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|image=Kaladin and Syl.jpg
|parents=[[Lirin]], [[Hesina]]|siblings=[[Tien]] (deceased)
|born=Late {{date/sa|year=1153}}{{17s ref|5641|post|89705|text=Peter Ahlstrom's post about character ages|date=24
|abilities=[[Surgebinding]] <small>(Adhesion/Gravitation)</small><br>[[Shardbearer|Shardwielding]]
|titles=Kaladin Stormblessed
Kaladin spent the next eight months under five different slavemasters in harsh conditions of constant beatings and deprivation. He always demanded his wages be given to him as was required by the law, but the slavemasters always managed to cheat him out of it by charging for housing or food. He managed to keep his defiance and made ten escape attempts, even managing to get away a few times, but he was always captured and taken back. Around his sixth month of slavery, he noticed [[Sylphrena|a windspren]] following him around. He spent time with a [[Selay]] man<!-- named Goshel --> who told him about about the [[Old Magic]] and its ability to curse people under his fifth slavemaster. In his last escape attempt, he led a group of twenty armed slaves, but all of them except Kaladin died. According to Kaladin, he should have been killed for that, but finding him "intriguing," his previous master branded his forehead with the ''shash'' [[glyph]], meaning dangerous, in addition to the ''sas nahn'' [[glyphpair]] already there and sold him for a pittance to another slavemaster named [[Tvlakv]].{{book ref|sa1|2}}{{book ref|sa1|4}}{{book ref|sa1|43}}
Tvlakv brought Kaladin to the [[Shattered Plains]] and sold him to [[Sadeas warcamp]]. Kaladin tried to convince the lighteyed woman, Brightness [[Hashal]], who was responsible for the acquisitions of slaves to make him a spearman but was sent to the [[Bridge Four]] to work as a [[bridgeman]] in {{date/sa|year=1173}}.{{book ref|twok|6}}
=== Bridge Four (1173) ===
== Trivia ==
*Kaladin is currently immune to the [[Thrill]] although that does not mean he never felt it.{{17s ref|3937|text=Spokane Signing
*Kaladin spoke the Second Ideal of the Windrunners in modern Alethi.{{qa ref|979|8|text=Reddit AMA 2013|date=Apr 15th, 2013}}
*Despite previous contradicting statements by Brandon, Kaladin is not likely to get another flashback book anymore.{{17s ref|5854|post|93530|text=Peter Ahlstrom's post on 17th Shard|date=02 February 2014}}
*Kaladin was originally named Merin. One of the reasons for the name change was that Merin sounded too much like [[Wikipedia: Perrin Aybara|Perrin]].{{qa ref|535|8|text=Mad Hatter's interview with Brandon Sanderson|date=Sep 17th, 2010}} Another was it sounded too much like a female name. Brandon also felt that the character had changed so much that he couldn't think of him as Merin anymore.{{qa ref|692|2|text=17th Shard Interview|date=Oct 15th, 2010}}
*In the original manuscript of ''The Way of Kings'', Kaladin saves the life of Elhokar from a Shardbearer and accepts the Shardblade. They try to take it away from him, but Dalinar insists that he be given it.{{qa ref|590|50|text=Tor Q&A with Brandon Sanderson|date=Jan 10th, 2011}}
== Notes ==
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