Moash

The Stormlight Archive

First appears in The Way of Kings.

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The Stormlight Archive

Summary spoilers for the whole series

A Bridge Four bridgeman who came to the Alethi war to win a Shardblade, nursing a grudge against King Elhokar over his grandparents. He joins the King's Guard, becomes a Shardbearer, then conspires against the king and flees. Captured by the Fused, he kills Elhokar and Jezrien and takes an Honorblade, becoming Vyre.

Book by book 13 events

The Way of Kings 2 events, spoilers
  1. Moash tells Kaladin he came to the Shattered Plains war to win a Shardblade and to change the world. source
  2. He and other members of Bridge Four join the King's Guard in place of the Cobalt Guard. source
Words of Radiance 5 events, spoilers
  1. He is given a Shardblade and Shardplate won in Adolin's duel, the first darkeyes in a lifetime to hold both. source
  2. It comes out that he hates Elhokar because the then-prince left his grandparents in a dungeon to die. source
  3. He helps the conspirators sabotage a balcony railing in the plot to kill Elhokar. source
  4. When the next attempt on the king fails he nearly kills Kaladin, then runs. source
  5. Travelling with Graves, he knows the Diagram used him and calls himself a traitor and a fool. source
Oathbringer 6 events, spoilers
  1. Fused ambush his party and kill Graves and the others; Moash defeats Leshwi. source
  2. He gives up his Shardblade and is Lashed with the Fused to Revolar. source
  3. Disillusioned, he enters the Fused's service, shielding captive singers in the storm bunkers and hauling carts toward Kholinar. source
  4. During the siege of Kholinar he kills King Elhokar with a spear. source
  5. At the Fused's behest he kills the Herald Jezrien in the Kholinar palace gardens with a knife. source
  6. Leshwi offers him an Honorblade; he takes it, becomes Vyre, and Lashes himself into the sky. source
Connections spoilers

Enemy of

Elhokar Kholin, Kaladin, Jezrien, Toralin Roshone, Leshwi

Allied with

Graves, Leshwi

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