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== Featured Article: Ba-Ado-Mishram ==
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|I find Ba-Ado-Mishram to be the most interesting of the Unmade. She is said to have been keen of mind, a highprincess among the enemy forces, their '''commander''' during some of the Desolations. I do not know how this relates to the ancient god of the enemy, named Odium.
|From [[Hessi]]'s ''[[Mythica]]'', page 203
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'''Ba-Ado-Mishram,''' sometimes called just '''Mishram''', is one of the [[Unmade]], an ancient and terrible [[spren]] of [[Odium]]. She is a sapient Unmade and is crafty and conniving. She was a primary instigator of the [[False Desolation]], leading to her imprisonment by the [[Knights Radiant]], which put the vast majority of [[singer]]s into slaveform and affected all spren on [[Roshar]].

== Mythology and Lore ==
In modern times, [[Hessi]] believed Ba-Ado-Mishram to be a highprincess of the [[Voidbringer]]s, and was their commander in some [[Desolation]]s. There was no record of Ba-Ado-Mishram in the present day, and so Hessi suspected that she returned to Damnation or was destroyed in [[Aharietiam]].

However, the reason why Ba-Ado-Mishram is absent in the modern era is because she was imprisoned during the [[False Desolation]], around the time of the [[Recreance]]. It is also possible that the reason why there are legends of her being the commander of the enemy is because of her role in the False Desolation as well, rather than actually being a commander during actual Desolations with the [[Fused]].

== Attributes and Abilities ==
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|There is very little information about Ba-Ado-Mishram in more modern times. I can only assume she, unlike many of them, returned to Damnation or was destroyed during Aharietiam.
|From Hessi's ''Mythica'', page 226
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Ba-Ado-Mishram has some of the most powerful capabilities of individuals outside of [[Shard]]s. She was able to [[Connection|Connect]] with singers on a massive scale, Connecting with all of them (except the [[listener]]s) across the entirety of Roshar, which suggests that it was not a short-ranged, local process near Ba-Ado-Mishram--like [[Moelach]] or [[Nergaoul]]'s effects--but a continent-wide display of power.

Ba-Ado-Mishram was able to supply the singers with [[Voidlight]] and forms of power, making singers into [[Regal]]s. This shows she has access to a huge quantity of [[Investiture]] on a scale other Unmade lack. This ability was compared to [[Odium]] in previous Desolations, which likely means that Ba-Ado-Mishram could not supply infinite Voidlight to the Regals, as the Fused in Desolations did not have access to infinite Voidlight either. It is unknown whether her Connection let Ba-Ado-Mishram speak to singers directly as Odium does, or command the conflict directly.

The Knights Radiant did not know Ba-Ado-Mishram could Connect with the singers, and did not know how she managed to do it. She had not done this prior to the False Desolation.

Her other abilities are unclear aside from this Connection. If she was in fact a highprincess of the Voidbringers, or a commander of the enemy during actual Desolations, she would likely need to be powerful or fearsome for [[Fused]] to follow her. However, it is said that the Radiants feared [[Sja-anat]] most of all Unmade, not Ba-Ado-Mishram, so it is possible she was not the biggest threat to the Radiants.

She is currently imprisoned, and she would not fade in her gemstone like a [[Herald]] would.

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