Rua
Lopen's honorspren, a small playful companion who appears in whatever shape amuses him at the moment — a flying chull, an axehound, a six-armed mock of his bondsmith. SA:DS:Ch 2
Known facts
- first-shardformRua manifests for the first time the moment Lopen speaks his Third Ideal in their shared cabin — first as a small silvery dagger, then as a beautiful ornate Shardsword that obliges its bondsmith by displaying, when he idly imagines it, a tiny etching of Rua making a rude gesture.SA:DS:Epilogue
Events
- SA:DS:Ch 2 Leads Lopen through the corridors as a winged chull, sprouts extra arms to mock his ideas, and bounces along the floor as an axehound while Kaladin briefs the mission.
- SA:DS:Ch 8 Manifests to Rysn for the first time — a one-armed youth-shaped windspren who bows, then splits into copies that wave at her — when Lopen tells her she deserves the freedom the chair has given her.
- SA:DS:Ch 9 At Lopen's shoulder while he watches over Rysn's confrontation; cannot tell whether Nikli is a Fused Lightweaver either.
- SA:DS:Ch 10 Rides the storm as a skyeel with a long tail, then a ribbon of light dancing among the wavespren; guides Lopen underwater to the drowning Turlm and back to the Wandersail, and later flags the dark shape swimming alongside the hull as one of the Stormlight-draining creatures.
- SA:DS:Ch 12 Strikes the same heroic prow-pose as Lopen in the rowboat, watches the dragged-up sailors with longing, and receives Lopen's lecture on the inexhaustibility of style.
- SA:DS:Ch 14 Flies the survey of the city with Lopen and walks the ruins with him on his shoulder.
- SA:DS:Ch 17 Bounces around in the shape of the giant grub-monster and refuses Lopen's plea to manifest as a Shardblade — he has not earned the next Ideal yet.
- SA:DS:Ch 18 Hovers near Lopen in the shape of a worried axehound after the Stormlight-eaters drain his light and the grub-monster turns to crush him.
- SA:DS:Ch 19 Cheers — to Lopen's exasperation — when Huio beats him to the Third Ideal and the Shardhammer manifests in his cousin's hand.
- SA:DS:Epilogue Confirms — solemnly — that sometimes Lopen's jokes do hurt people, raises a fist in approval when his bondsmith resolves to be better, then vanishes into a small silvery dagger as the Third Ideal is accepted.
- SA:OB:Ch 121 Plays hide-and-seek in leaf-form around the tents and helps Lopen flip the sky off with two extra arms when the Third Ideal finally lands.
Backreferences
- summarySA:DS:Ch 2
- factCord
- summarySA:DS:Ch 6
- factCaelinora
- summarySA:DS:Ch 8
- summarySA:DS:Ch 9
- summarySA:DS:Ch 10
- summarySA:DS:Ch 12
- summarySA:DS:Ch 14
- summarySA:DS:Ch 17
- factPhendorana
- summarySA:DS:Ch 18
- summarySA:DS:Ch 19
- summarySA:DS:Epilogue
- factRua
- summarySA:OB:Ch 121
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 33