Vathah
Tall, bearded, with arms that look too long for his body — leader of a band of roughly thirty deserter soldiers running the wilderness south of the Shattered Plains. Stripped insignia from his armor but keeps his weapons and breastplate polished to a mirror finish. A Vorin name; a hard, stone-faced man who carries the past as a weight. SA:WoR:Ch 20
Known facts
- bounty-on-desertersThrough Tyn's informants in Tashikk, Shallan learns that Vathah and his men are all wanted deserters from Sadeas's army — Vathah himself worth four emerald broams, the rest two apiece. She refuses Tyn's plan to turn them in.SA:WoR:Ch 34
- king-sealed-pardons-for-desertersShallan secures from Dalinar and the king's scribes a sealed writ of pardon for Vathah and his deserters for past crimes — keeping the word she gave them on the road.SA:WoR:Ch 38
Events
- SA:WoR:Ch 20 Confronted by Shallan on the hill; refuses her offer but does not stop his men from charging.
- SA:WoR:Ch 21 Executes the captured bandits, then catches Shallan in the dark and warns her his men are dead if they return to the Plains.
- SA:WoR:Ch 24 Passes through with a bowl of curry to mock Gaz for kissing the new mistress's feet and to warn Shallan that words will not change men like these.
- SA:WoR:Ch 28 Travels with the caravan and glares after Tyn when she and Shallan walk out to meet the riders; off-POV but visibly present.
- SA:WoR:Ch 30 Lurks in the trees above Shallan's sketching boulder and delivers Macob's message that the caravan will camp; Pattern hums "trouble" at the sight of him.
- SA:WoR:Ch 34 Cuts through Tyn's soldiers in the camp and bursts into her tent with Gaz and Red to find Shallan holding a Shardblade over Tyn's burned-eyed corpse — and realises she could have killed his crew the night they bandied her.
- SA:WoR:Ch 36 Reports the burned bodies and an Alethi patrol's morning visit; says he will reassure the men, who are uneasy this close to the warcamps.
- SA:WoR:Ch 36 Walks Shallan up to the king's palace, makes her announcement at the gate, and quietly asks whether the woman with a Shardblade has come to kill the king — and tells her, if she does, his men will not weep for Elhokar but will need a head start.
- SA:WoR:Ch 38 Waits with Gaz outside the conference chamber and is handed a sealed king's pardon for himself and his men by Shallan.
- SA:WoR:Ch 47 Closes the carriage door for Shallan, takes the rear guard seat, and grunts his way through her teasing about idleness.
- SA:WoR:Ch 49 Goes with Gaz as Shallan's guard for the day and waits in the guards' room off the terrace.
- SA:WoR:Ch 77 Rides among Shallan's soldiers in the convoy; tells her he does not know where Gaz has gone.
- SA:WoR:Ch 78 Watches over Shallan from the centre of the pavilion with two other soldiers, and is later dismissed by her so she can speak with Dalinar alone.
- SA:WoR:Ch 80 Catches Shallan's arm as her boots slip on the rain-slick crem descent.
Relations
- relatedShallan Davar — Vathah warns Shallan that he and his men are dead the moment they reach the Plains — that her word means nothing — and grips her arm hard enough to bruise. SA:WoR:Ch 21
Backreferences
- summarySA:OB:Ch 21
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- summarySA:RoW:Ch 7
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- factBeryl
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- factShallan Davar
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- factShallan Davar
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- factVathah
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- factEn
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- summarySA:WoR:Ch 80