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|birthplace=Hearthstone
|abilities={{tag+|windrunner}}
|titles=Stormblessed
|profession={{tag|Bridge Four}}▼
|profession=Soldier, Bridgeman
|parents=[[Lirin]], [[Hesina]]|siblings=[[Tien]]
|born={{date|1154|EoS}}
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'''Kaladin''' is a [[darkeyes|darkeyed]] man of second [[nahn]] from [[Alethkar]] on [[Roshar]]. He was trained as a surgeon by his [[Lirin|father]]. He has been a soldier in [[Amaram]]'s army, a slave and a bridgeman on [[Sadeas]]'s warcamp.
==History==
===Early Life===
Kaladin was born and raised in the town of [[Hearthstone]] in [[Sadeas]]'s princedom. His parents are [[Lirin]] and [[Hesina]], his brother is [[Tien]]. From an early age he was trained as a surgeon by his father. He was talented and learned quickly. His parents wanted him to train in [[Great Concourse of Kharbranth]] with the sponsorship of the local citylord Brightlord [[Wistiow]] for the promise Kaladin would return to Hearthstone after his training was done. He was friends with the citylord's daughter [[Laral Wistiow]] to whom Kaladin's parents wanted him to eventually marry. However, Brightlord Wistiow died and Lirin forged the document that would give the money set aside for Kaladin's training to them. Lirin was alone with Wistiow at the time so this couldn't be proven, which made Wistiow's replacement Brightlord [[Roshone]] an enemy to Lirin which led to Kaladin's family becoming destitute and eventually Tien being conscripted into service in Brightlord [[Amaram]]'s army. Kaladin promised his father that he would protect Tien and bring him back home in four years, then enlisted in the army as well.
===Amaram's Army===
Despite Amaram's promise that Tien would work as a messenger boy, he was sent to battle after a few months where he was put in front of the advancing enemy to soften their attack. Kaladin tried to come to his help but he could only watch as his brother was killed by the enemy. In his depression, Kaladin started obsessively training with the spear. His drill sergeant was surprised with how fast Kaladin mastered the spear and soon he was known as one of the best spearman in Amaram's army. He was promoted to the rank of squadleader, earning the nickname '''Kaladin Stormblessed''' for the first time. Kaladin's squad always lost fewest men of any squad in the army, which was credited to Kaladin's luck and his bribing the army's surgeons.
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Sometime during his time in the army, Kaladin attracted the [[honorspren]] [[Sylphrena]] who gave him the ability to [[Surgebinding|Surgebind]].
▲In another battle, Kaladin killed a [[Shardbearer]] to save the life of the army's leader, Amaram, but instead of claiming the fallen man's armaments, he gave them to one of his subordinates. Amaram, on the advice of his advisors and [[Restares]] laid claim to the priceless weapon and armor for himself, executed all witness to the event and branded Kaladin a slave.
===Slavery===
As a slave, Kaladin made ten escape attempts, alone or with others. Sometimes he managed to escape but they always caught him again. After one of his escape attempts, he was branded with a ''shash'' [[glyph]], meaning ''dangerous''. He was eventually bought by a slaver named [[Tvlakv]].
===Bridge Four===
In Highprince Sadeas' army at the Shattered Plains, Kaladin served as a bridgeman in [[Bridge Four]]. He attracted the attention of what he believed to be an unusual [[Windspren]] named [[Sylphrena]]. She followed him around, aiding him, and the two became good friends. A bond between Kaladin and Syl gave rise to Surgebinding abilities in Kaladin which he used periodically to protect himself and Bridge Four from [[Parshendi]] arrows during bridge runs, and later to secure Parshendi carapace which he used to anger the Parshendi and draw their fire away from the bridge crews.
His honor also attracted the attention of Highprince [[Dalinar]] when Kaladin rescued him and his army from certain death at great risk to himself and to his bridgecrew. At the end of the day Dalinar traded his Shardblade for all of Sadeas' bridgemen who were admitted into Dalinar's forces.{{ref|b|twok|c|69}} Kaladin and Bridge Four were assigned to be Dalinar's Honor Guard and Kaladin himself was appointed as their Captain.{{ref|b|twok|c|73}}
Kaladin had been trying to figure out a way to protect his men from the hail of arrows that were encountered during each bridge run. His first thought was to give each man a shield to protect themselves, but since [[Sadeas]] had tried and abandoned this idea prior to Kaladin's time as bridgeman, he looked for another solution. Realizing that the bridge itself was as good as a shield, he trained his men to carry it in a way as to protect them during a volley of arrows. The maneuver he called "side carry right/left" worked as intended, but made the bridge crews less enticing targets to the archers and lead to the [[Parshendi]] firing at the bulk of the army, which was the very reason the shields were taken away to begin with. The attempt Kaladin made to save his men ended up costing Sadeas the battle, and many soldiers, leaving someone to answer for the events, and Kaladin became the main target.{{ref|b|twok|c|32}}
The punishment was to be left tied up, upside down, outside his barrack, all during a highstorm. This left his fate in the hands of the [[Stormfather]]. There was rarely if ever a survivor of this type of punishment, so in essence it was a death sentence. Just before being left alone, Kaladin told the men that he would survive, then told [[Syl]] after she asked how he knew that, that he was 'in for all,' meaning, that if he died the men would say "I knew it would happen." and nothing would change, but if he lived, it made him a miracle and he had predicted it. Which would inspire hope in the men.
Leaving Kaladin before the highstorm met, Teft gave him a (dun) sphere as kind of a mojo.{{ref|b|twok|c|34}}
Together they bespoke something that should be even more impossible.|Teft's conclusions{{ref|b|twok|c|35}}}}
Because of this "impossibilities" Teft grow curious. He took three small infused diamond spheres and put Kaladin's hand around, then he waited, making him vow Kaladin had better not die, because Teft needed answers. And, eventually, Kaladin drew in a short, quick, powerful breath and the three spheres faded.
Though a handful of events happened to save his life, after his own perseverance, the two main reasons were [[Teft]] further feeding him with Stormlight and Syl fighting off [[deathspren]] (which could have been hallucinations from his injured mind, or reality, either are possible) with a sword made of light.{{ref|b|twok|c|38}} Teft brought infused spheres in such a way that it would have aided in Kaladin's healing, but not so much that it would have been noticed by the other bridgemen. That caused Kaladin raise from his injuries ten days after the judgment.
==Appearance and Personality==
[[File:Kaladin.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Kaladin concept art by [[Ben McSweeney]]]]
At the age of nineteen,
His personality
The experience of being hung out in the highstorm might have changed something in Kaladin, too, as after that, he had a dream that he "was the storm." He blow all over Roshar and was told by a voice that he was the Child of Tanavast and that there was so much war on Roshar, because Odium reigns.{{ref|b|twok|c|46}}
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Kaladin learned knowledge of surgery from an apprenticeship with his father and was an extremely skilled spearman, possibly the best in Brightlord Amaram's army.{{ref|b|TWoK|c|1}} His training as a spearman included the performing of [[wikipedia:Kata|kata]]s. [[Teft]] was surprised by the speed, power, and technique of Kaladin's kata down in the chasms.{{ref|b|sa1|c|27}}
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