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I was looking through my Google Drive and found a document called "Moash." Curious, I opened it, and was not disappointed.

“Moash travelled to the Shattered Plains with the longshot hope that he might win shards and in doing so be elevated in social rank such that he could demand a death duel against the king that ordered the casual death by exposure of Moash’s grandparents. Instead the Alethi “legal system” allowed Sadeas to press him into slavery carrying a bridge on death runs against massed archers. What possible reason does Moash have to stand up to continue Alethi society? None. Killing the king was Moash seizing the nearest thing to justice a darkeye can get when a highly ranked lighteye wronged him.” -John D.

Moash, while not being a Radiant himself, was trained under Kaladin, a Windrunner of the Third Ideal. Kaladin instilled in him the ideals and beliefs of the Windrunners - Protect those who cannot protect themselves. Moash should have taken these upon him and sworn to help others--instead, he let his own hatred blind him, leading to the death of Alethkar’s ruler. So while many say “Moash did nothing wrong,” in fact he did many things wrong, and deserves to burn in Braize.

Moash’s faulty reasoning behind murdering Elokhar was that he had ordered the death of Moash’s grandparents. However, this is not true. It was in fact Roshone who had sentenced them to prison--Elokhar was not associated with them at all. Moash’s justification for killing Alethkar’s king and potential Lightweaver was completely unfounded, making his slaughter one of cold blood. 

I think it was something for and AP practice test, just to get used to the format of the website.