Wall Guard

The Wall Guard in Kholinar is a military source from which Azure - its Highmarshal - thought might have information on the man she is hunting.
Members of the Wall Guard refer to Highmarshal Azure as "he" and "him" because women are not warriors in Vorin society. Still, they find her to be incredible.
Following the activity of the Kholinar riots, the Wall Guard eventually took action, under the Highmarshal's leadership, restoring some measure of order in the city. They then rounded up the city's parshmen and exiled them to the plain outside, after a proclamation from the queen who'd wanted them executed.
Yokska tells King Elhokar that the Wall Guard doesn't have the numbers to police the city and watch the wall so they'd taken to watching the wall and mostly leaving the people to just survive in the city.
Azure tells the men of the wall that this is redemption. That if they fight here, nobody will care what they did before. Because the people know that if they fall, the city and its nation will be no more.
Further, that nothing matters, except holding the wall when the inevitable assault comes. That they can go hide in the city and pray that the Wall Guard is strong enough without each man. But that if they aren’t, every man will be no more than another corpse. That upon the wall, one can fight. That there, one has a chance.
The first thing the Wall Guard taught Kaladin was how to draw a sword by reaching down with his right hand - not lowering his shield - and pulling it free of its sheath.
Toward the Wall Guard, there is open hostility from the refugees within the city, though some of this is due to the fact that they're well fed. But the men deliver wagons of food for the people, to be distributed at Velalant's stations.
Holding the city wall is their job, and if they looked too far afield - tried too hard to police the city or bring down the Cult of Moments - they'd lose their focus. The city had to stand. Even if it burned inside, it had to stand.
They barely patrol the section of wall that passes behind the palace, ever in gloom.
Kaladin suspects that the Wall Guard might have a Soulcaster, and knows that they were definitely producing food somehow. It had seized emerald stores in the city - a fact he recently discovered.
He tells Shallan that the Wall Guard has five battalions, which means a total of five thousand men.
Adolin tells her that that number is large for a city garrison. Further, that the point of fortifications is to let a small number hold against a much larger force.
Kaladin adds that though the Wall Guard is earnest, they won't be able to withstand a dedicated assault.
However, they swell as Azure tells them they just might be the finest platoons of fighting men she'd ever had the privilege of leading.
The words inspired the men and they gave the highmarshal shouts of approval once they were given leave to break ranks.
Still, most of them are too intimidated by Azure to sit at her table.
When she asks Kaladin how he is finding his time in the Wall Guard, he replies that it's a well-run army.
Even so, he thinks that they cannot fight the Fused.
==Kaladin's Squad==
The whole squad, except Noro - are tenners: men of the tenth dahn, lowest ranking in the lighteyed stratification system.
These are men who've surrounded themselves with others of their own rank. They've married tenners, drink with tenners, joke with tenners. They have their own jargon and traditions.
The men of Kaladin's squad are known as Platoon Seven, Squad Two.
==Members==
==References==
Category:Military
Category:Kholinar