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Kaladin

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branded-deserterOn his last day in Amaram's army, Kaladin was given the slave brand — the deserter glyphpair — on his forehead. He believes that 'honor died' that same day.SA:WoK:Ch 2
shash-brandHis third forehead brand, fresh and infected when this chapter opens, is the shash glyph: 'Dangerous.' His most recent master gave it to him after a failed escape attempt involving twenty armed slaves, then sold him at a steep discount.SA:WoK:Ch 2
escapesTen escape attempts in eight months, fleeing five different masters. He believes no slave with a forehead brand can stay free for long.SA:WoK:Ch 2
surgeon-fatherHis father trained him to recognize and treat injuries — burns, the grinding coughs, rotspren-fouled wounds — well enough that he diagnoses other slaves on instinct.SA:WoK:Ch 2
the-deadHe has lost everyone he tried to protect, naming Tien, Tukks, Dallet, and Cenn in his grief, plus ten successive groups of fellow slaves.SA:WoK:Ch 2
ageNineteen years old. He joined Amaram's army four years before, when he was about fifteen.SA:WoK:Ch 4
father-stormwardenHis father kept stormwardenry as a hobby — Kaladin can predict highstorms by date with the same calculations.SA:WoK:Ch 4
wants-amaram-deadHe privately admits to himself that, given a chance, he would gut Amaram with his own hands and twist his head from his neck.SA:WoK:Ch 4
first-bridge-runSurvives his first bridge run, the only frontline carrier of Bridge Four still alive after the Parshendi volleys. He collapses on the plateau and is nearly left for dead before Syl rouses him.SA:WoK:Ch 6
victim-philosophyLoses the thread of his father's two-kinds-of-people speech and concludes he belongs to a third group — the ones who exist only to be killed or saved. He stops learning bridgemen's names.SA:WoK:Ch 9
childhood-surgeon-trainingApprenticed to his father Lirin from age eight; at ten he already wipes blood, hands knives, and recognizes when a finger must be amputated rather than saved.SA:WoK:Ch 10
childhood-name-kalPrefers the shorter "Kal" because the full Kaladin sounds like a lighteyes's name — and being different in Hearthstone is already painful enough.SA:WoK:Ch 10
honor-chasm-decisionWalks out to the Honor Chasm in the riddens of a highstorm, blackbane crushed in one hand and Syl cupped in the other, ready to jump — then turns back, choosing to try once more for the bridgemen he is now responsible for.SA:WoK:Ch 11
first-patient-deathAt thirteen, two months after Wistiow's death, finds Miasal bleeding out from a compound fracture. Tournames the artery with his shirt, holds it closed with his fingers, takes the heated knife from Valama and cauterizes — and saves the leg. The girl dies anyway of a head wound he hadn't seen. Lirin tells him afterward, sitting on the surgery steps, that he must learn when to care and when to let go — that he'll grow calluses.SA:WoK:Ch 19
killed-a-lighteyes-as-soldierTells Rock and Teft only that he killed a lighteyes in Amaram's army — was thanked by someone important for it — and that lighteyes do not react well when you turn down their gifts. He will not say more.SA:WoK:Ch 22
surgeons-called-butchersAt thirteen, overhears two Hearthstone women in an alley call his father and surgeons in general butchers — that cutting into people is not the Almighty's will, that the dead body of the little Miasal proves it. Hears the village blame his father for the failed attempt rather than thank him for the saving work that came before. The memory will not leave him.SA:WoK:Ch 25
accepts-his-fathers-theftOn learning the truth in the violet moonlight, Kal cannot decide if his father was incredibly brave or incredibly wrong — and chooses both. He resolves to take the stolen spheres to Kharbranth and pay them back to Laral, not to Roshone. He also takes a new name: from now on, the full Kaladin, not the boy's Kal.SA:WoK:Ch 37
draws-stormlight-while-feveredLies in fevered halls in the Bridge Four barrack as Teft sits beside him with a spheres-pouch. The sphere in his hand goes dun; light streams from his skin in faint wisps and knits some of the deeper cuts. The puffy redness around his wounds shrinks. His eyes leak faint amber for a moment. Then it is over. Teft kneels with his head to the rock floor and weeps.SA:WoK:Ch 38
discovers-he-could-killStands at the operating table watching his father save the man who has tried to ruin them. Realises in shock that he would have let Roshone die — would perhaps have flicked the knife to hasten it. Lirin once laughed at the idea his gentle son could kill; for the first time Kaladin understands that he could.SA:WoK:Ch 41
volunteers-to-go-with-tienWhen Brightlord Amaram comes to Hearthstone in the Weeping to conscript and Roshone (smiling) picks the small, fearful Tien for the levy, Kaladin steps forward and asks to take his brother's place. Amaram says he cannot — but he can take Kaladin in addition. Kaladin volunteers. Two hours to gather his allotment. He promises his father, standing in the rain, that in four years he will bring Tien home safely — by the storms and by the Almighty's tenth name.SA:WoK:Ch 44
kills-shardbearer-refuses-bladeOne year ago in Amaram's army in the Unclaimed Hills, kills a Parshendi Shardbearer with a spear when the rest of the squad has fallen back — including Dallet and Toorim, who died on the Blade. By tradition the Blade and Plate are his and he is a lighteyes. He looks at his reflection in the Blade and gives it instead to Coreb of his own squad. He walks back to camp alone, tears on his cheeks, leaving the honor guard ashamed in the hollow.SA:WoK:Ch 47
first-stormlight-burst-saves-dalinarBridge Four lags behind Sadeas's retreating army carrying their bridge and two wounded — and Kaladin makes the call. Rather than save themselves, they will run TOWARD the Tower. He hurls himself into the closing ring of Parshendi around Dalinar and EXPLODES into Stormlight — a wave of white force flings the front Parshendi rank back. Teft shields his eyes. Moash whispers *something just changed*. Kaladin spins into the Parshendi as a living storm.SA:WoK:Ch 66
speaks-the-first-idealStanding over the wounded on the Tower after the rescue, Kaladin looks at Syl and speaks aloud the first words of the Knights Radiant: *Life before death. Strength before weakness. Journey before destination.* Syl grows brilliant. She becomes a silvery Shardblade in his hands — small, slim, a blade he can wield.SA:WoK:Ch 67
stormlight-rejects-tattoo-inkKaladin tries to cover his shash slave brand with the Bridge Four freedom glyph and finds that Stormlight in his veins pushes the ink back out of his skin every time. He laughs it off to the crew, telling them that his old wounds are not yet done shaping him.SA:WoR:Ch 2
darkeyed-captainDalinar Kholin commissions Kaladin as captain of his personal guard — the highest rank Dalinar dares give a darkeyed officer, and the only darkeyed captaincy Rind the quartermaster has heard of in any Alethi army. Kaladin in turn names Moash, Skar, Teft, Sigzil, and Rock his lieutenants.SA:WoR:Ch 2
given-king-and-family-guardDalinar expands Kaladin's charge: in addition to himself, Kaladin is to provide full bodyguard details for Navani, Adolin and Renarin, train his thousand former bridgemen as soldiers on roadway patrol outside the warcamps, and over time absorb the King's Guard into a single force under his command — guarding Elhokar himself in alternating shifts until the merger is complete.SA:WoR:Ch 5
figured-out-second-ideal-on-ownWalking back from Dalinar's council meeting, Kaladin turns a sphere in his pocket and realises he has worked out the Second Ideal of the Windrunners on his own — Syl has never told it to him, and she will not give him the three that follow.SA:WoR:Ch 5
promise-to-try-radiantStanding in the chasms with Syl on his finger above the violet pool, Kaladin promises her — as a true promise, after long resistance — that he will try to become what Dalinar is searching for, a refounded Knight Radiant.SA:WoR:Ch 9
adhesion-experimentsKaladin begins systematic chasm experiments with Sigzil, Rock, and Lopen to map out what Stormlight can do for him — confirming he can paint adhesion onto a stone, a wall, a floor, even a spear shaft, and stick a man (in this case Lopen) to a wall by his uniform.SA:WoR:Ch 12
stormlight-fails-when-not-protectingStormlight fails Kaladin mid-charge at Adolin in the practice yard — drawn in to heal a wrenched shoulder, it surges out of him the instant he closes again in anger. Syl afterward asks only who he was protecting; he has no answer.SA:WoR:Ch 18
refuses-swordmasterOffered formal training under Zahel — a chance vanishingly few darkeyes get — Kaladin turns it down even after Zahel outclasses him in a sparring bout with a guarded training Shardblade. Zahel notes he flinches less from a swung Blade than any spearman should, and recognizes him as having actually fought Shardbearers before.SA:WoR:Ch 18
tells-dalinar-about-amaramOn the dark switchback down from the Pinnacle after the late highstorm, Kaladin tells Dalinar for the first time that he killed the Shardbearer whose Blade Amaram now carries, and that Amaram took the Shards for himself and slaughtered the squad who knew it — branding Kaladin *shash* and selling him as the lone survivor. Dalinar tells him to hold his tongue and that he will talk to Amaram himself.SA:WoR:Ch 22
red-eyes-in-the-stormWatching the king's window during the highstorm, Kaladin sees faint red lights stop and steady on the other side of the shutters — for a moment he is sure he is looking at eyes — and finds his hand reaching for the latch before the king's complaint about a loose shutter snaps the moment.SA:WoR:Ch 22
assigned-to-guard-kingDalinar formally moves Kaladin up the king's protection timetable in the wake of the balcony sabotage: Idrin is reassigned to a field command, his best men are loaned to Kaladin, and the long-term goal is for Elhokar's protection to be drawn solely from former bridgemen — men Kaladin trusts and who have no foothold in warcamp politics.SA:WoR:Ch 23
narrows-sabotage-windowRiding lessons at the stables loosen Kaladin's thinking about the king's balcony: a storm would have shaken or bent the rail, not severed it — the cut is too clean and the mortar deliberately worked away, so the sabotage must have happened after the highstorm passed, sharply narrowing the window.SA:WoR:Ch 25
learns-to-ridePer Dalinar's order, Kaladin and five Bridge Four men begin daily riding lessons with Jenet so they can keep up with their princes on horseback; he uses Stormlight to stick himself to the saddle of Dreamstorm before she throws him.SA:WoR:Ch 25
leads-patrol-and-meets-shallan-as-horneaterOn the first of his approved patrols outside the warcamps, Kaladin — introduced only as Kal, a darkeyed soldier from Dalinar's personal guard, on horseback — rides up to a Vorin caravan under Macob guided by a red-haired Veden noblewoman performing a Horneater princess. He surrenders his boots to her demand and rides on; neither he nor she yet knows who the other is.SA:WoR:Ch 28
warned-by-stormfather-of-sylDreaming inside the highstorm, Kaladin is recognized by the Stormfather as "Son of Honor" and told that Syl trusts him, but should not; that he will become a traitor and kill her, and that someone — something hidden behind the world like a second storm of red lightning — is coming for him.SA:WoR:Ch 32
right-arm-severed-by-shardbladeFighting the Assassin in White in the corridor at the Pinnacle, Kaladin has his right forearm sheared off below the elbow by the assassin's Shardblade — the arm goes grey and lifeless, the hand opens, and the half-spear falls from a hand that no longer feels it.SA:WoR:Ch 32
heals-shardblade-wound-with-stormlightBleeding out on the rocks below the Pinnacle with his right forearm grey and limp, Kaladin draws Stormlight in a hard heave; the limb lights, and a cold ache rushes back into it, and the arm becomes the first Shardblade wound he has ever known to heal. Syl tells him she did not know he could do it until he did.SA:WoR:Ch 33
claims-windrunner-and-szeth-fleesBluffing at the end of his Stormlight with only a belt knife in his off hand, Kaladin tells the Assassin in White he is the same thing — a Windrunner — and that "they" are back. Szeth scrambles backward, cries that he was named Truthless for a lie, and flees east in a streak of light. Kaladin does not yet know what he has set in motion.SA:WoR:Ch 33
full-lashing-figured-outWorking in the chasms with Sigzil, Rock, and Lopen as witnesses, Kaladin discovers a second Lashing — choosing a direction and making it become down for himself — and walks up a chasm wall toward the open sky.SA:WoR:Ch 41
scars-do-not-healThe slave brands on Kaladin's forehead are the one wound Stormlight will not close — a sign, to him, that he himself is not yet healed.SA:WoR:Ch 41
learns-ten-shardblade-stancesKaladin accepts Zahel's offer to teach him the ten Shardblade stances — at the lighteyed dueling grounds, with weighted wooden practice blades and instruction from ardent Ivis — and faces down a live Shardblade unguarded so that he will not freeze when one comes for him in earnest.SA:WoR:Ch 44
agrees-to-hear-moash-conspiratorsCornered by Moash's reveal of the regicide plot, Kaladin promises not to inform on him in exchange for Moash standing the plan down and bringing him to meet the other conspirators.SA:WoR:Ch 44
first-full-lashing-flightPractising in the chasms by night, Kaladin gets his first Lashings to land cleanly, learns to face the panic of having down stop being down, and pushes off the wall into open air over the Plains — pulled along by his own spren and a flock of windspren. He hangs balanced between two Lashings above the camps, dismisses one, drifts back down. He decides that the sky is now his.SA:WoR:Ch 52
resolves-to-learn-shardbladeDrifting back to the warcamp Kaladin tells Syl he cannot beat the assassin without a Shardblade and intends to take up the training Zahel has been offering. She balks; he asks whether a new Blade can be forged that does not carry the stain of broken oaths. She tells him yes, and then will not tell him how.SA:WoR:Ch 52
catches-a-shardblade-with-bare-handsSkidding on his knees to defend Renarin from Relis, Kaladin snaps his bare hands together around a falling Shardblade and stops it. The Blade does not cut him. A scream that only he and Relis can hear tears through the inside of the metal — Syl's voice — and Relis flings the weapon away and flees the arena shrieking that he did not kill her.SA:WoR:Ch 57
fights-shardbearers-with-spear-and-helmOn the sands Kaladin vaults into the arena to help Adolin against four Shardbearers, snaps his own legs delivering a Lashing-driven kick that puts Relis sprawling, threatens the surrendered Elit into surrendering his helm, slips his hand inside it as an improvised shield-glove, and uses it to deflect two Shardblades at once with Stormlight running through him.SA:WoR:Ch 57
publicly-accuses-amaram-and-demands-right-of-challengeStanding beside Adolin on the sand, Kaladin claims his own boon from Elhokar and uses it to invoke the Right of Challenge against Amaram — accusing him in front of the entire court of having stolen his Shardblade, slaughtered his squad to bury the theft, and branded him a slave. Amaram recognises him only at that moment, and the king orders Kaladin arrested instead.SA:WoR:Ch 57
imprisoned-by-elhokar-after-amaram-accusationFor publicly slandering Amaram from the arena floor Elhokar orders Kaladin executed and only relents — at Dalinar's threat of open opposition — to indefinite imprisonment. He is led in chains across the warcamp under the watching eyes of his bridgemen and locked into an interior stone cell in Dalinar's camp prison.SA:WoR:Ch 58
privately-agrees-moash-and-graves-may-be-rightPacing his cell in the camp prison, Kaladin tells Syl that Elhokar is a terrible king — willing to laud him one day and execute him the next — and that Moash and his friends may be right that the kingdom would be better off without him.SA:WoR:Ch 59
decides-elhokar-must-dieOn learning from Dalinar that Roshone's "exile" was the assignment that sent the man to Hearthstone — the source of his family's ostracism and Tien's conscription — concludes that Moash is right: for the good of Alethkar and of Dalinar himself, Elhokar needs to be removed.SA:WoR:Ch 62
refuses-adolins-shards-and-gives-them-to-moashOffered the remaining full set of Blade and Plate from Adolin's arena victory — a gift that would make him lighteyed and a fourth-dahn lord. Refuses, on the grounds that he wants the lives of darkeyes like himself to change rather than his own life by becoming lighteyed, and that those Blades have killed too many people he loved. Gives the set instead to Moash.SA:WoR:Ch 66
agrees-to-help-moashs-conspiracy-against-the-kingAlone with Moash in the prison anteroom while the armorers fit his new Plate, says aloud that Moash's friends are right and that he will help them do what they want done. Moash hints, with Plate gauntlet still on, that the same treatment may eventually be needed for Amaram.SA:WoR:Ch 66
stormlight-no-longer-answers-after-promising-moash-helpOn the Plains with the expedition, finds that Stormlight will no longer enter him on demand: the spheres glow but their light refuses. Syl, distracted and child-like, tells him he is making bad choices and is "going dark" — that he has made two promises he cannot both keep (to Moash to help kill the king, to Dalinar to protect him), and that he must speak the next Words soon. He fears the bond itself is weakening.SA:WoR:Ch 68
survives-fall-into-a-deep-chasm-with-shallanFalls into a chasm hundreds of feet deep when the saboteur drops Dalinar's mechanical bridge. As Syl screams, he gets a single breath of Stormlight at the bottom; he wakes only scraped, with Shallan also alive. Tells her, lying, that windspren must have saved them.SA:WoR:Ch 69
takes-and-wields-a-shardblade-against-a-chasmfiendHaving refused every Shardblade ever offered him, he accepts Shallan's in the chasm as the only weapon that might keep her alive, and kills the chasmfiend with it. Touching the metal brings none of the scream he heard the last time he held one, which he reads as a bad sign for his bond with Syl.SA:WoR:Ch 72
stormfather-tells-him-he-has-killed-syl-and-cuts-him-offThe Stormfather addresses Kaladin directly during a highstorm, declaring that he has destroyed his honorspren bond and that the spren's destruction is irreversible, and severing Kaladin's access to the winds.SA:WoR:Ch 74
cannot-draw-stormlight-after-the-storm-eyeAfter the Stormfather told him in the storm's eye that he had killed Syl beyond fixing, Kaladin's bond stays cracked: he can no longer draw Stormlight for his leg, Syl does not come to him, and he tells Lopen she has left him.SA:WoR:Ch 76
realises-elhokar-is-dalinars-tienTrying to dance the spear in the ardents' flooded courtyard, Kaladin hears in his own mouth the squadleader's line from the day Tien died — *gotta do what you can to stay alive* — and the parallel falls into place: the king is Dalinar's Tien, and letting Moash kill him will be the same crime done over.SA:WoR:Ch 81
chooses-to-save-the-kingKaladin decides — late, against his own bafflement — that he will not let Moash and Graves kill Elhokar in a dark corridor, breaks his sutures running for the palace, and takes down the two of Graves's men guarding the king's door himself.SA:WoR:Ch 82
offers-moash-justice-against-roshoneFacing Moash and Graves over Elhokar's body, Kaladin offers Moash a different path: come to Dalinar with him and he will see Moash gets justice from the right man for his grandparents' deaths — Roshone, the city lord — not from a drunk king bleeding out in a dark hallway.SA:WoR:Ch 83
speaks-the-third-idealBroken-ribbed and bleeding above Elhokar's body, Kaladin whispers the Third Ideal of the Windrunners — *I will protect even those I hate, so long as it is right* — and the Stormfather reluctantly accepts the Words against his will after Syl declares the bond cannot be held back.SA:WoR:Ch 84
declares-knights-radiant-returnedDrawing the Stormlight out of every lamp in the hallway and erupting from his own body with white light, frost crystallising behind him in the shape of wings, Kaladin tells Moash and Graves softly: *the Knights Radiant have returned.*SA:WoR:Ch 84
catches-dalinar-out-of-the-skyWhen the Assassin in White Lashes Dalinar into the black sky to kill him, Kaladin streaks across the Plains in time to catch the highprince in midair and send him gently back down on a controlled Lashing of his own — landing before Bridge Four in a ring of expanding white Light marked by a sword-glyph, declaring to the assassin that the sky and the winds are his.SA:WoR:Ch 85
kills-szeth-on-the-stormwallAfter running the assassin down on a halo of windspren along the front of the racing highstorm, Kaladin hears him confess he was never Truthless and call himself a coward — then closes his eyes and refuses to parry. Kaladin drives Syl through his chest below the neck; smoke burns from beneath his eyelids, and the body falls back into the stormwall. The silvery sword does not vanish; Kaladin catches it on the way out.SA:WoR:Ch 86
eyes-turn-pale-blueTeft tells him on the empty round plateau what no mirror has — his eyes have changed, pale glassy blue, lighter than that of any king, glowing softly. By Alethi reckoning, Kaladin is a lighteyes now.SA:WoR:Ch 87
hides-elhokar-in-the-lopen-family-hovelWith the would-be assassins still searching, Kaladin hides the wounded king in a place no enemy would think to look — a Herdazian hovel in Sebarial's warcamp, in the care of Lopen's mother, his cousins guarding the door. He keeps the location to himself until he can hand the answer to Dalinar and Navani in Urithiru with a smile.SA:WoR:Ch 87
leaves-for-hearthstone-to-save-his-parentsWhen the Stormfather confirms the Everstorm will turn the parshmen into Voidbringers on its next pass, Kaladin strides for the exit. His parents are in Hearthstone, and the city lord Roshone keeps parshmen. *I'll put together a pack. I need to leave within the hour.* He will *fall* the whole distance on Lashings — and Dalinar gives him all the Light they can spare.SA:WoR:Ch 89
stepped-down-as-windrunner-leaderStepped down as head of the Windrunners before the contest of champions, accepting that he had spoken his Words but that Words alone could not yet rebuild what was broken in him — and that he would not be the man on the plateau when the champions met.SA:WaT:Ch 1
the-wind-speaks-to-himBegan to hear the wind itself speak to him by name — apologetic, warning of a coming worst storm — a voice Syl could only sense as a presence, not understand.SA:WaT:Ch 1
going-to-shinovar-for-dalinarAccepted a duty from Dalinar to travel to Shinovar — in some 'odd company' — to find the Herald Ishi, who has gone mad; he plans to ride out on a highstorm that night.SA:WaT:Ch 2
learning-the-fluteTook an hour's first lesson on the red lacquered flute Wit gave him outside Dalinar's meeting room — fingerings, reading music, and breath. Charged by Wit to practise until the sound returns to him, because that will mean Roshar is listening.SA:WaT:Ch 4
offered-urithiru-heirshipOffered by Dalinar a sealed succession letter naming him heir to the Urithiru throne should both Dalinar and Navani die — ratified by multiple ardents and reviewed by Jasnah and the highprinces. Dalinar presses the case on the argument that life breaks people and is then filled in with something stronger; Kaladin pockets the letter and agrees only to think about it.SA:WaT:Ch 6
treats-battle-shockHas taken up Wit's charge to be a surgeon of the mind rather than a soldier — and Dalinar now reports he has had remarkable success helping the men suffering battle shock in Urithiru. Kaladin's working formulation is to take a person out of darkness and show them that light still exists, which does not fix everything but does make a difference.SA:WaT:Ch 6
pressure-and-air-sculptingHas begun to consciously sculpt local air pressure as a nebulous extension of his Windrunner powers — keeping an invisible bubble of breathable air around himself and a passenger at altitudes where the air is otherwise too thin to breathe.SA:WaT:Ch 6
bridge-four-tattoo-takesKaladin receives the Bridge Four forehead glyphs that his skin had refused to take when the rest of the crew got theirs over their slave brands. His brands are healed; the tattoo holds this time. He sits in a tavern in Urithiru surrounded by his men, who cheer it on.SA:WaT:Ch 12
tells-szeth-radiants-watch-the-rim-for-the-peopleWatching the freed Shin villagers weep their thanks to a stunned Szeth, Kaladin formulates his own answer to *why* he fights — *ideals are dead things unless people stand behind them; laws exist for those they serve* — and tells Szeth that the difference between them is not the cost of being a watcher at the rim, but that Kaladin knows the why.SA:WaT:Ch 42
first-deliberate-happiness-since-tiens-deathDancing the Chasm Kata with Syl as both spear and partner, with the Wind guiding his steps, Kaladin lets himself be happy *for what felt like the first time since Tien's death.* He follows the dance with his first clean note from Wit's flute, drawn from the Wind itself.SA:WaT:Ch 52
three-rules-for-szethKaladin gives Szeth three rules in the monastery hallway: *you're not a thing — you're a person; you get to choose; you deserve to be happy.* Szeth takes his hand on the third rule and answers, for the first time, what he genuinely wants — *to stop killing, to be done with it, to cause no more pain.* Kaladin holds him as he weeps.SA:WaT:Ch 66
accepts-the-listening-kind-of-helpCooking longroots over a hillside fire in Shinovar, Kaladin discovers that the Wit-shaped method of helping — ask questions, listen, refuse to give answers — works on Szeth and then on a self-doubting highspren who asks for therapy. He recognises the old instinct to step in and fight someone else's battle for them, names it as the same drive that broke him before, and lets it go.SA:WaT:Ch 86
wind-asks-him-to-save-the-heraldsStanding in a Shin meadow with stew in hand, Kaladin hears the Wind tell him that the Heralds are the last pieces of Honor siphoned off and held apart, that they are Connected to him in a way that gave them power over Odium and could give them power over Honor and all his creations, and that she needs Kaladin to save them rather than let them die.SA:WaT:Ch 86
agrees-to-fight-nale-without-stormlightKnowing Nale is millennia-trained and would dismantle him in a magic fight, Kaladin negotiates the duel to a sword-against-spear contest without Stormlight — Plate and Blades and unrelated talents allowed, but no Stormlight to power them. He hands his pouches of spheres to Szeth and infuses a rock with the last he holds, sending it sailing into the sky.SA:WaT:Ch 108
new-kaladin-protects-through-love-not-callousnessProvoked by Nale's casual dismissal of a child's life — Cenn's, killed as *collateral damage* by Helaran's blade — Kaladin finds the man he had proclaimed dead many times. *New Kaladin* still protects, but accepts he might fail. He controls his sense of loss not by his father's callousness but, as Wit had told him, through love.SA:WaT:Ch 109
shardplate-is-not-castoff-and-powered-by-its-own-connectionKaladin's Plate is *his* — formed not from castoff spren but the windspren who came to him at the Fourth Ideal — and powered not by gemstones but by its own Connection to the Spiritual Realm. It is always present, manifesting only when the danger is real, and seems stronger than ordinary Plate (though Sigzil has not had time to test it).SA:WaT:Ch 109
kaladin-defeats-nale-with-the-wandersailPowerless and broken on the floor of the Skybreaker monastery, Kaladin sets aside the spear and defeats Nale with the tale of Derethil and the Wandersail, a silver flute formed of Radiant mist, and the Wind's chorus of his own practised notes — breaking the Herald into weeping recognition that the law cannot shelter him.SA:WaT:Ch 110
rejects-the-cost-of-an-edgeOn the wagon to Ishu, Kaladin tells Szeth and Nin that the price Ishar's human Fused would demand of identity, integrity, and selfhood is never worth paying — that everyone, everywhere, faces such choices, and a world in which the answer is always *sacrifice yourself* is a world of misery. Better, he says, to lose and remain themselves than to win and be hollowed out.SA:WaT:Ch 128
worth-does-not-come-from-helping-only-from-tryingThe thing Kaladin has been changing into all year crystallises under Ishar's contempt: his worth does not come from whether he successfully helps. Only from whether he tries. The cut — *you cannot help, sit down* — would once have been a spear; today it is just a line he watches go past.SA:WaT:Ch 132
decides-who-he-is-without-a-crisisPressed flat by Ishar's darkness, Kaladin sees the dead Kaladins he has been — young volunteer, squadleader, bridgeman, captain, Radiant — and recognises the shared trait that defines them: the willingness to protect and help. That is who he wants to be. He is not abandoning what he admired about himself; he is finding a healthier way to keep being him. He takes a breath and stands up.SA:WaT:Ch 138
speaks-the-fourth-ideal-of-the-windrunnersWith Ishar's hand at his throat and the Heralds' darkness still pressed through his bond, Kaladin lays a comforting hand on the Herald's shoulder and speaks his Fourth Ideal as a Windrunner — *I will protect myself, so that I may continue to protect others* — a counterpoint, learned in peace, to the storm in which Teft taught him the Third.SA:WaT:Ch 139
tells-ishar-he-is-szeths-therapistAsked by Ishar what he is — a spren, a god — Kaladin answers that he is just an old spear who would not break, and then, more honestly, that he is Szeth's *therapist*. He admits he has no idea what that is, only that the work is real. The mere fact of his standing up against the Heralds' darkness lets Szeth and Syl stir under their own cords of light.SA:WaT:Ch 139
speaks-the-fifth-ideal-of-the-windrunnersOn the field in Shinovar, with Ishar's darkness draining into him through the Bondsmith's tether, Kaladin speaks the Fifth Ideal of the Windrunners — the Words by which he becomes, at last, fully himself. The Wind herself answers that they are accepted.SA:WaT:Ch 140
becomes-herald-of-second-chancesOn the Shin field, Kaladin takes Jezrien's open slot in the reforged Oathpact — *I accept this journey* — and rises as Herald of Kings, Herald of the Wind, and Herald of Second Chances. His eyes darken back to brown.SA:WaT:Ch 144
made-immortal-by-vedels-methodIshar kneels and touches Kaladin's temples to work Vedel's method — a Surge born of oath forged and a fragment of god, used long ago to make the original Heralds and never to require another's death. Syl finds his hand. His eyes burn away as if he had been struck by a Shardblade, and his body is left behind as his soul is pulled with the others toward Braize.SA:WaT:Ch 145
takes-jezriens-place-among-heraldsKaladin joins the surviving Heralds in Jezrien's place under the reshaped Oathpact that Ishar has refounded — minds drawn to a refuge the enemy cannot reach, so that the Heralds may heal rather than return broken.SA:WaT:Postlude

Events

SA:WoK:Ch 38 Fevered on the barrack floor; unconsciously draws Stormlight from Teft's spheres and partially heals
SA:WoK:Ch 40 Sits with the bowl Dunny brings him and does not eat; thinks he is losing his grip
SA:WoK:Ch 49 Watches, leaning against the chasm wall, a frillbloom opening orange fronds beside his head
SA:WoK:Ch 55 POV; watches the assault from a plateau the army won early; coordinates the escape-prep
SA:WoK:Ch 57 Receives the story; afterwards presses Teft for what he has been holding back
SA:WoK:Ch 59 POV; locks in the armor-grab plan with Lopen
SA:WoK:Ch 62 Wears the prayer; works on the wounded after the run
SA:WoK:Ch 66 POV; consciously bursts Stormlight for the first time; spear in hand against the Parshendi rank
SA:WoK:Ch 67 POV; speaks the First Ideal at the chasm
SA:WoK:Ch 75 Accepts captaincy of Dalinar's bodyguard with Bridge Four
SA:WaT:Ch 41 In the doorway holding Nightblood, told not to intervene; watches the duel from the opening as the floor drops.
SA:WaT:Ch 45 Walks the road into Koring with Szeth and Syl, cloth-wrapped Stoneward Honorblade across his shoulder; talks him through warrior thoughts, then hovers beside him over the crowd while Szeth proclaims himself.
SA:WaT:Ch 53 Finds Szeth sprawled on the grass after his Elsegate back out of Shadesmar, two new Honorblades beside him.
SA:WaT:Ch 66 Hangs back from the woman with the broom at Szeth's request, then haunts the doorway as Szeth weeps over the toy.
SA:WaT:Ch 72 Tries one last appeal at the threshold, has half the swords thrust into his pack, then is held back by Nale as Szeth steps inside.
SA:WaT:Ch 90 Takes Szeth's pack of Blades and waits outside the monastery; steps into the doorway when Nale confirms Szeth is being auditioned for Jezrien's seat.
SA:WaT:Ch 95 Off-camera on the next hillside teaching himself one halting flute song, the music breaking Szeth's tightening grief just long enough to let him breathe.
SA:WaT:Ch 97 Stands in a back corner with an emotionless face, the man whose gift sword Adolin chose to wear.
SA:WaT:Ch 105 Vision-Kaladin guards Elhokar's side up the stair, follows Navani out of the palace instead of staying to fight, and — pleaded with to find whatever of the real Stormblessed is in him — runs to activate the Kholinar Oathgate from its control building.
SA:WaT:Ch 108 Walks the highland road with Szeth under a sky he calls a borderland between their worlds, refuses to give him an order, talks honestly about killing as a soldier-leader's burden, and helps split the Honorblades between their two packs.
SA:WaT:Ch 126 Rides up front on the wagon bench with Szeth and Syl, notes how *small* the Shin horses are, and acknowledges that both their journeys started in small far-away places.
SA:WaT:Ch 128 Watching the road from the front seat between Szeth and Syl, Kaladin presses Nin for the *why* of Ishar's plan and argues — successfully — that no edge is worth the cost of selfhood.
SA:WaT:Ch 130 Kaladin tells Ishar they have come to talk, not fight, and watches the six Honorbearers fan out around Szeth.
SA:WaT:Ch 146 Lies dead in the Shinovar grass beside Szeth — no breath, no pulse, eyes burned to pits of blackness where Ishar's Blade had pulled his soul out of the body — his pack beside him holding a small woolen sheep and a carved wooden horse.
SA:WaT:Postlude Walks down the ridge to Kalak in Kholin blue and squats nearby — calm, empathetic, persistent. Offers his hand and the line that, since everything is already doomed, what is the harm in one more try.
SA:WoR:Ch 28 Leads the four-man scouting patrol from Dalinar's personal guard that intercepts the caravan; introduces himself only as "Kal," dark-haired and unsmiling. The disguised short-name is load-bearing — neither he nor Shallan (playing a Horneater princess) recognizes the other in this first meeting.
SA:WoR:Ch 36 Recognises Shallan as the boot-stealing Horneater "princess" from the road, accuses her of opportunism — Adolin's betrothed has drowned — trades increasingly personal insults with her in front of his men, and finally takes her spanreed-sheet in to Navani and waves her through.
SA:WoR:Ch 51 At the planning meeting tells Dalinar that Bridges Five and Twelve still identify as bridgemen and are well placed for a quick retreat; backs Adolin's argument that Dalinar should not ride out himself.
SA:WoR:Ch 64 POV of the prison-cell scene; lies on the bench, draws Stormlight into the dun sphere set just out of reach.
SA:WoR:Ch 69 Leads the way through the chasms by spherelight tied to his spear; trades barbs with Shallan about class and station, and yields when the scraping carapace draws close.
SA:WoR:Ch 70 Shares the chasm camp with Shallan over flatbread and chull jerky, then watches her sketch their route as a map from above.
SA:WoR:Ch 70 Wakes Shallan in the pre-dawn dark and leads her on through the chasm, falls quiet as the sun rises, and presses her about why she really came to the Shattered Plains.
SA:WoR:Ch 72 Cut free of the chasmfiend's jaws by Shallan, leg bound with strips of her dress, talks her into carving a flood-line cubby and climbs up to it on a one-legged drag.
SA:WoR:Ch 75 Ragged from days in the chasms, leg wrapped, salutes Dalinar in the triage tent and presents a chasmfiend gemheart wrapped in his uniform coat.
SA:WoR:Ch 76 On his torn leg in the muster, stiffens at sight of Amaram, hears him confess and is the one to whom Amaram says he is sorry, and would do it again.
SA:WoR:Ch 80 Walks his daily limping circuit of the empty warcamp in Weeping rain, then refuses to flatter the king and tells him to step down — and, after Elhokar leaves, is left more rattled by the man's sincerity than by his anger.
SA:WoR:Ch 81 Limps to the dueling grounds in the Weeping rain looking for Wit and settles for Zahel — then tries the spear in the flooded courtyard and falls to his knees when the squadleader's words from Tien's death come out of his own mouth.
SA:WoR:Ch 82 Splits his sutures running up the Pinnacle switchbacks on his crutch, then takes the king's door from Graves's two men with a feinted whisper and elbow-strikes.
SA:WoR:Ch 82 Spears the cleft-chinned guard who has stabbed Elhokar, binds the king's wound, gets him into a dark corridor — and turns to face Moash and Graves in the very place he once fell defending Dalinar from Szeth.
SA:WoR:Ch 83 Stands bleeding between Elhokar and Moash's Shardblade and offers Moash the harder path: come to Dalinar together; he will see Moash gets justice from Roshone instead.
SA:WoR:Ch 84 Speaks the Third Ideal over Elhokar's body, draws the Stormlight out of every lamp in the corridor, takes the first Radiant Blade of the new age out of Syl's mist, and tells Moash that the Knights Radiant have returned.
SA:WoR:Ch 85 Falls out of the black sky like a comet in front of a slowly drifting Dalinar, crashes down before Bridge Four in an expanding ring of white Light marked with a sword-glyph, and tells the Assassin in White that the sky and the winds are his.
SA:WoR:Ch 86 Lands in the ring of his own white Light before Bridge Four, lets the outer Stormlight evaporate, sends Dalinar to shelter and the men to retreat, and walks past the lit lanterns Bridge Four throws down for him to drink before launching himself at the assassin.
SA:WoR:Ch 87 Walks across the morning-lit wreckage of the Plains with the assassin's sword on his shoulder, Lashing himself weightless to drift between plateaus, and braces to find his men dead.
SA:WoR:Ch 87 Drops off the columnar plateau and floats down to land in stride before Dalinar, Navani, and Shallan with the assassin's sword on his shoulder, slave brands still on his forehead, pale blue glowing eyes — and smiles when Navani demands where her son is.
SA:WoR:Ch 89 Stands in the windowed room at the top of Urithiru inspecting one of its ten short pillars; names Dalinar Bondsmith and Shallan Lightweaver; and on hearing the Everstorm will turn the parshmen into Voidbringers strides for the exit to *fall* the whole continent home to Hearthstone and save his parents.

Relations

relatedTien — Kaladin remembers Tien among the dead he could not save — the most personal grief in his litany of failures. SA:WoK:Ch 2
relatedAmaram — Kaladin's slave brand was given in Amaram's army; his bitterness about lost honor traces back there. SA:WoK:Ch 2
fulfillsTien — Tien wanted to come fight in the king's army on the Shattered Plains. Kaladin reaches the Plains by accident, in a slave's cage, eight months too late. SA:WoK:Ch 4
relatedBridge Four — Assigned to Bridge Four by Hashal on arrival in Sadeas's camp SA:WoK:Ch 6
relatedSylphrena — Bonded windspren who refuses to leave him SA:WoK:Ch 6
relatedSylphrena — Leaves him — fearing for her own self if she stays in Sadeas's camp — promising to try to return SA:WoK:Ch 9
relatedLirin — Father; surgeon-apprenticeship under whom Kal trains from age eight SA:WoK:Ch 10
relatedHesina — Mother; assists in serious operations SA:WoK:Ch 10
relatedJam — Childhood acquaintance whose quarterstaff training Kal sneaks off to watch with Tien SA:WoK:Ch 10
relatedTeft — First bridgeman whose name Kaladin learns; the start of Bridge Four as something more than expendable SA:WoK:Ch 11
relatedBridge Four — Takes the bridgeleadership and the responsibility for the men SA:WoK:Ch 11
relatedLaral — Childhood companion, the citylord's daughter — already a complicated friendship SA:WoK:Ch 16
foreshadowsBrightlord Wistiow — Bequeathes the loan-sphere globe as Kal's Kharbranth tuition — the act seals Kal's path before he can choose it himself SA:WoK:Ch 16
relatedMiasal — The first patient he loses — at thirteen, before he has decided who he is SA:WoK:Ch 19
relatedRock — Recruits Rock as a Bridge Four lieutenant SA:WoK:Ch 20
relatedTeft — Wins Teft's loyalty after the shared-edge speech SA:WoK:Ch 20
foreshadowsKnobweed sap — The reason he needs the stone-gathering detail — he intends to harvest knobweed for antiseptic SA:WoK:Ch 20
foreshadowsAmaram — Tells Rock and Teft only that he killed a lighteyes in Amaram's army and was punished for refusing the reward — the wound has not closed SA:WoK:Ch 22
relatedLirin — First time he hears the village call his father a butcher SA:WoK:Ch 25
relatedSadeas-camp Apothecary — Sells him milked knobweed sap in return for the supplies Sadeas forbade SA:WoK:Ch 27
relatedMoash — Names him subsquad leader for the very stubbornness that fought him SA:WoK:Ch 30
relatedLopen — Picks the one-armed Herdazian into Bridge Four against Gaz's better judgement SA:WoK:Ch 32
fulfillsRoped to the Wall — Hung from the barrack wall to be killed by the next highstorm SA:WoK:Ch 34
foreshadowsThe Face in the Stormwall — The smiling face in the silent moment of the storm — Kaladin does not yet know what it was SA:WoK:Ch 35
foreshadowsTeft — Teft sees the dun sphere and understands something he had thought lost from the world SA:WoK:Ch 35
foreshadowsLaral — Vows to repay the stolen spheres to her, not to Roshone — even as he hears that Rillir is about to claim her SA:WoK:Ch 37
foreshadowsThe Knights Radiant — Teft is the first witness — Stormlight bleeds from a sphere into Kaladin's wounds, the very thing the Envisagers tried to provoke SA:WoK:Ch 38
relatedRoshone — Realises he would have let Roshone die — discovers he is capable of killing SA:WoK:Ch 41
foreshadowsTien — Promises Lirin in the rain that he will bring Tien home in four years — by the storms and the Almighty's tenth name SA:WoK:Ch 44
fulfillsCoreb — Gives him the won Shardblade rather than be made a lighteyes by it SA:WoK:Ch 47
fulfillsBridge Four — Begins turning the crew into a trained spear-squad in the chasms SA:WoK:Ch 49
foreshadowsHoid — The Wandersail story plants the choice Kaladin will have to make SA:WoK:Ch 57
fulfillsStormlight — First conscious, undeniable burst — a wave of white force flings the Parshendi rank back SA:WoK:Ch 66
fulfillsThe Knights Radiant — Speaks the First Ideal SA:WoK:Ch 67
fulfillsDalinar Kholin — Frees Bridge Four and makes Kaladin captain of his bodyguard SA:WoK:Ch 75
foreshadowsSecond Ideal of the Windrunners — Kaladin has reasoned out the Second Ideal on his own, well before he is ready to speak it. SA:WoR:Ch 5
foreshadowsThe Knights Radiant — Pressed by Syl that he will have to become what Dalinar Kholin is looking for, Kaladin promises that he will try. SA:WoR:Ch 9
relatedAmaram — Amaram took Kaladin's won Shardblade, branded him a slave, and sold him; arrives at the Shattered Plains a year later as Dalinar's honored guest. SA:WoR:Ch 12
foreshadowsMoash — Kaladin and Moash silently agree to get back at Sadeas and Amaram for what they have done to them — the seed of a shared revenge that will shape their bond. SA:WoR:Ch 16
relatedAmaram — On the dark switchback below the Pinnacle, Kaladin confesses to Dalinar that he killed the Shardbearer whose Blade Amaram now wears, and that Amaram kept the Shards by slaughtering the squad and branding the lone witness *shash*. SA:WoR:Ch 22
foreshadowsSkybreakers — After Kaladin tells Syl he will find his own justice against Amaram, she names the order he is in danger of becoming — the Skybreakers — and warns him this is not who he is supposed to be. SA:WoR:Ch 22
foreshadowsMoash — Kaladin asks Natam about the king's balcony and Natam unprompted volunteers that Moash lingered alone on it that night; Kaladin notes the coincidence and refuses to follow the thought — but suspicion has been seeded. SA:WoR:Ch 25
relatedShallan Davar — First meeting between Shallan and Kaladin: same encounter on the road, viewed in this chapter from Shallan's POV — she plays a Horneater princess, he is the unsmiling 'Kal' commanding the patrol. Neither recognizes the other. SA:WoR:Ch 28

Backreferences

summarySA:DS:Ch 2
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summarySA:DS:Ch 12
summarySA:DS:Epilogue
summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 51
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factSquires · description
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factHobble's Brook · description
factHobbleken · description
factLurg · description
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factToravi · description
factAric · description
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factOroden · description
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factHornhollow · description
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factKhen · description
factThe shrill yellow spren · description
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factThe shrill yellow spren · is-a-voidspren-guiding-the-parshmen
factSah · description
factNalma · description
factTasinar · description
factVai · description
summarySA:OB:Ch 20
factSah · refuses-the-promise-that-talking-buys-freedom
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factThe shrill yellow spren · looks-shin-and-builds-stone-as-she-walks
factThe shrill yellow spren · is-only-a-messenger-not-a-decisionmaker
factRevolar · description
factHesh · description
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summarySA:OB:Ch 27
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factFused · fly-on-dark-stormlight-and-recognize-radiants
factRevolar · occupied-by-parshmen-after-the-everstorm
factYixli · description
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factDru · description
factVevidar · description
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factRistina · description
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factFen Rnamdi · agrees-to-visit-urithiru
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factDeathbend River · description
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factWindrunner River · description
factSunmaker Mountains · description
factWindblades · description
factPalace Monastery · description
factKilling field · description
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factNoromin · description
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factFused · voidbringer-army-camped-outside-kholinar
factHighmarshal Azure · description
factWall Guard · wholly-lighteyed
summarySA:OB:Ch 73
factVaceslv · description
factDeedanor · description
summarySA:OB:Ch 74
summarySA:OB:Ch 77
factNoro · description
summarySA:OB:Ch 78
factHighmarshal Azure · keeps-her-gender-question-open-as-a-discipline-tool
summarySA:OB:Ch 79
factVardinar · description
summarySA:OB:Ch 81
factBattalionlord Hadinar · description
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factHighmarshal Azure · azure-came-to-roshar-through-cultivations-perpendicularity-chasing-a-criminal
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factCelebrant · description
summarySA:OB:Ch 99
factReachers · description
factCaptain Ico · description
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factFourth Ideal of the Windrunners · description
summarySA:OB:Ch 110
factHighmarshal Azure · azure-knows-zahel-and-stays-behind
summarySA:OB:Ch 112
factTarah · description
summarySA:OB:Ch 113
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factTarat Sea · description
summarySA:RoW:Prologue
summarySA:RoW:Ch 1
factDieno enne Calah · description
summarySA:RoW:Ch 2
factHeavenly Ones · description
summarySA:RoW:Ch 3
summarySA:RoW:Ch 5
factLeshwi · reborn-after-cord-killed-her
factLeshwi · description
factHeavenly Ones · one-on-one-protocol
summarySA:RoW:Ch 6
factLeshwi · spares-sigzil-for-kaladin
summarySA:RoW:Ch 7
factFused · voidlight-suppressor-fielded
summarySA:RoW:Ch 8
summarySA:RoW:Ch 9
summarySA:RoW:Ch 10
factYunfah · description
factLezian, the Pursuer · killed-by-windrunner
summarySA:RoW:Ch 12
factMayalaran · description
factAgonyspren · description
summarySA:RoW:Ch 14
factLeshwi · prior-claim-on-stormblessed
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factFused · weapon-that-unravels-the-soul
summarySA:RoW:Ch 18
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summarySA:RoW:Ch 21
factZahel's Coin · description
summarySA:RoW:Ch 23
factAdin · description
factHawin · description
summarySA:RoW:Ch 25
factCressa · description
summarySA:RoW:Ch 30
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summarySA:RoW:Ch 44
factthe Sibling · leads-kaladin-through-hidden-doors-to-an-eleventh-floor-sanctuary
factthe Sibling's Hidden Tunnels · description
summarySA:RoW:Ch 46
factthe Sibling · third-bondsmith-spren
summarySA:RoW:Ch 49
factKuno · description
summarySA:RoW:Ch 53
factVenli · slips-into-rhythm-of-pleading-in-front-of-leshwi
factLeshwi · shelters-stormblesseds-family-from-the-pursuer
summarySA:RoW:Ch 55
factthe Sibling · cannot-attune-doors-to-individuals-anymore
summarySA:RoW:Ch 58
factthe Sibling · contacts-kaladin-via-garnet-light-to-defend-a-node
summarySA:RoW:Ch 59
factRaboniel · studies-modern-windrunner-as-naturally-recurring-pattern
factRaboniel · rebirth-threat-as-deterrent-against-being-killed
factThe Pursuer · limited-to-three-bodies-per-engagement
factThe Pursuer · vow-to-hunt-his-killers-forever
factBattle Shock · description
factPersonal Lift Device · better-underwater-than-in-air
summarySA:RoW:Ch 71
summarySA:RoW:Ch 72
factthe Sibling · transformation-almost-complete-after-third-node
summarySA:RoW:Ch 74
summarySA:RoW:Ch 79
summarySA:RoW:Ch 80
factDesign · description
summarySA:RoW:Ch 83
summarySA:RoW:Ch 84
summarySA:RoW:Ch 85
factLift · heals-kaladin-with-progression
summarySA:RoW:Ch 90
summarySA:RoW:Ch 91
summarySA:RoW:Ch 96
summarySA:RoW:Ch 100
factthe Sibling · warns-kaladin-of-final-node-and-radiant-deaths
summarySA:RoW:Ch 101
summarySA:RoW:Ch 102
factVenli · plan-smuggle-kaladin-family
factshash glyph · description
summarySA:RoW:Ch 103
summarySA:RoW:Ch 104
factVenli · chose-to-help-not-because-of-timbre
factThe Pursuer · forced-into-fourth-and-last-body
summarySA:RoW:Ch 105
summarySA:RoW:Ch 106
factThe Pursuer · killed-at-the-great-window-on-his-final-body
summarySA:RoW:Ch 107
summarySA:RoW:Ch 108
summarySA:RoW:Ch 109
summarySA:RoW:Ch 110
summarySTD:TSM:Ch 41
factElegy · released-from-chains-and-armed-with-shardspear
summarySA:WoK:Ch 1
summarySA:WoK:Ch 2
summarySA:WoK:Ch 3
summarySA:WoK:Ch 4
summarySA:WoK:Ch 6
factSylphrena · description
summarySA:WoK:Ch 9
factSylphrena · fading-memories
factBridge Four · highest-casualties
factGemheart · description
summarySA:WoK:Ch 10
factLirin · two-kinds-of-people
factLirin · description
factHesina · description
factHearthstone · description
factDeathspren · description
summarySA:WoK:Ch 11
factThe Lost Radiants · blamed-for-storm-thefts
factGaz · bribed-by-kaladin
factSylphrena · returns-to-kaladin
factBridge Four · kaladin-bridgeleader
factTeft · description
summarySA:WoK:Ch 14
factGaz · bridgeleaders-only-in-field
factSylphrena · learns-what-lying-is
factSylphrena · memory-only-one-year-back
factMoash · description
factRock · description
factLeyten · description
factDunny · description
factThe Nightwatcher · description
summarySA:WoK:Ch 16
factBrightlord Wistiow · dies-leaves-tuition
factLaral · description
factJost · description
factSnarlbrush · description
factThe Origin · description
factTien's Rocks · description
summarySA:WoK:Ch 19
factMiasal · description
factHarl · description
factValama · description
summarySA:WoK:Ch 20
factSadeas · no-supplies-to-bridgemen
factSylphrena · asks-why-men-lie
factHobber · description
factDabbid · description
factEarless Jaks · description
factSadeas-camp Apothecary · description
factKnobweed · description
factKnobweed sap · description
summarySA:WoK:Ch 22
factMishim · description
summarySA:WoK:Ch 25
summarySA:WoK:Ch 27
factGaz · assigns-bridge-four-chasm-duty
factBridge Four · starts-training-with-rock-teft
factSadeas-camp Apothecary · trades-with-kaladin
summarySA:WoK:Ch 30
factBisig · description
summarySA:WoK:Ch 31
factLirin · drunk-confession-stay-in-kharbranth
summarySA:WoK:Ch 32
factLopen · description
factSide carry · description
summarySA:WoK:Ch 34
factSylphrena · feels-cold-for-the-first-time
factBridge Four · first-promise-to-remember-kaladin
factLamaril · executed-by-sadeas
summarySA:WoK:Ch 35
factSadeas · stormfather-judgement-overruled
factTeft · knows-what-he-sees
factThe Face in the Stormwall · description
summarySA:WoK:Ch 37
factKaladin · accepts-his-fathers-theft
factLirin · stole-wistiows-spheres
summarySA:WoK:Ch 38
factTeft · knows-of-the-radiants
factThe Envisagers · description
summarySA:WoK:Ch 40
summarySA:WoK:Ch 41
factKaladin · discovers-he-could-kill
factLirin · saves-roshone-after-whitespine
factRillir · dies-from-whitespine-attack
summarySA:WoK:Ch 43
factBridge Four · agrees-to-arm-and-attempt-escape
summarySA:WoK:Ch 44
factKaladin · volunteers-to-go-with-tien
factRoshone · picks-tien-for-amarams-levy
factLirin · loses-both-sons-to-amaram
factThe Weeping · description
summarySA:WoK:Ch 47
factHelaran Davar · description
factCoreb · description
factToorim · description
summarySA:WoK:Ch 49
factSkar · description
factFrillbloom · description
summarySA:WoK:Ch 53
factMoash · swears-to-kaladin
factDunny · killed-on-a-bridge-run
summarySA:WoK:Ch 55
factRock · knows-to-build-a-bow
summarySA:WoK:Ch 57
factHoid · tells-kaladin-wandersail
factTeft · confesses-his-envisager-past
factThe Wandersail · description
summarySA:WoK:Ch 59
summarySA:WoK:Ch 62
factPrayer Glyphward · description
summarySA:WoK:Ch 66
summarySA:WoK:Ch 67
factKaladin · speaks-the-first-ideal
factSylphrena · becomes-a-shardblade-for-kaladin
factFirst Ideal of the Knights Radiant · description
summarySA:WoK:Ch 75
factDalinar Kholin · trades-oathbringer-for-bridgemen
summarySA:WaT:Ch 1
factUrithiru · awakened-tower-lengthens-lashings
summarySA:WaT:Ch 2
factTowerlight · calming-not-quickening
summarySA:WaT:Ch 4
factthe Wind · older-than-the-rosharan-gods
factthe Wind · description
summarySA:WaT:Ch 6
factIshar · kills-spren-by-bringing-them-physical
factSzeth-son-son-Vallano · fourth-ideal-quest
factKaladin · offered-urithiru-heirship
factKaladin · treats-battle-shock
factHouse Stormblessed · description
factDami · description
summarySA:WaT:Ch 8
factDabbid · drawing-an-honorspren
summarySA:WaT:Ch 9
factSkar · born-to-teach
summarySA:WaT:Ch 10
factSylphrena · takes-up-scribing-for-kaladin
factSylphrena · physical-form-canonical
summarySA:WaT:Ch 12
factKaladin · bridge-four-tattoo-takes
factSigzil · named-commander-of-the-windrunners
summarySA:WaT:Ch 13
summarySA:WaT:Ch 16
factShallan Davar · fourth-ideal-armor-cannot-move-on-others
summarySA:WaT:Ch 19
factSzeth-son-son-Vallano · now-calls-himself-son-honor
factSzeth-son-son-Vallano · returns-to-shinovar-after-truthless-exile
factSigzil · commands-shattered-plains-defence
summarySA:WaT:Ch 21
summarySA:WaT:Ch 22
factSzeth-son-son-Vallano · met-shinovar-unmade-in-his-youth-with-a-rock
summarySA:WaT:Ch 23
summarySA:WaT:Ch 28
summarySA:WaT:Ch 33
factIshar · bears-heralds-darkness-via-oathpact
factthe Wind · kaladin-music-calls-the-wind
summarySA:WaT:Ch 35
factShinovar · ancient-spren-of-wind-stone-and-night-older-than-gods
factSylphrena · wants-to-stop-living-for-kaladin-after-tower
summarySA:WaT:Ch 40
summarySA:WaT:Ch 41
factRit-daughter-Clutio · drew-on-mysterious-power-source-during-duel
summarySA:WaT:Ch 42
factKaladin · tells-szeth-radiants-watch-the-rim-for-the-people
factthe Wind · claims-kaladin-mission-in-shinovar-as-more-important
summarySA:WaT:Ch 43
summarySA:WaT:Ch 44
summarySA:WaT:Ch 45
factSzeth-son-son-Vallano · szeths-highspren-admits-szeth-is-first-bonded-knight
summarySA:WaT:Ch 52
factKaladin · first-deliberate-happiness-since-tiens-death
summarySA:WaT:Ch 53
factSzeth-son-son-Vallano · opens-first-elsegate
summarySA:WaT:I-7
summarySA:WaT:Ch 64
factSzeth-son-son-Vallano · plans-his-own-death-after-pilgrimage
factthe Wind · weakening-and-stormfather-withdrawn
summarySA:WaT:Ch 66
factSzeth-son-son-Vallano · taken-from-home-at-eleven
factKaladin · three-rules-for-szeth
factSylphrena · bond-growth-increases-physical-strength
summarySA:WaT:Ch 71
factNalan'Elin · shin-law-founded-by-jezrien-on-arrival
factThe Heralds · arrived-on-roshar-by-elsecalling
summarySA:WaT:Ch 72
summarySA:WaT:Ch 73
factSylphrena · helps-szeth-solve-lightweaver-trial
summarySA:WaT:Ch 74
factSigzil · loses-first-squire-deti
summarySA:WaT:Ch 78
factSigzil · comes-into-his-command-on-the-plains
summarySA:WaT:Ch 86
factKaladin · accepts-the-listening-kind-of-help
factKaladin · wind-asks-him-to-save-the-heralds
fact12124 · description
factDissenters · description
summarySA:WaT:Ch 89
factNalan'Elin · remembers-standing-between-darkness-and-life
summarySA:WaT:Ch 90
summarySA:WaT:Ch 95
summarySA:WaT:Ch 97
summarySA:WaT:Ch 103
factSigzil · knows-the-name-of-his-killer-not-this-fused
factthe Wind · loves-stones-but-her-touch-slowly-wears-them
factthe Wind · names-the-flaws-of-each-herald
factthe Wind · tells-kaladin-szeth-will-soon-be-a-herald
factCarrot · description
factPralla · description
summarySA:WaT:Ch 105
factNavani Kholin · escaped-spiritual-realm-via-vision-oathgate
summarySA:WaT:Ch 108
factNalan'Elin · herald-immortality-sealed-by-arts-separate-from-the-oathpact
factSzeth-son-son-Vallano · names-kaladin-his-champion-against-nale
factKaladin · agrees-to-fight-nale-without-stormlight
factSkybreaker Monastery · description
summarySA:WaT:Ch 109
factLift · only-mortal-to-have-defeated-nale-in-single-combat
factNalan'Elin · uses-the-true-skills-of-a-herald
factNalan'Elin · dispatched-helaran-to-kill-amaram
factNalan'Elin · rationalises-pre-desolation-radiant-killings-as-correct
factKaladin · new-kaladin-protects-through-love-not-callousness
factKaladin · shardplate-is-not-castoff-and-powered-by-its-own-connection
summarySA:WaT:Ch 110
factNalan'Elin · nale-broke-mind-thousand-years-ago
factKaladin · kaladin-defeats-nale-with-the-wandersail
factthe Wind · wind-returned-song-as-to-cephandrius
summarySA:WaT:Ch 119
factNalan'Elin · nale-gives-skybreaker-honorblade-to-szeth-for-safekeeping
summarySA:WaT:Ch 123
factAdolin Kholin · kept-in-line-by-the-memory-of-kaladins-bridge-runs
summarySA:WaT:Ch 126
summarySA:WaT:Ch 128
factThe Heralds · more-resilient-than-mortals-vedel-kalak-chana-weakening
factSzeth-son-son-Vallano · decides-ishar-must-be-stopped
factKaladin · rejects-the-cost-of-an-edge
summarySA:WaT:Ch 129
factIshar · connected-himself-to-shinovar-and-became-the-spren-of-the-land
factthe Wind · older-than-honor-cultivation-and-odium
summarySA:WaT:Ch 130
factIshar · he-loved-alaswha-and-will-fight-for-roshar
factSzeth-son-son-Vallano · chooses-to-lose-the-final-test-on-purpose
summarySA:WaT:Ch 131
factHoid · was-present-when-alaswha-was-destroyed-and-spoke-of-the-shards
factIshar · wrote-down-derethils-wandersail-three-thousand-years-ago
summarySA:WaT:Ch 132
factKaladin · worth-does-not-come-from-helping-only-from-trying
factHonorbearer · react-to-ishars-emotions-as-puppets
summarySA:WaT:Ch 134
factIshar · shields-himself-with-solid-stormlight
summarySA:WaT:Ch 135
factIshar · pushes-the-heralds-darkness-through-bonds
summarySA:WaT:Ch 138
factKaladin · decides-who-he-is-without-a-crisis
factSylphrena · experiences-the-opposite-of-pain-as-darkness
summarySA:WaT:Ch 139
factKaladin · speaks-the-fourth-ideal-of-the-windrunners
factKaladin · tells-ishar-he-is-szeths-therapist
summarySA:WaT:Ch 140
factNightblood · learns-the-surges-from-the-honorblades
factIshar · dark-cloud-pushed-from-the-heralds
factKaladin · speaks-the-fifth-ideal-of-the-windrunners
factFifth Ideal of the Windrunners · description
summarySA:WaT:Ch 141
summarySA:WaT:Ch 142
summarySA:WaT:Ch 143
factNightblood · chooses-not-to-kill-his-friends
factSzeth-son-son-Vallano · refuses-to-let-nightblood-take-him
summarySA:WaT:Ch 144
factThe Oathpact · reforged-on-shin-field-with-kaladin-as-tenth
factKaladin · becomes-herald-of-second-chances
factthe Wind · asks-kaladin-to-be-there-when-she-needs-him
factHerald of Second Chances · description
factKaladin's Honorspear · description
summarySA:WaT:Ch 145
factKaladin · made-immortal-by-vedels-method
summarySA:WaT:Ch 146
factSzeth-son-son-Vallano · loses-arm-becomes-truth-of-shinovar
summarySA:WaT:Ch 147
summarySA:WaT:Postlude
factKaladin · takes-jezriens-place-among-heralds
summarySA:WoR:Ch 2
factKaladin · stormlight-rejects-tattoo-ink
factKaladin · darkeyed-captain
factBridge Four · refuses-cobalt-guard-identity
factRind · description
factRlain · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 4
factDalinar Kholin · sixty-two-days-warning
summarySA:WoR:Ch 5
factElhokar Kholin · plate-gems-sabotaged
factKaladin · given-king-and-family-guard
factKaladin · figured-out-second-ideal-on-own
factMart · description
factEth · description
factThe Immortal Words · description
factSecond Ideal of the Windrunners · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 8
summarySA:WoR:Ch 9
factKaladin · promise-to-try-radiant
factSylphrena · defied-stormfather-to-come
summarySA:WoR:Ch 12
factStormlight · heals-the-bearer
factKaladin · adhesion-experiments
factAmaram · arrives-shattered-plains
factSigzil · research-program
summarySA:WoR:Ch 14
summarySA:WoR:Ch 16
factShallan Davar · stormlight-heals
summarySA:WoR:Ch 18
factKaladin · stormlight-fails-when-not-protecting
factKaladin · refuses-swordmaster
factNiter · description
factChouta · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 22
factKaladin · tells-dalinar-about-amaram
factKaladin · red-eyes-in-the-storm
factSkybreakers · description
factNatam · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 23
factDalinar Kholin · king-attempted-by-insider-cowards
factKaladin · assigned-to-guard-king
summarySA:WoR:Ch 25
factKaladin · narrows-sabotage-window
factKaladin · learns-to-ride
factMoash · relieved-king-on-balcony
factSpray · description
factKaladin · leads-patrol-and-meets-shallan-as-horneater
summarySA:WoR:Ch 31
factTeft · reforges-other-bridge-crews
factPitt · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 32
factSzeth-son-son-Vallano · attacks-pinnacle-for-dalinar
factKaladin · warned-by-stormfather-of-syl
factKaladin · right-arm-severed-by-shardblade
factThe Stormfather · speaks-to-kaladin-in-dream
factBraize · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 33
factDalinar Kholin · knows-szeth-came-for-him-not-elhokar
factKaladin · heals-shardblade-wound-with-stormlight
factKaladin · claims-windrunner-and-szeth-flees
factHobber · legs-deadened-promised-cook-place
summarySA:WoR:Ch 35
summarySA:WoR:Ch 36
summarySA:WoR:Ch 41
factKaladin · full-lashing-figured-out
factKaladin · scars-do-not-heal
factSylphrena · honor-is-dead-lives-in-men
factRenarin Kholin · epileptic-blood-weakness
factRenarin Kholin · joins-bridge-four
factMoash · voidbringers-in-past
factKurl · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 44
factKaladin · learns-ten-shardblade-stances
factKaladin · agrees-to-hear-moash-conspirators
factSylphrena · protect-not-kill-doctrine
factMoash · behind-balcony-sabotage
factYake · description
factIvis · description
factLastclap · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 46
factPeet · description
factKa · description
factGraves · cell-aims-to-remove-elhokar-for-dalinar
factGraves · married-darkeyed
factGraves · description
factRlain · armed-by-kaladin
summarySA:WoR:Ch 50
summarySA:WoR:Ch 51
summarySA:WoR:Ch 52
factKaladin · first-full-lashing-flight
factKaladin · resolves-to-learn-shardblade
factHelaran Davar · killed-by-amaram-while-carrying-shardblade
factHelaran Davar · description
factRlain · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 53
summarySA:WoR:Ch 55
summarySA:WoR:Ch 56
summarySA:WoR:Ch 57
factKaladin · catches-a-shardblade-with-bare-hands
factKaladin · fights-shardbearers-with-spear-and-helm
factKaladin · publicly-accuses-amaram-and-demands-right-of-challenge
factAdolin Kholin · wins-six-shards-against-four-shardbearers
summarySA:WoR:Ch 58
factKaladin · imprisoned-by-elhokar-after-amaram-accusation
summarySA:WoR:Ch 59
factHoid · tells-kaladin-the-story-of-fleet
factKaladin · privately-agrees-moash-and-graves-may-be-right
factFleet · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 62
factDalinar Kholin · reveals-roshone-was-exiled-to-hearthstone
factRoshone · description
factSylphrena · cryptics-seek-second-surgebinder
summarySA:WoR:Ch 64
summarySA:WoR:Ch 66
factAdolin Kholin · locked-himself-in-cell-during-kaladins-imprisonment
factAdolin Kholin · description
factMoash · gifted-blade-and-plate-by-kaladin
factMoash · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 68
factSylphrena · tells-kaladin-the-knights-radiant-were-all-broken-men
factGraves · revised-plan-to-shoot-the-king-with-a-bow
factThe bridge saboteur · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 69
summarySA:WoR:Ch 70
factShallan Davar · remembers-shape-of-every-plateau-on-shattered-plains-maps
summarySA:WoR:Ch 71
factShallan Davar · summons-a-shardblade-of-her-own
factShallan's Shardblade · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 72
factShallan Davar · lightweaves-illusions-of-herself-and-kaladin-to-distract-chasmfiend
factShallan's Shardblade · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 74
factKaladin · stormfather-tells-him-he-has-killed-syl-and-cuts-him-off
factShallan Davar · original-plan-was-to-rob-jasnah-of-her-soulcaster
factSylphrena · description
factHelaran Davar · died-fighting-amarams-army-in-alethkar
factThe Stormfather · speaks-to-kaladin-directly-in-the-eye-of-the-storm
summarySA:WoR:Ch 75
summarySA:WoR:Ch 76
factKaladin · cannot-draw-stormlight-after-the-storm-eye
factAmaram · confesses-murdering-kaladins-squad-for-the-blade
factAmaram · description
factIalai Sadeas · was-the-one-who-engaged-the-assassin-in-white
summarySA:WoR:Ch 77
factMoash · holds-the-king-in-the-palace-during-the-weeping
summarySA:WoR:Ch 78
factShallan Davar · tells-dalinar-her-lightweaving-can-heal-her
factRlain · was-a-parshendi-spy-in-the-warcamps-three-years
summarySA:WoR:Ch 80
factElhokar Kholin · whispering-shadows-quiet-around-kaladin
factElhokar Kholin · admits-sadeas-betrayal-was-his-fault
summarySA:WoR:Ch 81
factKaladin · realises-elhokar-is-dalinars-tien
summarySA:WoR:Ch 82
factKaladin · chooses-to-save-the-king
summarySA:WoR:Ch 83
factKaladin · offers-moash-justice-against-roshone
factKaladin · speaks-the-third-ideal
factKaladin · declares-knights-radiant-returned
factSylphrena · manifests-as-shardblade
factSylphrena · description
factGraves · admits-diagrams-error-about-kaladin
factThird Ideal of the Windrunners · description
factThe Diagram · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 85
factKaladin · catches-dalinar-out-of-the-sky
factAdolin Kholin · outclassed-by-the-assassin-in-white
summarySA:WoR:Ch 86
factSzeth-son-son-Vallano · blade-does-not-vanish-after-death
factSzeth-son-son-Vallano · description
factKaladin · kills-szeth-on-the-stormwall
factSylphrena · was-only-as-dead-as-kaladins-oaths
factThe Stormfather · rushes-a-highstorm-to-end-the-war
summarySA:WoR:Ch 87
factHonorblade · description
factSzeth-son-son-Vallano · carried-an-honorblade
factKaladin · eyes-turn-pale-blue
factKaladin · hides-elhokar-in-the-lopen-family-hovel
factBisig · loses-a-hand-to-the-assassin-in-white
factLopen · first-surgebinds-and-regrows-his-arm
factLopen · description
factRod · killed-by-the-parshendi
factRlain · named-and-pardoned
factSzeth-son-son-Vallano · restored-by-nin-as-a-skybreaker
factSzeth-son-son-Vallano · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 89
factKaladin · leaves-for-hearthstone-to-save-his-parents
factRenarin Kholin · is-a-truthwatcher
factBondsmith · description