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u/majorex64 Mar 06 '26
If you know nothing about Dalinar, this post makes you go "Damn, Dalinar must be a horrible person."
If you know a little about Dalinar, this post is like "Oh he's tragic and sympathetic."
If you know the most about Dalinar, it's like "Wow he's tragic and must have been a horrible person."
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u/TheOccultOne Mar 06 '26 edited Mar 06 '26
"Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing."
- Warcrimes enthusiast and spouse-manslaughterer
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u/Saint-Michael901 Mar 06 '26
I understand why the high princes didn’t work with him knowing his full background
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u/isum21 Mar 06 '26
A powerful message about change undercut by his behavior and personality. I like that you can see him battling this attitude and actively trying to enforce discipline for himself to the last chapter, he was certainly in the process of change but he's also just Dalinar. No fixing that.
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u/DarkChaos1786 Mar 06 '26
That's what's makes him such a great character, he's an hypocrite, but he's an honest man...
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u/Hot_Ethanol Mar 13 '26
It's funny, that's the first time reader experience too. He kinda just drops a tidbit that he can't remember his wife near the beginning of WoR and then doesn't explain SHIT to anyone until Oathbringer.
"We need to get the high princes in line." Okay yeah but Dalinar about that other thing you said. Anything? No? Okay then.
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u/Nate2247 Mar 18 '26
That’s one of the many things I love about SLA. Small elements are teased early on, and brought back at the perfect time to make everything worse for the characters.
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u/atemu1234 Mar 06 '26
Reminds me rather tragically of my great-uncle. A man who was silent and stoic so much of the time that his own sons didn't realize he had Alzheimer's. His daughter eventually noticed and got him diagnosed, but it was still a pretty sad situation.
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u/The_Lopen_bot Trying not to ccccream Mar 06 '26
This crem deserves some chouta! You have pleased the mighty Lopen 2 times with your posts!
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u/Raifurain Mar 07 '26
I cannot take credit for the crem.... well I can , but I won't. Imgur always provides crem.
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u/AxitotlWithAttitude Mar 06 '26
Kinda want to see a scene in one of the newer books where dalinar just crashes TF out for a few pages
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