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|titles={{tag+|Highprince|Alethkar}}
|groups={{tag|Sons of Honor}}, {{tag+|army|Amaram's}}
|bonded=[[Yelig-nar]]
|died=[[Battle of Thaylen Field]], killed by [[Lunamor]]{{book ref|sa3|120}}
|nation=Alethkar
|world=Roshar
|books=[[The Stormlight Archive]]
}}
{{update|sa4}}
{{quote
|I am sorry for what I did to you and yours. Sometimes, good men must die so that greater goals may be accomplished.
== Appearance and Personality ==
=== Appearance ===
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{{image|Meridas Amaram.jpg|side=right|width=250px}}
Meridas Amaram is a tall man,{{book ref|sa1|51}} even for an Alethi, with a lean build.{{book ref|sa1|44}} His face is square,{{book ref|sa1|44}} and has the appearance of chipped stone.{{book ref|sa2|37}} He has dark hair,{{book ref|sa1|47}} light tan eyes,{{book ref|sa1|44}} and an angular nose.{{book ref|sa2|52}} In his earlier years, Amaram was clean-shaven,{{book ref|sa1|44}} but by 1172 he wore a beard.{{book ref|sa1|47}} He speaks with a deep, strong voice.{{book ref|sa1|44}} Amaram is a dignified man{{book ref|sa2|12}} who carries himself with decorum{{book ref|sa2|37}} and pride,{{book ref|sa2|56}} walking with a straight back{{book ref|sa2|37}} and head held high.{{book ref|sa2|56}}
Amaram typically dresses in a green formal uniform that is always kept neatly pressed, with a sword at his side.{{book ref|sa1|44}} Wearing a true uniform is rare among the Alethi highborn,{{book ref|sa2|37}} but Amaram occasionally will wear a more modern lighteyes outfit for some occasions.{{book ref|sa2|52}} In that instance he typically wears a buttoned shirt under an open jacket with stiff trousers and a stock at his neck. After he is made head of the Knights Radiant, Amaram wears a bright yellow-gold cloak bearing the [[Double Eye of the Almighty|double eye]] glyph, symbol of the Radiants.{{book ref|sa2|55}} After he is stripped of this position, he abandons the cloak.{{book ref|sa2|76}} In combat, Amaram once wore silver plate armor,{{book ref|sa1|47}} until he became a Shardbearer, after which he wears his Plate into battle.{{book ref|sa2|29}} Amaram's personal glyphpair is [[Glyphs/Index#Merem|merem]] and [[Glyphs/Index#Khakh|khakh]], meaning honor and determination.{{book ref|sa2|47}} They are typically drawn in the form of a [[whitespine]]. His colors are burgundy and dark green.
=== Personality ===
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Several years later in late 1172, during another battle against Brightlord Hallaw's forces, a Shardbearer, [[Helaran Davar]],{{book ref|sa2|52}} attacked Amaram and his men during the battle,{{book ref|sa1|1}} killing members of Kaladin's squad.{{book ref|sa1|47}} During the attack, Amaram's honor guard scattered and his horse was killed, falling on his leg and shattering it in multiple places. Before Helaran could take Meridas's life, Kaladin and the remainder of his squad arrived. While Amaram crawled to safety, Kaladin managed to kill the Shardbearer at the cost of most of his men's lives. To Amaram's shock, Kaladin refused the Shards, giving them to [[Coreb]], one of his men.
{{image|Sas Nahn by Esther Schrader.jpg|side=left|height=250px|Betraying [[Kaladin]] and his men}}
In the hours after the attack, Amaram conferred with his counselors, attempting to determine the identity of his assassin,{{book ref|sa1|51}} as Helaran's face had been ruined by Kaladin's attack.{{book ref|sa2|52}} He communicated with [[Restares]], a member of the Sons of Honor, who convinced him that the [[Ghostbloods]] must have been responsible for the assassination attempt, despite Amaram's disbelief that they would make such a bold move.{{book ref|sa1|51}} Restares also convinced Amaram that he should take the Shards that Kaladin had won for himself. He had Kaladin and the surviving members of his squad brought to his warcenter. There he ordered his soldiers to kill the rest of Kaladin's squad and took the Blade for himself. Meridas explained to Kaladin that it was necessary that he possess the Shards, as he had trained as a Shardbearer and no one would believe that Kaladin had willingly given them up. As a reward for saving his own life, Amaram spared Kaladin's, having him branded as a slave and sold.
=== Life in the Warcamps ===
{{image|Her Brother's Sword by Marie Seeberger.jpg|side=right|width=250px|With [[Helaran]]'s [[Shardblade]]}}
In late 1173, several weeks after the [[Battle of the Tower]], Amaram arrived on the Shattered Plains and was greeted as an old friend by [[Dalinar]].{{book ref|sa2|12}} Kaladin was present for their meeting{{book ref|sa2|12}} and shortly afterward told Dalinar of Amaram's treachery.{{book ref|sa2|22}} Dalinar agreed to do some investigation, but expressed doubts about Kaladin's allegations. Amaram set up his residence within Sadeas's warcamp, inside a building that had once been an inn.{{book ref|sa2|52}}
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