Difference between revisions of "Adolin Kholin"

 

Adolin and Shallan meet and flirt for a while before Adolin is sent away by his father. Dalinar reveals to Shallan while Adolin is away that the reason he agreed to the causal betrothal of his son was to make Adolin seem unavailable to those who would manipulate him for political gain. She has to persuade him, Navani and Adolin to turn the causal into a full betrothal. At the meeting Dalinar tells the gathered Highprinces that Adolin will win their shards from them, which they take to be a joke. {{book ref|wor|38}}

While at the training grounds Adolin and Kaladin come to a silent understanding that they both need to train harder if they were going to best the Assassin in White when he inevitably returns. When Shallan arrives Adolin assumes she is there to watch him. After taunting Kaladin a little Adolin reveals, when asked, that he doesn’t mind being betrothed, hoping that the formality of the arrangement will keep it from falling apart. When Shallan ignores Adolin it’s Kaladin’s turn to mock Adolin. When Adolin asks Shallan if she needs him to pose so she can sketch his plate and blade for her records she declines, saying his mother’s sketches were more than adequate. {{book ref|wor|44}} Later Adolin, leading the Kholin army, wins a plateau run alongside [[Bethab]]’s army. {{book ref|wor|46}}