Difference between revisions of "Kaladin"

The night culminates in Kaladin using the money he earned to purchase food and assigning Rock to cook a stew. Not a single person refuses to partake in eating around the fire. The next day, a majority of the men follow his orders to rise out of bed and practice.{{book ref|twok|27}}

 

Kaladin manages to get all of the men to submit to his authority and participate in his training. The training cuts down on their losses but Kaladin doesn't feel it is good enough. Realizing that the bridge itself can act as a shield, Kaladin starts training the men to shift the bridge and carry it on its side.{{book ref|twok|30}}

 

[[Matal]], a high-ranking lighteyed officer, and his wife [[Hashal]] introduce themselves to Kaladin as their new commander. They inform him that things will become less lax and permanently assign Bridge Four to work chasm duty. Kaladin realizes that training to be better bridgemen will be a futile endeavor. Instead, he begins training the men as spearmen and makes a plan to escape.{{book ref|twok|43}}

 

During a highstorm, Kaladin dreamed he was the storm. In the dream, he followed the path of the highstorms, travelling from east to west. He raged forward just ahead of the stormwall, soaring above Roshar. He saw many places including a city that [[Sigzil]] later confirms as [[Sesemalex Dar]]. He also saw a [[Shin]] [[Szeth-son-son-Vallano|man]] that appeared to see Kaladin as well. Once he reached the western ocean, he heard a voice calling Kaladin ''Child of [[Tanavast]]''. The face he saw when he was strung up in the highstorm appeared again and was revealed to be the source of the voice. The face informed Kaladin that the [[Oathpact]] was broken and [[Odium]] reigned. Kaladin woke up, finding himself surrounded by the men of Bridge Four trying to restrain him from walking out into the highstorm.{{book ref|twok|46}}

 

Later that day, Bridge Four got a new member, the parshman [[Shen]]. Kaladin made sure he was accepted by the rest of the men. While talking with Syl, he asked if she knew about Odium which made Syl run away without looking back. Strolling confused about what happened in the warcamp, Kaladin stumbled upon a prostitute being beaten by a lighteyes. [[Adolin Kholin]] and a few of his soldiers came and save her. Adolin told Kaladin to deliver a message and called him ''bridgeboy'' which made Kaladin indignant. Syl returned with no explanation about where she went.{{book ref|twok|46}}

 

In one of the next bridge runs, [[Dunny]] died. Kaladin was frustrated, and started rescuing members of the other bridge crews. Teft talked about how when Kaladin ran point, Parshendi arrows always missed them. Kaladin remarked his behavior as strange.{{book ref|twok|53}} One week later, Bridge Four found an emerald broam along with a number of smaller denominations. Kaladin decided they couldn't get the emerald broam out of the chasm but they would find a way to recover the other spheres. They attached the sphere pouch to an arrow and Rock shot it at under one of the permanent bridges to be recovered later.{{book ref|twok|55}} Teft faked throwing a punch to Kaladin and Kaladin instinctively drew in Stormlight and used Full Lashing in front of Teft and Lopen. Kaladin confronted Syl about it and asked how he could get rid of it. They argued and Syl ran away, her feelings hurt. In the evening, Kaladin met [[Hoid]] while walking around the warcamp. Hoid gave Kaladin a [[Trailman's flute]] and asked him to look after his apprentice, Sigzil, and that he was graduated to a full [[Worldsinger]]. He also told Kaladin a story about [[Wandersail]] which made Kaladin think about responsibility. Kaladin decided to use Surgebinding to help Bridge Four and that he was not cursed.{{book ref|twok|57}}

He went back to Teft and they started practicing how to use Surgebinding consciously. Teft also taught Kaladin about the [[Immortal Words]]. They ran into Brightness Hashal and her husband, Hashal informed them that Bridge Four would be on bridge duty every day from then on while doing chasm duty at nights. While doing chasm duty, Kaladin found a Parshendi corpse and cut his carapace armor. He used Full Lashing and tied the armor to the permanent bridge they had used before.{{book ref|twok|59}} The next chasm run, Kaladin wore the armor and ran ahead of the bridge crews wearing the Parshendi armor. Parshendi were angry because Kaladin had disturbed the corpse of one of their kind and focused all their archers on Kaladin. He managed to dodge them with his abilities and bridge crews managed to set their bridges without casualty. Others volunteered to run with Kaladin and they decided that five men should run before the bridge crews every time. While they were resting, a group of Parshendi soldiers ambushed Bridge Four but [[Dalinar Kholin]] came to their rescue.{{book ref|twok|62}} Kaladin told [[Leyten]] to make a set of armor for every man in Bridge Four, not just those running in front.{{book ref|twok|63}}

 

In the Battle of the Tower, Sadeas abandoned Dalinar and his army at the Tower Plateau, escaping with all of his bridge crews.{{book ref|twok|66}} Kaladin told Lamaril that they would follow behind the army with their own bridge, claiming they were too tired to keep pace. Kaladin believed they could fool the army into thinking they were dead by falling further and further behind. However, when he and Bridge Four saw Dalinar's army surrounded by the overwhelming numbers of Parshendi, they decided they couldn't abandon them all to die alone.