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Emperor's Soul Polish Cover.jpg | <center><small>by {{a|Dominik Broniek}}</small></center> On the Polish cover of ''The Emperor's Soul''
AU Emperor's Soul.jpeg | <center><small>by [[Ben McSweeney]]</small></center> Shai using Forgery, ''[[Arcanum Unbounded]]'' interior art
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TES - Shai and Gaotona by Johanna Rupprecht.jpg | <center><small>by {{a|Lyraina}}</small></center> Speaking with [[Gaotona]]
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== History ==▼
Shai first started inquiring about being a Forger when she was eight years old.{{tes ref|26}}▼
[[Han ShuXen]], an old painter who had tutored Shai as a child, asked her to destroy his masterpiece ''[[Lily of the Spring Pond]]''. ShuXen hated the Rose Empire and didn't want his painting, which he had painted for a woman he once loved, at their hands. He helped Shai create a counterfeit.{{tes ref|76}}▼
Shai managed to destroy the original painting in the Arbiter [[Frava]]'s office near the [[Imperial Gallery]], replaced it with a fake and planted another lower-quality counterfeit in her room in order to hide to theft.{{tes ref|30}} With the help of the [[Imperial Fool]], she also broke into the [[Rose Palace]]'s Imperial Gallery by impersonating a noblewoman to steal the [[Moon Scepter]]. However The Fool betrayed her. He stole Shai's copy of the Moon Scepter, swapped it for the original, then escaped after giving Shai up to the palace guards. Shai was captured and charged with public execution for theft.{{tes ref|2}}▼
=== The Emperor's Soul ===▼
{{image|TES - Shai and Gaotona by Johanna Rupprecht.jpg|[[Gaotona]] and Shai|side=left|width=300px}}▼
A day before her execution, she is asked by the council of five arbiters to Forge a soul in exchange for her freedom. Shai doesn't think it is possible to create a soulstamp for an entire person's soul in the hundred days they give her at first, but accepts their offer in the hope that it will give her time to escape. She is taken before the Emperor [[Ashravan]] and told that he took a crossbow bolt in the head from the assassins sent by the [[Glory Faction]] and despite surgeons [[resealing]] the wound, he is in a vegetative state. She is told to replace the emperor's soul with a [[Forgery]].{{tes ref|2}}▼
She is given a room barely better than a cell which, over time, she transforms into the finest room in the whole palace with Forgery.{{tes ref|76}} She receives her Forgery tools except for her Essence Marks. [[Gaotona]] volunteers to being her test subject for the soulstamps she creates for Emperor Ashravan.{{tes ref|30}} The arbiters hire a [[Bloodsealer]] to make sure of her cooperation.{{tes ref|3}} As they work together, Gaotona and Shai grow fond of each other and eventually become friends. Shai starts to collect information on Ashravan's personality and memory to use for the soulstamp.{{tes ref|5}}▼
Shai concluded that the arbiters were planning to kill her, even if she fulfills their agreement,a little while before the soulstamp is done and have another Forger finish her work. She started lacing her notes with subtext about the arduousness of the task to deter the other Forger.{{tes ref|58}} All the arbiters except Gaotona proposed that she create a backdoor to the emperor's soul that would allow him to be controlled by the arbiters. Shai played along but eventually refrained from doing it, even for herself.{{tes ref|17}}▼
As her hundreds days pass, Shai was constantly tempted to escape but was driven by the challenge of the task.{{tes ref|76}} On day ninety-seven, just before she finishes the soulstamp, she enacts her plan to get past the Bloodsealer. The next day, Captain [[Zu]] tries to kill her, a move she had expected from some of the guards and managed to evade by Forging traps into her room. She escaped and made her way to Ashravan's chambers, desperate to see if she had managed to Forge a soul from nothing. When it succeeds, Gaotona gave her back her Essence Marks and she used them to escape the palace.{{tes ref|98}} It later turns out that she didn't reForge Ashravan's soul exactly the way it was and made small changes, nudging him on the path to being a better ruler.{{tes ref|epilogue}}▼
Shai gets away and plans to go after the Imperial Fool who betrayed her.{{tes ref|epilogue}}▼
== Attributes and Abilities ==
{{anchor|scholar}}
; The Scholar: Using this Essence Mark, she can speak a dozen languages, from [[Fen (language)|Fen]] to [[Mulla'dil]] and a few from [[Opelon]] as well. She knows dozens of cultures and how to move in them. She knows science, mathematics, and many major political factions of the world.{{tes ref|76}}
{{anchor|beggar}}
{{anchor|way out}}
; The Way Out: She knows cooking, farmwork, and sewing. She visited a resealer and was given a remedy, which is actually the soulstamp for this Essence Mark, for an illness. She believes she will die unless she applies the soulstamp every morning. Her Aunt Sol and Uncle Won will send her letters, hundreds of which Shai already wrote and will give to a delivery service before using the soulstamp. She is afraid of traveling, thinking a trip to visit her relatives is too dangerous. Unlike Shai's other Essence Marks, this one doesn't know she is a Forger. She is Shai's way out to a simpler life. The Mark rewrites her years as a Forger and removes all knowledge of Forgery from her mind.{{tes ref|76}} Later, Shai promises to add Gaotona as "a kindly grandfather... who I respected very much" to the Essence Mark.{{tes ref|98}}
▲== History ==
▲Shai first started inquiring about being a Forger when she was eight years old.{{tes ref|26}}
▲[[Han ShuXen]], an old painter who had tutored Shai as a child, asked her to destroy his masterpiece ''[[Lily of the Spring Pond]]''. ShuXen hated the Rose Empire and didn't want his painting, which he had painted for a woman he once loved, at their hands. He helped Shai create a counterfeit.{{tes ref|76}}
▲Shai managed to destroy the original painting in the Arbiter [[Frava]]'s office near the [[Imperial Gallery]], replaced it with a fake and planted another lower-quality counterfeit in her room in order to hide to theft.{{tes ref|30}} With the help of the [[Imperial Fool]], she also broke into the [[Rose Palace]]'s Imperial Gallery by impersonating a noblewoman to steal the [[Moon Scepter]]. However The Fool betrayed her. He stole Shai's copy of the Moon Scepter, swapped it for the original, then escaped after giving Shai up to the palace guards. Shai was captured and charged with public execution for theft.{{tes ref|2}}
▲=== The Emperor's Soul ===
▲{{image|TES - Shai and Gaotona by Johanna Rupprecht.jpg|[[Gaotona]] and Shai|side=left|width=300px}}
▲A day before her execution, she is asked by the council of five arbiters to Forge a soul in exchange for her freedom. Shai doesn't think it is possible to create a soulstamp for an entire person's soul in the hundred days they give her at first, but accepts their offer in the hope that it will give her time to escape. She is taken before the Emperor [[Ashravan]] and told that he took a crossbow bolt in the head from the assassins sent by the [[Glory Faction]] and despite surgeons [[resealing]] the wound, he is in a vegetative state. She is told to replace the emperor's soul with a [[Forgery]].{{tes ref|2}}
▲She is given a room barely better than a cell which, over time, she transforms into the finest room in the whole palace with Forgery.{{tes ref|76}} She receives her Forgery tools except for her Essence Marks. [[Gaotona]] volunteers to being her test subject for the soulstamps she creates for Emperor Ashravan.{{tes ref|30}} The arbiters hire a [[Bloodsealer]] to make sure of her cooperation.{{tes ref|3}} As they work together, Gaotona and Shai grow fond of each other and eventually become friends. Shai starts to collect information on Ashravan's personality and memory to use for the soulstamp.{{tes ref|5}}
▲Shai concluded that the arbiters were planning to kill her, even if she fulfills their agreement,a little while before the soulstamp is done and have another Forger finish her work. She started lacing her notes with subtext about the arduousness of the task to deter the other Forger.{{tes ref|58}} All the arbiters except Gaotona proposed that she create a backdoor to the emperor's soul that would allow him to be controlled by the arbiters. Shai played along but eventually refrained from doing it, even for herself.{{tes ref|17}}
▲As her hundreds days pass, Shai was constantly tempted to escape but was driven by the challenge of the task.{{tes ref|76}} On day ninety-seven, just before she finishes the soulstamp, she enacts her plan to get past the Bloodsealer. The next day, Captain [[Zu]] tries to kill her, a move she had expected from some of the guards and managed to evade by Forging traps into her room. She escaped and made her way to Ashravan's chambers, desperate to see if she had managed to Forge a soul from nothing. When it succeeds, Gaotona gave her back her Essence Marks and she used them to escape the palace.{{tes ref|98}} It later turns out that she didn't reForge Ashravan's soul exactly the way it was and made small changes, nudging him on the path to being a better ruler.{{tes ref|epilogue}}
▲Shai gets away and plans to go after the Imperial Fool who betrayed her.{{tes ref|epilogue}}
== Trivia ==
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