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* OddlySmallOrganization: Though Bondmsiths can take squires, and many of their assisstants will take the oaths despite not receiving any powers from doing so and will be considered members of the Order, there can only be three "true" Bondsmiths at any one time becuase only there are only three spren that can grant Bondsmith powers: the Stormfather, the Nightwatcher, or the Sibling.

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: He's actual royalty, and kicked ass in ninety-nine Desolations.
* SealedGoodInACan: There was an attempt to imprison his soul in a knife, but due to [[spoiler: his (and all the Heralds) nature as a [[OurGhostsAreDifferent Cognitve Shadow]]]], his soul simply fades away into the Beyond.

* YouDidEverythingYouCould: [[spoiler:Being able to internalize this turns out to be their Fourth Ideal.]]

'''Spren type:''' The Stormfather, The Nightwatcher, The Sibling.\\

* TheApprentice: Bondsmith "squires" are not squires in the way of normal Radiants; they do not have powers and never will. Many of them swear the oaths regardless, which is sometimes referred to as the purest way of being Radiant, making the oath with no expectation of a reward.

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Like the Windrunners, one of their powers is Adhesion, which lets them stick things together. It turns out that Adhesion does more than stick things together, as Dalinar discovers that when combined with Tension it can completely repair an inanimate object as if it had never been damaged, so long as the spren of the original object still exists. Furthermore, Adhesion goes beyond just binding together physical objects, as a Bondsmith can temporarily bind together the Physical, Cognitive, and Spiritual realms, allowing people in Shadesmar to cross over to the Physical world and flood the surrounding area with an unlimited amount of Stormlight. They can also use it to manifest unique or powerful manifestations of other Knights' abilities, such as when Dalinar is looking at a map and Shallan turns it into a huge, magnificent, 3D representation.
* OddlySmallOrganization: There can only be three Radiant Bondsmiths in existence at any one time, since they must be bonded to beings like the Stormfather, the Nightwatcher, or the Sibling.

* SemanticSuperpower: Bondsmiths have the ability to manipulate Connection. Thing is, Connection applies to [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower a LOT]]: the Connection between people, the Connection between objects, the Connection between a person and the land, the Connection between a person and an object, the Connection between Radiants and their spren, the Connection between person and Shard... If you can think of any link between two things, there's probably a Connection there to manipulate.
* SpecificallyNumberedGroup: Whereas the nine other Orders have no membership limit, the Bondsmiths have at most three Knights. This is because [[spoiler:the other Knights gain their powers by [[BondCreatures bonding]] a specific type of [[OurSpiritsAreDifferent spren]], but each Bondsmith is bonded to a unique, powerful Spren: either the Stormfather, the Nightwatcher, or the Sibling.]]

'''Spren type:''' Unknown, possibly godspren\\

[[folder: Syl]]

[[folder: The Sibling]]

[[folder: Design]]

[[folder: Testament]]

[[folder:The Order of Releasers]]

* BloodKnight: Even in her limited state, Adolin can feel that she ''wants'' to fight a Thunderclast. Her blade was frozen in a form for destroying them.

* WrongContextMagic: She has an empathic connection to Adolin which has grown over time, which is not a Nahel bond or a traditional Shardblade bond. [[spoiler:The bond has slowly revived her despite him not being the one who killed her, something that the other spren thought was impossible.]]

[[folder:Heralds]]

* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: Downplayed. Thousands of years of being tortured in a place which is for all extents and purposes [[FireAndBrimstoneHell Hell]] has shattered the Heralds' sanity, but only [[KnightTemplar Nale]] and [[GodEmperor Ishar]] have betrayed the [[CrystalDragonJesus Almighty]] so far.

* FallenHero: After saving the world a hundred times, they finally gave up, breaking their oaths and abandoning the world to its fate. Even through the chaos of the Hierocracy and Alethkar's devolution into a nation of {{Blood Knight}}s, they never reappeared to set the world back on track.

* TheOathbreaker: Everyone except Talenel, since he was dead at the time of the breaking. However, the Oathpact may not be as dissolved as the Heralds would have liked to think when they tried to abandon it, as Dalinar learns when [[spoiler:he looks at its Connections and sees that, while most of them are fainter than one much stronger (evidently that of Talenel), they are not actually ''broken'' with the exception of Jezrien, who is seemingly permanently dead]].

* OutOfContinues: Moash kills Jezrien, apparently permanently, with an unusual knife, and the Fused plan to have him do the same to the other Heralds to break the Oathpact once and for all. [[spoiler:The knife is similar to what is used to drain Stormlight from Radiants, only because of the nature of the Heralds and the Oathpact, when they die to these knives, their souls are released back into the Spiritual Realm, allowing them to die permanently.]]

* SanitySlippage: Implied in ''The Way of Kings'' and ''Words of Radiance'' that while the Heralds are still apparently alive and on Roshar (minus Talenel), they have all gone insane to varying degrees. Nale has taken his obsession with law to the logical extreme, Jezrien spends his time as a drooling idiot and possibly a drunkard, Kalak has become whiny and scared towards paranoid levels, and Shalash is running around destroying sculptures and paintings of herself. And they're getting worse. Zahel mentions that [[spoiler:this can become an issue with ''any'' Cognitive Shadow who has spent too long alive. The Investiture that keeps them functional and their nature as living ideas means that their perceptions of reality get skewed, and he theorizes that this is why [[Literature/{{Warbreaker}} the Returned]] tend to have their memories wiped when they are brought back and why they have relatively short lifespans, in order to prevent this sort of instability from developing.]]
** More specifically, each of the nine Heralds that abandoned the Oathpact has gone insane in a way that twists their original ideals upon themselves, which, [[WordOfGod according to the author]], has a lot to do with their nature as Cognitive Shadows going against their purpose. Of the ones seen so far in the story:
*** Jezrian, the Protective Leader, became a shiftless drunkard.
*** Nale, the Confident Justice, became a traitor working against mankind.
*** Shalash, the Honest Creative, became a shifty art defacer.
*** Kalak, the Resolute Builder, became a paranoiac intent on fleeing.
*** Ishar, the Pious Guide, became a mad god-king.

* KilledOffForReal: Moash shanks him with a special knife at the end of ''Oathbringer'' which is said to kill him instead of sending him back to Damnation. While the knife was designed to imprison his soul instead of outright killing him, removing his soul from his body killed him, since Honor is dead and the entity that is Jezrien is now a Cognitive Shadow.

* SealedGoodInACan: Attempted, but due to [[spoiler: his (and all the Heralds) nature as a [[OurGhostsAreDifferent Cognitve Shadow]], his soul simply fades away into the Beyond.]]
* ThisCannotBe: Yells [[spoiler: "What is this death? What is this death?" when he realizes Moash's knife has permanently killed him.]]

* [[Characters/TheStormlightArchiveMainCharacters Main Characters]] [[note]] Kaladin, Shallan, Dalinar, Eshonai, Szeth [[/note]]
* [[Characters/TheStormlightArchiveUrithiru Urithiru]] [[note]] Bridge Four, the Unseen Court, other Radiants [[/note]]
* [[Characters/TheStormlightArchiveAlethkar Alethkar]] [[note]] The Kholin Family (Adolin, Renarin, Dalinar's Wife Evi, Jasnah, Elhokar, Gavilar, Navani, and Aesudan), the Alethi Highprinces (Sadaes, Roioin, Thanadal, Turinad Sebarial, Aladar, Hatham, Vamah, Bethab, and Ruthar), Others From Alethkar (Laral, Tien, Lirin, Hesina, Roshone, Gaz, Meridas Amaram, Cenn, Niter, Danlan, and Azure), Bridge Four (Teft, Rock, Lopen, Shen, Sigzil, Moash, Skar, Drehy, and Lyn) [[/note]]

* [[Characters/TheStormlightArchiveTheFused The Fused]][[note]]Leshwi, the Pursuer, Raboniel, El[[/note]]

* [[Characters/TheStormlightArchiveOther Other]] [[note]] Frostlands (Taravangian, Stick, and Vathah), Ghostbloods (Thaidakar, Kabsal, Mraize, Iyatil, and Lin Davar), Historical Characters (Nohadon/Bajerden and Sadees "The Sunmaker"), and Other Characters (Demoux, Grump, Blunt, Zahel, Rysn and Vstim, Axies, Lift, Nan Helaran Davar, Arclo, and Venli) [[/note]]

!!Other Beings of Magic

[[folder:Sword-Nimi]]
!!Sword-Nimi

->''"Hello! Would you like to destroy some evil today? "''\\\

A strange, talking, black Shardblade that Nale gave to Szeth.
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See Nightblood under ''Characters/{{Warbreaker}}''.


[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ulim]]
!!Ulim

->''"You don't get to choose to be free, Venli. Just which master to follow. "''\\\

A Voidspren given to Venli by a mysterious human woman. He tells her of a new kind of storm that will grant her people forms of power...
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* TheCorrupter: Played on Venli's pride to convince her to take increasingly immoral steps to summoning the Return.
* DemonicPossession: Takes up residence in Venli's gemheart, making it all the more easy to manipulate her into summoning the Everstorm.
* {{Jerkass}}: He may flatter Venli with promises of power and greatness, but it doesn't take much for him to start demeaning her and the rest of the listeners.
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!!Unmade

[[folder:Unmade as a whole]]

->''"The Unmade are a deviation, a flair, a conundrum that may not be worth your time. You cannot help but think of them. They are fascinating. Many are mindless. Like the spren of human emotions, only much more nasty. I do believe a few can think, however."''
-->-- '''From the Diagram, Book of the 2nd Desk Drawer: paragraph 14'''\\\

The most powerful of Odium's Voidspren, set upon the world to cause chaos and destruction. There are nine of them in all, represented by Odium's Champion having nine shadows.

* BookBurning: One of their jobs appeared to be to destroy information; Yelig-nar broke into Nohadon's chancery and slaughtered his wordsmen, while Re-Shephir was found in a destroyed library. This is implied to be part of the reason why the modern world knows so little about the Heraldic Epochs.
* EldritchAbomination: They are near-mindless masses of hate driven to cause as much chaos as possible, have horrific forms, and often cause dramatic effects on their surroundings merely by being awake.
* ItCanThink: They are all generally assumed to be mindless, but it soon becomes clear that it's more complicated than that. Sja-anat and Ba-Ado-Mishram are both intelligent, and Yelig-nar is implied to be the same. Ashertmarn is supposedly mindless but whispers to people by name. Nergaoul and Re-Shephir both have an animalistic cunning and curiosity, but nothing more.
* MeaningfulName: Befitting their natures as demonic entities/eldritch abominations, their names tend toward Semitic demons/gods (Moelach/Moloch) or Lovecraftian horrors (Yelig-nar/Yog Sothoth) or both (Nergaoul/Nergal/Shub-Niggurath).

[[folder:Yelig-nar]]
!!Yelig-nar, Blightwind

->''"Yelig-nar, called Blightwind, was one that could speak like a man, though often his voice was accompanied by the wails of those he consumed."''
-->-- '''Traxil, line 33'''\\\

The first confirmed Unmade, he appears as a man-shaped cloud of dark air. He can bond with a person and turn them into a full Surgebinder.

* AllYourPowersCombined: He has access to all nine of Odium's surges.
* BondCreature: He is one of the few Voidspren capable of bonding with humans. This requires them to swallow a gemstone, which simulates a parshman gemheart. He bonds first with Aesudan, then with Amaram, and the process makes crystals sprout from their flesh like armor.
* BookBurning: The first Unmade known to destroy books and kill scribes as part of his efforts to cause chaos.
* NatureSpirit: His name and description imply an affiliation with the Essence of Air.
* TorsoWithAView: Yelig-nar can rapidly consume its hosts, leaving their chest a hollow cavity [[GemTissue full of amethyst.]]

[[folder:Sja-anat]]
!!Sja-anat, the Taker of Secrets

->''"Radiant. My name is Sja-anat. And I am not your enemy."''\\\

An Unmade mentioned in one of Dalinar's visions, later appears in ''Literature/{{Oathbringer}}''. She can transform regular spren into voidspren.
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* TheCorruption:
** Known for touching spren and making them "act strangely." They look like alien versions of themselves, like painspren that are green hands instead of orange and have sharp claws, but they don't have any other obvious effects on the Physical Realm. She can also corrupt spren in fabrials, including Oathgates.
** She's not ''supposed'' to have the ability to corrupt true spren like honorspren or the ones that control Oathgates, but she somehow managed to corrupt a Truthwatcher spren, which Renarin bonded. [[spoiler: It only works if the spren ''volunteer''.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: The jury is still out on Sja-anat herself, but her corrupted spren don't seem to act any differently than normal spren. Renarin even managed to bond a corrupted Truthwatcher spren and gain mostly-normal Radiant abilities.
* EnigmaticMinion: She is noted as being one of the most intelligent and individualistic of the Unmade, and her motives for manifesting in Kholinar and making overtures to Shallan are completely unknown.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: She has the ability to take the form of a human woman with black hair and archaic clothing, though the illusion quickly dissolves into a shadow monster with white eyes.
* AGodAmI: She gets a viewpoint chapter in Rhythm of War where she casually refers to herself as a god.
* GodzillaThreshold: The old Radiants recommended fleeing the city if you saw so much as a single corrupted spren. In modern times, nothing she does seems to warrant such a response. Granted, when Shallan, Kaladin and the others catch a glimpse of her in Shadesmar, she is a massive monster, thus fitting the original definition of a GodzillaThreshold. One of her claws is described as being the size of a small mountain.
* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: [[spoiler: [[TheStarscream Her relations with Odium]] take this form. He knows she is betraying him, she knows he knows it, but as long as he can't ''prove'' anything, she won't be punished.]]
* InsistentTerminology: She ''hates'' that her transforming of spren is called "corruption" by the humans. To her, the change she induces is "enlightenment".
* MirrorMonster: She often appears in mirrors, and this seems to be her primary way of communicating. ''Rhythm of War'' states that she can only be fully seen in either the Physical or Cognitive realms through reflective surfaces since she exists in both planes of reality simultaneously.
* MotherOfAThousandYoung: As the "Creator and the Corrupter," she can create twisted children enslaved to her will.
* NotSoHarmless: Implicitly. So far as we know she makes spren look weird and can break fabrials, but otherwise seems pretty harmless. Especially for an Unmade. But there was presumably a ''reason'' the old Heralds would evacuate whole cities rather than face her.
* TokenGoodTeammate: She claims to be trying to help the Radiants, but she did corrupt the Oathgate. However, she did it on direct orders from Odium and she did try to convince Shallan not to use the portal. Regardless, none of her corrupted spren ever harm humans, and Renarin's corrupted spren, while a bit weird, is not evil.
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[[folder:Nergaoul]]
!!Nergaoul

->''"Nergaoul was known for driving forces into a battle rage, lending them great ferocity. Curiously, he did this to ''both'' sides of a conflict, Voidbringer and human. This seems common of the less self-aware spren."''
-->-- '''From Hessi's Mythica, page 121'''\\\

The Unmade that produces the Thrill, the supernatural thirst for combat and conquest that has shaped Alethi culture for centuries.
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* BloodKnight: The ultimate blood knight, a pure expression of war and bloodlust.
* TheCorruption: On an individual level, of course. Nergaoul makes war and violence literally addictive with an area of effect that can cover a whole nation. But it also applies to cultures over the long term, since the effects of the Thrill over centuries can make a society very warped. Most of the more horrible parts of Alethi culture can be blamed on Nergaoul.
* FantasticDrug: The Thrill is like this, with the side note that you don't even have the option to refuse it. It starts out as just a desire for combat and worthy contest, but over time it devolves into a thirst for one-sided slaughter.
* {{Irony}}: The Thrill was intended by Odium to drive armies to fight and to craft the ultimate champion to serve him. The same Thrill in turn made Dalinar into the unstoppable conqueror and {{Determinator}} that would let him resist Odium's attempt to corrupt him, and ultimately let Dalinar imprison Nergaoul.
* MeaningfulName: "Nergaoul" sounds similar to "Nergal", a Babylonian war god. Fitting that he would cause wars just by being awake.
* MoreThanMindControl: Beyond even the corruption above. If someone feels sufficient hate, Nergaoul can seize control completely and force them to attack. It does this during the civil war in Jah Keved to cause the various highprinces' armies to butcher one another well past the point where they would have stopped and fled, and to devastate the capital city of Vedenar, so that Taravangian is the only surviving heir and can take over the kingdom. It also does this to [[CavalryBetrayal Sadeas's army during the final battle in ''Oathbringer'', exploiting their resentment of their lord's murder. The effect on the defenses is devastating.]]
* NonMaliciousMonster: Oddly enough, he doesn't hate. He just ''loves'' fighting, and wants everyone else to love it too. Even when people drive him off with other emotions, like friendship or love, he's not angry, just confused and kind of sad.
* SealedEvilInACan: Dalinar seals him away in a perfect gemstone at the end of the Battle of Thaylen City. The gemstone is then placed in an [[AntiMagic aluminum]] box and dropped into the middle of the ocean for good measure.
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[[folder:Moelach]]
!!Moelach

->''"There is one you will watch. Though all of them have some relevance to precognition, Moelach is one of the most powerful in this regard. His touch seeps into a soul as it breaks apart from the body, creating manifestations powered by the spark of death itself. But no, this is a distraction. Deviation. Kingship. We must discuss the nature of kingship."''
-->-- '''Diagram Book of the 2nd Desk Drawer: Paragraph 15'''\\\

The Unmade behind the Death Rattles, the prophetic visions seen by the dying. In ''Words of Radiance'', he begins moving west for an unknown reason, and Taravangian is worried he might decide to sleep again.
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* TheCorruption: Indirectly, through temptation. Nothing forces you to kill people or otherwise exploit the visions it grants. But it's very useful and the situation is desperate... It leads Taravangian to begin euthanizing hundreds of patients at his hospital in a desperate effort to gain information on the coming Desolation.
* MeaningfulName: "Moelach" sounds like "Moloch", who was a demon that people sacrificed children to--and his Death Rattles encourage people to kill anyone weak in an attempt to receive more knowledge of the future.
* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: It's unknown why some people are affected by his power when they die and some are not. Either way, over the past few years many people have heard the dying whisper strange things.
* VaguenessIsComing: His Death Rattles cause the dying to see the future, though they often sound like utter nonsense since they are taken out of context.
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[[folder:Dai-gonarthis]]
!!Dai-gonarthis, the Black Fisher

->''"Let me no longer hurt! Let me no longer weep! Dai-gonarthis! The Black Fisher holds my sorrow and consumes it!"''
-->-- '''Death Rattle'''\\\

An Unmade of unknown power and purpose, mentioned only in a Death Rattle.
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* AmbiguousSituation: In-universe, it's noted that it's not completely clear if Dai-gonarthis is an Unmade or not. Only the eight others are confirmed. However, the Death Rattle that speaks of him fits the pattern of the others.
* DespairEventHorizon: Apparently exists to avert this, maliciously. It appears to those in despair offering to take away their pain. As we have seen when Odium does the same, this is actually a very bad thing.
* EmotionEater: Implied by the Death Rattle describing it, and fitting with Odium's pattern of gaining converts by consuming and manipulating their emotions.
* MeaningfulName: "Dai-gonarthis" is similar to "Dagon," a god of fish and the sea.
* NatureSpirit: His title implies an association with water and the ocean, which would be the Essence of Blood.
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[[folder:Re-Shephir]]
!!Re-Shephir, the Midnight Mother

->''"Re-Shephir, the Midnight Mother, giving birth to abominations with her essence so dark, so terrible, so consuming. She is here! She watches me die!"''
-->-- '''Death vision'''\\\

The Unmade who created the Midnight Essence that Dalinar saw in one of his visions. Connected to the Essense of Smoke. She can create creatures out of it and mimic human appearances to some extent.
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* ArchEnemy: She is terrified of Lightweavers because one bound her away centuries ago. She is also implied to be some sort of corruption of the Surge of Illumination, which is why Shallan and Renarin could sense her presence (as they both have Lightweaving) while Dalinar couldn't.
* LivingGasbag: Re-Shephir, and her creations, are essentially smoke wrapped up in a preternaturally tough balloon capable of sprouting bone [[SpikesOfDoom teeth and spines.]]
* BookBurning: She is discovered in Urithiru in an ancient destroyed library, implying that she is part of the reason that Shallan couldn't find any records in the city.
* CopycatKiller: She sends her puppets to mimic murders and other acts of violence in an effort to both understand humanity and fulfill her charge to sow chaos.
* CreativeSterility: Despite her interest in humans, she can't create them on her own, and has to build copies based on what she sees.
-->'''[[Literature/{{Oathbringer}} Shallan]]:''' I... know you. I know what you're doing. You try to imitate us. But you fail. You're a spren. You don't ''quite'' understand. [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu Your imitation is pathetic.]] [[PretenderDiss Here. Let me show you how it's done.]]
* EvilCounterpart: To the Lightweavers, who also craft illusions out of images they draw and remember. Unlike Lightweavers, whose illusions have no substance, her creations have a physical presence, but unlike Lightweavers, she cannot create creatures based on "lies."
-->This thing was ancient. Created long ago as a splinter of the soul of something even more terrible, Re-Shephir had been ordered to sow chaos, spawning horrors to confuse and destroy men. Over time, slowly, she'd become increasingly intrigued by the things she murdered.\\
Her creations had come to imitate what she saw in the world, but lacking love or affection. Like stones come alive, content to be killed or to kill with no attachment or enjoyment. No emotions beyond an overpowering curiosity, and that ephemeral attraction to violence.\\
'''Shallan:''' (''thinking'') Almighty above... it's like a creationspren. Only so, so wrong.
* MotherOfAThousandYoung: She creates shadow-puppets out of smoke that are solid enough to fight and kill.
* NatureSpirit: She is associated with the Essence of Smoke.
* TragicMonster: Shallan realizes that she just wants to understand humanity, but is hampered by Odium's will forcing her to cause chaos and destruction.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: She's utterly terrified of Lightweavers due to one of them turning her into a SealedEvilInACan before.
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[[folder:Ashertmarn]]
!!Ashertmarn, the Heart of the Revel

->''"Give it all to me. Give me your passion, your hunger, your longing, your loss. Surrender it. You are what you feel."''\\\

An Unmade that causes people to indulge in excess in all things, until they don't care about anything at all.
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* BodyHorror: He takes the form of a massive, beating black heart. Shallan notes that it's not a human heart, and theorizes that it's Parshendi.
* {{Cult}}: He inspires this, forming cults dedicated to revelry [[WhileRomeBurns regardless of the circumstances.]]
* EmotionBomb: Those who have fallen the deepest under its influence simply crawl around it in circles, lost in overpowering emotions.
* TheHedonist: Is this in itself, and encourages this in those under its influence. It ultimately renders them comatose as the emotions overwhelm them completely.
* ItCanThink: He's supposedly mindless, but he addresses Shallan by name and sets a trap by faking a retreat.
* WhileRomeBurns: All of the above is probably one of the worst things that could happen in a city under siege.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ba-Ado-Mishram]]
!!Ba-Ado-Mishram

->''"Ba-Ado-Mishram has somehow Connected with the parsh people, as Odium once did. She provides Voidlight and facilitates forms of power. Our strike team is going to imprison her."''
-->-- '''From drawer 30-20, fourth emerald'''\\\

The Unmade who provided the parshmen with their powers after the Last Desolation. Binding her is what turned them into slaves.
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* AGodAmI: With Odium sealed away, she tried to take his place as the god of the singers. This was the cause of the False Desolation.
* InadequateInheritor: Her trying to fill Odium's shoes didn't turn out so well. While Odium never won, at least ''he'' never [[EpicFail caused the entire singer species to be lobotomised.]]
* TheLeader: She was apparently a "highprincess among the Unmade," and a commander of their forces.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** When she was bound, it crippled the Identity and Connection of the parsh connected to her, rendering them nearly mindless. This in turn led to their enslavement, [[DisasterDominoes and that enslavement has made peace with the restored parsh essentially impossible.]]
** In ''Rhythm'', something about this changed ''the entire world''. [[spoiler:It altered the Pure Tones of Roshar, which is what damaged the parsh but also the Sibling]].
* SealedEvilInACan: Sealing her is what led to the enslavement of the parshmen, and ended the False Desolation.
* SuperEmpowering: She was the one responsible for giving the parshmen their forms and powers. Sealing her away apparently was much more violent than expected, and ripped ''all'' the forms from the parshmen, instead of just their forms of power.
* SympathyForTheDevil: No less a person than [[spoiler:Kalak, a Herald who fought her for thousands of years,]] begged the new Radiants to find and free her, thinking her imprisonment was too cruel a fate even for an Unmade.
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[[folder:Chemoarish]]
!!Chemoarish, the Dustmother

->''"Chemoarish, the Dustmother, has some of the most varied lore surrounding her. The wealth of it makes sorting lies from truths extremely difficult. I do believe she is not the Nightwatcher, contrary to what some stories claim."''
-->-- '''From Hessi's ''Mythica'', page 231'''\\\

An Unmade with little known about her.
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* NatureSpirit: Her title "Dustmother" implies that she has an association with the Essence of Fire, the same one the Dustbringers use.
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!!Other Beings of Magic

[[folder:Sword-Nimi]]
!!Sword-Nimi

->''"Hello! Would you like to destroy some evil today? "''\\\

A strange, talking, black Shardblade that Nale gave to Szeth.
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See Nightblood under ''Characters/{{Warbreaker}}''.


[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ulim]]
!!Ulim

->''"You don't get to choose to be free, Venli. Just which master to follow. "''\\\

A Voidspren given to Venli by a mysterious human woman. He tells her of a new kind of storm that will grant her people forms of power...
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* TheCorrupter: Played on Venli's pride to convince her to take increasingly immoral steps to summoning the Return.
* DemonicPossession: Takes up residence in Venli's gemheart, making it all the more easy to manipulate her into summoning the Everstorm.
* {{Jerkass}}: He may flatter Venli with promises of power and greatness, but it doesn't take much for him to start demeaning her and the rest of the listeners.
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* TheCameo: She will also appear in [[spoiler:Secret Project #3, ''Yumi and the Nightmare Painter'']].

* NoBadassToHisValet: There are plenty of people in the Cosmere that fear and respect Wit for his age, magic, and cunning. Design is not one of them, and one of her favorite activities is to undercut his stories and beliefs.

* EarlyBirdCameo: It's heavily implied (and later confirmed) that she was the Cryptic Elhokar was bonding, and the face he kept seeing in mirrors as far back as ''Literature/TheWayOfKings''.

* BadassBookworm: Despite essentially being the Herald of the priesthood, he was still a Herald. When he founded the Knights Radiant, he did so by threatening to personally destroy any Surgebinders who didn't step into line. No one seems to think this would have been difficult for him. In ''Rhythm of War'', he [[spoiler: easily fends off five well-trained Windrunners, negates their powers, and very nearly steals Dalinar's bond to Odium.]]

* HangingJudge: [[spoiler:Subverted. As high judge of the honorspren, he acts irrationally and is vocal about his disappointment that the honorspren don't practice the death penalty, but he turns out to be a fair judge to the point where the honorspren have to find an excuse to force him to recuse so they can subject Adolin to a KangarooCourt.]]