Galladon
A bald, broad-shouldered man from a far continent of the Cosmere, travelling Roshar in the company of Wit and Baon. Wears cloak and coloured robes even in the tropical heat of Iri. Speaks with a thick accent dotted with foreign words like *sule* and *kolo*, grumbles his way through the trio's errands, and can summon glowing written symbols out of a sphere of light with the tap of a finger. SA:WaT:I-11
Raoden's closest friend in Elantris and now its first restored Elantrian alongside the king. Iron-dark silver in the Duladen cast — and still bald, where every other Elantrian's hair regrew white — he gets back to his feet healed beside the corpses of the soldiers who had just run him through. EL:EL:Ch 61 superseded at SA:WaT:I-11
A bald, broad-framed Dula from Duladel who has lived long enough in Elantris to lose hope without quite losing his humor. Speaks with a thick accent dotted with words like "sule" and "kolo." The first Elantrian to deal with Raoden as a person rather than as prey. EL:EL:Ch 1 superseded at EL:EL:Ch 61
Known facts
- deduces-spirit-is-prince-raodenOn the walk home Galladon threads three clues together — "Spirit" is the translation of Aon Rao, Raoden is the Arelene crown prince's name, and his companion knows every baron in the kingdom — and pries a confession out of the man beside him. Raoden asks him to keep the secret; he agrees.EL:EL:Ch 10
- jesker-faithGalladon's native faith is Jesker — the Duladen understanding of the Dor — and not the Mysteries, which he scorns as a perversion of it practised only by outsiders. Hearing that his Republic has fallen and that Shu-Dereth is now Duladel's state religion grieves him as if his religion itself had died.EL:EL:Ch 16
- father-was-elantrianGalladon's father was a Dula-born Elantrian scholar of farming who never fit into Elantris; the New Elantris chapel and its library of agricultural books were once his study. After Galladon's mother died beside him in bed of a disease AonDor could not catch in time, the man chose heart-death over going to be healed.EL:EL:Ch 25
- sent-to-teach-aondor-in-new-elantrisThe morning after the conspiracy meeting, Raoden sends Galladon back into Elantris with orders to begin teaching New Elantris's people AonDor — at least one or two Aons each — so that if Raoden falls outside the wall the city is no longer defenceless.EL:EL:Ch 55
- completes-shaodFalls with two swords in the gut beside Karata holding off Fjordell soldiers on the southern road. The Dor erupting from Raoden's line completes the Shaod on him at the same moment it completes it on the king — bald, dark metallic silver in the Duladen cast, he climbs back to his feet healed.EL:EL:Ch 61
Events
- EL:EL:Ch 1 First met lounging on a set of steps inside Elantris; takes thirty days of guidance from Raoden in exchange for a scrap of dried meat.
- EL:EL:Ch 4 Walks Raoden through Elantris, names the three gangs and the Hoed, leads him to his hidden study, and finally draws Aon Deo in the air to reveal that AonDor still partly answers Elantrian fingers.
- EL:EL:Ch 7 Teaches Raoden the simple mechanics of AonDor in the underground study, then follows him on his half-mad plan to recruit a newcomer; helps trap Shaor's men at the foot of a collapsing staircase.
- EL:EL:Ch 10 Reluctantly serves as bait, sprinting Shaor's men out of the courtyard while complaining at length about it.
- EL:EL:Ch 10 Rejoins Raoden at the chapel, eats half a loaf, and warns him that — whether he means to or not — he is starting a fourth gang.
- EL:EL:Ch 10 Crouches with Raoden outside Aanden's court, identifies the chapel as Korathi (because of its feel), and reasons out the prince's identity on the walk home.
- EL:EL:Ch 13 Sits with Raoden over books at the chapel and goes off to return the rest to his hidden study as Kahar arrives; insists, as always, that this is a bad idea.
- EL:EL:Ch 13 Waits outside the chapel with a lantern when Raoden returns alive, then absorbs the news that Karata's gang has joined them.
- EL:EL:Ch 16 Asks what Raoden would bring into Elantris if he could; learns of Duladel's fall and his religion's eclipse only because Raoden assumes he already knew.
- EL:EL:Ch 16 Returns from his solitary grief on the roof; accepts the bags of seed corn and the role of farmer for the band's garden.
- EL:EL:Ch 16 Spots the fresh-cut beams that mark the building as a deliberate trap; stays at the doorway as Raoden walks in alone.
- EL:EL:Ch 19 Oversees the planting in the cleaned garden, kneels to inspect the beheaded raider, and afterwards leans on his makeshift hoe to lecture Raoden on the Dor and on the difference between Jesker and the Mysteries Opelon confuses it with.
- EL:EL:Ch 22 Takes down the lone raider on the approach to the bank with a board and a paving-stone, and is the first to see the wigged girl on the gold inside the Aon Edo vault — and the first to start running.
- EL:EL:Ch 22 Walks Raoden back through the boundary of New Elantris, talks him through Elantrian muscle atrophy, and watches him crumble Kahar's cleaned marble between his fingers.
- EL:EL:Ch 22 Crouches beside Raoden on the rooftop, names the JinDo at the cart as Shuden, and admits hunger at the sight of the food.
- EL:EL:Ch 22 Notes from the side that Sarene is remarkably — if slightly outdatedly — well-informed about who runs which gang.
- EL:EL:Ch 23 Walks out of the shadows to argue, fruitlessly, that they should just bring the princess to the chapel and show her what New Elantris really is.
- EL:EL:Ch 25 Comes through the line in his Elantris rags under a scavenged cloak, accepts the overstuffed bag Raoden has set aside for him, and is gone again into the crowd.
- EL:EL:Ch 25 Helps drag the sled back and rifles through the day's spiteful delivery — orange cloth, a box of bent nails, foul oil — making sure none of it kills Mareshe's mood for too long.
- EL:EL:Ch 25 Walks with Raoden through the half-empty streets of New Elantris, musing on how the princess's feedings have undone weeks of self-discipline.
- EL:EL:Ch 25 Stands by during Karata's stitching and grumbles that letting Shaor's men through to be cut down by the Guard is no bad outcome — a suggestion Raoden refuses.
- EL:EL:Ch 25 Leans through the window of the chapel watching Raoden practise AonDor, and is finally pressed into telling the story of his Elantrian father, his mother's sudden death, and the study of farming books that became his inheritance.
- EL:EL:Ch 25 Carries the old Hoed in turns, recognises the meetinghouse from his father's stories, and swears to bring Raoden to the pool when the pain finally takes him.
- EL:EL:Ch 28 Eyes the mad seon uneasily where it drifts along a high shelf, then breaks Raoden out of his reading to tell him Saolin is asking for him.
- EL:EL:Ch 28 Walks with Raoden to the gate after the plan is approved, neither of them happy with what is about to happen.
- EL:EL:Ch 31 Carries Saolin to the pool with Raoden, watches the gyorn from the rooftop, scoffs that the Shaod does not take Fjordells, and walks into Shaor's bank carrying a sack.
- EL:EL:Ch 34 Galladon coins kayana for the converted wildmen.
- EL:EL:Ch 34 Galladon sighs through another AonDor tutorial and admits he has never owned a seon either.
- EL:EL:Ch 37 Galladon sees Raoden glow during the attack and is the one who connects it to the strongest pre-Reod Elantrians falling first to the mobs.
- EL:EL:Ch 40 Walks the slimed streets with Raoden, hunting for an inner stairwell, and spots the stone outcropping that may hide one.
- EL:EL:Ch 40 Hangs back with the New Elantrians while Raoden approaches the newcomer alone.
- EL:EL:Ch 43 Climbs the stairwell behind Raoden and takes turns hacking through the Guard's upper door; first to spot the relocated red banner over Telrii's mansion.
- EL:EL:Ch 43 Walks with Raoden into the library to confront Sarene about news from outside.
- EL:EL:Ch 44 Half-listens from a chair, refuses to be dragged into Spirit's slip about Sarene's marriage contract, then dozes.
- EL:EL:Ch 46 Holds a map of Arelon against Raoden's glowing Aon Ehe and confirms the proportions match exactly.
- EL:EL:Ch 49 In the library when Raoden cracks the Chasm line, ducks the column of fire that incinerates the biology shelf, and lends his arm as the test target for the still-broken healing Aon Ien.
- EL:EL:Ch 52 Stitches up the cut Sarene gave Raoden under his Kaloo illusion, then plays the dutiful 'Dendo' the servant when Roial visits.
- EL:EL:Ch 60 Drops Raoden in surprise when the Hoed prince twists awake in his arms and stumbles past him into the pool.
- EL:EL:Ch 61 Watches in stunned silence as Raoden comes back out of the pool that no one returns from.
- EL:EL:Ch 61 Throws himself unarmed at six Fjordell soldiers alongside Karata to buy Raoden the line he is drawing in the dirt; falls with two swords in his gut — and is on his feet again, dark silver and bald, when the Dor takes the figure.
- EL:EL:Ch 62 Wanders out of the dazed crowd of newly restored Elantrians to find his king brooding instead of celebrating.
- EL:EL:Ch 62 Catches Raoden on the wall trying to draw Aon Tia blind and tells him it is suicide — then orders a ship readied while the king works the geometry out.
- EL:EL:Ch 62 Lands on the docks with two hundred Elantrians via Aon Tia and calls *Aon Daa* — half the new caster's Aons fizzle, the rest tear straight through the Dakhor front line.
- EL:EL:Ch 62 Arrives in the alley moments after, lets the dead be checked, and draws Aon Ien under Raoden's instruction to mend the king's hands and ribs.
- EL:EL:Ch 63 Discusses the Dakhor bone fragment with Raoden before the ceremony — old Fjordell letters carved into the marrow.
- EL:EL:Epilogue Beside Raoden at the memorial, dark iron-silver skin in the Duladen cast — and still bald. Shrugs at his hairlessness, saying he has been bald since his third decade and it seems right to him.
- EL:HoE:Prologue Stands at the front of the courtyard drilling a hundred-odd Elantrians on the strokes of Aon Daa and Aon Rao in his Dula drawl, and on the new line at the bottom of an Aon that he refuses to add to Daa for fear of blowing holes in the sidewalks.
- SA:WaT:I-11 The grumpy member of the trio in Iri — wears a cloak and colored robes in tropical heat, smashes a sphere to call up glowing symbols when Dyel's mother manifests her Shardblade.
Backreferences
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 1
- factDuladel
- factDulas
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 4
- factShaor
- factHoed
- factAonDor
- factAonDor
- factAon Deo
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 7
- factAonDor
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 10
- factGalladon
- factElantris University
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 13
- factRaoden
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 16
- factRaoden
- factGalladon
- factJesker
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 19
- factElantrians
- factThe Shaod
- factDor
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 22
- factElantrians
- factDion
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 23
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 25
- factRaoden
- factGalladon
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 28
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 31
- factSaolin
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 34
- factKayana
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 37
- factRaoden
- factRaoden
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 40
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 41
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 43
- factRaoden
- factSarene
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 44
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 46
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 49
- factAonDor
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 50
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 52
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 53
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 55
- factGalladon
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 56
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 58
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 60
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 61
- factKarata
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 62
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 63
- summaryEL:EL:Epilogue
- summaryEL:HoE:Prologue
- factMatisse
- summarySA:WaT:I-11
- factDemoux
- factThe Seventeenth Shard
- factBaon