Elid-daughter-Zeenid
Szeth's older sister, fourteen at the time of the flashback to his eleven; squat to his spindly, *trunk and branch* by the local nickname. She is the flute-player whose music accompanies his dancing for the family stone, and she has grown apathetic about her own practice — bored of the homestead, curious about lands beyond the mountains and the Honorbearer she once saw fly. SA:WaT:Ch 24
Known facts
- cuts-szeth-off-at-the-rock-gardenThe morning of the pilgrimage, Elid confronts Szeth in the monastery's rock garden and tells him she will not follow him this time; she has spent years holding their father together in his absence, and she shouts at his back that she hates him. She has trained with Shin shamans in the city and now wears a side sword, a public commitment to Truth.SA:WaT:Ch 75
- revealed-already-dead-at-dustbringer-duelThe masked Honorbearer Szeth embraces at the Dustbringer monastery is his sister Elid, aged and scarred, who tells him their mother died of tumours, their father was taken by the Voice, and she herself is taken by the same darkness. She dissolves into mist while she warns him — and Nale then confirms that she, like every other Honorbearer Szeth has met on this pilgrimage, is already dead.SA:WaT:Ch 90
Events
- SA:WaT:Ch 51 Steps onto the camp stone first, glaring back at her brother as though the upheaval is his fault.
- SA:WaT:Ch 57 Mentioned as the scullery maid who watches the kitchen windows for Szeth's running laps, then sends word to their mother — covered for by the other maids, who all dote on her.
- SA:WaT:Ch 68 Strolls up to the General's door to needle and console her brother before the tribunal.
- SA:WaT:Ch 68 Comes alongside Szeth's horse to bid him chin up about life around an active monastery, then breaks down at the realization their mother is staying behind.
- SA:WaT:Ch 75 Interrupts Szeth's pre-pilgrimage meditation; tells him she will not go with him and shouts that she hates him as he leaves.
- SA:WaT:Ch 90 The masked Honorbearer of the Dustbringer Blade — aged, scarred, Szeth's sister — who cannot bring herself to land a killing blow, embraces him, tells him their parents are dead and the Oathpact broken, and dissolves into mist mid-sentence.
- SA:WaT:Ch 130 Elid is among the six reborn Honorbearers who retrieve their Blades from the wagon.
- SA:WaT:Ch 141 Emerges from the cluster of whisper-shades to circle her brother with her Blade, accusing him of breaking their family — trailing a red shadow where his runs white — and meets her end with a kiss on the forehead and Nightblood through her chest.
Backreferences
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 24
- factSzeth-son-son-Vallano
- factSplash
- factHonorbearer
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 27
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- summarySA:WaT:Ch 51
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- factNeturo-son-Vallano
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- factElid-daughter-Zeenid
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 90
- factThe Oathpact
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- factElid-daughter-Zeenid
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 130
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