Lopen

Lopen
por Jamie Knierim
Capacidades	Surgebinder🐱︎ (Adhesion/Gravitation)
Grupo	Knights Radiant🐱︎ (Windrunner) Bridge Four🐱︎
Residencia	Urithiru
Nacionalidad	de Herdaz
Mundo natal	Roshar

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Lopen is a Herdazian member of Bridge Four and a Windrunner on Roshar.

Appearance and Personality

Like all Herdazians, Lopen has slate-colored crystalline fingernails. He is a short, spindly, brown-haired man with skin just a shade too dark to be Alethi. He had an old slave brand on his forehead, but that is now covered with a Bridge Four tattoo. Most strikingly, when he joins Bridge Four he is missing his left arm, although he eventually regrows it with Stormlight.

Lopen has a very positive outlook in life. Despite experiencing great misfortunes, he never accepts these things as part of his identity, and would even joke about his disability. He is often nonchalant, exhibits the stereotypical Herdazian love of boasting, liberally uses rude gestures when insulted, and has a sense of humor that people around him find strange, but Lopen has proven to be both compassionate and reliable.

History

Lopen's family left Herdaz when he was a baby and he was raised in Alethkar. He lost his left arm through circumstances that have not yet been revealed. At some point he was enslaved; when or why this happened is unknown, but Kaladin noted upon meeting him that his slave brand looked old.

Bridge Four

Unlike many of the Bridge Four members, Lopen supposedly did not hide a dark past. He was sent to the bridge crews not as punishment for a crime, but only because he was a nuisance. He was not even aware of his situation, as he apparently thought he was entering the army as a soldier. He was the only person among the newcomers who did not have a defeated look of apathy on his face, and the only one volunteering to be picked when Kaladin came looking for a new recruit. Knowing that Lopen would probably not survive a single bridge run in other crews, Kaladin decided to choose him, instead of one of the taller men as he'd originally planned.

Considering Lopen's physical limitation, Kaladin assigned him to carry water for the crew during bridge runs. Lopen also carried medical equipment and other items for Kaladin later on, accompanied by Dabbid and others who could not help carry the bridge. Eventually he learned medical first aid from Kaladin and was given medic duties as well.

During the Battle of the Tower, while unable to fight, Lopen helped by ensuring that Kaladin always had a spear in hand. He did this by taking spears from fallen Alethi soldiers and tossing one to Kaladin when needed. After Bridge Four rescued the Kholin army in that battle, Dalinar Kholin had all the bridgemen in Sadeas' warcamp freed, including Lopen.

With the former bridge crews now a battalion headed by Kaladin under Dalinar's camp, Bridge Four members were given new responsibilities. Lopen was assigned under the battalion's quartermaster, Rock. As a Bridge Four member, Lopen also became part of Dalinar's personal guard, and like the others was given an official uniform on the same day that he received the tattoos that covered his slave brand.

Lopen took part in Kaladin's experiments with Radiant powers, allowing himself to be stuck on walls and even joining in a sparring match with Rock and Sigzil against a Stormlight-Invested Kaladin. He stayed behind in the warcamps during the Battle of Narak to take care of the barrack and watch over an injured Kaladin.

King of Alethkar

After Kaladin thwarted an assassination attempt on 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.

Later on Lopen tried to convince the Alethi to add him to their list of kings, but to no avail.

Radiant

Lopen always found Kaladin's abilities fascinating, particularly the ability to absorb Stormlight. He desired to "glow" like Kaladin, so much so that he repeatedly attempted to Invest Stormlight from gemstones.

He eventually succeeded when he became one of Kaladin's squires. Through the healing effect of Stormlight, he was able to restore his missing arm.

As a Windrunner squire, Lopen was able to harness the Lashings. He was particularly fond of using them to become upside-down on ceilings, to the annoyance of others.

Kaladin assigned Lopen to help the First, Second, and Third Squads of the newly augmented Bridge Four to achieve squireship.

Lopen later became a Knight Radiant in his own right, bonding with a male Honorspren named Rua. Currently he has achieved the Second Ideal of the Windrunners.

Family

Lopen's mother has implied that Herdazian families are matriarchal, with the women possessing all authority inside Herdazian homes. She tells this to the king of Alethkar himself when he was under her care.

Lopen often talks about his many cousins. Lopen's definition of "cousin" is very broad and could include fifth cousins, or people dating his sister, or his aunt. He is apparently related to a significant portion of the Herdazian population in the Alethi warcamps, explaining the high number of "cousins".

The following are members of Lopen's extended family:

• Chilinko - Uncle
• Huio - Cousin
• Punio - Cousin
• Rod - Cousin

Quotes

The Way of Kings

“ Hey, gancho! Hey! You want me, I think. You can use me. We Herdazians are great fighters, gon. You see, this one time, I was with, sure, three men and they were drunk and all but I still beat them. ”

— Lopen volunteering for recruitment.

“ 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. ”

— Lopen introducing himself to Kaladin

“ A one-armed Herdazian is still twice as useful as a no-brained Alethi. ”

— Lopen to Kaladin

Words of Radiance

“Oh. Oh. Question for you! What did the one-armed Herdazian do to the man who stuck him to the wall?
Nothing. The Herdazian was 'armless.”

— Lopen, after being stuck to a wall in a Full Lashing experiment that he himself proposed

“Ain’t nothing wrong with being a woman, gancho. Some of my relatives are women. ”

—Lopen to Kaladin

“Oh, storms yes! Everybody, give the Lopen your spheres! I have glowing that needs to be done. ”

—Lopen after succeeding to Invest Stormlight and realizing that it could grow back his left arm

Oathbringer

“ Drehy likes other guys. That’s like...he wants to be even less around women than the rest of us. It’s the opposite of feminine. He is, you could say, extra manly. ”

— Lopen during a discussion about men with feminine behavior

“ Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before pancakes ”

— Lopen describing the First Ideal of the Knights Radiant to an injured soldier

“ NOW? I was saving that for a dramatic moment, you penhito! Why didn't you listen earlier? We were, sure, all about to die and things! ”

— Lopen to the Stormfather, when he achieved the Second Ideal of the Windrunners shortly after the Battle of Thaylen Field

Notes

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