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|world=Roshar
 
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|books=[[The Stormlight Archive]]
 
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| Every pasture needs three things. Flocks to grow, herdsmen to tend, and watchers at the rim. We of Alethela are those watchers--the warriors who protect and fight. We maintain the terrible arts of killing, then pass them on to others when the [[Desolation]] comes.
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|Every pasture needs three things. Flocks to grow, herdsmen to tend, and watchers at the rim. We of Alethela are those watchers--the warriors who protect and fight. We maintain the terrible arts of killing, then pass them on to others when the [[Desolation]] comes.
| An unnamed female [[Knights Radiant|Radiant]]{{book ref|sa1|19}}
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|An unnamed female [[Radiant]]{{book ref|twok|19}}
 
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'''Alethela''' is one of the [[Silver Kingdoms]] on [[Roshar]].{{map ref|Silver Kingdoms}} As one of the Silver Kingdoms, its name is perfectly symmetrical, due to the [[Vorin]] belief in holiness of symmetry.{{book ref|sa1|33}} It is now known as [[Alethkar]]. Alethela's borders included the present-day countries of [[Herdaz]], [[Jah Keved]], [[Alethkar]] and the [[Unclaimed Hills]].
 
   
 
'''Alethela''' was one of the [[Silver Kingdoms]] on [[Roshar]].{{map ref|Silver Kingdoms}} As one of the Silver Kingdoms, its name is perfectly symmetrical, due to the [[Vorin]] belief in holiness of symmetry.{{book ref|twok|33}}
== Geography ==
 
Alethela is located in eastern Roshar. It is bordered by [[Rishir]] to its north, [[Valhav]] to its west, [[Thalath]] to the southwest, [[Natanatan]] to the south, and ocean to the east.{{map ref|Silver Kingdoms}}
 
   
 
When [[Urithiru]] was built, many people wanted it to be built in Alethela, but there was some unknown yet obvious reason why it could not be.{{epigraph ref|sa1|35}}
== History ==
 
When [[Urithiru]] was built, many people wanted it to be built in Alethela, but there was some unknown reason obvious to the people of the day why it couldn't happen.{{epigraph ref|sa1|35}}
 
   
 
Although the orders of [[Knights Radiant]] were centered in Urithiru, Alethela was their home, and Radiants lived in cities throughout the nation, crossing borders to fight.{{book ref|twok|19}} Alethela was considered to be dedicated to the arts of war so that no other kingdom had to do so. They consider it their duty to protect all the other nations. People went to Alethela if they could fight or wanted to be trained. Those who had fought the [[Ten Deaths]] could go to Alethela and be trained so that the changes wrought in them by fighting the Ten Deaths would not destroy them.
By the time of the [[Era of Solitude]], it had become the kingdom of [[Alethkar]].{{book ref|sa1|19}} During this transition, Alethela lost territory in the west to [[Jah Keved]], but gained some in the north from [[Rishir]], and in the southeast from [[Natanatan]].{{map ref|Silver Kingdoms}}{{map ref|Roshar}} Territory was also lost in the northeast, known in the Era of Solitude as the [[Unclaimed Hills]].
 
   
 
By the time of the [[Era of Solitude]], it had become the kingdom of [[Alethkar]].{{book ref|twok|19}} During this transition, Alethela lost territory in the west to [[Jah Keved]], but gained some in the north from [[Rishir]], and in the southeast from [[Natanatan]].{{map ref|Silver Kingdoms}}{{map ref|Roshar}} Territory was also lost in the northeast, known in the Era of Solitude as the [[Unclaimed Hills]].
== Culture ==
 
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|One kingdom to study the arts of war so that the others might have peace. We die so that you may live. It has ever been our place.
 
|An unknown female [[Knights Radiant|Radiant]]{{book ref|sa1|19}}
 
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Although the orders of [[Knights Radiant]] were centered in Urithiru, Alethela was their home, and Radiants lived in cities throughout the nation, crossing borders to fight.{{book ref|sa1|19}} The [[Order of Windrunners]] was particularly prominent there.{{book ref|sa3|61}} Alethela was considered to be dedicated to the arts of war so that no other kingdom had to do so. They consider it their duty to protect all the other nations. People went to Alethela if they could fight or wanted to be trained. Those who had fought the [[Ten Deaths]] could go to Alethela and be trained so that the changes wrought in them by fighting the Ten Deaths would not destroy them.{{book ref|sa1|19}}
 
 
[[Dawnchant]] was the written language they used.{{book ref|sa3|i|2}} By the time of the [[Recreance]], the Radiants spoke a language known as Alethelan.{{book ref|sa3|104}}
 
   
 
== Notes ==
 
== Notes ==
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<references/><!-- sa1: 19, 33, 35, sa2: 47, sa3: 34, 61, 104, I-2, I-6 -->
 
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