Lirin
Kaladin's father — a short, balding surgeon of second nahn who runs Hearthstone's surgery. Reads books, wears precious spectacles only during operations, and believes the world divides into those who save lives and those who take them. SA:WoK:Ch 10
Known facts
- two-kinds-of-peopleTeaches young Kal that the world divides into those who save lives and those who take them — and rejects the third category Kal proposes (protectors who kill to save) as trying to stop a storm by blowing harder.SA:WoK:Ch 10
- kharbranth-surgeon-planHas been saving to send his ten-year-old son to Kharbranth at sixteen to train under real surgeons — a much more ambitious path than his own Shorseboron apprenticeship.SA:WoK:Ch 10
- traveled-to-kharbranthAs a young man he traveled all the way to Kharbranth as a courier, the rare exercise of a darkeyes's right of travel.SA:WoK:Ch 10
- wistiow-leaves-spheresReturns from Brightlord Wistiow's manor that afternoon to tell young Kal that the citylord has died — and has left the goblet-globe of broam spheres to the family for the purpose of sending Kal to Kharbranth at sixteen to train as a surgeon. The decision is no longer Kal's to make.SA:WoK:Ch 16
- calluses-speechSits down beside his weeping son on the surgery steps and tells him calmly that he did the work well — that the body lost blood too quickly — that a surgeon must learn when to care and when to let go, and that he will grow calluses.SA:WoK:Ch 19
- town-blame-after-miasalAfter Miasal's death the village's gratitude curdles. Some begin in private to call him a butcher; Harl's grief becomes the focal point. Lirin continues his work without complaint, but the seed is planted.SA:WoK:Ch 25
- drunk-confession-stay-in-kharbranthSix years before, in a winter where they cannot afford charcoal because no one donates any more, drinks violet wine in the surgery and tells thirteen-year-old Kal to stay in Kharbranth when he gets there. *Don't make the same mistake I did, son. They never wanted me here.*SA:WoK:Ch 31
- shames-masked-robbers-with-lightWhen three masked townsmen come to the door for the Kharbranth-tuition spheres, Lirin strides to the threshold with the uncovered goblet of broam spheres held in front of him like a sun. The light shows the masks for what they are — Luten by his limp, Horl by his shoulders, Balsas by his new coat — and shames them into fading back into the night without a word.SA:WoK:Ch 31
- stole-wistiows-spheresFive and a half years before, in a carriage with Kal returning from a call, admits that he stole the broam-spheres from Brightlord Wistiow's estate during Wistiow's final, half-lucid days — to guarantee Kal's Kharbranth tuition. Roshone's persecution is not pure spite; the man's claim on those spheres is legitimate.SA:WoK:Ch 37
- saves-roshone-after-whitespineOperates frantically on Brightlord Roshone — turret-pierced abdomen, his son Rillir already dead on the next table — and saves him. Tells Kaladin afterwards that they must be better than Roshone is, even when his own gaze on Roshone strengthens him as he works.SA:WoK:Ch 41
- loses-both-sons-to-amaramStands one foot in a rainspren-clustered puddle, weeping, as both his sons climb into Amaram's carriage and roll away. *I've lost both of you. Storm it! Both of you.* Kaladin promises through the rain that he will bring Tien back.SA:WoK:Ch 44
Events
- SA:WoK:Ch 10 Performing the amputation; lecturing Kal on cleanliness, two-kinds-of-people, and the saved Kharbranth tuition
- SA:WoK:Ch 16 Returns from Brightlord Wistiow's manor with the news of the death and the spheres
- SA:WoK:Ch 19 Arrives after the death; sits with Kal on the steps with the calluses speech
- SA:WoK:Ch 25 Walks home through Hearthstone, unaware of the alley voices behind him
- SA:WoK:Ch 31 Drunk in the surgery; later drives off the masked robbers with the spheres held up as light
- SA:WoK:Ch 37 Confesses the theft in the carriage on the way home from a call, face shadowed and fragile in the violet moonlight of Salas
- SA:WoK:Ch 41 Operates on Roshone while his son lies dead nearby; afterwards talks Kal through why
- SA:WoK:Ch 44 Loses both sons in one rainy moment; splashes away weeping
- SA:WaT:Ch 146 Examines Sigzil in the Urithiru surgery — observes that the loss is not a physical ailment and that his son's training is in mental and emotional ones — before being shoved out by Wit mid-sentence.
Relations
- relatedKaladin — Father; surgeon-apprenticeship under whom Kal trains from age eight SA:WoK:Ch 10
- relatedKaladin — First time he hears the village call his father a butcher SA:WoK:Ch 25
- relatedRoshone — Choking off the surgery's donations to force the family to spend Kal's tuition spheres SA:WoK:Ch 31
- relatedBrightlord Wistiow — Stole the bequeathed broam spheres while Wistiow was half-lucid — to guarantee Kal's Kharbranth tuition before the new citylord could countermand the gift SA:WoK:Ch 37
Backreferences
- summarySA:OB:Ch 6
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- factNoril
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- factFused
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- factGavilar Kholin
- factKaladin
- factHesina
- factSani
- factVathe
- factHearthstone
- factShorseboron
- factFabrial Clock
- factDeathspren
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- summarySA:WoK:Ch 11
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- factBrightlord Wistiow
- factHearthstone
- factLavis polyp
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 19
- factKaladin
- factAlim
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- factKnobweed sap
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- factKaladin
- factLirin
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- factRoshone
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- factLirin
- factLuten
- factHorl
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 34
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- factKaladin
- factLaral
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- factKaladin
- factRillir
- factAlds
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 44
- factKaladin
- factRainspren
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 2
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- factRoshone