Ba-Ado-Mishram
A spren of myth, one of the Unmade. According to the ancient Radiants' musings and Ialai's notes, she took up the work of Odium after the Final Desolation and granted the singers their forms of power. Humankind ended that war by capturing her — locking her in a gemstone — which stole the minds of the singers in the same stroke and reduced them to parshmen for centuries. SA:RoW:Ch 24
Known facts
- tried-to-replace-odiumAccording to the Stormfather, shortly before the Recreance she tried to rise up and take Odium's place, granting Voidbringers powers; she was too small a being to uphold an entire people, and when Radiants trapped her in a gemstone to stop her, a side effect of the binding produced the parshmen.SA:WaT:Prologue
- trapped-in-heliodor-hidden-in-spiritual-realmKelek, who was at Urithiru when the plan was conceived and on the mission itself, confirmed that the Radiants trapped Mishram in a flawless heliodor the colour of sunlight and that Melishi hid the gemstone neither in the Physical nor Cognitive Realm but in the Spiritual Realm itself; how is unknown even to Kelek.SA:WaT:Ch 3
- reaches-renarin-and-rlain-from-her-prisonFrom the Spiritual Realm prison Renarin does not yet know is hers, Ba-Ado-Mishram reaches into one of Renarin's and Rlain's stained-glass visions — a singer-femalen face etched in glass at the corridor's end, thrumming the Rhythm of Agony, shattering the surrounding windows, hands curling at the frame as if to break free with the words *I will break it. I will break IT ALL.*SA:WaT:Ch 30
- healed-singers-during-desolationsIn the visions Shallan watches from Renarin's scaffold, Ba-Ado-Mishram walks the Desolation battlefields healing dying singers with her breath. *He does not love us,* she tells them, *so we must love ourselves.* She is, in this era, the Unmade who chose to mother her people in Odium's indifference.SA:WaT:Ch 74
- present-mishram-recognises-shallanThe reconstructed Ba-Ado-Mishram in Dalinar's vision turns out to be — at least in part — the *present* Unmade looking through the historical replay. She recognises Shallan as the Lightweaver who is asking after her, threatens to tear her apart, then — when Shallan asks whether she could *replace* Odium — demands in shock: *how do you know? How do you know?*SA:WaT:Ch 76
- influences-the-spiritual-realm-visionsGlys tells Renarin — and the rattled spren-figure in the dark window confirms it by demanding he find her — that Mishram has been seeding the Spiritual Realm visions all of them have been pulled into. Her aim, she tells Renarin when she can find words: *find me, so I may destroy you.*SA:WaT:Ch 84
- viable-rival-for-odiums-powerOn an obsidian ledge in Shadesmar, Shallan and Renarin piece together why Odium fears Ba-Ado-Mishram more than any of his other Unmade: she could kill him and take his place. Her infusion with the full power of his perpendicularity made her a viable rival for the Shard.SA:WaT:Ch 86
- mishram-first-asked-honor-for-peaceLong before her False Desolation, Ba-Ado-Mishram approaches Tanavast alone on the Natanatan battlefield after Rayse has stormed off, and asks whether he would make peace with *her* if he could not stop them. *Yes,* he says. She withdraws timidly — *like a fain animal seeing the colourful world for the first time* — and he notes the opening is real but will take many years to mature.SA:WaT:Ch 120
- mishram-realised-after-listeners-she-must-find-another-wayWatching her own warcamp empty into Toathan's walk-away, Ba-Ado-Mishram herself wavers — and admits to Rlain in the vision that this was the day she realised she had to find another way and began considering peace with the humans. She tells him she let the listeners go rather than force them to stay, and confesses she still wants to break everything for what was done to her — but does not know if she can stop herself if he finds her.SA:WaT:Ch 121
- led-rlain-and-renarin-to-her-prison-hoping-for-helpLocked in her heliodor two thousand years, Mishram still hopes for freedom enough to send hints through the Spiritual Realm visions Shallan, Renarin, and Rlain read. She quiets in the gemstone as Rlain names it aloud to the Rhythm of Hope — small, alone, afraid — and her tempest stills as if resigned. *You led us, because you thought we might help you, didn't you?*SA:WaT:Ch 131
- at-the-edge-of-release-when-shallan-arrivesWhen Shallan steps to the prison doorway with Mraize's wounded Cryptic in tow, Renarin and Rlain have already raised the cracked heliodor high, poised to shatter it and release Mishram together.SA:WaT:Ch 138
Events
- SA:WaT:Ch 76 Heals dying singers, sings a dying human into peace, then recognises Shallan and lunges to tear her apart.
- SA:WaT:Ch 84 Trapped behind a darkening window of violet, blue, and black; rails and shakes the glass and tells Renarin she showed them visions so they would find her — *so I may destroy you.*
- SA:WaT:Ch 87 Steps from a pool of liquid night in the body of an ordinary singer, glitches between calm and a screaming flash, agrees to the parley, and is trapped in Melishi's gemstone.
- SA:WaT:Ch 120 Approaches Tanavast as a timid shadow on the Natanatan battlefield after Rayse storms off — the first time she speaks to a Vessel directly, asking whether he would make peace with her in Rayse's absence, and withdrawing carefully when he says yes.
- SA:WaT:Ch 121 Manifests on a raised stone in front of her warriors after a victory — nine times normal singer size, draped in smoking bloodred clothing, golden-eyed, slamming her staff onto rock — to hand out forms of power. She lets Toathan's walk-away leave without compulsion, and tells him in the present moment she realises this was the day she began thinking of peace.
- SA:WaT:Ch 124 Lured into the trap Tanavast arranged through his agents' false offer of peace, captured by Melishi into a gemstone, and silenced — and her sudden absence devastates the singers whose tones had aligned with her.
- SA:WaT:Ch 131 Mishram flares as a black tempest inside her cracked heliodor, hisses *to destroy you, to get vengeance* — and quiets as Rlain names her hope for freedom.
- SA:WaT:Ch 132 Mishram retreats inside her heliodor, tempest stilling, and softens her threats into the quiet admission of two thousand years alone.
- SA:WaT:Ch 141 Manifests from the smoke with hands like claws and red-blazing eyes; beats the Rhythm of Spite around them like thunder. Does not strike. Screams. An explosion of light follows, and she carries Rlain and Renarin through the floor and out, depositing them on the Oathgate platform of Urithiru in Shadesmar before retreating into the Cognitive Realm where she is most at home.
Backreferences
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 24
- factThe Midnight Mother
- factIalai's Journal
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 73
- factUlim
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 84
- factFused
- summarySA:WaT:Prologue
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 3
- factDeadeye
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 5
- factShallan Davar
- factFortune
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 11
- summarySA:WaT:I-1
- factAla
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 16
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 18
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 25
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- summarySA:WaT:Ch 28
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 30
- factBa-Ado-Mishram
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 31
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 44
- summarySA:WaT:I-6
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 54
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 56
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 65
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 74
- factBa-Ado-Mishram
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 76
- factBa-Ado-Mishram
- factShallan Davar
- factRenarin Kholin
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 79
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 84
- factBa-Ado-Mishram
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 85
- factGarith
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 86
- factBa-Ado-Mishram
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 87
- factMelishi
- factThe Stormfather
- factThe Recreance
- factShmone
- factMishram's Prison
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 101
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 119
- factIshar
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 120
- factBa-Ado-Mishram
- factTanavast
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 121
- factBa-Ado-Mishram
- factthe listeners
- factToathan
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 122
- factContest of Champions
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 124
- factTanavast
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 129
- factMelishi
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 131
- factBa-Ado-Mishram
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 132
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 135
- factBa-Ado-Mishram
- factRenarin Kholin
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 141
- factDalinar Kholin
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 143
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 147
- factShallan Davar