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from this course, teach ONLY the section titled "Kaladin: Bridge Four" — its own full arc, real depth
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.
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.
Bridge crews sprint massive wooden bridges across chasms straight into Parshendi arrow volleys — no shields, no armor. Bridge Four loses men every single run.
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.
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.
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.
Bridge Four now has a leader worth following — but a slave gaining ancient power is only half the story; next comes Dalinar, the highprince hearing that same storm speak to him, in Dalinar: The Visions.