Blackbane

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Blackbane was poisonous plant with black leaves that grew on Roshar. Blackbane leaves only become deadly once they have been dried.

Kaladin Stormblessed intended to use leaves of blackbane to murder the Thaylen slaver Tvlakv.

Kaladin hid a few blackbane leaves behind his girth but eventually he took them out to feel them, and then lost them when he tried to help a diseased slave. Syl was curious about the leaves but Kaladin didn't talk about. When Kaladin, after a few weeks in Bridge Four, decided to use the Honor Chasm she fortunately arrived in time to keep him from tossing himself down the chasm. She told him that she left to search something he had lost before, and donated him a leave of blackbane not knowing about their toxicity. Though carrying that leave was a great effort for her, she did it because she felt him going mad after he lost the leaves in the cart.

Shallan was given a bag by her brother Wikim, as a means of her escaping. She eventually used it to kill her father Lin after he killed his wife Malise Gevelmar.

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