Dalinar Kholin
also known as Blackthorn
Gavilar's brother. Aging but powerfully built; on the night of the treaty signing he sits drunken at a table at the feast, waving away those who would send him to bed. SA:WoK:Prologue
Presence
appears mentioned absent
Known facts
- no-bridge-crewsReputed by an old bridgeman to be the most honorable Shardbearer in the king's army, and never to use bridge crews the way Sadeas does.SA:WoK:Ch 6
- highstorm-visionsHas begun to fall to the floor and shake through every highstorm, raving in gibberish and afterward speaking of the Knights Radiant. The phrase Unite them whispers in his mind for days.SA:WoK:Ch 12
- follows-codes-aloneOf the ten armies on the Shattered Plains, only Dalinar and his sons keep the dormant Codes of War — in uniform, sober, refusing to duel while on duty.SA:WoK:Ch 12
- catches-the-clawWhen Elhokar falls beneath the chasmfiend and an Oathbringer-summon would arrive too late, Dalinar drops his Blade, skids beneath the falling claw, and catches it bare-gauntleted — bowed on one knee, Plate cracking across shoulders and gauntlets, holding the monster off his nephew until Adolin shears a leg and the beast topples. Adolin sees the Blackthorn he had been wishing for.SA:WoK:Ch 13
- bonded-oathbringer-youthBonded Oathbringer when he was twenty Weepings old; the sword has been part of him ever since.SA:WoK:Ch 13
- way-of-kings-readingsHas had The Way of Kings read aloud to him almost daily since the murder, hunting for what Gavilar's dying words about "the most important words a man can say" pointed to. The book's reputation is bad — associated with the Lost Radiants, with passages claiming a king should serve his subjects — so he keeps the interest quiet.SA:WoK:Ch 15
- wife-erased-from-memoryHis wife has been excised from his memory — gaps and foggy areas where she should be. When others speak her name it slides off him. He has not remarried because filling that hole feels callous.SA:WoK:Ch 15
- asks-for-highprince-of-warWalks up to the king's elevated palace to ask Elhokar to revive the office of Highprince of War. The king will consider it if Dalinar can first prove the other highprinces are willing to work with him.SA:WoK:Ch 17
- commits-quarter-forces-to-patrolGives Teshav's husband command of his Fourth Battalion and orders him onto a new banditry-patrol pattern in the Unclaimed Hills. Combined with his existing peacekeeping deployments, that commits over a quarter of his forces to patrol while the other highprinces give him no help at all.SA:WoK:Ch 17
- soulcasting-rate-tacticHas Teshav draft a missive in the king's name lowering Soulcasting rates for those highprinces who have paid on time — pressure on the three (Thanadal, Hatham, Vamah) who have not.SA:WoK:Ch 17
- appears-mad-during-visionWhile the vision plays, Dalinar's body acts it out in the barrack — flailing, yelling, restrained by his own soldiers. Renarin tries to pass it off as eagerness for combat, unconvincingly.SA:WoK:Ch 18
- wife-forgotten-but-navani-rememberedHis own wife's face has been excised from his memory, yet Navani's months of playing him and Gavilar off each other as a young woman remain in painful detail. She chose Gavilar. She is, again, in front of him.SA:WoK:Ch 21
- proposes-joint-assault-to-roionApproaches the gemheart-last Highprince Roion in the Gallery of Maps and proposes a joint plateau assault — two armies, larger than either alone, with profits shared. The first move in the vision-voice's instruction to unite the highprinces.SA:WoK:Ch 23
- refuses-to-strike-first-at-sadeasWill not move against Sadeas over the Highprince of Information appointment. If Sadeas strikes against the Kholin name, Dalinar will respond — but if the Codes he claims for himself are to mean anything, he cannot deny Sadeas the authority of his own appointment.SA:WoK:Ch 24
- trusts-visions-without-proofCannot prove the visions are real. Cannot explain how he knows. But the voice told him to trust Sadeas and to act with honor, and he will. He concedes to Adolin only that he has asked himself every one of his son's questions a dozen times over.SA:WoK:Ch 24
- reads-darkened-monasteryListens to Litima read the Darkened Monastery passage from Gavilar's own copy of The Way of Kings. The narrator's question — what can a man rely upon as True when all is hidden? — lands hard. Dalinar is being asked, by his son and by the king and by himself, to trust what he cannot prove.SA:WoK:Ch 26
- decides-to-abdicateAfter a draining day of siege-bridge tests with Teleb and a spanreed conversation with Jasnah (who refuses to come home), tells Navani privately that he will abdicate the Kholin princedom in favor of Adolin within the week. He has come to think the visions are a disease of the mind that ran in his line — Gavilar grew strange the same way at the end.SA:WoK:Ch 28
- shardplate-for-laborersWatching workmen cut a latrine ditch in stone with picks while he and Adolin stand by in Shardplate, wonders aloud why the Radiants fashioned only weapons and never tools — a final condemnation of their claims about serving the common people.SA:WoK:Ch 28
- vision-child-of-tanavastIn another highstorm vision hears a Radiant-era figure call a child *Child of Tanavast* — the old name for the Almighty. The vision joins the others in the pattern the voice has shown him: study what was, listen for what is asked, act with honor.SA:WoK:Ch 46
- tells-adolin-of-abdicationTells Adolin and Renarin in his sitting room that he intends to abdicate to Adolin. Adolin argues it is insane to step down with Sadeas circling — Dalinar replies dryly that insanity is, after all, his condition. Navani later confronts him and pleads with him to keep the Codes by NOT abdicating. He sends her away rather than break.SA:WoK:Ch 52
- proposes-joint-assault-to-sadeasIn a cold night confrontation Dalinar proposes to Sadeas the same joint Tower assault he has been pitching the lesser highprinces — combined armies large enough to corner the Parshendi on the Tower and break their war-making strength on the Plains. He offers Sadeas a Shardblade for Renarin as part of the cost. Sadeas shrugs and agrees — wanting only to get back to the feast — and tells him to send the details by messenger.SA:WoK:Ch 54
- kills-too-many-on-the-plateauOn a plateau assault Dalinar feels the Thrill more intensely than in years. Astride Gallant he swings Oathbringer in pairs and trios of Parshendi at a time. When the fight ends, hundreds lie dead — he hasn't killed in such numbers since the wars to unite Alethkar — and for the first time in decades he is sickened by it on the field. He walks back to his men with his helm in his hand, fighting nausea.SA:WoK:Ch 56
- tower-assault-plan-firm-with-sadeasFinalises the joint plan with Sadeas to assault the Tower: Dalinar's army will march from the staging area together with Sadeas's; Sadeas's smaller, faster force will go ahead while Dalinar's larger one catches up in position. As they part Sadeas asks for a copy of Gavilar's book — *it may amuse me to hear its other stories.*SA:WoK:Ch 58
- vision-identifies-nohadonIdentifies the man in his latest vision — the king who once climbed down from his carriage to help a stranger carry a stone — as Nohadon himself, the author of The Way of Kings. He cannot prove it; he just knows.SA:WoK:Ch 61
- agrees-to-march-with-sadeas-immediatelySadeas sends word that he cannot wait — they must march on the Tower now together. He offers to attack first if Dalinar worries about bridgeman lives. Dalinar agrees and orders Adolin to mobilise the Fourth through Eighth Divisions. *Let's end this war.*SA:WoK:Ch 63
- accepts-his-death-on-the-towerSurrounded with no retreat on the Tower, Dalinar returns to his men with Adolin at his side, helms on, Oathbringer and Adolin's Blade in hand. *And so I die.* He finds an unexpected peace on the field of battle. His one regret is leaving Renarin as Kholin highprince — and never delivering the promised Plate.SA:WoK:Ch 65
- refuses-to-strike-sadeas-backBack at the warcamp, Adolin and the officers want vengeance. Striking back would split the camps, fracture the war, and prove Sadeas right that the old codes are foolishness. Dalinar refuses. He will keep to the codes regardless. The war must hold.SA:WoK:Ch 69
- speaks-with-the-stormfatherIn his vision Dalinar climbs to a sea of black glass under a black sky and hears the voice of the Stormfather for the last time. The voice tells him to *unite them* — and that the visions will end. He is to act on what he has been given. *I cannot fight him. I can only prepare you.*SA:WoK:Ch 70
- tells-adolin-the-truth-about-the-visionsSits down with Adolin and tells him — for the first time — the truth about the visions. He had thought he was going mad. He no longer does. He explains the Stormfather's charge: *unite them.* Adolin does not believe — but he chooses to trust his father anyway.SA:WoK:Ch 73
- trades-oathbringer-for-bridgemenAfter surviving Szeth, Dalinar goes to Sadeas and offers him Oathbringer — his Shardblade, an irreplaceable national treasure — in exchange for the lives of every one of Sadeas's bridgemen. Sadeas takes the trade, contemptuous of it. Dalinar hands Kaladin command of his bodyguard, and gives Bridge Four their freedom.SA:WoK:Ch 75
Appearances
- SA:WoK:Prologue (present)
- SA:WoK:Ch 15 Stands at the plateau's eastern edge thinking on the siege; argues with Sadeas; takes the cut girth to investigate
- SA:WoK:Ch 17 Climbs to the king's palace, dispatches Teshav, presses Elhokar on a Highprince of War, races a surprise highstorm home
- SA:WoK:Ch 23 Walks Roion past the Prime Map and pitches the joint assault
- SA:WoK:Ch 24 Hears him out, refuses to engage, and finally orders him to leave
- SA:WoK:Ch 46 Lives through another vision; afterwards keeps it quiet from Adolin
- SA:WoK:Ch 54 POV; pitches Sadeas in the cold night outside the king's feast
- SA:WoK:Ch 56 POV; fights Parshendi pairs from horseback; walks back sickened
- SA:WoK:Ch 58 Finalises the plan; smiles as he agrees to send the book
- SA:WoK:Ch 60 Receives proof of his own sanity from his brother's widow
- SA:WoK:Ch 61 Confirms the vision-king was Nohadon; receives Navani's kiss
- SA:WoK:Ch 63 Walks with Navani; later orders the immediate mobilisation
- SA:WoK:Ch 64 Stands on the rock formation with Adolin and sees Sadeas's army withdrawing across the chasm
- SA:WoK:Ch 65 POV; turns from the formation, helm on, Blade in hand; charges with Adolin into the Parshendi
- SA:WoK:Ch 66 Surrounded by Parshendi on the Tower as Kaladin breaks through
- SA:WoK:Ch 67 Recovered; orders the wounded across; speaks gravely with Kaladin
- SA:WoK:Ch 69 Refuses to retaliate; keeps to the Codes
- SA:WoK:Ch 70 POV vision — the obsidian sea, the black sun
- SA:WoK:Ch 73 Opens up to Adolin about the visions
- SA:WoK:Ch 75 POV; survives Szeth; trades Oathbringer for the bridgemen
Related
- relatedAdolin Kholin — Elder son; rides at the column's front and increasingly takes command in his father's name SA:WoK:Ch 12
- relatedRenarin Kholin — Younger son; rides quietly at his brother's side SA:WoK:Ch 12
- foreshadowsDalinar's Visions — Unite them — the phrase whispered through Dalinar's mind on the plateau, source unclear SA:WoK:Ch 12
- mentionsThe King's Wit — Whispers as he passes: those who deserve mockery are those who can benefit from it — Renarin is less fragile than you think him SA:WoK:Ch 12
- relatedOathbringer — Bonded since his youth, summons in ten heartbeats SA:WoK:Ch 13
- relatedThe Way of Kings — Listens to readings almost daily, hunting for the meaning behind Gavilar's last message SA:WoK:Ch 15
- mentionsDalinar's Forgotten Wife — Memories of his wife are gaps; her name slides off him when spoken SA:WoK:Ch 15
- foreshadowsHighprince of War — Asks Elhokar to revive the office and is told to prove the highprinces will follow first SA:WoK:Ch 17
- mentionsElhokar Kholin — Suspects his uncle's strength is failing; sees it in the way Dalinar agrees with insults instead of dueling for them SA:WoK:Ch 17
- relatedThe Natanatan Vision — Lives through the vision in the body of Heb SA:WoK:Ch 18
- foreshadowsSadeas — The vision-voice's instruction: trust Sadeas SA:WoK:Ch 18
- relatedNavani Kholin — Old wound — she once played him and Gavilar off each other before choosing Gavilar; now back in front of him as an ally SA:WoK:Ch 21
- relatedRoion — First overture toward the alliance the vision-voice asked for SA:WoK:Ch 23
- relatedAdolin Kholin — First open break — Adolin says the words he has held back for months SA:WoK:Ch 24
- relatedThe Way of Kings — Reads from Gavilar's personal copy of the book through Litima SA:WoK:Ch 26
- foreshadowsAdolin Kholin — Abdication-in-favor-of will be announced at a feast within the week SA:WoK:Ch 28
- mentionsTanavast — The vision names a child by the Almighty's old name SA:WoK:Ch 46
- foreshadowsSadeas — Joint Tower assault proposed and accepted — the trap that will close in Ch 65 SA:WoK:Ch 54
- fulfillsThe Dawnchant — Has been speaking the dead Dawnchant during visions, transcribed by Navani's scholars — proof the visions are real SA:WoK:Ch 60
- relatedNavani Kholin — First kiss between them; he closes the door knowing the world has become more right by going wrong SA:WoK:Ch 61
- fulfillsSadeas — The Tower betrayal — Sadeas leaves Dalinar's army stranded and takes all his bridges with him SA:WoK:Ch 64
- fulfillsBridge Four — Lays its bridge for the trapped Kholin army instead of escaping with Sadeas SA:WoK:Ch 66
- fulfillsThe Stormfather — Final visions speech: *Unite them*; warns the visions will end SA:WoK:Ch 70
- fulfillsKaladin — Frees Bridge Four and makes Kaladin captain of his bodyguard SA:WoK:Ch 75
- fulfillsSadeas — Trades Oathbringer for every Sadeas bridgeman SA:WoK:Ch 75
Thread
- SA:WoK:PrologueintroIntroduced as “Dalinar Kholin”
- SA:WoK:Ch 6factno-bridge-crews: Reputed by an old bridgeman to be the most honorable Shardbearer in the king's army, and never to use bridge crews the way Sadeas does.
- SA:WoK:Ch 12edgerelated: Adolin Kholin — Elder son; rides at the column's front and increasingly takes command in his father's name
- SA:WoK:Ch 12edgerelated: Renarin Kholin — Younger son; rides quietly at his brother's side
- SA:WoK:Ch 12edgeforeshadows: Dalinar's Visions — Unite them — the phrase whispered through Dalinar's mind on the plateau, source unclear
- SA:WoK:Ch 12edgementions: The King's Wit — Whispers as he passes: those who deserve mockery are those who can benefit from it — Renarin is less fragile than you think him
- SA:WoK:Ch 12facthighstorm-visions: Has begun to fall to the floor and shake through every highstorm, raving in gibberish and afterward speaking of the Knights Radiant. The phrase Unite them whispers in his mind for days.
- SA:WoK:Ch 12factfollows-codes-alone: Of the ten armies on the Shattered Plains, only Dalinar and his sons keep the dormant Codes of War — in uniform, sober, refusing to duel while on duty.
- SA:WoK:Ch 13edgerelated: Oathbringer — Bonded since his youth, summons in ten heartbeats
- SA:WoK:Ch 13factcatches-the-claw: When Elhokar falls beneath the chasmfiend and an Oathbringer-summon would arrive too late, Dalinar drops his Blade, skids beneath the falling claw, and catches it bare-gauntleted — bowed on one knee, Plate cracking across shoulders and gauntlets, holding the monster off his nephew until Adolin shears a leg and the beast topples. Adolin sees the Blackthorn he had been wishing for.
- SA:WoK:Ch 13factbonded-oathbringer-youth: Bonded Oathbringer when he was twenty Weepings old; the sword has been part of him ever since.
- SA:WoK:Ch 15edgerelated: The Way of Kings — Listens to readings almost daily, hunting for the meaning behind Gavilar's last message
- SA:WoK:Ch 15edgementions: Dalinar's Forgotten Wife — Memories of his wife are gaps; her name slides off him when spoken
- SA:WoK:Ch 15factway-of-kings-readings: Has had The Way of Kings read aloud to him almost daily since the murder, hunting for what Gavilar's dying words about "the most important words a man can say" pointed to. The book's reputation is bad — associated with the Lost Radiants, with passages claiming a king should serve his subjects — so he keeps the interest quiet.
- SA:WoK:Ch 15factwife-erased-from-memory: His wife has been excised from his memory — gaps and foggy areas where she should be. When others speak her name it slides off him. He has not remarried because filling that hole feels callous.
- SA:WoK:Ch 17edgeforeshadows: Highprince of War — Asks Elhokar to revive the office and is told to prove the highprinces will follow first
- SA:WoK:Ch 17edgementions: Elhokar Kholin — Suspects his uncle's strength is failing; sees it in the way Dalinar agrees with insults instead of dueling for them
- SA:WoK:Ch 17factasks-for-highprince-of-war: Walks up to the king's elevated palace to ask Elhokar to revive the office of Highprince of War. The king will consider it if Dalinar can first prove the other highprinces are willing to work with him.
- SA:WoK:Ch 17factcommits-quarter-forces-to-patrol: Gives Teshav's husband command of his Fourth Battalion and orders him onto a new banditry-patrol pattern in the Unclaimed Hills. Combined with his existing peacekeeping deployments, that commits over a quarter of his forces to patrol while the other highprinces give him no help at all.
- SA:WoK:Ch 17factsoulcasting-rate-tactic: Has Teshav draft a missive in the king's name lowering Soulcasting rates for those highprinces who have paid on time — pressure on the three (Thanadal, Hatham, Vamah) who have not.
- SA:WoK:Ch 18edgerelated: The Natanatan Vision — Lives through the vision in the body of Heb
- SA:WoK:Ch 18edgeforeshadows: Sadeas — The vision-voice's instruction: trust Sadeas
- SA:WoK:Ch 18factappears-mad-during-vision: While the vision plays, Dalinar's body acts it out in the barrack — flailing, yelling, restrained by his own soldiers. Renarin tries to pass it off as eagerness for combat, unconvincingly.
- SA:WoK:Ch 21edgerelated: Navani Kholin — Old wound — she once played him and Gavilar off each other before choosing Gavilar; now back in front of him as an ally
- SA:WoK:Ch 21factwife-forgotten-but-navani-remembered: His own wife's face has been excised from his memory, yet Navani's months of playing him and Gavilar off each other as a young woman remain in painful detail. She chose Gavilar. She is, again, in front of him.
- SA:WoK:Ch 23edgerelated: Roion — First overture toward the alliance the vision-voice asked for
- SA:WoK:Ch 23factproposes-joint-assault-to-roion: Approaches the gemheart-last Highprince Roion in the Gallery of Maps and proposes a joint plateau assault — two armies, larger than either alone, with profits shared. The first move in the vision-voice's instruction to unite the highprinces.
- SA:WoK:Ch 24edgerelated: Adolin Kholin — First open break — Adolin says the words he has held back for months
- SA:WoK:Ch 24factrefuses-to-strike-first-at-sadeas: Will not move against Sadeas over the Highprince of Information appointment. If Sadeas strikes against the Kholin name, Dalinar will respond — but if the Codes he claims for himself are to mean anything, he cannot deny Sadeas the authority of his own appointment.
- SA:WoK:Ch 24facttrusts-visions-without-proof: Cannot prove the visions are real. Cannot explain how he knows. But the voice told him to trust Sadeas and to act with honor, and he will. He concedes to Adolin only that he has asked himself every one of his son's questions a dozen times over.
- SA:WoK:Ch 26edgerelated: The Way of Kings — Reads from Gavilar's personal copy of the book through Litima
- SA:WoK:Ch 26factreads-darkened-monastery: Listens to Litima read the Darkened Monastery passage from Gavilar's own copy of The Way of Kings. The narrator's question — what can a man rely upon as True when all is hidden? — lands hard. Dalinar is being asked, by his son and by the king and by himself, to trust what he cannot prove.
- SA:WoK:Ch 28edgeforeshadows: Adolin Kholin — Abdication-in-favor-of will be announced at a feast within the week
- SA:WoK:Ch 28factdecides-to-abdicate: After a draining day of siege-bridge tests with Teleb and a spanreed conversation with Jasnah (who refuses to come home), tells Navani privately that he will abdicate the Kholin princedom in favor of Adolin within the week. He has come to think the visions are a disease of the mind that ran in his line — Gavilar grew strange the same way at the end.
- SA:WoK:Ch 28factshardplate-for-laborers: Watching workmen cut a latrine ditch in stone with picks while he and Adolin stand by in Shardplate, wonders aloud why the Radiants fashioned only weapons and never tools — a final condemnation of their claims about serving the common people.
- SA:WoK:Ch 46edgementions: Tanavast — The vision names a child by the Almighty's old name
- SA:WoK:Ch 46factvision-child-of-tanavast: In another highstorm vision hears a Radiant-era figure call a child *Child of Tanavast* — the old name for the Almighty. The vision joins the others in the pattern the voice has shown him: study what was, listen for what is asked, act with honor.
- SA:WoK:Ch 52facttells-adolin-of-abdication: Tells Adolin and Renarin in his sitting room that he intends to abdicate to Adolin. Adolin argues it is insane to step down with Sadeas circling — Dalinar replies dryly that insanity is, after all, his condition. Navani later confronts him and pleads with him to keep the Codes by NOT abdicating. He sends her away rather than break.
- SA:WoK:Ch 54edgeforeshadows: Sadeas — Joint Tower assault proposed and accepted — the trap that will close in Ch 65
- SA:WoK:Ch 54factproposes-joint-assault-to-sadeas: In a cold night confrontation Dalinar proposes to Sadeas the same joint Tower assault he has been pitching the lesser highprinces — combined armies large enough to corner the Parshendi on the Tower and break their war-making strength on the Plains. He offers Sadeas a Shardblade for Renarin as part of the cost. Sadeas shrugs and agrees — wanting only to get back to the feast — and tells him to send the details by messenger.
- SA:WoK:Ch 56factkills-too-many-on-the-plateau: On a plateau assault Dalinar feels the Thrill more intensely than in years. Astride Gallant he swings Oathbringer in pairs and trios of Parshendi at a time. When the fight ends, hundreds lie dead — he hasn't killed in such numbers since the wars to unite Alethkar — and for the first time in decades he is sickened by it on the field. He walks back to his men with his helm in his hand, fighting nausea.
- SA:WoK:Ch 58facttower-assault-plan-firm-with-sadeas: Finalises the joint plan with Sadeas to assault the Tower: Dalinar's army will march from the staging area together with Sadeas's; Sadeas's smaller, faster force will go ahead while Dalinar's larger one catches up in position. As they part Sadeas asks for a copy of Gavilar's book — *it may amuse me to hear its other stories.*
- SA:WoK:Ch 60edgefulfills: The Dawnchant — Has been speaking the dead Dawnchant during visions, transcribed by Navani's scholars — proof the visions are real
- SA:WoK:Ch 61edgerelated: Navani Kholin — First kiss between them; he closes the door knowing the world has become more right by going wrong
- SA:WoK:Ch 61factvision-identifies-nohadon: Identifies the man in his latest vision — the king who once climbed down from his carriage to help a stranger carry a stone — as Nohadon himself, the author of The Way of Kings. He cannot prove it; he just knows.
- SA:WoK:Ch 63factagrees-to-march-with-sadeas-immediately: Sadeas sends word that he cannot wait — they must march on the Tower now together. He offers to attack first if Dalinar worries about bridgeman lives. Dalinar agrees and orders Adolin to mobilise the Fourth through Eighth Divisions. *Let's end this war.*
- SA:WoK:Ch 64edgefulfills: Sadeas — The Tower betrayal — Sadeas leaves Dalinar's army stranded and takes all his bridges with him
- SA:WoK:Ch 65factaccepts-his-death-on-the-tower: Surrounded with no retreat on the Tower, Dalinar returns to his men with Adolin at his side, helms on, Oathbringer and Adolin's Blade in hand. *And so I die.* He finds an unexpected peace on the field of battle. His one regret is leaving Renarin as Kholin highprince — and never delivering the promised Plate.
- SA:WoK:Ch 66edgefulfills: Bridge Four — Lays its bridge for the trapped Kholin army instead of escaping with Sadeas
- SA:WoK:Ch 69factrefuses-to-strike-sadeas-back: Back at the warcamp, Adolin and the officers want vengeance. Striking back would split the camps, fracture the war, and prove Sadeas right that the old codes are foolishness. Dalinar refuses. He will keep to the codes regardless. The war must hold.
- SA:WoK:Ch 70edgefulfills: The Stormfather — Final visions speech: *Unite them*; warns the visions will end
- SA:WoK:Ch 70factspeaks-with-the-stormfather: In his vision Dalinar climbs to a sea of black glass under a black sky and hears the voice of the Stormfather for the last time. The voice tells him to *unite them* — and that the visions will end. He is to act on what he has been given. *I cannot fight him. I can only prepare you.*
- SA:WoK:Ch 73facttells-adolin-the-truth-about-the-visions: Sits down with Adolin and tells him — for the first time — the truth about the visions. He had thought he was going mad. He no longer does. He explains the Stormfather's charge: *unite them.* Adolin does not believe — but he chooses to trust his father anyway.
- SA:WoK:Ch 75edgefulfills: Kaladin — Frees Bridge Four and makes Kaladin captain of his bodyguard
- SA:WoK:Ch 75edgefulfills: Sadeas — Trades Oathbringer for every Sadeas bridgeman
- SA:WoK:Ch 75facttrades-oathbringer-for-bridgemen: After surviving Szeth, Dalinar goes to Sadeas and offers him Oathbringer — his Shardblade, an irreplaceable national treasure — in exchange for the lives of every one of Sadeas's bridgemen. Sadeas takes the trade, contemptuous of it. Dalinar hands Kaladin command of his bodyguard, and gives Bridge Four their freedom.
Backreferences
- summarySA:WoK:Prologue
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 6
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 12
- factElhokar Kholin
- factSadeas
- factAdolin Kholin
- factRenarin Kholin
- factRyshadium
- factGallant
- factThe Thrill
- factCobalt Guard
- factThe Alethi Codes of War
- factThe Blackthorn
- factDalinar's Visions
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 13
- factDalinar Kholin
- factOathbringer
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 15
- factElhokar Kholin
- factSadeas
- factThe Shattered Plains
- factThe Way of Kings
- factCalling and Glory
- factDalinar's Forgotten Wife
- factThe Origin
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 17
- factDalinar Kholin
- factElhokar Kholin
- factThe Way of Kings
- factTeshav
- factElthebar
- factHighprince of War
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 18
- factDalinar Kholin
- factDalinar's Visions
- factThe Natanatan Vision
- factMidnight Essence
- factNatanatan
- factUrithiru
- factKnights Radiant symbol
- factRegrowth
- factA Desolation
- factThe Vision Voice
- factHarkaylain
- factTaffa
- factHeb
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 20
- factSylphrena
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 21
- factElhokar Kholin
- factSadeas
- factNavani Kholin
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 23
- factThe Gallery of Maps
- factThe Tower
- factRoion
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 24
- factDalinar Kholin
- factAdolin Kholin
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 26
- factDalinar Kholin
- factThe Way of Kings
- factLitima
- factThe Darkened Monastery Passage
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 28
- factTeleb
- factLadent
- factDanlan
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 29
- factJasnah Kholin
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 46
- factRecreance-Era Vision
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 52
- factDalinar Kholin
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 54
- factDalinar Kholin
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 56
- factDalinar Kholin
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 58
- factDalinar Kholin
- factReShephir, the Midnight Mother
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 60
- factAdolin Kholin
- factNavani Kholin
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 61
- factNavani Kholin
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 63
- factDalinar Kholin
- factNavani Kholin
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 64
- factSadeas
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 65
- factDalinar Kholin
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 66
- factKaladin
- factBridge Four
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 67
- factFirst Ideal of the Knights Radiant
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 69
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 70
- factDalinar Kholin
- factThe Stormfather
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 72
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 73
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 75
- factSzeth-son-son-Vallano
- factDalinar Kholin