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== Appearance and Personality ==
[[File:The Stormfather by Noblesgal.jpg|thumb|right|250px|<center><small>by {{a|Noblesgal}}</small></center>]]▼
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| I have burned and broken cities myself. I can see … yes, I see a difference now. I see pain now. I did not see it before the bond.
He's often incapable of understanding human emotions and thoughts, and finds their unstable nature untrustworthy. Over time, when bonded to a human, he begins to gain a sense of empathy and understanding of people.{{book ref|sa3|38}} He also begins to gain a sense of morality, understanding the harm his actions have brought to people.{{book ref|sa3|86}} This does not mean he grows much more kind or gentle, though, as he still believed that the storms are his domain and his alone, and is fine with killing those who would dare to challenge him on that, like sailors on the open sea.{{book ref|sa3|50}}
== History ==
▲[[File:The Stormfather by Noblesgal.jpg|thumb|right|250px|<center><small>by {{a|Noblesgal}}</small></center>]]
=== Origins and the Recreance ===
=== Bondsmith spren ===
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|1=<span style='font-variant: small-caps'> Oaths are the soul of righteousness. If you are to survive the coming tempest, oaths must guide you. </span>
When Dalinar traveled to [[Vedenar]], he felt the return of the [[Thrill]], and sought to run away. Despite Stormfather's protests, he managed to summon something gleaming and white and use it to open the [[Oathgate]], causing the great spren significant pain.{{book ref|sa3|100}} Afterwards, Dalinar apologized to him, but Stromfather was unbothered by the event, or at least acted as though he was.{{book ref|sa3|107}}
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=== Eila Stele and Thaylen Field ===
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| I was bonded to men before. This never happened then.
| Stormfather about [[Honor's Perpendicularity]]{{book ref|sa3|119}}
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The revelations of [[Eila Stele]] came soon afterwards.{{book ref|sa3|111}} In the aftermath, Stormfather explained to Dalinar the Recreance and the role Honor played in preventing it in the ages past, as well as Honor's decay shortly before his death.{{book ref|sa3|113}}
The [[listener]]s believe him to be a traitor to his kind, who protected humans instead of them. They still respect him, though, believing that he would kill anyone who doesn't, leading to a mix of awe and fear in their society.{{book ref|sa2|i|5}}
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== Trivia ==
* Stormfather has two different "modes" of speech. He uses <span style='font-variant: small-caps'>all-caps</span> when talking to those unbonded to him, or when speaking so that everyone can hear him. He speaks normally when communicating directly with [[Dalinar]] after the latter becomes a Bondsmith.{{book ref|sa3|4}} Interestingly, there are only two other characters shown speaking in all-caps -- [[Cultivation]], and [[Syl]], the latter only when about to be resurrected by [[Kaladin]].{{book ref|sa3|114}}{{book ref|sa2|84}}
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