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====Courting Shallan Davar====
For their first date Adolin takes Shallan to one of the trendy winehouses that allow viewings of oncoming highstorms. Shallan asks him about plateau runs and feels as though she’s filling an expected role in the conversation with Adolin until she asks him how he poops if he’s in shardplate. Though embarrassed Adolin reveals that he has defecated in his
They move on to discussing Chasmfiends and gemhearts and
While waiting out the highstorm Adolin encounters Sadeas. Sadeas tries to engage Adolin in conversation about fashion and Adolin thinks about how much he wants to kill the highprince, but knows that it would only lead to his own execution or exile. Sadeas reveals that he has renounced the title of [[Highprince of Information]]. Adolin interprets this as a rejection of the King’s authority. Sadeas goes on to say that he is glad Adolin survived the Tower and that he will make a fine highprince in the upcoming months and goes as far as to say that in ten years he and Adolin will have a fine alliance. Adolin counters with saying he’ll have killed Sadeas by then. When Adolin returns to his father’s bunker he finds the bridgemen around another mysterious message. Adolin has them summon Navani. Dalinar believes he might have made the markings during one of his fits because they were made with his knife but Adolin points out anyone could have taken it to do this. Dalinar and Navani are of a different opinion however. {{book ref|wor|50}}
Adolin continues with his father’s plan of winning shardblades, and finally duels [[Elit Ruthar|Elit]]. During the duel Elit makes several moves to either injure or kill Adolin. Adolin wins the duel by completely draining Elit’s plate of stormlight. Shallan visits Adolin after his duel and tells him that she has discovered a way to help him with his duels, but it requires he do something truly amazing. When Relis arrives, as Adolin suspected he would, he manages to convince him to duel him by saying he will fight Relis and whoever else he brings. When they leave Shallan asks Adolin if he can beat two Shardbearers and Adolin says he isn’t sure but he hopes it is spectacular enough for her plan. {{book ref|wor|53}}
While taking Shallan on a date Adolin is accompanied by Kaladin, much to his chagrin. He’s further annoyed by Kaladin insisting he has to be in the carriage with them. While travelling to the menagerie, Shallan tells Adolin and the listening Kaladin the account of Sadeas’s duel with highprince [[Yenev]] eighteen years prior. Sadeas won the chance to duel and kill Yenev through the [[Right of Challenge]] and the [[King’s Boon]]. Kaladin doesn’t think Sadeas would agree to the Right of Challenge but Adolin and Shallan tell him that Sadeas must obey it. They also explain to him that this is all about
====The Duel====
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Before the duel, Adolin goes through his rituals, burning the prayer Shallan wrote for him and praying himself. Navani expresses her worry, particularly over the terms that the duel shall end with surrender rather than breaking the shardplate. When Renarin does his check that Adolin has followed his routine, they discover that Adolin’s mother’s chain is missing
Adolin attacks, trying to minimize any attempt they have to assess and respond. He does alright for a while but eventually becomes overwhelmed. When he attempts to yield the shardbearers stop him and Highjudge Istow doesn’t, or chooses not to, hear him. Adolin realizes that if he leaves the duel alive he’d be doing so as a cripple. Renarin joins the duel with just his shardblade and Adolin tries to convince him to leave but Renarin refuses. Relis tells him that so long as Adolin does not surrender or make his cousin end the duel, Abrobadar will not hurt Renarin but if Adolin does attempt any of those things Renarin will die. {{book ref|wor|56}}
Kaladin joins the duel as well, keeping the duel still at a disadvantage. He gets to Adolin and the two form a plan: Kaladin will keep one distracted and keep an eye on Renarin if he can while Adolin takes on the other two. Adolin tells him that they might use Renarin as leverage against them so they need to be prepared for it. Two-on-one actually seems to be an even match for Adolin. Adolin manages to break Elit’s breastplate, incapacitating him, and Kaladin forces him to surrender. When Elit surrenders, Abrobadar abandons Renarin and joins Relis and Jakamav in fighting Adolin. When Kaladin runs to help, Relis and Jakamav abandon Adolin to take out Kaladin. When they do so, Adolin uses the opportunity to defeat Abrobadar and then jumps on Jakamav from behind and proceeds to wrestle him. His plate locks and they both tumble to the ground. {{book ref|wor|57}}
Relis goes to attack Renarin and Kaladin manages to stop his blade. Relis, hearing the screams of his shardblade when Kaladin touches the blade, runs screaming from the arena, thus abandoning the duel. This leaves only Jakamav, who Adolin is pinned beneath, restraining him. Kaladin puts his knife to Jakamav and forces him to surrender. Adolin makes Kaladin help him out of his Shardplate. When Elhokar offers the King’s Boon, Adolin requests The Right of Challenge against Sadeas. Before Elhokar can offer it, Kaladin interrupts by requesting The Right of Challenge against Amaram.{{book ref|wor|57}} They are unable to pin down the duel and Sadeas responds that he will answer the challenge in a year’s time, which is too late for House Kholin.{{book ref|wor|58}}
Adolin locks himself up on the third day of Kaladin's imprisonment in protest. {{book ref|wor|59}} He communicates with Shallan via spanreed, asking her to come visit him because he’s bored. He uses an ardent rather than one of his father’s scribes because he does not want Shallan to get jealous. Adolin tells her that his father is planning an
Though he’s wearing several weeks growth of beard on his face, Adolin had cold baths and even wore cologne while in prison. When Kaladin asks him why he locked himself up, Adolin said it didn’t seem right that Kaladin was in there, especially after saving his life. When Kaladin apologizes for ruining the plan Adolin tells him that it was Elhokar who did, not him. He even believes Kaladin about Amaram unquestioningly, stating the man seems too perfect and is thus hiding something. When they exit the prison Bridge Four and Adolin’s armourers are waiting. Adolin presents Kaladin with a plate and blade but Kaladin offers them to Moash instead. Pulling him aside Adolin asks him why and Kaladin tells him he doesn’t want his life to change because he is lighteyes, he wants to change the lives of people like him and he cannot do that as a lighteyes. When Adolin presses that the Assassin in White will return Kaladin tells him he’ll be more useful without the shards.{{book ref|wor|66}}
Adolin is present with Shallan at the feast when Navani’s recordings of Dalinar’s visions are exposed. {{book ref|wor|67}} Adolin manages to roll out an entire strike force and his father to accompany Shallan so she can study a Chasmfiend Chrysalis. Adolin and Kaladin discuss the Assassin in White as they go, deciding that they can slow him with arrows if he attacks out here on the plains. Kaladin tells Adolin that Szeth can heal himself and thus he should always go for the kill when fighting him. Adolin also awkwardly tries and fails to get Kaladin to reveal his secret but when Kaladin asks him if he trusts him Adolin says he does.
When Shallan comes over to them she kisses Adolin’s cheek much to his surprise as Alethi are not so
When Adolin learns that Shallan is alive he rushes to her apartments. Though he initiates the hug, the first time he’s ever initiated any physical affection, Shallan is the one who initiates the kiss. When Shallan asks where he’d been, he tells her he was delivering his father’s ultimatum to finish the [[Vengeance Pact]] to the other high princes. Dalinar thought it would keep Adolin occupied while grieving over Shallan. Adolin promises he’ll never let anything happen to Shallan again and she tells him she appreciates his concern but does not want that from him. While confused about this, he backs her up when Navani promises something similar. {{book ref|wor|75}}
Setting out for the Parshendi’s settlement, Adolin rides with Shallan and her guards. {{book ref|wor|76}} Adolin purposefully gave her one of his slower horses to ride because she told him she had little experience riding. {{book ref|wor|77}} He is also present at Dalinar’s interrogation of Rlain, who reveals there is something wrong with the Parshendi though he does not know their plans. {{book ref|wor|79}}
The parshendi try to immobilize Adolin by lassoing him with ropes but he manages to cut through them and fend them off. The parshendi are engaging Adolin in teams to keep him out of the battle where he’d be the most deadly. When [[Perel]], the man he placed as field commander, calls for the flank’s retreat Adolin guards it in case the Parshendi pursue. Perel tells him neither side is making headway and that he is worried about the singing Parshendi reserves up against a rock formation in the middle of the plateau. Adolin can no longer feel the Thrill which he passes off as just being tired. Adolin remembers what Shallan said about the rock formations being hollow and devises a plan to go through the formation with a battalion. {{book ref|wor|82}}
Adolin and a thousand men go through the crem encrusted building to the wall the Parshendi singers are hiding against. He cuts two holes into the wall for his men to exit through, the first one going unnoticed because of all the chanting and rain but the second was. He charges into the Parshendi and starts cutting them down. He likens it to killing sleeping men and reflects on how attacking ordinary soldiers with shards was doing dirty work. Despite winning the plateau, the Parshendi’s expressions of horror haunt him as he cuts them down, feeling nauseated. Though he’s caught unawares by Eshonai and her attack, he mentally thanks her for her arrival, glad to have an honest fight on his hands. {{book ref|wor|83}}
Fighting Eshonai, Adolin senses the Thrill in her and uses this to his advantage in their duel, luring her to the edge of the plateau. Though Eshonai manages to break his vambrace Adolin knocks her off the edge of the plateau and down into the chasms. This gambit breaks his helm and nearly topples him over the edge as well but he is caught and saved by Drehy and Skar.
While jogging across the bridge to find out what was going on with the rest of the army, Adolin grabs the arm of a man in a thick cloak who he assumes is delivering something and asks where his father is. When the hood falls off Adolin discovers the man is the Assassin in White. {{book ref|wor|84}}
Szeth throws a badly beaten Adolin through one of the tents and Adolin lands near his father, most of his plate broken or cracked. Dalinar cradles Adolin as Szeth approaches and tells him to be a better man than he was and to not play the games of the other light eyes before getting up and approaching Szeth. Adolin tries to stop him but with so much of his plate broken he struggles to get up. He watches his father and Szeth fight and eventually manages to stand. Drehy and Skar help him remove his armour. Once it’s off, he runs to save his father, who was knelt in defeat before Szeth, but [[Roion]] gets there before him and is lashed upwards to the sky by Szeth. Wearing no shardplate again Adolin engages Szeth. Dalinar and Adolin both rush Szeth, hoping to score a lucky blow, but Szeth flies out of the way. Szeth manages to land a hand on Dalinar in the fight and lashes him upwards into the storm. Crying, Adolin
Kaladin chases after Szeth into the storm and Adolin, upon confirming Kaladin is one of the Knights Radiant, laughs and exclaims that he knew there was something wrong with the man. Dalinar sends Adolin to help organize the army’s move to Shallan’s plateau. When he gets to the plateau he meets up with Shallan and discovers she is a Radiant as well. They try using Adolin’s Shardblade to open the Oathgate but it doesn’t work and they instead use [[Pattern]] in his Shardblade form. They both use their weight to work the mechanism, pushing the blade around the circle until it stood above the picture of Urithiru. When Shallan removes Pattern from the slot the Oathgate activates. Once transported they discover the entire plateau was the portal. {{book ref|wor|86}}
===The True Desolation (1174-)===
====Exploring Urithiru====
Adolin takes charge of the expedition of Urithiru, creating maps of the city. {{book ref|wor|87}} Adolin and Shallan meet and Shallan says she will not let her status as a Radiant be awkward between them. They kiss and Adolin promises to stop being awkward if she stops being irresistible. When he leaves he informs her that Pattern
While exploring Adolin reflects on his relationship with Shallan and how it has changed with the revelation that she was a Radiant, which has shaken his sense of self. Getting too far ahead of the rest of his party Adolin investigates some voices he hears and stumbles across Sadeas with a scouting party of his own. Adolin remains hidden until the others have left and tries to sneak away but his boot scrapes and draws Sadeas attention. As the two talk Sadeas reveals his plan to undermine Dalinar by saying the Kholins had contacted the Parshendi and the two had put on a convincing show. Sadeas doesn’t believe this but it is the lie he’ll tell others.
Adolin asks Sadeas
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