Concepts

The Voice

Known facts

tortures-spren-in-the-grottoThe Voice keeps a stone chamber in the Bondsmith monastery in which she has affixed spren of every variety to the walls with crystal spikes — windspren, flamespren, gloryspren, an angerspren, a translucent arrowhead-shape, and others — *on purpose,* she says, *so they have to learn their true master.* She means to transform them into versions of themselves that match her and *what she needs them to do.*SA:WaT:Ch 94
pushes-szeth-to-bait-the-honorbearers-with-a-larger-armyRe-entering Szeth's head after he sinks into despair on a town boardwalk, the Voice tells him the other Honorbearers hide and ignore him only because his rebellion is still small — and that he must build *a real army* big enough to be impossible to ignore. Szeth tries to shout it out of his head and instead takes its advice.SA:WaT:Ch 106
voice-promises-to-harden-szeth-and-return-in-a-decadeSpeaking only into Szeth's head as the judgement gathers around the fire, the Voice tells him plainly that it had hoped he would strike his father down and start a real revolution, and that it must therefore *do something to harden him* into a general acquainted with war. *Goodbye, Szeth. I'll see you in a decade.* Then it vanishes, and he is left to wonder, that night, whether he ever heard it at all.SA:WaT:Ch 117

SA:WaT:Ch 83 Speaks to the assembled Honorbearers from inside their minds, calling Szeth to Ayabiza for his second pilgrimage's reward.
SA:WaT:Ch 94 Speaks inside Szeth's mind throughout, leads him along the trail to the holy grotto, and walks out of the inner tunnel as a man-shaped darkness coming to be worshipped.
SA:WaT:Ch 106 Returns to Szeth's head on the boardwalk after a long absence, mocks the other Honorbearers as too weak to come at him while his rebellion is small, and pushes him to build a real army.
SA:WaT:Ch 117 Speaks privately to Szeth around the fire, then through the other Honorbearers, announcing it will return *in a decade.*

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