History Characters / TheStormlightArchiveOther

* SirSwearsalot: When the Alethi contact her in ''Oathbringer'', she curses like a sailor, which surprises Dalinar; she was always perfectly polite whenever they spoke. Navani explains that while Fen knows how to affect a courtly demeanor, when she's more comfortable she has a very foul mouth. It's therefore a bad sign when she stops swearing, and Dalinar realizes he's offended her.

[[folder:Lift]]
!Lift
->''"You're my pet Voidbringer, and no lies are going to change that. I got you captured. No stealing souls, now. We ain't here for souls. Just a little thievery, the type what never hurt nobody."''\\\

A thirteen-year-old thief and Radiant, specifically an Edgedancer.

* TheAgeless: Her deal with the Nightwatcher; she requested to never age or change, because she believes GrowingUpSucks. [[SubvertedTrope That's not what the Nightwatcher gave her, but it's why Lift occasionally insists that she's only ten years old]].
* ArtfulDodger: She's a skilled and adventurous thief despite her tender age.
* AwesomenessAsAForce: She refers to her abilities as "becoming awesome".
* BigEater: She's always hungry and will eat pretty much any food that's left out; she even makes it a SelfImposedChallenge to break into secure locations and eat the food there, which is how she's introduced. Exacerbated by her unique ability to convert food into Stormlight, since it means all of her surgebinding is CastFromCalories. [[spoiler:While it is initially assumed she is converting the food into Stormlight, in ''Rhythm of War'' is is revealed that Lift actually converts food into Lifelight, the power of Cultivation.]]
* BizarreAlienSenses: She can apparently ''smell'' when someone has visited the Nightwatcher.
* BondCreature: Her spren, Wyndle, though she refers to him as a Voidbringer because it annoys him.
* CastFromCalories: Due to her wish to the Nightwatcher, she can convert the food she eats into stormlight. Unfortunately, it means she has to constantly eat in order to keep up her reserves.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Her mother's dead, and she apparently never knew her father.
* CovertPervert: She has some... interesting ideas about butts, let's just say that. She also admits that she's always wondered if parshmen are marbled on ''all'' their "parts".
* DashingHispanic: Less martially inclined than is common for the trope, but she's from a FantasyCounterpartCulture of Spain, and she's certainly dashing.
* FirstPeriodPanic: Apparently got her first period shortly before ''Edgedancer''. Despite Wyndle's assurances that it's perfectly natural she's still freaked out because it means she's still growing up and it also confirms that the Nightwatcher didn't answer her request they way she wanted.
* GreenThumb: One aspect of her powers of Growth.
* GrowingUpSucks: Her wish to the Nightwatcher was to never change. Getting her first period in ''Edgedancer'' causes a minor freakout, resulting in her pursuing Nale.
* HealingHands: The other aspect, known as Regrowth.
* HiddenDepths: As a Surgebinder, this is basically a requirement. Wyndle mentions that she's seen death before, and she implies that there's worse in her past.
-->'''Lift:''' You don't even care, do you?\\
'''Darkness:''' No. I don't.\\
'''Lift:''' ''[exhausted]'' You should. You should... should try it, I mean. I wanted to be like you, once. Didn't work out. Wasn't... even like being alive...
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: In her own words, she's so storming pure she [[SophisticatedAsHell practically belches rainbows.]] In truth she actually is, returning to heal a companion at the cost of being caught by someone trying to kill her. Said healing involved breathing out stormlight, so she practically has 'belching rainbows' as a power. Nightblood also likes her, and she feels nausea when she first sees him unsheathed, which signals a pure heart.
* LittleMissBadass: She's a scrappy little thing, who nearly manages to escape from Nale before being hit with an attack of conscience.
* MeaningfulName: To "lift" something is slang for stealing, especially something small and easy to palm. A perfect name for a petty thief.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: She's a lot smarter than she lets on, though she's still a child and uninterested in the technical details of magic. For instance, she insists [[BeleagueredAssistant Wyndle]] is a Voidbringer not because she actually thinks he is but rather because it annoys him.
* ParadoxPerson: Appears this way to most other people, as, due to a boon from the Nightwatcher, she exists partly in the Cognitive Realm, so she can touch spren outside of their Shard forms, and metabolize food directly into Light. It should be noted that Wyndle--who knows far more about the Nightwatcher and her boons than the audience--has ''no idea'' what Lift could possibly have asked for to receive such a gift.
** We eventually find out that she asked to never age or change. Which still doesn't explain how she got what she ''did'' get.
** In ''Oathbringer'' she pops in and out of Dalinar's visions, the Stormfather unable to stop her. The Stormfather complains that the Nightwatcher gave her the ability to do this just to mess with him. In a later vision, she is able to hide herself from Odium.
** ''Rhythm of War'' indicates that her weirdness comes from the fact that [[spoiler: her abilities aren't powered by Stormlight, but ''Lifelight'', the power of Cultivation. As a result, she's something of a hybrid Radiant of Honor and Cultivation]].
* RefugeInAudacity: Pops into the Emperor's vision despite not being invited, the Stormfather unable stop her, and takes him with her when she leaves.
* {{Sarashi}}: In ''Rhythm of War'' she's started wearing a bandage wrapped tightly around her chest. There's no mention of her being injured which would indicate she's trying to bind her chest so she won't have to acknowledge how much she's grown.
* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Pancakes. When she arrives in Yeddaw, she makes it a point to track down all ten of their famous pancake varieties, and grows indignant upon finding out that [[ItMakesSenseInContext the tenth pancake is only symbolic]].
* VictoryByEndurance: Her strategy for fighting Nale at one point. She can convert food into Light, but Nale can't, and due to it being the middle of the Weeping there is very little Light around. She hopes to run Nale out of Light.
* WizardNeedsFoodBadly: Due to a boon from the Nightwatcher, she can process her food into Stormlight rather than breathing it in. It does mean that excessive use of her powers risks malnutrition, however. In fact, running out of Stormlight is even more crippling for her than it is for other Surgebinders, since she immediately falls into a much weaker state due to malnutrition.

[[folder:Helaran Davar]]
!Nan Helaran Davar

->"''We can't have vengeance yet. Balat can't lead the house, and I must be away. Soon, though."''\\\

Eldest child of Lin Davar, heir of the Davar family, and Shallan's oldest brother. He left home after their mother died, as he blamed his father and refused to be in the house with him. He spent much of his time on mysterious errands with unknown groups, and received a full set of Shards soon after he left home the first time. The entire family considered him the greatest and bravest of them.

* CoolSword: He had a Shardblade, given to him by one of his mysterious friends. Amaram ends up with it after Kaladin kills Helaran.
* DarkSecret: He doesn't have one (that we know of), but when Kaladin realizes he killed him, he decides to keep it a secret from Shallan.
* MysteriousBacker: Someone trusted him a ''lot'' to give him a full set of Shards. Amaram thinks he was a member of the Ghostbloods, and Mraize mentions him, but he also had some dealings with the Skybreakers. Turns out he was with the Skybreakers, and Amaram's assassination was a mission given to him to prove his worth.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Is one of these, and suffers from one of these.
** On the one hand, killing Kaladin's squad kicked one of the darkest storylines in the books into high gear. He did it for no reason other than that they got in his way--with their spears and his Plate, he literally could have just ignored them if he was feeling merciful.
** On the other hand, if he had been allowed to kill Amaram, not only would that dark storyline have been averted at least to an extent, but the Sons of Honor would have been dealt a crippling blow.

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[[folder: Arclo]]
!Arclo

A beggar philosopher camped outside an orphanage in Tashikk, whom Lift befriends on her way through.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Willing to go any lengths to save the world. Thus far, he's released Szeth to go on an incredible killing spree, reduced the nation of Jah Kaved to burned-out anarchy, and countless other crimes. [[spoiler:When he becomes Odium, he decides to use his newfound power to save everyone, with some rather sinister implications.]]

[[folder:Vathah]]
!Vathah
->''"Brightlords have failed us in the past."''\\\

Leader of a large group of deserters. He runs afoul of Shallan, and while he dislikes her immensely, she manages to convince all of his men to follow her. He considers all the deserters (including himself) cutthroat scum.

* TheCynic: He makes constant comments about how the deserters Shallan recruited are going to turn on her eventually, and doesn't believe for a second that she can grant them clemency for their crimes.
* DefrostingIceKing: He starts out convinced that Shallan is an ignorant and naive lighteyes who got lucky in convincing the deserters to fight for her. Once he finds out she has a Shardblade when she kills Tyn with it, he warms up to her, apparently deciding that she's more like him than she pretends.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Becomes one of Shallan's squires and starts developing Lightweaving powers of his own.
* IfIWantedYouDead: Becomes much more trusting of and subservient towards Shallan when he realizes how many times she didn't kill him with her Shardblade for threatening or berating her.
* InternalizedCategorism: Essentially the driving force behind his cynicism. He thinks that both he and his men are murderous scum, and incapable of being anything more, until Shallan shows him that they can be.
* PermaStubble: In ''Literature/RhythmOfWar'', Radiant notes that he's never cleanshaved but also never has a full beard. It's part of why she thinks he always looks "rough" and like he doesn't fit in with the rest of the Lightweavers.

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!!Ghostbloods

[[folder:Thaidakar]]
!Thaidakar

The leader of the Ghostbloods. A shadowy figure who wants the secrets of Roshar for himself.

* DimensionalTraveler: It’s directly stated that he’s from another planet. And that planet is [[spoiler:[[Franchise/{{Mistborn}} ''Scadrial'']].]]
* TheGhost: Despite being a very important character, he hasn't been seen yet. As of ''Literature/RhythmOfWar'', this is heavily implied to [[spoiler: be literal as well as figurative]].
* TheLeader: Leads the Ghostbloods.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Mraize claims that he's suffering from a similar "ailment" as the Heralds, which would mean [[spoiler: that he's a Cognitive Shadow stapled to a body]].
* NotMeThisTime: Twice.
** Gavilar assumes that he's the one who sent Szeth after him. Szeth has never heard of the man; if Thaidakar had sent an assassin, Szeth got there first.
** As of ''Literature/RhythmOfWar'', he's mistakenly presumed to be behind the death of Jezrian.
* RedBaron: He is known as [[spoiler:the "Lord of Scars."]] It’s all but stated that he’s really [[spoiler:''Characters/{{Kelsier}}'']].

[[folder:Kabsal]]
!Kabsal
->''"You still appear conflicted. What must I do to put you at ease? Shall I step up onto this desk here and do a jig?"''\\\

A member of the Ardentia. He believes in Vorinism, and has made it his mission to convert notorious heretic Jasnah Kholin to its teachings. Along the way, he becomes friends with Shallan Davar. He is actually a Ghostblood.

* AffablyEvil: He seems like a nice person and truly does like Shallan, but he still tries to use her as a tool to kill Jasnah.
* EpicFail: In ''Rhythm of War'', Adolin describes his last act as "failing to not kill" Shallan. A failure which also failed.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He is killed by his own poisoned bread.
* KilledOffForReal: He dies in the first book, and he doesn’t appear to be coming back.
* TheMole: Revealed to be one of the Ghostbloods, tasked to assassinate Jasnah Kholin.
* OddFriendship: With Shallan Davar.
* SinisterMinister: Of a sort. He's not malicious to anyone but Jasnah as far as is known, but he did try to kill her.
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[[folder:Mraize]]
!Mraize
->''"I hired the hunter I felt best for the task, and I understood the risks."''\\\

One of the Ghostbloods who Shallan meets in the Alethi warcamps.
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* NotSoOmniscientAfterAll: The Diagram is supposed to accurately predict everything and come up with the perfect plan to spare the world from Odium's wrath, and everything Taravangian is doing is following this Diagram slavishly due to this perfection. Unfortunately, the Diagram ''isn't'' perfect, there are several of the things it incorrectly predicts or fails to predict, and the fact that there are multiple different interpretations means that even when the Diagram is accurate, it's flawed in that it can easily be misinterpreted.

* CrypticBackgroundReference: Makes quite a few of these. In ''Literature/{{Oathbringer}}'', Shallan lampshades that all the information he gives her comes with hints towards things she didn't actually ask about, such as a Surgebinder in Amaram's army who died long before Helaran tried to kill Amaram.

* CoolMask: Her mask is made of some kind of orange carapace, possibly Parshendi. She threatens to kill the ardents who try to remove it. [[spoiler:It's confirmation that she's actually [[Literature/WaxAndWayne a South Scadrian.]]

* LeonineContract: Odium gets the better of him simply by showing up on one of his stupider days. Odium lampshades that he was never going to let Taravangian negotiate from a position of strength.

* NotSoOmniscientAfterAll: The Diagram is supposed to accurately predict everything and come up with the perfect plan to spare the world from Odium's wrath, and everything Taravangian is doing is following this Diagram slavishly due to this perfection. Unfortunately, the Diagram ''isn't'' perfect, and several of the things it predicted either didn't pass or failed to pass as planned, derailing much of Taravangian's plans.

* CrypticBackgroundReference: Makes quite a few of these. In ''Oathbringer'', Shallan lampshades that all the information he gives her comes with hints towards things she didn't actually ask about, such as a Surgebinder in Amaram's army who died long before Helaran tried to kill Amaram.

* DimensionalTraveler: It's not made clear exactly where he's from, but he initially implies and later outright admits he is aware of other worlds. In ''Rhythm of War'', [[spoiler:he namedrops Nalthis and Scadrial, and comments that the Ghostbloods' interest in Urithiru was in controlling the Oathgates to get free access to Shadesmar. Their intent is to dominate the (literal) power trade by figuring out a way to take the freely-available Investiture in Roshar's highstorms and trade that to other worlds where it is much harder to access.]]

** His efforts to draw Shallan into the Ghostbloods are particularly effective. He draws her deeper by giving her assignments she already wants to complete, [[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil while encouraging her to push her moral boundaries]] and giving knowledge and instruction she is genuinely interested in as reward. It is subtle enough that, by ''Rhythm of War'', Shallan realizes she has essentially been acting as a perfect deep cover agent for the Ghostbloods despite the fact that she is allegedly spying on them.
* MoralityPet: Shallan appears to be his, but it just highlights how cruel he is to everyone else. In ''Rhythm of War'', he [[spoiler:kidnaps Lift and sells her into slavery, and abuses his Seon to the point that they're afraid of him]]. He drops it the minute [[spoiler:Shallan moves against him by helping Restares instead of killing him]].

** At the end of ''Words of Radiance'', he tells Shallan he will bring her family to the Shattered Plains and Urithiru. Not as hostages or in exchange for anything, but as a gift in recognition of Shallan's accomplishments. And he keeps his word.
** Over the course of ''Oathbringer'', he gives Shallan the information she asks for, mostly as a reward for doing things she's already doing in the first place.

* ThisMeansWar: As of the end of Rhythm of War [[spoiler: he says that Shallan turning on them has put her at war with the Ghostbloods. [[BringIt She is unimpressed,]] and tells him [[IronicEcho she looks forward to the hunt.]]]]

* CoolMask: Her mask is made of some kind of orange carapace, possibly Parshendi. She threatens to kill the ardents who try to remove it. It's confirmation that she's actually from [[Literature/WaxAndWayne Scadrial.]] Or rather, that she is Scadrian by way of Silverlight.
* DimensionalTraveler: She's indirectly confirmed to be a world-hopper in ''Literature/BandsOfMourning'', when we meet her people. They are a clan from the southern reaches of Scadrial called the Hunters. All southerners wear masks, but only the Hunters let their faces grow into them.

* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: Of a sort. His name is given in ''Words of Radiance'', the second book.

A legendary king that wrote the book "The Way of Kings", which formed the basis of the Ideals of the Knights Radiant. He is known for uniting the Silver Kingdoms in ancient times. Although a great king, the current Vorin culture dismisses his teachings, and his book was nearly banned.\\\

* KilledOffForReal: She dies in-between Literature/WordsOfRadiance and Literature/{{Oathbringer}}

* YouDontLookLikeYou: His appearance is very different from [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation that which]] [[BaldOfAwesome he had]] in the end of ''Literature/{{Elantris}}'', which takes place chronologically prior in the Cosmere books. However, this could be due to [[MasterOfIllusion Aon Shao or Lightweaving]].

* RedBaron: He is known as [[spoiler:the "Lord of Scars."]] It’s all but stated that he’s really [[spoiler:[[''Characters/{{Kelsier}}'']].]]

* PermaStubble: In ''Rhythm of War'', Radiant notes that he's never cleanshaved but also never has a full beard. It's part of why she thinks he always looks "rough" and like he doesn't fit in with the rest of the Lightweavers.

* TheGhost: Despite being a very important character, he hasn't been seen yet. As of ''Rhythm of War'', this is heavily implied to be literal as well as figurative.

* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Mraize claims that he's suffering from a similar "ailment" as the Heralds, which would mean he's a cognitive shadow stapled to a body.

** Gavilar assumes that he's the one who sent Szeth after him. Szeth has never heard of the man; if Thaidakar sent an assassin, Szeth got there first.
** As of ''Rhythm of War'', he's mistakenly presumed to be behind the death of Jezrian.
* RedBaron: He is known as [[spoiler:the "Lord of Scars."]] Strong circumstantial evidence suggests he is also known as [[spoiler: "The Survivor." aka ''Characters/{{Kelsier}}'']]

* BigEater: She's always hungry and will eat pretty much any food that's left out; she even makes it a SelfImposedChallenge to break into secure locations and eat the food there, which is how she's introduced. Exacerbated by her unique ability to convert food into Stormlight, since it means all of her surgebinding is CastFromCalories.

* ParadoxPerson: Appears this way to most other people, as, due to a boon from the Nightwatcher, she exists partly in the Cognitive Realm, so she can touch spren outside of their Shard forms, and metabolize food directly into Stormlight. It should be noted that Wyndle--who knows far more about the Nightwatcher and her boons than the audience--has ''no idea'' what Lift could possibly have asked for to receive such a gift.

* RedBaron: He is known as [[spoiler:the "Lord of Scars."]] Strong circumstantial evidence suggests he is also known as [[spoiler: "The Survivor."]]

[[folder:Thinker]]
!Demoux

A man searching for Hoid alongside Blunt (Baon) and Grump (Galladon). He's Demoux from ''Mistborn'', and he is now a part of the Worldhopping organization known as the Seventeenth Shard.

* TheCameo: He is Demoux from ''Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy''.
* DimensionalTraveler: He somehow managed to arrive from Scadrial.
* ScarsAreForever: He still has the scar he received 300 years ago in ''The Hero of Ages''.

[[folder:Grump]]
!Galladon

A man searching for Hoid alongside Thinker (Demoux) and Blunt (Baon). He's Galladon from ''Elantris'', and he has joined up with the worldhopping organization known as the Seventeenth Shard.

* TheCameo: He is Galladon from ''Literature/{{Elantris}}''.
* DimensionalTraveler: He somehow managed to arrive from Sel.
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: Aside from his occasional lines similar to those from his book of origin in Alethi, he also says a sentence that is noticeable as Duladen.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: His appearance is very different from [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation that which]] [[BaldOfAwesome he had]] in the end of ''Literature/{{Elantris}}'', which takes place chronologically prior in the Cosmere books. However, this could be due to [[MasterOfIllusion Aon Shao or Lightweaving]].

[[folder:Blunt]]
!Baon

A man searching for Hoid alongside Grump (Galladon) and Thinker (Demoux). He is Baon, a character from ''ComicBook/WhiteSand'', and he has joined the worldhopping organization known as the Seventeenth Shard. He's also an archer.

* TheCameo: He is Baon from ''ComicBook/WhiteSand''.
* TheDitz: Appears to be a bit of one when he tells the others that he wants to use a magic fish to find Hoid. [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight Then again, the fish of the purelake do show every sign of being magical]].
* EarlyBirdCameo: He appears here before his official debut in ''ComicBook/WhiteSand''.

[[folder:Zahel]]
!Zahel/Vasher
->''"Kid, two people live in this room. The first is a grouchy swordsman who has a soft spot for kids who are in over their heads. He comes out by day. The other is a very, '''very''' grouchy swordsman who finds everything and everyone utterly contemptible. He comes out when some fool wakes him at a horrid hour of the night. I suggest you ask the first man and not the second. All right?"''\\\

A swordsman who instructed Adolin and Renarin in swordsmanship.

* BlindIdiotTranslation: He's prone to spouting odd sayings that confound his interlocutors, then complaining that the language they're speaking has no good idioms. It's left ambiguous if this is the result of TranslatorMicrobes or if he's just being overly literal. This is an early hint that he isn't native to Roshar.
* CynicalMentor: As per usual, he's not a nice person, but he does help.
* DimensionalTraveler: He is actually [[Literature/{{Warbreaker}} Vasher, who somehow traveled from Nalthis to Roshar.]] [[WordOfGod Word of Brandon]] is this isn't his first time.
* MasterSwordsman: Teaches the Kholin brothers swordsmanship.
* MeaningfulRename: His new name is [[https://wob.coppermind.net/events/373-skyward-chicago-signing/#e12060 intentionally close to]] Nahel (like Nahel Bond, the bond between a spren and Radiant), which means "connection to the divine." This fits nicely with his status as a [[CameBackStrong Returned]].
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: As a Returned, he's been around for a very, very long time, even before he traveled from Nalthis to Roshar.

[[folder:Rysn and Vstim]]
!Rysn and Vstim

A young Thaylen merchant apprentice and her [[{{Mentor}} Babsk]]. Rysm is the protagonist of the novella ''Literature/{{Dawnshard}}.

[[folder:Venli]]
!Venli

Eshonai's sister, a scholar of the listeners. Will share the flashback chapters in book 4, ''Rhythm of War,'' with her sister.

* AmbitionIsEvil: Her desire for more knowledge and more understanding slowly devolves into just a desire for more power. The influence of the Voidspren in her gemheart is a large part of it, but that wasn't all of it.
** She lampshades this at the end of Oathbringer, wondering how she became so obsessed with power.
* AmicableExes: Zig-zagged. Parshendi are asexual in all forms except mateform, so she refers to the man who seems to be, in human terms, her husband, as her "once-mate" when in any other form. Since neither of them particularly care for mateform, they don't have any intention of entering it again any time soon. They are, however, still closer than friends. Until he dies.
* AntiVillain: In ''Oathbringer''. She's still working for the bad guys, but begins defying them in subtle ways and eventually becomes a Radiant.
* CharacterDevelopment: Her first appearances painted her as something of a SmugSnake, a villainous foil to her sister Eshonai, the most prominent and damning example of how far the listeners had fallen. After Eshonai's death and seeing the truth of what her actions have led to, she becomes a far more conflicted character.
* DarkMessiah: She ends up in a form of power called an "Envoy," sent to tell a carefully edited version of the Parshendi-Alethi war in order to inspire the singers to Odium. At the end of ''Oathbringer'', after becoming a Knight Radiant, she begins teaching them of what the listeners were like before the war.
* [[spoiler: Main/DishingOutDirt: in ''Rhythm of War'', she starts experimenting with stone-shaping, as a Willshaper.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: Gradually over the course of ''Oathbringer''.
* LastOfHerKind: The Fused tell her that she is the last listener; whether they are unaware of Rlain or just don't care is unknown. Venli wonders several times where the survivors of the Battle of Narak went. It's implied that they became the Fused and are all dead.
* TheMole: She met a Voidspren who helped her develop stormform, thus causing the return of her gods that her people had been working against for millennia. In ''Oathbringer'', she becomes a Knight Radiant bonded to a lightspren and begins fighting against Odium from inside the enemy camp.
* MutuallyExclusiveMagic: Despite having both a voidspren and a lightspren, Venli is unable to both keep her RedEyesTakeWarning disguise and channel Stormlight simultaneously.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Struggles with this after seeing exactly what her gods are and the horrific way they use the listeners. Made that much worse by the fact that Venli herself was the main architect of their return.
* [[spoiler: Main/TeleportersAndTransporters: in ''Rhythm of War'', she uses her Radiant abilities to see into Shadesmar, as a Willshaper.]]
* TranslatorMicrobes: Her Envoy form can speak all languages, both the ancient Dawnsinger language and all the modern human languages. It even extends to body language and nonverbal communication, which allows her to interpret complex and accurate meanings from simple combinations of Rhythms.
* WrongContextMagic: Certain passages in previous books state that it's supposed to be impossible for singers to form the Nahel bond.
* YinYangBomb: After bonding to Timbre, she gains the ability to draw on Stormlight, but since she keeps the Voidspren for her Envoy form, Timbre keeping it contained, she can retain the abilities it gives her, and turn her red eyes on and off at will, though she can't have them active when channeling Stormlight. [[spoiler: In ''Rhythm of War'' she finds out that she can also use voidlight to power her radiant abilities! ]]

[[folder:Queen Fen Rnamdi]]

!Queen Fen Rnamdi

The queen of Theylenah.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Her introduction involves her personally answering Dalinar via spanreed (rather than having a scribe do it), cursing up a storm, and then closing off when Dalinar asks too much.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Although it still takes some convincing, she is still one of the most reasonable rulers Dalanar has to deal with in ''Oathbringer''.
* SirSwearsalot: When the Alethi contact her in ''Oathbringer'', she curses like a sailor, which surprises Dalinar; she was always perfectly polite whenever they spoke. Navani explains that while Fen knows how to affect a courtly demeanor, when she's more comfortable she has a very foul mouth. It's therefore a bad sign when she stops swearing, and Dalinar realizes he's offended her.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: When Dalanar pulls her into one of his visions, he's absolutely stunned upon discovering that she had rallied the townspeople into an organized militia against the Voidbringers, commenting that she did a better job in the vision then he did. From Queen Fen's point of view, she thought it was all just a dream.
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[[folder:Cord]]
!Cord (Hualinam'lunanaki'akilu)

One of Rock's daughters, who came down from the Peaks in ''Oathbringer''. She has the sacred Sight of her people, but disagrees with her father on the best way for the Peaks to survive. She is a major character in the novella ''Dawnshard''.
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** At the end of ''Words of Radiance'', he tells Shallan he will bring her family to the Shattered Plains and Urithiru. Not as hostages or in exchange for anything, but as a gift in recognition of Shallan's accomplishments.
*** And he keeps his word in Oathbringer as we see the rest of Shallan's sibling reuniting with her at Urithiru.

* ThisMeansWar: As of the end of Rhythm of War [[spoiler: he says that Shallan turning on them has put her at war with the Ghostbloods.]]

* AGodAmI: A twisted example, in which Taravangian considers the man he was on his day of near-omniscient intelligence to be a god, and what he wrote during that time to be virtually divine scripture. When he sees Odium casually recreate the Diagram in far greater detail it completely breaks his resistance.

* ProperlyParanoid: He keeps on killing cremlings with his blowgun. Partly he's messing around. Mostly he's keeping away Sleepless spies.

* RedBaron: He is known as [[spoiler:the "Lord of Scars."]]

* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Mraize claims that he's suffering from a similar ailment as the Heralds.

** As of ''Rhythm of War'', he’s mistakenly presumed to be behind the death of Jezrian.
* RedBaron: He is known as the "Lord of Scars."

* TheGhost: Despite being a very important character, he hasn't been seen yet. As of RoW, this is heavily implied to be literal as well as figurative.

* NotMeThisTime: Gavilar assumes that he's the one who sent Szeth after him. Szeth has never heard of the man; if Thaidakar sent an assassin, Szeth got there first. Twice as of RoW; he’s mistakenly presumed to be behind the death of Jezrian.

* TheGhost: Despite being a very important character, he hasn't been seen yet.

* NotMeThisTime: Gavilar assumes that he's the one who sent Szeth after him. Szeth has never heard of the man; if Thaidakar sent an assassin, Szeth got there first.

* ConLang: In-universe. During his most brilliant moment, he invented an entirely new language because all existing ones were too imprecise.

* IAmAMonster: Szeth calls him one, and he doesn't object to it at all. His viewpoint chapter indicates that he really does agree.

* LackOfEmpathy: He gets less empathetic and more ruthless the more intelligent he gets, as mentioned under DumbIsGood. On one of his more intelligent days, he sees nothing wrong with ordering the deaths of a choir of children that was distracting him rather than just telling them to stop singing. Luckily he took precautions to limit his authority on those kinds of days, so the people he surrounds himself with don't act on those kinds of orders.

* TheGhost: Despite being an important character, he hasn't been seen yet.