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Nohadon

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born-bajerdenPressed on whether he is really himself, the ancient king admits — with the dry self-effacement that runs through his counsel — that he was born with the name Bajerden: a name no one ever seems to like.SA:WaT:Ch 142

SA:WaT:Ch 99 A voice Dalinar recognises as Nohadon drifts across the tempest in the Spiritual Realm, reciting an old exchange about *the most important words a man can say* — that one cannot choose the destination of a life, only the path; that the substance of existence is in the method, not the achievement.
SA:WaT:Ch 142 Welcomes Dalinar into a sunlit, fuzz-edged kitchen with a loaf of fresh Shin bread he had once promised in a vision the year before, teaches him to eat it properly with salted butter, and quietly walks him through the realization that defeating Odium is not for him to do — only to make possible for those who can.

relatedThe Way of Kings — Authored by the ordinary man Nohadon, not by the Knights Radiant who later used it as a guidebook SA:WoK:Ch 15

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