Dalinar Kholin
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Oct 7, 2026
Chris PowersHOST
The Sanderson series.
Chris PowersHOST
Dalinar is the man, and he has something called the Thrill, and when he gets to battle, it, the Thrill takes him over.
Dan PowersHOST
Yeah.
Chris PowersHOST
And he is one of the great fighters of all time, and he credits it to the Thrill.
BetsyHOST
That's great.
RichieHOST
Dalinar watches Gavanor
BetsyHOST
play with his
RichieHOST
toy sword, and they have a really sad and sobering talk about his parents.
RichieHOST
As he walks to the Windrunner's campfire, Dalinar thinks about Yazan's intent to disband the monarchy and how strange it seems to him.
RichieHOST
Grow up, Dalinar.
RichieHOST
The future is now, old man.
RichieHOST
when he arrives at the campfire a windrunner squire hands him a bowl of stew and dalinar realizes that they think he's come here to approve of their tradition renner and dalinar leave the campfire to discuss this newest vision and that's when renner in resummons his vision tells dalinar um of what it shows and uh what else did they do um Oh, and Renarin says that Odium will delay indefinitely and never agree to an actual contest of champions with Dalinar, since there was nothing for him to lose by waiting.
DakHOST
Yeah, it was like, like, I think Wyndle calls it out.
DakHOST
It's like you and Dalinar both went to see the Nightwatcher and got Cultivation herself instead.
DataHOST
Mm-hmm.
DakHOST
What give? What gives?
15 MINS LATER
DakHOST
Um-
DataHOST
Yeah, becau- yeah, it was when they were f- when they were talking about the invasion in the first place.
DataHOST
It was like, "Jazin is not gonna be there and Dalinar's not gonna be there.
DataHOST
There's nobody else of the Fourth Ideal," or something like that.
ShetaHOST
We'll talk about it later.
JoeHOST
Yeah, but Shallan, she tells Adolin to give these notes to Navani and, you know, have Navani and Dalinar see if it's a good plan.
JoeHOST
So then they arrive at the menagerie, and Kaladin, when they get out, he's surprised to see that Wit is no longer the driver of the carriage.
JoeHOST
And Adolin just tells Kaladin, yeah, Wit does this.
JoeHOST
One of them mentions that it just doesn't look very good, and Shallan says that white spines don't do well in captivity.
JoeHOST
And then there's a commotion nearby.
JoeHOST
And they go check it out and Kaladin notices that Dalinar is walking through the menagerie with Amram.
JoeHOST
And Amram's wearing a yellow cloak that has a familiar glyph on it.
speaker_1HOST
And structurally, Sanderson dedicates each massive book to the deep psychological trauma of one specific character.
speaker_1HOST
In Oathbringer, the flashback sequences follow Dalinar Kholin, a brutal military dictator desperately trying to redeem himself after committing war crimes.
speaker_0HOST
But declaring Oathbringer the absolute number one greatest fantasy book of the last 20 years, that caused an absolute uproar in the comments section.
speaker_0HOST
It was chaos.
speaker_2HOST
[chuckles] Exactly.
speaker_2HOST
The article highlights a core cast of characters that are gonna be central to this adaptation: Kaladin Stormblessed, Shallan Davar, Dalinar Kholin, Adolin Kholin, Jasnah Kholin, Szeth-son-son-Vallano, and Navani Kholin.
speaker_3HOST
And to your earlier point about grounding the massive lore in human struggle, we have to look at what these characters are actually dealing with.
speaker_2HOST
Right.
speaker_2HOST
Wow.
speaker_2HOST
That's heavy.
speaker_3HOST
Or Dalinar Kholin, an aging brutal warlord who is suddenly experiencing terrifying visions, dealing with the PTSD of his past atrocities, and he's trying to unite a fractured, politically corrupt world before an apocalypse hits.
speaker_2HOST
So the themes tied to these characters are incredibly mature.
IrvingHOST
You know, that last point, you can either choose one character you sense or a settlement that you're currently in and speak their language as if it was your own.
IrvingHOST
Very similar to how Dalinar connects to people when he's in other places, obviously through a different power.
IrvingHOST
And then we get to the Duralumin talents.
IrvingHOST
So we have five here.
speaker_2HOST
It's painfully real.
speaker_2HOST
And you contrast Kaladin's journey from the bottom with Dalinar Kholin, who is at the absolute top of the hierarchy.
speaker_1HOST
Right.
speaker_1HOST
A completely different perspective.
speaker_2HOST
He is slowly turning from this brutal relic of an honor culture that is actively eating itself into a reformer.
speaker_2HOST
He is reading an ancient text and wondering if peace is actually a stronger position than war.
speaker_1HOST
Dalinar gives the epic its moral spine.
speaker_1HOST
And then there's Shallan.
DataHOST
I think that's the surge that Kaladin shares or the windrunners share with the bondsmiths.
DataHOST
I think it's the one that Dalinar can do also, but maybe, maybe the oaths are like related to bondsmithing.
DataHOST
I don't know.
DataHOST
Yeah.
51 MINS LATER
JamieHOST
Did she go? What did she say?
DataHOST
Yeah, so we know that they didn't want to send her on the trip to Shadesmar.
DataHOST
We have no idea if she went with the force to the battle with Dalinar and Yasna or not.
DataHOST
We don't know.
JoeHOST
Uh, Adolin got pissed off at Sadeas, and uh, Adolin went out.
JoeHOST
He wore Dalinar's Shardplate to just pretend to be Dalinar, went out, talked with, uh, Eshonai in the plains.
JoeHOST
But she told him, "Nope, no surrender.
JoeHOST
Things have changed.
JoeHOST
This won't end until one of our two, uh, species are dead." And then, uh, then Dalinar's like, "All right.
JoeHOST
Well, we tried.
JoeHOST
Now we're open.
ShetaHOST
Yeah, I'm excited.
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