The Blackthorn
The Blackthorn is Dalinar Kholin's battlefield name, won uniting Alethkar at his brother Gavilar's side.
The Blackthorn is the battlefield name of Dalinar Kholin, brother to King Gavilar of Alethkar. Dalinar earns the epithet in the wars that unite Alethkar: fighting at Gavilar's side to bend ten feuding princedoms into one kingdom, he builds a reputation as the most dangerous man on any field he takes, a general the kingdom's soldiers follow gladly and its enemies fear by name. By this time, the name carries weight in every Alethi warcamp. Its bearer, though, has changed: on the Shattered Plains, Dalinar holds to the strict Alethi Codes of War, refuses the feasting and dueling culture around him, and hears the whispers that ask, more and more openly, where the Blackthorn has gone.
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