Difference between revisions of "Shallan Davar"

Following the death of her father, Shallan traveled aboard [[''Wind's Pleasure'']], a ship owned by Tozbek, in order to save her family from a life filled with misery and debt by forging connections will powerful allies in Alethkar. She arrived in Kharbranth, where she hoped to become the ward of [[Jasnah Kholin]], a notorious scholar and sister to the current king of Alethkar. While Shallan hoped to learn more about the world and the field of logic whilst under the tutelage of [[Jasnah]], she also had another goal in mind. Shallan spent several months chasing [[Jasnah]] across many cities in order to steal Jasnah's [[Soulcaster]], a [[fabrial]] capable of transforming objects from one material to another, as she also believed that this tool would be the key to saving her destitute family. Once she finally caught up to Jasnah in [[Kharbranth]], Shallan attempted to convince Jasnah to take her as her ward, but she failed twice before she finally succeeded on the third attempt.{{book ref|sa1|8}}

The first attempt was when she failed to impress Jasnah due to her lack of talent in the field of logic and, notably, history. Despite Shallan's attempt to convince her that her artistic talent would surely impress her, Jasnah quickly turned her down. Shallan later attempted to convince Jasnah once more but waits in the scholar's reading alcove due to Jasnah currently being in a meeting. She wrote a logical letter arguing for wardship which managed to impress Jasnah but she is still rebuffed by the scholar.{{book ref|twok|7}} Dejected and tired from constantly attempting to persuade the heretical scholar, Shallan makes her way back to Wind's Pleasure to return to her hometown before she is convinced by [[Yalb]], a sailor on ''Wind's Pleasure'', to try once more. When she returns, Jasnah discovers Shallan's drawings she made while waiting in her reading alcove and is impressed by her artistry and passion from drawing even during her free time which she considered to be, in a way, a pursut of scholarship. Jasnah accepts Shallan as her ward and allows her to be her research assistant when she is not busy.{{book ref|twok|8}}