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|image-artist=[[User: Exmakina]]

|family=[[House Kholin]]|siblings=[[Gavilar]]|spouse=[[Evi Kholin]] (deceased), [[Navani Kholin]]|children=[[Adolin]], [[Renarin]]|relatives=[[Jasnah]], [[Elhokar]]

|world=Roshar|nation=Alethkar

|titles={{tag+|Highprince|Alethkar}}<br>[[Highprince of War]]

|aliases=The Blackthorn

|groups={{tag|Knights Radiant}} <small>([[Order of Bondsmiths|Bondsmiths]])</small>

|books=[[The Stormlight Archive]]

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| I'll have us be what we were before, son. A kingdom that can stand through storms, a kingdom that is a light and not a darkness. I will have a truly unified Alethkar, with highprinces who are loyal and just. I'll have more than that. I'm going to refound the Knights Radiant.

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== Appearance and Personality ==

Dalinar is an aging but powerfully built man in his fifties, with a warrior's face. He has black hair that is grey in the temples.{{book ref|sa1|12}} When he owns Shardplate, he chooses to wear it as an unpainted slate grey color, without any unnecessary decoration or adornment.{{book ref|sa1|12}} His former Shardblade is [[Oathbringer]]. He rides the [[Ryshadium]] horse [[Gallant]].

 

 

Dalinar considers himself wholly a soldier and general with no talent for back-room politicking.{{book ref|sa1|69}} After [[Gavilar Kholin|Gavilar's]] assassination, Dalinar blames himself{{book ref|sa1|12}}{{book ref|sa1|15}} and since then has worked to protect Alethkar and Gavilar's son [[Elhokar Kholin|Elhokar]]{{book ref|sa1|13}} in hope of earning some kind of redemption.

 

== History ==

 

In his youth, Dalinar had feelings for [[Navani]], but he realized that Gavilar was also interested in her. For Gavilar’s sake, he steps aside. Later, Navani admitted to having an interest in Dalinar during this time, but since Gavilar was the one who chased her, she chose to accept his proposal.

 

Dalinar, Gavilar, and their friend, [[Torol Sadeas]], sought to unite the scattered Alethi princedoms and have a true kingdom once more. Each highprince historically ruled over their lands individually, and conflicts between the princedoms were common. This strife between the warring highprinces had lasted for centuries. Gavilar’s vision was to put an end to that.

 

The Kholins started by conquering their neighbors by force. From the beginning, Dalinar was an unstoppable terror on the battlefield. In some part due to his close connection with the [[Thrill]] and Dalinar’s own callous bloodlust, he quickly created a reputation for being able to win any engagement. Dalinar by himself could clear a battlefield of opponents, losing himself in the ease of killing.

 

 

Over the next year, Dalinar won his own Shards. His Plate he won in combat that involved kicking a man off of a cliff. The Plate was still new to him when the war took them to [[Rathalas]], otherwise known as the Rift, where Brightlord Tanalan rules. Dalinar knew that Tanalan had a Shardblade, and in the ensuing battle, he went straight to Tanalan to kill him and win the Blade. He defeated Tanalan but Tanalan’s body was taken away by his men before the Shard appears. Dalinar tracked down the place where Tanalan was taken and found Tanalan’s widow, and Tanalan’s young son holding the Shardblade. Dalinar takes the Blade but can’t find it within himself to kill Tanalan’s family. After the battle, Gavilar tells Dalinar that the Blade he won is [[Oathbringer_(Shardblade)]], the sword that belonged to the legendary Alethi conqueror, [[Sadees]] the Sunmaker.{{book ref|sa3|11}}

Two years after that, the war was still on going. Dalinar and Evi were betrothed, not yet married. Dalinar led the attack against Highprince Kalanor, intent on winning the Shards that Kalanor held. While in the battle, Dalinar gets so caught up in the Thrill that he didn’t realize he killed Kholin men during the assault. Dalinar killed Kalanor in single combat, winning his Shards, but the Thrill was so strong in him that when Gavilar approached him afterwards, Dalinar went after his own brother with the intent to kill him. Only when Gavilar took off his helm and smiled at him did Dalinar snap out of it. Deeply ashamed of himself, Dalinar gifted Gavilar the Shards he had just won. He swears to himself that he must never be king.{{book ref|sa3|26}}

 

After five more years, the war had officially ended but the fighting hadn’t. Evi was pregnant with their first child, but their relationship was strained by the non-stop battlefronts. Dalinar’s bloodthirst and Evi’s horror at it strained their relationship. Gavilar received a demand from [[Rathalas]] telling Dalinar to return the Blade to their heir. Though Gavilar was upset that Dalinar didn’t deal with the Tanalan heir, Evi was happy to find out that Dalinar had spared the Tanalan boy so many years ago. Dalinar was happy both to have pleased Evi and also at the news of a Rift rebellion, for if they were going to rebel, he would have the opportunity to fight.{{book ref|sa3|36}}

 

 

Dalinar promised Renarin that he would give him a set of [[Shardplate]] as soon as he had one to spare.

 

He suggested to Elhokar that they withdraw from the Shattered Plains. Like Adolin, Elhokar was horrified at the suggestion and was alarmed at what his uncle was thinking. Dalinar changed tack, stating that they had lingered on the Plains for far too long and that they needed a new strategy to defeat the Parshendi. He asked Elhokar to make him the [[Highprince of War]] so he might have the power to enforce changes in the other warcamps. Elhokar refused to give him the title unless Dalinar could prove that it was possible for the highprinces to productively work together.{{book ref|sa1|18}}

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Dalinar and Sadeas set out on their joint expedition. They used Sadeas' method of crossing chasms, a point of contention between them because Dalinar thought they wasted too many lives. When they started fighting the Parshendi on a distant plateau, Sadeas pulled his troops and bridges out, leaving Dalinar, Adolin, and the whole Kholin army surrounded by the Parshendi, stranded with no way out. Adolin yelled that he had told Dalinar not to trust Sadeas and Dalinar agreed. They were fighting a losing battle, waiting until they died. Dalinar squared off against the Parshendi Shardbearer, but he was losing.

 

Things were looking hopeless for them when a single bridge crew, [[Bridge Four]], led by [[Kaladin]], returned and saved them. The bridge offered the army a way off of the plateau and Kaladin was able to fight off enough of the Parshendi to allow Dalinar, Adolin, and the remains of the Kholin army to escape.{{book ref|sa1|66}}{{book ref|sa1|67}}{{book ref|sa1|68}} Dalinar promised Kaladin that he would free him and his crew from Sadeas.{{book ref|sa1|68}} They all returned to the warcamp to confront Sadeas.

=== Refounding of the Knights Radiant (1173 - ) ===

==== The Start ====

Dalinar started planning, in his capacity as [[Highprince of War]], to unify Alethkar and refound the [[Knights Radiant]].{{book ref|sa2|4}} Navani had begun staying with him while he had his visions so she could record them and translate what Dalinar said. After such a vision, Dalinar went to bed, and when he woke up the next morning, he found glyphs scratched onto his wall: ''Sixty-two days. Death follows.''

 

 

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