Editing Drehy

{{character
|image=Drehy by Marie Seeberger.jpg
|abilities={{tag+|windrunner}}, {{tag+|Shardbearer}}
|groups={{tag|Knights Radiant}} <small>([[Order of Windrunners|Windrunner]])</small><br />{{tag|Bridge Four}}, {{tag+|army|Sadeas}} <small>(formerly)</small>, {{tag+|army|Kholin}}
|birthplace=Rianal
|residence=Urithiru
|world=Roshar
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
|books=[[The Stormlight Archive]]
}}
{{update|sa4}}
{{quote
|We protect those who cannot protect themselves.
|Drehy to Kaladin upon showing him the rescued prince [[Gavinor]]{{book ref|sa3|122}}
}}
'''Drehy''' is a member of [[Bridge Four]] and a [[Order of Windrunners|Windrunner]] on [[Roshar]].{{book ref|sa1|17}}{{book ref|sa4|5}}

== Appearance and Personality ==
Drehy is lanky, long-limbed, and muscled. He has blond hair, although he is balding.{{book ref|sa2|2}} He speaks with a faint accent.{{book ref|wok|49}}. Shallan referred to Drehy as "handsome".{{book ref|sa3|29}} He is gay, and is currently seeing a man named [[Dru]].

<gallery caption="Images of Drehy">
Drehy by Marie Seeberger.jpg | <center><small>by {{a|Marie Seeberger}}</small></center>
Drehy_portrait.png | <center><small>by {{a|Jamie Knierim}}</small></center>
Drehy Shuravf.jpg | <center><small>by {{a|Shuravf}}</small></center>
</gallery>

== History ==
Drehy was on Bridge Four when [[Kaladin]] began trying to save the men. He was among the first to defend Kaladin, even while the others taunted him. While the crew was in the chasms scavenging, Kaladin talks with [[Rock]], [[Teft]], and [[Dunny]], and with prompting, Drehy talks a little as well.{{book ref|wok|27}} When they were being taught to wield the spear by Kaladin, Drehy, along with [[Skar]], learned almost as quickly as [[Moash]] did.{{book ref|wok|49}} He was also among the first bridgemen that Kaladin trained in first aid, along with Rock and Skar.{{book ref|wok|62}}

After seeing [[Torol Sadeas|Sadeas]] abandon [[Dalinar]] in the [[Battle of the Tower]], Drehy remarks that it makes him sick.{{book ref|wok|67}} When shocked by Kaladin's display of his abilities, Drehy swears by the Brightcaller's rays{{book ref|wok|67}} and a little later speculates that Kaladin is a [[spren]] rather than a man.{{book ref|wok|68}}

Drehy joins the guard of Dalinar and takes turns guarding the Kholins along with the rest of the former members of Bridge Four, under Kaladin's leadership. He helps train the bridgemen from other crews as well.{{book ref|sa2|12}}
Kaladin sends a message to Teft requesting more men in the training arena because Drehy and Moash had been working too many hours. During dinner in the Bridge Four barracks one night, Drehy flips a chunk of stewed [[longroot]] at [[Lopen]] after the [[Herdazian]] claimed he was ready for anything.{{book ref|sa2|41}}

As the [[Alethi]] armies approach the center plateau, Drehy and Skar are assigned to guard [[Adolin]]. After he receives the order to attack, Adolin asks the two if they are going to stay behind due to Kaladin's aversion to bridgemen participating in battle against the [[Parshendi]]. Drehy insists on fighting, asserting that they're no longer dealing with Parshendi.{{book ref|sa2|81}} Drehy and Skar keep up with Adolin during the battle. At one point, Drehy helps cut the Parshendi's ropes from Adolin and assures the prince that the Parshendi will send real attacks against him eventually.{{book ref|sa2|82}} Drehy and Skar save Adolin from falling off the plateau{{book ref|sa2|84}} and a little later help him get his armor off when it loses most of its [[Stormlight]].{{book ref|sa2|85}}

Drehy is selected by among the best of Bridge Four by [[Teft]] to assist Adolin and [[Shallan]] for their battle against the [[Unmade]] [[Re-Shephir]] in the heart of [[Urithiru]]. Drehy plays a fairly important role in the battle, standing in front of Shallan at one point and stabbing one of the creatures of Re-Shephir through the head with his spear.{{book ref|sa3|29}}

During a meeting between [[Sigzil]] and Kaladin, Sigzil informs Kaladin that Drehy has been courting a man named [[Dru]] from the market district and asks if Drehy needs to fill out forms for social reassignment. Kaladin tells Sigzil that no such form exists for the Alethi. {{book ref|sa3|35}}

When [[Rock]] sets out with other members of Bridge Four to see what has become of Rock's family that was traveling to Urithiru by way of the [[Shattered Plains]], they discover the caravan was attacked and Drehy notes that it was the work of the [[Voidbringers]].{{book ref|sa3|37}}

Drehy was chosen, along with Skar, by Kaladin to be part of the group that traveled to [[Kholinar]] to get an update on the city. This choice by Kaladin shows that with the absence of Moash, Drehy was regarded as one of the better fighters among Bridge Four. During the trip to Kholinar, Drehy flew using [[Lashing]]s, meaning that he has the powers of a Windrunner squire. {{book ref|sa3|60}} 

During the infiltration and subsequent [[Battle of Kholinar]], Drehy played a vital role. As one of the better warriors of the group, Drehy helped guard Shallan and Adolin throughout their time in Kholinar and also helped Kaladin during the battle of the palace to push back the enemy. When Shallan began her way to the [[Oathgate]] to battle the Unmade, Drehy was sent by Kaladin to assist her and keep the palace guard and the [[Fused]] away from her while she focused on the Unmade. Drehy was not of the members of the group to travel to the [[Shadesmar]], instead remaining in Kholinar with Skar to attempt to continue the battle.{{book ref|sa3|83}}

Working on information gained by [[spanreed]], Kaladin traveled to a cave on the coast of [[Alethkar]]. Entering the cave Kaladin discovers that Drehy and Skar survived and escaped Kholinar with [[Gavinor Kholin]]. They had smeared ash on their foreheads to hide their tattoos, and both looked weak and exhausted from their travels. Showing Gavinor to Kaladin, Drehy quotes the Second Ideal of the Windrunners.{{book ref|sa3|122}}

=== Windrunner ===

After reuniting with Kaladin, Leyten bonded a spren of his own.{{book ref|sa4|12}} He participated in the evacuation of [[Hearthstone]] with his fellow Windrunners, engaging the [[Fused]] in combat, before returning to Urithiru.{{book ref|sa4|10}} Following Kaladin's retirement, Leyten gathered around fifty Windrunners to show respect to their former highmarshal. He and a majority of the Bridge Four Windrunners joined Dalinar's forces on the battlefield in [[Emul]].{{book ref|sa4|23}} 

Leyten and four other Windrunners traveled with Dalinar and [[Szeth]] to [[Tukar]] in order to meet the Herald [[Ishar]]. Convinced that Dalinar was Odium's champion, Ishar attacked Dalinar with his [[Honorblade]]. Leyten and the other Windrunners fought against the Herald, clearly outmatched. After Ishar fled, Dalinar had Leyten and the other Windrunners search the Herald's camp, finding unnatural corpses of spren within the [[Physical Realm]]. The group then returned to Emul, unnerved by their experience.{{book ref|sa4|111}}

== Trivia ==
* He is a cameo of one of Brandon's college friends Ryan Dreher, who is also gay{{wob ref|5316}}
* He is described as long-limbed and lanky, an in-joke between Brandon and Ryan{{wob ref|7437}}
* Drehy's boyfriend [[Dru]] is possibly a cameo of Ryan's husband{{wob ref|5316}}

== Notes ==
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sa1: 17, 27, 49, 53, 55, 62, 65-8, 73
sa2: 2, 5, 12, 16, 18, 41, 46, 71, 81, 82, 84, 85, 87
sa3: 29, 35, 37, 46, 55, 60, 61, 69, 70, 73, 74, 77, 83-5, 89, 99, 120, 122
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