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Shallan Davar

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father-deadHer father is secretly dead — a fact her family must hide. His unpaid bribes and business debts will collapse House Davar the moment the news escapes.SA:WoK:Ch 3
siblingsShe has four older brothers; her three younger brothers were her favorite audience for clever quips by the hearth at home.SA:WoK:Ch 3
callingShe has chosen natural history as her Calling, though she loves sketching. She is drawn to questions raised by observation — why skyeels do not fear people, what haspers eat, why rats thrive in one place and fail in another.SA:WoK:Ch 3
mother-deadHer mother died when she was a young child. Her father remarried Malise Gevelmar, also now dead.SA:WoK:Ch 5
stolen-soulcaster-planHer true reason for chasing a wardship under the famous heretic is not the education or the prestige. She has come to learn where Jasnah keeps her working Soulcaster — so she can steal it and replace her family's broken one before House Davar collapses.SA:WoK:Ch 5
education-gapsStrong in music, biology, botany, geography, geology, physics, chemistry, and the major glyphs; passable Thaylen reading and spoken Azish; weak in formal logic past Tormas / Nashan / Niali / Nohadon, and gravely thin in history (only Barlesha Lhan's Topics).SA:WoK:Ch 5
left-hand-cuffAs a Vorin lighteyed woman she keeps her safehand covered by an oversized buttoned sleeve cuff, with a buttoned safepouch sewn inside the sleeve for her most valuable spheres.SA:WoK:Ch 5
soulcaster-substitution-planHouse Davar's only hope: become Jasnah's ward, find where she keeps her working Soulcaster, and switch it with the broken Davar fabrial. Without new quarries her father's debts will surface and the house will fall.SA:WoK:Ch 7
broken-soulcaster-lueshAfter the jeweler repaired the Davar Soulcaster cosmetically, Luesh — the steward trained to operate it — can no longer make it function.SA:WoK:Ch 7
collects-peopleConsiders drawing a kind of soul-cutting: a Memory is a bud of a person's soul, cultivated on the page in charcoal sinew and ink blood. Her secret habit since childhood has been collecting people.SA:WoK:Ch 7
ward-accepted-finallyAfter being rejected a second time, Shallan returns to the Veil with a hasty book-purchase to cram history and philosophy. Jasnah catches her, leafs through her nature sketchbook, and accepts her as ward on the strength of that single private notebook: scholarship pursued for its own sake.SA:WoK:Ch 8
memorization-text-vs-imageHer Memory works best on scenes and faces. Text she has to grind through in the usual way, though her tutors had once found her list-and-fact memorization remarkable.SA:WoK:Ch 8
helaran-vanishedHer eldest brother Helaran vanished a year ago; their father declared him dead, and the strange collection of maps in his study remain unexplained.SA:WoK:Ch 8
swaps-the-soulcasterAfter Jasnah's lesson in the alley, while brushing the princess's hair in her dressing chamber, Shallan pops the intact smokestone from the broken Davar fabrial in her safepouch, hides it under a folded silk robe, and exchanges it for Jasnah's working Soulcaster on the dressing table. Jasnah locks the broken one into her jewelry case with the key around her neck, and does not notice. Shallan walks from the room stunned, sickened, and undiscovered.SA:WoK:Ch 36
spontaneous-creature-sketchesHer hand drifts while she draws and produces an unsettling collection of inhuman creatures that she did not consciously sketch and cannot explain. The drawings will not leave her head.SA:WoK:Ch 39
first-soulcasts-by-accidentWorking alone with the stolen Soulcaster and unable to make it function the proper way, she Soulcasts a glass pitcher into blood by accident — and is briefly pulled into Shadesmar, where pattern-faced spren gather around her saying *you have brought us back*. Panicked at the impossible blood, she cuts her own arm with a shard of the pitcher and feigns unconsciousness for Jasnah to find.SA:WoK:Ch 45
stripped-of-wardship-and-rankJasnah arranges her passage back to Jah Keved in the morning and tells her plainly that the foolish scheme will stain her life for decades — no woman will take her as a ward again. The reduction to sas nahn follows. The Soulcaster saved her life; it does not save her career. *I hate being wrong*, Jasnah says, and leaves.SA:WoK:Ch 51
remains-jasnahs-wardConfesses partial truth about her family's circumstances and asks to remain ward. Jasnah agrees — knowing more than Shallan thinks, and willing to take her on with the understanding that she will not be lied to a second time.SA:WoK:Ch 72
soulcasts-without-fabrialJasnah confirms aloud what Shallan's accident in Kharbranth suggested: Shallan can Soulcast on her own, without the aid of a fabrial, and is "like me" — both of them are something more than they appear.SA:WoR:Ch 1
causal-with-adolinTo shore up Shallan's collapsing house in Jah Keved, Jasnah arranges a causal — a conditional Vorin betrothal — between Shallan and her cousin Adolin Kholin, heir-presumptive in Alethkar after his father and the infant prince. Dalinar insists the two meet before anything more binding is signed.SA:WoR:Ch 1
bonded-a-crypticDrawing the pattern she keeps glimpsing summons it fully into her cabin — a flattened, abstract version of the symbolheads from her sketches that crosses from page to floor with an audible sigh. Jasnah tells Shallan this is her Cryptic companion, who will grant her Soulcasting and likely other Surgebinding besides.SA:WoR:Ch 3
first-illumination-color-shiftRecalling her father's gardens with Pattern on the deck of the Wind's Pleasure, Shallan briefly turns the wood of the deck green, dimming a pocketful of spheres without Soulcasting. Jasnah identifies it as her second ability — Illumination — and steers her toward practicing it instead of Soulcasting.SA:WoR:Ch 6
first-illusionCornered in her Wind's Pleasure cabin by assassins breaking down the door, Shallan draws in the Stormlight from the spheres around her and casts her first true Illumination — a glowing, vague human shape that strides out through the doorway. The killers chase the illusion onto the deck and over the rail, looking for her in the water.SA:WoR:Ch 7
soulcasts-wind-s-pleasure-to-waterWith Pattern interceding for her on the other side, Shallan enters Shadesmar a second time, finds the Wind's Pleasure's bead among thousands on the obsidian ground, and persuades the ship — proud of its long service — to change. Back in the cabin, hull and decks melt into icy water, plunging her into the sea.SA:WoR:Ch 7
killed-mother-at-elevenAt age eleven, six years before the events of the main story, Shallan killed her own mother in the Davar manor. The chapter shows her standing frozen over the corpses, telling herself she is a monster who has murdered; her father wipes the blood from her cheek and promises he will protect her, and from that night on the household behaves as if nothing has happened at all.SA:WoR:Ch 10
cannot-swimShallan cannot really swim — established when, stranded on a rock off the Frostlands coast after the wreck of the Wind's Pleasure, she has to half-flail her way through the shallows to reach the beach.SA:WoR:Ch 11
recovers-jasnah-trunkShallan recovers Jasnah's waterproof trunk from the shoreline after the wreck of the Wind's Pleasure — the books, notes, and spheres from Jasnah's own cabin survive, and Shallan decides to carry the work to the Shattered Plains herself.SA:WoR:Ch 11
first-soulcast-attemptShallan's first attempt to Soulcast on her own — trying to turn a stick into fire in Shadesmar — ends in failure: the stick refuses every argument she offers it, knowing only what it is, and Shallan's Stormlight burns out before she can complete the working.SA:WoR:Ch 11
resolves-to-continue-jasnahs-workShallan resolves, alone in a slaver's cage on the road north, to continue Jasnah's work — find Urithiru, convince the Alethi that the Voidbringers are coming back, and stop whoever killed Jasnah from controlling the knowledge for profit.SA:WoR:Ch 13
sketchpads-and-soulcaster-lostEvery sketchpad Shallan ever kept — drawings of her brothers, her father, her mother, and her studies of skyeels and other creatures — went down with the Wind's Pleasure, along with the broken Davar Soulcaster she had hoped to repair and return to her brothers.SA:WoR:Ch 13
first-stormlight-glowStanding over Tvlakv at the cook fire and pretending the iron of Jasnah's manner, Shallan draws Stormlight for the first time without meaning to — her dress sheds its tears and stains, her skin glows faintly, and the sliced soles of her feet stop hurting. She wills the light back down before Tvlakv can be sure what he saw.SA:WoR:Ch 15
breathes-stormlightShallan learns to draw Stormlight from a sphere by inhaling — the Light leaves the gem in a single heartbeat and fills her chest, then leaks back out through her skin until she finds a use for it.SA:WoR:Ch 17
stormlight-healsStormlight knits the cuts on Shallan's feet closed faster than even knobweed sap could manage — the first time she has noticed the bond doing for her body what Kaladin takes for granted with Syl.SA:WoR:Ch 17
has-spoken-oathsPattern tells Shallan that she has already spoken oaths — the words *Life before death* drift up at her from a past she refuses to look at — and that speaking what is real is part of how she becomes what she is.SA:WoR:Ch 17
mute-after-mothers-deathShallan did not speak for the five months after her mother's death — the maids of Davar Manor mention it openly in front of her, assuming she does not hear either. Her voice first returns to her in begging her brother Helaran not to run their father through with his new Shardblade.SA:WoR:Ch 19
lightwoven-self-illusionShallan shapes her first Lightweaving on a person — herself — projecting a tall stately woman in golden-embroidered gown with flowing red hair and a necklace, visible to the deserters she walks among as their faces reflect off polished breastplates. The Light is spent in a single sustained illusion.SA:WoR:Ch 20
recruits-vathahs-bandOn a hilltop south of the Shattered Plains, Shallan walks alone into Vathah's band of armed deserters and persuades most of them to abandon their leader and charge to defend a caravan under bandit attack — promising on the Almighty to see their crimes erased and to give them new lives as her soldiers when she reaches the Plains.SA:WoR:Ch 20
acquires-five-slaves-and-wagonShallan takes Tvlakv's five surviving slaves as payment for the soldiers who saved his life, buys his third wagon for five sapphire broams, and promises the slaves six firemarks a week — five going toward their slave-debt — if they choose to serve her. She still keeps her brand-marked slaves separate from her Vathah-led soldiers and from Macob's caravan.SA:WoR:Ch 21
sees-strongbox-light-through-paintingA maid leaves her father's door ajar; through the seascape painting on the far wall Shallan sees the lockbox glowing as if a lamp burned inside it. The outline of it shows through the canvas to her eyes alone. Whatever is in it, she thinks, is monstrous — and is also the soul of her mother.SA:WoR:Ch 27
freezes-staring-at-wallsYears after her mother's death, Shallan still has spells where she goes blank — losing track of time, staring at a wall or a sheet of paper without seeing it. Her brother has to shake her out of one in the hallway before the feast.SA:WoR:Ch 27
trains-with-tyn-on-accentsRiding the wagon seat next to Tyn, Shallan starts her training as a confidence trickster — accents (Bavlander, Herdazian, Horneater), how to act beneath your station as well as above it, and how to be unembarrassable. Tyn gives her a vial of eyedrops that darken light eyes for a few hours.SA:WoR:Ch 28
commits-to-pose-as-adolins-betrothedPressed by Tyn to name the scam she has been training for, Shallan declares she will present herself to Dalinar Kholin as the Veden woman betrothed to his son Adolin — which she is, though she lets Tyn believe it is a confidence game. She privately treats this as a route into the warcamps and toward Urithiru and the Voidbringers, and she now has to plan how to manage Tyn without actually defrauding the Kholins.SA:WoR:Ch 30
first-summons-pattern-as-shardbladeCornered in Tyn's tent, Shallan thrusts out her hands and a silvery Shardblade of mist resolves there — Pattern taken Blade form — and spears Tyn through the chest. Tyn's eyes burn out in her skull as she falls. It is Shallan's first kill and her first summoning of Pattern as a weapon, and she keeps the Blade in hand a moment longer when Vathah and the others tear into the tent — because she needs something strong to hold to.SA:WoR:Ch 34
first-conscious-illusion-of-stormlightPinned and unable to summon the Blade in the ten heartbeats it requires, Shallan draws Stormlight from spheres in her sleeve and pushes — without yet knowing how to shape it — and a momentary image of herself as a proud court woman ripples between her and Tyn. It is the first time Shallan knowingly forms her Surgebinding into an illusion.SA:WoR:Ch 34
agrees-to-meet-ghostbloodsTracing the spanreed connection from Tyn's tent, Shallan is offered, in Tyn's name, a meeting with the patrons of the Jasnah hit — the Ghostbloods, the same people now hunting a lost city. She switches the fabrial's setting and writes a single word: yes.SA:WoR:Ch 34
arrives-warcamps-as-adolins-causalShallan reaches the Shattered Plains warcamps under the public identity she and Tyn built for her on the road — ward of the late Jasnah Kholin and causal betrothed of Adolin Kholin — using Jasnah's side of the spanreed correspondence with Navani to vouch for the arrangement.SA:WoR:Ch 36
takes-patronage-from-sebarialSidestepping Dalinar's offer of a clerk's position in his camp, Shallan announces before the assembled highprinces that Highprince Sebarial has already taken her in — a Davar cousin a few times removed, with three broams a week of support on the table — choosing the looser leash over the Kholin one.SA:WoR:Ch 38
refuses-to-testify-and-says-she-does-not-rememberPressed by her brothers to walk out with the highprince's bastard and tell the throne what she saw, Shallan insists she does not remember what happened to her mother — not that she will not testify, but that there is nothing in her head to testify to.SA:WoR:Ch 39
first-full-lightweaving-disguiseShallan sketches a tan-skinned, dark-eyed, dark-haired woman with a scarred chin and breathes the Lightweaving over herself — her first complete transformation of her own face, holding only as long as the spheres on her person stay infused.SA:WoR:Ch 42
inherits-tyns-ghostbloods-lineShallan takes over Tyn's spanreed line to a Tashikk relay station, deciphers the quintet-letter authentication code Pattern spots in old messages, and impersonates Tyn to keep an active appointment with her Ghostblood handlers.SA:WoR:Ch 42
second-lightweaving-applicationCornered in a warcamp alley by a Ghostbloods tail, Shallan sketches a stone wall and breathes a second Lightweaving over a doorway recess — proving she can hold two illusions at once and that the magic obeys her drawings.SA:WoR:Ch 43
refuses-first-coached-lightweavingAt fourteen, coached by a stranger in black at the Middlefest Fair to imagine and then breathe out a perfect lost morning with her dead mother, Shallan sees Stormlight curl from his spheres into the shape of her wish — and pulls back, refusing it. He tells her she does not yet understand the nature of lies.SA:WoR:Ch 45
deduces-oathgate-entrance-on-shattered-plainsCross-checking Jasnah's annotations against a Shin scholar's line about Urithiru being the connection to all nations across stones unhallowed, Shallan concludes that the ancient capital was not reached by road but by something else — an Oathgate of instantaneous travel — and that Jasnah had come to the Shattered Plains for the entrance, not the city.SA:WoR:Ch 47
drawing-is-the-illusion-modelPracticing in the coach on the way to meet Adolin, Shallan finds that breathing out Stormlight without a focus does nothing, while sketching a thing first — even a crude line drawing — gives the Lightweaving a frame to build from. The image she produces of Sebarial is sharper than her sketch, complete with hairs and pores she never drew, because the drawing is the model and the light fills in the rest.SA:WoR:Ch 47
reabsorbs-stormlight-from-an-active-illusionShallan finds she can pull Stormlight back out of a Lightweaving she has cast — putting a hand through the image of Sebarial in the coach and breathing inward, she draws the light back into her skin and the image dissolves to glowing smoke.SA:WoR:Ch 47
bought-jushus-life-from-millShallan chases Mill's carriage down the manor road in slippered feet carrying Balat and Wikim's daggers and her own aluminium necklace, argues Mill out of his keep-the-debtor-as-a-warning logic — a man who profits from gambling does not gamble — and, when pressed for one reason to show pity, names a memory: the night their mother was killed, Jushu held her while she cried. Mill returns the necklace, takes only the daggers, and frees her brother.SA:WoR:Ch 48
keeps-her-mothers-aluminium-necklaceShallan's necklace — simple in design but cast from aluminium, a metal only Soulcasting can make — is appraised by Mill at ten emerald broams. He returns it to her with the half of his sentence about gambling she did not earn, and she keeps it.SA:WoR:Ch 48
links-chasmfiend-pupae-to-yu-nerigShallan sketches the chrysalis shapes she knows from greatshell biology and, on Adolin's description, matches the chasmfiend cocoon to the stone-hard pupa of a yu-nerig from Marabethia — an aquatic species that comes onto land only to pupate. She tells Adolin that the warcamps are not hunting chasmfiends but harvesting their juveniles, and that the population is starting to collapse.SA:WoR:Ch 49
tells-adolin-parshmen-may-be-voidbringersShallan tells Adolin that Jasnah believed the parshmen were the captured Voidbringers and that a Desolation is returning. Adolin tells her that requiring the warcamps to give up their parshmen would split the kingdom open overnight, and asks her not to repeat the idea aloud.SA:WoR:Ch 49
glimpses-living-shape-inside-stormwallWatching a highstorm hit the warcamps from a terrace facing the Origin, Shallan sees light flash inside the stormwall and an outline of something alive within the storm, the way a backlit limb shows its skeleton — a shape no artist has drawn and no scholar described. Pattern hums beside her. Adolin has to drag her off the railing into the shelter before the doors close.SA:WoR:Ch 49
delivers-amaram-maps-and-is-offered-ghostblood-membershipIn a pavilion in the Unclaimed Hills outside the warcamps, Shallan — as Veil — hands Mraize memory-sketched copies of every map and wall in Amaram's locked study, holding back the legible script for herself. He realises she killed Tyn herself, and welcomes her not for it but because of it; he hints at a place for her in his organization if she proves reliable, and gives her a new task to come.SA:WoR:Ch 54
pitches-right-of-challenge-plan-against-sadeasIn a carriage on the way to a menagerie in the Outer Market, Shallan hands Adolin a folio of notes derived from Jasnah's biography of the old king: eighteen years ago, Highprince Yenev was brought down not in battle but in a duel, after Sadeas won a spectacular bout, claimed the ancient King's Boon from Gavilar, and used it to demand Yenev himself. She proposes that Adolin use the same Right of Challenge tradition to corner Sadeas in front of the court.SA:WoR:Ch 55
shallan-met-wit-as-a-childWhen Adolin's carriage driver turns out to be Wit, Shallan runs across the carriageway and throws her arms around him in front of her betrothed, telling Wit she always wanted to say thank you and never had the chance. She remembers an earlier meeting, the details of which have grown hazy.SA:WoR:Ch 55
places-stormseat-on-shattered-plainsWorking from an old map of the Epoch-era east against a modern map copied from Amaram's wall, argues — with Jasnah and against the prevailing scholars — that the lost city of Stormseat, capital of Natanatan, stood on what is now the Shattered Plains and contained the Oathgate linking the kingdom to Urithiru.SA:WoR:Ch 60
binds-illusion-to-patternDiscovers she can attach a Lightweaving illusion to Pattern rather than to herself, so the illusion can stand and move independent of her body — though, locked to Pattern's gliding motion, the figure does not yet walk.SA:WoR:Ch 60
sees-strongbox-light-through-canvasWatching Father from the cracked door of his upstairs sitting room, sees the family strongbox shining through the canvas painting that covers it — a light so bright it is almost blinding to her, while the men in the room remain unable to see it at all.SA:WoR:Ch 61
sends-pattern-bound-veil-decoy-to-the-streetUses an animated Veil illusion bound to Pattern as a decoy on the street outside her stakeout — the figure glides instead of walking, but holds together well enough to flush the Ghostblood spy out of her hiding place.SA:WoR:Ch 63
admitted-to-ghostbloodsOn the strength of her report from the monastery, is welcomed into the Ghostbloods by Mraize — the other members instructed not to touch her — and required to take the society's tattoo somewhere on her person, to prove at their next meeting.SA:WoR:Ch 64
organizes-balat-and-malise-flight-from-house-davarWith her father cracking after ordering Helaran's death and beating Malise, Shallan is the one who plans the escape: she steadies Balat, tells him to take Malise and Eylita to Helaran in Alethkar during one of Father's trips to Vedenar, and promises to draft the warning letter herself.SA:WoR:Ch 65
cleans-and-splints-malise-after-the-beatingShallan talks her way past her father's guards, enters the room with the painting she has not crossed in years, cleans Malise's split lip and binds her broken arm, and convinces her to flee with Balat. Malise asks whether, once she and the others are gone, Father will turn his beatings on Shallan — the one who actually deserves it.SA:WoR:Ch 65
realizes-she-saved-herself-and-kaladin-with-stormlightWakes at the bottom of the chasm unharmed, and as she follows the bridgeman through the dark concludes that she saved them both: he was falling beside her and she somehow used Stormlight to slow them. She does not yet know how she did it or whether she can do it again, and is glad he is superstitious enough to credit windspren.SA:WoR:Ch 69
remembers-shape-of-every-plateau-on-shattered-plains-mapsSketches their path through the chasms from memory as a downward map and admits she carries the shape of every Shattered Plains plateau she has seen on a Kholin map. Pretends to be guessing when Kaladin asks, but he sees that her sketch is exact down to every knob and ledge.SA:WoR:Ch 70
summons-a-shardblade-of-her-ownCornered in a chasm fissure by the chasmfiend, she reaches over Kaladin's shoulder and summons a Shardblade, handing it to him to fight with. She does not explain where it came from.SA:WoR:Ch 71
lightweaves-illusions-of-herself-and-kaladin-to-distract-chasmfiendWith Kaladin down and the chasmfiend over him, she sketches herself and him on paper, then projects illusions of both — her own form turned deep black for cover — to draw the beast's attention long enough for him to find his Blade. The first time anyone has seen her use her Radiant illusions in the open.SA:WoR:Ch 72
poisons-and-strangles-her-fatherDuring the highstorm in which Balat tries and fails to stand against their father, she pours blackbane — the pouch Wikim once gave her, more potent now for its keeping — into the wine she carries him. The poison only paralyses; he begins to recover. While he watches, unable to move, she loops her necklace around his neck and twists it tight with a fork-handle until he stops, singing the lullaby he sang her as a child.SA:WoR:Ch 73
original-plan-was-to-rob-jasnah-of-her-soulcasterTells Kaladin in the alcove that her real plan in seeking Jasnah Kholin had not been a wardship at all but a theft: swap her broken family Soulcaster for Jasnah's working one and bring a functional fabrial home. Jasnah caught her, was intrigued, took her on instead, and arranged the Adolin match as protection for her family.SA:WoR:Ch 74
has-already-said-the-wordsPattern tells her that what she lacks is not Words — she has said them, long ago — but truth; her progress depends on understanding both the truth and the lie her surgebinding is built from.SA:WoR:Ch 75
bargains-her-way-onto-dalinars-expeditionShallan makes herself indispensable to Dalinar's march onto the Plains by promising the only complete map of them, in exchange for being brought along to extend it from inside the Parshendi heartland and find the buried city Jasnah was hunting.SA:WoR:Ch 75
tells-navani-jasnah-was-a-radiantSitting across from her in the coach in the rain, Shallan tells Navani that her daughter never used a Soulcaster — she *was* one — that Jasnah could Soulcast without a fabrial, and was, in everything that mattered, a Knight Radiant.SA:WoR:Ch 77
acquires-an-old-copy-of-words-of-radianceGaz brings her, on the morning of the march, an old battered copy of Words of Radiance — a chapter for each order of Radiants written two centuries after the Recreance in proto-script Alethi — which she begins to read for what it tells of the Oathgate and the orders' Ideals.SA:WoR:Ch 77
shows-dalinar-her-lightweavingIn her pavilion in the rain, Shallan spins a Lightweaving of Jasnah above her palm for Dalinar and confirms what she had told Navani — that Jasnah was a Knight Radiant — making her the first Radiant Dalinar has knowingly met.SA:WoR:Ch 78
tells-dalinar-her-lightweaving-can-heal-herHurrying through the rain to the parshendi corpse, Shallan tells Dalinar she suspects she could take a spear through the gut and the Stormlight would knit her shut without a scar — and that she must have done as much for Kaladin in the chasm fall.SA:WoR:Ch 78
locates-the-oathgate-by-circular-plateauRealising the Shattered Plains are a fourfold radial pattern and that the Oathgate's dais — a raised circle on the old maps — would have survived the shattering intact, Shallan places the portal on the only perfectly circular plateau in her drawing, in the band between the first and tenth kingdoms.SA:WoR:Ch 81
opens-the-oathgate-to-urithiruWith ordinary Shardblades failing to turn the Oathgate keyhole, Shallan rams Pattern — her spren-Blade — into the slot. The mechanism unlocks. She and Adolin push together to rotate the chamber's inner wall halfway around the circle from Natanatan to Urithiru, and the entire plateau and the four armies on it appear instantly in a ring of ten plateaus outside the tower city's gate.SA:WoR:Ch 86
killed-her-mother-with-patternIn the bare stone chamber Pattern chose for her in Urithiru, Shallan finally remembers what she did as a child: her mother and her mother's friend came to confront her father after learning what Shallan could do; her mother named her *one of them* and came at her with a knife; Shallan killed her with a Blade summoned out of mist — Pattern. Her father confessed to the murder to protect her, and the lie destroyed him and the family. *Eventually you will kill me, and you will have your revenge,* Pattern hums. *I don't want revenge,* she answers. *I want my family.*SA:WoR:Ch 88
veil-reabsorbed-not-banishedDid not delete the Veil persona at Lasting Integrity — she has incorporated her. Veil no longer takes control but remains, coaching from the back of the wagon; Radiant still rides up front, more separate. The arrangement let Shallan face memories without Veil standing between her and them.SA:WaT:Ch 3
declared-war-on-ghostbloodsHas finally refused the Ghostbloods outright after a year and a half of strung-along not-quite-yes — which, as she explains to Wit, is a declaration of war. She knows their faces and plans well enough to be the greatest threat on the planet to their organisation; she expects them to come for her and everyone she loves, and intends to come for them first.SA:WaT:Ch 3
adopted-into-house-kholinWas adopted into House Kholin for Dalinar and Navani's succession-planning reasons after the wedding to Adolin, strengthening her place in the succession line should Adolin continue to refuse the throne. What she remembers of that day is that a set of parents had, for the first time, wanted her.SA:WaT:Ch 5
art-draws-on-fortuneKelek tells her that the faces of strangers and of Ba-Ado-Mishram showing up unbidden in her sketchbook are her drawing on Fortune — pulling forth a possible self or glimpsing the Spiritual Realm in her art. He attributes the freedom of this to her having two spren and an imbricated Nahel bond, and points her at Wit (whom he names by his older alias Midius) as the real authority on the matter.SA:WaT:Ch 5
illusions-given-substancePinned to the floor of the bead ocean by Abidi the Monarch, Shallan manifests her Lightweaving with weight: a tall Radiant figure of Stormlight behind her captor that wields a Shardblade real enough to draw blood. The breakthrough takes the framing Kelek had given her — that light, energy, matter, and Investiture are the same essence — and operationalises it.SA:WaT:Ch 9
receives-fourth-ideal-armorOn stepping back into the Physical Realm inside the Azimir Oathgate dome, Shallan manifests her Radiant armor for the first time: a red, glyph-emblazoned suit formed by creationspren that have been quietly attaching themselves to her satchel for the whole Shadesmar journey. The armor speaks her name in eager overlapping voices, has no prior templates to work from, and learns by mental image — coached to free her hair and improvise a metal side-holster for her satchel once its strap snaps.SA:WaT:Ch 13
fourth-ideal-armor-cannot-move-on-othersShallan's Fourth Ideal armor does not, like Kaladin's windspren plate, move on its own when sent to protect a non-Radiant. She forms it around Red — sleeker than Adolin's Shardplate, in shades of metallic red like ribbons of wet paint — and he stands locked in place, unable to bend a finger. The creationspren that make up the armor are embarrassed at the failure; she reassures them. They are new to this.SA:WaT:Ch 16
impersonates-iyatils-masked-guardTo infiltrate Mraize's Narak meeting past Ghostblood black sand, Shallan forms her Lightweaver Plate not around herself but around the masked outdoor guard to silence and immobilize her, has Gaz choke the woman unconscious without killing her, strips and dresses in her leathers and red-orange mask, and stands the next watch herself — admitting two Thaylen Ghostbloods under the eye of her own sand jar.SA:WaT:Ch 23
elevated-oath-improves-stormlight-efficiencyHaving spoken a new ideal, Shallan is now appreciably less porous to Stormlight — she heals faster, holds Light longer, and uses less per effect — an across-the-board efficiency gain she did not have at the start of the book.SA:WaT:Ch 28
two-spren-pull-her-partway-into-shadesmarReflecting on her ability to peek into Shadesmar without an Oathgate — which her order is not supposed to allow — Shallan now realises that her *two* spren-bonds explain it: instead of her pulling Pattern and Testament across into the Physical Realm, the two of them pull *her* partway across to theirs.SA:WaT:Ch 29
first-lightweave-without-a-drawing-firstFor the first time, Shallan Lightweaves a fully realised disguise without first making a drawing of it. She lays the face and clothing of a refugee over her singer body in the Spiritual Realm on instinct alone; Radiant notes it as a milestone she has been moving toward for some time.SA:WaT:Ch 49
formless-is-her-giving-up-not-an-alternate-personaSpeaking with Pattern between visions, Shallan frames Formless for the first time *not* as another coping persona like Veil or Radiant, but as a representation of her giving up — what she would become if she finally accepted Mraize's vision of her.SA:WaT:Ch 54
can-watch-her-personas-act-without-blacking-outAfter the chaos of the vision, Veil tells Shallan that she has grown enough to *watch* Radiant take over without losing herself or blacking out. She holds for a minute, hears the cry of a child in the back of her mind, then turns away and breathes — the persona Formless no longer has the same power over her that it had during the journey to Lasting Integrity.SA:WaT:Ch 65
lightweavings-act-independentlyShallan's Lightweavings no longer freeze when she stops directing them. From outside a Spiritual Realm vision she projects a Lightweaving of herself into the scene and it carries on a conversation with Ba-Ado-Mishram on its own — clasping its hands, shifting weight like a living person — while Pattern watches it from the scaffold beside Testament.SA:WaT:Ch 76
killed-her-mother-the-heraldAt eleven years old, Shallan killed her own mother — Chana of the Heralds — by ramming a summoned Shardblade up through her chest after Chana had been ordered by Nale to execute her. The death sent the Herald back to Braize to break and Return, an act Shallan, on remembering it, names as the moment that initiated the Return and unleashed the Voidbringers upon Roshar.SA:WaT:Ch 93
wedding-oath-to-adolinStanding under the arch at Urithiru before the ex-ardent Kadash, Shallan swore her marriage oath to Adolin — *my life is yours, my strength, always, is yours; when you are weak, let me be strong; when I am weak, lend me your strength; when we are both weak, we will not be alone, for our journeys have together become one* — improvising on the wording she had written for the day.SA:WaT:Ch 97
forgives-her-mother-in-the-spiritual-realmCornered in a sunlit room high in Urithiru during the Spiritual Realm visions, Shallan tells her mother that what was done to her was monstrous and unforgivable on its own merits — and forgives her anyway, freely, because the safe woman she has become can afford to. The act closes the wound she has carried since the day she killed her, even as she insists the broken Herald must still be watched and kept from harming anyone else.SA:WaT:Ch 99
shallan-personas-were-already-budding-before-veil-and-radiantOdium's assault forces Shallan to look again at the night she killed Tyn — and to recognise that the personas she later named Veil and Radiant had begun budding long before she shaped them, alongside an unacknowledged third *child* persona. The split she has lived with was not an emergency invention; her mind had quietly been making places to put what she could not bear to do herself.SA:WaT:Ch 121
uses-her-personas-rather-than-fearing-themStanding among Formless's lies in the Spiritual Realm, Shallan names the truth she has been working toward since Veil's farewell — her personas are not a sickness she hides, they are how she copes; they help and protect her. The visions of killing those she loves stop hurting once she stops being afraid of being herself.SA:WaT:Ch 129
realises-iyatil-is-watching-dalinar-and-formless-is-the-threatPressed by Mraize on whether she can fight him alone, Shallan asks where Iyatil is — and the answer (*watching Dalinar*) clicks the rest of the pattern into place. The job was always to keep her distracted, and the real anti-Light blade ought to fall on her own Formless; she whips her stolen knife around and stabs it directly at Formless's face.SA:WaT:Ch 131
kills-iyatil-with-anti-stormlightShallan beats Formless in a knife-fight on the cold stone of the prison cavern, drives an anti-Stormlight dagger through the eye of the figure she has unmasked — Iyatil herself, wearing a Lightweaving this whole journey — and watches the Ghostblood *babsk*'s instinct to heal burn out the inside of her head. The dead woman has Shin features and looks middle-aged without the mask.SA:WaT:Ch 134
kills-mraize-with-anti-stormlightShallan tricks Mraize into mistaking his drained dagger for the live anti-Stormlight one — *I've always been great with a calculated lie* — and drives the burning blade into his belly. *I have a choice too. I make it now. The choice to no longer let myself be abused.* When the dying Ghostblood reflexively breathes in Stormlight to heal, the Light inside him ignites like a sunrise.SA:WaT:Ch 137
reintegrates-with-radiant-after-killing-mraizeBeside Mraize's corpse, Shallan tells Radiant — the part of her that killed her mother, killed her father, and carried her violence after Tyn — that she did this one on her own and no longer needs her. Radiant squeezes her shoulder and the two become one. Shallan is not healed; she will always have to fight her mind's inclinations. She is, however, better than she was.SA:WaT:Ch 138
trapped-in-shadesmar-pregnantWith Cultivation's Perpendicularity gone and no other route home, Shallan is stranded in Shadesmar — pregnant, fearful she may never see Adolin again — and begins building a base of operations at Haka'alaku from which to look for a way back.SA:WaT:Ch 147
brokers-truce-with-thaidakarThrough Felt's seon Ala, Shallan negotiates a truce with Thaidakar — accepted because, with Stormlight gone and Ba-Ado-Mishram freed, Roshar has become too small for the Ghostbloods to bother with — and takes Ala herself as reparations for Iyatil and Mraize, on the condition the seon report back to her former master.SA:WaT:Ch 147

Events

SA:WoK:Ch 29 POV; spanreed call from her Conclave chamber; later sketches Taravangian for Jasnah and lets her hand wander
SA:WoK:Ch 33 Descends the inverted-pyramid Palanaeum to fetch books for Jasnah; works the cymatics demonstration with Kabsal; is caught with him by Jasnah
SA:WoK:Ch 36 POV; reads Gavilar's parshendi-discovery account; finally makes the Soulcaster swap during the hair-brushing
SA:WoK:Ch 39 POV; tries every plausible activation method on the stolen Soulcaster in private; eats Kabsal's bread and jam and thinks
SA:WoK:Ch 42 Reads Tozbek's letter; sits down across from Jasnah in the alcove
SA:WoK:Ch 45 POV; accidentally Soulcasts pitcher to blood; glimpses Shadesmar; cuts her arm to fake the blood
SA:WoK:Ch 48 POV; in hospital after the cut; shares Kabsal's jam-and-bread, is poisoned, drops the Soulcaster as Jasnah Soulcasts
SA:WoK:Ch 50 Wakes in a private guarded hospital room; learns Kabsal is dead and that the bread was Backbreaker powder
SA:WoK:Ch 51 Lies in the white sheets after Jasnah leaves; weeps; loses everything she came with except her life
SA:WoK:Ch 71 Reads Jasnah's research; sees the conclusion converge
SA:WoK:Ch 72 POV; chooses scholarship and the truth-finding path of veristitalian
SA:WoK:Ch 74 POV; first encounter with the Ghostbloods' calling card
SA:WaT:Ch 30 Arrives at the kneeling Renarin and Rlain after the vision breaks, in the leather coat, white hat and *armor-like* outfit she has been wearing since the Narak raid, and pulls them to follow her: she needs help with a plot involving Dalinar, the Spiritual Realm and a prison of an ancient spren — Ba-Ado-Mishram.
SA:WaT:Ch 63 Revealed by Glys as having gone off-script while wearing Shalash; quietly whispers her own name to Renarin to confirm.
SA:WaT:Ch 64 In Shalash's body — recognised by Renarin through Glys's reading of the script; coached through her own oath.
SA:WaT:Ch 84 Brought out of her own vision by Glys; watches the end of Renarin and Rlain's exchange and is reportedly squealing in excitement when he returns — gives him a thumbs-up and a grin.
SA:WaT:Ch 87 Passes through the hollow scanning for Mraize and Iyatil, then is scattered with the others when Odium catches them.
SA:WaT:Ch 99 Leaves the wedding vision to corner her mother in an empty sunlit room and finally forgive her.
SA:WaT:Ch 137 Swaps places with Pattern under a Lightweaving of Mraize himself, then completes the trick beneath it — using a tackle as cover to switch knives — and drives the anti-Stormlight blade into Mraize's belly.
SA:WaT:Ch 140 Calls from the chamber's edge for them to stop. They glance at her, then at one another, and ignore her.
SA:WoR:Ch 37 Glides across the conference chamber in a simple blue dress — pale, freckled, deeply red-haired — and approaches Dalinar and Navani just as Adolin notices her and breaks away from Amaram.
SA:WoR:Ch 44 Arrives at the dueling grounds in green and red, presents her portfolio to Nall, and parries Adolin's accusations about why she came.
SA:WoR:Ch 52 Crosses Sadeas's warcamp in two borrowed faces — first a messenger boy, then a maid named Telesh — to slip into Amaram's locked map room and copy its contents to memory.
SA:WoR:Ch 53 Slips into the staging room after the duel, hints at something from Gavilar's biography that would require a spectacular win, and starts Adolin in on Highprince Yenev.
SA:WoR:Ch 55 Rides out with Adolin to the menagerie, delivers her notes on Sadeas's killing of Yenev and pitches the Right of Challenge, and embarrasses Adolin by embracing Wit on the carriageway.
SA:WoR:Ch 56 Watches from a Sebarial-side seat under bridgeman guard, her red hair standing out against the stone, and trades a raised fist with Adolin before the bout begins.
SA:WoR:Ch 67 Rushes onto the island with Adolin in time to see Dalinar's table speech; leaves early on Adolin's arm for Sebarial's warcamp.
SA:WoR:Ch 68 Riding (sometimes walking) with the expedition; orders the mechanical bridge stopped so she can sketch it unfolding, finds an oddly-patterned moss growing over a buried structure, and persuades Adolin to cut the rock open for her.
SA:WoR:Ch 69 Already awake when Kaladin comes to; carries a sphere, satchel, and pack, and explains the bridge's emergency latch and what little she has worked out about their predicament.
SA:WoR:Ch 70 Runs from the chasmfiend at Kaladin's side, then insists on circling back and watching it eat so she can study it.
SA:WoR:Ch 71 Maps the route plateau by plateau, then realises the Plains' shape is a cymatic pattern and that she can locate its centre.
SA:WoR:Ch 71 Trapped with Kaladin in the fissure as the chasmfiend waits outside; refuses his plan, then summons her Shardblade and presses it into his hand.
SA:WoR:Ch 72 Hides behind a boulder, sketches him and herself, and projects illusions of both to break the chasmfiend's attention long enough for Kaladin to finish it.
SA:WoR:Ch 74 Pressed against Kaladin in the carved cubby through the highstorm; pulls his slave-story out of him, then offers her own — the murder of her father, her plan to rob Jasnah of a Soulcaster — and finally falls asleep on him as the storm passes.
SA:WoR:Ch 75 Tangled and ripped from the chasms, sits with the surgeons and supplies the cover story for the chasmfiend kill.
SA:WoR:Ch 76 Rides in messenger-cut traveling dress on a placid gelding beside Adolin, her finished map of the Plains being passed around among Navani's scribes.
SA:WoR:Ch 80 Crests the crem-rounded ridge in a stolen stormcoat and confirms the silhouette of Stormseat in the rain — then argues the council of highprinces into pressing further inward.
SA:WoR:Ch 81 Stands beside Dalinar under her umbrella as the red eyes form ranks across the chasm and admits she cannot help in the fight — yet — before he sends her to find the portal when an opening comes.
SA:WoR:Ch 81 Kneels over the great map, completes the last arm of the radial pattern, and grasps from a scout's correction that the only perfectly circular plateau in her drawing is the Oathgate dais.
SA:WoR:Ch 83 Walks the deserted dais at the centre of Stormseat, names it for what it is, and asks Renarin to cut the central stone mound open.
SA:WoR:Ch 84 Reads the mosaic chamber under the dais, slots Renarin's Blade into the steel keyhole, and sends runners back to Dalinar to gather the armies on this plateau.
SA:WoR:Ch 85 Walks frantically over the floor mosaic of the ten kingdoms, asks Pattern for the shape of the puzzle, and turns to find Renarin huddled against the wall whispering that the future has come to kill them all.
SA:WoR:Ch 86 Recognises the round chamber as a giant fabrial powered by its ten gem-lamps, runs from lamp to lamp infusing them with drained Stormlight in full view of ardents who begin sketching glyphward prayers and murmuring *Lost Radiant*, and then — with Pattern in the slot — pushes the inner wall around from Natanatan to Urithiru to transport everyone.
SA:WoR:Ch 87 Stands at the tower's front gates looking up at it, asks Pattern whether she is a Radiant now — *almost; still a few Words to say* — and is now openly addressed as *Brightness Radiant* by Dalinar's scribes.
SA:WoR:Ch 88 Finds the Ghostbloods card with her real name on the corridor wall, drains the lantern, walks into the lit room, refuses to be the child who hides — and tells Mraize that *Veil* is the false identity. She is herself.
SA:WoR:Ch 89 Counts the three Radiants in the room — Windrunner, Bondsmith, Lightweaver — and at the eastern window says quietly *there are four of us, Brightlord. Only four against a storm full of destruction.* *And we will save the ones we can,* Dalinar tells her. *Life before death, Radiant.*

Relations

relatedPattern — Veil baits Pattern with a fabricated memory and he confirms it. The spren Shallan has trusted longer than any other person is lying to her. SA:RoW:Ch 36
relatedHouse Davar — Shallan is the only daughter of House Davar; the survival of the house now rests on her plan. SA:WoK:Ch 3
foreshadowsJasnah Kholin — Shallan has come to Kharbranth chasing Jasnah Kholin for six months, intent on becoming her ward. SA:WoK:Ch 3
foreshadowsSoulcaster — Shallan's secret plan is to steal Jasnah's working Soulcaster — the fabrial her family's broken one most resembles. SA:WoK:Ch 5
relatedJasnah Kholin — Writes a formal letter of appeal asking Jasnah to reconsider the wardship SA:WoK:Ch 7
relatedDandos the Oilsworn — Learned the pencil from his three-hundred-year-old instructional book SA:WoK:Ch 7
relatedJasnah Kholin — Accepted as Jasnah's ward at last; will divide her time between her own education and Jasnah's studies SA:WoK:Ch 8
relatedYalb — Yalb refuses to leave Kharbranth and ends up giving her the nerve to attempt a third petition SA:WoK:Ch 8
relatedNan Balat — Brother to her; sent her off as the only one who could pass close enough to Jasnah Kholin to steal the Soulcaster SA:WoK:I-2
foreshadowsKabsal — Will ask her to steal Jasnah's Soulcaster, per Jasnah's warning SA:WoK:Ch 33
fulfillsSoulcaster — Swap completed — Shallan now carries Jasnah's working device, Jasnah has locked away the broken Davar one SA:WoK:Ch 36
relatedJasnah Kholin — The alley killings + research assignment as Shallan's first deep moral lesson SA:WoK:Ch 36
relatedSoulcaster — Holds Jasnah's working Soulcaster and cannot operate it SA:WoK:Ch 39
foreshadowsTozbek — Pickup date set for one week — the clock for the Davar escape begins SA:WoK:Ch 42
foreshadowsShadesmar — First glimpse of the cognitive realm — the spren say she has brought them back SA:WoK:Ch 45
relatedJasnah Kholin — Soulcaster falls from Shallan's pouch as Jasnah is about to Soulcast her blood — the theft is exposed mid-rescue SA:WoK:Ch 48
relatedJasnah Kholin — Ends the wardship cold; arranges passage home; reduces her to sas nahn SA:WoK:Ch 51
relatedChana-rach — Shallan killed her mother at age eleven in the family manor; her father covered it up. SA:WoR:Ch 10
relatedPattern — Pattern is the Cryptic spren bonded to Shallan; sent because of her family and the lies that saved and drew him. SA:WoR:Ch 13
relatedVathah — Vathah warns Shallan that he and his men are dead the moment they reach the Plains — that her word means nothing — and grips her arm hard enough to bruise. SA:WoR:Ch 21
relatedKaladin — First meeting between Shallan and Kaladin: same encounter on the road, viewed in this chapter from Shallan's POV — she plays a Horneater princess, he is the unsmiling 'Kal' commanding the patrol. Neither recognizes the other. SA:WoR:Ch 28

Backreferences

summarySA:DS:Ch 12
summarySA:OB:Ch 2
summarySA:OB:Ch 4
summarySA:OB:Ch 8
summarySA:OB:Ch 9
summarySA:OB:Ch 13
summarySA:OB:Ch 15
factBrightness Radiant · description
summarySA:OB:Ch 18
summarySA:OB:Ch 21
summarySA:OB:Ch 22
summarySA:OB:Ch 25
factThe Girl Who Looked Up · description
factRe-Shephir · description
summarySA:OB:Ch 27
factShob · description
factRe-Shephir · imitates-recent-violence-and-targets-look-alikes
summarySA:OB:Ch 28
summarySA:OB:Ch 29
factGlurv · description
factHighmarshal Halad · description
factDilid · description
summarySA:OB:Ch 30
factRe-Shephir · ancient-splinter-ordered-to-sow-chaos-and-fascinated-by-violence
factRe-Shephir · had-been-imprisoned-once-by-a-lightweaver
factThe Urithiru Gemstone Pillar · description
summarySA:OB:Ch 32
factThe Unmade · only-re-shephir-was-imprisoned-the-others-are-still-loose
factRe-Shephir · shallan-suspects-she-was-once-human
summarySA:OB:Ch 36
factElsecallers · description
summarySA:OB:Ch 41
summarySA:OB:Ch 42
factNalan'Elin · description
summarySA:OB:Ch 43
summarySA:OB:Ch 47
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factThe Unmade · distorts-emotion-spren-in-kholinar
summarySA:OB:Ch 63
factKholin mausoleum · description
summarySA:OB:Ch 67
factCult of Moments · inner-circle-on-platform
factKaves · description
summarySA:OB:Ch 68
summarySA:OB:Ch 69
summarySA:OB:Ch 72
factGrund · description
factMythica · description
summarySA:OB:Ch 74
factSwiftspren · description
factAshertmarn · speaks-into-shallan-during-cult-procession
summarySA:OB:Ch 77
factHessi's Mythica · description
factHessi · description
factAshertmarn · description
summarySA:OB:Ch 78
factKishi · description
summarySA:OB:Ch 80
summarySA:OB:Ch 82
factGrips · grips-broken-up-by-militia
summarySA:OB:Ch 83
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summarySA:OB:Ch 85
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factMandras · description
summarySA:OB:Ch 101
summarySA:OB:Ch 102
summarySA:OB:Ch 108
factHighmarshal Azure · azure-bounty-is-a-shardblade-that-bleeds-black-smoke
factUnyielding Fidelity · description
summarySA:OB:Ch 110
summarySA:OB:Ch 112
summarySA:OB:Ch 115
summarySA:OB:Ch 116
factOathgate Gatekeepers · description
summarySA:OB:Ch 117
summarySA:OB:Ch 119
summarySA:OB:Ch 120
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summarySA:OB:Ch 122
summarySA:RoW:Ch 2
summarySA:RoW:Ch 4
factUlina · description
factChanaranach'Elin · description
summarySA:RoW:Ch 5
summarySA:RoW:Ch 6
summarySA:RoW:Ch 7
summarySA:RoW:Ch 8
summarySA:RoW:Ch 9
factFormless · description
factScadarial · description
summarySA:RoW:Ch 12
summarySA:RoW:Ch 13
factJushu Davar · description
factBalat Davar · description
factWikim Davar · description
factMole · description
factAshyn · description
factLasting Integrity · description
factSea of Lost Lights · description
summarySA:RoW:Ch 16
summarySA:RoW:Ch 17
factThe Roshar Projection Map · description
summarySA:RoW:Ch 19
factThe Honorspren Envoy · description
summarySA:RoW:Ch 20
factBeryl · description
factDarcira · description
factStargyle · description
factThe Unseen Court · description
factVakama · description
factThe Compact of the Three · description
summarySA:RoW:Ch 21
summarySA:RoW:Ch 22
summarySA:RoW:Ch 24
factThe Midnight Mother · description
factIalai's Journal · description
summarySA:RoW:Ch 26
factIshnah · funded-her-old-underworld-crew-from-her-stipend
factUnativi · description
summarySA:RoW:Ch 29
summarySA:RoW:Ch 30
summarySA:RoW:Ch 32
summarySA:RoW:Ch 34
factStarspren · description
summarySA:RoW:Ch 35
summarySA:RoW:Ch 36
summarySA:RoW:Ch 71
summarySA:RoW:Ch 75
factSixteen · description
summarySA:RoW:Ch 78
summarySA:RoW:Ch 82
summarySA:RoW:Ch 87
summarySA:RoW:Ch 90
summarySA:RoW:Ch 93
factBrightness Radiant · killed-ialai
factShallan's First Cryptic · description
summarySA:RoW:Ch 94
summarySA:RoW:Ch 98
factStargyle · lightweaves-from-color-memory
factTestament · description
factAla · description
summarySA:WoK:Ch 3
summarySA:WoK:Ch 5
summarySA:WoK:Ch 7
factDandos the Oilsworn · description
factNan Balat · description
factCreationspren · gather-around-art
factLogicspren · description
factMemorization · description
summarySA:WoK:Ch 8
factJasnah Kholin · veil-servant-bribe
factShallan Davar · ward-accepted-finally
factHelaran Davar · description
factNomon · description
factThe Passions · description
summarySA:WoK:I-2
factHouse Davar · broken-family
factAsha Jushu · description
factTet Wikim · description
summarySA:WoK:Ch 29
factKing Hanavanar · description
summarySA:WoK:Ch 33
factKabsal · cymatic-demonstration-of-divine-design
factCymatics · description
summarySA:WoK:Ch 36
factJasnah Kholin · kills-four-muggers-with-soulcaster
factShallan Davar · swaps-the-soulcaster
summarySA:WoK:Ch 39
summarySA:WoK:Ch 42
summarySA:WoK:Ch 45
factShadesmar · description
factCryptics · description
summarySA:WoK:Ch 48
factKabsal · ghostblood-assassin-of-jasnah
summarySA:WoK:Ch 50
summarySA:WoK:Ch 51
factSas Nahn · description
summarySA:WoK:Ch 71
summarySA:WoK:Ch 72
factShallan Davar · remains-jasnahs-ward
factVeristitalian · description
summarySA:WoK:Ch 74
factThe Three-Diamond Faction · leave-a-blood-threat-for-jasnah
summarySA:WaT:Ch 1
factTestament · still-bonded-to-shallan
summarySA:WaT:Ch 3
factSpiritual Realm · time-and-space-stretch-and-blend
factDeadeye · broken-bonds-changed-when-mishram-was-imprisoned
factShallan Davar · veil-reabsorbed-not-banished
summarySA:WaT:Ch 5
factShiosak · description
factFortune · description
summarySA:WaT:Ch 7
factKelek · teaches-light-investiture-unity
factAdolin Kholin · husband-of-shallan
summarySA:WaT:Ch 8
summarySA:WaT:Ch 9
factShallan Davar · illusions-given-substance
factAbidi the Monarch · claims-renewal-from-radiant-blood
summarySA:WaT:Ch 11
factGallant · musicspren-outline-in-shadesmar
factmusicspren · description
factthe Current · description
summarySA:WaT:Ch 12
summarySA:WaT:Ch 13
factShallan Davar · receives-fourth-ideal-armor
factUrithiru · reawakens-after-navani-bonds-the-sibling
summarySA:WaT:Ch 15
factHakindar · description
summarySA:WaT:I-1
factAla · real-spy-on-mishram-location
summarySA:WaT:Ch 16
factShallan Davar · fourth-ideal-armor-cannot-move-on-others
summarySA:WaT:Ch 17
factGaz · stops-gambling-only-by-staying-out-entirely
factIsom · description
summarySA:WaT:Ch 18
summarySA:WaT:Ch 20
summarySA:WaT:Ch 21
factJayn · description
summarySA:WaT:Ch 23
factShallan Davar · impersonates-iyatils-masked-guard
summarySA:WaT:Ch 25
factFelt · was-the-backup-ghostblood-spy-on-dalinar
factChain · description
factThaylen hand ballista · description
summarySA:WaT:Ch 26
summarySA:WaT:Ch 28
factShallan Davar · elevated-oath-improves-stormlight-efficiency
factErinor · description
summarySA:WaT:Ch 29
factShallan Davar · two-spren-pull-her-partway-into-shadesmar
summarySA:WaT:Ch 30
summarySA:WaT:Ch 31
factRenarin Kholin · arm-precedes-itself-with-spren-glow-when-pointing
factIsasik · description
summarySA:WaT:Ch 32
summarySA:WaT:Ch 40
summarySA:WaT:Ch 42
summarySA:WaT:Ch 44
summarySA:WaT:Ch 49
factShallan Davar · first-lightweave-without-a-drawing-first
summarySA:WaT:Ch 54
factShallan Davar · formless-is-her-giving-up-not-an-alternate-persona
summarySA:WaT:Ch 55
summarySA:WaT:Ch 63
summarySA:WaT:Ch 64
summarySA:WaT:Ch 65
factShallan Davar · can-watch-her-personas-act-without-blacking-out
summarySA:WaT:Ch 67
summarySA:WaT:Ch 74
factBa-Ado-Mishram · healed-singers-during-desolations
factRenarin's scaffold · description
summarySA:WaT:Ch 76
factBa-Ado-Mishram · present-mishram-recognises-shallan
factShallan Davar · lightweavings-act-independently
factRenarin Kholin · takes-rlains-hand-confronting-mishram
summarySA:WaT:Ch 79
factTestament · drew-to-shallans-self-told-story
summarySA:WaT:Ch 84
summarySA:WaT:Ch 86
factBa-Ado-Mishram · viable-rival-for-odiums-power
summarySA:WaT:Ch 87
summarySA:WaT:Ch 93
factNalan'Elin · ordered-chana-to-kill-shallan
factShallan Davar · killed-her-mother-the-herald
factDreder · description
factVeden Voidcraft Act · description
summarySA:WaT:Ch 97
factShallan Davar · wedding-oath-to-adolin
summarySA:WaT:Ch 99
factShallan Davar · forgives-her-mother-in-the-spiritual-realm
summarySA:WaT:Ch 114
summarySA:WaT:Ch 118
summarySA:WaT:Ch 119
summarySA:WaT:Ch 121
factShallan Davar · shallan-personas-were-already-budding-before-veil-and-radiant
summarySA:WaT:Ch 123
summarySA:WaT:Ch 125
factAdolin Kholin · chose-to-die-fighting-with-the-wedding-sword
summarySA:WaT:Ch 126
summarySA:WaT:Ch 129
factShallan Davar · uses-her-personas-rather-than-fearing-them
summarySA:WaT:Ch 131
factBa-Ado-Mishram · led-rlain-and-renarin-to-her-prison-hoping-for-help
factShallan Davar · realises-iyatil-is-watching-dalinar-and-formless-is-the-threat
summarySA:WaT:Ch 134
factShallan Davar · kills-iyatil-with-anti-stormlight
summarySA:WaT:Ch 135
summarySA:WaT:Ch 137
factShallan Davar · kills-mraize-with-anti-stormlight
summarySA:WaT:Ch 138
factBa-Ado-Mishram · at-the-edge-of-release-when-shallan-arrives
factShallan Davar · reintegrates-with-radiant-after-killing-mraize
factMraize's Cryptic · description
summarySA:WaT:Ch 140
factRenarin Kholin · frees-ba-ado-mishram-with-rlain
summarySA:WaT:Ch 141
summarySA:WaT:Ch 142
summarySA:WaT:Ch 143
summarySA:WaT:Ch 145
summarySA:WaT:Ch 146
summarySA:WaT:Ch 147
factShallan Davar · trapped-in-shadesmar-pregnant
factShallan Davar · brokers-truce-with-thaidakar
factOlo · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 1
factJasnah Kholin · shadesmar-research-six-years
factShallan Davar · soulcasts-without-fabrial
factShallan Davar · causal-with-adolin
factCognitive Realm · description
factSurgebinding · description
factThe Frostlands · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 3
factShallan Davar · bonded-a-cryptic
factHonorspren · description
factThe Ten Surges · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 6
factJasnah Kholin · parshmen-revolt-theory
factShallan Davar · first-illumination-color-shift
factUrithiru · path-on-shattered-plains
factPattern · description
factLightweavers · description
factIllumination · description
factWind's Pleasure · description
factExhaustionspren · description
factWords of Radiance · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 7
factJasnah Kholin · jasnah-apparently-killed
factShallan Davar · first-illusion
factShallan Davar · soulcasts-wind-s-pleasure-to-water
factCognitive Realm · minds-as-candle-flames
summarySA:WoR:Ch 10
factShallan Davar · killed-mother-at-eleven
factBrightlord Davar · covered-up-mothers-death
factThe Davar strongbox · description
factThe chasms-deep lullaby · description
factChana-rach · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 11
factShallan Davar · cannot-swim
factShallan Davar · recovers-jasnah-trunk
factShallan Davar · first-soulcast-attempt
factPattern · persuade-via-truth
summarySA:WoR:Ch 13
factJasnah Kholin · kept-shallans-portrait
factShallan Davar · resolves-to-continue-jasnahs-work
factShallan Davar · sketchpads-and-soulcaster-lost
factPattern · came-for-voidbringers
factPattern · drawn-by-lies
summarySA:WoR:Ch 14
summarySA:WoR:Ch 15
factShallan Davar · first-stormlight-glow
factPattern · voice-mimicry
summarySA:WoR:Ch 17
factShallan Davar · breathes-stormlight
factShallan Davar · stormlight-heals
factShallan Davar · has-spoken-oaths
factPattern · knights-killed-their-spren
factLightweaving · description
factThe Book of Endless Pages · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 19
factShallan Davar · mute-after-mothers-death
factBrightlord Davar · household-blamed-for-wife-and-lover
factHelaran Davar · leaves-davar-house
factDavar Manor · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 20
factShallan Davar · lightwoven-self-illusion
factShallan Davar · recruits-vathahs-band
factPattern · second-surge-transformation
factYix · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 21
factBluth · dies-defending-caravan
factBluth · description
factShallan Davar · acquires-five-slaves-and-wagon
factPattern · speaks-aloud-to-vathah
factMacob · description
factTyn · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 24
factOdium · spren-of-the-voidbringers
factPattern · reveals-three-shard-fragments
factPattern · rants-during-highstorm
factTyn · spanreed-tashikk-research
factTyn · offers-shallan-grift-mentorship
factRed · description
factSuna · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 27
factShallan Davar · sees-strongbox-light-through-painting
factShallan Davar · freezes-staring-at-walls
factNan Balat · description
factHelaran Davar · absent-and-nearly-killed-father
factAsha Jushu · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 28
factKaladin · leads-patrol-and-meets-shallan-as-horneater
factShallan Davar · trains-with-tyn-on-accents
factTyn · worried-about-southern-job
factJoyspren · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 30
factShallan Davar · commits-to-pose-as-adolins-betrothed
factShalash · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 31
factThe Veden Succession War · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 32
summarySA:WoR:Ch 34
factShallan Davar · first-summons-pattern-as-shardblade
factShallan Davar · first-conscious-illusion-of-stormlight
factShallan Davar · agrees-to-meet-ghostbloods
factPattern · impersonates-jasnah-and-summons-vathah
factVathah · bounty-on-deserters
factTyn · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 36
factShallan Davar · arrives-warcamps-as-adolins-causal
summarySA:WoR:Ch 37
summarySA:WoR:Ch 38
factShallan Davar · takes-patronage-from-sebarial
factVathah · king-sealed-pardons-for-deserters
summarySA:WoR:Ch 39
factShallan Davar · refuses-to-testify-and-says-she-does-not-remember
summarySA:WoR:Ch 40
summarySA:WoR:Ch 42
factShallan Davar · first-full-lightweaving-disguise
factShallan Davar · inherits-tyns-ghostbloods-line
factPattern · spots-quintet-cipher
summarySA:WoR:Ch 43
factShallan Davar · second-lightweaving-application
factMraize · description
factVeil · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 44
factSister Nall · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 45
factShallan Davar · refuses-first-coached-lightweaving
factHelaran Davar · gone-to-alethkar
factTet Wikim · pulled-back-by-shallans-translated-equations
factJix · description
factThe messenger in black · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 47
factShallan Davar · deduces-oathgate-entrance-on-shattered-plains
factShallan Davar · drawing-is-the-illusion-model
factShallan Davar · reabsorbs-stormlight-from-an-active-illusion
factEn · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 48
factShallan Davar · bought-jushus-life-from-mill
factShallan Davar · keeps-her-mothers-aluminium-necklace
factBrightlord Davar · no-more-weakness-doctrine
factTet Wikim · carried-blackbane-for-suicide-and-passed-it-to-shallan
factSakisa · description
factMill · description
factMinara · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 49
factDalinar Kholin · schedules-private-meeting-with-parshendi-leaders
factShallan Davar · links-chasmfiend-pupae-to-yu-nerig
factShallan Davar · tells-adolin-parshmen-may-be-voidbringers
factShallan Davar · glimpses-living-shape-inside-stormwall
factAdolin Kholin · confides-dalinars-plan-to-shallan
factYu-nerig · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 50
summarySA:WoR:Ch 52
factAmaram · is-a-stormwarden-pursuing-the-voidbringers
factAmaram · killed-helaran-davar
factHelaran Davar · killed-by-amaram-while-carrying-shardblade
factHelaran Davar · description
factPattern · opens-amaram-lock-and-speaks-in-amarams-voice
factHav · description
factTelesh · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 53
summarySA:WoR:Ch 54
factShallan Davar · delivers-amaram-maps-and-is-offered-ghostblood-membership
factThe Three-Diamond Faction · racing-thaidakar-restares-and-tukar
factLightweaving · illusions-can-be-held-unconsciously-for-hours
factJin · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 55
factShallan Davar · pitches-right-of-challenge-plan-against-sadeas
factShallan Davar · shallan-met-wit-as-a-child
summarySA:WoR:Ch 56
summarySA:WoR:Ch 57
summarySA:WoR:Ch 60
factOathgates · description
factStormseat · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 61
summarySA:WoR:Ch 63
factIyatil · claims-mraize-is-her-student
factIyatil · description
factThe Monastery Madman · names-himself-talenel
factThe Monastery Madman · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 64
factLightweaving · can-mask-stormlight-trails-from-skin
summarySA:WoR:Ch 65
factShallan Davar · organizes-balat-and-malise-flight-from-house-davar
factShallan Davar · cleans-and-splints-malise-after-the-beating
factAdolin Kholin · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 67
summarySA:WoR:Ch 68
factThe Shattered Plains · traces-of-an-old-built-structure-buried-under-crem
summarySA:WoR:Ch 69
factKaladin · survives-fall-into-a-deep-chasm-with-shallan
summarySA:WoR:Ch 70
summarySA:WoR:Ch 71
factThe Shattered Plains · arrayed-in-a-cymatic-pattern-around-a-broken-central-city
factThe Shattered Plains · description
factShallan's Shardblade · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 72
factKaladin · takes-and-wields-a-shardblade-against-a-chasmfiend
factShallan's Shardblade · shrinks-on-command-to-a-shorter-blade
factShallan's Shardblade · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 73
factMalise Gevelmar · beaten-to-death-by-brightlord-davar-as-punishment
summarySA:WoR:Ch 74
factHelaran Davar · died-fighting-amarams-army-in-alethkar
summarySA:WoR:Ch 75
factDalinar Kholin · leaves-parshmen-behind-on-shallans-warning
factShallan Davar · bargains-her-way-onto-dalinars-expedition
factCryptics · died-with-their-knights-at-the-recreance
factPattern · was-not-aware-before-bonding-shallan
summarySA:WoR:Ch 77
factShallan Davar · tells-navani-jasnah-was-a-radiant
summarySA:WoR:Ch 78
factDalinar Kholin · questions-whether-radiants-are-his-to-refound
factShallan Davar · shows-dalinar-her-lightweaving
factShallan Davar · tells-dalinar-her-lightweaving-can-heal-her
factAwespren · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 79
factDalinar Kholin · secures-rlains-guidance-to-the-parshendi
summarySA:WoR:Ch 80
factDalinar Kholin · designates-shallan-as-escape-plan
summarySA:WoR:Ch 81
factShallan Davar · locates-the-oathgate-by-circular-plateau
factStormspren · named-and-tied-to-parshendi-storm
factLyn · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 82
summarySA:WoR:Ch 83
factOathgates · dais-survived-as-circular-plateau
factThe Everstorm · pattern-says-storms-will-feed-each-other
factOathgates · keyhole-fits-a-shardblade
summarySA:WoR:Ch 85
summarySA:WoR:Ch 86
factShallan Davar · opens-the-oathgate-to-urithiru
factOathgates · the-plateau-itself-is-the-portal
factOathgates · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 87
summarySA:WoR:Ch 88
factShallan Davar · killed-her-mother-with-pattern
factBrightlord Davar · confessed-to-the-killing-shallan-did
factMraize · confronts-shallan-in-urithiru-with-her-brothers-as-a-gift
factChana-rach · description
summarySA:WoR:Ch 89
factRenarin Kholin · description
factTruthwatcher · description