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{{character
|image=Kaladin and Syl.jpg
|parents=[[Lirin]], [[Hesina]]|siblings=[[Tien]]▼
|world=Roshar|nation=Alethkar▼
|born=Late {{date|1153|EoS}}{{ref|17s|5641|post|89705|text=Peter Ahlstrom talks about character ages}}
|birthplace=Hearthstone▼
|abilities={{tag+|windrunner}}
|titles=Kaladin Stormblessed
|profession=Soldier<br>Bridgeman (formerly)<br>Apprentice Surgeon (formerly)
|groups={{tag|Bridge Four}}
▲|parents=[[Lirin]], [[Hesina]]|siblings=[[Tien]]
▲|birthplace=Hearthstone
|world=Roshar
|books=[[The Stormlight Archive]]
}}
{{quote|I don’t know what I am either. A bridgeman? A surgeon? A soldier? A slave? Those are all just labels. Inside, I’m me. A very different me than I was a year ago, but I can’t worry about that, so I just keep moving and hope my feet take me where I need to go.|Kaladin to Sylphrena{{ref|b|twok|c|14}}}}
'''Kaladin''', nicknamed '''Kal''', renowned as '''Kaladin Stormblessed''', is a [[darkeyes|darkeyed]] [[Alethi]] male [[Surgebinder]] who is on the path to becoming one of the first [[Knights Radiant]] since the [[Recreance]] on [[Roshar]]. He was born in [[Hearthstone]] to a family of second [[nahn]], [[Lirin]] and [[Hesina]], in late 1173, and two years later his younger brother [[Tien]] was born. Lirin started teaching Kaladin surgery at age ten. He eventually wanted to send him to [[Kharbranth]] to train as a surgeon, but Kaladin secretly harbored a childish desire to become a soldier as well. The family had a more or less happy and peaceful time until, in the Citylord [[Wistiow]] died in 1166, and his replacement [[Brightlord]] [[Roshone]] accused Lirin of thievery of substantial amount of [[spheres|money]]. Knowing there wasn't enough evidence to win an inquest, Roshone applied pressure on the family by turning to townspeople against them, therefore impoverishing the family. The conflict came to a climax when Lirin failed to save the life of Roshone's son [[Rillir Roshone|Rillir]]. For revenge, Roshone made sure Tien was conscripted to Brightlord [[Meridas Amaram|Amaram]]'s army, and Kaladin also volunteered in order to protect his younger brother in 1168.
Only a few months later, Tien died in battle while Kaladin could do nothing but watch. Extremely depressed by this, Kaladin obsessively threw himself to his spear fighting practices. He was soon renowned as the best spearman in Amaram's army, and promoted to the rank of squadleader and given his own squad. In Kaladin's final battle in Amaram's army in 1172, a [[Shardbearer]] tried to kill the Brightlord. Instead, Kaladin fought and killed the man and saved Amaram's life, but lost almost all soldiers in his squad in the process. Disgusted by the [[Shardplate]] and [[Shardblade|Blade]] that had been used to kill so many of his friends, Kaladin refused to take them up and instead gave them to one of the few surviving members of his squad. Amaram, however, wanted the Shards for himself, and had Kaladin's men killed and Kaladin branded as a slave.
Kaladin spent eight months under various slavemasters, and tried to escape ten times. After his last failed escape attempt, he was branded with the ''shash'' glyph and sold to another slavemaster named [[Tvlakv]]. Tvlakv took him to the [[Shattered Plains]] and sold to Brightlord [[Sadeas]]'s army, in late 1173, where Kaladin was assignted to [[Bridge Four]] to work as a [[bridgeman]].
Kaladin grew more and more despaired during his time as a bridgeman. He eventually came close to committing suicide, but was, instead, convinced to try one last time to protect the bridgemen by the [[honorspren]] [[Sylphrena]]. He spent the subsequent period trying to win the loyalty of the bridgemen, and, once he did, to find a way to save their lives. He tried training regiments, and alternative methods of carrying the bridge. After he caused a battle to be lost in a disastrous attempt to carry the bridge sideways, he realized that the purpose of the bridgemen was to be bait to the [[Parshendi]] arrows, and decided if they wanted to live, they would have to escape. He started training the Bridge Four as spearmen. In the [[Battle of the Tower]], instead of escaping, he and Bridge Four saved the lives of [[Dalinar Kholin]] and his men. In return for their sacrifice, Dalinar made all the bridgemen freed from slavery, and offered them a job as soldiers in his army, to be trained and led by Kaladin.
Kaladin was granted the rank of captain, a first for a darkeyes, and given command of a thousand former bridgemen. Along with training his men, Dalinar gave him responsibility to protect himself, [[Elhokar Kholin|the King]], and their families.
== Appearance and Personality ==
== History ==
=== Early Life ===
Kaladin was born in {{date|
==== Surgery on Sani ====
In 1164, at age ten, Kaladin helped his father perform a surgery on a fifteen-year-old girl named [[Sani]] who had badly injured her [[safehand]]. He was late to the surgery because he was with [[Jam]], who had been showing Kaladin and Tien the quarterstaff fighting his father had been teaching him. Lirin adomnished Kaladin for his tardiness when his son came to the surgery room, but said they would discuss his tardiness after the surgery. Lirin told him to wash his hands, claiming it was the wisdom of the [[Herald]]s that water repulsed [[rotspren]] and [[deathspren]]. Although Kaladin immediately went to wash his hands, he answered his father by saying that he'd heard that the Heralds were demons from an [[ardent]]. Lirin told him he was mixing Heralds with the Knights Radiant, and Radiants weren't demons, but betrayers. Once that done, the two removed the makeshift bandages on Sani's hand, and Kaladin saw they would have to amputate the girl's third finger. Lirin did the actual amputating, while Kaladin helped him as a nurse. They finished the surgery, able to save Sani's other four fingers, applied antiseptic and bandages. When they were finished, his father told Kaladin he still had to work on his nerves, and it was alright to care, as long as it didn't interfere with the ability to perform surgery. He asked why Kaladin was late, and Kaladin told him about Jam. The conversation shifted to Jam's father, and then surgery, with Kaladin trying, poorly, to impress they needed soldiers, and Lirin claiming they needed surgeons more. Eventually his father told Kaladin there were two kinds of people in the world; those who save lives, and those who take lives. After the conversation died down, Lirin quizzed Kaladin on surgery. He praised him when Kaladin answered perfectly, and announced he would like to send him to Kharbranth when he turned sixteen years old to train as a much better surgeon than Lirin.{{ref|b|sa1|c|10}}
=== Amaram's Army ===
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