Fused
Enemy combatants in the current war who wield the Void's own Light much as the Knights Radiant wield Stormlight. SA:DS:Ch 1
Known facts
- fly-on-dark-stormlight-and-recognize-radiantsTwo leaner Fused burst into the air after Kaladin above Revolar, a faint blackish-violet anti-glow trailing them, flying as easily as a Windrunner — but unsteady enough to overshoot his elevation and bob back down. The conquering parshmen treat them as ranking authorities and refer to them as *the Fused*; one must give permission before a captive can be labeled free.SA:OB:Ch 31
- reborn-via-everstormThe Stormfather tells Dalinar that the Oathpact has been weakened almost to nothing, and that Odium's new storm now does the work that Damnation once did — a Fused who is killed in battle is simply reborn in the next Everstorm, in whatever parshman body comes to hand.SA:OB:Ch 41
- occupy-rather-than-razeAre seen by Moash to be carefully preserving Alethkar's orchards, crem-wards, and towns they take, working the captured fields with parshman labor instead of burning them — confirming to him that the Everstorm invasion is an occupation, not an apocalypse.SA:OB:Ch 51
- are-spren-like-and-require-host-bodiesLady Leshwi tells Moash that the body she now wears was offered to her in sacrifice, *to bond and make my own, as I have none*, and only blinks when he asks whether the Fused are a kind of spren — implying their rebirth depends on willing singer hosts in each new generation.SA:OB:Ch 54
- many-are-mad-only-the-sane-leadMost of the Fused are visibly mad, as Moash discovers when one heavy-carapaced malen he approaches simply laughs and falls backward into a cistern; only the sane ones — like Lady Leshwi — are in any kind of command of the army.SA:OB:Ch 54
- probe-kholinar-walls-in-flying-formationRoughly two dozen of them fly at the Kholinar walls in a V formation, each trailing a plume of dark energy, throw a few defenders off the wall, then withdraw — a brief probing raid rather than an assault, since (as Adolin observes) Shardbearers — and by extension the Fused themselves — cannot hold ground without a supporting army.SA:OB:Ch 61
- voidbringer-army-camped-outside-kholinarThe Voidbringer army has re-formed after each Everstorm in place outside Kholinar and leaves a portion encamped on the plain — denying resupply, masking the moment of assault. Highmarshal Azure warns Kaladin they are no Alethi pretender army; if they take the city the entire population is enslaved at best.SA:OB:Ch 70
- rehearsing-kholinar-wall-assaultThe Fused camped outside Kholinar do not yet press a real assault; they make rapid strafing runs at scattered points along the wall to test Wall Guard reaction times and search the tower fortifications, plainly preparing for a full attack and trying to locate the Guard's food supply.SA:OB:Ch 73
- voidlight-sustains-them-against-mortal-woundsThe Voidlight sustaining a Fused keeps it fighting through wounds that would kill a normal man — the way Stormlight sustains a Radiant. The lethal weak point is something brittle inside the chest, struck up through the body from below; only then do the red eyes wink out. Even so, without the Heralds' prison restored, Fused return reborn.SA:OB:Ch 79
- some-fused-can-fly-and-inspect-shadesmar-portsSome of the Fused who have come into Shadesmar can fly, hovering a foot or two above the deck; they ride with the Voidspren warships and have installed themselves as dock inspectors at ports like Celebrant.SA:OB:Ch 102
- trained-to-watch-for-witEvery Fused sentry has been trained, over thousands of years, to watch for Wit — if Rayse learned he was in a city, he would order it leveled for any slim chance of ending him.SA:OB:Epilogue
- voidlight-suppressor-fieldedA new front — Fused strike teams now field small garnet fabrials powered by Voidlight that snuff out Radiant powers within range. Kaladin and Lift are caught by one at Hearthstone.SA:RoW:Ch 7
- gemstone-imprisonment-fearRaboniel warns Leshwi that humans are dangerously close to learning to imprison Fused souls inside gemstones, as they have already done with some of the Unmade — a fate from which there would be no return to a body.SA:RoW:Ch 14
- weapon-that-unravels-the-soulThe Fused cannot be permanently killed by ordinary means — they are too Connected to Odium to be starved, and ripping them apart only sends them back. Zahel tells Kaladin that defeating them will require a weapon capable of unravelling the soul itself, and that such weapons are very dangerous to make and never seem to work right.SA:RoW:Ch 15
- nine-brands-nine-surgesThere are nine brands of Fused, one per true Surge; each Fused knows its single Surge with an intimacy a Radiant — who must split focus between two — never can. Unlike humans, who leak Light like water through fingers, a Fused can contain Light and bask in it indefinitely.SA:RoW:Ch 31
- order-fallen-radiants-collected-not-killedUnder the queen's accepted terms, singer squads led by a Regal go house to house on the sixth floor with the queen's sealed writ, taking every unconscious Radiant into custody — *the Fused want us to collect them*, the Regal at Lirin's clinic says, *guess they want to have the fun of killing these themselves.*SA:RoW:Ch 43
- method-for-trapping-heraldsRaboniel reveals to Navani that the Fused now use raysium-tipped daggers to draw a Herald's soul into a gemstone — the technique inferred from Ba-Ado-Mishram's capture and used at least once already, with complications, on a single Herald.SA:RoW:Ch 84
Events
- SA:OB:Ch 31 Three Fused move on Kaladin at Revolar — a tall long-haired parshwoman with carapace masking her cheeks who fixes him with an oppressive red gaze at the processing lines, then two leaner long-haired figures who burst into the air after him on a faint blackish-violet anti-glow, chase him through the stormwall, are immediately disrupted by the highstorm's winds, and follow as he flees west until they finally fall behind and vanish.
- SA:OB:Ch 84 Red fearspren tormenting the toddler Gavinor behind the dressing screen; Kaladin pins and kills one with Syl as a small dagger.
- SA:OB:Ch 121 Carapace-armoured Fused direct the work crews; two more read in a library on the way to the king's chambers.
- SA:OB:Ch 121 Boast and blame each other inside the captain's cabin while the ship surges toward Marat.
- SA:OB:Ch 121 Hover in the night sky behind the palace, watching but doing nothing — a murder they dared not commit themselves.
- SA:OB:Epilogue Two singer guards and the airborne Vatwha watch the palace work-project where the unborn Cryptic is hiding in the wall.
Backreferences
- factVoidlight
- summarySA:DS:Ch 6
- summarySA:DS:Ch 9
- factNikli
- summarySA:OB:Ch 31
- factFused
- factUlim
- summarySA:OB:Ch 41
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- summarySA:OB:Ch 46
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- summarySA:OB:Ch 51
- summarySA:OB:Ch 54
- factFused
- factLeshwi
- factLeshwi
- summarySA:OB:Ch 55
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- factKilling field
- summarySA:OB:Ch 61
- factFused
- summarySA:OB:Ch 65
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- factFused
- summarySA:OB:Ch 73
- factFused
- factDeedanor
- summarySA:OB:Ch 77
- summarySA:OB:Ch 78
- summarySA:OB:Ch 79
- factFused
- factVardinar
- summarySA:OB:Ch 81
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- summarySA:OB:Ch 89
- summarySA:OB:Ch 102
- factFused
- factKyril
- summarySA:OB:Ch 108
- summarySA:OB:Ch 110
- factNotum
- summarySA:OB:Ch 115
- factTurash
- summarySA:OB:Ch 116
- factKai-garnis
- factYushah
- factThe King's Drop
- summarySA:OB:Ch 117
- summarySA:OB:Ch 118
- summarySA:OB:Ch 119
- summarySA:OB:Ch 120
- summarySA:OB:Ch 121
- factHnanan
- summarySA:OB:Ch 122
- factHonorblade of Jezrien
- summarySA:OB:Epilogue
- factFused
- factKheni
- factVatwha
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 1
- factAbiajan
- factsingers
- factDieno enne Calah
- factDieno enne Calah
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 2
- factHeavenly Ones
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 3
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 5
- factLeshwi
- factAsh
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 6
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 7
- factFused
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 8
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 9
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 10
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 11
- factVenli
- factRegal
- factMavset-im
- factLezian, the Pursuer
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 14
- factFused
- factThe Nine
- factRaboniel
- factFannahn-im
- factNex-im
- factUriam the Defiant
- factIsolation
- factReturn
- factMoash
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 15
- factFused
- factInvested Entity
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 17
- factDieno enne Calah
- factThe Roshar Projection Map
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 19
- factSuppressor Fabrial
- factMasked Ones
- factThe Emul Offensive
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 26
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 29
- factShadesmar Waystop Town
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 31
- factFused
- factRaboniel
- factDeepest Ones
- factCohesion
- factFlowing Ones
- factThe Pursuer
- factthe Sibling
- factRaboniel
- factRhythm of Panic
- factRhythm of Agony
- factRaboniel
- factRhythm of the Terrors
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 39
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 40
- factthe Sibling
- factthe Lady of Pains
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 41
- factRaboniel
- factRaboniel
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 42
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 43
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 44
- factthe listeners
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 47
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 49
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 50
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 51
- factVenli
- factRaboniel
- factVenli
- factRelayform
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 54
- factthe Sibling
- factNode
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 59
- factThe Pursuer
- factThe Pursuer
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 60
- factEssai
- factThe Silent Fused
- factMagnified Ones
- factRaboniel
- factRaboniel
- factThe Silent Fused
- factPersonal Lift Device
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 72
- factRaboniel
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 76
- factRaboniel's Daughter
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 79
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 83
- factLeshwi
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 84
- factFused
- factWarlight
- factWarlight
- factraysium
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 85
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 87
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 89
- factVoice of Lights
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 91
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 92
- factRaboniel
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 96
- factVenli
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 97
- factaxi
- factanti-Voidlight
- factHerald-killing dagger
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 98
- factthe Sibling
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 101
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 102
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 104
- factThe Pursuer
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 105
- factthe Word of Deeds
- factthe Night Known
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 106
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 109
- factVenli
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 113
- factRaboniel
- factEl
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 1
- factContest of Champions
- factContest of Champions
- factTowerlight
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 3
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 8
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 9
- factHeavenly Ones
- factAbidi the Monarch
- factAbidi the Monarch
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 11
- factAdolin Kholin
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 15
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 16
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 17
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 20
- factSigzil
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 21
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 28
- factAnti-Light
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 30
- summarySA:WaT:I-3
- factHeshual
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 34
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 39
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 41
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 47
- factNarak Four
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 50
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 55
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- summarySA:WaT:Ch 58
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 61
- factFocused Ones
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 62
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 63
- factAdolin Kholin
- factGamma
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 64
- factThe Oathpact
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 67
- factMoash
- factElsegate
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 71
- factThaylen City
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 74
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 76
- factYanagawn the First
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 77
- factLeshwi
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 80
- factAzimir Firebombs
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 84
- factTalenel
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 85
- factTalenel
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 89
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 90
- factThe Oathpact
- factThe Everstorm
- factOdium's Pool
- factCultivation's Pool
- summarySA:WaT:I-12
- factKharbranth
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 91
- factEl
- factEl
- factHusked Ones
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 101
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 103
- factSigzil
- factVenli
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 112
- factVenli
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 114
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 115
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 118
- factMoash
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 120
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 122
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 123
- factTaravangian
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 126
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 128
- factIshar
- factKaladin
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 129
- factThe Bronze Palace
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 130
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 131
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 132
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 133
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 135
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 136
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 137
- factThe Five
- factEl
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 142
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 145
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 147
- factHaka'alaku