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=== Choosing a Rider === |
=== Choosing a Rider === |
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{{image|Dalinar by Caio Santos.jpg|[[Gallant]] carrying [[Dalinar]] into battle|side=right|width=200px}} |
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β | Ryshadium are known for choosing and obeying only a particular rider.{{book ref|sa1|12}} |
+ | Ryshadium are known for choosing and obeying only a particular rider.{{book ref|sa1|12}} Only a dozen men in all the warcamps at the [[Shattered Plains]] had a Ryshadium. {{book ref|sa1|12}} Dalinar describes the experience of having a Ryshadium accept him as a rider as "indescribable".{{book ref|sa1|15}} A person must be "worthy" to be chosen by a Ryshadium. What the measure of worthiness is, however, remains unclear,{{book ref|sa2|81}} but for much of his life [[Dalinar]] was not worthy.{{wob ref|12117}} |
β | Though Ryshadium choose their rider, they |
+ | Though Ryshadium choose their rider, they will allow others to ride them as they are needed; in one instance, Ryshadium were used to carry three wounded men from the battlefield.{{book ref|sa1|68}} On the rare occasions that a Ryshadium needs to carry someone other than their rider, the rider may have to spend a long time convincing the horse to do so.{{book ref|sa2|51}} [[Gallant]] allows [[Adolin]] to ride him after the death of [[Sureblood]] in the battle at [[Stormseat]]. |
===In Battle=== |
===In Battle=== |
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'''Known Riders''' |
'''Known Riders''' |
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*[[Dalinar]] with [[Gallant]]{{book ref|sa1|15}} |
*[[Dalinar]] with [[Gallant]]{{book ref|sa1|15}} |
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β | *[[Adolin]] with [[Sureblood]]{{book ref|sa1|13 |
+ | *[[Adolin]] with [[Sureblood]]{{book ref|sa1|13}} |
*[[Hatham]] with unnamed Ryshadium{{book ref|sa2|29}} |
*[[Hatham]] with unnamed Ryshadium{{book ref|sa2|29}} |
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*[[Kalanor]] with unnamed Ryshadium{{book ref|sa3|26}} |
*[[Kalanor]] with unnamed Ryshadium{{book ref|sa3|26}} |