Tyn
A professional con woman and contract assassin who runs jobs for hidden patrons — among them the Ghostbloods, who hired her to organise the strike on Jasnah Kholin aboard the Wind's Pleasure. She mentored Shallan on the road to the Shattered Plains, not yet knowing that her young pupil was the very target's surviving ward — and died in her own tent when she finally figured it out. SA:WoR:Ch 34
A wiry Alethi-speaking woman in fine tan leather and trousers, sword at her belt, head of what is left of Macob's caravan guards after two bandit attacks in one night. Shallan cannot quite place her: a lighteyed woman who dresses and walks like a soldier. SA:WoR:Ch 21 superseded at SA:WoR:Ch 34
Known facts
- spanreed-tashikk-researchTyn keeps a spanreed paired with one of the new Tashikk information houses — researchers and message-runners for hire — and used it to look up Shallan, turning up only a small Veden house with debts, an erratic head who may or may not still be alive, and an unmet daughter.SA:WoR:Ch 24
- offers-shallan-grift-mentorshipTyn reads Shallan as a budding Vorin con artist working a grift several steps above her station and offers, in exchange for a cut of whatever scheme Shallan is bringing to the Plains, to mentor her in the art and broker her access to her warcamp contacts. Shallan accepts.SA:WoR:Ch 24
- worried-about-southern-jobTyn tells Shallan that the big job she pulled down south has gone wrong: her team never came back, the employers — the kind of people who make things change in the world — have not paid her, and she does not know whether her men ran off or simply failed. The thought of what those employers might do to her flickers in her face before she smooths it away.SA:WoR:Ch 28
- hired-by-ghostbloods-for-jasnah-hitA spanreed message from Tashikk confirms that the southern job Tyn had been worrying about was a contract from the Ghostbloods to assassinate Jasnah Kholin aboard the Wind's Pleasure — and that the target's ship is reported gone, no survivors. Tyn would have gone herself, she admits, but she cannot stand ships.SA:WoR:Ch 34
Events
- SA:WoR:Ch 21 Stands at Macob's elbow during the bargain; takes interested measure of Shallan.
- SA:WoR:Ch 24 Hosts Shallan in her well-lit tent, eats peppery men's curry without apology, and walks her through the Tashikk spanreed research she has run on House Davar before extending her hand as mentor.
- SA:WoR:Ch 28 Shares the lead wagon with Shallan on the last day of the road to the Shattered Plains; drills her on accents, hands over eye-darkening drops, and walks out with her to meet the patrol — improvising the Horneater princess cover on the spot.
- SA:WoR:Ch 30 Drives the wagon for most of the chapter and joins Shallan in the Frostlands lait at the end of the day, pressing her to disclose her plan against the Kholins.
- SA:WoR:Ch 31 Rubs firemoss on the wagon seat beside Shallan, teases her about going west of Marat with her safehand bare, and at last passes on the spanreed report from Tashikk that Shallan's homeland is dying.
- SA:WoR:Ch 34 Hosts Shallan in her tent for the spanreed briefing on the Veden succession war and the bounty on Vathah and his men; reveals her Ghostbloods Jasnah contract when the reed lets it slip, attacks Shallan when she realises who her pupil is, and dies on Pattern's Blade through the chest.
Backreferences
- summarySA:OB:Ch 30
- summarySA:OB:Ch 82
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 35
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 3
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 18
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 49
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 121
- factShallan Davar
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 138
- factShallan Davar
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 21
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 24
- factTyn
- factTyn
- factTashikk
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 28
- factShallan Davar
- factTyn
- factAngerspren
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 30
- factShallan Davar
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 31
- factKing Hanavanar
- factThe Veden Succession War
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 32
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 34
- factShallan Davar
- factShallan Davar
- factShallan Davar
- factThe Three-Diamond Faction
- factPattern
- factVathah
- factTyn
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 36
- factShallan Davar
- factPattern
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 42
- factShallan Davar
- factPattern
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 43
- factVeil
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 54
- factShallan Davar