Difference between revisions of "Adolin Kholin"

Adolin delivers the news that the Parshendi number at least ten thousand to the highprincesHighprinces before the battle. {{book ref|wor|80}} At the start of the battle, Dalinar commands Adolin to take his force and stop the Parshendi's singing at all costs. He's accompanied by [[Skar]] and [[Drehy]] of Bridge Four as his guards. When Adolin crosses the bridge to engage the Parshendi, they summon up lightning and kill Sureblood, knocking Adolin from his saddle. He grieves for a moment over the Ryshadium before charging back into the battle and commanding his troops. He discovers that the Parshendi's lightning acts like naural lightning and will often miss targets by going into the ground. He also discovers that their lightning does not affect Shardplate. {{book ref|wor|81}}

The Parshendi try to immobilize Adolin by lassoing him with ropes, but he manages to cut through them and fend themthe Parshendi 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 in the wall for his men to exit through, the first one going unnoticed because of all the chanting and rain, but the second was noticed. 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.

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 lighteyes, 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 armor. 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 begins to rush Szeth but the assassin points his [[Honorblade]] at Adolin and tells him it is finished and that he is done. Adolin moves to hit him but Szeth parries the blow, breaking Adolin's wrist. He hits him in the chest, knocking the air from Adolin's lungs, and says he can kill one more. Before Szeth can, however, Kaladin lands with Dalinar in his grasp, safe. {{book ref|wor|85}}

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}}