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{{character
|image=Roshone
|children=[[Rillir Roshone]]
|spouse=[[Laral Roshone]]{{book ref|sa3|7}} <small>(second marriage)</small>
|died=Early {{Rosharan date|1175}}<br />Killed by [[Moash]]{{book ref|sa4|8}}
|residence=Hearthstone
|nation=Alethkar
|world=Roshar
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
▲|profession=Citylord of [[Hearthstone]]
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}}▼
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Brightlord '''Toralin Roshone''' is a [[lighteyes]] in [[Alethkar]] on [[Roshar]]. He is the citylord of [[Hearthstone]]. He is the father of [[Rillir Roshone]] and husband of [[Laral Roshone]].
== Appearance and Personality ==
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{{image|Roshone portrait.jpg|side=left|width=150px}}
Roshone is middle-aged, with a short, grey-streaked beard and an angry expression. He has light yellow eyes that seem to blame everyone and everything for his banishment. He wears a sword and a [[takama]], but appears too old and flabby to be a true soldier, and his weight increases during his time in Hearthstone.{{book ref|sa1|25}}{{book ref|sa1|44}} He dresses out of fashion and wears a wooden foot on his right leg.{{book ref|sa3|6}} Though he cares about the outward appearance of his manor, he makes few alterations inside.{{book ref|sa1|37}}{{book ref|sa3|7}}
He is vindictive towards [[Kaladin|Kaladin's]] family, and [[Dalinar Kholin]] considers him a petty man.{{book ref|sa2|62}}▼
▲He is vindictive towards [[Kaladin
== Attributes and Abilities ==▼
Roshone doesn't have any outstanding ability
== History ==
=== Kholinar and the Roshone Affair ===
Roshone owned several silversmith shops in [[Kholinar]], and used his connection with [[Elhokar Kholin]] to further his own interests. He had become a confidant of Elhokar, who was then the crown-prince of [[Alethkar
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{{sidequote
|You hid behind the law, sneering at me, surgeon. Well, now it turns against you. Keep those spheres! The look on your face at this moment is worth the price of every one of them!
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|side=right|size=300px
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Roshone was shipped to Hearthstone as punishment for the deaths of Moash's grandparents in late {{Rosharan date|1166}}. He became the new citylord of the town, where the previous citylord, [[Wistiow]], had died.{{book ref|sa1|25}} From the very beginning, he suspected that [[Lirin]] stole spheres from Citylord Wistiow. He treated Lirin and his family badly, and, under threat of Roshone's bad graces, the rest of the townspeople followed suit.{{book ref|sa1|31}} Amid the social and financial pressure placed on Lirin, Roshone invited the man to dine in his manor one evening, in hopes of cutting a deal to recover the stolen spheres. Though there was a debate between Roshone and Lirin, it didn't bring him a satisfying result.{{book ref|sa1|37}}
Eventually Roshone and his son Rillir were both badly injured on a [[whitespine]] hunt. Lirin, Hearthstone's surgeon, saved Roshone's life but could not help Rillir.{{book ref|sa1|41}} After the loss of his son and leg, Roshone became a recluse and his dislike for Lirin grew. With no heir of his own, he made plans to marry the daughter of former Citylord Wistiow, Laral, himself. When [[Brightlord]] [[Amaram]], a distant cousin of Roshone, came through the town to recruit during the [[Weeping]] of {{Rosharan date|1168}}, Roshone took his revenge by deciding that [[Tien]] would join the army.{{book ref|sa1|44}}
{{image|Punch Out by Marie Seeberger.jpg|side=right|width=300px|[[Kaladin]] punching Roshone}}
=== After the Everstorm ===
Roshone's manor survived the [[Everstorm]] with minimal damage, and he sheltered the village in it. The parlor became a surgeon's triage room, with mats laid out on the floor bearing wounded.{{book ref|sa3|6}}
▲== Attributes and Abilities ==
▲Roshone doesn't have any outstanding ability. As a lesser lighteye, Roshone was one of Highprince Sadeas’s sworn liegemen, cousin to important men whose support the Kholin family needed for political reasons. He used to have political influence to however, sought his own interests instead of those of the Throne and eventually lost their support. {{book ref|sa1|62}}
===Occupation of Alethkar to Hearthstone Evacuation===
Under the rule of the [[singers]] and The [[Fused]], all lighteyes were made equal to darkeyes. Roshone was reduced to menial work and drinking. He and his wife Laral were part of [[Lirin]]'s mission to smuggle in The [[Dieno|Mink]], and Roshone provided the distraction on cue- engaging in drunken antics to distract the singer guards, who were particularly fond of watching a former brightlord who owned them or their likes reduced to a drunkard and a worker.{{book ref |sa4|1}}
== Relationships ==
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After Roshone's own political failures, he did what he could to secure his only son's future--arranging for Rillir to marry former Citylord Wistiow's daughter, Laral. Disappointed by his father's dark mood after their relocation to Hearthstone, Rillir convinced his father to go on a hunt for entertainment, which ended with an accident and Rillir's death. While the boy was mortally wounded, Roshone demanded that the surgeon save Rillir before tending his own life-threatening wounds.{{book ref|sa1|41}}
=== Laral ===▼
Roshone and Lirin have a complicated relationship since they met. When [[Lirin]] welcomed their new Brightlord, Rosohones reply was a blame on him for letting [[Wistiow]] die and him being his replacement{{book ref|sa1|25}}. Their relationship was worsen when he found that Lirin had a goblet full of spheres claiming it was a gift from Wistiow before his death. Roshone made pubic he believes Lirin stole them.{{book ref|sa1|31}}▼
{{image|Roshone and Laral by Marie Seeberger.jpg|side=right|width=250px|Roshone and [[Laral]]}}
By the time of the
Six months later, Roshone and his son Rillir went hunting and both got injured. Lirin worked on them both, but Rillir died. Roshone was saved and only lost his leg.{{book ref|sa1|41}} This ended up sealing the bad relationship between them and it concluded in Roshone choosing Tien to go into war and Kaladin following to protect him. With this, Lirin lost both his sons in one day.{{book ref|sa1|44}}▼
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|Roshone to Lirin when they meet in Hearthstone{{book ref|sa1|25}}
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▲Roshone and Lirin have had a complicated relationship since they met. When
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Many years later, after the Everstorm came, Kaladin went to visit the town and found that Lirin and Roshone have a better relationship, probably out of guilt from Roshone.{{book ref|sa3|6}}▼
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▲=== Laral ===
▲Wistiow’s wealth had gone to Laral. When Roshone had been given authority over Hearthstone and granted the mansion and surrounding lands, Highprince Sadeas had given Laral a dowry in compensation. Because of this, Roshone saw the need of marrying her into her family.{{book ref|sa1|37}} Originally, she was engaged to his son Rillir, but after his death in the hunt, this engagement was made to Roshone himself.{{book ref|sa1|44}}
▲By the time of the true desolation, Laral and Roshone had been married for some time. She seems satisfied with the agreement and even defended him before Kaladin when he spoke ill of him. She seems to have used the marriage to become politically engaged and has strong loyalty from their soldiers.{{book ref|sa3|7}}
=== Kaladin ===
Kaladin finally makes peace with Roshone after the Everstorm, when he
▲Kaladins life changed since he met Roshone. His family was cornered to eating low cost food and were alienated from the townpeople.{{book ref|sa1|37}}. As Roshone and Lirin’s relationship worsen, so did Kaladin’s life, ending in him going after Tien to Amaram’s army.{{book ref|sa1|44}}
▲Kaladin finally makes peace with Roshone after the Everstorm when he goes and visits them. In the beginning, he wanted revenge and punches him, but then he understands there are more evil people and that he was just a lesser lighteye. He recognizes he doesn’t have any passion on abusing him and better prompts him to raise as leader to help his town. {{book ref|sa3|7}}
▲== Quotes ==
▲{{quote
▲| “You’re the one who let old Wistiow die. In a way, it’s your fault I’m in this pitiful, miserable quarter of the kingdom.”
▲| Roshone to Lirin when they meet at Hearthstone {{book ref|sa1|25}}
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