySA:WoK:Ch 65
summarySA:WoK:Ch 67
summarySA:WoK:Ch 69
factDalinar Kholin · refuses-to-strike-sadeas-back
summarySA:WoK:Ch 73
summarySA:WoK:Ch 75
summarySA:WaT:Ch 3
summarySA:WaT:Ch 5
factShallan Davar · adopted-into-house-kholin
factShiosak · description
summarySA:WaT:Ch 6
summarySA:WaT:Ch 7
summarySA:WaT:Ch 8
factDabbid · drawing-an-honorspren
summarySA:WaT:Ch 9
summarySA:WaT:Ch 11
factAdolin Kholin · half-sword-grip-against-fused
factGallant · musicspren-outline-in-shadesmar
summarySA:WaT:Ch 12
summarySA:WaT:Ch 13
summarySA:WaT:Ch 15
factHakindar · description
summarySA:WaT:I-1
summarySA:WaT:Ch 16
factShallan Davar · fourth-ideal-armor-cannot-move-on-others
summarySA:WaT:Ch 17
factIsom · description
summarySA:WaT:Ch 18
summarySA:WaT:Ch 20
factAdolin Kholin · takes-command-of-azimir-defence
summarySA:WaT:Ch 23
summarySA:WaT:Ch 25
summarySA:WaT:Ch 32
summarySA:WaT:Ch 34
factMayalaran · tactical-voice-strengthened-after-urithiru
factAdolin Kholin · defends-azimir-as-redemption-for-kholinar
factOathgates · oathgate-spren-announce-end-of-stewardship
factCommandant Supreme Kushkam · description
factTowers · description
factAzimir Imperial Guard · description
summarySA:WaT:Ch 35
factNightblood · starting-to-realise-the-killings-are-his-own
summarySA:WaT:Ch 37
factMay Aladar · practicing-with-aladar-house-plate-and-blade
factYanagawn the First · yanagawn-asks-adolin-to-teach-him-towers
factDalinar Kholin · bondsmith-touch-grants-adolin-azish-comprehension
factAdolin Kholin · publicly-defers-to-kushkam-to-preserve-imperial-guard-morale
factAdolin Kholin · brings-two-thousand-volunteers-to-azimir-no-shardbearers
summarySA:WaT:Ch 39
factMayalaran · can-see-into-both-realms-while-bonded
factAdolin Kholin · promotes-may-aladar-to-archer-platoon-command
factAdolin Kholin · has-come-to-hate-battlefield-butchery
factGeb · description
factKaminah · description
factGitora · description
factRahel · description
factBeamlin Dorset · description
factTalig · description
factKappak · description
factGerenor · description
factIsalor · description
summarySA:WaT:Ch 40
summarySA:WaT:Ch 41
factAbidi the Monarch · cracked-gemheart-cannot-fly
summarySA:WaT:Ch 42
factAdolin Kholin · dismisses-maya-into-shadesmar-to-recruit-honorspren
factHmask · description
summarySA:WaT:Ch 47
factAdolin Kholin · speaks-to-shardplate-as-he-speaks-to-blade
factNeziham · description
factReep · description
summarySA:WaT:Ch 49
summarySA:WaT:Ch 50
factMakana · description
summarySA:WaT:Ch 52
factYanagawn the First · grants-imperial-blessing-of-viewership
factAdolin Kholin · voices-his-distrust-of-oaths-aloud-for-first-time
factGezamal · description
factDonalar · description
factFlat Face · description
summarySA:WaT:Ch 54
factNoura · personally-elevated-yanagawn-and-took-him-as-duty
factAdolin Kholin · still-carries-the-weight-of-killing-sadeas
summarySA:WaT:Ch 60
factAdolin Kholin · leads-by-names-not-by-cause
factZabra · description
factSarqqin · description
factChalla · description
summarySA:WaT:Ch 63
factAdolin Kholin · charges-through-enemy-bunker-to-save-neziham
factDami · fourth-ideal-stormwall-plate
factAbidi the Monarch · bathing-in-radiant-blood-quiets-the-voices
factThe Stormwall · description
factGamma · description
summarySA:WaT:Ch 67
factNotum · cobalt-guard-captain-without-radiant-bond
factAdolin Kholin · kills-for-a-cause-not-for-its-own-sake
factVasher · description
summarySA:WaT:Ch 76
factYanagawn the First · imperial-starmetal-is-aluminum
factAdolin Kholin · first-draws-betrayalspren
facttowers · description
factValithar's Dictates · description
factstarmetal · description
factbetrayalspren · description
summarySA:WaT:Ch 79
factRenarin Kholin · trained-to-soldier-to-stop-needing-adolin
summarySA:WaT:Ch 80
factAdolin Kholin · promises-help-comes-to-kushkam
summarySA:WaT:Ch 81
factAluminum Chain · description
summarySA:WaT:Ch 82
factNeziham · killed-by-thunderclast-in-azimir
factAzimir Firebombs · description
summarySA:WaT:Ch 84
summarySA:WaT:Ch 85
factAsh · dies-leaning-against-talenel
factAdolin Kholin · loses-right-leg-below-knee-in-azimir
summarySA:WaT:Ch 86
summarySA:WaT:Ch 89
summarySA:WaT:Ch 95
factAdolin Kholin · fitted-with-peg-at-azimir
summarySA:WaT:Ch 97
factShallan Davar · wedding-oath-to-adolin
summarySA:WaT:Ch 99
summarySA:WaT:Ch 105
factGavinor Kholin · heard-adolin-helping-him-in-visions
factVienta · vienta-becomes-deadeye-after-sigzils-renunciation
summarySA:WaT:Ch 119
factYanagawn the First · yanagawn-learns-sunmakers-gambit-from-adolin
factMayalaran · maya-reports-hours-from-shadesmar-with-spren
summarySA:WaT:Ch 121
summarySA:WaT:Ch 123
factAdolin Kholin · adolin-hates-the-vorin-afterlife-and-his-fathers-better-god
factAdolin Kholin · kept-in-line-by-the-memory-of-kaladins-bridge-runs
summarySA:WaT:Ch 125
factAdolin Kholin · chose-to-die-fighting-with-the-wedding-sword
factAbidi the Monarch · abidi-takes-adolins-shardplate-and-an-azish-blade
summarySA:WaT:Ch 126
factAdolin Kholin · adolin-wants-to-find-a-way-to-love-his-father-again
summarySA:WaT:Ch 127
factYanagawn the First · led-the-band-into-the-palace-as-a-thief
summarySA:WaT:Ch 128
factThe Bronze Palace · hidden-smugglers-port-in-the-palace-wall
factAdolin Kholin · makes-peace-with-his-father
summarySA:WaT:Ch 129
factThe Bronze Palace · throne-room-lined-with-aluminum-against-deepest-ones
summarySA:WaT:Ch 130
factAdolin Kholin · incorporates-the-peg-into-his-stance
summarySA:WaT:Ch 132
factAdolin Kholin · a-promise-is-not-an-oath
summarySA:WaT:Ch 133
factAdolin Kholin · shardplate-returns-mid-throw-and-rebuilds-around-his-peg
factAdolin Kholin · evi-trained-him-to-care-and-believed-in-dalinar
factAdolin Kholin · chooses-to-lead-rather-than-be-the-best-swordsman
factAdolin's Shardplate · description
summarySA:WaT:Ch 134
factAdolin Kholin · returns-blade-of-memories-to-the-emperor
factBlade of Memories · description
summarySA:WaT:Ch 135
factMayalaran · brings-fifty-deadeyes-from-lasting-integrity
factAdolin Kholin · arms-the-unoathed-with-deadeye-shards
factThe Unoathed · description
summarySA:WaT:Ch 136
summarySA:WaT:Ch 142
summarySA:WaT:Ch 143
summarySA:WaT:Ch 146
factRenarin Kholin · refuses-throne-establishes-senate
summarySA:WaT:Ch 147
factShallan Davar · trapped-in-shadesmar-pregnant
factAdolin Kholin · learns-to-read-to-understand-his-father
summarySA:WoR:Ch 1
factShallan Davar · causal-with-adolin
summarySA:WoR:Ch 4
summarySA:WoR:Ch 5
factDalinar Kholin · shardblade-duels-plan
factKaladin · given-king-and-family-guard
summarySA:WoR:Ch 8
factDalinar Kholin · hands-battle-command-to-adolin
summarySA:WoR:Ch 14
factAdolin Kholin · blade-won-from-tinalar
factAdolin Kholin · wins-salinor-blade
factRenarin Kholin · gains-shardblade-from-adolin
factWindstance · description
factIronstance · description
factSalinor Eved · description
factBrightlady Istow · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 16
factRenarin Kholin · apprentice-to-zahel
factZahel · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 18
factKaladin · stormlight-fails-when-not-protecting
summarySA:WoR:Ch 22
summarySA:WoR:Ch 24
summarySA:WoR:Ch 25
summarySA:WoR:Ch 26
factRenarin Kholin · froze-with-summoned-blade
factEshonai · requests-parley-with-dalinar
factEshonai · description
factJakamav · cuts-ties-with-adolin
factJakamav · description
factThe Thrill · description
factWall numbers · second-countdown-found
factWall numbers · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 29
factAdolin Kholin · fakes-losses-to-bait-shardbearers
factEranniv · description
factThe dueling arena · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 30
factShallan Davar · commits-to-pose-as-adolins-betrothed
summarySA:WoR:Ch 32
factSzeth-son-son-Vallano · attacks-pinnacle-for-dalinar
summarySA:WoR:Ch 33
summarySA:WoR:Ch 35
factAdolin Kholin · tasks-kadash-with-radiants-research
summarySA:WoR:Ch 36
factShallan Davar · arrives-warcamps-as-adolins-causal
summarySA:WoR:Ch 37
factAmaram · bridge-between-dalinar-and-sadeas
factAdolin Kholin · dueling-campaign-against-sadeas
summarySA:WoR:Ch 38
factDalinar Kholin · sets-adolin-to-win-shards-from-highprinces
summarySA:WoR:Ch 40
summarySA:WoR:Ch 41
summarySA:WoR:Ch 43
factShallan Davar · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 44
summarySA:WoR:Ch 46
factGraves · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 47
factShallan Davar · drawing-is-the-illusion-model
summarySA:WoR:Ch 49
factDalinar Kholin · schedules-private-meeting-with-parshendi-leaders
factShallan Davar · links-chasmfiend-pupae-to-yu-nerig
factShallan Davar · tells-adolin-parshmen-may-be-voidbringers
factShallan Davar · glimpses-living-shape-inside-stormwall
factAdolin Kholin · confides-dalinars-plan-to-shallan
summarySA:WoR:Ch 50
factSadeas · renounces-highprince-of-information
summarySA:WoR:Ch 51
factAdolin Kholin · impersonates-dalinar-at-parshendi-parley
factInadara · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 53
factAdolin Kholin · wins-elit-shards-by-attrition
factAdolin Kholin · wagers-six-shards-against-multiple-shardbearers
summarySA:WoR:Ch 55
factShallan Davar · pitches-right-of-challenge-plan-against-sadeas
factShallan Davar · shallan-met-wit-as-a-child
summarySA:WoR:Ch 56
factSadeas · traps-adolin-into-four-on-one-disadvantaged-duel
factAdolin Kholin · carries-mothers-chain-into-every-duel
factRenarin Kholin · steps-into-duel-without-plate-to-help-adolin
factAbrobadar · description
factAdolin's Mother's Chain · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 57
factKaladin · fights-shardbearers-with-spear-and-helm
factKaladin · publicly-accuses-amaram-and-demands-right-of-challenge
factAdolin Kholin · wins-six-shards-against-four-shardbearers
factAdolin Kholin · invokes-right-of-challenge-against-sadeas
summarySA:WoR:Ch 58
factSadeas · orders-assassins-set-on-dalinar
factSadeas · defers-adolin-right-of-challenge-by-a-year
factIalai Sadeas · runs-sadeas-spy-network-and-plants-assassins
summarySA:WoR:Ch 62
summarySA:WoR:Ch 63
factShallan Davar · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 66
factKaladin · refuses-adolins-shards-and-gives-them-to-moash
factMoash · description
factRelis Ruthar · shipped-back-to-alethkar-after-arena-loss
summarySA:WoR:Ch 67
summarySA:WoR:Ch 68
factThe Shattered Plains · traces-of-an-old-built-structure-buried-under-crem
summarySA:WoR:Ch 69
summarySA:WoR:Ch 70
summarySA:WoR:Ch 74
factShallan Davar · original-plan-was-to-rob-jasnah-of-her-soulcaster
summarySA:WoR:Ch 75
summarySA:WoR:Ch 77
summarySA:WoR:Ch 79
summarySA:WoR:Ch 80
summarySA:WoR:Ch 81
factThe Parshendi · new-form-disgorges-red-lightning-spren-on-death
factDalinar Kholin · teleb-given-sebarial-army
factShardplate · plate-was-built-to-fight-voidbringers
factSureblood · killed-by-red-lightning
summarySA:WoR:Ch 82
factAdolin Kholin · realises-parshendi-only-want-him-distracted
summarySA:WoR:Ch 83
factAdolin Kholin · first-kill-without-the-thrill
factEshonai · duels-adolin-in-the-storm
factSzeth-son-son-Vallano · arrives-on-the-shattered-plains
factAdolin Kholin · throws-eshonai-into-the-chasm
factAdolin Kholin · saved-from-chasm-by-skar-and-drehy
summarySA:WoR:Ch 85
factAdolin Kholin · outclassed-by-the-assassin-in-white
summarySA:WoR:Ch 86
factShallan Davar · opens-the-oathgate-to-urithiru
summarySA:WoR:Ch 87
factBisig · loses-a-hand-to-the-assassin-in-white
summarySA:WoR:Ch 88
summarySA:WoR:Ch 89
factSadeas · description
factAdolin Kholin · kills-sadeas