Line #2 Awesome/WordsOfRadiance


1	* Even though he's not the main focus character this time, Kaladin keeps bringing the awesome:
2	** It's minor, but Kaladin beats Wit at his own game. After Wit has been messing with him for awhile, Wit accuses him of not being able to enjoy himself.
3	--->'''Wit''': So frank, so blunt. You and Dalinar are alike, certainly. Someone needs to teach the pair of you to have a good time now and then. \
4	'''Kaladin''': I know full well how to have a good time.\
5	'''Wit''': Is that so?\
6	'''Kaladin''': Yes. It involves being anywhere ''you'' aren't.
7	*** Wit can only stare in surprise before [[ActuallyPrettyFunny chuckling]] and saying Kaladin has a spark of wit in him.
8	** Kaladin helping Adolin fight off ''four'' Shardbearers at once in the dueling ring. Highlights include kicking Shardplate so hard it breaks (He also breaks his own legs and feet in the process. GoodThingYouCanHeal, Kal.)
9	*** Before Kaladin intervenes, Adolin realizes early on that while he is outnumbered, his opponents are ''afraid'' of ''him.'' Knowing this, Adolin nearly manages to defeat one of his foes while fending off the others. Then, when it seems he's about to be overwhelmed, Renarin enters the arena to aid his brother. He can barely lift his Shardblade, and doing so is causing him immense pain, but Renarin won't let his brother fight these odds alone.
10	*** As this is happening, Dalinar is calling for anyone to come aid his sons in the arena, especially since the master of the arena was clearly paid off to keep the fight going until Adolin is dead or crippled. Even the supposedly honorable Brightlord Amaram refuses to aid the Kholins in this clearly rigged fight. Dalinar despairs at the lack of help, wondering what has happened to the honor of the Alethi people. Then Kaladin speaks.
11	--->'''Kaladin''': [[KnightInSourArmor Honor is dead.]] [[PreAssKickingOneLiner But I'll see what I can do.]]
12	** Kaladin killing a chasmfiend while BroughtDownToNormal.
13	*** He also manages to survive being trapped in a chasm during a highstorm with the help of Shallan, which is something everyone thought impossible.
14	*** Following that, their successful return leaves everyone else stunned and he delivers one HELL of a Wham Line.
15	** Kaladin speaking the Third Ideal of the Windrunners, restoring Syl to life and allowing her to assume Shard form. This also used every drop of Light in the hall, instantly healing him of otherwise mortal internal injuries and multiple shattered ribs.
16	** Kaladin's final fight against the Assassin in White, starting with his saving Dalinar from being Lashed into the sky, slamming into the ground in front of Szeth with a perfect, rock-shattering ThreePointLanding, and then proceeding to duel him ''through'' two Highstorms. By the end, Szeth is completely outclassed, mentally shattered, and ends up functionally committing suicide on Kaladin's Shardspear.
17	*** Syl gets a couple of her own during this sequence, first when she shouts down the Stormfather in his own all-caps font, then with the line "Oh. That's right. [[WhamLine You probably want me to be a spear, don't you?]]"
18	*** When Kaladin arrives, he delivers this BadassBoast:
19	---->'''Kaladin''': You sent him to the sky to die, assassin, but the sky and the winds are mine. I claim them, as I now claim your life.
20	** Kaladin has no shortage of awesome lines during his fight with Szeth.
21	--->'''Szeth''': You only just acquired your abilities.\
22	'''Kaladin''': No. The wind is mine. The sky is mine. They have been mine since childhood. You are the trespasser here, not me.
23	* Zahel. Everything he seems to say or do is made of win. This man bosses Kaladin around like he is a raw recruit (which he actually doesn't seem to mind). Doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment\|s}} when he orders Prince Renarin to hurl himself of the roof of the training building multiple times ''and he does.''
24	** Made even better with the revelation that he is Vasher from Literature/{{Warbreaker}}.
25	* Dalinar's BatmanGambit against Amaram, completely exposing his treachery once and for all. Also, the reveal that he didn't take any chances and bonded with a new Shardblade while pretending to be ill. And the fact he reveals this by summoning the Shardblade already pointed at Amaram's throat, seconds before Amaram summoned his own.
26	* Also, the Kholins' first gambit against Sadeas was really good too, only failing because of Kaladin's recklessness and, most importantly, Elhokar being unable to regain control and letting Sadeas finagle his way out of it. Realizing how he's been played however, and how close it was to succeeding, causes Sadeas to freak out and have a minor breakdown afterwards. And even if Sadeas slipped away, the Kholin faction ''still'' won multiple Shardblades and Shardplate sets, which is still a huge gain and victory for the Kholin faction.
27	* At the end of the book, Adolin finally has enough of Sadeas's treason, and kills him before he can poison Dalinar's triumph. With nothing but a knife and his bare hands. He takes masterful opportunity of the situation to kill Sadeas in a way that wouldn't narrow it down to a Shardbearer, disposes of Oathbringer, disposes of any other evidence connecting him to the murder and then quickly sneaks off to one of his search teams so he'd have an alibi since nobody knew he was at the scene of the murder to begin with aside from the victim.
28	* Once Dalinar understands how new Radiants are created, he becomes the first one of the generation to seek out and bind a spren deliberately: the Stormfather himself.
29	* During the duel in the arena where Adolin fights four Shardbearers at once, the first person to come to his aid? Renarin. He can barely fight, is completely unable to really do anything against a Shardbearer, and doesn't even have a suit of Plate, but he goes out to help his brother against completely impossible odds. Gets even better later, when you realize the only reason he wasn't effective was because of the tension between his spren and the dead Shardblade Adolin had given him. If he had his real Blade, he might have actually helped turn the tide.
30	** The fact that Renarin is even able to fight as long as he does when he's got a dead spren screaming in his head the whole time, which is so terrible it causes Relis to break down and flee in abject terror and agony when Kaladin catches his Blade, and even Kaladin himself is almost incapacitated by the screams.
31	* And let's talk about the man himself: Adolin fought ''four'' Shardbearers. He was alone, he didn't know if he'd ever get any help, but not only did he not run away, he realized ''they'' were afraid of ''him''. And, for a short while, he was even ''winning'' (specifically, he would most likely have been able to defeat three of them on his own).
32	* Sebarial's attitude during the final battle is listed under the funny moments, but it becomes awesome once he casually mentions to have taken control of Roion's army and re-established order in its ranks after said Highprince's death as if it was nothing important. Dalinar realizes then that, despite his attitude, Sebarial actually is really good at his job.
33	* Shallan convincing the deserters that YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre and turning them back into soldiers, and from there into heroes. A beautiful example of what holding the powers of Light and Transformation ''means''.
34	** Before that, she pulls a perfect BavarianFireDrill and seizes control of a group of slavers with nothing more than nerve and a perfect lighteyed manner.
35	*** Her entire path to the Shattered Plain is a collection of Awesome Bavarian Fire Drills. As Tyn points out, she seized control of ''three'' separate groups with ''no'' authority, ''no'' money, not even any ''shoes''.
36	** Later on, she summons Pattern as a Blade and kills Tyn.
37	** She also works out how a Lightweaver's Soulcasting works with absolutely no teaching, in a matter of seconds.
38	** Shallan's gifts may be less flashy then Kaladin's, but their power when used correctly is awe-inspiring.
39	** She uses just manners and RefugeInAudacity to make Sebarial not only accept her in his camp (so that she doesn't have to depend on Dalinar's benevolence) but provide a generous income for her, and it works. Then she's able to use the same audacity, her powers and quick thinking to make the Ghostbloods accept her in their ranks, foiling their different attempts to spy on her.
40	** When Shallan finally figures out how to open the way to Urithiru.
41	--->Shallan grabbed the hilt of his sword and whipped it out--ignoring the scream in her mind that came from touching it--then tossed it aside. Adolin's sword vanished to mist.\
42	''A deep truth.''\
43	"There is something wrong with your Blade, and with all Blades." She hesitated for just a second. "All but mine. Pattern!"
44	* At the climax of the book, when the highstorm and Everstorm collide, throwing ''entire plateaus'' into the sky.
45	* Dalinar managing to hold his own against Szeth for a while in a fight. As he does, he finally comes to terms with his MyGreatestFailure attitude about Gavilar, realising that he wouldn't have been able to stop Szeth even if he'd been there to help his brother, and is at peace.
46	* Prior to that attempt, when Dalinar faces Szeth the first time, he actually manages to [[BareHandedBladeBlock catch Szeth's Blade in his bare hands]]. ''Szeth'' himself was so impressed by that badassery that he stops for a second.
47	-->'''Zahel:''' Dalinar pulled of the last clap? Good for him.
48	* At the end of the book, Dalinar becomes a Radiant. Unlike all the others, however, he is not chosen by a spren, but it is him who convinces the spren to form the bonding with nothing but unadulteraed badassery. Oh, and the spren he bonds with? The ''Stormfather'' itself. For bonus points, Dalinar realized that there was something wrong with the Shardblades before becoming a Radiant.
49	* The fact that Renarin even managed to bind a Shardblade at all, given that he is a Radiant, is one. We know that binding a Shardblade requires holding it for days--and both Kaladin and Dalinar couldn't stand the screaming of dead spren in their head for more than around a minute. Renarin had to put up with that for days while binding the Blade, and then again every time he summoned it--and he still went into battle.

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