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| image = https://archmaester.site/portraits/stormlight/amaram.jpg<br />
| name = Amaram<br />
| title = Highlord; Highprince; Brightlord Meridas Amaram<br />
| house = [[Sons of Honor]]; House Amaram<br />
| race = Alethi<br />
| status = Deceased<br />
| region = [[Alethkar]]; [[Shattered Plains]]; [[Thaylen City]]<br />
| born = Alethkar<br />
| died = Battle of Thaylen Field (Oathbringer)<br />
| weapon = [[Shardblade]]; [[Shardplate]] (taken from [[Kaladin]])<br />
| fate = Falls to [[Odium]]; transformed and killed at the [[Battle of Thaylen Field]]<br />
| quote = What I do, I do for Alethkar. For all of Roshar.<br />
}}<br />
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'''Meridas Amaram''' is a major antagonist in [[The Stormlight Archive]] by [[Brandon Sanderson]]. Outwardly the model of an honorable Alethi highlord -- celebrated as a paragon of the [[Codes of War]] and admired by [[Dalinar Kholin]] -- Amaram is secretly a member of the [[Sons of Honor]], a conspiracy seeking to trigger the return of the [[Voidbringers]] and the [[Knights Radiant]]. His central crime sets [[Kaladin]] on the path to slavery and defines their mutual hatred.<br />
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Amaram represents the corruption of honor: a man who believes his noble cause justifies betrayal, theft, and murder, all while maintaining a reputation for integrity.<br />
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== Background ==<br />
Amaram was a respected highlord in [[Alethkar]], a protege of [[Gavilar Kholin]] and an admirer of the [[Codes of War]] who cultivated an image as the most honorable man in the kingdom -- so much so that [[Dalinar Kholin]] long held him up as an ideal. Secretly, however, Amaram belonged to the [[Sons of Honor]], a faction (led in part by Gavilar) that worked to bring back the [[Heralds]] and the [[Knights Radiant]] by hastening a new [[Desolation]], believing the church and the old order could thereby be restored.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
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=== The defining betrayal ===<br />
Years before the main events, [[Kaladin]] served as a spearman in Amaram's army. When Kaladin and his squad won a [[Shardblade]] and [[Shardplate]] by killing an enemy Shardbearer, Kaladin gave the priceless Blade to Amaram and asked only for his men's freedom. Instead, Amaram had Kaladin's entire squad murdered to keep the Shards' acquisition secret, branded Kaladin a slave with the glyph ''shash'', and sold him into slavery -- claiming the Shardblade as his own. This atrocity is the wound at the heart of Kaladin's hatred of lighteyes.<br />
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=== Words of Radiance ===<br />
When Kaladin, now a captain in [[Dalinar Kholin|Dalinar's]] service, encounters Amaram again, the truth comes out. Kaladin attacks him and is imprisoned for striking a lighteyes; the confrontation strains his bond with [[Sylphrena]]. Amaram, exposed as a liar and murderer to Dalinar, is stripped of standing -- but his belief that he acted for the greater good never wavers.<br />
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=== Oathbringer ===<br />
Amaram openly aligns with [[Odium]] and the enemy, taking command of forces against the coalition. At the [[Battle of Thaylen Field]], he willingly takes in Voidlight and is transformed into a monstrous, empowered servant of [[Odium]]. He is defeated and killed in the battle, dying still convinced of his own righteousness.<br />
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== Character ==<br />
Amaram is charismatic, disciplined, and self-justifying, genuinely believing his betrayals serve a higher purpose -- the salvation of [[Roshar]] through the return of its ancient powers. This conviction makes him more insidious than a mere opportunist like [[Sadeas]]: he is a true believer whose noble self-image survives even his most monstrous acts. He embodies the danger of a good reputation masking corrupt deeds.<br />
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== Powers and abilities ==<br />
Amaram was a Shardbearer, wielding the [[Shardblade]] and [[Shardplate]] he stole from [[Kaladin]], and a capable commander schooled in the [[Codes of War]]. After siding with [[Odium]], he took in Voidlight at the [[Battle of Thaylen Field]], which transformed him into a grotesque, superhumanly powerful champion of the enemy before his death.<br />
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== Relationships ==<br />
* '''[[Kaladin]]''' -- the spearman he betrayed, enslaved, and robbed; his nemesis.<br />
* '''[[Dalinar Kholin]]''' -- who long admired him as a paragon of honor before learning the truth.<br />
* '''[[Gavilar Kholin]]''' -- his mentor and fellow [[Sons of Honor]] conspirator.<br />
* '''The [[Sons of Honor]]''' -- the secret faction whose cause he served.<br />
* '''[[Odium]]''' -- the enemy god to whom he ultimately gave himself.<br />
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== Quotes ==<br />
<blockquote>''What I do, I do for Alethkar. For all of Roshar.''</blockquote><br />
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<blockquote>''The ends, Kaladin. Sometimes the ends do justify the means.''</blockquote><br />
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