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“What is a man’s life worth?” Dalinar asked softly.
“The slavemasters say one is worth about two emerald broams,” Kaladin said, frowning.
“And what do you say?”
“A life is priceless,” he said immediately, quoting his father.
Dalinar smiled, wrinkle lines extending from the corners of his eyes. “Coincidentally, that is the exact value of a Shardblade. So today, you and your men sacrificed to buy me twenty-six hundred priceless lives. And all I had to repay you with was a single priceless sword. I call that a bargain.”
“You really think it was a good trade, don’t you?” Kaladin said, amazed.
Dalinar smiled in a way that seemed strikingly paternal. “For my honor? Unquestionably.”
This moment at the end of the book, sealed the deal for me that The Stormlight Archive is the real deal, man. Like… Without breaking a sweat this rich-ass motherfucker just gives away the equivalent of a reusable nuclear weapon to his betrayer in exchange for “bridgemen”, folks just slightly above slaves.
Dalinar is legendary just for this moment in his whole journey, even though there are other highlights too. This is his shining moment for me.