Wind and Truth characters

Appears from the start

The Windrunner who rose from slavery to found Bridge Four, now a veteran knight who has stepped back from frontline war to help fellow soldiers cope with the wounds war leaves on the mind. Bonded to the honorspren Syl and having spoken the Fourth Ideal of his order, he is steadier than he once was but still carries deep scars, and he is searching for a new way to serve.

Also known as Sylphrena

Appears from the start

The honorspren bonded to Kaladin, now fully herself: witty, fierce, and deeply attuned to his moods and his oaths. She is his constant companion and conscience, her strength linked to the promises he keeps.

Appears from the start

The Lightweaver knight and master of illusion, married to Adolin Kholin, who has largely reconciled the fractured personas she once used to survive. Still entangled in the shadow war against a ruthless secret society, she wields disguise and light as weapons while guarding truths about her past.

Appears from the start

The Bondsmith who unites the coalition against the enemy, bonded to the spirit of the storm and wielding rare power over connection and unity. Having faced the worst of his own history, he now stakes everything on a decisive gambit against the god of hatred, carrying the weight of a wager that could save or doom the world.

Appears from the start

The scholar-queen of Alethkar and Dalinar's wife, now a Bondsmith in her own right, bonded to the ancient guardian spirit of Urithiru. Brilliant and resolute, she leads the coalition's science and helped forge new means of wielding Light against the immortal enemy.

Appears from the start

Dalinar's elder son, a celebrated duelist and Shallan's husband, who has walked an unusual path by reviving a long-dead spren through sheer stubborn devotion rather than the ordinary oaths. Loyal and decent, he continues to prove his worth in a world where power increasingly means being a Radiant, which he is not, quite.

Appears from the start

The scholar-princess who reigns as Queen of Alethkar, an Elsecaller among the Radiants. Coldly rational and formidably intelligent, she governs a kingdom at war and weighs the hardest philosophical and strategic choices with a detachment few can match.

Appears from the start

Dalinar's quiet younger son, a Radiant whose gift lets him perceive possible futures. Gentle, precise, and often underestimated, he has grown surer of himself and of his place among the knights, though his unusual abilities still set him apart even from his allies.

Also known as Szeth-son-son-Vallano

Appears from the start

The Shin former assassin, now a Skybreaker sworn to Dalinar and bearer of a strange, sentient living sword. Quiet, self-condemning, and bound to a rigid sense of law and justice, he is haunted by his past and by the homeland that cast him out as Truthless.

Also known as Odium

Appears from the start

The former king of Kharbranth who, in a final gambit, killed the previous god of hatred and seized his power to become the new Odium. He fuses cold calculation with a real and dangerous sense of compassion, convinced he can bring order and end suffering by ruling the cosmos, and he now bends immense divine power toward winning the war on his own terms.

Also known as Vyre

Appears from the start

Kaladin's former friend from Bridge Four, now a willing servant of the enemy and the murderer of both a king and a beloved comrade. Numbed to guilt by a philosophy that promises freedom from pain, he has become one of the enemy's coldest and most dangerous instruments.

Appears from the start

A listener who secretly became a Willshaper Radiant while hiding among the enemy's ranks, working to guide surviving members of her people toward freedom. Once proud and ambitious, she is now weighed down by guilt over her earlier choices and quietly determined to give her people a future of their own.

Appears from the start

A young Edgedancer and former street thief, irreverent, funny, and endlessly hungry, now numbered among the Knights Radiant. Beneath the jokes she is sharply compassionate, drawn to protect the overlooked, and more perceptive about people than she lets on.

Also known as Hoid

Appears from the start

The enigmatic storyteller and former royal jester who has drifted through the coalition's story from the start, clearly far older and stranger than he appears. Sharp-tongued and secretive, he offers barbed wisdom and cryptic aid, pursuing purposes of his own that reach well beyond this single war.