Characters

Moss-son-Farrier

Known facts

chooses-bearer-by-puzzle-not-duelWhere every other Shin Honorbearer resolves succession by combat, Moss refuses to duel. His test for the Blade is a Lightweaving puzzle: thirty illusions of Shush arranged in a sunlit pool, twenty-nine subtly *imperfect* and one masking Moss himself behind a face that is *perfect.* The challenger must choose, strike through the eye, and escape with the Blade; touching any illusion costs the trial.SA:WaT:Ch 72
hid-acolytes-behind-the-illusionsThe thirty figures in Moss's puzzle were not pure Lightweavings but exhausted Lightweaver acolytes wearing illusory faces of Shush — meaning a wrong strike would have killed a real person. When Szeth solved the trick, the illusions popped and the acolytes blinked back into themselves, dazed.SA:WaT:Ch 73

SA:WaT:Ch 72 Hidden behind one of the thirty illusions, his voice thrown by Lightweaving — declines Szeth's offer of a duel and sets the puzzle as the trial.
SA:WaT:Ch 73 Hidden in a stone-cut hollow under the floor mosaic — dies the moment Szeth's Blade goes through the mosaic's eye, leaving clothes and the Lightweaver Honorblade behind.
SA:WaT:Ch 83 Approaches Szeth in the hall to offer companionship, recalling that he too had to kill the Lightweaver before him; takes the errand of informing Szeth's father.
SA:WaT:Ch 111 First of the other Honorbearers Pozen sends forward, hoping a man who should have been Szeth's friend dies by his Blade. Breaks and flees when Szeth refuses to make a killing stroke.
SA:WaT:Ch 117 One of the Honorbearers around the fire who notes that the Shin *almost had war — straight-up civil war.*
SA:WaT:Ch 130 Moss is among the six reborn Honorbearers returning to the ring with their Blades.
SA:WaT:Ch 141 Hides behind a Lightweaving of false rock formation; Szeth drives Nightblood straight through it, sees the man beneath, and gives him a parting word as the sword consumes him.

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