Why’d he have to do it to him…
I can't tell if it's a joke or serious post, by Amaram was an ass from the very beginning of the series.
Amaram is an ass from the beginning of the series, yes, but for all the books bluster about how kaladin shouldn’t kill him and draws a parallel between kaladin’s thirst for vengeance against Amaram and moash’s against Elhokar, the end of oathbringer finishes it off by turning Amaram into a literal monster thus making the act of killing him suddenly okay. Moash is portrayed as bad for killing Elhokar, but then Kaladin(or at least Kaladin by proxy) gets his vengeance because the story just made it suddenly an okay thing to do without Kal being a hypocrite, which kind of undermines the entire arc that book was building up with moash as kaladin’s foil.
Ig the difference between moash killing elkohar and kaladin killing Amaram is that Elkohar was in the cusp of growth and changing himself for the better but Moash didn't care
Meanwhile Amaram consciously chose not to grow and instead went further astray from the better path despite being given the time to
It's not that killing Amaram is suddenly okay because he became a monster, he had to be killed because he refused to stop being a monster. His new form was just a reflection of that
Whereas Elkohar was trying to better himself and was killed regardless of that, hence why moash is portrayed as bad for killing him
I don't think it's fair to compare elkohar and amaram because they're written very differently and acted in different ways
I agree, it’s not fair to compare killing elhokar and killing Amaram, but the book is written presenting moash as kaladin’s foil, and the way Elhokar and Amaram are written just don’t work when that’s the case.
