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Dalinar Kholin

The Blackthorn · Brightlord Dalinar · Highprince Dalinar

. He gave Oathbringer to Sadeas to buy Four's freedom, survived the Tower betrayal, and is trying to unite Alethkar. Navani stands with him.
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Role
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Culture
Alethi
First encountered
Book 1 — End of The Way of Kings
Last seen
Book 1 — End of The Way of Kings
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Look

A thick, aging Alethi soldier with short black hair going grey, blue eyes, and a square jaw. Often in -blue uniform; a man who looks like a war monument still walking.

As observed

Rigidly honorable by the old . Haunted, abstemious, more feared as the Blackthorn than loved as a politician.

Where

, Shattered Plains

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