Puente Cuatro

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Puente Cuatro
por Isaac Stewart
Mundo de origen	Roshar

Bridge Four is the name of a group headed by Kaladin Stormblessed, an Alethi Knight Radiant of the Order of Windrunners. The group was originally one of the bridge crews of the Sadeas warcamp in the Shattered Plains, hence the name, but its function has evolved several times, becoming both a military unit within a battalion of the Kholin army and Dalinar Kholin's honor guard, then later becoming a group of squires and Knights Radiant of the Order of Windrunners. Despite such drastic changes, the members still refer to themselves by their original bridge crew name.

Their insignia, designed by Kaladin, is made up of the glyph vev (meaning the number four) suspended above the glyph gesheh (meaning bridge), stylized as a bridge spanning a chasm.^{[Falta cita]}

History

Notorious for its bad luck, Bridge Four of Torol Sadeas' bridge crews seldom kept a bridgeleader for more than a few days and almost always took the highest casualties on bridge runs.

A transfer to Bridge Four was often used as a punishment for bridgemen, and the existence of a group worse off than themselves was a mental control used by Sadeas' men on the rest of the bridge crews. As a result of this, the bridgemen in Bridge Four knew that nothing worse could be done to them, and put no effort into anything. They didn't tell each other their names or anything else about themselves.

Upon arrival at the bridge yard in Sadeas' warcamp Kaladin managed to earn the immediate enmity of Gaz, the bridge sergeant in charge of the bridge crews, who then placed him in Bridge Four.

Changes under Kaladin

Kaladin (still unaware of his latent powers) managed to survive the bridge runs even after several weeks, and eventually decided to protect other members of Bridge Four and become their bridgeleader. Using both his medical and military knowledge, he quickly turned the crew around. His efforts in building morale and instilling discipline led to better organization. He found ways to treat wounded crew members, saving many lives. Soon enough Bridge Four was having the fewest casualties among the bridge crews.

Escape Attempt and Freedom

Despite huge gains, the treatment of the warcamp's lighteyed officers towards Bridge Four did not improve, and in fact even worsened. Kaladin started thinking of escape, not just for himself, but for his bridge crew.

After careful preparation, just when they found an opportunity to set their escape plan into motion, Kaladin and Bridge Four found themselves being the only ones able to rescue Highprince Dalinar Kholin and his army from a trap set by Torol Sadeas during the Battle of the Tower. Sacrificing their chance to escape, Kaladin chose to save the highprince.

For this, Dalinar bought the freedom of every single bridgeman in Sadeas' warcamp. In addition, the members of Bridge Four became Dalinar's new honor guard, and Kaladin was appointed captain in charge of both the honor guard and a new battalion consisting of former bridgemen.

Battalion Officers

As captain, Kaladin assigned several Bridge Four members to become officers of the new battalion:

• Rock - lieutenant and quartermaster, in charge of food for the battalion
• Lopen - second lieutenant to Rock
• Teft - lieutenant in charge of training
• Sigzil - lieutenant and clerk
• Skar - lieutenant
• Moash - lieutenant

Skar and Moash were both tasked to focus on Bridge Four's bodyguard duties.

Dalinar's Honor Guard

As Highprince Dalinar's personal bodyguards, Bridge Four guarded both the Highprince and his family. They considered Dalinar as their top priority, as Kaladin believed that the highprince was their only guarantee of freedom. He made it a policy to have a team, led by a Bridge Four lieutenant if not Kaladin himself, watching the highprince at all times, while the rest guarded his sons or carried out other responsibilities as members of Kaladin's battalion.

Initially they were given Cobalt Guard uniforms, but they rejected the idea of being part of the Cobalt Guard. A Bridge Four insignia was later made to replace the Cobalt Guard insignia that they had cut off from their uniforms.

Squires and Radiants

Members of Bridge Four started becoming Kaladin's squires soon after he spoke the Third Ideal of the Windrunners. This gave them access to Stormlight and the Lashings. Because of this Dalinar considered them too important for guard duty, so that was given to other bridge crews instead.

Bridge Four focused more on training their abilities, recruiting potential squires, and performing more crucial assignments. Their abilities disappeared when Kaladin was too far away, so Dalinar gave them the Windrunner Honorblade to use for training in such cases.

At some point, Teft and Lopen bonded Honorspren to become Knights Radiant. Others Bridge Four members may have already done the same.

Teft, who reached the Third Ideal as well, received squires of his own from another bridge crew, namely Bridge Thirteen.

Tattoos

Bridge Four Tattoos

All Bridge Four members except Kaladin have glyphs for "Freedom" and "Bridge Four" tattooed on their person. The "Freedom" glyph is usually a mark of a freed slave.

In Alethi society, slaves are branded on their forehead to make their status apparent to anyone who sees them. A freed slave is given a writ of freedom, but he could also cover his slave brand with a tattoo indicating details of his freedom to make misunderstandings less likely.

Shortly after moving to Dalinar's warcamp, Kaladin hires a tattooist to apply a Freedom tattoo on those Bridge Four members who'd been slaves. The first one to get it, Hobber, insists on having glyphs for "Bridge Four" added to the tattoo as well, as a statement of gratitude towards Bridge Four. The rest of the former slaves copies him. As a gesture of solidarity, even those who didn't have the slave brand request for the same tattoo as well, although Moash opts to have the tattoo placed on his upper arm instead of his forehead.

Somehow the ink keeps on melting away from Kaladin's forehead when it is his turn to be tattooed. This is why Kaladin, whose own slave brand has not been healed even after using Stormlight for so long, does not have the tattoos.

Quotes

“ It appeared that he'd been wrong. There had been something more they could do to him. One final torment the world had reserved just for Kaladin. And it was called Bridge Four. ”

— Kaladin's thoughts after his first Bridge Run

“ Kaladin had not been assigned to Bridge Four by chance. Out of all the bridge crews, Bridge Four had the highest casualty rate. That was particularly notable, considering that average bridge crews often lost one-third to one-half of their number on a single run. ”

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“ As they hefted their bridge, a spontaneous round of cheering rose up from the other crews. "That's new," ... "Guess they finally realized what we are," Kaladin said. "And what's that?" ... "We're their champions. Bridge forward!" ”

— Kaladin to Teft on the marching off for the Battle of the Tower

Notable Members

Para a full list of members, ver Category:Bridge Four.

Bridgeleader Kaladin

Squadleaders Rock Teft Skar Moash Sigzil

Members Adis Amark Arik Corl Dabbid Drehy Dunny Eth Gadol Hobber Earless Jaks Koolf Leyten Lopen Malop Mart Maps Murk Narm Pedin Peet Renarin Rlain (a.k.a. Shen) Torfin Yake

Notes

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