Meridas Amaram

Meridas Amaram
Abilities	Shardbearer
Nationality	Alethi
Homeworld	Roshar

“You can't begin to understand the weights I carry, spearman. I can't worry about the lives of a few darkeyed spearmen when thousands of people may be saved by my decision.”

—Amaram after killing Kaladin's men and taking his Shards.

Brightlord Amaram was a lighteyes in Alethkar on Roshar.

Head of defense in northern Alethkar

He was a highmarshal in service of Highprince Sadeas, and had to watch over northern Alethkar while his highprince fought in the Vengeance Pact on the Shattered Plains. Because of the continuous skirmishes at Alethkar's borders he was in permanent need of new soldiers. Eventually he came through Hearthstone for recruitment. Hearthstone's citylord Roshone -- apparently Amaram's distant cousin -- committed Tien to be a recruit what resulted in Kaladin's volunteering due to his wish to protect Tien though Amaram promised Lirin to stint Tien's duty to be a messenger boy. Amaram didn't keep his promise and Tien died in his very first battle, leaving Kaladin in a bitter grief.

Shardplate and Shardblade

Years later, shortly before the four years tour of Kaladin's duty ended, an unidentified Veden Shardbearer attacked Amaram during one of these border skirmishes. Kaladin fought this Shardbearer but gave the Shardplate and Shardblade to his men. Amaram, greedy, killed the survivors of Kaladin's squad before his eyes and took the Shardplate and Shardblade for himself. He told Kaladin that as a mercy he would not kill him but brand him as slave and sell him, claiming Kaladin was a deserter.

When Kaladin was a bridgeman in Sadeas's warcamp rumors said that "Amaram the Shardbearer" was on his way to the Shattered Plains.

“'Were you with him when he won his Shards?' 'No,' Kaladin said softly. 'Nobody was.'”

—Kaladin's answer to Skar's question

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