Editing Design

|image=Seeking Advice by Aliya Chen.jpg

|abilities=[[Nahel bond]], [[Order of Lightweavers|Lightweaver]] magic, {{tag+|Splinter}}, {{tag+|worldhopping}}

|first appeared=[[Oathbringer]]

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|Design! ... What did I tell you about spoiling the ending of stories!”

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“Something stupid, so I forgot it!|Hoid and Design{{book ref|sa4|80}}

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'''Design''' is a [[Cryptic]] from [[Roshar]] bonded to [[Hoid]].{{book ref|sa3|epilogue}}

== Appearance and Personality ==

{{quote|I get annoyed easily! It's endearing... to everyone but him!

|Design to [[Kaladin]]{{book ref|sa4|80}} }}

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=== Appearance ===

{{image|Hoid and Design by Elisgardor.jpg|side=right|width=300px|With [[Hoid]]}}

Like other Cryptics, Design is a creature with stiff robes and a shifting pattern for a head. Her head pattern is lacy and intricate, and seems to be more fine and graceful than [[Pattern]]'s. She has a musical, feminine voice. She can flare out her pattern, which is her way of giving a bow.{{book ref|sa4|80}}

When living on [[Komashi]], she took the form of an attractive Nagadan woman who appeared to be in her early twenties, with a full form and long white hair. This was achieved via a Lightweaving illusion.{{book ref|yumi|5}} She specifically asked for a striking and voluptuous figure, both as a way to be particularly disturbing to people if she ever reveals her true appearance, and because she likes the appearance of human curves.{{book ref|yumi|5}}

=== Personality ===

Design is cheerful and energetic. She gets annoyed easily and considers that to be endearing. She does not mind spoiling the end of stories and considers surprises to be dumb,{{book ref|sa4|80}} unless, it appears, the surprise is for the purposes of playing a prank on someone.{{book ref|yumi|5}}

Design enjoys annoying Hoid, poking holes in his stories and tricks in front of others. She happily points out when Hoid makes a mistake. She likes getting into arguments with Hoid.{{book ref|sa4|80}}{{book ref|sa4|epilogue}} However, she is not a great match for Hoid and both bring out negative aspects of the others personality. She and Elhokar would have gotten along excellently, though.{{wob ref|15354}}

She dislikes people being overly formal and reverent with her, and she actively tells off those that try to worship her.{{book ref|yumi|17}}

She does not see herself as female, though she does enjoy presenting herself in a female form.{{book ref|yumi|17}}

== Abilities and Attributes ==

Being a Cryptic, Design is able to form [[Nahel bond]]s with humans. This gives the bonded human access to the [[Surges]] of the [[Order of Lightweavers]], namely [[Illumination]] and [[Transformation]]. Once the bonded has stated enough truths to be a full Radiant, she is able to become a [[Shardblade]]. By the time she took up residence on [[Komashi]], Design felt she could serve as "an encouragingly mediocre sword".{{book ref|yumi|32}}

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|I will give you truths. And I know some juicy ones.

|Hoid to Design{{book ref|sa3|epilogue}}

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===Roshar===

In the months or years leading up to his death, Elhokar had been seeing Cryptics, in their [[Shadesmar]] form, in mirrors.{{book ref|sa1|58}} He seems to have also spotted a [[Physical Realm|Physical]] form of a Cryptic at some point, possibly Design.{{book ref|sa3|74}} While Elhokar was seeing Cryptics in mirrors for a while, he only began saying the [[Immortal Words#The First Ideal|First Ideal]] just before he died.{{book ref|sa3|84}}

Design was later rescued from the [[Fused]] in [[Kholinar]] by Hoid, who found her near the location Elhokar died. Hoid then bonded her.{{book ref|sa3|98}}{{wob ref|10746}}

Design was with Hoid when [[Odium]] took [[Kaladin]]'s consciousness to [[Braize]]. Design played Hoid's flute while he told the story "The Dog and the Dragon". Design was able to play the flute despite not having lips, moving her fingers randomly and simultaneously holding a conversation with Hoid. She spoiled the ending of the story to Kaladin, which was appalling to Hoid. She argued with Hoid and provided a counterpoint to many things he said throughout the story.{{book ref|sa4|80}}

Design had a conversation with Hoid in Elhokar's old palace before Hoid confronted Odium. She argued with Hoid about Lightweaving. She went away with some corrupted [[windspren]] when Hoid told her to bother someone else. She was not present when Hoid confronted the new Odium. When Hoid repeated his performance after confronting Odium, he had forgotten that Design already left.{{book ref|sa4|epilogue}}

===Worldhopping===

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|Besides, I’m on vacation. No worshipping the bits of God when they’re on vacation. It’s a rule I just made up.

|Design{{book ref|yumi|17}}

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Eventually, she and Hoid managed to escape Roshar and travel the cosmere, with some difficulty.{{book ref|yumi|17}}{{wob ref|15986}} However, it is not known where she was during Hoid's stay on Scadrial following the True Desolation.{{wob ref|16009}} At some point they found a way to have Design appear and interact as if she were human, using "a complicated wireframe [[Lightweaving]] with force projections attached directly to her cognitive element as it manifested in the physical realm."{{book ref|yumi|5}} They went to [[Threnody]],{{book ref|yumi|17}} and later went to the planet [[Komashi]], where Hoid found himself frozen in stasis. Design took advantage of this 'vacation' to set up a successful noodle shop called the [[Noodle Pupil]], using Hoid's immobilized body as a coat rack.{{book ref|yumi|5}}{{book ref|yumi|21}}

She developed a cordial relationship with [[Nikaro|Painter]], who frequented her restaurant,{{book ref|yumi|5}} along with his co-worker [[Masaka]], whom Design recognized as a secret [[Sleepless]] and thus felt protective of.{{book ref|yumi|33}} Later, she came to help Painter and [[Yumi]] with their predicament, and educated them on basic [[Realmatic Theory]] to help explain to them what was happening{{book ref|yumi|17}}{{book ref|yumi|21}} along with using the [[aura fabrial]] to analyze Yumi's spiritweb and Investiture.{{book ref|yumi|32}} After the pair freed the [[hijo]] from the [[father machine]], Hoid found himself restored, and he and Design plotted to escape Komashi aboard one of its spacecraft.{{book ref|yumi|part=anotherepilogue}}

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