User:LadyLameness/Lirin

Lirin, Revised History

History

Early History

As a youth, Lirin travelled to Kharbranth as a courier. During his travels, he had poor luck when meeting people from Thaylenah, all of whom tried to swindle him. After meeting his wife, Hesina, Lirin moved to Hearthstone and began a family.

The Surgeon And his Apprentice

Lirin began training his son Kaladin in the profession of surgery from a young age. When Kaladin was ten, he worked with his father on a young girl named Sani who had major injuries to one of her hands. The surgery doubled as a learning opportunity, and together Lirin and his son were able to save four of the girl’s five fingers.

After the operation, Kaladin helped his father to clean the surgery room and discussed why he had been late. Disapproving of his sons choices to hang around with older villiage boys like Jam, Lirin argued with his son over the usefulness of surgeons and soldiers. After shifting the conversation, Lirin continued his son’s study, quizzing him on various diseases and medicines. He believed Kaladin had great potential and expressed his desire to send Kaladin to Kharbranth after he turned sixteen to study.

Several years later, Kaladin unsuccessfully tried to save the life of a young girl named Miasal, who had fallen from a considerable height. Lirin was called to the scene by Alim, however, by did not arrive before the girl died. Afterwards, Lirin searches out Kaladin, and found him weeping on the steps near the surgery room. Before coming to find his son, he had gone to inspect the child and despite Kaladin’s inability to save her, he was impressed by the work Kaladin had done. The two of them sat together as the sun set, while Kaladin continued to grieve.

Brightlord Wistiow and the Goblet of Sphere’s

Lirin and Brightlord Wistiow we’re close friends despite the difference in their social standing. In 1165, the Brightlord fell ill and was attended by Lirin who despite his best efforts, was unable to save the citylord’s life. On the day of Wistiow’s death, Lirin travelled to his manor to speak with the man. During his visit, he prepared documentation written by himself in glyphs, that would gift his family a number ofdiamond broams. After the document was read to the Brightlord by his clerks, Wistiow ordered his staff from the room, leaving Lirin as the only witness to his authorisation of the transaction. Later, after returning home, Lirin is found by Kaladin in his surgery. After informing his son of the Brightlord’s passing, Lirin informed him about the “inherited” spheres and how they would be used to pay for Kaladin’s further study in Kharbranth when he was older.

The Brightlord was not in his right mind during his last few days and did not have the capacity to transfer this wealth. Lirin, with the help of his wife Hesina, engineered the theft of their friends wealth as they knew that with his death would come the loss the potential union between their children. Rumors sprang up not long after the Brightlord’s death surrounding the legitimacy of the transaction, though concrete evidence was never produced to prove the sphere’s had been stolen.

On a rare night of indulgence, Lirin warned his son against returning to Hearthstone after finishkng his studies. The pair were shortly interrupted by a group of masked townsmen who had come to rob them and take Wistiow’s spheres. Lirin knew they were members of the town and not bandits as assumed by Kaladin, and refused to be intimidated by them. Instead of cowering, he removed the cloth covering the spheres, and lit up the night exposing the thieves and taking away their anonymity. When Lirin showed he was willing to stand against them, then men disappeared into the night.

The Butcher

The new citylord, Roshone, took a disliking to Lirin immediately after his arrival in Hearthstone. Lirin gathered with his family in the town square to greet the new Brightlord who had arrived in the area without prior warning. He attempted to welcome the new citylord to the town but was rebuffed immediately, and sneered at by Roshone who blamed him for Wistiow’s death and the need for a new citylord in Hearthstone. After Roshone departs for his manor, Lirin compares his arrival with that of throwing a butcher in the game breakneck; what comes next depends entirely on your opponent.

Life for Lirin went downhill quickly after Roshone’s appointment as citylord. At Roshone suggestion, the townspeople ceased their donations and inflated the price of their goods, and they felt intimidated by Roshone and wished to avoid his anger. Secretly, however, they continued donating in secret, and left food around the town for Hesina to find while she worked.

After the family lost access to all sources of income, Roshone invited Lirin to dine with him, so he could further break the surgeon. Despite his mother’s attempts to distract him, Kaladin joined his father for the meeting. On their way to the manor, Lirin discussed the possibility of the family moving away, but admitted he struggled with the thought.

“If we lack for something to eat, we can feast upon the attention you lavish upon us, Brightlord.”

—Lirin to Roshone

Tension was high when Lirin and Kaladin joined Roshone in the manor’s dining room. Initially, Roshone tried to seat the surgeon at a seperate table; an insult against Lirin who was entitled to a seat at the Brightlord’s table through his invitation and rank. Despite being offered food, Lirin did not eat, instead choosing to skip directly to the reason behind his invitation. Roshone wished for the return of Wistiow’s spheres, of which Lirin had continuiosly refused. His rank provided him protects in the right of inquest, of which Roshone was bound to lose.

Unable to get past Lirin’s stubborn refusal to return all of the sphere’s, Roshone turned to negotiation. After an outburst from Kaladin, Lirin sends his son away to the kitchens and continued the discussion with Roshone in private. During the conversation, he argued back and forth with the citylord over the amount he was willing to return before growing frustrated and leaving before an agreement was reached.

Lirin later revealed to Kaladin on their trip home that he never intended to give up the sphere’s. He had gone to the meeting to give the appearance of bending but had known that Roshone would never had agreed to only a partial transfer. Roshone was a petty man, who targeted and lashed out at Lirin as a surrogate for those he blamed for his exile from Kholinar. He would never be happy until he had taken away all power from Lirin and had been beaten down completely. Lirin, aware of the Brightlord’s game, used the opportunity to gain his family a reprieve from the oppressive citylord. It is during this same discussion, that Kaladin learned the truth around Wistiow’s sphere’s and his parents role in their theft.

Children Lost

- SA1 Ch 41, 44, 47 and SA3 6

- Rillir

- Tien and Kaladin

In order to curb his ire and deceive Roshone, Lirin and Hesina make out that their situation to be worse than it seems, occasionally spending Wistiow's sphere's and living below their means, despite offers of aid from Hesina's family.I

After a catastophic whitespine hunt, Roshone's son Rillir dies whilst in Lirin's care. While operating on Roshone, Lirin had the chance to end the citylord's life and spare his family further suffering. Lirin, unable to kill those in his charge, instead chose to save the Brightlord.

In retaliation for his sons death, Roshone orchestrated the enlistment of Lirin's second son Tien, into the army of Highmarshal Amaram. Unlike his older brother or father, Tien was not immune from conscription on the basis of his profession. In an attempt to protect his brother, Kaladin also enlists, against the wishes of his parents.

After Tien's death, Kaladin sent a letter to his parents informing them that he failed to keep his brother safe and that he would not be returning home at the end of his enlistment. Kaladin does not receive a reply and several years later, after Kaladin becomes a slave, Lirin and Hesina receive notice that he had also been killed.

After the Everstorm

-SA3 Cp 6, 7

- Kaladin's return to Hearthstone

-Oroden

Years later, Lirin has a third child with Hesina. They named him Oroden.

After the Everstorm struck Hearthstone, Lirin treated the wounded and was reunited with Kaladin. Lirin refused to leave the town when asked to by his son, because he felt he was needed there, especially if there was a Desolation.