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|leader=Highmarshal [[Azure]]
|type={{cat tag|Kholin army}} force
|members=See [[:Category: Kholinar Wall Guard]]
|city=Kholinar
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
|books=[[Oathbringer]]
}}
{{quote
| This Wall Guard, this is '''redemption'''. If you fight here, nobody will care what you did before. Because they know if we fall, this city and this nation will be no more.
| Azure{{book ref|sa3|70}}
}}
'''Kholinar Wall Guard''' is one of three military forces stationed in the [[Alethi]] capital of [[Kholinar]], alongside [[Queen's Guard]] and [[Palace Guard]]. They are responsible for patrolling the city wall and standing watch over its gates.{{book ref|sa3|61}} It's is composed entirely of [[lighteyes]] of lower [[dahn]], organized into four battallions and commanded by a Highmarshal.{{book ref|sa3|77}}
== History ==
Some members of the Wall Guard were present when [[Taln]] arrived at Kholinar to bring news of the [[True Desolation]].{{book ref|sa1|epilogue}}
At the start of the [[Siege of Kholinar]], their commander died when trying to quell the riots, while their highborn patron went to speak with Queen [[Aesudan]] in the [[Kholinar palace]], never to be seen again. When the [[Cult of Moments]] attempted to storm one of the gates, [[Azure]] stepped up and took charge. Afterwards, she became the Wall Guard's new Highmarshal, although her men pretended that she was a man to circumvent their [[Vorin]] sensibilities.{{book ref|sa3|70}}
Azure rallied the Wall Guard and led them to seize the city's emerald reserves, as well as to acquire a [[Soulcaster]].{{book ref|sa3|77}} She cut out a chamber underneath the city and lined it with [[aluminium]] to prevent the [[voidspren]] from detecting the work done there, then placed [[Ithi]] and her sister there to Soulcast rock into grain.{{book ref|sa3|81}} By the time [[Kaladin]] and his team arrive in [[Kholinar]], the sisters are Kholinar's only remaining food source.{{book ref|sa3|77}}
At that time, the Wall Guard is actively recruiting any [[lighteyes]] who can wield a weapon, regardless of whether they're deserters or even criminals, using free meals as an incentive to join.{{book ref|sa3|69}} When they attempt to recruit Kaladin, he agrees, hoping to learn where the city's food comes from.{{book ref|sa3|73}} He eventually reveals himself to them as a [[Shardbearer]] and informs them about king [[Elhokar]]'s presence in the city, then rallies them to join his group in an assault on the Kholinar Palace.{{book ref|sa3|79}}{{book ref|sa3|82}}
During the fighting, the Wall Guard suffers tremendous losses, especially when they begin to clash with the [[listener]]s as they assault the city.{{book ref|sa3|85}} After the assault fails, Azure is dumped into [[Shadesmar]] along with Kaladin, [[Shallan]] and [[Adolin]], while the surviving Guard members are captured and inprisoned by the fused.{{book ref|sa3|89}}{{book ref|sa3|86}}
== Members ==
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