Difference between revisions of "Renarin Kholin"

 

== Attributes and Abilities ==

Renarin has a "blood weakness" (epilepsy), which prevents him participating in activities of great physical stress, including combat. The weakness affects him in episodes, during which he grows pale and his limbs go weak, to the point of trembling or possible collapse.{{book ref|twok|52}} When speaking with Kaladin, Renarin reveals that his weakness is epileptic, with the seizures manifesting as a loss of control of a limb or a little bit of twitching, occasionally experiencing weakness along one side of his body. Kaladin guesses that these are [[Wikipedia: myoclonus|myoclonic seizures]].

 

Renarin recently inherited Dalinar's Shardplate, and was given a Shardblade won in a duel by Adolin.{{book ref|twok|69}}{{book ref|wor|14}} Though he has had very little training with Blade and Plate up to this point, he undergoes training under [[Zahel]]. He also trains as a member of Bridge Four under Kaladin's leadership, though it is unclear if he is trained with or carries a spear. Renarin uses his Shardblade only under great duress or when asked directly, because, as a manifestation of his [[Nahel bond]], he hears the screams of the Blade's dead spren when he holds it.

 

He is also a surgebinder and a fledgling member of the [[Knights Radiant]]. He claims to be a [[Truthwatcher]], bonded to a spren named [[Glys]], but is not a true member of the order due to the corruption of his spren.{{book ref|sa2|89}} Renarin bonded Glys at some point before Adolin's final duel.{{wob ref|283}} He has access to the [[Surge]]s of [[Progression]] and [[Illumination]], however, has been unable to successfully use the latter Surge. [[Glys]]'s corruption has not barred Renarin from using Stormlight to surgebind or heal.

 

In the days leading up to the [[True Desolation]], Renarin began seeing visions of the future which caused him to write glyph messages and numbers counting down to the arrival of the Everstorm. During the battle for Narak itself, he is taken by one of these visions again, and his participation in them seems to be involuntary, if not painful. Considering the Vorin sensibilities regarding men writing, it is likely that his writing of the glyphs are against his will also. Because he is seeing the future, an action explicitly forbidden by the Vorin church for ties with the Voidbringers, Renarin believes himself to be cursed by the Almighty.

 

 

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