Editing Moash

|titles=Vyre (He Who Quiets), Lord Silencer{{book ref|sa4|i|4}}

|groups={{tag+|army|Sadeas}} <small>(formerly)</small><br />{{tag|Bridge Four}} <small>(formerly)</small><br />{{tag+|army|Kholin}} <small>(formerly)</small><br />{{tag|Diagram|link=Diagram (group)}} <small>(formerly)</small><br /> [[Voidbringers]]

|introduced=[[The Way of Kings]]

'''Moash''', also known as '''Vyre''', is an [[Alethi]] man on [[Roshar]]. Originally a [[bridgeman]] in [[Bridge Four]],{{book ref|sa1|14}} he becomes a soldier and bodyguard under [[Kaladin]]; eventually, he leaves Bridge Four and switches sides to the [[Diagram (group)|Diagram]], then the [[Fused]], serving them as a slave and warrior. He's the current holder of [[Jezrien]]'s [[Honorblade]].

=== Appearance ===

Moash is lean, though strong, with a narrow hawkish face and brown hair speckled with black.{{book ref|sa1|30}}{{book ref|sa1|14}}{{book ref|sa1|64}} He's born [[darkeyes]], with brown eyes which turn tan after he receives a full set of Shards.{{book ref|sa2|77}} Moash is a young man, potentially close to Kaladin's age.{{book ref|sa1|14}} He is tall and has a scar on his chin.{{book ref|sa2|2}}

Unlike many other members of Bridge Four, Moash does not have slave brands on his forehead. Due to this, he gets his Bridge Four tattoo on his left upper arm.{{book ref|sa2|2}}{{book ref|sa3|45}}

=== Personality ===

Moash comes off as standoffish and grim, holding people at arm's length when he first meets them. Though once he does warm up to someone, he gets attached extremely quickly.{{book ref|sa1|14}}{{book ref|sa1|30}} Once he joins a group, he's friendly and amicable, and often the driving force behind more relaxed, off-duty activities.{{book ref|sa2|46}} He values his friendships, and tries to salvage them when he can.{{book ref|sa2|83}}{{book ref|sa2|56}} He's eager to gain power and he admires those who do have it.{{book ref|sa1|73}} At the same time, he's highly suspicious of those above him in the social order.{{book ref|sa2|2}} He has a strong sense of justice{{book ref|sa3|48}}, originating with the injustice visited on his grandparents earlier in his life.

Moash tends to view people's actions by the external factors that motivate said actions, external factors such as one's position as a lighteyes or darkeyes in the Vorin caste system.{{book ref|sa3|48}} As he becomes more involved in the Fused army and pushes deeper into Odium's emotional voiding, his old priorities slip away.{{book ref|sa2|87}}{{book ref|sa3|51}}

His need to see [[Elhokar]] and then all [[lighteyes]] face retribution consumes him and pushes him further and further away from friends and into the waiting arms of the [[Voidbringers]].{{book ref|sa3|84}} Eventually, as he gives in to Odium's power completely, he seems to lose any drive altogether, telling himself he feels no emotions even as he accomplishes his vengeance. In this period, he follows the commandments to seek out passion and follow the orders of the Fused.{{book ref|sa3|121}}{{book ref|sa3|122}} Although he continues to care for Kaladin, he thinks that suicide is the only way that Kaladin can be saved from Odium's torment, and in his own despair, urges Kaladin to kill himself rather than risk Kaladin joining Odium.{{wob ref|14165}}

{{image|Moash Dustbringer by Khaedart.JPG|side=right|width=250px}}

Moash is a skilled spearman, enough so to kill an attacking [[Fused]]. For a time, he also possessed a set of [[Shardblade]] and [[Shardplate]]. While Moash was able to move naturally in his Plate after less than a week, he is less skilled with the Shardblade, finding it too clunky, and still defaulted to the spear when his life was on the line.{{book ref|sa2|68}}{{book ref|sa3|43}} Eventually, he's given [[Jezrien]]'s [[Honorblade]], granting him control over the [[Surge]]s of [[Gravitation]] and [[Adhesion]]. He appears to be natural at using it, as it takes him no time at all to drink in [[Stormlight]] and use Lashings.{{book ref|sa3|122}}

Following the Occupation of Urithiru, he was left blind.{{book ref|sa4|111}}

Both of Moash's parents died when he was a child. He was raised by his aging grandparents [[Ana]] and [[Da]], who both worked as silversmiths in [[Kholinar]].{{book ref|sa2|44}} It was his grandfather who named him. Later, Moash would discover that his name is [[singer]] in origin.{{book ref|sa3|54}} Moash was generally met with hostility and distrust by other people, and likely had a troubled childhood because of it. This was one of the reasons Moash joined the caravans for work, which his grandparents encouraged.{{book ref|sa3|45}} He did not want to enter the family business, preferring jobs that were more physically active.{{book ref|sa2|44}} Moash worked the caravans with his uncle when he was young.{{book ref|sa3|48}}

While he was working on a caravan for a few months, his grandparents became victims in the [[Roshone#Kholinar_and_the_Roshone_Affair|Roshone Affair]] that led to them dying while incarcerated in the palace dungeons. Moash ultimately blamed [[Elhokar Kholin]], who was then a royal prince but would later become the king of Alethkar, for their deaths. Ana and Da had been dead for two months by the time Moash returned, and was told of their passing by a neighbor after returning to an empty home.{{book ref|sa2|44}}

{{quote

|You doubt that sending a seventy-five-year-old couple to the palace dungeons is a death sentence?

|Moash to Kaladin{{book ref|sa2|44}}

}}

Moash joined the war voluntarily with the hope of winning a Shardblade, and traveled to the Shattered Plains in [[Jam (caravaneer)|Jam's]] caravan.{{book ref|sa3|45}} Assuming he would be made a spearman, Moash instead got sent to the bridge crews along with most of the other people who joined with him, ending up in Bridge Four.{{book ref|sa1|46}}

When Kaladin first began his attempts to reform Bridge Four, Moash was singled out to be made an example due to his strong appearance and since he was one of the men who ignored Kaladin's command to get up, instead rolling back over to sleep more. Kaladin pulled Moash out of bed and Moash told him to storm off, so Kaladin punched him in the stomach, picking him up over his shoulder and taking him outside the barracks while he was stunned. Irritated at this treatment, Moash called out to [[Gaz]], asking if they needed to follow Kaladin's orders. Receiving a negative from Gaz, Moash tells Kaladin to storm off again unless he planned on beating all of them up, and him and the other bridgemen dispersed.{{book ref|sa1|14}}

Moash continues to distrust Kaladin's intentions and openly dislikes him. While many of the other bridgemen also dislike Kaladin, he is one of the most vocal.{{book ref|sa1|27}} When Kaladin chooses to stand instead of resting on a bridge run, Moash swears at him.{{book ref|sa1|17}} He's the first one to laugh at the idea of pooling their money and food to help the wounded bridgemen Kaladin brought back, claiming that if it were him, he'd rather die quickly on a bridge run than slowly in the barracks.{{book ref|sa1|21}} Moash, along with Sigzil, refuse to look at Kaladin when he tries to pull the bridgemen into conversation on chasm duty.{{book ref|sa1|27}} Moash does let his flint and steel be used by Kaladin to cauterize wounds, however, which he likely has due to it being standard equipment that caravaneers carry with them.{{book ref|sa1|17}}{{book ref|sa3|45}}

When Kaladin picks up and stares at a spear during chasm duty, Moash taunts him, calling Kaladin "lordling", which he picked up from talking with Gaz. Moash shares with [[Narm]] what he learned from Gaz, claiming that Kaladin is lying about being a previous squadleader. This triggers the other bridgemen to start complaining about Kaladin with each other, until they are stunned into silence by Kaladin's kata that he performs, Moash himself dropping the spheres he was holding in shock. That night, Moash accepts Rock's stew, though Moash still refuses to rise the next morning to train when Kaladin calls for it.{{book ref|sa1|27}}

When Bridge Four started training down in the chasms, Moash was one of the first who changed into a fighting man.{{book ref|sa1|49}} Later, on the bridgerun where [[Dunny]] died, Moash probably saved Kaladin's life by keeping him from reaching Dunny's body and later told Kaladin that he was wrong about him.{{book ref|sa1|53}}

When [[Adolin]] tried to give [[Kaladin]] the gift of [[Shardblade]] and [[Shardplate]], Kaladin instead gave them to Moash, thereby making him a lighteyes in rank.{{book ref|sa2|66}} The Shardblade had a twisting vine pattern along the center of the blade, and the Shardplate, previously belonging to [[Abrobadar]], was painted orange.{{book ref|sa2|66}} Moash later had the Plate repainted to be blue with red accents.{{book ref|sa2|68}} His eyes started to lighten a week after receiving the Shards,{{book ref|sa2|77}} though he still did not consider himself lighteyes.

They head out into the wilderness with a caravan of stolen goods. Graves intended to introduce Moash to the [[Diagram (group)|Diagram]], hoping that bringing back a full Shardbearer could compensate for his plan's failure. A short while into the trip, they were attacked by a group of [[Fused]]. Graves was killed, and Moash attempted to fight with his Shardblade, but deemed it too unwieldy. He got hold of a spear and was able to kill [[Leshwi]], one of the Fused.

Upon seeing this, the other Fused gave Moash a choice, he could give up his weapons and come with them, or die at their hands.{{book ref|sa3|43}} They did this because they thought that Leshwi would want to have revenge once she was reborn. Leshwi did not want revenge however, considering Moash to have great passion.{{book ref|sa3|54}}

{{image|Moash Blind by Khaedart.JPG|side=left|width=250px|After being blinded by [[Navani]]}}

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