History TearJerker / Oathbringer

* A Parshman telling Kaladin about how his daughter's mother was taken away because she had borne a healthy child like she was livestock instead of a sentient being.

*** The reason Dalinar goes that far is that [[spoiler: when he tries to solve it peacefully, he reminds the child how he spared him. Much of the rebellion seemed to imply a traitor Highprince was helping him all along, so they resolve to a deal: they will surrender peacefully, and pretend he had been working with Gavillar from the beginning, to lure out the traitor. It turns out it's all a lie, and the supposed traitor was a trap to try to kill Dalinar, resulting in the deaths of many of his elites and almost succeding with Dalinar himself.]]
** Later on, Dalinar has begun descending into drunkenness to hide [[spoiler: the screams of the people of the city and the cries of Evi.]] He's convinced Gavilar is hiding all the wine from him, not realizing that he's just drinking through it so quickly. In his drunken state, he starts hating everyone else, including himself, Evi, and even his sons... the realization of which is what finally drives him to seek out the Nightwatcher.

* [[spoiler: Teft's]] version of the Third Ideal has bits of awesome (as all the ideals) and hearthwarming (because it shows [[spoiler: he]] is starting to move on), but most of all shows exactly how broken [[spoiler: he]] is.

* When Kaladin realizes that [[spoiler: he won't be able to save Adolin and is unable to swear the fourth ideal to save Shallan and himself from the approaching fused.]], He nearly suffers a total breakdown because of this, prompting Syl to suggest that [[spoiler: he let someone save him for a change]].
* During one back flash chapter Dalinar is so caught up in the thrill that he almost attacks Gavilar. His stopping and realization of what he was about to do is heartrending.
* Tearjerker, heartwarming and awesome all in one. [[spoiler: Odium is trying to turn Dalinar into his champion. Renarin is convinced Dalinar will fall. Odium tells Dalinar to just blame Odium for it all, it wasn't Dalinar's fault. Odium will take his pain. Dalinar is down on his knees. It really looks like Dalinar is gone then...]]
** [[spoiler: Dalinar: You cannot have my pain!]]

--> '''[[spoiler:Shalash:]]''' You have to hate me! Hate me, please

--> "''I'' have spent my entire ''life'' living in a fog! Every day knowing I should say something, do ''something'' to stop this! Every night clutching my daughter, wondering why the world seems to move around us in the light -- while we are '''trapped in shadows'''. They sold her mother. ''Sold her''. Because she had birthed a healthy child, which made her good breeding stock. Do you understand ''that'', human? Do you understand watching your family being torn apart, and knowing you should object -- knowing deep in your soul that something is ''profoundly'' wrong? Can you know that feeling o being unable to say a ''single storming word'' to stop it? They may have taken your freedom, but they took our ''minds''."

* Kaladin falls in with two different groups of people: [[spoiler: a group of formerly enslaved Parshendi, and a group of soldiers trying to defend the walls of Kholinar.]] In both cases, it was like how he fell in with Bridge Four. [[spoiler:[[RealityEnsues So, naturally]], when those two groups meet, they engage in a MutualKill that he is utterly incapable of stopping.]]

* Tearjerker, heartwarming and awesome all in one. [[Spoiler: Odium is trying to turn Dalinar into his champion. Renarin is convinced Dalinar will fall. Odium tells Dalinar to just blame Odium for it all, it wasn't Dalinar's fault. Odium will take his pain. Dalinar is down on his knees. It really looks like Dalinar is gone then...
** Dalinar: You cannot take my pain!]]