Ash
also known as Shalash, Herald of Beauty
One of the ten Heralds — the source through whom Jasnah has learned much of what the coalition now knows about the Fused, including that every Heavenly One is an ancient soul sustained in a singer body that was sacrificed to host it. SA:RoW:Ch 5
Known facts
- dies-leaning-against-talenelBleeding from two dozen hits, Ash is found leaning back against Taln amid the corpses at the breach, a chipped sword in her lap, smiling. She closes her eyes and falls still with one last sentence for Adolin: *this time, I won't let him go alone.*SA:WaT:Ch 85
Events
- SA:WaT:I-5 Off-page in this chapter — Axies reports she is *here in Azimir*, tucked away in an Azish hospital with the big fellow, the Prime having largely forgotten about her. Baxil refuses to go and see her.
- SA:WaT:Ch 46 A teenage girl up the hillside under guard of a small group of spearmen; the Ash Dalinar and Navani know in their own time is frozen at her late twenties, so this is her decades-younger self.
- SA:WaT:Ch 50 Sits vigil beside Taln's bed in the Azimir field hospital and asks Adolin whether he is worth the price paid.
- SA:WaT:Ch 77 Among the Heralds arriving at the hollow to set down their Blades.
- SA:WaT:Ch 85 Found leaning against Talenel's corpse with a bloodied sword in her lap, smiling at Adolin and dying with one last line — *this time, I won't let him go alone.*
- SA:WaT:Ch 144 Among the ghostly figures that answer the call back to the ring.
- SA:WaT:Ch 145 Felt through the bond as the swords vanish from the ring one by one.
Backreferences
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 5
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 82
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 84
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 99
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 101
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 33
- summarySA:WaT:I-5
- factBaxil
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 46
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 50
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 77
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 84
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 85
- factAsh
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 144
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 145