Editing Susebron

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'''Susebron''', also known as '''Susebron the Fifth''', is the God King of [[Hallandren]] on [[Nalthis]] around 300 years after the [[Manywar]].{{book ref|wb|2}} He is a [[Returned]] and is given two or more [[Breath]]s every week by his subjects in order to keep him alive.{{book ref|wb|29}} He is the fifth God King in the three hundred years since the Manywar.{{book ref|wb|32}}

{{image|Susebron by Laurys L.jpg|side=left|width=250px}}

He is naive, having grown up in a virtual prison imposed upon him by his priests. He is highly trusting of them, and refuses to believe that they may wish him harm (though it is worth noting that his faith in them turns out to be well-placed).{{book ref|wb|29}} His main source of knowledge about morality is a book of stories that once belonged to his [[Susebron's mother|mother]], the morals of which he follows from memory.{{book ref|wb|24}} Later, he begins to figure some things out for himself, though he continues to hold to the book's rules, making him honest to a fault.{{book ref|wb|29}} Susebron is highly devoted to the people he trusts, including [[Siri]] and the priests, and refuses to abandon either of them. Nonetheless, he can be realistic in his assessment of others and is keenly aware of his own shortcomings as a ruler.{{book ref|wb|36}}{{book ref|wb|58}}

{{image|Susebron by Caio Santos.jpg|side=right|height=250px|Using [[Awakening]]}}

Throughout most of his life, Susebron was mute and unable to read or write using the common alphabet. He did, however, understand the color-coded Hallendren artisan's script, which provided the only means of communication between Susebron and his priests.{{book ref|wb|20}} Because he wasn't taught how to Awaken mentally, he was unable to use his Breath to Awaken. He eventually manages to learn how to read and write from [[Siri]], and has his tongue restored by [[Lightsong]], immediately gaining the ability to speak.{{book ref|wb|29}}{{book ref|wb|57}}

* Command Breaking - allows him to instinctively override Commands in other Invested objects, including Lifeless. This requires concentration and will leave him exhausted.{{book ref|wb|15}}

* Greater Awakening - allows him to Awaken stone and steel objects.

* Audible Command - allows him to Awaken objects that he is not physically touching, but that are within the sound of his voice.{{book ref|wb|15}}

* Color Distortion - Wherever Susebron goes, white objects in his vicinity break up their colors like a prism, creating further colors. To show this off, he's usually dressed in white for public functions, although he wears black in private, as it is a more powerful color from an Awakening standpoint.{{wob ref|6797}}{{book ref|wb|15}}

* There are rumors of other powers granted by the Tenth Heightening which are not understood or have not been made known by the God Kings, who have been the only ones to achieve it.

Susebron was an infant [[Returned]] fifty years before the [[Pahn Kahl rebellion]]. He was born to a poor family living far to the north in Hallandren, to a merchant and his wife.{{wob ref|7344}} At the time of his Return, the current [[God King]] was unable to produce a child, and so the infant Susebron was given [[Peacegiver's Treasure]] and made the new God King after his predecessor gave up his divine Breath to cure a plague.{{wob ref|7344}}{{book ref|wb|27}} At some point either before or after his crowning, his tongue was removed so that he would be unable to use the wealth of Breaths that had been bestowed on him.{{book ref|wb|40}} [[Susebron's mother|His mother]] raised him in the palace, though eventually she was "taken away".{{book ref|wb|24}}{{book ref|wb|44}} Through the years he managed to retain a storybook she used to read him; he had heard the stories so many times and looked at it over the years that he had memorized each symbol, and the morals of the stories in the book were in part the code by which he lived.{{wob ref|6947}}

{{image|Siri bedroom by Marie Seeberger.jpg |side=right|width=300px|[[Siri]] kneeling before Susebron}}

|Susebron showing his lack of knowledge on metaphorical terms{{book ref|wb|29}}

To forestall a war between [[Idris]] and Hallandren, Susebron was promised the hand of king [[Dedelin]]'s daughter, [[Vivenna]]. At the last moment, however, she was swapped for her sister, [[Sisirinah]], and Susebron ended up marrying Siri.{{book ref|wb|4}} For a long time, Susebron and Siri met only at night, as the priests wanted them to make a child, but neither acted, as Siri was awaiting Susebron's first move while Susebron had no idea what was expected of him.{{book ref|wb|24}} Initially, he did not understand Siri, uncertain as to why she spent her nights waiting, naked, on his floor. After a nearly a week of this routine, Siri approached him and berated him for doing nothing but watch throughout all the previous week. When Susebron approaches, it is revealed that he has no tongue. Siri, to convince his priests that they were trying for a baby, began moaning and bouncing on the bed every day, mimicking what she thought sex sounded like. After she began to perform her moaning and screaming routine for the priests, he approached her with a book, hoping to start some communication.{{book ref|wb|20}}

Siri taught Susebron to read and write using his mother's storybook, and they started to converse, him writing on a board, and her speaking.{{book ref|wb|20}} As he and Siri planned how to reveal to the other gods that he had no tongue, the two began to fall in love. He would spend long hours with her, learning about things like sarcasm and mockery, about places such as Idris, and about Siri's life growing up.{{book ref|wb|24}} During one of these conversations, Susebron expressed an interest in meeting [[Austre]].{{book ref|wb|29}} Eventually, he and Siri consummated their marriage.{{book ref|wb|44}}

{{image|Susebron and Siri by Elisgardor.jpg |width=250px|side=right|With [[Siri]]}}

Though Brandon never finished ''Mythwalker'', the budding relationship between Siri and the Emperor was one of his favorite parts of the story, which is why he revisited it in ''Warbreaker''.{{wob ref|7360}} Though their plot was re-written significantly to improve the pacing, the Emperor's personality did not change when he became Susebron.{{wob ref|7819}}