Moash
also known as Vyre
A human soldier at the Nine's council in the rebuilt Kholinar palace, sharply uniformed, perched on a ledge above the chamber with an Honorblade across his lap. Odium's favoured human, suffered by the Fused because their god placed him there. SA:RoW:Ch 14
Lean, hawkish young Alethi bridgeman from Hearthstone who became a Shardbearer in the most public way possible — receiving Adolin's won blade and plate from Kaladin himself. The first darkeyed Shardbearer in over a generation, now fourth-dahn by right of his Blade and Plate; carries the heliodor-set sword and the twisting-vine plate. Still committed to the assassination plot against King Elhokar. SA:WoR:Ch 66 superseded at SA:RoW:Ch 14
Lean, hawkish young Alethi bridgeman in Bridge Four; grandson of Ana and Da, the Kholinar shopkeepers killed by King Elhokar's neglect of due process. Co-conspirator in a plot to assassinate the king — sabotaged the Pinnacle balcony to that end. SA:WoR:Ch 44 superseded at SA:WoR:Ch 66
A lean, hawkish young Alethi bridgeman in Bridge Four near Kaladin's age. The first man Kaladin yanks out of the barrack the morning after the Honor Chasm to make his point. SA:WoK:Ch 14 superseded at SA:WoR:Ch 44
Known facts
- swears-to-kaladinSaves Kaladin from an arrow on the Dunny run; afterwards offers his hand and says he was wrong. He still does not think Kaladin is a gift from the Almighty, but he calls him an honest fool — and his commander.SA:WoK:Ch 53
- relieved-king-on-balconyNatam remembers that Moash stayed past the end of his shift after Kaladin left the king's rooms — said he wanted to see the king settled — and went out onto the balcony alone for a while. Kaladin notes the coincidence and pushes the thought away.SA:WoR:Ch 25
- voidbringers-in-pastMoash hints to Kaladin that he has Voidbringers of his own in his past, and counsels that the only justice for Amaram is a duel — man against man.SA:WoR:Ch 41
- murdered-grandparentsMoash was raised by his grandparents Ana and Da — second-nahn silversmiths in Kholinar — who were arrested on confected charges by Elhokar as a favor to a competitor and left to die in the palace dungeons waiting for an inquest he never approved.SA:WoR:Ch 44
- behind-balcony-sabotageMoash is one of the conspirators behind the sabotage of Elhokar's balcony rail — he threw the others a rope and helped stage the cut to look like a Shardblade stroke after the highstorm — and admits to Kaladin that he means to assassinate the king.SA:WoR:Ch 44
- gifted-blade-and-plate-by-kaladinGiven a Shardblade (heliodor-set, twisting-vine pattern) and a full set of orange Plate by Kaladin, who refused them himself. With the gift comes lands and stipend from Dalinar and immediate elevation to the fourth dahn — the first darkeyed Shardbearer in over a generation. Insists he is still Bridge Four, and remains Kaladin's.SA:WoR:Ch 66
- holds-the-king-in-the-palace-during-the-weepingQuartered in the palace with the four other king's-guard for Dalinar's absence, Moash tells Kaladin he and Graves will wait until Dalinar is committed against the Parshendi and then raise a false Assassin in White alarm to clear the halls before they kill the king — and that Kaladin is not needed in the act.SA:WoR:Ch 77
- name-survives-from-pre-arrival-singer-historyMoash is an ancient name surfacing in Navani's Dawnchant research — a name attested among the singers of Roshar in the era before humans arrived from another world. Dalinar takes the place of one such Moash in a Spiritual Realm vision set on the eve of the human arrival in Shinovar.SA:WaT:Ch 43
- spiked-to-see-investiture-not-lightSpikes of light hammered into the empty sockets of his burned-out eyes by Dova under the new Odium's supervision. The result: a sight that cannot perceive colour or ordinary light, but can see Investiture — people as silhouettes of light, gemstones as glows, spren plainly. Odium himself appears to him as a blazing sun ten feet away; the woman beside him glows with a different rhythm of light.SA:WaT:I-7
- burned-image-of-queen-and-teft-behind-herCarries one final image burned into his mind by the loss of his eyes: the queen of Urithiru in a halo of light, with what he swears was Teft's Radiant spirit, accusatory, rising behind her as part of the glow.SA:WaT:I-7
- agrees-to-serve-again-as-weaponRe-commits to serving the new Odium, reframed as the man he originally was — the one willing to bring justice to crowned exploiters when no one else would. Accepts the title Vyre and the role of *a very specific kind of weapon*: pain is to be a badge, every wrong is to be righted, and even old friends may be opposed when they refuse to admit they serve the highborn.SA:WaT:I-7
- opens-elsegates-with-elsecaller-honorbladeSigzil sees Moash jump up out of an open Elsegate holding the Elsecaller Honorblade, his eyes glowing violet as if filled with Voidlight — explaining how the Fused are moving entire armies onto the Plains without crossing them on foot or wing.SA:WaT:Ch 67
- crystalline-voidlight-eyesBy the Narak battlefield, Moash's eyes have been replaced with two glowing Voidlight-bright diamonds — shards of them jutting from the back and sides of his skull like a crown grown through his brains — and his sight is no longer ordinary: he can see Vienta hidden in the air beside Sigzil, an illusion-piercing gaze that turns the Radiant art of going unseen into a vulnerability.SA:WaT:Ch 81
- moash-uses-anti-spren-fabrialsMoash reveals to Sigzil that Odium's forces possess a handful of fabrials which, on touch, drop a Radiant out of the sky and prevent healing — devices the Fused are afraid of and made only with rare spren. He demanded one for himself; the others gave it under protest.SA:WaT:Ch 118
Events
- SA:WoK:Ch 14 Hauled bodily out of the barrack as Kaladin's example; calls him out to Gaz
- SA:WoK:Ch 30 Made squad leader; admits curiosity rather than trust
- SA:WoK:Ch 34 Comes out with the others despite his refusal to trust Kaladin — *I'm curious*
- SA:WoK:Ch 43 Catches the kicked spear; first up to volunteer to be trained
- SA:WoK:Ch 49 Drinks the resetting-stance drill; learns in two hours what a normal recruit needs days for
- SA:WoK:Ch 53 Saves Kaladin from a shaft meant for him; offers his hand afterwards
- SA:WoK:Ch 62 Scoffs at the prayer; afterwards allows he might get one too
- SA:WoK:Ch 66 Whispers *something just changed* — *something important*
- SA:WaT:Ch 67 Jumps up out of the Elsegate carrying the Elsecaller Honorblade, eyes glowing violet with Voidlight, oblivious to Sigzil watching from the cloud line.
- SA:WaT:Ch 81 Crystalline-eyed, carrying the Jezrien Honorblade and an anti-Stormlight knife inside a suppressor bubble; salutes Bridge Four after the kill.
- SA:WaT:Ch 118 Drops Sigzil from the sky with an anti-spren fabrial, crushes his wrist, slashes a knife of bent air at Vienta, and is driven off only by the arrival of Lopen and Bridge Four.
- SA:WoR:Ch 5 Marches with Kaladin from the firepit to the Pinnacle and is posted to the balcony during the council meeting.
- SA:WoR:Ch 18 Arrives mid-spar looking alarmed; ardents intercept and explain that the bout is training.
- SA:WoR:Ch 22 Catches the second King's Guard shift of the night; Kaladin notices his bone-tiredness and sends him for sleep after the storm — though Moash runs back when shouting starts.
- SA:WoR:Ch 23 Already at the palace when Kaladin arrives — pulled back from his walk home by the shouting. Walks the balcony with Kaladin until Dalinar orders the rest inside.
- SA:WoR:Ch 32 Stands rear-guard with the King's Guard member Ralinor, then catches Renarin and drags him back as the king's group retreats.
- SA:WoR:Ch 33 Stands door-guard with Mart and the King's Guard, and tells Kaladin that Dalinar sent men to clear the servants out in case the assassin came back.
- SA:WoR:Ch 41 Refuses to hand a bowl to Renarin; later presses Kaladin on Amaram and hints at his own grievance.
- SA:WoR:Ch 44 Trains alongside Kaladin, then admits at the water barrel that the king is the man he means to kill.
- SA:WoR:Ch 46 Hauls Kaladin out for the night, leads him through the market to the Ornery Chull, and walks him into the back room where Graves is waiting.
- SA:WoR:Ch 56 Pulled aside by Kaladin on the way into the arena and ordered out on a deep patrol toward New Natanan; refuses, admits he has been meeting with Graves's circle, and is told the order stands anyway.
- SA:WoR:Ch 66 Picked by Kaladin to receive the Shards; lifts the Blade for the first time, dons the orange Plate, and pledges himself to Kaladin's command and the conspiracy.
- SA:WoR:Ch 68 Marches with the expedition in his repainted blue-and-red Shardplate, kneels and salutes Kaladin, and whispers the revised assassination plan: Graves with a bow, Kaladin only to lead the king to a spot.
- SA:WoR:Ch 77 Comes into Kaladin's dark room in Shardplate carrying spheres for light, delivers the king's invitation and the plan, presses on the Syl question.
- SA:WoR:Ch 80 Stands at the king's door in Shardplate and shoots Kaladin a concerned glance as Elhokar orders the guards out.
- SA:WoR:Ch 82 Steps out of the dim corridor in his blue-and-red Shardplate, faceplate up, having followed Kaladin's blood trail to the king.
- SA:WoR:Ch 83 Hesitates against Kaladin's argument, then refuses to take the path back, slams his faceplate, and summons his Shardblade.
- SA:WoR:Ch 84 Breaks Kaladin's ribs with an armoured fist, freezes when he stands up again, watches him take the Blade of light from Syl — and runs.
- SA:WoR:Ch 87 Rides at the back of a wagon out of the warcamps with his hidden Shardplate in crates and drugged-dark eyes, sick at the realisation that he has been played for one of the ten fools — and does not yet know how.
- SA:RoW:Ch 14 Sits on a raised ledge above the conclave with an Honorblade across his lap, one leg dangling, and asks what Raboniel's plan does about Stormblessed — then retreats his sword tip into shadow when she dismisses the question.
- SA:WaT:Ch 118 Reports to El as a line of glowing red Voidspren light on the captured plateau that the last of the humans have been chased through the Oathgate — and is then set to lock the gate from the Fused side.
Relations
- relatedKaladin — Names him subsquad leader for the very stubbornness that fought him SA:WoK:Ch 30
- foreshadowsKaladin — 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
- foreshadowsKaladin — 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
- foreshadowsElhokar Kholin — 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
Backreferences
- summarySA:OB:Ch 5
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- factVenli
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- factPhendorana
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- factThe Pursuer
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- factBridge Four
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- factDrehy
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- factPrayer Glyphward
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- factKaladin
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- factGavinor Kholin
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- factSigzil
- factVienta
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- factMoash
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- factKaladin
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- factGraves
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- factRill
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- factThird Ideal of the Windrunners
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- factGraves