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People

Characters

All known still holds everyone from Words of Radiance. That does not mean they have appeared in this chapter. On the page is who this book has actually used so far.

108 of these names came with you from earlier books.

Kaladin, branded Alethi bridgeman
Earlier book

Kaladin

Freed captain in Dalinar Kholin's camp · Alethi

The who charged a to save a .

Shallan Davar in a scholar's havah
Earlier book

Shallan Davar

of the · Veden

The scholar who can put on another woman's face.

Dalinar Kholin in Kholin blue
Earlier book

Dalinar Kholin

() · Alethi

The man who bonded .

Adolin Kholin
Earlier book

Adolin Kholin

Heir to the ; · Alethi

The prince who killed a and has not said so.

Renarin Kholin
Earlier book

Renarin Kholin

Younger son · Alethi

Dalinar's younger son — the one with spectacles.

Jasnah Kholin
Earlier book

Jasnah Kholin

Shallan's guardian and tutor · Alethi

The heretic princess who walked back from the other world.

Szeth in white
Earlier book

Szeth-son-son-Vallano

The · Shin

The .

Sylphrena as a figure of light
Earlier book

Sylphrena

The who came back as a Blade of light.

Navani Kholin
Earlier book

Navani Kholin

Dowager queen; · Alethi

The queen mother who builds and will not go home.

Highprince Sadeas
Earlier book

Torol Sadeas

; owner of the Sadeas · Alethi

The Adolin killed in a corridor.

King Elhokar
Earlier book

Elhokar Kholin

King of Alethkar · Alethi

The king Kaladin chose to protect anyway.

Brightlord Amaram
Earlier book

Meridas Amaram

who stole his Shards from a spearman · Alethi

The who stole Kaladin's Shards.

Rock of Bridge Four
Earlier book

Numuhukumakiaki'aialunamor

member; cook · Unkalaki

The huge red-haired Horneater who cooks for .

Teft
Earlier book

Teft

Kaladin's sergeant in all but rank · Alethi

The grizzled who still stands like a sergeant.

Moash
Earlier book

Moash

member · Alethi

The friend who wants a king dead.

Lopen of Bridge Four
Earlier book

Lopen

member · Herdazian

The Herdazian who grew an arm back and immediately made it a bit.

Wit
Earlier book

Wit

King's Wit — still collecting stories as the world changes

Waiting in Kholinar with a story about expectation.

King Taravangian
Earlier book

Taravangian

King of Kharbranth

The kindly old king of the City of Bells.

Gaz
Earlier book

Gaz

Deserter in Shallan's company · Alethi

The deserter with one eye, now following a red-haired .

King Gavilar
Earlier book

Gavilar Kholin

King of Alethkar (deceased as of the night of the treaty) · Alethi

The king the killed.

Sigzil of Bridge Four
Earlier book

Sigzil

member; the crew's reluctant scholar · Azish

The Azish who talks like a clerk.

Skar of Bridge Four
Earlier book

Skar

member · Alethi

The short who still stands like infantry.

Drehy of Bridge Four
Earlier book

Drehy

member · Alethi

The lanky blond .

Leyten of Bridge Four
Earlier book

Leyten

Four's improvised armorer · Alethi

The man fitting carapace to .

Hobber of Bridge Four
Earlier book

Hobber

Wounded ; barracks keeper · Alethi

The wounded man who keeps Four's fire.

Dunny of Bridge Four
Earlier book

Dunny

member · Alethi

The one the chapter is named for.

Shen, parshman of Bridge Four
Earlier book

Shen

Parshman assigned to · Parshmen

The parshman of .

Tien
Earlier book

Tien

Kaladin's younger brother; carpenter's apprentice · Alethi

The brother Kaladin could not protect.

Lirin
Earlier book

Lirin

Surgeon of Hearthstone; Kaladin's father · Alethi

The surgeon who raised Kaladin.

Hesina
Earlier book

Hesina

Kaladin's mother · Alethi

Kaladin's mother in Hearthstone.

Citylord Roshone
Earlier book

Roshone

Citylord of Hearthstone · Alethi

Hearthstone's spiteful citylord.

Cenn
Earlier book

Cenn

Recruit in Kaladin's squad · Alethi

The new kid Kaladin tries to keep alive.

Tvlakv
Earlier book

Tvlakv

; master of Kaladin's caravan · Thaylen

The who owns Kaladin's wagon.

Kabsal
Earlier book

Kabsal

Assassin posing as an (deceased) · Herdazian

The assassin in ardent's robes.

Yalb
Earlier book

Yalb

Sailor on the Wind's Pleasure · Thaylen

The Thaylen sailor who walked Shallan into Kharbranth.

Nan Balat Davar
Earlier book

Nan Balat Davar

Eldest brother at home; acting head of House Davar · Veden

Shallan's brother who kills in the gardens.

Lin Davar
Earlier book

Lin Davar

Patriarch of House Davar (deceased) · Veden

Shallan's dead father.

Helaran Davar
Earlier book

Helaran Davar

Shallan's older brother; absent from home · Veden

Shallan's missing older brother.

Ialai Sadeas
Earlier book

Ialai Sadeas

Wife of Sadeas · Alethi

Sadeas's wife.

Highprince Sebarial
Earlier book

Turinad Sebarial

· Alethi

Shallan's unlikely host on the Plains.

Palona
Earlier book

Palona

Mistress of Sebarial · Herdazian

The Herdazian woman who decides where Shallan sleeps.

Highprince Roion
Earlier book

Roion

· Alethi

The people call timid.

Highprince Aladar
Earlier book

Aladar

· Alethi

Aladar.

Teleb
Earlier book

Teleb

highofficer; · Alethi

Dalinar's officer.

Brightness Teshav
Earlier book

Teshav

head scribe · Alethi

The woman who reads Dalinar his reports.

Brightness Hashal
Earlier book

Hashal

De facto overseer of Sadeas's · Alethi

The brightlady who runs the .

Brightlord Lamaril
Earlier book

Lamaril

captain over the Sadeas · Alethi

The officer who ran the — until the .

Rysn
Earlier book

Rysn

Apprentice merchant; Vstim's rebe · Thaylen

The trader who stood on a living island.

Vstim
Earlier book

Vstim

Thaylen merchant; Rysn's babsk · Thaylen

Rysn's babsk in Shinovar.

Axies the Collector
Earlier book

Axies the Collector

Aimian cataloguer · Aimian

The blue-skinned man hanging from a balcony in Kasitor.

Ishikk
Earlier book

Ishikk

Purelake fisherman; hired searcher · Purelaker

The fisherman in the Purelake with the three foreign employers.

Baxil
Earlier book

Baxil

Thief

The thief smashing statues for a woman.

Geranid
Earlier book

Geranid

; natural philosopher

The who measures and changes them.

Eshonai, Parshendi warleader
Earlier book

Eshonai

· Parshendi

named Eshonai.

Kalak
Earlier book

Kalak

of

The in the prelude who does not want to return.

Jezrien
Earlier book

Jezrien

Herald of Kings; chief of

The -king who decides they are done.

A madman in shattered Plate
Earlier book

Talenel

A stranger in broken Plate at Kholinar

The madman in shattered Plate at Kholinar.

Nohadon
Earlier book

Nohadon

A figure in Dalinar's visions

The king in the vision, walking a dead city.

A face in the highstorm
Earlier book

the Stormfather

The Stormfather — the storm's own face

The face that looked at Kaladin in the .

Evi Kholin
Earlier book

Evi Kholin

Late wife of Dalinar · Riran

Adolin's mother. Dalinar's dead wife.

A spren with a head of symbols
Earlier book

symbol-head spren

A in

The symbol-headed in .

Pattern, a Cryptic spren of shifting lines
Earlier book

Pattern

Shallan's bonded

The buzzing pattern that will not leave Shallan alone.

Tyn, a worldly confidence woman
Earlier book

Tyn

Confidence woman; Shallan's criminal tutor

The mentor Shallan had to kill.

Lift, a young Reshi thief in Azir
Earlier book

Lift

Thief in the Azish palace; a who does not want the title · Reshi

The girl who turns pancakes into magic and calls her a out of spite.

Ym, an Iriali cobbler
Earlier book

Ym

Cobbler; quiet · Iriali

The kind cobbler Darkness came to kill.

Venli, listener scholar
Earlier book

Venli

scholar; voice for

Eshonai's sister who found a .

Zahel, a blunt ardent swordmaster
Earlier book

Zahel

swordmaster in the camp

Adolin's sarcastic swordmaster in monk's robes.

Mraize of the Ghostbloods
Earlier book

Mraize

handler on the Shattered Plains

The with the and the trophies.

Iyatil in a mask
Earlier book

Iyatil

senior; Mraize's babsk

The masked woman Mraize answers to.

The man called Darkness
Earlier book

Darkness

Nin, of Justice

The man in black and silver who hunts people like Ym.

Wyndle, a vine-like cultivationspren
Earlier book

Wyndle

Lift's bonded

The complaining vine that follows the pancake thief.

Vathah, deserter captain
Earlier book

Vathah

Deserter captain in Shallan's company

The deserter Shallan talked into following her.

Graves, the patriot
Earlier book

Graves

Conspirator against the king

The patriot who asked a to kill a king.

Brother Lhan of the Kholinar palace
Earlier book

Lhan

in the Kholinar palace

The idle in a rotting palace.

Adrotagia, Taravangian's chief scholar
Earlier book

Adrotagia

Taravangian's chief scholar

The scholar who carries Taravangian's terrible book.

Also mentioned

Brief names at this reading position — searchable, not a portrait wall.