asked for · Kaladin: Bridge Four, full depth

1the curse

Kaladin Stormblessed starts as a spearman with a gift for keeping soldiers alive — but every man he saves close to him dies anyway, over and over.

2branded

Betrayed by his own brightlord, branded a deserter with the shash glyph, and sold as a slave, he's shipped to the Shattered Plains — to Bridge Four.

3the bridge run

Bridge crews sprint massive wooden bridges across chasms straight into Parshendi arrow volleys — no shields, no armor. Bridge Four loses men every single run.

4training them

Kaladin decides he won't watch another crew die nameless. He drills them in secret, teaches them to lift together, run in rhythm, dodge as one body.

5survival rate rises

He spends his own coin on medicine and food most bridgemen never get, and slowly the crew that was supposed to die starts surviving runs nobody expected.

6the flicker

Then it turns strange: he breathes in glowing Stormlight from spheres and heals wounds in minutes — the first flicker that he's becoming a Radiant, an ancient kind of warrior thought gone from the world.