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== Appearance and Personality ==
Ruthar is brawny and blue-eyed with a short black beard.{{book ref|sa1|18}} His dark slicked hair and burly arms give him an oily look.{{book ref|sa2|38}} Despite his high political and military rank, he dresses very informally.{{book ref|sa3|46}}
== Attributes and Abilities ==
Ruthar has a [[Shardblade]] and is proficient in its use.{{book ref|sa2|67}} In his younger years, he had somewhat of a talent for dueling, though not on the same level as [[Dalinar]] or [[Aladar]].{{book ref|sa2|53}}
== History ==
Ruthar gained his position as highprince sometime before [[Gavilar]] united Alethkar. He was already married to [[Jayla Ruthar|Jayla]] and had his son [[Relis]] by 1145, when he fought on Gavilar's side against [[Kalanor]] and [[Gallam]], the latter of whom he killed to gain both [[Shardblade]] and [[Shardplate]] for Relis.{{book ref|sa3|26}}
=== The War of Reckoning ===
After Gavilar's assassination and the subsequent swearing of the [[Vengeance Pact]], Ruthar and the other highprinces accompanied King [[Elhokar]] to the [[Shattered Plains]]. He and the others began to resent [[Dalinar]] for his easy access to and influence over the king.{{book ref|sa1|18}} [[Sadeas]] used this to inflame the other highprinces against Dalinar{{book ref|sa2|5}} and succeeded in enticing Ruthar into joining his plots to undermine Dalinar.{{book ref|sa2|29}}
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Ruthar balked at Elhokar's restrictions on the warcamps and, in a meeting with all the highprinces and the king, took the lead in vocalizing Sadeas' arguments and trying to persuade the neutral highprinces to join them. He also tried to hoodwink Shallan into accepting his hospitality, but she in turn manipulated [[Sebarial]] into accepting her into his household as Sebarial embarrassed Ruthar in front of the group.{{book ref|sa2|38}}
As Adolin turned to dueling in order to win Shards from the other highprinces, he focused on taking Shards away from Sadeas, Ruthar, and Aladar. Ruthar lost his first set of Plate when Adolin defeated Ruthar's nephew [[Elit]]; this angered Relis enough that he confronted Adolin, who unwittingly agreed to a full disadvantaged duel.{{book ref|sa2|53}} Relis and his allies lost to Adolin, [[Renarin]], and [[Kaladin]],{{book ref|sa2|57}} resulting in Ruthar losing all of his Shards save for his own Blade.{{book ref|sa2|67}} After Relis' defeat, a shamed Ruthar sent his son back to Alethkar.{{book ref|sa2|66}} Sadeas, seeking another way to undermine Dalinar after Ruthar's and Aladar's loss of so many Shards, released annotated copies of [[Dalinar's visions]] at one of Elhokar's feasts.{{book ref|sa2|67}} Ruthar refused to join Dalinar on his expedition to [[Stormseat]] that culminated in the [[Battle of Narak]], the end of the [[War of Reckoning]], and the discovery of [[Urithiru]].{{book ref|sa2|76}} He did, however, move into Urithiru when Dalinar called for the warcamps to migrate to the tower.{{book ref|sa3|2}}
=== True Desolation ===
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|The godless have no concept of proper decency. Everyone knows that the only reason to abandon belief in the Almighty is so that you can explore vice.
|Ruthar to [[Ialai]]{{book ref|sa3|107}}
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Ruthar continued to attend policy and strategy meetings in Urithiru after Sadeas' murder, though he remained hostile to Dalinar and took pleasure in provoking Aladar, who had switched sides to become Dalinar's ally.{{book ref|sa3|27}} Because he didn't have the sense to avoid engaging in a verbal spat with [[Jasnah]] at one of the meetings of monarchs, Dalinar had a leap of intuition that allowed the coalition to meet [[Odium]]'s forces at [[Thaylen City]] instead of at [[Jah Keved]], where they previously thought Odium would attack.{{book ref|sa3|107}}
== Notes ==
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