Ulim
A red voidspren sent by Odium himself who travels with Venli's band across stone surfaces in the form of rolling lightning, and forms into a small humanoid shape with odd eyes and long hair rippling in an unseen wind. Names himself *the one who escaped, the spren of redemption*; says he answers to the leaders of the listeners' cause, not to her. Was the secret contact through whom Venli guided her people toward stormform and the summoning of the new storm. SA:OB:Ch 35
Known facts
- names-himself-spren-of-redemption-and-answers-only-to-the-listeners-ancestorsPressed by Venli for why she should not command him, Ulim tells her he is *the one who escaped, the spren of redemption.* His leaders, whom he does obey, know what they are doing — they have been fighting this war for eons, not the listeners' six years — and the listeners' ancestors are the ones in charge. The dead, he says, have *everything* to do with it.SA:OB:Ch 35
- reveals-ba-ado-mishram-plan-to-venliUlim explains to Venli that the singers lost the last Return because Ba-Ado-Mishram Connected herself to the entire singer species and distributed forms of power on her own, until the humans figured out that spren can be caught in gemstones; the trap left her in a cramped prison and broke every singer mind in the world. To restore them, Odium's plan requires a critical mass of stormforms among the listeners to pull the new storm across from Shadesmar.SA:RoW:Ch 73
- lost-axindweth-at-kholinarOn the night of the Kholinar treaty signing, Ulim's contact Axindweth — the agent he had been relying on to ferry Voidspren across to Roshar — was discovered by a rival operative and pulled off-planet, leaving Ulim without a way to bring his promised forms-of-power spren across.SA:RoW:Ch 77
- odiums-storm-moved-into-positionUlim is acting as Odium's agent in pushing a broken-off piece of the great storm in Shadesmar across the landscape over many months until it sits close enough to Narak for Venli to reach the stormspren it carries.SA:RoW:Ch 86
Events
- SA:OB:Ch 35 Travels with Venli's salvage party as rolling lightning on the chasm walls, takes a small humanoid form with long rippling hair to direct the search, reads Eshonai's death scene, claims her Plate and Blade for the Fused's cause, names himself *the spren of redemption*, and orders the band back up.
- SA:RoW:Ch 42 Materialises in the corridor in his small human shape to bow and announce that the Blackthorn's wife has been captured; turns away to ignore Venli when she speaks.
- SA:RoW:Ch 73 Hidden in Venli's gemheart; whispers her own majesty back at her, then in the same breath sneers at the listeners' tactics, weapons, and ancestors; admits the new storm is being staged out of Shadesmar; tells her she does not get to choose to be free, only which master to follow; explains the Ba-Ado-Mishram disaster and the need for stormforms; accepts her plan to terrify the listeners as her servant.
- SA:RoW:Ch 77 Skitters across the Kholinar palace floors as red lightning, rides on Venli's shoulder, vanishes when Axindweth's note arrives, and returns to prod Venli toward war once Nale has left.
- SA:RoW:Ch 81 Hums to Venli from inside her gemheart as she distributes the Voidspren gemstones.
- SA:RoW:Ch 86 Steps onto the windowsill of his hideout in Narak to report to Venli that Odium's storm is nearly in position, and is again made to promise his service.
Backreferences
- summarySA:OB:Ch 35
- factVenli
- factUlim
- factStormform
- factRhythm of Craving
- factRhythm of Fury
- factRhythm of Satisfaction
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- factVenli
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- factVenli
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- factTusa
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- factVenli
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