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==== Fighting the Shardbearer ====
On the month of Ishi of the year 1172, Kaladin fought his final battle in Amaram's army. Prior to the battle, Kaladin met with another squadleader named [[Gare]] and two of his sergeants. As he usually did when he saw a young recruit in need of protection, Kaladin bribed Gare so the other squadleader would send [[Cenn]] to Kaladin's own squad. He went by the surgeon's station to also bribe the surgeons there to see to Kaladin's men first, although the pouch stuck to his hand by what Kaladin thought was a [[windspren]], then he continued on his way to the front ranks of the battle line to take his place with his squad for the upcoming battle. He started telling his sergeant, [[Dallet]], to take care of Cenn once he arrived but cut off when he saw that the younger boy had already made his way there.{{ref|b|sa1|c|47}} Dallet and Kaladin surveyed the battlefield and decided they would fight around a nearby hill. With a final counsel to Dallet to keep an eye out on Cenn, he took his place at the front of his squad after shortly conferring with another squadleader.
Once the signal to march was given, Kaladin's squad ran ahead of the rest of Amaram's army, thereby avoiding the volleys of arrows the enemy sent their way. They engaged the first enemy squad, and their discipline saw to that the enemy would retreat without Kaladin's squad taking no casualties. For the better part of an hour, they held the small hill they'd chosen as their battlefield, only engaging squads that got close to their position. The larger battle, however, didn't nearly go as well, and after the larger body of Amaram's force broke, Kaladin's squad retreated eastward, towards a larger group of soldiers that were still holding. Before they were halfway across the field however, a large group of enemy soldiers intercepted them. The two sides met in a crash, and in the chaos Cenn got too close to enemy soldiers. Kaladin rushed to the young boy's help, defeating six enemy spearmen, and saw to his wounds.{{ref|b|sa1|c|1}} Nearby an enemy battalionlord was trying to rally his soldiers to mount a counterattack. After seeing to his men, Kaladin decided to attack the enemy officer in the hopes killing a so high ranked officer would be enough to get them to the Shattered Plains. Kaladin and two of his subsquad executed their plan flawlessly, and Kaladin himself struck the killing blow on the enemy battalionlord, while the other two subsquads held back with the wounded.
In his final battle in the army, Kaladin killed a [[Shardbearer]] to save the life of the army's leader [[Amaram]]. The Shardbearer killed all but a few of Kaladin's men. Kaladin was disgusted with the thought of wearing the [[Shardplate]] and [[Shardblade]] that caused the death of so many of his men, so he tried to give the Shards to one of his subordinates.{{ref|b|twok|c|47}} However, Amaram, on the advice of his advisors and [[Restares]], laid claim to the weapon and armor for himself claiming it was for the greater good, then executed all witnesses and branded Kaladin a slave as what he called was a mercy in {{date|1172|EoS}}.{{ref|b|twok|c|51}}▼
As they surveyed the field, they noticed a Shardbearer cutting through Amaram's army. Kaladin ran towards the men he'd left behind, but could not get there before the Shardbearer killed them all. In anger, Kaladin ran after the Shardbearer followed by his twenty remaining men. They reached him just as the Shardbearer was about to kill Amaram himself, and Amaram's honor guard abandoned their charge. Led by Kaladin, his men attacked the Shardbearer but were barely able to scratch the Shardplate. The man easily killed sixteen of his Kaladin's men with a few strokes of his Blade, and the last four scrambled away. Facing the Shardbearer by himself, Kaladin dodged a few of the other man's swings, then eventually killed him by ramming the broken head of his spear through the visor slit of the enemy's Plate. Kaladin's remaining men, as well as Amaram, were amazed by what Kaladin had done. [[Coreb]] tried to get him to take the Shards, but disgusted by the thought of wielding the same Blade that had claimed the lives of so many of his friends, Kaladin said he was giving them to Coreb and walked away to the warcamp, alone and crying.{{ref|b|sa1|c|47}}
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=== Slavery ===
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