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=== Jasnah Kholin's ward (1173) ===
==== Arrival in Kharbranth ====
Following the death of her father, Shallan traveled aboard [[Wind's Pleasure]], a ship owned by Tozbek, in order to save her family from a life filled with misery and debt by forging connections will powerful allies in Alethkar. She arrived in Kharbranth, where she hoped to become the ward of [[Jasnah Kholin]], a notorious scholar and sister to the current king of Alethkar. While Shallan hoped to learn more about the world and the field of logic whilst under the tutelage of [[Jasnah]], she also had another goal in mind. Shallan spent several months chasing [[Jasnah]] across many cities in order to steal Jasnah's [[soulcaster]], a [[fabrial]] capable of transforming objects from one material to another, as she also believed that this tool would be the key to saving her destitute family. Once she finally caught up to Jasnah in [[Kharbranth]], Shallan attempted to convince Jasnah to take her as her ward, but she failed twice before she finally succeeded on the third attempt.{{book ref|sa1|8}} The first attempt was when she failed to impress Jasnah due to her lack of talent in the field of logic and, notably, history. Despite Shallan's attempt to convince her that her artistic talent would surely impress her, Jasnah quickly turned her down. Shallan later attempted to convince Jasnah once more but waits in the scholar's reading alcove due to Jasnah currently being in a meeting. She wrote a logical letter arguing for wardship which managed to impress Jasnah but she is still rebuffed by the scholar. Dejected and tired from constantly attempting to persuade the heretical scholar, Shallan makes her way back to Wind's Pleasure to return to her hometown before she is convinced by [[Yalb]], a sailor on Wind's Pleasure, to try once more. When she returns, Jasnah discovers Shallan's drawings she made while waiting in her reading alcove and is impressed by her artistry and passion from drawing even during her free time which she considered to be, in a way, a pursut of scholarship. Jasnah accepts Shallan as her ward and allows her to be her research assistant when she is not busy.
==== Discovering her Surgebindings ====
Shallan is eventually able to steal Jasnah's soulcaster{{book ref|sa1|36}} only to discover that it is a fake. Despite her failure, Shallan discovered her own Soulcasting abilities after this theft. When she attempted to utilize the broken soulcaster, she accidentally {{book ref|sa1|45}}
==== Kabsal's Betrayal ====
During her studies with Jasnah, Shallan developed a friendship with the ardent [[Kabsal]] who accidentally poisoned both Shallan and himself during an attempt to assassinate Jasnah for the [[Ghostbloods]].{{book ref|sa1|48}} Shallan realized that her father also might have been a member of the same organization.{{book ref|sa1|74}} After this realization and the revelation that the [[Parshendi]] and [[Parshmen]] were Voidbringers, she and Jasnah set off for the Shattered Plains to attain more information. {{book ref|twok|72}} {{book ref|wor|1}}
=== The Shattered Plains (1173) ===
==== Shipwrecked ====
Jasnah and Shallan have taken passage on the ''[[Wind's Pleasure]],'' traveling to the Shattered Plains. Several days into the journey, Shallan spies a santhid - an elusive and ancient dweller of the ocean - moving alongside the ship. She wants to observe the santhid underwater in order to sketch it, but is dissuaded from the dangerous task by Captain Tozbek. Jasnah soon joins her, and detecting her ward's innattention to her reading, explains the nature of Shadesmar and spren to her. Shallan mentions the patterns of lines she has been noticing
One night on the journey, their ship is attacked and Shallan sees Jasnah stabbed in the chest. She smells smoke in the cabin. Using lightweaving she creates an indistinct human form, which the attacking men chase. She then entered Jasnah's cabin and observed a large amount of blood on the floor, but no body. She assumes the men removed Jasnah's corpse. She hears sounds above and Pattern tells her that the ship's crew are being executed. Out of desperation Shallan attempts to soulcast the hull of the ship. With a huge amount of stormlight and the help of pattern she reached into shadesmar and soulcasted the '' Wind's Pleasure'' into water to escape.{{book ref|sa2|7}}
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