Difference between revisions of "Meridas Amaram"
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When Dalinar decided to officially refound the Knights Radiant, he appointed Amaram as their leader.{{book ref|sa2|55}} That day, Amaram accompanied Dalinar to a menagerie in the warcamps, looking for Adolin. A few days later, during Adolin's disadvantaged duel against [[Elit Ruthar]], [[Relis Ruthar]], [[Abrobadar]], and [[Jakamav]], Dalinar tried to get Amaram to step in to help Adolin and [[Renarin]], but Amaram did nothing.{{book ref|sa2|56}} After Kaladin aided Adolin in his victory, Kaladin used his boon to accuse and challenge Amaram to a duel, declaring that Amaram stole the Shards from him and slaughtered his squad.{{book ref|sa2|57}} In that moment, Amaram recognized Kaladin as the man he had enslaved for the first time. Kaladin was imprisoned for this statement and King [[Elhokar]] demanded Kaladin be executed for this insult.{{book ref|sa2|58}} Immediately after the duel, Amaram spoke to Dalinar, claiming he had refused to intervene in the duel because as the head of the Knights Radiant, he needed to stay out of petty conflicts.{{book ref|sa2|67}}
During this same time period, Amaram heard from his men that one of their drinking companions, a man named [[Bordin]] had escorted a man claiming to be the [[Herald]] [[Talenel]] to the Shattered Plains. Reportedly the man had spoken of a cache of Shardblades hidden in a cave somewhere nearby. Meridas met with Bordin and had Bordin bring him to visit the man surreptitiously, who was being treated in a monastery in Dalinar's warcamp. Upon seeing the man, Amaram decided that he believed the man to be Taln and tried to get him to repeat his previous words, with no success. Worrying that others had heard Taln's words and would
Later, after Kaladin had been freed from his imprisonment, Amaram attended one of Elhokar's feasts, where he was insulted by Hoid several times.{{book ref|sa2|67}} During the feast, he discovered that Dalinar had been receiving visions from the Stormfather when Navani's accounts were released in an attempt to discredit Dalinar. He told Dalinar of this political attack at the feast. He believed these visions to come from the Almighty, a sign that Dalinar was his prophet. He dismissed Dalinar's beliefs that the Almighty was dead, claiming it was a metaphorical death. Amaram also expressed concern that Kaladin had been returned to his place as the head of Dalinar's guard.
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