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He had the Bridge 4 / freedom tattoo placed upon his forehead. {{book ref|sa2|2}}

Rlain in Warform he has an orange-red skullplate and armored carapace at the chest, thightsthighs, and outer arms. He remained as tall as an Alethi but more muscular in body type. Rlain’s Bridge Four tattoo remained on his forehead, but now it blends into his skullplate. {{book ref|sa2|79}}

He asks “Am I really Bridge Four?” and “Where is my spear?” of Kaladin. He states “A slave I am, then” after Kaladin says the Lighteyes would object to a parshmen with a spear. {{book ref|sa2|22}} This shows more intelligence than the parshmen display.

He shows flashes of pride after being granted a spear and apologizes to Kaladin when he leaves.

Rlain is placed in Bridge Four as an experiment by [[Hashal]], to see if parshmen could be trusted to run bridges. The members of Kaladin's crew violently distrusted the parshman, wanting to place him up at the front of the bridge to be hit with an arrow instead of a human bridgeman, but Kaladin refused, giving the parshman the name "Shen" and insisting that he was to be treated as a member of the crew.{{book ref|sa1|46}} Rlain was upset by the crew's scavenging from dead Parshendi, and even more upset when Kaladin used Parshendi carapace as armourarmor during a bridge run, to the point where he ended up being left behind on subsequent runs. He was retrieved from [[Shattered Plains|Sadeas warcamp]] and brought with the rest of the bridgemen to [[Shattered Plains|Kholin warcamp]] following Sadeas's betrayal and Bridge Four's rescue of Dalinar.

Rlain confronted Kaladin over not being given a spear like the other former bridgemen{{book ref|sa2|22}}, and was given one after Dalinar permitted it as an experiment.{{book ref|sa2|46}}, Rlain accompanied [[Adolin]] when he met with [[Eshonai]] to try to arrange a truce, and later that day, he left the Warcampswarcamps to rejoin the Parshendi. Rlain went back to [[Narak]], and gained warform. He eventually defected from the Parshendi, realizing that the change in [[Eshonai]] had corrupted his people. Bridge Four accepted him back, and he helped in the strategy of attacking the Stormform Parshendi.{{book ref|sa2|81}}