Ishnah
A short Alethi woman in a brown havah, dark eyes, red painted lips, sharp made-up eyebrows — one of the All's Alley thieves whose eyes lit at the Ghostblood sigil. Tracks Veil down in the Breakaway market and pitches herself: experienced scribe, experienced underground operator, sick of being blind. Wants in. SA:OB:Ch 25
Known facts
- seeks-out-veil-to-join-the-ghostbloodsTracks Veil down in the Breakaway after the Rock stabbing and pitches her recruitment — *not as a ward, what are we, lighteyes? — I want to join you* — and is turned away with the warning to forget the conversation ever happened.SA:OB:Ch 25
- trained-spy-for-house-hamaradinTells Veil she was trained as a spy in the service of House Hamaradin in Vamah's court — information gathering, message coding, observation, and the discreet searching of rooms — until her mistress was killed by the Ghostbloods and she fled into a Breakaway thieving gang to keep her head down.SA:OB:Ch 43
- funded-her-old-underworld-crew-from-her-stipendConfesses to Shallan that she had been quietly diverting part of her Court stipend to her former underworld friends, telling herself she was helping them out of that life — only to learn they had used her name and her money to set up protection schemes and gambling dens. She cut them off the previous month.SA:RoW:Ch 26
Events
- SA:OB:Ch 25 Finds Veil in the market after the Rock stabbing, accuses her of doing it, then drops the accusation and pitches her recruitment to the Ghostbloods — and is turned away.
- SA:OB:Ch 43 Slips into the barracks common room disguised as a washwoman with a wig of mottled hair and ash on her cheeks; Veil catches her at it, pulls off the wig, and after a private interview at the doorway agrees to take her on — provided she also trains Vathah's squad as a spy team.
- SA:OB:Ch 61 Shallan's newly recruited assistant spy, on the team in plain dress, sent up with the others to ready the tailor's upper rooms for the king's party.
- SA:OB:Ch 62 Ransacks the tailor's bedroom under Vathah and Red's amused supervision, reports nothing of interest, and confides that she had the two identities reversed in her head — *I thought Brightness Shallan was the persona. But the spy — that's the false identity.*
- SA:OB:Ch 72 Plays the rug merchant in front of Nananav long enough to keep the mistress of Rockfall occupied while the team strips her larder.
- SA:OB:Ch 74 Walks the streets in Veil's face handing out food to amplify the Swiftspren legend, and returns to the tailor's shop with the Cult's invitation note in hand.
- SA:RoW:Ch 7 Takes Vathah and Beryl to escort the Lightwoven-disguised Ialai out; later inspects the body and walks Shallan through how blackbane works.
- SA:RoW:Ch 20 Dismisses her Shardblade, gives Radiant her crisply pragmatic read of the Shadesmar mission, and volunteers at once when the slot is offered.
- SA:RoW:Ch 21 Tested alongside Vathah under Jasnah's eye before being dismissed to join the rest of the envoy.
- SA:RoW:Ch 26 Helps the peakspren manifest cargo, then breaks down at the rail and confesses to Shallan that she had been funding her old crew without realizing what they were doing with it.
- SA:RoW:Ch 35 Hands Veil a bowl of mush from the camp's Soulcast rations before the alarm.
- SA:RoW:Ch 36 Coaches a green Beryl through searching corpses for hidden marks on rings and necklaces; identifies Tukari clan writing on a few cloth bracelets.
Backreferences
- summarySA:OB:Ch 25
- summarySA:OB:Ch 43
- factHouse Hamaradin
- summarySA:OB:Ch 51
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- factCult of Moments
- factSwiftspren
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 7
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- summarySA:RoW:Ch 24
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- factBeryl
- factMotif
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 30
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- summarySA:WaT:Ch 5
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- summarySA:WaT:Ch 97