Editing Unseen Court

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|You must control the face rather than let it control you.

|[[Shallan]] to [[Darcira]]{{book ref|sa4|20}}

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The Unseen Court is aligned with the [[coalition of monarchs]].{{book ref|sa4|20}} [[Shallan]] sees their greatest impact as being spies. [[Jasnah]] puts much greater value on their ability to [[Soulcast]] food.{{book ref|sa4|21}}

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|Whatever you did, it’s behind you. We accept you, Vathah. The Unseen Court is a family.

|[[Shallan]] to [[Vathah]]{{book ref|sa4|26}}

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Shallan is the leader of the Unseen Court and is known as Master Lightweaver. Newly joined individuals are referred to as squires until they bond a spren. Once they bond a spren, they are known as Agent Lightweavers. [[Cryptic]]s are willing to bond humans quicker than other [[spren#True spren|spren]].{{book ref|sa4|20}}

There are twenty members of the Unseen Court, with roughly an even split of men and women. Though members who have earned their own [[Shardblade]] could break off and develop their own group of squires, they choose to stay together. Shallan believes the court is complete.{{book ref|sa4|20}}

The Unseen Court practices in a chamber deep under [[Urithiru]], as their training involves using Lightweaving to distract their opponents. They practice using swords, more as a way to improve their disguises, as combat is seen as a last resort. {{book ref|sa4|20}}

=== Pursuit of Sons of Honor ===

[[Red (Roshar)|Red]] embedded himself in the [[Sons of Honor]] using the illusion of a dark-eyed workman. He was not considered important enough to warrant an audience with [[Ialai Sadeas]].{{book ref|sa4|5}} Shallan disguised herself as [[Chanasha Hasareh]] in an attempt to get brought into the Sons of Honor, which succeeded.{{book ref|sa4|2}}{{book ref|sa4|5}} Shallan is brought to Ialai Sadeas's bed chamber, who immediately assumed she was an assassin from the [[Ghostbloods]].{{book ref|sa4|7}} Shallan (as Radiant) used a needle of [[blackbane]] to kill Ialai, though she blocked this from her memory to protect herself.{{book ref|sa4|115}} She believed a second Ghostblood spy was amongst the Unseen Court. [[Vathah]], [[Ishnah]], [[Stargyle]], and [[Beryl]] were also on this mission.{{book ref|sa4|20}}

=== Mission to Shadesmar ===

The [[coalition of monarchs]] decided to send a group to [[Lasting Integrity]] to recruit [[honorspren]] to their cause.{{book ref|sa4|19}} Shallan was asked to recruit three [[Lightweaver]]s to join the mission to Soulcast food and water. Shallan selected Ishnah, Vathah, and Stargyle, as they had shown the most interest and were most likely the Ghostblood's spy.{{book ref|sa4|20}} At the last minute, Stargyle's wife became sick and [[Beryl]] was added as a replacement.{{book ref|sa4|21}} Over the course of two weeks, the group sailed from [[Nohadon's Stairways]] to [[Nameless]].{{book ref|sa4|22}} While this happened, Shallan used a box containing the [[seon]] [[Ala]] to communicate to [[Mraize]]. She noticed that someone else was using the box and feared that one of the Court was using the box to communicate to Mraize.{{book ref|sa4|22}}

Shallan devised a plan to catch the Ghostblood's spy. She fed misinformation to each member of her team about corrupted spren she'd seen. She told Beryl she'd seen corrupted [[gloryspren]], she told Ishnah she'd seen corrupted [[windspren]], and she told [[Vathah]] she'd seen corrupted [[fearspren]].{{book ref|sa4|26}} [[Mraize]] leaked that he'd heard about corrupted gloryspren, which implicated Beryl.{{book ref|sa4|30}} [[Pattern]] had in fact been the one to communicate using the box, but only to [[Wit]].{{book ref|sa4|36}}{{book ref|sa4|78}} It was a Ghostblood [[Sleepless]] posing as a writing instrument for Wit was the source of Mraize's information.{{book ref|sa4|64}} Shallan was relieved to know she had not been betrayed by the Unseen Court.{{book ref|sa4|78}}

Upon their arrival in Nameless, Shallan and Vathah posed as [[cultivationspren]] in order to scout the area. Once they arrived in Lasting Integrity, Shallan entered the stronghold, while the rest of the Unseen Court camped outside.{{book ref|sa4|36}} Shallan and [[Adolin]] completed their mission, having convinced the honorspren to join the war and open their fortress to outsiders.{{book ref|sa4|115}}

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*[[Red (Roshar)|Red]]: Agent Lightweaver{{book ref|sa4|20}}

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