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|ethnicity=Alethi
|birthplace=Hearthstone
|nation=Alethkar
|world=Roshar
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
|books=[[The Stormlight Archive]]
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'''Jost''' is a
==Appearance and Personality==
As a fourteen-year-old, Jost already had the body of a man. He had a broad chest and thick, stocky legs like his father's.{{book ref|sa1|16}} He harbored resentment towards Kaladin, since he perceived Kaladin's surgical training as an easy assignment compared to working in the fields.{{book ref|sa1|16}} Kaladin cites Jost's name as an example of a 'solid, Alethi darkeyes' names, unlike his own.{{book ref|sa1|16}}
==History==
Jost was born into a typical Hearthstone family of the fourth or fifth [[nahn]]. His parents are farmers, and his father spent time as a soldier.{{book ref|sa1|16}}{{book ref|sa1|44}}
As a child, Jost worked in the [[lavis]] fields outside of Hearthstone with the other darkeyed children of the village, helping to keep the polyps free of [[digger-worms]]. When they were not working, Jost played with the other children in the village, including his brother [[Jest]], [[Tift]], [[Mord]], [[Naget]], and [[Khav]]. Jost and the other children were bitter that Kaladin was able able to stay inside during the day, not realizing that he worked hard at his studies all day long.{{book ref|sa1|16}}
In {{Rosharan date|1166}}, he got into an altercation with Kaladin. Kaladin inadvertently made several comments that antagonized Jost, and [[Laral]] further agitated the situation. Jost claimed that his father should have been awarded a [[Shardblade]] after killing a [[Shardbearer]] in the [[wastescum skirmishes]], but someone else took the Blade while he was unconscious. Kaladin suggested that Jost's father could not have possibly won a Shardblade in the fighting since the [[Reshi]] people were not known to have Blades. Jost took this as Kaladin calling his father a liar, and he challenged Kaladin to a fight with wooden staves. Despite the fact that Jost had trained in the staff and Kaladin had never wielded a weapon before, Kaladin landed several blows and only lost the fight because he hesitated to hurt Jost. This was the first time that Kaladin realized how much he enjoyed using a weapon, and he asked Jost to train him further. Jost admitted that Kaladin had done well, but declined to train him, saying that [[Lirin]] would not allow it and that Kaladin should go be a surgeon.{{book ref|sa1|16}} The memory of the fight and the excitement that he felt while wielding the staff stuck with Kaladin.{{book ref|sa1|25}}
Jost, [[Abry]], and several other youths from Hearthstone volunteered for [[Amaram]]'s army in {{Rosharan date|1168}}. Jost was sixteen or seventeen years old at the time; his mother did not want him to leave, as she needed his help with the crops.{{book ref|sa1|44}}
== Notes ==
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