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|abilities={{tag+|windrunner}}, {{tag|Shardbearer|cat=Shardbearers}}
|bonded=[[Rua]]
|groups={{tag|Knights Radiant}} <small>([[Order of Windrunners|Windrunner]])</small><br>{{tag|Bridge Four}}, {{tag+|army|Sadeas}} <small>(formerly)</small>, {{tag+|army|Kholin}}</br>
|residence=Urithiru
|nation=Herdaz
}}
Like all Herdazians, Lopen has slate-colored crystalline fingernails. He is a short, spindly, brown-haired man in his early twenties,{{wob ref|4386}}
He speaks with a quick accent{{book ref|sa1|40}} and has a tendency to use Herdazian words like ''gon'', ''gancho'', or ''mancha'' when referring to people he's talking to.
Lopen has a very positive outlook in life. Despite experiencing great misfortunes, he never accepts these things as part of his identity{{wob ref|8436}}, and even jokes about his disability.{{book ref|sa1|73}}{{book ref|sa2|12}} He is often nonchalant, exhibits the stereotypical{{book ref|sa1|i|4}} Herdazian arrogance (e.g. calling himself "The Lopen" and liberally using rude gestures when insulted,{{book ref|sa1|62}}{{book ref|sa2|41}}{{book ref|sa3|121}})
<gallery name="Images of Lopen">
=== King of Alethkar ===
After Kaladin thwarted an assassination attempt on [[Elhokar|King Elhokar]], the wounded king was taken to Lopen's home in [[Little Herdaz]] to recover. Deciding to conceal the king for his own safety, but being averse to lying, Lopen's family members somehow persuaded Elhokar to temporarily abdicate in favor of Lopen so that they could truthfully say that "King Elhokar" was not with them. This made Lopen the legitimate king of Alethkar for several minutes.{{wob ref|1703}}{{book ref|sa2|87}}
Later on Lopen tried to convince the Alethi to add him to their list of kings, but to no avail.{{book ref|sa2|89}}
Lopen always found Kaladin's abilities fascinating, particularly the ability to absorb [[Stormlight]]. He desired to "glow" like Kaladin{{book ref|sa1|73}}{{book ref|sa2|41}}, so much so that he was the only member of Bridge Four at the time who actively pursued becoming a Knight Radiant.{{wob ref|9627}}
He eventually became one of Kaladin's squires, finally achieving his dream of glowing, soon after Kaladin spoke the [[Order of Windrunners#
As a Windrunner squire, Lopen was able to harness the [[Order of Windrunners#Powers|Lashings]]. He was particularly fond of using them to hang upside-down on ceilings, to the annoyance of others.{{book ref|sa3|35}}{{book ref|sa3|46}} However, squires need to be in relative proximity to their Knight for their powers to manifest, and so Lopen lost access to the Lashings whenever Kaladin went on distant missions. This did not stop him from joining [[Shallan Davar]] and others in fighting the [[Unmade]] [[Re-Shephir]] within Urithiru.{{book ref|sa3|29}}
Kaladin assigned Lopen to help the First, Second, and Third Squads of the newly augmented Bridge Four to achieve squireship. He tried to impress them by flying but, not having mastered [[Basic Lashing]] yet at that point, he ended up just accidentally sticking himself to the ground with a [[Full Lashing]], all the while insisting he'd meant to do it.{{book ref|sa3|37}}
He participated in the [[Battle of Thaylen Field]], fighting the [[Fused]].{{book ref|sa3|120}} Lopen later became a [[Knight Radiant]] in his own right, bonding with a male [[honorspren]] named [[Rua]]. He stopped during the clean up after the battle to try and comfort a Thaylen soldier who had lost an arm in the fighting. While Lopen was explaining the [[Immortal Words]] to the wounded man, he said the [[Order of Windrunners#
===Expedition to Aimia===
A few months after the Battle of Thaylen Field, Lopen and [[Huio]] were chosen by [[Kaladin]] to join a Thaylen expedition to Aimia aboard the [[Wandersail (1174 ship)|Wandersail]] as they were the only Windrunners capable of swimming.{{book ref|sa3.5|4}} [[Rysn]] took to him quickly on account of his personality, and the two bonded over shared experience with disability.{{book ref|sa3.5|5}} He also endeared himself to the Ardent [[Rushu]] by engaging in discussion of her artifabrian projects. Lopen then chides and chastizes Huio for tinkering with Rushu's
After
As the ship
Back at the ship, Lopen and Huio
== Relationships ==
:''Main article:'' [[Lopen's mother]]
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===Huio===
Lopen shares a playfully antagonistic relationship with his cousin [[Huio]]. Before assigning them to the expedition to Aimia, Kaladin remarks that he was counting on Huio to temper Lopen in their dealings with the Reshi delegation. After receiving the assignment, Lopen plans to go lord it over Huio that he [Lopen] had been chosen for the job, before relenting and sharing that Huio was also chosen.{{book ref|sa3.5|3}} Where Huio is reserved and quiet, Lopen is effusive and
During the hordeling battle on the shores of Aimia, Lopen saves Huio from the hordeling's jaws and boasts about it. Huio is exasperated and urges Lopen to focus on the fight.{{book ref|sa3.5|17}} Lopen is initially upset when Huio swears the Third Ideal of the Windrunners before himself. He does not realize that Huio resents this overt and overbearing teasing from his cousin. In fact, Huio's opinion of Lopen lead directly to his swearing of the Third Ideal. Ihe wording is implied to name Lopen as the object of his ill will (e.g. I will protect those I hate, even if that is Lopen) although Huio swears that he does not hate Lopen. This, in turn, causes Lopen to understand that he must protect people from himself - which becomes his Third Ideal.{{book ref|sa3.5|18}}
===Cord===
Lopen seems to be interested in [[Cord]] romantically, although he never says so aloud. In several internal monologues, he lists her positive attributes (e.g. her pleasing accent, her height, her proximity to him in age), and repeatedly makes attempts to impress her.{{book ref|sa3.5|3}} Cord notices his attempts but does not indicate whether
===Rysn===
== Quotes ==
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|Some of my cousins, they call me the Lopen because they haven't ever heard anyone else named that. I've asked around a lot, maybe one hundred...or two hundred...lots of people, sure. And nobody has heard of that name.
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|Oh. Oh. Question for you! What did the one-armed Herdazian do to the man who stuck him to the wall?<br>
|Lopen to Kaladin{{book ref|sa2|76}}
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|Lopen to the [[Stormfather]], when he achieved the Second Ideal of the Windrunners shortly after the [[Battle of Thaylen Field]]{{book ref|sa3|121}}
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