Goradel
A young palace soldier of Kredik Shaw whom Vin turned on the night of her attack on the building. He brings what he knows of the palace dungeons to Dockson's warehouse, then walks Elend Venture in past his old comrades to find her. MB1:TFE:Ch 37
Known facts
- volunteers-to-carry-spooks-warning-to-vinWhen Spook insists his message must reach Vin, Captain Goradel is the one who volunteers to carry it. Vin spared his life in the Lord Ruler's palace on the night of the Survivor's rebellion and convinced him to switch sides; he tells Spook he will get the message to her or die in the ash trying.MB1:HoA:Ch 64
- killed-by-marsh-in-the-ash-en-route-to-vinCarrying Spook's steel-scratched warning south from Urteau toward Vin, Goradel is intercepted in the ash by Marsh under Ruin's direction. He puts up a clean fight — his stab catches a spike rather than Marsh's spine, his attempted hamstring is dodged by Marsh's tapped speed — and dies trying to destroy the metal letter before Ruin's tool can recover it. He very nearly succeeds: Ruin cannot read what is on the metal even after Marsh has it.MB1:HoA:Ch 69
Events
- MB1:TFE:Ch 37 Arrives at Dockson's warehouse in a palace uniform with the jacket stripped off, bringing word of Vin's capture and confessing he had no authority to free her.
- MB1:TFE:Ch 37 Leads Elend's rescue down the right corridor — the one Ministry guard in the room who knows the dungeon route.
- MB1:HoA:Ch 10 Captain of the hundred-soldier escort accompanying Sazed and Breeze back from Lekal. Halts the column when the scout returns to report the emperor's army an hour ahead, then crosses up to relay the news.
- MB1:HoA:Ch 18 Captain of Sazed's escort on the march; falls in beside Sazed at the head of the column to talk about the fields they pass, reveals his own skaa-farmer upbringing and that he was the Lord Ruler's palace guardsman who led Elend in to rescue Vin the night Vin killed the Lord Ruler; later proposes a supply stop at Luthadel before Sazed leaves the column alone to ride to the Pits.
- MB1:HoA:Ch 29 Captains the escort of two hundred soldiers into Urteau; sets the building's perimeter.
- MB1:HoA:Ch 38 Holds the neighbouring table in worker's clothes with three of his men, keeping a quiet watch on Sazed and Breeze in the Urteau bar.
- MB1:HoA:Ch 46 Stands watch over Sazed, Breeze, and Allrianne inside the cavern, having forbidden them to leave; his men have already moved the stockpile down off the shelves against the worsening tremors.
- MB1:HoA:Ch 46 Hurries in to announce Spook's return and leads Sazed and Breeze to him at the front of the cavern.
- MB1:HoA:Ch 49 Comes through the cavern to tell Spook that someone is waiting for him above — a woman who says she is the Citizen's sister.
- MB1:HoA:Ch 49 Stationed in the room to watch over Beldre when Spook takes the others out into the hallway to confer.
- MB1:HoA:Ch 56 Brings Spook word that Quellion's watching soldiers have abandoned their post outside the Ministry building, and later defers to Spook for orders on where to send his scouts.
- MB1:HoA:Ch 58 Hands Spook his dueling canes and singed cloak in the cavern, marshals the strike force, and leads them up to take Quellion's guards on the rally stage.
- MB1:HoA:Ch 64 Comes to the bedside in armour, calls Spook *Survivor of the Flames*, volunteers to run the message to Vin himself, and goes to the armoury for the sheet of steel.
- MB1:HoA:Ch 69 Catches up to Marsh in the deep ash with Spook's metal-scratched warning in his pocket; fights cleanly enough to strike a spike rather than the spine and nearly hamstring his attacker, dies attempting to destroy the letter before Ruin's tool can recover it.
- MB1:WoA:Ch 42 Now a scout in the demolition party, the same guard who once led Elend into Kredik Shaw reports that the empty nobleman houses still have their wooden walls intact and ready to be torn for firewood.
Backreferences
- summaryMB1:TFE:Ch 37
- summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 10
- summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 18
- summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 22
- summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 29
- summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 35
- summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 38
- summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 46
- summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 49
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- factGoradel
- summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 69
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- summaryMB1:HoA:Epilogue
- summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 42