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|profession={{cat tag|scholars|Arcanist}}
|abilities={{tag+|worldhopping}}
|ethnicity=Darksider
|nationality=Elisian
|world=Taldain
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
|books=[[White Sand]], [[Mistborn (series)|Mistborn]]
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== Appearance and Personality ==
Khriss has brown skin, being from the Darkside of Taldain. She has brown eyes and wears her hair in braids. While on Dayside, Khriss wears a pair of dark, heavy sunglasses as she is unused to the sunlight
Khriss is a university-educated scholar and is extremely inquisitive. She seeks to understand and find scientific explanations for all that she can.
Khriss was engaged for a time to [[Gevalden]]--or Gevin, as he preferred in informal settings{{book ref|ws1|5}}--the Prince of Elis. Prior to their wedding, Gevalden traveled to Dayside in search of the mythical Sand Mages, where he disappeared and was presumed dead. Khriss, determined to seek out what her fiancé was trying to discover, traveled to Dayside with [[Baon]], [[Cynder]], and [[Jon Acron]].{{book ref|ws1|3}}
On Dayside, she discovered that [[Kenton]], whom she'd met previously,{{book ref|ws1|3}} was the newly appointed [[Lord Mastrell]] of the sand masters (or Sand Mages, as she'd previously referred to them).{{book ref|ws1|6}} Though initially infuriated, she eventually chose to assist him in his mission to preserve the
=== On Scadrial ===
Khriss and [[Nazh]] were discovered by [[Kelsier]] in the [[Cognitive Realm]] of [[Scadrial]]. The pair enlightened Kelsier on how the events on Scadrial
She later appeared at a party in [[New Seran]] in post-[[Catacendre]] Scadrial.{{book ref|mb6|12}} There she stole a dance with [[Waxillium Ladrian]] and asked him questions about his powers and how they related to physics. She was also mentioned in a broadsheet ad, telling people who hear talking tools to contact Khriss and Nazh.{{article ref|The New Ascendancy}}
* She would be mistaken for being a [[Makabaki]] on [[Roshar]].{{book ref|twok|i|1}}{{ref|text=Baon, who has the same skin tone as Khriss, was seen by [[Ishikk]] as Makabaki. Therefore it follows that he would think the same of Khriss.}}
* Khriss was involved in the founding of a university in Silverlight.{{wob ref|8342}}
* She knows more about the [[cosmere]] and its [[Investiture|magics]] than even [[Hoid]] or [[Nazh]].{{wob ref|5623}}
* She is the author of the [[Ars Arcanum|Ars Arcana]].{{wob ref|6873}}
== Notes ==
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