Characters

Melishi

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traps-mishram-by-betrayalUnder cover of a peace parley, Melishi approaches Ba-Ado-Mishram in singer form with a large uninfused gemstone, exploits her desire for an end to the war to forge a Connection between them, and pulls her into the gem prison — at Honor's direct command. The act severs every singer of power across Roshar from their forms, reducing them to mute slaveform.SA:WaT:Ch 87
died-alone-in-the-spiritual-realm-guarding-mishrams-prisonThe ancient Bondsmith Melishi is found long-dead in a small stone childhood-room deep in the Spiritual Realm, desiccated nearly to bones, ringed by candles still burning around the cracked heliodor that holds Mishram. He had hidden her prison there himself and never came out.SA:WaT:Ch 129

SA:WaT:Ch 80 The Bondsmith Navani replaces when Dalinar redirects the vision; only seen as the body she steps into.
SA:WaT:Ch 82 Confused by Dalinar's perception experiment dislocating him from the Bondsmith role; rushes off toward the tower clutching his head.
SA:WaT:Ch 85 Watches the parley from the rear unmoved, refuses Garith's request for guidance from Honor, then leads the leaf-camouflaged ambush party that night to catch Garith with the singers.
SA:WaT:Ch 87 Slips around behind Mishram with a child's-head gemstone, declares himself the Bondsmith, and at Honor's urging pulls her into the prison.
SA:WaT:Ch 122 Roused from a chamber in Urithiru when the Almighty manifests to him — the sole remaining Bondsmith — and begs help against the *parsh rabble pretending* at a Desolation. Tanavast snaps at him that war never unites, then leaves to confront Rayse.
SA:WaT:Ch 124 The Bondsmith who springs the trap Tanavast designed, pulling Ba-Ado-Mishram into the gemstone in a hollow of stone and inadvertently triggering the unmaking of Tanavast and the breaking of the Radiants.
SA:WaT:Ch 129 Melishi appears here only as a corpse in the small childhood-stone-room, ringed by candles, beside the cracked heliodor that holds Mishram.
SA:WaT:Ch 131 Melishi's desiccated corpse lies in the chamber as Renarin and Rlain examine the prison he died beside.
SA:WaT:Ch 132 Melishi's corpse remains in the corner of the chamber — the reminder of one option, *die here like he did.*

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