Elhokar Kholin
The Alethi king's son and heir. Holds the high table in his father's absence on the night of the assassination, in conversation with two companions, one Azish, one Alethi. SA:WoK:Prologue
Known facts
- paranoia-and-recklessnessTwenty-seven and king. Laughs at the Parshendi threat on the plateaus and challenges Dalinar to bareheaded races up rock spires, but lies awake at night terrified of assassination.SA:WoK:Ch 12
- suspects-girth-cutHolds up the snapped saddle girth and tells Dalinar he knew it — someone is trying to kill him. He suspects someone present on the hunt. Dalinar hands the strap to Adolin to take to leatherworkers.SA:WoK:Ch 15
- thinks-dalinar-grows-weakTells his uncle bluntly that he is growing weak — his fits during highstorms, his fixation on Gavilar's last words, his deference to that book that supposedly says lighteyes should serve darkeyes. Suspicion flickers across his face when Dalinar argues for the Highprince of War.SA:WoK:Ch 17
- girth-was-an-accident-maybeThe leatherworkers Avaran and Yis confirm the saddle girth was sliced — but Avaran believes a loose buckle could have done the cutting unaided. Dalinar's ledger investigation finds no spies whispering and no one in the king's service suddenly rich. Maybe a coincidence, maybe not.SA:WoK:Ch 17
- appoints-sadeas-highprince-of-informationStands at the feast and announces that he has appointed Brightlord Torol Sadeas Highprince of Information — charged with unearthing the truth of the cut girth — without warning Dalinar beforehand. Sadeas suggested the appointment to Elhokar as a less threatening warm-up for the Highprince of War revival Dalinar asked for.SA:WoK:Ch 21
- plate-gems-sabotagedDalinar tells Kaladin that on a chasmfiend hunt some time earlier, gemstones powering Elhokar's Plate came close to failing under stress; many had likely been swapped for cracked stones. He suspects a member of the King's Guard was complicit.SA:WoR:Ch 5
- kings-blades-training-traditionThe Alethi king keeps two Shardblades — his own Sunraiser and the older Blade his father carried — and lends them out at the warcamp sparring grounds for the training of unaffiliated lighteyes. Elhokar has dropped hints that the inherited Blade may someday be bestowed on a worthy warrior.SA:WoR:Ch 16
- sabotaged-railing-survivesElhokar survives a sabotaged balcony railing at the Pinnacle — leaning on his usual spot above a hundred-foot drop — by clinging to the one bar that held when the section pivoted out. The mountings had been chipped and a joint cleanly severed by a Shardblade.SA:WoR:Ch 23
- whispering-shadows-quiet-around-kaladinElhokar confesses to Kaladin that he has been seeing shadows in mirrors and in the corners of his eyes — even hearing them whisper — and that when Kaladin is near, they leave him alone.SA:WoR:Ch 80
- admits-sadeas-betrayal-was-his-faultElhokar admits to Kaladin that ruining the chance against Sadeas was his own doing, not Kaladin's, and apologises for his anger over the challenge of Amaram.SA:WoR:Ch 80
- was-on-the-radiant-path-haunted-by-crypticsDalinar hears the voice of a Cryptic from inside Elhokar's body — *we seek truth* — and recognises in retrospect what Wit always told him: Elhokar was on the path to Radiance, the paranoia and constant Plate-wearing of his late days were a response to spren he could not explain rather than mere weakness of character.SA:WaT:Ch 91
Events
- SA:WoK:Ch 12 Bareheaded and golden-armored, challenging Dalinar up the forty-foot rock spire and leaping back down from the top
- SA:WoK:Ch 13 Charges the chasmfiend with Sunraiser; falls beneath its claw and is saved by Dalinar; later plunges the Blade through the dead beast's chest
- SA:WoK:Ch 15 Sits in the pavilion warmed by ruby heat-fabrials, then confronts Dalinar with the strap
- SA:WoK:Ch 17 Receives Dalinar in the palace, calls him weak, declines and conditions the Highprince of War proposal
- SA:WoK:Ch 21 Stands and appoints Sadeas Highprince of Information on the spot
- SA:WaT:Ch 91 Dalinar inhabits him through the vision, hears a Cryptic from inside his head, and finally feels his nephew's long-private interiority — including the resignation that *my death will serve Alethkar.*
- SA:WaT:Ch 105 Vision-Elhokar charges up the palace stair at Kaladin's side, embraces his mother, sees his son alive — and then, in an eyeblink in Aesudan's chambers, his face becomes the mask Odium wears for the rest of the vision.
- SA:WoR:Ch 14 The king watches the duel from the stands with Dalinar.
- SA:WoR:Ch 22 Paces his sitting room through the highstorm, demanding the loose shutter be fixed and ranting about how nobody listens to his concerns.
- SA:WoR:Ch 23 Alive in his sitting room with a small gash across his forehead; waves off the bandage to praise Kaladin at Idrin's expense, then rants on into the night about no one taking his safety seriously and looking over his shoulder in the mirror.
- SA:WoR:Ch 32 Refuses Kaladin's evacuation until Dalinar orders it, then is hauled along, whimpering that the assassin has come for him at last — as he came for his father.
- SA:WoR:Ch 33 Paces with violet wine, hand trembling on the pitcher, and tells himself the assassin came to claim him as he claimed his father.
- SA:WoR:Ch 33 Freezes mid-step toward his bedroom when Navani gasps at the scratchings carved into the back of the door.
- SA:WoR:Ch 38 Presides nominally beside Dalinar at the centre of the chamber as the highprinces argue past him; takes news of Jasnah's death from Shallan later with regal composure.
- SA:WoR:Ch 56 Sits beneath the shade in the stands and refuses Dalinar his Blade, arguing rightly that a Plateless Blackthorn would only feed his Shards to Sadeas's coalition.
- SA:WoR:Ch 57 Offers Adolin a boon from the king's seat, then bellows for arrests as Kaladin uses his own boon to demand the head of a highlord.
- SA:WoR:Ch 58 Paces Dalinar's rooms, demands Kaladin's execution for slandering Amaram, settles for indefinite imprisonment, and makes a quiet challenge of his own to Dalinar about who is really king.
- SA:WoR:Ch 67 Late to his own feast; few of the lighteyes seek him out, most going to Dalinar instead. Carried away in his coach with Navani at the end of the night.
- SA:WoR:Ch 80 Comes to Bridge Four's barrack flushed with wine to ask Kaladin how to be a hero — and, on his way out, apologises and admits the Sadeas disaster was his own fault.
- SA:WoR:Ch 82 Laid out alone on the chamber couch with an empty wine bottle on the end table — barely conscious when Kaladin reaches him.
- SA:WoR:Ch 82 Knifed in the side by Graves's man as Kaladin tries to walk him out; collapses again partway down the corridor.
- SA:WoR:Ch 83 Lies unconscious behind Kaladin in the corridor as the argument plays out over him.
- SA:WoR:Ch 84 Lies unconscious at Kaladin's heel through the speaking of the Words — the body the Ideal is sworn over.
- SA:WoR:Ch 87 Awake from his drunken stupor but pale as bleached linen, sits in the next room of the Herdazian hovel where Kaladin hid him, being browbeaten by Lopen's mother into eating his food.
Relations
- relatedNavani Kholin — Mother to the king and to Jasnah; widow of Gavilar SA:WoK:Ch 12
- relatedSunraiser — His Blade — long and thin, glyph-etched SA:WoK:Ch 13
- mentionsDalinar 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
- foreshadowsSadeas — Sadeas privately decides Elhokar will have to die after Dalinar is dealt with — and that he himself expects to be the one to cut the boy's throat. SA:WoR:Ch 29
- foreshadowsMoash — Moash reveals to Kaladin he is part of a conspiracy to assassinate King Elhokar — his sabotage of the Pinnacle balcony was a first attempt. SA:WoR:Ch 44
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