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While talking with Hesina, she brought up Kaladin and he immediately made a point that he is right in his attitude to Kaladin, and tried to leave. Hesina stopped him and told him that Kaladin is the best person to be a soldier. When he called the helpers wearing shash glyphs fools, she led him to [[Noril]], who said that he wears the shash glyph because Kaladin, unlike the [[ardent]]s, helped with his depression. Hesina then asked him to go to the people wearing shash glyphs and ask why they wear them.{{book ref|sa4|i|10}}
 
When [[Teft]] entered the infirmary, he noticed Lirin, Hesina, and Oroden bound and gagged in the back.{{book ref|sa4|103}} After Kaladin became insensate upon Teft's death, [[Moash]] took Lirin and gave him to the [[Pursuer]] with instructions to kill him if Kaladin regains his senses.{{book ref|sa4|105}} The Pursuer gave him to Leshwi, who cut Lirin's hands free before giving him to another [[Heavenly One]] so she could try to stop the Pursuer. Kaladin defeated the Pursuer and went for Lirin, but the Heavenly One panicked and shot off, and Kaladin followed. The Heavenly One landed on the roof, and Kaladin followed. As Kaladin advanced on the Heavenly oneOne, she threw Lirin off the roof.{{book ref|sa4|106}}{{expand} Kaladin, after speaking [[Order of Windrunners#The Fourth Ideal|The Fourth Ideal]], grabbed Lirin's arm to slow him down. The two of them hugged, and Kaladin explained that he realized that both of their ways were correct, for them. Lirin berated him for cutting the rescue so close. Kaladin discovered the shash glyph on Lirin's forehead, and Lirin told him he was trying to show faith in him. Lirin brushed aside Kaladin's hair to see his brand, only to discover that it had finally healed. Kaladin flied Lirin back to the tower.
 
== Relationships ==
 
===Tien===
Lirin had hoped he would be able to take [[Tien]] on as a second apprentice, who could take over from his brother when Kaladin left for Kharbranth. Unfortunately, Tien's phobia of blood prevented him from following in his fathers footstepfootsteps and Lirin reluctantly let him apprentice to the carpenter, [[Ral]].{{book ref|sa1|31}} Lirin is protective of his son and enjoys his excitable nature.{{book ref|sa1|25}} He is devastated when Tien is forced into the army by Roshone and it is only Amaram interceding that stopped him from causing a scene on the day Tien was recruited.{{book ref|sa1|44}}
 
He disapproves of both of his son's hanging around the older children in the town, particularly those who encouraged fighting and the revere the Calling of soldier.{{book ref|sa1|10}}